Sure, you're right but the major case people don't play longrange anymore is round times set hilariously long combined with lack of knowledge of the map and open area behaviour. Time goes on and you can hardly meet someone who knows things, who raised and learnt the game on those maps when level was so much higher than nowadays. Problem lays in psyche of people, they join open area map, get killed pretty fast, that happens few rounds, the guy gets bored and leaves the server after 30 min. Doesn't surprise me to be honest. Main problem is Hospital and acog4x raised community, people who have never learnt how to control M16 and M249 recoil, people who are amazed that you shoot in one point when you have 100% health and cem. Pity that you can't do much about it Bart
I'm for minimizing round times to the logical maximum. On pub or matches, doesn't matter. As for me on publics, I prefer to play assault, it's easier to score heavy imho, faster rounds, more action, more movement, more kills, more fun. As for competitive gameplay, I've played 'a few' matches... In this game nothing works better than good organized rush, in cqb or open area, it just doesn't matter. Of course you know that very well , but I mean long rounds have no sense at all. 95% of maps in aao are one sided, so it comes down to good rush, 0 or 1. I've always laught even at good teams trying to play slow eg. at JTRC Farm Raid and got picked one by one 6 rounds in a row not trying to change anything. It's a state of mind...
Thinking a viewpoint of commercial fps game you're totally right.
But we all know this game is not for commercial but marketing about Americas Army. Right ?
We are all interested in true tactics about real combat.
In fact there are so many other fps games for Rush and Kill.
And those games are better than this game for Rush and Kill.
Of course I love both Rush & Kill and Calm Strategies.
I just want to play with calm strategies in this AAO.
But it seems that most of players prefer to rush and kill even in AAO.
It's so sad.
So I request to check your server again [SWISS]Merlin.