My second biggest complaint is how they can break shit that was working just fine, like the oil towers firing off rockets. How the fuck did this happen?

It's a sniper with a recoiless rifle taking shots at you. Yea....

Since Tribes is dead, I'll play BF2 until someone creates a better game with similiar game-play. Quake Wars should be THE one... especially since Splash Damage added skiing, see link below.

Holy shit! QW:ET has now become a Must Buy. A couple of the Splash Damage devs are encouraging people to create a Tribes mod? That kicks ass!

My second biggest complaint is how they can break shit that was working just fine, like the oil towers firing off rockets. How the fuck did this happen?

That's not a bug, that's a feature. They're just showing you the unpredictable nature of war. Danger can come from anyplace, at any time. It's important that you realize that, soldier, and stay on your toes!

Battlefield 1942, while fun as hell, had some of the choppiest tech and netcode I've ever seen in a product. Somehow in Battlefield Vietnam this got much much worse, to the point that BF:V is still the only game I've thrown in the trash. BF2 came along and though the tech was significantly better, you can still see its oldschool BF1942 heritage in the hitscan/damage and general movement behaviors. The tech has improved, no doubt, but the core technology has persisted, and no matter how much people hope, BF2142 is going to share that same core code, and thus is going to have the same damn issues this franchise has had all along.


Don't get me wrong - I've put significant hours into all the Battlefield products, including 400+ hours into Battlefield 2, but every step of the way has been a love-hate relationship.
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something i posted in the BF2 forums from planetbattlefield .. the thread was about accuracy.
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i come from an old school FPS background, bigtime clans in Quake 1/2/TF/Tribes/CS/UT/ET..and a few others..just an FYI, i'm no noob.

i find the hitscan and damage model in BF2 to be absolutely atrocious.
it makes me feel like i am lagging or getting bad frame rate (despite having a top of the line system and a 50ping).

in all the FPS's I have given a considerable amount of time to, BF2 has the worst hitscan/damge model of them all and that was one of the many reasons i stopped playing BF2.

I really hope 2142 is more like ET and way less like BF2. i thoroughly dislike the lack of feeling i have when firing a gun in BF2, i dislike it's wayward accuracy and lack of punch.. i also never felt like my character was really "connected" to the ground.

I hope 2142 borrows very VERY little from BF2.
From the hitscan, to the browser, to the load times to the countless bugs and screwed up patches.. i hope 2142 is nothing like BF2.. and if it is.. bring on ET:QW.. which will hopefully show people how it's really done.

Battlefield 2 is my most rewarding non-purchase ever. It has provided me with over a year of non-stop happiness and laughs (at the expense of the poor suckers who bought it).

Heh, actually I'm looking forward to BF2142, I am soooo sick and tired of WW2 games, I want freakin laser beams!

What kills me is in every BF2 map description it says 'This is a Conquest Type Map'. Like there are any others?

As for the Tribes refrence I have a big feeling with Mechs and infantry in the game a Starsiege/Tribes mod or 2 would be in the works. And while I liked Tribes, I honestly thought the pacing was just a wee bit fast, but then again I use to love Quake 1 Deathmatch, and tried out Quake 4 deathmatch, and I was being slaughtered by the twitch kiddies.
Growing up sucks

The "patch" is called "Battlefield 2142."

Well the second news post (081606) alleges that they were able to fix the elusive "red name bug" -- the second bullet in the list.

http://www.ea.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?src=communityupdate_081606

It is also nice cause it shows the updates.

Most important: Server side - No vehicles.

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There is a work-around for the red name bug in BF2 - join a fucking squad.

Doesn't work ...

heh, nice job scaring that up.

new maps are 'sponsored' wtf? Whens the starbucks and coca cola levels coming? At least have the maps sponsored by exxon-mobil, like the real war

Patch is coming out tomorrow.

They released a press release saying that they are working on it and don't know when it will be out.

During our standard final processing of the 1.4 client update we came across an issue that, although it does not compromise stability, we felt needed to be addressed in order to meet our goal of improving the overall player experience with Battlefield 2.

http://www.ea.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?src=communityupdate_081506

However, if we change that 15 to 16 and load up the page, we get this:

Community Update - 8/16/06

Attention Soldiers!

With the release of the 1.4 patch we have made significant improvements to player and server stability as well as introduced more ranked content for players to enjoy. Along with the many bug fixes we have included the new map "Road to Jalalabad" which is sponsored by Comcast making this patch is an excellent step forward for the Battlefield Franchise. We would like to thank everyone who helped support the Beta effort. Please take a moment to review the fix list for this patch:

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http://www.ea.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?src=communityupdate_081606

OMG! Teh BUGZ! TEH SNIPPER RIFLE IS UNDERPWERED! TEH INNERFACE RAPED MY DAD!


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Beamer, if you are going to compare BF2 to a "fun" game compare it to a game in the same genre. Personally I don't find RTS games fun at all... they feel like work.

There is a work-around for the red name bug in BF2 - join a fucking squad. I haven't encounterd the red name bug since release.

I'm not trying to convice you that BF2 is a good game, I'm just saying that I fucking hate Lindsy Lohan and the Olive Garden blows.

Since Tribes is dead, I'll play BF2 until someone creates a better game with similiar game-play. Quake Wars should be THE one... especially since Splash Damage added skiing, see link below.

http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&r=trs&file=viewtopic&p=153890

When did gaming become politicking?

Is you is or is you ain't my constinciency?

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> joint ops, soeldner, Warrock).
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>Way to compare against what's arguably the 3 shittiest game >in it's genre.

They are also the only other games in that genre but if you know of other 64+ player games which combine infantry with vehicles on large maps let me know.

Is this the announcement that makes the patch fun?

Awwww Tumbler don't be like that, your a traitor to fanboi's everywhere! (never put something in your sig that might come back and taunt ya :P)

Again my biggest complaint with EA, is that EA released a video before BF2 was released showing and saying that they had 3 times the QA team for this game, filmed at EA with the head of QA for BF2.
My second biggest complaint is how they can break shit that was working just fine, like the oil towers firing off rockets. How the fuck did this happen?

Other then that i have enjoyed BF2, and I think besides Special Forces, Armor Fury is a great little booster pack for the money/maps/vehicles.
I just wish they would release some sort of booster pack that only had maps for Special Forces, Euro Forces and Armor Fury. Cause I am really getting sick of playing the same maps over and over and over on the ranked servers.

Not to mention it'll take me roughly 500 hours to get my next rank (and finally unlock everything).

Nuclear war starts on August 22nd, it wont matter anyway

I would rather play WoW than buy BF again.