EPIC DOUBLE POST.

What if we did voiceovers explaining the mission and they were played over the load music?
If possibe, the VO would play through once over the music and the music would continue to repeat. Otherwise, double up the load music, 1st play has VO, 2nd play without.

Imo it could get really annoying after a while.
See:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6B_7ZRSwWg#t=3m02s

Not for the initial map loading screen.

Dunno, but it has been several years since anyone has been in contact with them.

No!

What if we did voiceovers explaining the mission and they were played over the load music?
If possibe, the VO would play through once over the music and the music would continue to repeat. Otherwise, double up the load music, 1st play has VO, 2nd play without.

Is it possible to have team specific loading screens/music?

Can we get the Imperial/Rebel commander voice actors back?

Should we just make Gwynzer do the voiceover instead for comedy value?

Big arrows on the map aren't good enough for you?

Big arrows on the map are often misleading, and not always noticed, despite being big and arrows.
People just assume conquest when they see  flags and get frustrated when that doesnt work out well.
Or they keep trying to cap until they are rebuked harshly by some angry vet with an axe to grind.

Ingame chat messaging is hepful but time consuming.

EST:
Imperials cannot recapture any flags, they can only defend. Rebels have to take all the flags to win

(relatively simple so far, but we still get questions of 'why?' )

Flags have to be taken in order, look at the flags on the map.
Rebels have to take the ewok tree village before you can move to the wrecked speeder or imperial out post

(If we havent had a 'but, why?' yet, we'll likely get one here)

Ewok tree village can be captured out of sequence, before scout camp is captured

( This is almost never pointed out as by the time the rest has been explained the rebels will likely have steamrollered ahead and the imp new guys will be heading to ewok or scout to recapture it)

Wtf is a spelautomater.

It means "Casino games" in Swedish.

I still think there's a good argument for ingame help to cover the basics, especially for highlighting the differences in gameplay between the mod and vanilla BF2/BF2142. It's these differences that make playing the game worthwhile for me and I cant help but feel that a lot of people are missing out on some of these aspects.

But, if no one else agrees then I guess it's just me...and I can live with that too

I dont have a second monitor and like to play fullscreen so windowed mode wouldnt work for me but it might work well for others.

Much of the older stuff is covered by detailed articles, though, so you may want to play FS in windowed mode and refer to the Wiki when you feel the need. It may not sound like the best way to play if you're used to fullscreen, but give it a try. Personally, I play as many games as I can in windowed mode, because it lets me jump to other tasks (as well as take notes with Notepad during testing) during in-game "downtime". As a temporary learning method, it should work.

Maybe I'm a total idiot but I often have trouble remembering the order in which to capture the points and sometimes I forget what all the guns, gadgets and vehicles are capable of. This was especially annoying when I first started playing and couldnt understand why I couldnt take off from the ground in an x-wing or couldnt capture certain points. It almost put me off the game completely to be honest.

So perhaps there could be map-specific, soldier specific and vehicle specific help that a player could access from the console or even better for newbies, from the ingame chat in order to highlight the key points.

Such as: hold down s to take off (vehicles), this map needs point x to be captured before point y(map specific), only officers have spawn beacons (soldier - officer) etc)

I dont anything about how to implement this but I imagine it could be done from scripts running on each server. I reckon it might keep some of the more impatient newbies from giving up on the mod too early. Thanks for the great game!