Battlefield 2

[Yossarian]

Hi, I'm just wondering if any of you play this game.  I'm thinking about getting it, the videos of it look awesome on YouTube (as does the flight side  , and the videos of those tank guns firing....   ), and I'm looking for some other opinions.

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Yossarian

[angelsandair]

From what I heard, you can fly like a 1,200 mph jet in a Map that's only like 3 miles either way....

[Furball]

aircraft aren't great, heli's are more fun i think.  really good game tho, recommend it for multiplayer.

[Stixx]

I've played around with it. Do like the multi player portion.
As for the flight part, like angelsandair said the maps are
too small for the speed the jets attain. Though the heli's
are fun.

[Kaw1000]

I play....Alot  . I'm up to a Major.....It took me 3 years to get there.
I play maps without Vehicals.Its alot more fun.The Planes suck,and like another person said,
helis are cool!! Look me up if ya play I'm Kaw1000.The game is a blast. Don't get into a 64 player
room unless you have a kick butt puter.

[OSU]

It's an amazing game. I'm a Staff Sargent. If you really end up liking it, download Project Reality. Much more realistic (you can hear machine guns and sniper rifles echoing through canyons), and much more team oriented. Some servers actually kick you if you aren't in a squad (that isn't exactly a bad thing, just start your own squad). You also have many more weapons and vehicles. It's an extremely long download time, but you'll like it. The 332nd Flying Mongrels play it regularly, and you can occasionally find some of them online. It will take you a while to get good, but it's worth it. Kinda like AH. If you want to play Project Reality, then you have to have Battlefield 2, and the Special Forces Expansion pack to play. And if you feel like Project Reality, then just go straight to that, it is a completely different game.Playing BF2 for a year doesn't make you an expert at PR. A warning though, you do need a pretty good system. The requirements can be steep. http://www.realitymod.com/ That's the link for PR.

[Latrobe]

All I can say about it is it's full of problems. Getting a headshot to register as a hit is as hard as getting a TYPHie to come down from 20K! Ranking up takes forever too. I've been stuck on Staff Sergent (or am I stuck on Gunnery Sergent?), for over 3 months now, and I'm only half way to the next rank! It is pretty fun though if you get past the grenade spamming at Karkand, Jet-hores, SVD noobs, and crappy medics.

I would actually recommend Battlefied 2142. I find it alot more fun.

[Sandman]

I play Battlefield 2142. It's a hoot.

[Furball]

I really didn't like 2142.  I do enjoy Battlefield Vietnam and the WW2 mod for it though.

[Yossarian]

Would a comp with this be good enough to handle a decently large multiplayer game (I'm doing this from memory):

NVidia GeForce FX5200
512 MB RAM
Pentium 4 (2.4 or 3.2 GHz, forgot which)
and Windows XP Home?

[angelsandair]

Would a comp with this be good enough to handle a decently large multiplayer game (I'm doing this from memory):

NVidia GeForce FX5200
512 MB RAM
Pentium 4 (2.4 or 3.2 GHz, forgot which)
and Windows XP Home?

What year comp is that? That sounds pretty old, last time I heard of a Pentuim 4 was in '03 or '04?

The Vid card sounds like it could take the game though. 

[Yossarian]

It's old and it's slow.  I have way to much junk on the hard drive, so I'm going to try FSAutostart when I get home.

[Kaw1000]

All I can say about it is it's full of problems. Getting a headshot to register as a hit is as hard as getting a TYPHie to come down from 20K! Ranking up takes forever too. I've been stuck on Staff Sergent (or am I stuck on Gunnery Sergent?), for over 3 months now, and I'm only half way to the next rank! It is pretty fun though if you get past the grenade spamming at Karkand, Jet-hores, SVD noobs, and crappy medics.

I would actually recommend Battlefied 2142. I find it alot more fun.

Have you ever been a commander? If not try that. It will get you alot of points.Every time your spot a enemy announce it, and at the the game you will
Have 80 or 90 points.Its hard to explain if you have never been a commander. I play two maps Karkand and Jalabbad...If you want to hook up some time,
We can team up and rock. Also being a medic and saving people give you a ton of points...I've seen guys come in 1st place with only 3 or 4 kills.

[Fulmar]

I played it and you'd be hard pressed with that system you have there.  Your biggest draw back in your video card.  The FX series was a flop for Nvidia and the 5200 was the lowest card they had for the series, a very small step above onboard video.

Also, 512mb of ram is going to not help either.  And your older Northword/Prescot (PresHOT) P4 is getting dated.

It may be playeable at 800x600 with everything on low, but your game is not going to look no where near what hose videos show.

[Yossarian]

Ok, well I think I'll probably get the game and live with the graphics until my parents finally get a Mac   It looks good enough to justify that.