Originally posted by: destrekor
how has the thread gone this long without mentioned Americas Army?
granted, I have played in awhile, so I have no clue how the community plays the game these days, but back in the day most servers kicked you for bunny hopping or abusing any other feature. To block the jump like some games is ridiculous, you just need admins who care. The great thing is there are almost always admins if you go to a non official server, and typically these servers are still honor-based (honor is like experience in any other game, builds up honor levels, a sign of experience in the game and how well you help others, typically, as you earn points for patching up people as a medic, and your team winning gets all of you points).
official servers were often a mess, with people from counter strike coming in and ruining the gameplay with hectic play and bunny hopping and nade spamming and other crap. good servers made these are kickable and bannable offenses, and it was good then.
on most servers, you could actually play at a realistic pace, but the effect wears off as you begin to learn the typical patterns of most players and where most people go for cover and where they go for surprise attacks. but that is something you just can't really remove from any game.
just saw the OP had a quick quip about AA. OP, do understand you gotta stay off public servers. That tends to be an issue in all online multiplayer shooters. go to clan servers, and play with them. they will typically provide a good challenge, and have hardcore moderation rules that will keep the game clean.
but as far as maps, that is indeed a downfall of the game and limits creativity and effective surprise since most players have already thought of the same thing you probably did, and thus another play is probably going to be camping that spot waiting for you to try that idea.
being the sniper was always fun, because it became Enemy at the Gates. It was always cross-map sniper battles, the one hoping to have the jump on the other. at least, it was that way in my favorite map, SF Hospital.
that map was too small and confined but was enjoyable nonetheless.