Quote from: Professor Anthrax on 04-01-2010, 05:01:56

Awesome news! I will be busy this coming Friday and Saturday nights but will be playing this straight through Sunday and beyond!

The new map looks nice(from what I can tell without the overall map view of it yet).

Quick question: Is this supposed to be the last update with Normandy maps and are the devs going to another front after this or will there be more normandy?

I LOVE so many of the maps I've played so far in 2.2 and these four 2.25 maps look nice from what I've seen but we're still missing some of the iconic beach landing maps (ie. omaha, gold). Are those in the works or does this release pretty much wrap up normandy?

Were you once a member on the Resistance and Liberation forums? you're name seems familiar. Maybe it's just from the Filefront forums ...

I never heard of the resisitance and liberation forums so....a big no on that one. Must be from Filefront cause I was(and as far as I know still am) registered over there.

Cool. This is exactly what I want to see happen. Western front continuation first(since they already have most equipment and all major armies needed to finish that more quickly) and then onto major Eastern front for the next whole new front. I Just hope the dev's do it in this order 

I voted for western front continuation(bulge, market garden, etc). Mainly because at this point(and even more so after the upcoming normandy patch) they should pretty much have everything they need in terms of player models, weapons, weapon animations, kits, vehicles, and a lot of statics they could re-use to continue the late western front war, and therefore they should be able to do such a release far more quickly than a whole new front. Which is why I don't really look at that as a new front but a continuation of their latest release. For a whole front, I want to see the major russian front battles more than anything after late western front gets wrapped up. But that will probably take quite a while which is why an easier to do finished western front will give us players a lot to do while waiting  

One thing I really hope gets fixed in a new patch is your soldier yelling "ACHTUNG!...GRANATA!"(or whatever the hell he says) every time before throwing a grenade. It's so stupid. It warns the enemy about an incoming nade as much as it does any friendlies in the vicinity. And I find as a friendly it usually doesn't help anyway. I typically just hear the yell but I don't see who's throwing it or where it's being thrown, so I'm just as likely to end up running toward where he threw it to "take cover". It really ONLY serves as a warning to the enemy you're trying to kill with the thing. 

Sad thing is, normandy is the fourth release of FH2 and this automatic yell is still in, so I guess it won't be coming out unless people really get in an uproar against it. I mean...seriously...does ANYONE like this "feature"??

Today marks three weeks that FH 2.2 has been out. This is the funnest mod....forget mod...this is the funnest GAME I've ever played(with the possible exception of FH1). But their don't seem to be many  others in North America who feel that way. Over the past three weeks there have typically been 2 occupied US servers(frequently three – especially toward the beginning of the release) at any one time during prime evening playing times. This doesn't seem like any more than we had within the first few weeks of the 2.15 release. And if this is where it's at NOW with the initial release excitement still not fully worn off, I can only assume that in another month or so it will be back to just the occasional WaW Saturday campaign and Wolf FH2 Thursdays again; like the past several months with 2.15.

What happened? I thought Normandy was supposed to bring in droves of US players because the US army was FINALLY in the game. I know the mod had unfortunate release timing(just as the younger crowd were going back to school), but that doesn't seem to have upset the player numbers in Europe(I'm assuming school in Europe starts approximately around the same time as in the States?).

So what is it? Are we Americans just not as into mods? Do we change video games more quickly and so fewer Americans even have BF2 anymore? Do our students get more homework then European students so they just don't have time for this? Are we too fat and lazy to download a couple gigabytes of code that transforms BF2 into something wonderful?

I'm happy for you folks in Europe but I was really hoping Normandy would be a turning point for a permanent sustained US player base for this mod. But I can only assume that over time(as has happened with EVERY release) some players will drift off. It just doesn't seem all that likely that in 1-2 months there will still be 2-3 occupied US public FH2 servers each night if that's all there is now.

I know this is in NO WAY the devs fault. They produced an AWESOME mod and all people have to do to enjoy it is download and install it(hell, they even started a north american server...that rahn's whatever server, right after release). I guess I believed in all the pre-normandy hype on this forum and what it would do for the player base(particularly the US playerbase) and so I am kind of disappointed. I'm sure I'll still be able to catch games here and there over time; it's just unfortunate that such a well made and fun mod is not being enjoyed by more over on this side of the Atlantic.

Another problem is the allied weapon superiority. On the 64p Version it was finde, because the allied needed those semi-automatic weapons in order to advance. But when they have to defend its easy for them to just pin down the germans with their weapons.
Maybe feature it as an counterattack of better equiped german troops (like on PHL) after the garnision (the germans in the 64p version) was defeted. That could do a lot of improvement.

Yeah This ^^

When I'm german I do not look forward to using my bolt action k98 against an american armed with a semi-auto M-1 Garand. And don't even get me started with mp40 vs. BAR. The Americans need their superior weapons to advance on this map(in the 64 version); but it's almost impossible for germans to advance when the allies start out with all the flags.

There was definitely a lot of work put into the mod, and it really shows- it's both beautiful and fun to play.
Thanks for this excellent mod. 

^^Agreed 100%^^