BF2: This game still fun?

[Furiously]

Zet, Way and I played for a couple hours last night, was a blast was amazing how much more powerful/effective we were with assigned classes. I played assault or anti-tank, Way was support and Zet played medic. Was nice to have someone around to revive me non-stop :)

Third person made flag captures happen so much faster. Our side totally sucked, we were the top three scorers on our side once we started working together and providing covering fire and such. I keep thinking how fun it would be to play with a 5 or 6 man F13 group and having a couple medics, AT, support, SF and an engineer. (I'd forgotten how overpowered the medic gun was when Zet died and I grabbed his kit to revive him).

Any interest in starting a weekly/nightly F13 group?

[Sky]

I'll play with you guys, but I don't have a mic nor any matching software :P I also don't play very regular times, usually a half hour after work and a half hour before bed.

Saw a funny trick last night. I was chasing a guy who had just swam across the river on Dragon, I missed with my first grenade round (only a 39% chance of missing, yo!). He was a medic and threw a healing pack down in front of himself. But I don't use no sissy assault rifle, the next grenade sent him ass over eyes...and I had a nice little medic pack to heal me, heh.

I've been playing almost exclusively on Salty Frog Squad's server. 64 player, always full, pings around 60-80ms, decent admins and rules (no arty on, or armor in, uncaps).

[Furiously]

I know Way and Zet/Pharce usually load up X-fire just because it makes finding the map people are playing on a lot easier.  (I'll load it up to find Way when he mumbles on TS sometimes too).

Generally we just use the F-13 TS server. Dunno what the GF/Wife factor is for you, I have to use headphones or the wife cries.

[edlavallee]

Any interest in starting a weekly/nightly F13 group?

I don't think I could do a nightly or scheduled thing, but I would like to hang with you all when I do play... I agree that teamwork really makes this game shine.

I hate xfire, so I don't know how to find y'all.

[Furiously]

Pop onto the F13 TS server and we'll let ya know where we are if we are on.

[Sky]

Dunno what the GF/Wife factor is for you, I have to use headphones or the wife cries.

Heh. Luckily, she likes to watch me play BF2. Because it tends to dominate the room when I'm playing... She is kind of a jinx on me when I play, though. I can't get focused enough and die aimlessly alot. Not sure how she'll react to TS, it does take some adjustment. I used to love it playing with the clan, we only had to kick one kid for being immature (he wouldn't stop saying "WHEEEEEE" or giggling when he got kills...and he left voice activation on :()

[WayAbvPar]

There are about 5 different servers I usually play on (mostly West Coast based). I always have Xfire running, so tracking me down should be simple enough. Or you can log into the F13 TeamSpeak server and ask- I generally log in to TS before I play BF2.

Furiously, Zetleft and I had a good squad going last night. Unfortunately the rest of our team was absolutely fucking useless, and we lost a bunch of games in a row. Our individual scores (especially Zet's) were pretty good though. It was a lot of fun.

[Sky]

East Coast ftl.

[Merusk]

I feel yer pain, Sky.  I'm on x-fire and named Merusk in-game if anyone tracks me down.   Ya'll talking about it got me starting again.

[edlavallee]

just reloaded xfire. zipperkgb is me (I think)... or Zipper Zee... There can't be too many zippers out there unless you are at a Rainbow Coalition concert.

[Furiously]

Ack - sorry I ditched the server after you joined Zipper.

Finally got my 19 air kills medal last night. It was sick when the other side only had one base left and in I would come... 4 or 5 kills in one bomb run.

Started reading about BF2142. If what they say in their interviews is right, it could be a better version of BF2. Or what planetside should have/still could be.

[edlavallee]

Not a problem. I've been trying to get back into the swing of things in BF2 but that server was a bit large and chaotic. I typically like a smaller population so its not so much of the fragcrushfest. I have many miles to go before I would say I am even slightly skilled with BF2. It is kinda fun tho.

I saw something on Fileplanet yesterday about a free multiplayer BF2142 beta for suscribers? I didn't click on it because I was in a hurry.

[WayAbvPar]

Find us online and we can help ya get up to speed, ed. We had a good 4 man squad going last night for a bit with Fur, Zet, my brother and I. 3 medics, a support guy, and an assault guy. If only Furiously and I hadn't kept TKing Zet...

