BF2: If you thought EQ was a grind

[Merusk]

How does that work, exactly? Does he still have to trigger the C4, or does the impact trigger it? The SOB was racking up tons of armor kills with it. I wonder if you could time jumping out of the car to save your life, but still get a kill?

You couldn't jump far enough from the car, I think.  C4 has a VERY nasty blast radius vs infantry.

As for the C4 on the vehicles, I think the vehicle triggers a secondary explosion of the C4. I could be wrong though.

Edit: Oh look.. I got a custom title. Just noticed that.

[WayAbvPar]

Edit: Oh look.. I got a custom title. Just noticed that.

I should give Furiously a title- last night I was prone on top of a building on the Sharqi Peninsula map, merrily blasting incoming troops with my LMG. I hear someone crawling near/on me, see a flash of the same camo pattern that I am wearing, hear a knife, and die. Then see "Furiously [Teamkills] WayAbvPar". I called him several names over TS 

[Miasma]

I think the people that do the suicide vehicles are trying to get their basic explosives badge, they have no intention of surviving the blast, they just want to kill 13 other people.  Doesn't matter if they die dozens of times, or take out some of their own team.

I will do the same thing when I get bored one weekend.

[Furiously]

It took me like 5 server hops to get my parachute from a high altitute one last night. 

Then I jumped into a heli squad and somehow with only three people managed to get the unit ribbon.

[Sky]

Goddamned mmogtards!

 

[Miasma]

Goddamned mmogtards!

 

But they make the badges, medals and ribbons so big and shiny.  The pictures are beautiful, how can you resist?


You can easily get that ribbon by just going to a server with 10/64 people, spawning at the airfield, flying the plane straight up, jumping out, pressing 9 for your parachute and wait ten seconds while you float down!

I swear I will stop playing the game - just as soon as I get all my badges.  And, and, and maybe that AA ribbon.  I can stop anytime I want, I swear!  Plus there are only 36 more days till my next ding, err I mean rank.  I need to get my K/D up too...

[Furiously]

Squad looking for healer for Karkash instance!

[Miasma]

The next expansion should have the factions' gods/prophets as encounters, ones in which you need the full 64 players to attack.  You could finally have a literal tank "tanking", say, Buddha.

You should also need to slog through a dungeon urban area to get there.

I also want to be able to craft my own ammo and ride a pretty horsey.

[Furiously]

I'd much rather have a pony.

[Miasma]

Another hardcore Korean drops dead after a fifty hour play session.  The article only says it was an "on-line battle simulation".  I'm just assuming it was BF2.

He was probably trying to get master sergeant.

[Sky]

Someone get a copy of Lineage II to Kim up north.

[WayAbvPar]

Any of you catasses make Corporal yet? I am still 3700 points short I think. Holy mother of all grinds...


Did have a fun episode over the weekend- was playing MEC on the Sharqi Peninsula map (it was the one with the TV station- is that the right map?). We had capped the TV station, so I spawned as Special Forces and blew the arty and the radar/satellite stations (with a helicopter induced death inbetween). There were no more installations to blow, so I took the last 3 charge of C4  I had and strung it along the ridge (which seems to be the most often taken land route for folks coming to cap). That done, I climbed the ladder to the flag and waited. Sure enough, a minute or so later I caught a glimpse of movement on the ridge. I dropped prone, whipped out the detonator, then stood and touched off the c4. I was rewarded by the sight of an American troop rocketing into the sky, dead as Dillinger.

 Rag doll physics + high explosives = big fun.

[Sky]

I never made it to Lance Corporal, haven't played in weeks. As I've said, it pisses me off because it's one of the best games I've ever played.

I also like football, but I'm not going to play with a short bus full of helmeted, drooling 'special' kids.

[Trippy]

Any of you catasses make Corporal yet? I am still 3700 points short I think. Holy mother of all grinds...

I should be there soon. I'm at 10520 as a type this which means I should already be Corporal according to some sites but for some reason BF2 promotes you willy-nilly (if you look on the leaderboards you can see people with lower ranks with more points than people with higher ranks) so probably sometime this week I'll get it.

Edit: Well I got promoted during my first game tonight after waiting around for EA's POS account server to come back online. Yea me, I guess.

[stray]

I burned myself out on it fairly quickly (didn't help that I only had one goal: Get the G3), so I've been taking a break for awhile now. So no, I haven't made Corporal yet. There really aren't any reasons or goals left for me to work towards, other than to have fun --- Problem is: There's a lot hassle to do even that. It also doesn't help that I only like a few of their maps.

[Miasma]

I stopped playing and uninstalled the game so that I couldn't easily start back up after a particularly frustrating session.  It's a very good game but I get way too pissed off playing it sometimes.

On an unrelated matter I found out that they sell these cool umbrella things at home depot to easily spackle over moderate sized holes in drywall...

[Furiously]

Odd - I would have figured the hole in the wall and battlefield 2 would have been related.

[Merusk]

On an unrelated matter I found out that they sell these cool umbrella things at home depot to easily spackle over moderate sized holes in drywall...

You watch "Ask This Old House" don't you.  :-D


As for Corporal.. no I'm a long, long, long way from achieving that mark.  I still play BF2 fairly regularly, but I'm only like 3000 points into the Lance Corp. rank.  I don't do commander often, and I don't pilot often, so I wind-up an on-foot grunt getting low scores a lot of the time.  Sad for me. On the upside I got the Combat Action and Meritorius Unit ribbons and the Airborne badge the other day so my badge whoring is happy.

