How Can EA Make commander fun again

[spiraleddie]

So How can EA make commander fun again,
I just came from a game where i played commander, and i gotta say it was boring
these days with SL giving orders it is one less job for commander( i kNow commander can and should still give orders just that with good squad leaders it is less often u need to do it).
also the interface is pretty buggy, with the zoom just awkward to operate.
So i was wondering if you guy have any ideas on other tasks for commander to do and mayb someone from EA will notice.

[GrimsDead]

Well what i do is go to a server where i cant get kickvoted or mutinyed and i just play like i would if i wasnt the commander. By the way i get over 100 points a round doing this :D

[fknlo]

what server are you playing on where the SL's actually give orders and update them? i need to find this mythical land...

[Vreki]

As I see it, the problem is that you take a FPS player and gives him a very simple RTS, where the units don't even follow your orders most of the time.

So what's left to do? Blow stuff up!
The problem is that the God-send destruction makes the game a lot less fun for the FPS players on the ground, since they are just sitting targets.

Why do we need a commander?
Most of his functions could be delegated down to the SL, it is them who needs it anyway.

To make the commander interesting we need to give him a purpose, and I don´t see what that is.

Maybe if Titan mode featured some ship to ship combat, but I don´t see that happening.

[The_Eliminator]

what server are you playing on where the SL's actually give orders and update them? i need to find this mythical land...

i give orders, and i update them! :D

Join my mythical place.

[Erratic-Space]

Personally going Cmd is much, much better on this than on BF2. I think the main display could be tailored though as I liked the BF2 one better. Seems a bit of a fiddle at times to bring up the extra squad cmds too. But yeah all in all this part is much better than BF2.

[TB-303]

The best games always have a good commander. It may be boring (I never play commander) and of course, you need squads that follow orders. These days I guess, putting the titan in the most strategic place is quite important. We had one commander who hid right in the corner of the map, then complained when no-one came to defend the titan.....well, no one was on board in the first place (nothing to shoot at) and secondly, by the time we'd got APC's full of troops, the titan was still miles away. Meanwhile, the other titan was camping 3 silos and killing everything in sight.

[StormPirate]

Well what i do is go to a server where i cant get kickvoted or mutinyed and i just play like i would if i wasnt the commander. By the way i get over 100 points a round doing this :D

Since you only earn a fraction for each point one of your teammates earn, and no points for your own kills, wouldn't it be better to be in the Command screen and help your team instead of running around and fighting?

[Unfocused]

I think the ability to get gold, even if you're completely useless and do nothing, but are on a good team, should make up for any boredom coming from commanding.;)

[goldxp]

i would vote for a mini game when you are on the commander screen, maybe something like battleship would be a good add-on. so u can be commander and have fun playing battleship, or pacman?uh 2 many games 2 choose from. ;)

[Drevor]

Chess vs the enemy commander, the looser has to place their titan directly above a silo ...

[MrAus10]

Commander is boring as hell...

[frshhh]

Well what i do is go to a server where i cant get kickvoted or mutinyed and i just play like i would if i wasnt the commander. By the way i get over 100 points a round doing this :D

:rolleyes:

If theres one thing i that i dislike more than unrepentant non-team players (= you).... its stat padders (best round score: 1802 = you)

(reported to BFROE = you)

[viper1431]

Wouldn't have expected any diferent from the type of person that goes commander and then plays as normal knowing that its near impossible in this game for a mutiny to work.

[m7kf83sf92]

@ frshh. Good 4 u. I hate combat commanders who never do anything

@ Drevor. Lol. I always seem to get a moron who does that anyway

what server are you playing on where the SL's actually give orders and update them? i need to find this mythical land...

@ fknlo. I do! Me and my squad of friends (operating under the name =][=) always issue orders, update etc. Right now though, I am part of EAU so I don't have the tag i usually do

I have =EAU=storm.bringer instead of =][=stormbringer. Add me now :D

[Mongo Only Pawn]

Why do we need a commander?
Most of his functions could be delegated down to the SL, it is them who needs it anyway.



.... Until you get 6 squad leaders looking for arty/uav/emp at the same time...

[Vreki]

.... Until you get 6 squad leaders looking for arty/uav/emp at the same time...

Obviously there would be a timer for each squad. And a longer one too, so that the assets would have the same availability as now.