I think some people don't notice too, because the game hardly notifies them that you need help. Having your toon scream a voiceover that's hard to identify is lame. It could at least spam voicechat too so it's easy to see and easy to identify the person asking for resupply/health. The lack of a commo-rose is really hurting the game too, since it's virtually impossible to request help unless you can stare down a teammate. This is especially lame when you're in a vehicle and need something!BF2 for PC and "BF2" for consoles aren't even remotely the same game. The only thing especially better, I'd say, about Bad Company is that the infantry combat is actually a little more well tuned, but otherwise BF2 is still a deeper game and if you're into the whole scale of battle and vehicle combat thing, it's a much better game too. It's nice to play something new though, and I really do like Bad Company 2.. I just don't think it's better, especially in every way possible.I think it ditches/swaps your kit, and I think people don't do it because they're not used to playing Battlefield. If there's a medic in my squad I'll always grab his kit.

It's obviously not enough, since no one listens to "social button" requests.

Yes. COMMO-ROSE.

I just shot down a full Blackhawk with an Apache. It was pretty sweet. I wish the helos were always available on the map instead of just for one short base.

I say short because Rush is broken and when I'm on a good attacking team we shuffle through the entire map in about five minutes. Rush still sorta sucks, and it's a shame because it would be easy to fix.

I've won plenty of games as a defensive team too, but not all teams are equal. It's broken because with the right upgrades, which are pretty easy to equip, planting is pointless. That whole mechanic might as well not exist if you can just blow the crates up so easily. It's going to be even worse when assault kits can carry C4. I just think if you're going to give the other team the ability to defuse, and make the attackers defend the objective while it goes off, you're in for a harder fight and a more interesting game. I think Titan is a helluva lot better than rush, and I'd say 2142 is a better game than this, but it's also probably because Titan is more like conquest. If everyone is running around in conquest they're not doing it right. I very much look forward to playing conquest in this game. The Battlefield in conquest is very dynamic.

I don't mind the evolving map thing, that's my favorite part of this mode. Although this map is a little easy to abuse the mountain sides on, on both attack and defense. Hopefully when more people catch on to that it won't be so easy to camp on top of the hill around every base. The cliffsides are impossible to climb in most places, but there are spots where you can run right up there. A medic and an assault kit together can dominate people trying to use the roads, or even hillsides below. It's especially brutal when you do it on defense, since you can get right up against the previous bases, and rape people as they funnel towards the next objective.

...how does it make you AFK? It takes like (less than) one second to use the commo-rose. Learn to mutlitask. If you think it slows you down or makes you afk than you've never used it.

The main problem with the community button is that you have to actively target resupply or medics or engis or whatever to request help. Try doing that while you're in a tank.

You've never played BF2 or 2142 then, because the commo-rose is very useful.

People aren't constantly looking at their radar. They need audible or visual queues that actually have some kind of impact. That's really a different issue, removed from what makes the commo-rose so superior to the community button. Yelling in Russian doesn't count, and it doesn't matter if you *can* change the voice-over to English-only since you can't exactly control other peoples options.

It was a lot easier to tell who and when to help your teammates in BF2, and it was a lot easier to request help thanks to the commo-rose. I honestly think spamming text (I accidentally said "voicechat" earlier) chat would help a lot, it's more blatantly obvious than the radar, and would cause people to look down more readily than hearing "I need a medic!" in another language.

A lot of people are just new to this though (myself included), and I'm sure they'll get used to the more subtle system, but it's still worse. They didn't do this to increase immersion, they did it because it would be slow on a gamepad. I just think they could tweak it a little more, but it's not awful.

That's also not to say that I haven't requested health in BF2 and had medics run from the scene. Some people are just dumb.

The bullet drop in this game sorta does confuse me. I seem to be able to aim at targets at hundreds of yards with the XM8 dead on. How far off does a target need to be? Does it effect all weapons equally?

But one of them is a night map. That's awesome. Reminds me of special forces.

Looks good. A lot of diversity for a relatively small number of maps.