yo yo mang, was up wit dis'n da ho's yo? gotta keep our pimp arm strong!

Come on man, the girls are fun and we had a good time coming up with names. Anna Kournikova is not the best tennis BF2 players in the world, the Firescore Girls are not the best girl gamers in the world, but they are a lot of fun to look at and they enjoy playing just like the rest of us do. And they are in the servers everynight having a good time.

I personally came up with Command-ho, my feelings are hurt you don't like it *^)

Anyhow, we are not getting the stats out of BF2 yet, and it doesn't look like any one else is either at the moment so we are pushing back the tournament a week while EA gets the scores feature working. If anyone has more info on scores please post it!

Here are our current servers that are open for play

Battlefield 2 Server NOT THE DEMO

69.25.222.12
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69.25.222.24
69.25.222.26
69.25.222.28
69.25.222.230
NOW PLAYING
Battlefield 2 DEMO - NEW

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If anyone has any comments or questions please feel free to email me at b3ak3r@firescore.com or visit the site at http://www.firescore.com

You must smoking some good weed cause the multiplayer of F.E.A.R. currently sucks monster balls. While I had fun playing it, it's so basic its not even funny. The level designs too blocky as was stated, but some effects like the slowdown and grenades blur is sexy as hell.

You sure you saw the same Test sequence? That shit looked tight imo. I'm thinking the games gonna shine in single player rather than its plainass multiplayer.

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oof, reaching for that lowest common denominator

http://www.firescore.com/girls

thats really, really painful. "Command-Ho? Sexecutioner? Should I wear my gold toofus and South (Souf) Pole hat sideways to your tourney? Lemme axt you dis, if I win, do ya'll pay fo da shippin'?

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And again - how long exactly do people expect it to take them to unlock the weaps legitimately?

And again people are missing the point. It isn't that unlockable weapons are being made harder to obtain that's irritating, it's rather the manner in which EA is dealing with it's customers. Do you want to have to email EA to ask for permission to make changes to a configuration file? Do you like being called a "hacker" for changing text files in a folder labelled "mod"? This simply isn't the way to deal with your customers.

Neither this idiocy nor the previous idiocy with the demo servers is about feature sets, it's about hilariously awful public relations. Perhaps EA has hired Derek Smart.

common law (and common sense) tell me that I bought a disc with information on it. How I then use that information does not concern anyone, unless I start causing damage.

Well ok then, the marketing wonks to whom this is a big deal will simply remind EA legal that the unlock-able content sells games, and that by subverting the natural process by which that content becomes available to the customer, unranked servers running unlocked weaps are diminishing the value of their product. Causing damages.

Far as I can tell, that's the kind of silliness that's got them so worked up about this. And again - how long exactly do people expect it to take them to unlock the weaps legitimately? Once they're unlocked for you, you get to use them on any server you want, you know? Spend a week playing ranked and you'll never need to think about it again..

*shrug* Guess this is what I get for being born before they invented ADHD.

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So I predict that a few months down the line, BF2 will be marginalised with just as many players as Quake 1 has right now. Well, maybe not that bad, but you get what I mean.

Yeah, right.. *snicker*

EA for the nazi award.

"That's just not how it works. You don't own the software, you own a license to use it."

Dude, you actually bought into that? Man-oh-man. A shrinkwrapped EULA which you can't see/read/agree/disagree with until you're actually installing the software has been ruled unenforcable by the courts in the US. Bnetd vs. Blizzard will probably bear that out...again.

Anyway: as soon as enough people beleive what you said to be true, it will be, facts be damned. Even though law states that any rights the law grants you cannot be signed away in a EULA (like the old chestnut of putting 'by reading this, you owe us $20.000' in a EULA).

And appart from that, common law (and common sense) tell me that I bought a disc with information on it. How I then use that information does not concern anyone, unless I start causing damage.

EA are just fucking with the one and only group which makes an multiplayer online game feasable. No public servers means that the only servers running will have to be bought by EA/DICE...and they just can't afford that.

So I predict that a few months down the line, BF2 will be marginalised with just as many players as Quake 1 has right now. Well, maybe not that bad, but you get what I mean.

It sounds like this is something important and actually a big deal for some of you. I don't get it. You're maybe not allowed to alter the weapon lock on unrated servers. Ok, I can somewhat understand that some thinks this is a big deal, but still, this is a game, does it really matter?

But I do think they should take away the pot from the guy that wrote that since you need to use that kind of shit to understand wtf he means.

people on ranked servers will still look forward to earning those weapons - on ranked servers. if they want to play on an unranked server with weaps unlocked, then that's their prerogative... it's about choice, and EA (from the sound of the possibly flawed release notes), is going to be removing that choice forcibly... and for no conceivable reason, as far as i can see...

