Well, what do we think of it?

KdjaCL

balkieb2002 wrote:

choppers in that small single player map? map doesn't stretch far enough to get to airbase...

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kdjac

BloodBath

It was hard to kill at the start too but some finer aiming adjustments seems to have sorted that out and the kills are still hard but i am sure the enemy have flak protection.. and a single head shot will kill.

Hmmm i have burst fired straight into peoples faces at close without them dying, other times they will die straight away. I don't know tbh. 3 shot burst at close range should hit the target. Must test the damage system on lan. The ak is unreal. Much better gun than the m16 imo. The medics are pretty cool now too, it's actually fun to be a medic, healing people or reviving them when they go down. It has a lot more sense of authenticity than most war games. Getting deafened by nearby firing tanks and stunned by explosions is cool too. First multiplayer fps i've really really enjoyed since cs.

hairball

go to bed;)

petes

This is what it looks like for me on a ati mobility 9600 128mb. Its playable.

Wavey

having to do a bit of fiddleing to get it to run smoothly but still loving it.

How do you operate the artilary btw? Or can you in the single player demo?

Havent noticed the bullet drop with the sniper rifle although I have noticed that you dont have to aim as far to the side of an enemy running to the side.
Must be quicker bullets

Rew

petes wrote:

This is what it looks like for me on a ati mobility 9600 128mb. Its playable.

I can play it on my laptop:

mobility 9000 64 meg
512mb RAM
1.7 ghz Centrino
Lowest settings
800x600

Had to get the hacked (Omega) drivers to get it to work at all though, was just crashing out on the stock ones.

cianr

How do you operate the artilary btw? Or can you in the single player demo?

If you hit caps lock and choose to be commander, then you can select it. Its very cool . . .

petes

Rew wrote:

I can play it on my laptop:

mobility 9000 64 meg
512mb RAM
1.7 ghz Centrino
Lowest settings
800x600

Had to get the hacked (Omega) drivers to get it to work at all though, was just crashing out on the stock ones.

yep running the same drivers. Same as above with the 9600 and a gig of ram. Home machine as a ti4600 so thats a big no no.

Rew

petes wrote:

yep running the same drivers. Same as above with the 9600 and a gig of ram. Home machine as a ti4600 so thats a big no no.

Not the prettiest game with those settings but still more then playable.

petes

No but playable it is. However getting an odd problem with controls. Its like the keys cant keep up with what im doing. I can let go of the keyboard and its still doing things from about 7 seconds agao. Odd. Reinstall methinks.

Rew

My laptop has been hanging randomly since i got the Omega drives...

petes

Reinstalled battlefield 2. Will see how it gets on over lunch time.

hairball

hey Rew, what kinda hangs??? does it just crash and freeze in- game, or are you crashing out entirely...and what kinda lappy you got??

Big Nelly

Played it last nite for a while.....tanks seemed to be kicking my ass most of the time.....apart from that was good....like the iron sight.......nailed a few people using that.......more practise needed me thinks....map in top cornor wasnt the best....couldnt get to flag using it

Winters

The Ironsights are fantastic. A lot better then the old "zoomed" you used to get in BF42 and BFV. They implemented them quite well into the game I feel.

Rew

hairball wrote:

hey Rew, what kinda hangs??? does it just crash and freeze in- game, or are you crashing out entirely...and what kinda lappy you got??

Not in game, its freezing while on the desktop and doing nothing. Im assuming itd the nw drives as its never locked up before now. Its blue screed about 4 times in 2 years alright. Its an Acer Travelmate 800. Needs a reinstall (of the OS) TBH but no time to do that atm.

Smellyirishman

Well, after a lot of hours I feel like I have a good understanding of most aspects of the game, so I will give an updated opinion. Thankfully , the more I learn about the game, the more I love it!

Being a commander is actually a lot of fun, and can be a MASSIVE advantage if your squads coordinate with you.
Squads, absolute genius. Nothing else I can say really lol.
Snipers, actually much easier than I though. MEC snipers take ~3 shots per kill or 1 in the head (need to be good for that though! or close!). US sniper is a much tougher brute, but it obviously has the reload factor. Not actually all that hard to snipe, not as bad as I thought at first anyway.

