Battlefield 3 - Why do we have such crappy server setups

St3baS

St3baS

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Ok so I havent played battlefield 3 in ages, probably 5 or so months and after my brother decided to buy black ops 2 I saw him playing it a couple times and really felt like a FPS again. After about a week he decided that hes never going to play it again and he decided to revisit battlefield, he came to me to tell me how much better it is compared to black ops 2 and that I should update and join him in playing.

So I played a couple conquest domination maps with him on monday night and we had fun but what I really wanted to play is a Rush game but not a single server had rush going so we kept playing.

Well last night we found a full rush game up and it brought back all of the awesomeness that kept me playing for 190 + hours but the next map in rotation is a conquest LARGE....

I dont get it... Why have map rotation on a 16 player server between RUSH and Conquest Large??? I played the conquest large map for about 15 minutes and got so bored that I left to try find another rush server which there were NONE... Eventually the server rotated to a rush map again and we all joined ( at this stage we had about 6 people on teamspeak ) and had the most fun all over again.

My question has 2 parts...

1) Who decides that 16 player conquest LARGE is a good idea? It is literally the most boring thing I've ever played.

2) Why do no South Africans like RUSH? To me this is the most fun mode that the game has to offer... So many times it comes down to the last bomb site with very few tickets to spare, you have to work as a team and there aren't any bullshit spawns as in TDM etc.

Rush promotes PTFO more than any other mode in my opinion and it just makes no sense to me as to why people choose to play TDM instead.

People may argue that rush can become a spawn raping but to be honest it doesnt actually happen that often and also I would always switch to the weaker team in an attempt to help.

TLDR: Why have small server sizes and have map rotation including conquest large???? ( Most boring thing ever ! )
Why does nobody play RUSH? Its the best!

These boring modes is what makes me want to play something else, even though battlefield is so awesome.
 
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You can ask Mweb or iGame to set up a dedicated rush server if you want,we have a few servers that are usually empty that can be reconfigured for rush.
 
That would be cool! But would people play on it? I think Rush died out because of the map rotations to be honest... I see that there is a back to karkand rush server but those maps aren't fun either! A 24 player original battlefield 3 rush only server would be awesome... Im not sure if the close quarters maps have rush mode but I'd give them a try as well.
 
St3baS said:
Ok so I havent played battlefield 3 in ages, probably 5 or so months and after my brother decided to buy black ops 2 I saw him playing it a couple times and really felt like a FPS again. After about a week he decided that hes never going to play it again and he decided to revisit battlefield, he came to me to tell me how much better it is compared to black ops 2 and that I should update and join him in playing.

So I played a couple conquest domination maps with him on monday night and we had fun but what I really wanted to play is a Rush game but not a single server had rush going so we kept playing.

Well last night we found a full rush game up and it brought back all of the awesomeness that kept me playing for 190 + hours but the next map in rotation is a conquest LARGE....

I dont get it... Why have map rotation on a 16 player server between RUSH and Conquest Large??? I played the conquest large map for about 15 minutes and got so bored that I left to try find another rush server which there were NONE... Eventually the server rotated to a rush map again and we all joined ( at this stage we had about 6 people on teamspeak ) and had the most fun all over again.

My question has 2 parts...

1) Who decides that 16 player conquest LARGE is a good idea? It is literally the most boring thing I've ever played.

2) Why do no South Africans like RUSH? To me this is the most fun mode that the game has to offer... So many times it comes down to the last bomb site with very few tickets to spare, you have to work as a team and there aren't any bullshit spawns as in TDM etc.

Rush promotes PTFO more than any other mode in my opinion and it just makes no sense to me as to why people choose to play TDM instead.

People may argue that rush can become a spawn raping but to be honest it doesnt actually happen that often and also I would always switch to the weaker team in an attempt to help.

TLDR: Why have small server sizes and have map rotation including conquest large???? ( Most boring thing ever ! )
Why does nobody play RUSH? Its the best!

These boring modes is what makes me want to play something else, even though battlefield is so awesome.
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I'll answer part 2/2 of your questions... :)
I think that...
Why do no South Africans like RUSH?
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...is a bold statement to make, and a little incorrect, if you don't mind me saying that.
Yes! There are fewer Rush maps in Battlefield than there were in Bad Company 2 (for example). But, there are a few (Rush) servers on which are played locally.

International YT videos indicated that oversees, Rush maps are still in full swing, at least... That's what it looks like.
Locally however... I cannot myself understand why we have so few. I think people are more Conquest-inclined. When I actually bothered playing this game (about a week ago now) I only ever played TDM anyway. It's quick and easy to rack up some kills, and helps with my KD.
 
We had a Rush server once upon a time. But noticed that it was not terribly active, so we turned it off. No point in having a server online if it doesn't get any action.

I personally love Rush but generally don't play it because I find myself joining buddies on normal Conquest game modes. I wouldn't mind checking it out again, but I don't know many players there are for Rush. It's popular with many of the YouTube big names.
 
I stopped playing because of a lack of local rush games. I love the more tactical attack/defend gameplay. Conquest is just too much of a cluster-f when you aren't paying as part of a clan game.
 
I also prefer Rush, simply because when I prefer that game mode. I pretty much gave up on BF3 because it felt like everyone was playing Conquest and almost every game played out the same way. One team plays better than the other, pushes the other team back to their base, spawn-rape ensues. Rush games are always more varied and they rarely play out in the same way.

I started playing TDM almost exclusively at one point, but I prefer something where the team has a set goal to work towards, instead of just having to reach the frag limit first.
 
Stopped playing because of TDM servers..... Seriously? BF3 has always been about objective based warfare not TDM shit.... It just doesn't work.
 
Should we maybe get a platoon or something going for SA people wanting to play RUSH? Everytime Ive wanted to play BF3 this past week, Ive logged into battlelog, checked for a rush server and if there isn't one , I go play something else...
 
I was playing on a random server , with rush and squad death match etc etc.
Was really fun to find maps that i have never played before (within the normal maps)
Maybe a server could be set up to rotate between all the random gametypes , that arnt just large conquest?
 
And actually rotate all the available maps. I know not all of them are popular, but there are a lot of maps I have never seen before simply because nobody hosts them.
 
Conquest Metro 24/7 servers need to be burned to the ground, hopefully along with everyone who plays on them.
 
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Conquest Metro 24/7 servers need to be burned to the ground, hopefully along with everyone who plays on them.
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I completely agree. Its such a waste of a server. Hate darn metro with a passion. even when im the one spawn raping, it gets boring.
ps 300 ticket conquests are too short as well. 600 is nice :)
 
Ok so I checked out the server configs for the aftermath servers (Im not talking about the 64 player servers) and many of the 16 and 24 player servers have ridiculous rotations with conquest large and conquest assault large .... WHY!? I can't think why people set their servers up like this... Yes I know its your server and you can set it up how you like but really... what fun is CQL or CQAL with 24 people?
I see that one of the servers is even 24 players and then 1 map in rotation is "16 player TDM" , this makes no sense to me .

ZA MWEB AfterMath TDM & Scavenger 48-Player #9" - has a limit of 16 players
"ZA MWEB AfterMath CQ + Rush #3 {Double Tickets}" - has 3 CQL then a CQLA and then 4 Rush maps .. I dont think Ive played much 64 player rush so I want to give this one a try but knowing my luck as soon as I want to play its going to be at the beginning of the rotation and i will have to wait 4 maps before I get to play rush.

Can we please get a 32 player rush only server with some aftermath rush some close quarters rush and the original battlefield rush maps with no conquest large in rotation? Thats all I ask.
 
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