BattleField 2 DEMO IS OUT!!!!

[Roscoroo]

whats this junk ... wont run on win98 ..it keeps asking me for admin rights ...

another game that sleeps with microjunk's xp

[Bluedog]

Originally posted by Drunky
anyone know how to control the artillery?

The side Commander is the only one who can control the Arty, and he does so by clicking on the spot he wants to hit in the Command map. ( Caps lock key IIRC)
He allso gets a full-map radar scan showing the position of everyone on the whole map about once every 15~20 seconds, a UAV that lasts about a minute or so and scans an area of a few hundred metres or so around where the Commander decides to put it, and the ability to drop a 'supply crate' anywhere on the map, which heals soldiers, reloads all ammo and repairs vehicles.

All of these functions can be attacked and shut down by the opposite team, smash their radar van, they get no all seeing eye scan of the battle, smash the UAV trailer, no UAV, smash their Arty peices, they cant rain hot steel on you at will anymore.

BTW ,anyone can be side Commander, you just have to apply when the round starts, you allso get to mutiny and boot the commander out if a majority of your side doesnt like the way he is feeding you into the meat grinder.

The whole commander/squads setup is what will make this game stand out among the crowd I reckon, it has everything that made Battlefield 1942 and BF:V fun, with a whole new game fitted over the top, and superb graphics to boot.


I spent a couple of hours last night crewing a Blackhawk, sometimes flying, sometimes gunning, and had an absolute blast.
Theres a lot to be said for spawn camping in a hovering platform with a pair of miniguns and unlimited ammo

Cant wait to see the full game with all the maps and the bigger 64 player map boundaries, should be untold hours of belly laughing good times involved.

[Drunky]

Thank you BD

Good to see you are still around...I still miss KG200, my first squad in AH...Tachel, Dead, Geeb

BTW...anyone know what happened to Geeb?

[Fishu]

You know.. it's hilarious to fill up a buggy with C4 and drive it into enemy base, then jump out into cover and blow it up
Another fun thing is to fill up a well used path with C4's and wait for someones to enter the explosive zone.
...I still need to try fill up BH with special force soldiers and tell them to drop C4 all around a target area, then trigger an explosion.

[Dowding]

It's a truly great game... but for you realism junkies, check out this mod for it:

http://www.realitymod.com

They are adding all sorts of realism fixes... and a fully modelled British Army!

[thrila]

Still having fun though i don't join squads anymore.  It seems 90% of the squad leaders are stupid and suicidal.  I still follow groups of people, however if they decide to run across an open plain for 30 secs or drive an apc right into an enemy base with a dozen bad guys waiting i wont follow.

ooo...reality mod.  think i may go sign up to beta test.

[Fishu]

Originally posted by thrila
Still having fun though i don't join squads anymore.  It seems 90% of the squad leaders are stupid and suicidal.  

I do join squads, I just dont give a **** what the squad objective is or so.
Usually its preferable to be in a squad if you're piloting with someone, because then you can for example speak over voice or see each others messages easier. You'll also know when hes in the same chopper with you.
..unless your squad for some reason becomes filled up by people who joined in it for some reason.

co-operation would be also useful in tanks, because the top gunner has much better grasp on the situational awarness.



....it's just a pain in the bellybutton to find competant people.

[Dowding]

Yeah thrilla - imagine bombing around in a Warrior APC or Challenger II

[Dinger]

I played it a bit -- it's a cool and addictive little videogame.

A) I haven't figgered out how to open the chutes yet... (9 doesn't seem to work when I need it to)

B) The viewdistances are really small -- heck even in Joint Ops the viewdistance is twice BF2

C) What's the point of the Sniper Rifle? If you need more than one hit to kill, the bullet drop/dispersion or something makes it useless beyond 100m.  Better to take any assault rifle and use it in single shot mode (especially entertaining from on top of the crain).

D) why folks would shoot you on the carrier: take a MEC spec ops dude and drive out to the carrier.  Climb up on deck, and instead of blowing up the radar and the UAV shack, walk over to the aircraft (act normal and hopefully you won't get shot).  Attach C4 to helicopters and aircraft.  Watch them warm up their engines,a nd fly away.  Now blow them and giggle like a schoolgirl.

E) yeah, the squad system isn't grasped yet -- Gee I'm a mobile spawn point? Maybe I'll rambo-charge the base (or better yet, get in a 1-seater jet and fly around).

F) I still want building that collapse.


But still, it's not bad for light entertainment -- it's bound to be cool on the console.

I think the project reality folks are horribly misguided, by the way.

[Fishu]

Dinger,

Just keep hammering 9, it'll open.

Yeah... the sniper rifles are sucky, especially the SVD, which needs 3 hits without a headshot -- and im not sure even headshot cuts it with it, because sometimes bullets seem to go thru the head without a hit even when shot from 5 meters away, with careful aiming.
M24 however kills with 1-2 hits and is MUCH easier to aim than SVD (I still dont know whether the target should be under the reticle graphics or on top of it.. with M24 its just point and click)
But theres no drop, just a horrid dispersion.


...theres mobile spawn points!?

[Dinger]

At least one of the server settings (don't know if all of them work this way -- the damn server browser is so slow, and loading times outrageous) shows the squad leader position on the map. It's selectable as a spawn point. If people had coordination, they could really cause some trouble -- putting 5 guys on defense somewhere, having the other infiltrate, then suicide/respawn. Suddenly six guys appear on the carrier deck; or on top of the crane (think the crane is bad, imagine it with a whole squad, including medics and supply dudes).

[Fishu]

Originally posted by Dinger
or on top of the crane (think the crane is bad, imagine it with a whole squad, including medics and supply dudes).

The crane is bad if theres many people attracting the attention.. Alone its not a problem, you can kill a few before they realise the shooter is actually above them.
It's funny to lay C4 on the road by the unfinished building - people keeps coming up the road and you have a nice view on them from above - BOOM.
Looks awesome when the whole road is covered by explosions
Too bad I haven't yet got any tanks or APCs in the trap... just buggies and soldiers.
Although its funny  to watch soldiers go up the road carefully, let them get almost to the top and then suddenly blow up.

[Raider179]

Originally posted by Dinger
At least one of the server settings (don't know if all of them work this way -- the damn server browser is so slow, and loading times outrageous) shows the squad leader position on the map. It's selectable as a spawn point. If people had coordination, they could really cause some trouble -- putting 5 guys on defense somewhere, having the other infiltrate, then suicide/respawn. Suddenly six guys appear on the carrier deck; or on top of the crane (think the crane is bad, imagine it with a whole squad, including medics and supply dudes).

Yeah all maps I have played have that feature. Just takes a Squadleader who has a little bit of sense and an attack can be sustained indefinitely. I was playing with a squad on tacticalgamer and the SL would just stay right outside the main battle and you could just spawn in. Made for some intense battles.

Sniper rifle sucks.  The marines m24 is way to accurate. The M203 is deadly. Nothing is finer than sneaking up behind a squad of 6 and just letting loose. Sometimes I will just throw a smoke on a group of enemies that are sneaking in then run in the mix and start blasting. Usually you get 1 or 2 kills and they will TK each other. That game has real potential. I would like to see bigger squads though. 6 is alright but 10 would be better.

[GtoRA2]

Originally posted by Roscoroo
whats this junk ... wont run on win98 ..it keeps asking me for admin rights ...

another game that sleeps with microjunk's xp

MS is not longer supporting 98, I would be suprised if any game maker releases gams that will work on it now.

98 also sucks.  XP even with the MS BS is a way better os.

[Makarov9]

My copy was just delivered!

Damn work....damn you to heck!