Well, I certainly didn't expect BF2, and the game definitely has some great features. Four 1stMIP tried "squadding up" Thursday and it didn't work out well for us. I've played this game for its $22.50 worth, but here are some things that need to be fixed before I revisit the field (taken from my post in the 1stMIP forums):

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1) "Bodies in the cap zone". Increasing the round timer will help, but right now it's ridiculous. I actually have to hand it to the pubbies playing Thursday because whenever attacking they came all at once, which is what you have to do in this game. CHARGE CHARGE CHARGE!!! Zerg-style, baby.

2) Defense: again, those guys knew where to set up. On that last map I played (Boskova??) they had every route roadblocked (there isn't much room to maneuver on these maps, honestly) and then called in arty onto our spawn. Once people learn these maps I really feel the attackers don't have much of a chance. Zerg style meets deployed LMG = lots of dead Zergs.

3) "Hitting" targets and nothing happening. Wednesday I played Hedgehog as a German tanker and hit at least 10 enemy players with the tank MG or HE shell and only killed one. Some of the shells literally hit the player and they kept on truckin'. I really would expect it to slow them down a little, maybe even injure them. One of the funniest was a guy was "hiding" behind a four inch thick sappling and I fired about five HE rounds at him, the tree, the ground around the tree; there was nowhere I could hit to kill him, even though I could obviously see 98% of his body. Thursday (on Boskova again) I saw a guy lying prone and levitating off the ground about 15 feet away from me and I fired, he fired, I fired, he fired. I emptied the entire clip, and we're talking BOLT ACTION. I decided there was something wrong (he obviously did too) so we fixed bayonets, I stabbed him first, blood spurted everywhere, and then I was dead.

4) "levitating" (+ lag). Sometimes I'll be behind some cover and try and rest my rifle on a crate, etc., and then suddenly I'm floating 14 inches above the crate and can't move. This happens all the time. Whenever I play sniper I see it happen to others over and over (see above), and I'm not exactly sure where to shoot, but when it happens to me I'm instantly dead. I thought I would like the "resting" feature of weapons, but I spend an ungodly amount of time trying to find something that I can stabilize my rifle on. More often than not it has to be something higher than your field of vision, and if you try to rest it on something chest high, it doesn't stabilize. That's insane.

5) Unable to organize. We tried to play with fireteams but everyone looks the same without name tags. In "real" combat soldiers do things to individualize themselves. They're shorter, taller, skinnier, fatter, and walk differently than others in their squad. When you ask where someone is you can tell by where their voice is coming from. None of these exist in-game, so there's no way we can play together as a "team".

6) Maps are really small and offer only a couple of approaches to each CP. The maps are really the size of 16 player BF2 maps, but there's "paths" or "corridors" between CPs so there's little room to move tactically. A couple of the maps are alright, but most of them what you're going to do and what the enemy is going to do is 90% predictable.

7) To succeed, you need all 16 players on your team to be on the same page. Even at TG, that's not going to happen. You need the sniper to fulfill their duties, the commander to organize and call arty, the LMG'ers to play their part, etc. If you have a weak link it's going to be incredibly frustrating, but it's comforting to know the other side is probably suffering the same dismal fate...

8) Can't get over 16 inch high obstacles. Defending on Boskova I've literally been "trapped" in that last spawn because I couldn't get out of that destroyed farmhouse with debris everywhere. It wasn't the German sniper that confounded me, it was the tiny laticework that I couldn't overcome!!

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Not the whole post, but everyone can get the gist. I like playing the game, but with at
least eight glaring flaws it's going to be tough to try and play on a regular basis.

I've not given up all hope, though...and if I do, there's TacMod to comfort my pain!!!

And firewater. Don't forget the firewater.