A battlefield2 thread

Yewen · 15 Apr 2006 at 20:56

Getting big, its been huge since before the game was released!

megatron · 15 Apr 2006 at 21:17

HighlandeR said:
any linkage for the BF2142 review?

I hope they take the best of BF2 and take out all the bad bits, ie artillery every 10 seconds not to mention sort out auto balancing/fair sides better and just withdraw prone mode altogether

There should be a 5 second accuracy penatly on dropping to prone, and a CEM (combat effectiveness meter) should be copied from america's army.

Fr0dders · 15 Apr 2006 at 23:38

i liked DODs deployable bi-pod

i think that would be by far the most accurate limitation on the support guns

make the accuracy even worse without it deployed, but enable you to deploy the gun on sandbags, bridges etc.. while standing up

the whole prone wars thing gets boring after a while.

SiD the Turtle · 15 Apr 2006 at 23:52

MrLOL said:
i liked DODs deployable bi-pod

i think that would be by far the most accurate limitation on the support guns

make the accuracy even worse without it deployed, but enable you to deploy the gun on sandbags, bridges etc.. while standing up

the whole prone wars thing gets boring after a while.

Good idea. While I've never fired a gun in my life I imagine firing something like that without the bi-pod would == hitting nothing.

Nazbit · 16 Apr 2006 at 00:28

Hi everyone, I posted a problem a few days ago, quoted below.....

Nazbit said:
Hi all,

I have just started playing BF2 again after being out of the game for a couple of months.

Problem though:-

I have downloaded the current patch on the EA website, now when I connect to 90% of servers, im on for about 10 seconds and it says

"Your connection to the server has been lost"

Does anyone have any ideas? Has something changed while I have been away and there is something I have to do?

Any help would be appreciated, (Hardware is in sig although I dont think its the issue)

cheers

When I posted that I got these replies.....

FirebarUK said:
Bring down the console and type in;

pb_security 0

If you have a dual-core CPU, set affinity to a single core.

Lanz said:
Your punkbuster might need updating.

The first one seemed to work for a while, but now im dropped before i have chance to do it. I literally cant get on any server.

Any suggestions? Im getting really hacked off with this.

Also, RE updating the punkbuster, how is this done? I have installed all the latest patches, is there something else im missing?

Cheers

HighlandeR · 16 Apr 2006 at 01:13

megatron said:
There should be a 5 second accuracy penatly on dropping to prone, and a CEM (combat effectiveness meter) should be copied from america's army.

Ditto on that, well something should be done to prevent proning all the time....

Yeah its more accurate but its just silly running about and seeing each other and going to prone shootouts.....

Maybe I just need a new game to get hooked on

Since the last patch I just dont like BF2, even if I shoot in burst or 2-3 bullets in some guys head or an entire clip for that matter it does nadda gotta repeat it 2-3 times, maybe my pings of 40-60 are fake and there 300-400 dunno but doubt it ! And I know others dont have that issue cos I go down just from one bullet to the leg even.

Oh and I figured out why my daemon tools BF.mds image wasnt working when I double clicked on the bf shortcut... I have dual core and use winlauncher(1 cpu bf2 mode) but if I double click on the bf2 profile in winlauncher then it loads properly....

Been wondering how to fix that problem now for 6+ months!

gwfc · 16 Apr 2006 at 04:36

Is there something up with the stats? I have been promoted to the same rank twice in the same day and both on ranked servers but it doesnt show up on BFHQ :confused:

icyshore · 16 Apr 2006 at 05:02

Its just the normal holiday time lag in the account servers, it will probably be through in 24-48 hours.

megatron · 16 Apr 2006 at 06:51

Just got kicked from a server with > -20 team actions, through laying mines, I thought that u didnt tk team members anymore cause thats just dumb. I was in a packed humvee when it was driven over my mines. I have learned not to drive over my own mines but does it detonate only when the mine layer is in the vehicle? Or just randomly tk, I thought they changed that ffs.

