Why do you love the battle islands?

[ZAYZAY]

I :love: the battle islands because its cloacker CE heaven. When ever im at the battle islands I rack up tons of boomer kills. Mainly because of all the open area so grunts are taking cover behind tress and such only paying attention to whats ahad and not whats behind them :p

[321]

I like them because they are smaller and since I like smaller fights if the island is not being zerged all of the people that are there won't have to go 30 minutes before you find an enemy on that island. And I like Nexus becase it encourages foot zerging which = easy kills for my mosquito but if we don't have the base then I'll usually just fly around and when I die I'll just stay in the tower doing nothing.

[DeltaForceAlpha]

I havn't really fought on Acension at all, mostly on Desolation but I love the Battle Islands for many reasons:
-battles are quick: bases can be gained and lost extremely quickly
-varying terrain: cliffs, flat terrain, tons of trees, anything that varies
-small: smaller islands mean less walking around
-emphasis to use vehicles: in these islands, you are dead without a vehicle (especially Desolation)
-and the cloaking points you mentioned above

[Meursault00]

I only like Nexus because it's infantry ownage. Especially when you have an Aurora. I remeber yesterday me and two outfit mates went around and around the dropship center mauling infantry in the handfuls. Racked up a lot of xp that way.

I dont like Extinction. The battle are way to long, the gains are way too little. Snipers everywhere, friendlies everywhere. Cloakers everywhere, enemy grunts from every direction, much to unorganized for my tastes. The only fun I get from that island is spamming plasma nades down heated tower battles with my thumper.

Desolation is nice, mauled a lot of enemies with Aurora by plunging into bases once the CE and the turrets were down. Killed some tanks, ran away from tanks, took down aircraft. General fun.

Havn't been to Acsension yet. Should be good though.

[FearTheAtlas]

I don't :P......love them that is :)

[xMuNcHx]

I love them because they're little islands and i seem 2 be good as a cloaker there. Also, ZAYZAY, at that tower today was really fun.
Oh yeah, Any NC Markov Infiltrators that wanna help me and ZAYZAY make an outfit?

[DeltaForceAlpha]

Hehe, mersault, the battle today was fun when you were in my squad (Omega5)

[Apocolypse55]

I like bridge battles on Extinction and the vehicle battles on Desolation.

[HawkEye]

only thing i like about the islands are the tower. I love a good tower fight.

[MrCovertMan]

I like the islands cause I get to you medium assault for actual assaulting versus just being on a base wall firing on troops below.

[JetRaiden]

Because oshur sucks and its a new landscape.

[mechaman]

I don't :P......love them that is :)

I concur. I don't mind new content but I also don't like 3 way battles which is what these islands promote

[DeepStrikeck]

ZAYZAY I remember your name from markov (i'm VS sniper, hehehe) I don't remember why i remember your name, I think its from oshur right before the end. Whatever

Anyways, they're cool, I haven't faught on ascension, but the rest are cool. Sweet ass sniping. but i kinda miss oshur, that had great sniping. (I liked the cliffs by Izha) and the global map is a little odd, but I'm getting used to it =P

[Rbstr]

because ZAYZAY has probalby owned you with a boomer or knife or something alot. He is cloaker supreme

[Cauldron Borne]

I like them because it get's the CR5's all in a twist when we ignore the rest of the world.

*WE'RE LOSING THE WHOLE WORLD BECAUSE YOU MORONS ARE ON THOSE STUPID ISLANDS!"

"yeah, but we're WINNING those islands" *snipes the hypocritical cr5 in the back of the head* *looks innocent*

[DeepStrikeck]

Maybe, but I do remember killing a ZayZay an aweful lot near Atar on the Sunday before the revamp

[ZAYZAY]

Maybe, but I do remember killing a ZayZay an aweful lot near Atar on the Sunday before the revamp

If you did it was because i was uncloacked and watching the metoer shower. Tons of people were killing me and i just ignored them and kept spawning at the tower and watching the show. :p

[DeepStrikeck]

=p

[Mandalore]

Battle Islands are totally stupid right now. There is no point in fighting on them, because lattice benefits do not transfer between the islands. So if you own one of the Desolation tech plants, you don't get the tech plant benefits on the other three islands. This has a serious effect on the combat. I've noticed that, on Markov at least, the footzerg is fucking insane on the BIs. You have countless grunts and snipers occupying most of the combat, because there is little to no armor being rolled directly from bases. The only way to get a tank on Extinction, for example, is to either roll it from Desolation, assuming you own a plant there, or roll it all the way form sanctuary. This just takes too long, and you can't get concentrated armor support from multiple people.

