[PC] Battlefield 2

I started playing during the christmas break and I haven't really been able to put it down since. I started out hating it so much, but it really just took me a while to adjust to the vehicles, and play it more like reality (i.e. not trying to gun down everything I see, knowing when to run away, etc.).

I've just started getting good at chopper flying, and I'm great at combating other choppers and clearing out a bunch of ground soldiers, but not so much against planes and setting up my gunner for ground assault (like stingers and tanks).

Profile: Skexis
Rank: Gunnery Sergeant
Fav class: My favorite is Medic, but my best for combat is Anti-tank, so I use it as a fallback. I've also started getting pretty good at Engineer now that I have both unlocks for it. The only class I can't do at all is Sniper.

Without trying to sound self-absorbed, I'm also really good at commander, as long as I get squads that pay attention to my spotting, and follow orders when I tell them to repair the tactical points like radar and arty.

I usually play at these servers:
Axxium 70.86.37.147 (I personally get really tired of wake island, especially with a 32 person max, but my friends all play here)
Texangirlz 70.86.74.28

I'm always willing to play somewhere else, as long as I can get a decent enough ping (70 or less).

By the way, has anyone else had problems with the VOIP not working correctly? I set it up and everything, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

However, ever since the newest patch just came out, I found myself unable to hit crap with the F2000 (why have you forsaken me?!), and I don't know why. I just wasn't good with it anymore.

Yeah, they basically nerfed it too much. Not only was the blast radius reduced, but if you'll notice, there's now a kind of "arming time" on the GL, so if you're less than a certain distance away, it will just bounce off the surface until it hits something else.

They made it buggy, though, and occasionally it will explode closer, so if you shoot it at your feet, sometimes you'll die and sometimes you won't.

I have special forces too. I love Warlord, Sharqi, Daqing, Dalian, Mashtuur and the Airfield level, but I'm kinda indifferent towards the rest. I did like iron gator, but then I started getting frustrated with the constant back and forth on the points.

I think Special Forces has suffered the most with the patch, though. The Red Bug seems to surface more often for me in there, and I have to cut down the graphics just to be able to play it without slideshow. My friend also says that there are some levels that have been causing a crash bug, so that's just icing on the EA shitcake.

By the way, if any of you guys haven't seen this yet, here's all the stats behind the game: http://ubar.bf2s.com/

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

I haven't touched BF2 in several days now (SRO is slowly starting to own me), so I've decided today to play it tomorrow. Is anyone up for a game? I'm in EST and I'm available at night, around 6:30ish.

I need 306 points left to get promoted.

Roger that. I don't have too much to do tomorrow other than household chores, so I'll be hanging out around the house tomorrow night. I'll keep xfire on so you guys know where to reach me.

On another note, I dunno how you guys manage to get those air defense ribbons. 11 stinger kills might as well be a solid gold computer case for all I can get it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I had a real problem tonight being able to hear anything people were saying, especially in a helicopter. Thing is, I need my sound volume high so I can hear the kind of vehicles coming and whether there's enemy gunfire near me.

If you guys are open to it, my friend that came into the TS channel briefly (VolkaV) says we can get on his clan's ventrilo server if we need to as well. I think the program itself is a lot more simple to get into, and the sound is definitely a lot better, so you can hear people enunciate. Plus, you can adjust your inbound and outbound as well, so you can fine tweak volume controls for different people who have headphone mics or desk mics.

server: edge5.nrgservers.net
port: 3507

They're really relaxed about logins and such, so you don't need to register or make a password or anything. If you guys are interested, I'll let you know the server password.

As for the gaming tonight, well, I didn't do so hot, except for the last couple of rounds I played. It seemed like every server we went to had some ace plane pilot that would continually strafe us. Ah well.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, I wasn't too hyped about euro force, but I kinda like the addition of the scanning choppers in armored fury. It makes me think that this pak will change up the gameplay a bit more.

