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Originally posted by Irisheyez
Map is HUUUUUGE and wide open.

Looking forward to getting blown up by planes constantly !

Dont worry about that mate each side only one plane

but strange coz the jets won't fight each other but rather look for tanks and vehicles on the ground...lol

imagine infantry only? ribs only vehicles in the map. i wud love to play huge rib battles!

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Originally posted by Fat_Swinub
So I guess no one has noticed my update on the original post about the map being tested back in August 2005. I would have thought that would have been interesting to find out.

Fatty, noticed that as well and had a look, obviously makes you wonder how many maps Dice/EA actually had in development which they didn't release as part of the game and its subsequent patches?

My guess would be that there would have to be several other maps also developed to this stage but not released, maybe as a measure to retain interest in the game?

I don't know if someone already said this but it would be perfect if it had no jets. I think it kind of odd to have transport helicopters only. I only played a little no to crazy about it got out numbers by 3-4 tanks to my one by myself. Too many Anti-tank guys.
Maybe I'll try again and stay on foot as Anti-tank or something.

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Originally posted by KlaatuOne
I don't know if someone already said this but it would be perfect if it had no jets. I think it kind of odd to have transport helicopters only. I only played a little no to crazy about it got out numbers by 3-4 tanks to my one by myself. Too many Anti-tank guys.
Maybe I'll try again and stay on foot as Anti-tank or something.

If your your the lone tank then you really should be retreating. You should be sticking together with other tanks. If you play AT, don't play just on foot. (there are to many vehicles that can be used) If you have to bail its better being AT than being Eng. But, Pick up your killed Engies (there are TONS of them) and drop your own mines then switch back to AT. . THe jets are less relevant in this map. there are So many tanks and engineers that unless the pilot makes a direct hit hell be completely repaired by next pass. Besides that the distance to go reload his bombs is HUGE. I would love to see this map IO with boats and buggies If you notice there are too many AT on your side play Engy. ( you find alot of dead both on this map) Other tanks need to be repaired and pairing up is essential.

^----- Awesome reply, took the words right out of my mouth.


Jets are pretty much meaningless to Armour if the other team is playing properly, in squads, either engie, AT or Spec-Op's, stay grouped together in the Armour you have nothing to fear from the pilots.

I tried to rack up tons of kills in my jet, it's haaard.... holy crap! The Long distances involved in reloading/defending the main from lonewolfs, much more realistic game play, shame there are no attack choppers though.....


Played with some really good players today on this map, had soo much fun, till high pingers pretty much ruined it for me. Anyone else notice that on this map? Having a low ping, close to the server, playing alone then 4-5 people join with 150+ pings and everything gets choppy, even after they leave and the round end it's still choppy.

My clan mate and I got into a heated pistol fight over a flag, he kept laughing because I was morphing everywhere...."Hey! where didja GoOOo?!?! Quit moving!" Nice. .... he was morphing bad too. both of us had sub 40 ping. Spotting people became really sluggish. Never had this on ANY other map with high pingers. *Sad*

the jets aren't meaningless. if you know how to divebomb you'll find an infinate number of vehicles just waiting to be destroyed!
and i love chasing around stray enermy buggies and apcs in the desert with the jets machine gun

not meaningless. less relevant. Just more tame than say playing wake.
or god forbid, a map with a bomber. I mean, if you lose airfield in Tampa you don't even notice. We'll maybe you'll notice all the tanks. You might notice some more bombs or repairing if you lose both airfields. You might get killed by bombing run maybe once or twice on the map. compared to what if you were playing Wake? I love this map! Encourages ground pounding at its finest. Makes Karkand look like a jungle gym. LOL, When it's released and we can play this IO it will be THE new sniper map. I wish it had more buildings at flag points. You spend how long getting to the damn flag and maybe there is a hut, a tree and the flag.

I tried to be sniper on this map... it uhm... didn't work so well for me.... lol

I know I should not have said the jets were meaningless.. sure there are plenty of lone wolves to chase down (they are the most dangerous to you're flags on this map) but if you come up against a flock of tanks (yes I said "flock" LOL) and they are all engy good luck killing them, it's even worse when they "circle the wagons" around a supply crate.....

Nice map though... I'm very curious at to what changes, if any, EA/Dice will make before releasing it.

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Originally posted by Harley_Quinn_Sniper
I know I should not have said the jets were meaningless.. sure there are plenty of lone wolves to chase down (they are the most dangerous to you're flags on this map) but if you come up against a flock of tanks (yes I said "flock" LOL) and they are all engy good luck killing them, it's even worse when they "circle the wagons" around a supply crate.....

Lotta flags on this map, so when you find a cluster of tanks, there are plenty of other places to go...

I think the map is bit big.I'd like to see more concentrated multi tank battles.Its good to see that we have not been completely abanded by EA

I love the new map. Love it because I love Anti-tanker kit

Ditto on the AT. My squad has been giving it a go on this map for a few nights. There's nothing like coming over a hill to witness a five on five tank battle playing out over 500m. Again, a rocketman's paradise. Can I have a box here Commander?

Well IMO , its a damn good map .

Too many pages to read back though but I had seen it's ranked, it's not ranked, it's ranked, it's not ranked back and forth what's the deal does anyone know for sure?

its ranked, loads of TV2 servers have it running. i have heard the map is pathetic so i havent downloaded it

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Originally posted by KlaatuOne
Too many pages to read back though but I had seen it's ranked, it's not ranked, it's ranked, it's not ranked back and forth what's the deal does anyone know for sure?

Further back in this thread I said I was getting my points... Well as much as I hate to admit when I am wrong - in the case of that post I was...

I tracked my rounds since Friday, no points for that map have shown up in my stats, every other round has. And yes, I am well aware of the time it takes for stats to update, but it's been 3 days now and those are the only missing stats.

So, based on what I have read and what I have seen from my own stats, I don't believe that EA is accepting stats for this map, even if they are coming from a ranked server.

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Originally posted by KlaatuOne
Too many pages to read back though but I had seen it's ranked, it's not ranked, it's ranked, it's not ranked back and forth what's the deal does anyone know for sure?

Its Ranked m8 , No if , buts or maybe's on that !