R U NUB LIKE ME!?!?!?!

[3S+R311A]

If you are like me then you have never played anything in the BF franchise. I totally stink at this game. ALSO, I hate the music in it....so bad...

My style of play is fast and efficient. I aim to kill, one shot kills are my bestfriend. On foot there is almost none of this. To me the maps are all too small to ever fly planes on. I suck at flying the helicopter. I have no joystick and my experience before this game with any other flying games might as well be neal.

My point is, I SUCK!

I'm trying though...

[zilong]

i hate the music too, except the chinene theater map loading song, god i wish i could pull off a soulful vibrato like that on my guitar =(

[Å|ArchBuck]

baby steps my friend... BF is like no other 1st person shooter... 1 hit RARELY kills... jumping around like you are in UT doesn't do shit... the guy kneeling will win (unless he is really bad aim). Small burst fire, not steady streams win the round... and rocket wars is a thing of BFV only

and the music rules... If you like the origonal series... the themes are all from BF 1942 ... or BFV, just slightly changed

[zilong]

.. jumping around like you are in UT doesn't do shit...

yes it does.............. :hump:

[Å|ArchBuck]

lol

[zilong]

jumping has saved me countless times in CS and BF, what i do i i whip out my pistol after i run out of ammo, and i do a sprint leap and close the distance between me and the enemy while shooting him in teh face repeatedly.....it works :yaya:

[Å|ArchBuck]

man, you are a lucky fellow then... especially if you are facing anyone with a full-auto weapon

if you are fighting americans, I guess I could see it... maybe...

[moldykorn]

Who says you have to fly with a joystick? Its not hard to learn with a mouse. I dont know about the music from BF2, but the music in DC kicked extreme amounts of ass. And I agree about the shooting, it takes too damn much to kill someone, especially when your sight is right on him and it doesnt register as a hit.

[Å|ArchBuck]

the whole point is you can't kill in one shot... that (plus the vehicles) is what makes BF different... you have to use more strategy...

[dbodenheim]

My advice for you is to get good at one vehicle til your owning with it then move on to the next. Always be a bitch and keep capping flags too.

[DinkyPoopStick]

R U NUB LIKE ME!?!?!?!

No :dunno:

[meltdown]

the whole point is you can't kill in one shot... that (plus the vehicles) is what makes BF different... you have to use more strategy...

Hehe, strategy... The BF franchise is a line of Arcade shooters, EA and the devs even admit that. If it was one shot kills to the head, or a burst could easily kill (such as was possible in BF:V and 42) then I might agree with you. Majority of the time though it just comes down to killing them more and faster than they kill you in the massive zerg and keeping more armor on the firled than them, or capping the back flags and just bleeding them dry. I see more ring around the rosey going on alot of times when there are two good teams than actual combat (Dragon Valley and Operation Clean Sweep being a good example of this).

[Å|ArchBuck]

If it was one shot kills to the head, or a burst could easily kill (such as was possible in BF:V and 42) then I might agree with you.

Although I agree BFV had some definate "insta-kills" issues going on, BF 1942 was not an instant kill game by any means...

If "ring around the rosey" was actually taking place in 42, then more likely it was because the map was too large for the number of players... I seem to remember definate front lines on many of the maps

[jwolly2]

To get back on topic, I too suck at this game. :thumbsdown:

It's getting to the point that I'm about to put it down. For me, it's not just the gameplay.

I can't stand the freaking server browser, especially when it locks up on me.
I can't find a decent ranked server. Everything with low ping is constantly full. On the off chance I can join a server w/ < 200 ping, I get in game and it lags so much I want to cry. No recent/favorites in the server browser means that on the off chance I find a decent servers, I won't be able to find it again.
I'm torn by the ranked/unranked issues. For some reason I feel like I need to spend time on the ranked servers, or I'm missing a large part of the game.

