F.E.A.R. said:
Borrowed this from the Steam forums. I sure liked what they said. The flags are definitely more meaningful.
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In Conquest Large, Bandar Desert is stretching as far as 1,900 meters from U.S. to Russian deployment, not counting the airstrip at the very end of the ground forces combat area. This is even longer than Fushe Pass from Battlefield 2. Bandar Desert is about as wide as it is long at the middle flags – it measures 1,900 meters from the mountain base furthest from the sea all the way to the beach at the south edge of the map.
As a comparison, Caspian Border is roughly 1,100 meters between the U.S. and Russian deployments — around 800 meters difference both in width and length. Should you count the distance between your spawned jet and the enemy spawned jet, you will end up with 2,400 meters on Bandar Desert. From the closest capturable flag to the furthest capturable flag, you are looking at around 1,200 meters. For Caspian Border, the equivalent distance is just about 400 meters.
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These were a few of the major requirements that I set for Bandar Desert. It should:
*Support grand scale vehicle gameplay with freedom of movement at long range
*Provide exciting dogfight gameplay for jets in huge mountain ranges
*Contain diversity in gameplay and intensity between different themes
*Offer a great visual diversity both in terms of palette and character
*Support all game modes without compromise
*Differ from the other three maps in the expansion both visually and in gameplay (I knew what the other maps would be after initial design discussions)
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Holding different flags on Bandar Desert will keep your enemy from valuable assets like tanks, helicopters, transport vehicles, and artillery to a larger degree than on the base game maps, so don’t feel safe with just holding four flags in Conquest Large. If you hold just the town and one more flag, the enemy will still have more valuable vehicles than you have if they hold the most outpost flags, making it difficult for you to hold that majority of the flags for long.