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yeah, but doesn't that chop off the top and bottom of the screen or something, rather than being true wide-screen implementation..
I was playing this back on my 5900 ultra, p4 skt 478 2.8, 2gb 3200 ddr fine, ran flawless then runs flawless now on my new system.
Other than the people playing I found it alright, guess I was lucky
I concur, loved BF1942 but by BF2 the novelty of having tanks/planes and men all fighting had won off and it needed some polish. the infantry combat is absolutely dire. people that complain that CSS isn't as good as 1.6 need to play BF2 to see what exactly dodgy hit detection is.
And OMG the way the sell expansion packs like they are going out of fashion, look at what UT3 have done, map editor included with the game. So many 3rd party mods. EA would never even consider doing/allowing that in a million years. It happened to the music industry, it happened to the movie industry and now it is happening to the game industry. Once big money is involved it turns to ****.
is all I can say.
And OMG the way the sell expansion packs like they are going out of fashion, look at what UT3 have done, map editor included with the game. So many 3rd party mods. EA would never even consider doing/allowing that in a million years. It happened to the music industry, it happened to the movie industry and now it is happening to the game industry. Once big money is involved it turns to ****.
is all I can say.I concur, loved BF1942 but by BF2 the novelty of having tanks/planes and men all fighting had won off and it needed some polish. the infantry combat is absolutely dire. people that complain that CSS isn't as good as 1.6 need to play BF2 to see what exactly dodgy hit detection is.
And OMG the way the sell expansion packs like they are going out of fashion, look at what UT3 have done, map editor included with the game. So many 3rd party mods. EA would never even consider doing/allowing that in a million years. It happened to the music industry, it happened to the movie industry and now it is happening to the game industry. Once big money is involved it turns to ****.
your completely right. EA ruined BF2 in several ways
1) rushing the game out by setting un-realistic deadlines for release
2) when the game was released unfinished, setting un-realistic deadlines for the patches, resulting in advice from the developers not to install the latest patch because it was worse than before the patch was applied
3)the stupid booster / expansion packs. Nobody plays them on-line and they're a waste of time. But to add to that, they made it so you got 2 unlocks insteaed of 1 if you bought special forces !!
and the last issue ive no idea if its Dice or EA, but the game didnt listen to its community
4) not giving the community what it wanted. The game as it was released was full of dolphin diving, bunny hopping, noob toobing idiots. They tryed to avoid this with a half assed stamina system, but it didnt work. They tyred to make the game fast paced but it didnt work
M203s needed a delay in time to deploy, going prone needed a delay and the ammount of jumps that could be made needed to be reduced. Jets have allmost complete domination of the map. Regardless of what you say, they never did fix it so that you could take out planes properly. Anti Tank Class with personal stinger was needed, but we never got it, So as a result the planes just routinely bombed the fixed AA points, picking up easy points.
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EA suck the buggest nastiest balls going. They don't listen at all to those who buy their products and crud on us from a great height.
I've recently picked up BF2 again and even though i'm a little rusty, i know that when i empty a clip into an enemy's head from 20ft with a SF weapon, but they don't die and instead turn round and shoot me once and i die....well then i know that hackers have crept into the server and there is no longer decent anti-cheat support. I get it every time i go online now, can't seem to find a decent honest server anymore.
I hope to god BF3 fixes the problems we all face with BF2.
btw....with teamspeak, when you die can you still tell your comrades where the enemy is? Cos even when hiding i was getting raped from every angle by someone who could not have possibly known where i was without someone telling them.
I've recently picked up BF2 again and even though i'm a little rusty, i know that when i empty a clip into an enemy's head from 20ft with a SF weapon, but they don't die and instead turn round and shoot me once and i die....well then i know that hackers have crept into the server and there is no longer decent anti-cheat support. I get it every time i go online now, can't seem to find a decent honest server anymore.
I hope to god BF3 fixes the problems we all face with BF2.
btw....with teamspeak, when you die can you still tell your comrades where the enemy is? Cos even when hiding i was getting raped from every angle by someone who could not have possibly known where i was without someone telling them.
just so you know, those arent cheats
its just BF2s poor hit detection. It used to happen quite regularly, youd shoot at a moving target, empty a whole clip
that moving target would then stop and shoot you while you were reloading. Its highly annoying admittedly, and i get what you mean. But its not like on every server you go on, everybody else kills you in 2 shots and you can only kill with a whole clip. Its just poor hit detection, especially on moving targets.
its just BF2s poor hit detection. It used to happen quite regularly, youd shoot at a moving target, empty a whole clip
that moving target would then stop and shoot you while you were reloading. Its highly annoying admittedly, and i get what you mean. But its not like on every server you go on, everybody else kills you in 2 shots and you can only kill with a whole clip. Its just poor hit detection, especially on moving targets.
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Yeah i get what you mean, and i always say to myself "stop being a bad sport, its just lag or whatever!" But it seemed so obvious on the servers i was on last night. One guy was absolutely wiping the floor with everyone. I emptied a clip into his head cos he was at a window so his lower body wasn't visible and saw the crossair change to an 'X' so that you know you're hitting your target, then he just fired one shot at me and i died....with full health?!?!?
