Any Battlefield 2 players here?

Any Battlefield 2 players here?

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[k]ar|

Original Poster:

949 posts

253 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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I've just ordered a copy of BF2 having seen a number of positive reviews. I've not played any of the earlier games in the series, but it looks like fun!

Anyone else playing this at the moment?

[k]

D_Mike

5,301 posts

247 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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me.

malman

2,258 posts

266 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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I'm still playing the demo.

You'll need the patch its up to 1.02 now (although it says its installing 1.01 when you patch it don't be fooled )

The patches fix the server browser apparently and my oh my did it need fixing!

Its fun but the team killing for vehicles is really annoying.

steve_evil

10,689 posts

236 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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Me, i even joined a clan too

FourWheelDrift

89,646 posts

291 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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Me. I'm playing the full game too.

remal

25,010 posts

241 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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i'm trying to play iot and its amazing game but I got a shit PC and am trying to get a new one. once I have get ready for B2 fun fun fun

x1m

5,888 posts

234 months

Monday 18th July 2005
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Just upgraded to 2gb, from 512! 512 is pushing it if you run at anything more than low detail tbh.

Its a very good game, and makes me smile everytime i play.

P.S. 998 points! Rank up ver soon.

remal

25,010 posts

241 months

Tuesday 19th July 2005
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for some reason I cannot go online?

I have allowed my fire wall to ecept B2 but it just does not want to hook up like b1942?

Any ideas what I can do

big_treacle

1,727 posts

267 months

Tuesday 19th July 2005
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It is a properly good game but you need quite a beefy system to run it well otherwise you might have to turn some of the flash gfx off.
Ranking system and stats is pretty cool. One of my housemates has been unemployed and addicted to this game for the last month so my character (dogflaps) has been promoted a couple of times now to Corporal (thats about 10000+ points). I think we're on about 5000 kills. Also, ranked about 500th out of 600000 in the world for grenade launcher kills!

d-man

1,019 posts

252 months

Tuesday 19th July 2005
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I should get it and have a go really, but tried a few fps games recently and realised something... having not touched one for a couple of years I'm now incredibly bad at them... either that or everyone else got better.

Used to be quite handy once upon a time (clans, league matches and the like), but I'm properly rubbish now.

[k]ar|

Original Poster:

949 posts

253 months

Wednesday 20th July 2005
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After all that, I just tried to install BF2 only to find it crashes to desktop after the splash screen. Guess who forgot to check the minimum graphics card specs? D'oh! Looks like my faithful AthlonXP 2100 & GeForce Ti4600 -based rig has finally reached end-of-life [sniff].

At least my new Athlon FX & SLI powered PC is nearly finished, which *will* run this game well . Hopefully I can be up and running with it by next week, to enjoy some online BF2'ing.

[k]

remal

25,010 posts

241 months

Friday 22nd July 2005
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just managed to get online. WHAT a game. great fun. the next prob i have is on some servers I get kicked saying i have an old version on punkbuster. but I have already uploaded the newest patch.

So what Am I doing wrong?

and tips


PLEASE

anhamgrimmar

1,024 posts

238 months

Saturday 23rd July 2005
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remal said:
just managed to get online. WHAT a game. great fun. the next prob i have is on some servers I get kicked saying i have an old version on punkbuster. but I have already uploaded the newest patch.

So what Am I doing wrong?

and tips


PLEASE


dl the program called PBWEB.exe from www.evenbalance.com
make sure you get the BF2 version, place it in your battlefeild2/PB directory, and then run it. will take about 5 mins (depends on BB connection), and it should update alright

remal

25,010 posts

241 months

Saturday 23rd July 2005
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cheers for that.

Another quick question for you. My BF2 ping is anything from 150-250. but on counter strike its much lower say 30-50. Any idea why it is such a bad connection. I try and make sure they are local servers and not from along way a way.

cheers

anhamgrimmar

1,024 posts

238 months

Saturday 23rd July 2005
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remal said:
cheers for that.

Another quick question for you. My BF2 ping is anything from 150-250. but on counter strike its much lower say 30-50. Any idea why it is such a bad connection. I try and make sure they are local servers and not from along way a way.

cheers


luck is all, i think. i run XFIRE, and normally get 65-125ms ping on CS, but rarely get higher than 50-60ms on BF2. best bet is to google for uk servers, or clans, and talk to them. Multiplay and jolt are usually good to find uk servers. OR try getting intouch with www.5punk.com, cos theyve got a server, and its also very good

peterpeter

6,437 posts

264 months

Saturday 23rd July 2005
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yep Im playing every night usually on the packed EA UK servers or the jolt ones.

Its really an awesome game

Played the commander role for the first time today after two weeks of having the game ,and what a hoot it is.

Only tried special forces and medic up till now so only really scratched the surface.

needs a hefty system unfortunatley, but lowering some of the graphics settings really improves the fps without affencting overall quality that much if you need.

Make sure you join a squad, eventually if your ranking improves, you will lead it and this is the best apsect of the game because with a good team (always need a medic) the gameplay is really thrilling.