See this is a common fallacy. The ETQW player base is now reduced to the point where it's only the dedicated types still playing. There's very low influx of new players and virtually no casuals.

Aye. The main problem BC2 has when it comes to full-scale team strategy is everyone, or at least every squad, is off doing their own thing, often too into that to care or even notice what everyone else is doing. In QW you had 16 players all able to chat and divide themselves up into squads to chat seperate to that aswell, so you actually had people willing and ready to drop an orbital strike to cover objective arming, or to clear ahead for or follow a flag carrier, or to alert when both the team's or the enemy's turrets/radars were up/down and so on. Objective info was listed on the HUD too so if you were a rocket-packing engineer objectives for your class, such as enemy turrets, vehicles and radars all came up on screen, giving a clear job to do.

It's because of playing like that that often in BC2 when an objective is flashing away and defenders near it just stay sat in their safe spot taking more potshots for kills pisses me off. I may suck at killing folks before they kill me more than half the time, my K/D ratio is barely 0.5, but i've won more games for my team with those deaths arming and disarming mcomms than some twat with 20/4 sat on a roof way back in our base the whole time. Chipping away at an infinite number of defenders is the most pointless act they could possibly be doing.

the whole voicecom thing in BC2 never functioned (the bastards)

I think you're the one stating the fallacy. Where do you get this "only dedicated types play it" information from?

I played several matches this weekend with "Recruit" ranks who had no idea how to play the game. In fact, of the six different servers I've played over the last 4 days at least one-third of them were newbies (in rank and ability). You might find more no0bs in BF than you do in ETQW, but it'd be dumb to assume there are no new players in ETQW.

Is that a statement or command? If it's the latter, I refuse...

Think rage is gonna be sweet.

No! Damnit, I refuse to think...

Neither a statement nor a command (command? how would that work?)
"think" is an assumption/wish I'm confident will be fulfilled.

New gameplay video. AI looks pretty nifty.

yeah the death sequences are very nice. I liked the part where the guy fell down after shot and lifted up his upper boddy while still down only to be finished off.

and the wounded guy limping his way towards the retreat point

in one of the interviews, they did mention that they put alot of effort into making the character animation "organic"

Yeah it's cool, but...if you see the same type of animation more than a few times, it begins to be not as realistic. It's almost a catch 22. You want those types of realistic animations, but it's hard to have a unique animation for each individual enemy, especially with a game such as Rage where we might see hundreds or even thousands of different enemies. You start to see the same guys dying the same way over and over, it starts to numb the experience...