Tempted to buy BF2 but with a but

[Ace Pace]

I have the game with no expansion packs for the PC, and I LOVE it. It's, in my opinion, the best and most realistic FPS out. The graphics are decent, the weapons are great, and once you figure out how to use what and when, it gets to be pretty damned fun.

The game is also getting more popular - still! Just a few days ago, EA said that they had more users online playing BF2 at one time than they ever had before - over 52,000!

52,00 is..alot?

AA has more. And AA is free.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

52,00 is..alot?

AA has more. And AA is free.

Online simultaeneously?

[Alyeska]

BF2 is great if you can get a group of friends together and work together over VOIP.

[Count Dooku]

Dooku, I would hardly call BF2 realistic.

It is compared to some games, and I go as far to say as, it's more realistic than most FPS' out there. In Halo 2, humans are using assualt rifles that are on-par with the m-16. BF2 might not be THE most realistic, but it's decently close.

I have the game with no expansion packs for the PC, and I LOVE it. It's, in my opinion, the best and most realistic FPS out. The graphics are decent, the weapons are great, and once you figure out how to use what and when, it gets to be pretty damned fun.

The game is also getting more popular - still! Just a few days ago, EA said that they had more users online playing BF2 at one time than they ever had before - over 52,000!

52,00 is..alot?

AA has more. And AA is free.

BF2 is free too. 52,000 is a lot - at least in my book. There are probably over 1/2 a million people that play everyday; but EA made the comment that 52,000 people were on at the same time. If you want to talk about games that have a lot of people online at once, let's talk about Halo 2. That's probably the most played online game out there.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

BF2 is free too. 52,000 is a lot - at least in my book. There are probably over 1/2 a million people that play everyday; but EA made the comment that 52,000 people were on at the same time. If you want to talk about games that have a lot of people online at once, let's talk about Halo 2. That's probably the most played online game out there.

Not only is that unlikely, but World of Warcraft trumps it easily. According to XFire, it clocks the most minutes played on a daily basis by XFire users by a very large margin.

[wautd]

Wow, it took like an hour yesterday to find a decent server. For some reason I kept getting disconnected. I could join a game but the moment I got in I get "connection troubles" and went back to the menu (and one time I even had an error regarding Punkbuster, saying I need to reinstal it. WTF?)

It was good fun once I could playing tough. I liked the big city fights which was somewhat lacking in Joint Operations. I do miss the vegetation in JO tough, which was perfect to hide and snipe in (maybe it's in BF2 but not in the maps I played so far anyway)


PS. Can you change your language settings somewhere without reinstalling the whole game? Mine is currently in dutch and that's sucking ass. So damn cheesy translation

[Fire Fly]

Wow, it took like an hour yesterday to find a decent server. For some reason I kept getting disconnected. I could join a game but the moment I got in I get "connection troubles" and went back to the menu (and one time I even had an error regarding Punkbuster, saying I need to reinstal it. WTF?)

It was good fun once I could playing tough. I liked the big city fights which was somewhat lacking in Joint Operations. I do miss the vegetation in JO tough, which was perfect to hide and snipe in (maybe it's in BF2 but not in the maps I played so far anyway)


PS. Can you change your language settings somewhere without reinstalling the whole game? Mine is currently in dutch and that's sucking ass. So damn cheesy translation

You should be able to change the language setting under options in your game menu, that is, be logged on and then go to the Options menu.

The only map with jungle terrain is Songhua Stalemate. Its foggy, lots of bamboo trees and a sniper's paradise; you can see them but they can't see you. One of my favorite sniping spots, though, is on Mashtuur City, on the building which overlooks the Backyard and is adjacent to the building overlooking the Mosque. If you position yourself inwards enough from the edges and look towards the Hill, you have a wide open kill zone and there's few spots that ground snipers can get at you, unless they're on the hills or building roofs, which you should be able to easily spot.

[Ace Pace]

Dooku, I would hardly call BF2 realistic.

It is compared to some games, and I go as far to say as, it's more realistic than most FPS' out there. In Halo 2, humans are using assualt rifles that are on-par with the m-16. BF2 might not be THE most realistic, but it's decently close.

Nowhere near close considering the competition of OFP, Rainbow Six, and Americas Army.

I have the game with no expansion packs for the PC, and I LOVE it. It's, in my opinion, the best and most realistic FPS out. The graphics are decent, the weapons are great, and once you figure out how to use what and when, it gets to be pretty damned fun.

The game is also getting more popular - still! Just a few days ago, EA said that they had more users online playing BF2 at one time than they ever had before - over 52,000!

52,00 is..alot?

AA has more. And AA is free.

BF2 is free too. 52,000 is a lot - at least in my book. There are probably over 1/2 a million people that play everyday; but EA made the comment that 52,000 people were on at the same time. If you want to talk about games that have a lot of people online at once, let's talk about Halo 2. That's probably the most played online game out there.

As others have pointed out, 52K is nothing, CS1.6+Source routinely beat 100K Source for numbers. Any MMO worth its salt beats those numbers aswell.

[Hotfoot]

52,00 is..alot?

AA has more. And AA is free.

AA has a fair amount, and it's free, both of which are bonus points for it, but it doesn't have more than BF2 when it comes to features. The maps are smaller, I haven't yet found one that supports 64 people well, it's graphics aren't quite up to the same level (they're still good, mind you), and BF2 has the vehicle aspect that AA doesn't.

Now, as far as realism, no, BF2 isn't amazingly realistic. You can see this right away when two rifles using the same caliber round do massively different amounts of damage. You can jump amazingly high, and until recently, dolphin diving was an amazingly abused tactic. Medics can bring people from death back to full health with shock paddles, there's no bullet drop, etc so forth and so on.

That said, it's realism light. It has just enough realism to be fun and feel realistic. This isn't a game where you can shrug off a direct hit from a grenade, turn around, a blast someone with a rocket launcher while jumping like a maniac. It's also not a game where a single bullet from any gun will kill you, or where you spawn once and that's it until the next round.

Personally, I like the blend, I think it works well, and I really enjoy the game. I'm not saying other mixes don't work, I'm also a huge fan of Rainbow Six (pre-Lockdown) and UT 2004.

[Embracer Of Darkness]

there's no bullet drop, etc so forth and so on.

Just felt a need to chime-in here. There definitely is bullet drop in Battlefield 2, but you only really notice it with sniper rifles, and even then when the target is almost out of your visual range.

[Captain tycho]

there's no bullet drop, etc so forth and so on.

Just felt a need to chime-in here. There definitely is bullet drop in Battlefield 2, but you only really notice it with sniper rifles, and even then when the target is almost out of your visual range.

Yes, there is some very minor bullet drop at extreme ranges. It really doesn't affect much, since combat at those ranges is exceedingly rare.