I'm not one to bag on games this early, but this one hasn't been much fun for me. If it was just one or two things, I could fight through them, but there isn't a fun aspect of the game for me right now. Hopefully some of the software/server issues will be fixed soon, and I'll be able to suck at a game that at least runs.
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[atomicbob]

I'll be able to suck at a game that at least runs.
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ROFL!!! :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe:

[Vryllyn]

I hardly kill anyone when I'm my Medic, which shows in my stats. But reviving people so they can fight for ya is pretty damn fun. Some of the 64 player maps are just completely and utterly insane. I died about ten times in a row do to arty strikes..

[Å|ArchBuck]

remember, medic has no armor... it makes a big difference... about 2x as long of a life if they are shooting you in the chest

that less armor means it is harder to go up aginst someone with armor and win

[Vryllyn]

remember, medic has no armor... it makes a big difference... about 2x as long of a life if they are shooting you in the chest

that less armor means it is harder to go up aginst someone with armor and win

That explains why I drop so fast. Half the time a stray bullet nearly kills me. Then I go run around a corner and heal up.

[Å|ArchBuck]

yeah, I didn't even realize how much that made a difference until I started running assault... prior to I had always ran medic... the assualt I can go though like 2-4 guys before goin down... same number of hits would have wasted my poor medic

[=HR=Gumby!!!]

According to EA the body armor reduces damage by 33% to the torso only. Not much but it can save your butt.

[Vryllyn]

yeah, I didn't even realize how much that made a difference until I started running assault... prior to I had always ran medic... the assualt I can go though like 2-4 guys before goin down... same number of hits would have wasted my poor medic

I'm only using Medic for the points. After I get to Lance Corporal, I'm going to unlock the Dao-12 and play Anti-Tank from then on.

[Å|ArchBuck]

I think it reduces flinching as well, but don't quote me on it... just seems like your aim don't get messed up as much when you are getting hit with body armor on

[Å|Ragan]

Was using the AT today, getting shot up like 50cent on a street corner(bad old joke) lots of hits, lost alot of life, but had a medic sitting behind me so it was nothing. Anyways, the killing is just how the game is. I enjoyed it in BF42, BFV, and now in BF2. But the sweet spot was the mods for me, I liked the ones like FH where the realism was increased(so much easier to die, but just to keep the flames down, FH was not a realism mod, I know) So I would hold off on the game if you dont like it now for the mods to show, but then again they could always be crap also, so :dunno:

[Å|ArchBuck]

I agree Ragan... this game for me is one of the best I have ever played, with BF 1942 (DC) being 2nd... never played a game before that requires so much teamwork... CS does, but in a different way...

[Vryllyn]

I love the teamwork and I like it a lot more then BF:V, which I didn't enjoy until some of the people on here showed me the light called, "PoE". :hehehe:

[monos]

I can't stand the freaking server browser, especially when it locks up on me.
I can't find a decent ranked server. Everything with low ping is constantly full. On the off chance I can join a server w/ < 200 ping, I get in game and it lags so much I want to cry. No recent/favorites in the server browser means that on the off chance I find a decent servers, I won't be able to find it again.</rant>

many of us have had lots of success using uk or europe servers it does not make sense but we usually run lag free now this may all be solved soon if WiH gets a ranked server, but if you want to try it search using EA UK or EA EUROPE of course you will encounter the typical asshats and retards but what can you do

[Vryllyn]

I can't stand the freaking server browser, especially when it locks up on me.
I can't find a decent ranked server. Everything with low ping is constantly full. On the off chance I can join a server w/ < 200 ping, I get in game and it lags so much I want to cry. No recent/favorites in the server browser means that on the off chance I find a decent servers, I won't be able to find it again.</rant>

many of us have had lots of success using uk or europe servers it does not make sense but we usually run lag free now this may all be solved soon if WiH gets a ranked server, but if you want to try it search using EA UK or EA EUROPE of course you will encounter the typical asshats and retards but what can you do

EA servers seem good. The non-EA Ranked servers are laggy as hell!