I will admit most of them were my fault, but the funniest one was on Dragon Valley at the Woodyard- I was manning one of the stationary anti-tank launchers (HJ-8 or TOW), and touched off a shot at an oncoming APC at the EXACT same time that Zetleft chose to run across my vision. I imagine getting hit with a wire-guided missile from a range of 2 feet will really but a cramp in your style.  :-D

[edlavallee]

I have added merusk and furiously to my Xfire list. Let me know who you are and I will look y'all up.

[WayAbvPar]

I will give you 3 guesses as to my xfire handle, and the first two don't count 

[Miasma]

I think BF2 was a really fun game, I actually found it too intense for my liking.  I swear my heartrate jumps 20% just imagining those first three notes of music from the log in screen.

[edlavallee]

Da da dun da dun dun!

I will give you 3 guesses as to my xfire handle, and the first two don't count 

Than you're only giving me one guess.. no fair!!

[Zetleft]

Find us online and we can help ya get up to speed, ed. We had a good 4 man squad going last night for a bit with Fur, Zet, my brother and I. 3 medics, a support guy, and an assault guy. If only Furiously and I hadn't kept TKing Zet...

I will admit most of them were my fault, but the funniest one was on Dragon Valley at the Woodyard- I was manning one of the stationary anti-tank launchers (HJ-8 or TOW), and touched off a shot at an oncoming APC at the EXACT same time that Zetleft chose to run across my vision. I imagine getting hit with a wire-guided missile from a range of 2 feet will really but a cramp in your style.  :-D

A man simply can't mine the road in peace.  Made quite a loud bang on my speakers though. 

Been having a great time joining up with Fur and Way though, make quite a nice squad when we work together.  But I do owe you guys a few tks now, and you'll never know when they will come :p

Oh and yeah my xfire name is Zetleft but in game my handle is Pharce.

[Merusk]

Once again.. curse you all and your late-night Pacific playtimes.  Quit yer jobs!

[Furiously]

I might have mentioned it elsewhere, but I BF2142 has gone from a "meh" title to one of interest based on the developer's comments about what they did right and wrong with BF2.

Thought it was interesting how they were making the game have 4 classes. (I'd prefer an even more planetside approach)
A. Assault. This combines the medic and assault classes. (you have 1 medic pack that acts like a reverse dot when you throw it down)
B. Engineer. This combines the engineer and anti-tank classes.
C. Specialist. This combines the sniper and special forces classes. This one worries me a bit.
D. Support. You get to throw down ammo packs.

Supposed to have like 40 unlocks. So you get to specialize a bit more. One of them is a cloaking device (Which you cannot shot while it is on).

Looks like they have 3 weapon unlocks per class and 6-10 other items you can unlock.

By joining a squad you get all the tactical information about enemies the other members of your squad see. No more calling out "aircraft overhead" if it is in your vision, everyone knows where it is on the mini-map. Squad leader has to throw down a marker instead of being able to spawn on them.

You can drop turrets. They have crawler mines. I'm worried it might be a bit too fast paced for an old man like me, but we'll see. As was mentioned Fileplanet is having a beta later this month.

[lamaros]

Hello Specalist pwnage. I would play sniper always if it had C4, let alone a better close range gun.

[Furiously]

Did I mention EMP grenades that shut vehicles down?

And yea - if you have a SMG and a sniper rifle as the specialist, 70% of the people will play that class. I can only hope they have no armor and die to a single shot.

I'd rather see support with anti-tank and special forces with engineer.

[Sky]

Just give me my beloved thumper (grenade launcher). All the rest doesn't matter much.

[Furiously]

Do you still find the newb tube effective against people? It's great for vehicles, but I have a hard time getting the 5 or 6 kill spams when people bunch up.

It's happened like 4 or 5 times to me lately that I will place a mine behind a vehicle and it will run over it like it wasn't there. I'm starting to wonder if there is a hack for mines.

[lamaros]

The genade launcher was way nerfed at some point, or at least it seems to me after I got back form my break. It also seems to go through vehicles.

[Merusk]

It's happened like 4 or 5 times to me lately that I will place a mine behind a vehicle and it will run over it like it wasn't there. I'm starting to wonder if there is a hack for mines.

I had that happen last-night, too.  Mined around a flag, enemy tank ran over it like it wasn't there.   Dropped a mine in the path of an APC, same thing as it sped-up to run me down.  Plus it seemed like tanks were respawning really damn fast.  I'd find one that /would/ blow, and as soon as I was humping it down the road to the next flag, there he was again, same driver, same tank. (T72) less than 20 seconds later.