Still, I feel like I've spent a lot of money on Battlefield already without the consumer support to go along with it. I think CGW was right when they said that the addition of these minipaks will end up dividing the community somewhat, and that's not a good thing for such a teamwork-oriented game.

Anybody else annoyed at the vehicle drops? Seems like the commanders use them as weapons more often than not, which is basically just a pile of suck. I mean, dropping a car on your enemy's chopper? It's just bad form.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I went ahead and made the wiki page. Hopefully someone can clean up the member list more than I was able to so it doesn't all blur together, and members with brackets in their name don't get funked up.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Well, to be fair, it wasn't my idea, it was Freelance Wolf's, but she was waiting on confirmation from Bigblah, so when I saw he okayed it, I figured I'd get the hard part out of the way.

(Sorry if I stole your thunder, Wolf. >_>)

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Tokubetsu

I didnt even know there was a community of folks on GFF that played BF2. I have a love hate relationship with the game myself. This of course might be because my computer sucks and until i get a good, i have to deal with long ass load times and shitty fps =(

Well, a good graphics card will certainly help with fps issues, but don't get your hopes up too much on loadign times. I recently bought 2 gigs of ram in the hopes it might help my processes run faster. Everything else is speeded up, but loading times for BF2 are about the same.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I definitely like the idea of a homeland battle line, and the new vehicles are pretty enticing...
But I shouldn't be spending money right now, cause I gotta be saving up to pay back loans. <=/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It depends if he had seen you yet. =p

You can nail choppers with a tank if you lead your shots well enough, but it's almost impossible to hit one once they've seen you, because they can get above your firing angle quickly, and then swoop down to take you out.

[Edit]: Unless you're talking about the new mini-choppers, I hear those are pretty fragile. It probably wouldn't take much from even the tank's MG to bring one down.

I'm going to be around the house pretty much all afternoon, so I'll be on Xfire if anyone wants to start a match. Just gotta finish eating, and then I'll be good.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

That depends. SF gives you 2 unlocks for each rank you reach, so that's good. It's got some cool maps (Warlord, Iron Gator), but the night maps, while a neat idea, fails in execution. The night goggles gives the area a highly polarized look. They're supposed to let you see better, but it truth it does a pretty poor job of it. If you don't wear the goggles, then everything's pitch black...

That's true, but I think it tends to add to the realism of the level. Night Flight would be one of my favorite levels if I had the chance to play it more. The trick is to rebind the goggles to a key that's easier to press, because you have to switch back and forth from them often. (the same is really true for gas mask, but that doesn't affect visibility near as much)

I really love the tactical angle of the expansion. If you have a coordinated squad, it is much easier to sneak in and steal a point out from under a group of enemies' collective noses. Zip lines and grappling hooks mean you can go a lot of places you might not normally be able to, and because of the teargas, it's a lot easier to suppress people who might not be so quick on the button with the mask. (More people than you might think, actually.)

Warlord and Night Flight are my favorites of the expansion, but mostly what my friend and I bought it for is the unlockable weapons. The MP7 engineer SMG, the F2000 assault rifle, the SCAR spec ops rifle...really almost every unlock is worth it. (Except maybe the anti-tank P90 SMG, I hear compared to the DAO shotgun it's pretty bad)

If you've got 20 bucks to burn, I'd say definitely go for it. It's got a lot of added content, but it's also got a different approach to playing. Even more so than before, you have to think cautiously, like the title would suggest, more along the lines of a special forces group.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

So what's everyone's opinions on uncappable bases? I personally think if a spec ops wants to come in and take out commander utilities, or maybe steal a plane, that's legitimate. If he's able to make it all the way over there and slip under the pilot's nose, he deserves what he gets.

But baseraping and artying when there's no other place to spawn, that just seems low. Unfortunately, too many servers don't mention anything about it, so, for example, it was okay for a small squad of people to camp on top of the MEC oil silo on Oman, and repeatedly shoot antitank rounds at our choppers and planes.