Thats when i checked his ping against mine and they were the same. I can't think what else could have legitimately caused this, so i did the only thing a sensible combat vet would do....i screamed "YOU *&^%"ing CHEATING $^(^&ard!"
......and got promptly kicked from the server for profanity. 
I've been playing BF2 since release, have all the unlocks and am fairly well vsered in the game. I average out around mid-table i reckon, sometimes i come first on maps, sometimes i come rock bottom. I've seen point whores, noob-tubers, bunny-hoppers etc, even map glitchers, but this 'issue' seemed a little too suspect to be just mechanical if you know what i mean.
Their whole squad captured every single flag one after the other in record time on one map without stopping for breathe so to speak....far too quickly and effectively to be cosher tbh.
Its not sour grapes, i couldn't care less if i get trounced, but i do prefer an even playing field.
Aaah.... the joys of online gaming.
Thats when i checked his ping against mine and they were the same. I can't think what else could have legitimately caused this, so i did the only thing a sensible combat vet would do....i screamed "YOU *&^%"ing CHEATING $^(^&ard!"
......and got promptly kicked from the server for profanity. I've been playing BF2 since release, have all the unlocks and am fairly well vsered in the game. I average out around mid-table i reckon, sometimes i come first on maps, sometimes i come rock bottom. I've seen point whores, noob-tubers, bunny-hoppers etc, even map glitchers, but this 'issue' seemed a little too suspect to be just mechanical if you know what i mean.
Their whole squad captured every single flag one after the other in record time on one map without stopping for breathe so to speak....far too quickly and effectively to be cosher tbh.
Its not sour grapes, i couldn't care less if i get trounced, but i do prefer an even playing field.
Aaah.... the joys of online gaming.
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I prefer to go with your theory MrLOL, i hate to think i'm playing and losing out to geeky kids hacking stuff. Never had a problem losing to superiors players as long as its all fair.
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DiCE make the models and game, not EA.
Even with the bugs BF2 is the best PC game in the last 30 months for me.
except Dice is owned by EA.
so allthough EA are the publisher and Dice the developer, to a large extent, Dice do what EA tell them to do. If they get told to improve the game, they will. if they get tasked to do a console port of the game instead, the bugs will go unfixed.
so to a certain extent it is EAs fault.
it didnt help either, that 2142 was released so quickly after BF2. It seemed the BF2 devs rushed BF2 out, then siwtched straight to BF2142
the other teams in the company concentrated on the expansion packs,and the Xbox 360 conversion, leaving probably 1 or 2 people to fix the game they were forced to release unfinished. These patches were also released unfinished and untested. Again no doubt due to EA pushing.
EA puts all of its resources into creating more and newer projects as soon as one is completed, instead of focusing on care for the existing project, like the Unreal team do.
so allthough EA are the publisher and Dice the developer, to a large extent, Dice do what EA tell them to do. If they get told to improve the game, they will. if they get tasked to do a console port of the game instead, the bugs will go unfixed.
so to a certain extent it is EAs fault.
it didnt help either, that 2142 was released so quickly after BF2. It seemed the BF2 devs rushed BF2 out, then siwtched straight to BF2142
the other teams in the company concentrated on the expansion packs,and the Xbox 360 conversion, leaving probably 1 or 2 people to fix the game they were forced to release unfinished. These patches were also released unfinished and untested. Again no doubt due to EA pushing.
EA puts all of its resources into creating more and newer projects as soon as one is completed, instead of focusing on care for the existing project, like the Unreal team do.
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Aint that the truth ,
Our clan had 2 multiplay servers and the Hit Reg was *ooking appaualing . We changed both of them to Jolt and the Hit Reg is now Mustard .
Also if the server you play on is laggy and the hit reg is bad then it can aslo be down to bad admin of that server . Anyone been on a server that has been restarted will know what I mean .
I re-start my clan servers every other day , hit reg is mustard ,no lagg but I have set it up to Auto Kick anyone with a Ping of over 140 , yes sounds harsh but it keeps for fluid play .
On a side note I played BF1942 over Xmas and was still finding servers with over 40 people on them all day long ..... like how old is this game now ?
Most features on that list fill me with dread.
*Ranked servers and those stupid stats which means no one will bother playing custom maps.
*No Windows XP support (I'm still not convinced by Vista).
*A measly 8 maps and only 2 factions now.
*40 players per side. Even more players per server, just incase BF2 wasn't laggy enough with 64 players. I found 32 player servers had much better hit detection than the 64 player servers and I tend to shut down all other applications when I play so it isn't my connection lagging behind.
I miss BF1942 and its relative simplicity it came with 16 extremely varied maps at release, each weapon had its own character and it had CTF... I best stop before I start to cry
Think I'll give it a miss.
*Ranked servers and those stupid stats which means no one will bother playing custom maps.
*No Windows XP support (I'm still not convinced by Vista).
*A measly 8 maps and only 2 factions now.
*40 players per side. Even more players per server, just incase BF2 wasn't laggy enough with 64 players. I found 32 player servers had much better hit detection than the 64 player servers and I tend to shut down all other applications when I play so it isn't my connection lagging behind.
I miss BF1942 and its relative simplicity it came with 16 extremely varied maps at release, each weapon had its own character and it had CTF... I best stop before I start to cry
Think I'll give it a miss.