I think engineers are quite boring and are only really needed when Arty goes down. One in a squad is nice too, but repairs can be done with supply drops for the most part (considering you have sensible squads and commander)

Brilliant game, can wait for the retail version.

jonski

Smellyirishman wrote:

I think engineers are quite boring and are only really needed when Arty goes down. One in a squad is nice too, but repairs can be done with supply drops for the most part (considering you have sensible squads and commander)

Explain to the criminally stupid please ?

the_syco

Smellyirishman wrote:

I think engineers are quite boring and are only really needed when Arty goes down. One in a squad is nice too, but repairs can be done with supply drops for the most part (considering you have sensible squads and commander)

jonski wrote:

Explain to the criminally stupid please ?

Arty = Artillary.

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Got a few kills with the (engineer) shotgun, tbh. Lie down, zoom & shoot. Also, throw a few mines around.

Smellyirishman

Yeah, by Arty I mean artillary, sorry.

Yeah, the shotgun can be nice but I just find the other kits much more useful. Don't like AT or Engineer really. I do pick them from time to time though. If I am a commander I will useually pick an Engineer so I can run Artillary repairs myself cause usually your team won't do it (mainly because none of them are engineers)

jonski

the_syco wrote:

Arty = Artillary.

I think I come accross a smidgen dumber than I actually am ," but repairs can be done with supply drops for the most part" , it was that part I didn't understand .

Smellyirishman

The commander can drop down supply crates which repair everything nearby (also heals troops) and rearms everyone.

{EDIT} Yep, definitly used to the sniping . Have topped servers even when I was just sniping the whole time. Definitly a lot easy that I first thought. Using either rifles.

Revalco

Great demo cant wait for the real game, jus hope my cpu can hold on long enough
been playing it since friday evening till now, had to stop cus my eyes are killing me.

Only bad thing is the american music when you win the round, other than that every thing is brillant

hairball

methinks I smell a smidgeon of humour from dice with that american music bit

Revalco

Its evil, every 10mins, and then you start singing along lol

bounty

i can not stand to be on the non-american team

the radio chatter is sooo irritating, it sounds like something i would expect a drunk caveman to blabber

if anyone knows how to mute it id appreciate it, ive tried the options menus and even deleting the .ogg files from the battlefield folder but the game crashes :cool:

maybe im weird but i hate the sound of those middle east languages... and french oh how i hate french, i always have to mute everyone on french counter strike servers

Winters

If you go into your sound options I believe you can change it to give you only english dialogue insted of the MEC voices.

the_syco

Smellyirishman wrote:

{EDIT} Yep, definitly used to the sniping . Have topped servers even when I was just sniping the whole time. Definitly a lot easy that I first thought. Using either rifles.

Sniper rifle from the crane is fun, but the Special Ops gun gets my vote, as you can kill with 2 or 3 bullets at a distance, but its also good up close. Havn't played the other side yet, except when I nick one their planes, and put a mine in front of the other

bounty wrote:

i can not stand to be on the non-american team

the radio chatter is sooo irritating, it sounds like something i would expect a drunk caveman to blabber

Hehe. In Desert Combat, everyone hated the American drawl on the Iraqi team. When they put Iraqi voice files for the Iraqi team (and thus not able to understand them), everyone lost out.

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There's a "English VO Only" option. See the picture.

fightin irish

Smellyirishman wrote:

The commander can drop down supply crates which repair everything nearby (also heals troops) and rearms everyone.

{EDIT} Yep, definitly used to the sniping . Have topped servers even when I was just sniping the whole time. Definitly a lot easy that I first thought. Using either rifles.

lol as i found to my detrement today. Nice shootin i must say!

Smellyirishman

Ah, hey fightin' Irish. Shouldn't be hiding up on that roof, tut tut, trying to kill my buddies! lol ;-)

You tagged me back though.Today was my chopper day.... it did not go too well though, really need a second guy.

See you again soon