Hey all,

so it's come to my attention that the "z0mg 2.3" wave of players have driven off seeing how the last remaining island of North American refuge: Wolf-Gaming (Whom I <3) is well, dying. The numbers have actually gone worse than pre-2.3 and it only seems to be populated on Thursdays (Which is the tradition of game night Thursdays).

Thus, my proposition is to perhaps break this mold and maybe game not only a Game Night Thursday, but a Game Night.....EVERYDAY. It's becoming a huge problem if European servers can plais all the time, but Americans can only play ONE night of the week, starting at 9:00 est. Here are our issues:

1) Advertising

I think we as an American player base or those that remain and want to plais FH2, need to advertise this mod to the rest of lazy American internet space. When I walk down the street and say "Lol wanna play FH2" the response is "WTF IS THAT LOL, FROGGER?" In all seriousness though, no one knows what FH2 is, what it does and why they'd want to even play it. We must enlighten the NA population to this mod because seriously, it's huge!

2) NA players on....HSLAN

I can totally see the appeal of playing on HSLAN because...it's populated all the time. However, when it's 6:00, 7:00 or even 9:00 and the majority of players on HSLAN are AMERICAN, there's something wrong, especially when there are a few players in wolf-gaming that could benefit from those players on HSLAN!

3) Turning Down the Flaming

Seriously, every time a new player that has NEVER seen this mod before (because seriously, how many games are like FH2?) they get called a n00b, should reroll dark Paladin and go back to BFBC2. Now last time I checked, this does not help increase the population of FH2. Seriously can you imagine buying a car like that? "Whoa is that a GPS? How does it work?" *Clicks Power Button* "WTF PRACTICE ON YOUR OWN GPS, GET THE F*** OUT AND GO PLAY IN YOUR DODGE CARAVAN"

There's little information on how to play the game and you honestly have to just play it to get it. I've enlightened two of my friends to FH2 and at first they're like "WTF I have to shoot based on uniform?" and oh boy did they TK, just like I did when first playing FH1, and just like you did on either game! So get over yourself and realize that just because you play a WW2 game every night, doesn't make you god of the universe. Leave that to the Aztecs.

WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

Well, I'd say based on my crappily made 3 problems above, we should probably work on those three key areas. So 1) is, how do we advertise Fh2? We'd probably need something from the FH2 dev team or anyone for stuff on advertising the mod, or just simple links to this site. Post it on any FPS game forum, no matter how random it is. Preferably in the off-topic section.

2) is probably hop on HSLAN and tell these bad boys to hop onto Wolf-Gaming and be proud of their diluted gene pool, or making it a habit to spam at a certain time on HSLAN that it's time for the american players to plais on Wolf-Gaming.

3) I think is pretty obvious. Quit being a smacktard and help your fellow friend. I am all for though for filleting trolls and bashes to the mod such as "THIS GAME IS STUPID, I GET BLOWN UP BY ARTILLERY, WHERE'S JUGGERNAUT?"  I then think we have to be prepared for more stupid threads, like this one!

Conclusion

I and I'm sure many others love this game and get a boner every time they hop on. This thread is intended for those with the fear of playing on 140 ping for the rest of their time on FH2 on pubbies. Before anyone posts "OMG I HATE WOLF GAMING, THEIR ADMINS ARE LAZY AND DUMB," I'm sorry to say that they're the only active NA admins and are the ONLY ones taking the time to nurture the American Pubby Player base.

Anyways I'm sorry if I forgot anything but I'm hungry. /Discuss away.

Just a quick question,

does settings your graphics to low reveal players in grass more than players with graphics on maximum hiding in grass? I always find myself in uber tall grass yet players can snipe me as if they knew I was there the whole time. Just curious so I know that hiding in grass doesn't = uber coverage for all players.

I used search but couldn't find anything on porting FH1 maps to FH2. I've heard you can port battlefield 1942 maps and statics into the bf2 editor and port them to the bf2 engine (you have to update textures, statics and that of course). Would this not make things significantly easier and faster to do than making whole complete maps again? You just replace the textures, statics and buildings and hurray (instead of making brand new terrains, map designs, etc). This would add alot more variety and I believe push content out faster.

If not the FH2 devs themselves, allow for another map team to transfer them to the bf2 engine, edit them accordingly, send them to the FH2 team, and then let them make their tweaks and release it in a patch. This would only work of course of currently Africa and Normandy maps featuring the needed statics and arsenals of certain armies, but there are tons of FH1 maps that could be used in this regard and speed up map production I am sure.

Anyways just throwing it out there. If it has been suggested 1+ year ago, plix don't reply with "LOLZ NUB DO IT YOURSELF THEN LAWL." If there is no mappers or anyone willing to do it, that's fine, it's just a suggestion lulz.