im an oldtime dod fan, i mean i began playing just at the beginning of 1.3 beta. The times before flash and caen became railgalore, and it was allied against axis. no britisch. britisch are fun, but they lack depth imho. Its just looks like a cheap addon to me. I just want bandage back, Zafod back, heutau back. huge maps, so teamplay was needed. you had to sacrafice a long walk if you wanted to disctract an axis mg or nesteled sniper. Dieing was a bitch because you had to walk al the way back if your team was attacking there last flag. You could get wounded and loose blood so you had to patch yourself up with a bandade. but that meant you couldnt fire for like a few seconds, hoping some of your teammates would kill the enemy force. or hide in a corner and hope they did not C you. + everything was darker. dod_thunder (the betamap of donner) was hard rain at night. so behind every corner or in every puddle could someone be hiding. It could scare the crap out of you. Now it just seems more and more like CS with WWII models and guns and themed maps. Everyting is lighter, bigger and fancier. But the game just concists of campers/rushers. No more need for brain and tactics to win the game. Just hard rushing and blazing glory. And lots of waves. American glory. Don't get me wrong i still like the game. Probably because well i got used to it. But i dont love it like i used to do. It gets boring much faster. no more sneaking behind enemy lines. looking for dark spots to hide in for a swift sneak kill. just everybody sees everybody and just fire at each other. Nice and clean. imho the textures look 2 clean. it used to look all greyish and dark in dod. The screenshots i have seen just look to darn sunny. I dont want to fight in a holiday resort. i wanna tremble in fear in a muddy pool of blood between shot up buildings and the crying of grown men :p maybe not that dark, but you get the picture. well to make it short, im not looking at this 2 optimistic. Just take it from me, dod went downhill since b3.1. Since it went commercial they are more concerned with what everybody likes, and less with what made the game. I dont want to play 10 different games that all look and feel alike. i just want to be pulled into the gameplay and FRAG in all kind of different ways.
so end of my point of view.
dont get me wrong, DoD still ownz :p
just not as much at it used to.
PS; i hope i can make my dod source map
i feel like source can finally let me express what i want to make :p, i hope to find some allies here to help me in my quest for a nice tactical map, with a lot of rushing possibilities and a lot of hidingspots and most of all a nice bottleneck! I know most of you find bottlenecks a big no no, but if you dont feel the glory of beating a nested enemy in a bottleneck your just sad
Neyven out.