The commander finally artyed them after I told him to do something about it, but they just came back and did the same fucking thing 3 minutes later. If you're going into an uncappable, get in, do your business, and get out, I say.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Just something to keep in mind in case you guys see some suspicious behavior. It seems even BF2 isn't sacred anymore.

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Pf6tsxgkI

I've started noticing more of this bullshit popping up recently, so if you see something odd, like the massive vehicle drops, one good idea is to check peoples' pings. High ones are obviously going to be sending a lot of info at once, and I'm sure you can all do the math.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Good to know, but I've seen the commander hack being used on ranked servers, so it follows that the others might be as well.

How ya doing, buddy?

Just a shot I got of someone apparently having a lot of fun. Seems to pop up more often on Wake.



As an added bonus, because 2142 uses the same engine as BF2, there are hacks out already for the beta, and I imagine you can expect them to continue into the commercial release. One reason I don't think I'll be getting 2142. At least not right away.

FELIPE NO

Glory be to the highest, I thought they'd never get it done. Getting it now.

Looks like they increased the armor on the support choppers, which is good, but they still need to bring the miniguns back up to par. I don't like armored floating caskets any more than regular ones.

How ya doing, buddy?

Just so you guys know what to expect: a lot of people are complaining at the BF2S forums, saying that prone/crouch/jump mechanics are messed up, not just for exploiters, but for everybody else, too.

I honestly didn't notice when I played, so chances are if you don't prone spam or dolphin dive, it won't be a problem. I can't help but be a little worried about using Support now, though.

I think most of the exploit problems would be fixed if they just made prone take away a bit of your stamina when you hit the dirt.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Thanks, man, I was able to nab one. I'll check it out when I get home from work tonight.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So even though the 2142 beta is already over, I hear rumblings that a demo may not be too far behind. One guy who was running a beta server copied his notice from the hosting company saying that they would be taking it down because the beta was ending, and that a demo would be coming pretty soon.

Guesstimation puts it on the file servers Oct. 1, but that's pure speculation.

I have to say, even though I like the gameplay, and I actually liek the fact that it's harder to get kills, the shitty technical support we've been getting in BF2 isn't exactly giving a lot of incentive for me to throw more money at EA and Dice.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I couldn't really tell you, because I never played 1942 in its heyday.

The kind of constant bugginess and generally shitty user interface problems that have plagued the game can be tolerated, but I don't want to reward them for rushing the product out of the testing phase.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Hey guys, question.

My roommate has a copy of Battlefield 2 he's willing to let me use the key for (since he doesn't play it anymore), but I don't have a DVD drive. Do you think the game will work for online multiplayer if I download an image, install with his key, and use a no-cd crack for it (actually, I guess I could always just play with it mounted forever, but this would be easier)?

I sincerely doubt it, and I wouldn't try it, since there's always the possibility of being blacklisted. I have seen people getting kicked before by punkbuster for being logged in in two places, so I suppose it's possible.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well, for running the game with a crack, I mean. They may shoot first and ask questions later.

You'll have to let me know if this works for you, because I downloaded a DVD iso of the game a while back, since I didn't want to mess with 3 or 4 CDs, and never tried it out afterwards.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

There's one here, but it says you have to use a runaround like antiblaxx to avoid blacklisting, so...

FELIPE NO

Many servers you'll find have rules about entering or attacking uncappables, but it's always kind of a crapshoot as to whether they enforce them or not.

It's one of the things about Point of Existence that is very nice: you can turn a feature on or off to harm enemies when they enter an uncappable, the same way BF2 harms you if you go out of bounds.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Hey, guys, forgot to mention this before, but for those of you looking at BF2142, you might as well check out this contest: http://forums.fevergaming.com/showthread.php?t=88935

Just answer a trivia type question about 2142 each day for a chance to win a free 2142 CD key. Winners are drawn randomly from the PMs that guy receives, at noon central each day until the game is released. Pretty cool, I must say.

Jam it back in, in the dark.