Could also be a latency thing, I suppose.  Since I haven't bought any x-pacs there's only about 12 servers I can actually play on these days.

[lamaros]

I beleive hte respawn time is set by the server.. though it might thave changed.

[Sky]

I've been doing great with the grenade launcher. I know it has a reputation as a newbie weapon, but it's always been my preferred weapon as I like indirect fire weapons. I'm better with trajectories than direct aiming. I'm down to 59% accuracy from 62%, though. I don't think anyone has bunched up like that when I've been around, but I think I've killed three guys with one shot, and I know I've killed two at once a bunch of times. It's not real effective on vehicles, but it's good for a combined effort with a couple grunts tossing regular grenades in as well.

I hear you re:"vanilla" BF2. I haven't bought any expansions, I have about a dozen servers to choose from, with only two 64 player servers. SFS has a good server, but the other one is brutal. It's in Denmark and I ping about 180ms to it with the locals pinging 10-20ms. I don't even bother playing on it anymore because I'm 1:10 k:d over there. It's just not fun when you don't have a chance. SFS isn't bad, I can get 60-100ms.

[Furiously]

It used to be a great weapon, I loved it.

I was never that great of a FPS player, I don't have the reflexes to aim for the headshots before the other person kills me. I just spray in the general direction of the person's chest and hope my bullets hit. (Ok - I might not be quite that bad - but it's close.)

Just seems like the grenade launcher lost a lot of it's blast radius then they decided it should be an anti-jeep weapon.

[WayAbvPar]

Just train yourself to aim at high chest and up, and shoot in short bursts. Moving from side to side helps a bit too, as does dropping prone instantly. Once I got that stuff hardwired into my reactions, my kill/death ratio got A LOT better. I am a bit of a kamikaze, and was even worse in my misspent BF2 youth, so I am not even to a 1/1 K/D ratio overall yet. I held at about .87 for a LONG time. The past month or two I have worked it to .96 or .97 (haven't checked recently). I have about 10100 kills and 10400 deaths, so it is getting close  :-D

[Miasma]

I held at about .87 for a LONG time. The past month or two I have worked it to .96 or .97 (haven't checked recently). I have about 10100 kills and 10400 deaths, so it is getting close  :-D

0.9747, that's practically 1:1.

I like the way that you and furiously are on eachother's enemies list  .

I think I'll buy another short-term fileplanet subscription when the beta for 2142 comes out, I did manage to shower off the unclean feeling last time.

[Sky]

That was the training regimen for newbs in the 1942 clan: dive prone and AIM FOR DA HEAD. At least get in a crouch. The damage modelling and spread patterns were one thing that drew me to the franchise. Need more punishment for bunny-hoppers, but that's another rant.

As far as the blast radius on the grenade goes, it could be. I tend to target the ground at someone's feet and I'm pretty good at laying them in there. Like I said I hover just over 60% accuracy, I hit a bit more than I miss, and that includes wild shots a few hundred feet away, out of the side of helicopters, trying to flush people out, and lots of tactics where hitting someone is very low probability but still a good tactic.

My stats suck. I have only made about 100 rank points since I started playing again, heh. I'm at .78 k:d (.82 with assault kit). I'm a bit off from those damned Danes.

[WayAbvPar]

I held at about .87 for a LONG time. The past month or two I have worked it to .96 or .97 (haven't checked recently). I have about 10100 kills and 10400 deaths, so it is getting close  :-D

0.9747, that's practically 1:1.

I like the way that you and furiously are on eachother's enemies list  .

I think I'll buy another short-term fileplanet subscription when the beta for 2142 comes out, I did manage to shower off the unclean feeling last time.

Heh- we were badge-whoring for knife and pistol kills (before discovering the joys of knife/pistol only servers!), and took turns ganking each other on some random server. Good times!

[Furiously]

I don't really care for that stat as it is on a per map basis. That being said, there is likely no one I have killed more then Way. (Mostly when he is on my team). It's also become a bit of a tradition to shoot each other anytime we are waiting for the helicopter to spawn.

[edlavallee]

My stats suck. I have only made about 100 rank points since I started playing again, heh. I'm at .78 k:d (.82 with assault kit). I'm a bit off from those damned Danes.

Your stats suck? Shit, if you look up suck in the BF2 dictionary, you would see this --> SUCK. .55 k:d ratio proves that the only twich skills I have are usually autonomic.