"That's real war, then."

[Asmodeus]

I have a friend who doesn't play Battlefield 2, but I found this picture and sent it to him. In the chatter that followed, a nasty idea popped up.

Originally Posted by Chat

Me: Well, um, Got Teammates?
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../screen291.jpg
Him: wtf man
Him: how many vs how many?
Me: 128 vs 128
Me: In the smallest map.
Him: is it like one death and you cant respawn?
Me: No.
Him: Thats stupid then
Him: make it more realistic
Me: It isn't Gay-Strike and it never will be.
Me: If you want realism then play Project Reality. Which still keeps the 30 second respawn time.
Me: The game mode is capture the flags, only the flags sit still. If people didn't respawn, everyone would have wiped each other out during the first clash to get the first flag. The rest of the map would be useless.
Him: What would be fun is to have a really large map what that many people vs that many people
Him: and it be extremely tactical and s*** like that
Him: and if you die, you're done
Me: It can be done. Set the map to have a time limit of, say, 60 minutes. Then set your respawn time to 60 minutes. Done.
Me: Once one side is gone, game over.
Him: That's real war then.
Me: That'd be a real b**** and you'd sure as f*** see everyone being Captain Caution and all in squads.
Me: Oh, and set the vehicle respawn to 60 minutes as well. Once the USMC loses their carrier's precious AH1Z attack helicopter, no more...
Me: I'd set the timer to 30 minutes. It wouldn't last 60 minutes.

An interesting experiment to be sure. If I had a server (planning on it) I'd implement it immediately and see how it goes: how would having only one life to give fare? I'm not sure if the gameplay would change or remain the semi-deathmatch it currently is.

[[R-DEV]duckhunt]

1. tell us how you got 128v128

2.If you did a server like that, itd be hella fun, however, most people would leave after dying, so it would never be very full.

[Asmodeus]

That's not my screenshot. I said I found it...

I'd guess so. Unless the timer was 5-10 minutes...

[[R-DEV]duckhunt]

Originally Posted by Asmodeus

That's not my screenshot. I said I found it...

I'd guess so. Unless the timer was 5-10 minutes...

itd be quicker to re-join the server i suppose you could do that. And spawn again.

[[R-MOD]Saobh]

Could be interesting, but doubt that you'll be able to get enough people to join in to play it (even less chances of having 2 full teams). Unless to prepare something like a tournement or an IGI battle night thingy.

Other thing, what happens if you disconnect/reconnect ? does it keep the counter in memory or does it go back to zero ?

Hope you get a bit of buzz about this, i'd like seeing it go forth

[Fullforce]

Long games where you only get one life (OFP) only work if you can actually stay alive more than 10 seconds. BF2/PR's gameplay is too fast paced to allow you to stay alive for hours on end.

[RikiRude]

I think it would just turn into a big long camping session sadly.

[Darth.Skyline]

You cant have 60min spawn time cause then you have to wait an hour to spawn, and if you cant spawn then there will be no one fighting.

I think you just accomplished world peace

128vs128 is easy duckhunt, you just need a BotChanger tool from fileplanet or something

Plus alot of people oppuse this sort of gameplay and it "spoils" the fun (for them).

[Valtasar]

128vs128 hm...
lags lags and lags

[Top_Cat_AxJnAt]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Fullforce

Long games where you only get one life (OFP) only work if you can actually stay alive more than 10 seconds. BF2/PR's gameplay is too fast paced to allow you to stay alive for hours on end.

I agree but IF we could have larger maps, bigger squads and better character physics (look down seen legs, arms hits cuase accracry down), life expectancy would go up.