This issue is being looked at and fixes are being worked on, from what I've heard. But, because of this, the BIs are just no fun for me right now. Sniper and mosq swarm=teh suq.

Even on top of this, I still kind of prefer the original conts. I HATE the flat deserts of Desolation; Extinction is plain hell for grunts, because everything revolves around narrow bridges where flails and reavers dominate; Ascension battles are ALWAYS deadlocked on that big hill in the middle. And there are loads of total idiot sniper on every island. The kind of mass produced noob snipers who couldn't hit a target if their life depended on it, but manage to get kills because 30984 of them hole up in a nest together. I do like Nexus, though, but I've always liked the snowy climates more than anything else.

[Dizik]

I for one love the Battle Islands because it is something new and fresh. Also, I am a sniper and also currently running a cloaker/CE loadout, so I'm loving it. But I'm not one of the "noob snipers" as Mandalore put it, and neither are my outfit mates. I guarantee you'll never see us in a cluster of more than 4. There's nothing that we hate more than a Reaver rocket-spamming us, so we try to avoid that. And we do that by not being in the same spot as the other thousand snipers.

Dizik- Shadow Sergeant
Ghosts of the Revolution

[Red October]

Love the new insane terrain....of course, Im a big fan of insanity.

[Cauldron Borne]

Umm.... correct me if i am wrong, but wasn't the point of the BI's to be more Infantry friendly? Didn't they make them the way they are so we could HAVE those massive infantry battles with out being interupted by vehicles? Didn't the vehicles get their OWN island within which to do battle?

Sorry Mandelore, but if you don't like them for those reasons, then you don't like them for the reasons they were created, and should probably just stick with the main continents except for those times when you want to accept that that is what those Islands were made for.

[KIAsan]

The only problem I have with Battle Islands, is they are zerged over by one of the empires, so they are not available when I am on. So, I don't get to spend a lot of time fighting on them. If the point of the battle islands was for smaller scale play, then they should have made the bases non-capturable and put in other targets as a goal.

[Rbstr]

yeah the BI's piont was to be an Infantry battle ground for the most part, it's great fun withought all the vechs interfearing

[BUGGER]

I dont love them, i'm just getting use to them. I must know whats at my disposal.

[Meursault00]

Omg, I'm not alone!

I wish the latice benefits would transfer too!

[EarlyDawn]

I love the Battle Islands Because (Some points repeated):

- They're compact, which means less downtime for me.
- They're tactically designed. (Dunes on Desolation, Switchbacks on Ascension, Bridge vs Tower placement for Extinction. Topography relative to the base for Nexus.)
- MA is viable again, particularly after the MA buff.
- Different "flavor" for each island. Desolation, tank battles. Duh. Ascension has a "sieze the hill" infantry theme. Extinction is all about light vehicles (anything smaller then a MBT, unless you're Vanu.). Nexus is Infantry and air.

I personally don't think that benefits should be shared across a cluster. It sacrifices each individual island's "personality". I do think you should have to own every base in the cluster to lock it to pods, however. I also think that a cavern lock should run cross-cluster, though.

I say bring on the next cluster. :D A cluster with a capitol (and distributed sub-caps) would be nice.

[SquirrelMan]

Well, I haven't had a chance to play the Battle Islands yet (twas on a cruise till earlier today), but they look cool.

And, if they make another cluster, which cont are they gonna nuke?

[Cauldron Borne]

why not just ADD a contient? the contients are on world, so what's on the other side? maybe another cluster?

(Captitols Cluster: four islands. three w/ sub caps and maybe another base or two. and the last one w/ JUST a capitol. You'd have to get two of the three sub caps for the wgs to the cap island to unlock, and all three for the shield to drop. wadda ya think?)

[KIAsan]

Don't care what they do, but make them so there is at least one uncapturable point. Otherwise, they will stay zerged over and remain unavailable. Was on again today, and once again, battle islands were VS on emerald.

I don't care if other worlds get captured, that is the point of PS. But, I had thought the point of the Battle Islands was to provide smaller, more dense battles. As such, you don't need capturable bases. Make each base the same and setup a central area (even a base) as the goal for everyone to fight over. Then we can have continual, uninterrupted battles!