I can picture that happening just fine... you run out of ammo and instead of waiting for more you think "ah, to **** with it, I have a rifle, might as well join the fun".

Also destructible enviroments is EXTREMELY OVERRATED.

Wow, never saw that one coming in a million years.

My all-time favourite video game is X-Com UFO Defence, a strategy game from the 80's or 90's that had a fully destructible environment (with 'fully' I mean 'fully', not the rudimentary 'we say fully, but we mean you can only blow up trees and buildings and put some generic crates in the ground and whatnot' things we see in 3D games today). Everything, including whole hills, could be destroyed. Only problem was that the engine couldn't update things as they were partially destroyed, so you could, say, blow off the base of a lamp post and the rest of it would just hover in midair. But the experience of fighting out a massive squad- or platoon-level shootout in a city and see it get reduced to fire, ruins and smoke around you as you fought... just awesome, and probably one of the #1 reasons people still play and love UFO.

I'm glad to see 3D games are finally catching up - trust me, while the fairly limited and rudimentary (compared to X-Com UFO D) destruction physics in, say, Crysis or World in Conflict may be overrated to you, I expect huge things in this field. When we have a 3D game like Battlefield with a fully destructible terrain, like in X-Com UFO Defence, I'll swoon with happiness as I kill snipers by blowing up the ground floor of the houses in which they hide, sending the entire structure crashing down with them inside  .

It baffles me why this feature isn't in the BF series already - every spawn point has a radius the mapper can toggle individually for each spawn point. If an enemy player or vehicle comes within that radius, the game disregards that spawn point until it's clear.

Another good feature would be to divide a CP into different 'spawn areas' and let them choose themselves where to spawn. For example, if a CP has one spawn point in a bunker and two more throughout a house, you can choose if you want to spawn in the bunker or house.

Oh well, something to suggest to DICE come the next BF installment, I guess.

As much as I like minimalism in HUD design, I'm not hardcore enough to choose to use it when everyone else get a fully working HUD. More power to the people who do it, I respect that they dare give themselves that handicap, but in my eyes, it's about as tempting as deliberately choosing to spawn in with only half the ammo and equipment as everyone else.

About the minimap and ammo counter - it's amazing how fast you adapt to playing without them, especially the latter.

The irony is that artillery spotting is actually incredibly simple. Just call for artillery (admittedly a tricky procedure in FH2), have the gun line fire one shot, give them feedback on how their shots are landing, and tell them to fire for effect once they're on target. Then provide feedback.

Not harder than sitting there watching shots hit the ground and tell the gun line things like "more to the left", "hold fire", "hitting targets", "killed one tank", etc.

It's one of those things that we should do automatically, yet have to train ourselves to do. Gaming is weird.

Regarding #1: at least in 2142, you can fine-tune the speed of a land vehicle with the use of your joystick's throttle. It might not be worth it to buy an ultra-cheap joystick for only this, but if it also helps you fly planes better, consider making the investment.

Perhaps when there is time on an eastern front map, but it would draw resources from much nicer things like great tanks and weapons.... so not such a great idea. But you could try modeling one for FH Smiley

:glances at list of vehicles and weapons already in mod:

You've got, what, two dozen vehicles for the UK alone? Just how many do you need ?!

Either way, it's content that counts, not grammar and typos  .

So in other words, it's like a mix of the warships of 1942, the cap ships in Galactic Conquest, and the Titan in 2142.

Wow. Just wow.