[Toast]

I took a hiatus from the game, but I returned for a few games last night. The point tracking has really raised the stakes for a competitive person. Frustration comes very quickly when I know that games go on my "permanent record".

The game needs some more maps. Half are unplayable to me because of unbalanced air power, so I play the same maps over and over.

[WayAbvPar]

The game needs some more maps. Half are unplayable to me because of unbalanced air power, so I play the same maps over and over.

Amen. I think the expansion will really help that. As it stands now, the only map I totally refuse to play is Gulf of Oman. Getting repeatedly raped by jet jockeys is just not that much fun. The other non-infantry maps (Dalian, Kubra, Wetlands, Dragon Valley, etc) all have enough armor to go around, or at least enough so I don't feel totally exposed. Having a lot of SAM sites (like Dragon Valley or Fushe Pass) also makes it more palatable- the pilots don't totally rule the skies when they are constantly having to dodge Stingers.

[Furiously]

I'd like to see some modified capture rules. Would be fun to see a fronted battle with only one flag being able to be captured at a time.

I'm personally waiting for a patch to balance things a bit more, and kill the cheating.

[WayAbvPar]

Ideally they would fix the cheating and roll back all the ridiculously high global scores to 15000 or under. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that would occur would warm my cold, dead, little heart to no end.

[Furiously]

Ideally they would fix the cheating and roll back all the ridiculously high global scores to 15000 or under. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that would occur would warm my cold, dead, little heart to no end.

I would prefer they roll them back to 0 - or identify them with <cheater> over their heads and make them appear red to everyone.

[Trippy]

Ideally they would fix the cheating and roll back all the ridiculously high global scores to 15000 or under. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that would occur would warm my cold, dead, little heart to no end.

EA did a pretty good job early on resetting the scores on the blantant point abusers. Right now, if you look at the stats of the leaders a few things are apparent:

• They all play *a lot* (around 400 hours)
• Tank/armor whoring is the way to go to make the leaderboard. 11 of the top 15 have a substantial number of kills from being in armor and 3 of the top 15 have virtually all their kills from driving armor (the Armor/Eng combo).
• Medics are very popular (about half the top 15)
• They all have high, but not unreasonably high, "points per minute" scores. I'm averaging about 100 points per hour right now while these guys are in the 150 - 200 range, which is high but not unreasonably so (at least compared to my playstyle) since I don't tank whore and I play low scoring classes (Sniper, Spec Ops, Engineer) between bouts of Medic whoring.

The only real odd player in the top 15 is NASTIE_BUTLER who has 21K driver points from flying around in a Helo as a Medic. Most of the others fall into the Medic/Armor or Armor/Eng categories with a few misc. ones thrown in for good measure (couple of Spec Ops, a Support dude and one Sniper).

Three weeks ago or so when I last studied the top 15 there were a couple of pilots who had most of their kills in planes but apparently they can't keep up with the armor whores and have dropped down. There is an odd score right now on the in-game leaderboard (doesn't show up on bf2s.com) where one player, Sickmind, has 1,476,398,676 points so he's either hacked the stats server or he's somehow bugged.

Edit: fixed typos

[Trippy]

I'd like to see some modified capture rules. Would be fun to see a fronted battle with only one flag being able to be captured at a time.

Just play Strike at Karkand. 75% of the time or so the USMC will only try and capture the closest CP.

[WayAbvPar]

I'd like to see some modified capture rules. Would be fun to see a fronted battle with only one flag being able to be captured at a time.

Just play Strike at Karkand. 75% of the time or so the USMC will only try and capture the closest CP.

God that drives me crazy (although I love it as an MEC defender). The key to Karkand for the Americans is to capture the back base (on a 32 man map) with the arty, satellite, and radar installations. Cap the flag, blow the bridge (makes it much harder for an armored assault), then blow all their assets. Game over. Even if you let them have the rest of the map it works- they all spawn into the Train Accident CP, and you just chew them to pieces with arty drops. If one of them gets froggy and blows the American assets, you can always spawn back there and fix them.

But 80% of the fucktards don't care about winning. They just want to whore for points. 

[Toast]

Winning doesn't give any points to the winning team (except for the commander).

STUPID EA. STUPID.

Things would be different if the game actually gave an incentive for winning.

[Furiously]

Winning doesn't give any points to the winning team (except for the commander).

STUPID EA. STUPID.

Things would be different if the game actually gave an incentive for winning.

People would quit once they saw their side was losing?

[Miasma]

Winning doesn't give any points to the winning team (except for the commander).

STUPID EA. STUPID.

Things would be different if the game actually gave an incentive for winning.

I didn't know that.  I always saw the 2X points for winning and thought it applied to everyone on that team, never bothered to check the numbers in BFHQ because they took so long to update.

[Toast]

Winning doesn't give any points to the winning team (except for the commander).

STUPID EA. STUPID.

Things would be different if the game actually gave an incentive for winning.

People would quit once they saw their side was losing?

It would be a positive incentive, not a negative. Quitting would be stupid because it wouldn't change anything. If everyone on the winning team got 1.01x to 2x points it would change behaviors.

[Sky]

It would be a positive incentive, not a negative. Quitting would be stupid because it wouldn't change anything.

Since when did stupid stop smacktardery? Indeed, that's the very reason they'd do it imo.

[Furiously]

It would be a positive incentive, not a negative. Quitting would be stupid because it wouldn't change anything.

Since when did stupid stop smacktardery? Indeed, that's the very reason they'd do it imo.

You see - you would quit, so you could go join the winning side on another server...

[Azazel]

Can you imagine how many poor bastards from the winning team would get auto-teamswapped by the server in the last minutes of the round as the loseing sides players bailed?