I can understand what they're trying to achieve. They want the locked weapons to be a bonus for people that play on ranked servers and unlock them through hard work - a bonus that you can't get from playing on unranked servers. However, that seems a pretty ridiculous goal as instead of acting like a bonus it acts almost as a punishment to casual, particularly as they have made it so easy to activate.

I'm waiting for Battlefield 2 to hit the shelves and getting some feedback before I make a decision about buying it. An early movie and screenshots seemed really promising, but the demo was a bit buggy and graphically somewhat of a let down. I'm still tempted to pick it up, but I don't want to support a game that may well be very buggy (I got several graphical glitchs [screen going black when zooming in, etc] with the demo and the server list went down far too much [often causing the game to hang]).

I was hoping Battlefield 2 would replace CS:S and that it might cut down the amount of time I spend on Guild Wars, but that is seeming less likely. Hopefully I will be proved wrong and the retail game will be incredibly fun and bug free, in which case I will pick it up with the droves of other people.

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No, you can't do anything you want with the game just because you're running a server. It's not open source software.

that's crap, though.

nobody said it was open source, and nobody is playing with the source code... unranked servers should be allowed to serve the game how they want (like just about any other game in existence...). just take hl as an example... servers are allowed to serve however they want with no centralization or intervention from valve or whoever, and that's the way it should be.

people on ranked servers will still look forward to earning those weapons - on ranked servers. if they want to play on an unranked server with weaps unlocked, then that's their prerogative... it's about choice, and EA (from the sound of the possibly flawed release notes), is going to be removing that choice forcibly... and for no conceivable reason, as far as i can see...

I expect the singleplayer to completely blow, though... the stress-test story clip is shockingly bad. Just a shame the graphics are demanding and pretty poor and the level design is so... well, Quake 2 (lumpy and angular). Also, the graphics are a bit buggy (keeps forgetting my anti-aliasing setting) and everytime I crouch a small black tear appears in the screen. *shrugs*

Sounds pretty fucking terrible. Not surprised at all. FEAR always looked and sounded retarded.

Well, this is an interesting argument and an interesting situation to be sure. I don't know, personally I thought the BF2 demo was cool and all, but I still plan to wait to see if the release version isn't buggy and how much more EA plans to restrict the activities of their paying customers before I become one of them.

As for F.E.A.R., I haven't heard of a multiplayer beta. Is this something that's open to the public or was it something you had to sign up for a long time ago that I missed out on?

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I have to agree with all the people who think it's really lame to try to regulate unranked servers. Ranked servers go ahead and do whatever. But unranked should be anything goes. What if I create a mod that lets each kit choose from 2 weapons and I make the 2nd weapons have the same stats as the locked weapons? Is that a hack? Would that mod be banned from unranked servers? What if I release it every week with a new mod name, how will they find it and ban it? Why try to regulate something that is impossible to regulate...

The whole idea is just retarded.

In other news, F.E.A.R multiplayer beta, BLOWS! The hand/arm 1st person view graphics are garbage, and nothing was cool about it. Very lame, overhyped. Singleplayer might be another story though whocares when multi is where you go after single player. Thank you because now I can pass that up. Back to BF2!

I will have to disagree with you there - I found the multiplayer to be incredibly fun, one of the best experiences in a long time. Sure, the graphics blows; sure, the level design is blocky, boring and unoriginal (like Shogo, actually); sure, I have to disable shadows and volumetric lighting to get it to play well on my X800XL; but damn is it fun!

It is like Quake 3 with weapon reloads... though the weapons reloads are ridiculously quick. It is very much a Quake-style arcadey deathmatch game and I found it very different to the rest of the multiplayer games out there (CS:S; Battlefield 2, etc). Also, the netcode is very good - I started a 6 player server on my ADSL line (just to test it out - I didn't know anyone else could join up to it) and suddenly it filled up and everyone had a ping of about 60-80; very fun.

I expect the singleplayer to completely blow, though... the stress-test story clip is shockingly bad. Just a shame the graphics are demanding and pretty poor and the level design is so... well, Quake 2 (lumpy and angular). Also, the graphics are a bit buggy (keeps forgetting my anti-aliasing setting) and everytime I crouch a small black tear appears in the screen. *shrugs*

9.5/10 for fun
5/10 for graphics
4/10 for performance

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Mark my words. This is EA laying the groundwork for pay for play FPS games. It's only a matter of time before you'll have to fork over a subscription fee to play on "ranked" servers that aren't rotten with cheats and hacks.

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Bollocks: when you've plonked down $50 for the game, it is then YOUR game.

That's just not how it works. You don't own the software, you own a license to use it.

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but without the 'publics' servers, which EA didnt buy, there would be no demo to show off, and therefore create a fan base. EA uses the public as the marketing engine, while pissing on it at the same time. EA needs to thank the public for expending their hard earned dollars to host software programs accessible to the entire planet to market their product.
BTW, this isn't Dice doing this, it's EA. They treat their employees the same way as their customers, that's a known fact.