Likes -
- New Maps - overall some A+ quality stuff here, enjoying the vertical game play and interesting angles
- New Audio
- New Vehicles, Player Models, skins, etc
- Favorite new map is Meuse River so far -- enjoying the interesting look, Hills to climb up and down is a welcome change from relatively flat maps
- GFX are great, the new shaders are nice
- Thompson finally feels usable and balanced, thank you.
- Removal of crosshair is okay by me as hit indications help.
Dislikes -
-Removed tracers on deployed mgs. Smaller less frequent tracers would be nice, its hard to see what you are hitting now that film grain cuts your distance view, you can't see any bullet impacts :/ Tracers also serve to provide immersion, battles with tracers everywhere look awesome.
-Too much inertia on tank turrets. I understand a change was probably necessary, however, i believe the penalty for too much gain on the turret speed is slightly overdone. Time spent on tanks may change my opinion but initially my reaction is negative.
Very Dislike -
-Player speed decrease.
So we have these giant maps with a now very slow player speed. Classic game play mistake 101. Many mods that fail ultimately have this in common -- large maps, slow player. Bad form FH2, bad form. Slow down? Fine, whatever. But on the sprint??? Rename sprint to "Jog". 10%...no way. Too drastic of a change.
Something which I always thought was just right in the game is the player speed.
The slow down feels like a giant catering to the hardcore realism PR crowd, and what ever happened to the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"??
When oh when did players ever complain the player speed is too fast?? I'd sure love links to threads about player being too fast and players wanting to see it changed.
I believe the long term consequences of this are that players will abuse vehicles more, and newer players will be less inclined to stay around for faster paced games and less flag capping will be happening because it'll take too darn long to get anywhere. Would love to be wrong about this.