Joined: Jul 26, 2007
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI
After a week of talking with the officer’s one on one the officers have come to a consensus. We did not do this lightly knowing that no matter what we did someone would be upset. No matter what your point of view is please understand we carefully listened to your views and did what we think is best for the team.
For the officers it came down to two options in the end. First keep crouch with no recon or second to allow recon but go to a run and gun infantry only server. The idea we kept coming back to was the concept that a crouch server is about movement. Without movement you really do not have a crouch server.
We were careful not to tie ourselves to the past. BF4 is not Call of Duty and just trying to apply COD ideas to a Battlefield game was not workable. Each game needs to be viewed individually without thought to what was in a different game.
After a lot of talk and thinking the officers have decided to stay with crouch and no recon. That could change if small maps come out in future map packs. Similar to BF3 and the close quarters map pack. We decided that it was best to encourage movement in the server. Snipers rifles rate of fire and accuracy limited movement in maps that are mostly open areas at this time. Unlike other weapons that have slower rate of fire and lower accuracy recon class just dominated the crouch server.
This is not the first time we have made a change to our rules with a new game. It was not till W@W that we that we started doing crouch. We did this to accommodate a different gaming environment to offer something different then every other server out there. Now in BF4 we have to again make a change to create an effective environment. By introducing crouch we change the way the game was made. We slow down the game play and limit players ability to move around the map. This changed the balance of the classes in favor recon. This was made clear by the vast majority of players on our server only using recon and non-recon players quickly left in favor of other server. This left our server as a reputation not of a crouch server but of a recon only server.
We understand that some people may wish to leave BK over this and we understand. We have already seen this happen over just the trail period. In the end we felt this offered a unique environment for our server as a crouch server and not just one more recon server. In the end we did what we thought was best for all 500 BK members and all 300 BF4 BK players.
GOA.Luke*BK*
For the officers it came down to two options in the end. First keep crouch with no recon or second to allow recon but go to a run and gun infantry only server. The idea we kept coming back to was the concept that a crouch server is about movement. Without movement you really do not have a crouch server.
We were careful not to tie ourselves to the past. BF4 is not Call of Duty and just trying to apply COD ideas to a Battlefield game was not workable. Each game needs to be viewed individually without thought to what was in a different game.
After a lot of talk and thinking the officers have decided to stay with crouch and no recon. That could change if small maps come out in future map packs. Similar to BF3 and the close quarters map pack. We decided that it was best to encourage movement in the server. Snipers rifles rate of fire and accuracy limited movement in maps that are mostly open areas at this time. Unlike other weapons that have slower rate of fire and lower accuracy recon class just dominated the crouch server.
This is not the first time we have made a change to our rules with a new game. It was not till W@W that we that we started doing crouch. We did this to accommodate a different gaming environment to offer something different then every other server out there. Now in BF4 we have to again make a change to create an effective environment. By introducing crouch we change the way the game was made. We slow down the game play and limit players ability to move around the map. This changed the balance of the classes in favor recon. This was made clear by the vast majority of players on our server only using recon and non-recon players quickly left in favor of other server. This left our server as a reputation not of a crouch server but of a recon only server.
We understand that some people may wish to leave BK over this and we understand. We have already seen this happen over just the trail period. In the end we felt this offered a unique environment for our server as a crouch server and not just one more recon server. In the end we did what we thought was best for all 500 BK members and all 300 BF4 BK players.
GOA.Luke*BK*