[wihadmin]

Some of the EA UK and EA EUROPE servers are actually served up from boxes within the US. Don't ask. I :dunno:

[Å|Ragan]

I love playing on the german servers (currently at school in Alabama) and the avg ping is around 100-150, usually from one or two guys with high ping. but yeah, look for the EA DE servers, they work pretty good.

[Å|ArchBuck]

must depend then... I can't get a good ranked EA or Non-EA server... Europe or no... they just suck for me... I have tried several... oh well, maybe I can pray that someday in the future they will let servers turn it off so that everything is unlocked... but 50 bucks says no, cause EA would loose so much money from having ranked ones

[Vryllyn]

Looking at pings doesn't help either. I'll go into a low ping server and get massive lag. Then I'll go into a high ping server and have zero lag.

They need to fix the net code, methinks.

[Å|Ragan]

Its the gaming world we live in. In order to make money they see that they have to find some way to charge after the game has been purchased. Its nice when a game like 'Guild Wars' comes along and says no monthly fees (they are banking on enough people buying expansions) but so rare. One of the benifits of CS:S, no pay. I agree with Archbuck though, EA will not suspend renting servers and making those the only way to achieve rank, just to much money.

[meltdown]

If it was one shot kills to the head, or a burst could easily kill (such as was possible in BF:V and 42) then I might agree with you.

Although I agree BFV had some definate "insta-kills" issues going on, BF 1942 was not an instant kill game by any means...

If "ring around the rosey" was actually taking place in 42, then more likely it was because the map was too large for the number of players... I seem to remember definate front lines on many of the maps

I don't know, I used to one shot and burst kill all the time in 42. Go engie and the rifle was actually better than the sniper rifle. With the thompson all you had to do was be prone and shoot off one or two short bursts and if all three rounds hit they were pretty much dead if not dead already. BF2 seems to be a one or the other, I've had people one shot me with an M-16 while running and circle straffing full on, on the other hand I've seen them empty a full clip into me and do next to no damage while being crouched and 5 feet away, while a short burst from my AK downs them in a heart beat while I'm circle straffing them. Of course it has been shown the meshes are screwed up anyways so once they fix those we'll have a better idea how damage was meant to be in the game. But they probably won't fix that before PoE or EoD comes out and we'll all have the realistic shooter again.

[Å|ArchBuck]

that was true with BF 1942... the engineer's rifle was deadly as all hell, we used to have a guy who ran with that thing, always seemed to have most kills and he didn't use it to sniper...he ran with the assault

as far as inst-deaths in BF:2... the body-hit area is so much more sensitive... hits to the arms/legs do very little, body med, head tons... a full burst from an M16 will kill anyone if aimed at the head... not to say that this wasn't the case with past BF (and other games) it was... just didn't seem as obvious

[DinkyPoopStick]

If you truely suck at BF2 do what all the other people that suck do, be a sniper.... Bonez has been doing it for years :flipoff:

[Å|ArchBuck]

rofl

[meltdown]

Go go Dinky!!!!

[GorroXXII]

If you truely suck at BF2 do what all the other people that suck do, be a sniper.... Bonez has been doing it for years :flipoff:

:hehehe: in his defense though, he needs a new machine, because he is a half decent pilot, I flew with him a couple times in the chopper, and we'd be kicking arse, till the chopper started spiraling down to our deaths...

[atomicbob]

Looking at pings doesn't help either. I'll go into a low ping server and get massive lag. Then I'll go into a high ping server and have zero lag.

I've been ignoring high pings too. I get in servers faster and haven't had any lag problems yet. The low ping servers are always packed, but 200-250 range (mostly Euro) I can get in.

[DinkyPoopStick]

The low ping servers are always packed, but 200-250 range (mostly Euro) I can get in.

How many Euro's in a Dollar now a days?