I mined the bridge its not like my team should be driving over that bridge since they would all know that I mined it (they can drive over it ok, but without me in vehicle it seems). However they changed it now, its damn stupid.

luckypapyrussam · 16 Apr 2006 at 06:53

Lol some servers you can tk off it and some servers you cant, depends if they have friendly fire on or off....

Sam.

wyatt gates · 16 Apr 2006 at 09:24

megatron said:
Just got kicked from a server with > -20 team actions, through laying mines, I thought that u didnt tk team members anymore cause thats just dumb. I was in a packed humvee when it was driven over my mines. I have learned not to drive over my own mines but does it detonate only when the mine layer is in the vehicle? Or just randomly tk, I thought they changed that ffs.

I mined the bridge its not like my team should be driving over that bridge since they would all know that I mined it (they can drive over it ok, but without me in vehicle it seems). However they changed it now, its damn stupid.

what can happen if they blow up from enemy fire near your mine the mine sometimes go off it has happened to me couple of times :mad:

Vita · 16 Apr 2006 at 13:21

Question: I recently bought Battlefield 2, loving the game and stuff, got everything to max apart from Effects which are on medium. Playing 1024x768 AAx4 and AFx4. I have 1GB of PC3200 RAM aswell.

The game loads the maps when on Multiplayer, but takes ages for the Verification thing so I can join in game, why isit so slow? I also have a high ping on some servers, and lag abit. Is this due to my RAM?

SiD the Turtle · 16 Apr 2006 at 13:53

Vita said:
Question: I recently bought Battlefield 2, loving the game and stuff, got everything to max apart from Effects which are on medium. Playing 1024x768 AAx4 and AFx4. I have 1GB of PC3200 RAM aswell.

The game loads the maps when on Multiplayer, but takes ages for the Verification thing so I can join in game, why isit so slow? I also have a high ping on some servers, and lag abit. Is this due to my RAM?

BF2 NEEDS 2 gig of ram.

Siders77 · 16 Apr 2006 at 14:05

SiD the Turtle said:
BF2 NEEDS 2 gig of ram.

No it doesn't. Not at all IMO. :confused:

Doesn't the client verification take the same time for everyone?

Whoop · 16 Apr 2006 at 14:14

Siders77 said:
No it doesn't. Not at all IMO.

Doesn't the client verification take the same time for everyone?

No, and I'd agree on the ram part. 90% of the time when I first start bf2 I get stutter and connection lost before I can actually play, and then about 15 seconds of start and stop before it settles down in game. I don't see this at all on my friends pc

Also, Special Forces seems to take double the verification time of vanilla and has lower fps also.

Whoop

Defcon5 · 16 Apr 2006 at 14:18

SiD the Turtle said:
BF2 NEEDS 2 gig of ram.

No it doesnt.

I bet more than 70% of the people who play bf2 only have 1gb.

The only thing that needs 2gb is when you got textures on high

Last Kronin · 16 Apr 2006 at 14:48

Inoticed the load time differnece going from 1.5g to 2gb memory now its just under 10 sec for verification so as stated earlier that heli is mine muhaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Insanity · 16 Apr 2006 at 14:58

I have 2gig and loading the maps is still slow as hell. The verification part is ok, about 10 - 15 seconds, but the rest sucks.

Eliot · 16 Apr 2006 at 15:08

with 2 gig i dont even see the verifiing screen any more, and im always first on after a map change with afround 10 secs to spare, i get the planes/helis everythime baby

SiD the Turtle · 16 Apr 2006 at 15:09

I dont want to start this flame war again :rolleyes:

However understand this: the verification process for me (with 2 gigs of ram) takes 5-10 secs. I am usually the first or one of the first on the map when it loads. So what you say? I do not have a 'fast' system and when I had 1 gig or RAM I was one of the last onto the map. Therefore BF2 is dependent on how much RAM you have.