Official Obsidian Battlefield 2 Ranked Server Up!

[LoneWolf16]

Damn...why only the special forces maps? I've just got the original.

 

 

 

 

 

...though I'd probably, during the course of fragging the bajeezus out of some developers, begin ranting and raving about how I can make plot holes too...in their asses. :D

 

(Only kidding...............................no, really, I am.......seriously)

[J.E. Sawyer]

I will tear gas friend and foe alike.

[Azure79]

I will tear gas friend and foe alike.

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It's quite weird yet very nice to see devs whose names I've only read on the credits of the games I love, on these boards saying they'll tear gas us all.

 

It does kinda bring a tear.

Edited December 4, 2005 by Azure79

[Child of Flame]

Want high speed internet so bad!

 

And yet free room and board is frikkin' awesome.

 

WALLET WINS!

 

FINISH HIM!

[alanschu]

I guess I should get this game now, but if I log on I have this nasty feeling that it would be one lone rifleman against a raving horde of something or other. 

 

Yeah, I would die so quickly. 

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Just jump into a tank and drive around shooting stuff....it's what I do

 

On a side note, what's the expansion like? It sounds neat!

Edited December 4, 2005 by alanschu

[Child of Flame]

Dudes, if I had this game. You would all be dead.

 

Mostly because I kill anything that moves.

 

It would only be J.E. and me guys.

 

Then we'd both kill each other.

 

Bloody mess.

[Kitch]

I've been thinking about picking up the expansion. I may have to do so now

[Petay]

Hmmmm, I wonder if there is a double pack with both the original game and expansion as well ". I just might have to pick it up, it sounds pretty good anyway.

 

Plus, can't miss the chance to blast some devs!

 

Not likely, i suck at FPS : (

[Judge Hades]

I will tear gas friend and foe alike.

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Somehow, I can believe this. :ph34r:

 

[mkreku]

I checked out the expansion on Webhallen just now, and apparently you're able to play as a Spetznas in Special Forces! Now that's cool as hell!

[Kaftan Barlast]

Too bad both the original and the expansion are STILL selling at full retail price.

 

 

(EA knows how to milk it)

[Llyranor]

Support EA! EA deserves your money!!! \o/

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Yes indeed :D

 

Why would you drop the price of a game that is still selling anyway. No sense in that is there.

[J.E. Sawyer]

The tear gas is pretty hilarious to use on flags while your squad is capturing. If you're playing Support, you have a machine gun as your primary weapon and the tear gas as one of your other weapons. You can tell your squad to put on their gas masks before you fire the canisters into the flag spawn area. Lie down, take out the machine gun, and wait for wheezing rebels to come stumbling out of the haze.

 

Also, the grappling hooks and zip lines in the expansion are pretty jawesome.

 

BF2 continues in the fine tradition of having controls and collision so awkward that it makes Tribes 2 feel like Quake 1 in comparison. Also, the class balance absolutely sucks without the unlocks. Despite that, it's still pretty fun -- and the benefit of having a ranked server is that we can earn and save the weapon unlocks, medals, and ribbons.

[Kaftan Barlast]

BF2 continues in the fine tradition of having controls and collision so awkward that it makes Tribes 2 feel like Quake 1 in comparison.

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I though the controls were pretty much in the higher range of what you can expect from an FPS and how is the collision awkward? The programmers have been dealing some with c-d here but not us lowly design&graphics monkeys.

 

 

..and will you be wearing your St. Christoffer beard when you play? "

[J.E. Sawyer]

The controls are more "realistic" than games like Quake, so they tend to feel sluggish and unresponsive in comparison. Sometimes I think that the invasion of Normandy took less time than the reload animation on a machine gun in BF2. The collision detection is really, really erratic -- especially for explosions. It's a common event for anti-tank units to try shooting right next to the corner of a building and having the rocket blow up on the invisible collision volume that sticks out an extra foot. It's also common for tank rounds and rifle grenades to explode right next to people and do little to no damage -- apparently due to a bump the size of a soda can being next to the point of impact.

 

EDIT: It's certainly better than it was in BF:1942, but it's still frustrating at times.

[Judge Hades]

Yeah, if it wasn't a EA game I would not have second thoughts in buying this game. I haven't bought an EA game since U9 for the way they treated Origin.

[Bokishi]

I have BF2SF. I hope server doesn't lag. Wait you guys are located in Cali. No lag then. w00t

Edited December 5, 2005 by Bokishi

[mkreku]

So.. has anyone been able to get their brains blown out by a developer yet?

[kumquatq3]

I think alot of us are right around computer upgraded time. If their still playing in a month, I'd be glad to pick up the game, but I doubt my computer is going to be handling BF2 very well as is.

 

We really should field a forum team

 

Anyways, so this is a private server, some kind of offical server you guys just meet up on, whats the deal. I'm assuming, since you gave the IP address, just a server you guys have in the office.

Edited December 5, 2005 by kumquatq3

[J.E. Sawyer]

It's an externally hosted "official" ranked BF2 server.

[Bokishi]

Yes, we need a forum squad. But it has to be a pink squad.

 

I think alot of us are right around computer upgraded time. If their still playing in a month, I'd be glad to pick up the game, but I doubt my computer is going to be handling BF2 very well as is.

 

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Don't believe all the requirments hype. I have a plain vanilla 6800 and it runs fine.

Edited December 5, 2005 by Bokishi

[Lord Tingeling]

if I get high-speed internet around christmas, I'll certainly join. Especially if I get the chance to gun down Josh.

[J.E. Sawyer]

Don't believe all the requirments hype. I have a plain vanilla 6800 and it runs fine.

Well, people should believe the requirement suggestions about RAM. It's no hype that even with 2 gigs, you'll be spending about 30 seconds to a minute loading maps.

 

Special Forces also uses a bunch of full screen shader effects that slow down my system (P4 3.5 GHz, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 6800).

[Kaftan Barlast]

I dont think any system is capable of giving BF2 reasonable loading times. You just have to take the pan and find something useful to do all those endless moments youll spend staring at the load screen

 

 

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