A battlefield2 thread

G00SE · 24 Jun 2006 at 09:52

Mundu said:
I shot a heli pilot once but I think the d00d respawned in the heli!!!

Probably shot the gunner then. And the pilot was the squad leader so he spawned on him, i.e. back in the chopper!

Minstadave · 24 Jun 2006 at 10:11

KizZ said:
Medic has to be my fave. You live longer And give life to teammates and etc

Same here, Medic with the G36E is awesome, I got my veteran medic combat yesterday, a gold, a silver and a bronze. Not a bad haul

megatron · 24 Jun 2006 at 10:22

Ive always favored the AT guy but lately Ive been using the engineer since I found killing with AT is harder now with the more powerful and accurate upgrades everyone but me got.

I found a great spot on gulf of oman near the center flag to mine, I got 2 guys in an apc and I lobbed a nade at the soldier on foot using the APC as cover. The tank turned round and so could not cap the flag while remaining in the tank. It still makes me chuckle when I get a few kills from a mine.

I have got some serious points on maps like shariq peninsula, after I stole the MEC tank.

I still transfer to AT when I am having bother with those damn flying machines.

Jimbu · 24 Jun 2006 at 18:32

I used to be support a lot and easily got the kills but since i got the SF sniper unlocked im a pretty keen sniper. ATM im trying to raise my KD ratio

sativa · 24 Jun 2006 at 20:02

Is there a new patch on the cards?

Deliverance · 24 Jun 2006 at 21:07

sativa said:
Is there a new patch on the cards?

Yes, includes a new map, dubbed 'The New Karkand' by DICE PR (or as i like to call them, BS wizzkids) called 'Road to Jalalalalalalalalalalalahahahahabad' or sumthing to that effect.

Supposedly holding an Open beta for it early July, which means it probably wont be out until at least late July/early August if your the optimistic type.

Cybermyk · 24 Jun 2006 at 22:35

They're hoping to have fixed the red tags issue, no more c4 throwing and a redo of the vehicle drops to ensure they're used as vehicles rather than bombs.

Infantry only mode is being looked at too possibly with greater hit points so firefights last longer.

Gamespy are sponsoring the new free map so it should be fairly polished.

Deliverance · 24 Jun 2006 at 23:11

Cybermyk said:
Gamespy are sponsoring the new free map so it should be fairly polished.

And that seriously bothers me, why do DICE/EA NEED another company to pay them to produce a map? They make Billions of Dollars a year, yet they cant justify the cost needed to keep the community happy by giving them a new map...typical EA mentality...it stinks

Cybermyk · 24 Jun 2006 at 23:43

I doubt dice need a sponsor but they've always had a bit of an alliance with Gamespy. Do you remember when fileplanet got all the Bf42 patch downloads first, or at least till they got swamped. I see it as another way of spreading the load with a sweetener for the subscription based host. A host that already has an interest in the game.

I seem to remember Dice also saying that the new map didn't fit into the theme of any of their current add on projects when it was first announced but I can't remember the source.

warren_1979 · 25 Jun 2006 at 10:59

Hi. Due to CTD problems with the incremental patch system I decided to reinstall BF2 and patch it with the full 1.30 patch.

But I've been getting problems with punkbuster kicking me. I have had the game for 6 months and never been kicked by punkbuster.

Is this a known problem with this patch? Is there anything I can do to stop this? I need my BF2 fix.

Regards.

Cybermyk · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:16

Have you tried downloading the punkbusters update and installing it?

Link

Might help get it working for you

Lanz · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:50

^ I had the same thing once, and the pbsetup.exe fixed it.

Minstadave · 25 Jun 2006 at 21:34

I just reached Gunnery Seargent at 8,000 points and I don't get another promotion until 20,000 :eek:

How do people get that many points? Do commanders get lots of points or something?

wozzizname · 25 Jun 2006 at 21:45

I've been gunnery sergeant since last October or thereabouts, it's really hard to pick up a lot of points playing as infantry all the time.

Jimbu · 25 Jun 2006 at 21:52

i find that if you play servers with fewer players the game will last longer and the points will go much higher

Minstadave · 25 Jun 2006 at 22:05

Jimbu said:
i find that if you play servers with fewer players the game will last longer and the points will go much higher

I found a cool infantry only server, its quite easy to rack up lots of kills on that as the maps are small and its frantic fighting, just unlocked the PKM which is a bit of a beast.

5tephen · 25 Jun 2006 at 22:14

Jimbu said:
i find that if you play servers with fewer players the game will last longer and the points will go much higher

I don't know how that could work, it doesn't work for me anyway. Yes you might get a higher number of points at the end of the round, but the round lasts much longer so you're still really only getting the same points-per-minute if you like. You're probably worse off actually because on a packed map you're more likely to kill a number of people around the same area, e.g. 3 people capturing a flag, 3 or 4 people in a hummer etc.

Trip Hazard · 25 Jun 2006 at 22:41

Minstadave said:
I just reached Gunnery Seargent at 8,000 points and I don't get another promotion until 20,000 How do people get that many points? Do commanders get lots of points or something?

jnust wait for the 30000 point gap between first and master sarge.

Commanders get double points for a win, but you really need to hit the 'high points' servers and have a good team to really benefit.
Tank whoring as an engineer in a co-ordinated armour squad can generate big scores.

Phil99 · 25 Jun 2006 at 23:44

Trip Hazard said:
jnust wait for the 30000 point gap between first and master sarge.

Yeah, that sucks

38'018 down, 11'982 to go for me

Stellios · 26 Jun 2006 at 01:14

Trip Hazard said:
jnust wait for the 30000 point gap between first and master sarge.

Thats where im gonna give up with ranks, ill never hit 50k points any time soon. Im currently 2k off 20000 points, so not far left

As long as im high enough to get commander im happy.