Good Large-Scale Multiplayer Combat Game

[Headcrab Pie]

Think Battlefield 2. I want to purchase a game like that, but am unsure of whether to get B2, or get another game like that. Any good games like that? Or should I just get Battlefield 2 and call it good?

 

[TCfromBN]

Yeah, Battlefield 2 with Project Reality Mod.

 

[Vegeta897]

ArmA has a decent amount of players I heard. Much larger scale than BF2 and more aimed at realism if you enjoy that sort of thing.

 

[knut]

Yeah, Battlefield 2 with Project Reality Mod.

Bing!

 

[AiM]

I think your choices are between either BF2 or ET:QW. However, I've played ET:QW so I can't really offer an opinion there. BF2 is nice if you can find at least one person you're familiar with to play. Otherwise it can get pretty bland. As the saying goes, the more the merrier, so find yourself some competent squad mates that likes to work as a team.

 

[CyberPitz]

I think your choices are between either BF2 or ET:QW. However, I've played ET:QW so I can't really offer an opinion there. BF2 is nice if you can find at least one person you're familiar with to play. Otherwise it can get pretty bland. As the saying goes, the more the merrier, so find yourself some competent squad mates that likes to work as a team.

This this this this this this this this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Acepilotf14]

Planetside, lol.

 

[Jintor]

PLAAANNNEEETSIDE

I wish. ;___;

 

[Tagaziel]

Battlefield 2142. Generally, there are good players populating the servers.

Alternatively, you might try World in Conflict as a change from the FPS genre.

 

[Reginald]

Planetside, lol.

Not this.

PLAAANNNEEETSIDE

This.

 

[Lucid]

Battlefield 1942 with Desert Combat + Extended and Forgotten Hope.

Battlefield 2142 is pretty fun too... but the aircraft in the game suck horribly.

Planetside's pretty fun but if you try to play it nowadays you'll get your ass handed to you.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 has decently sized maps that are filled with 32 real players and then even more AI players that act as cannon fodder, gets really crazy on Hoth and space maps.

Call of Duty : UO has insanely large user-made and base assault maps and 64 player servers, awesome stuff.

UT2004's onslaught mode provides some large scale battles but last I checked the game was essentially on its death bed.

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas : Multiplayer is awesome if you'd like a GTA fix in your multiplayer gaming and you don't have GTAIV but you have GTA:SA on your PC.
It can get ridiculously laggy at times but once find the right server it's sweet gaming bliss.

 

[Xevrex]

Planetside's pretty fun but if you try to play it nowadays you'll get your ass handed to you.

Planetside was my first MMOFPS, and I must say, it's fun taking a base against 50-100 players at once. I mean, it's not like a point-and-click FPS (except maybe the jackhammer); it does require skill in your maneuvers. That mostly means strafing. Also, putting up with the shitty commanders (i.e. on VS, DarkFateVS, MarkSpeeter, Killandra, and basically all other egotists) and listening to the good ones (i.e. on TR, Salous, DSxXevrex a.k.a. me, Bwenx, and many others). Their forum is also pretty much where the cool people hang. The mods are volunteers that are pretty cool with a lot of bullshit, a lot like the mods here. Oh, it's a blast, let me tell you.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Go into the future and get MAG.

 

[TCfromBN]

I gotta reiterate here...

BF2 with Project Reality mod is where it's at.

 

[Sheepo]

Iraq war

 

[Nibwoddle]

Frontlines Fuel of War. Brilliant. Biggest maps ever, brilliant graphics and extremely simple. Having never played Battlefield but knowing from others that Frontlines is an awful lot like Battlefield, it fits perfectly with your description. Almost every server is 32 player but it can be 64.

 

[Lucid]

I gotta reiterate here...

BF2 with Project Reality mod is where it's at.

If you enjoy running across maps for 8+ minutes trying to get to the action only to get picked off by a sniper all because for some reason you can't drive a humvee.

 

[Ren.182]

I still play BF2 pretty much daily. With a good squad, or a squad of friends on vent/TS it's still great fun!

Project Reality isn't bad. It too can be good fun with a good squad. But you really need voice comms with it, else you just end up left behind or dead. And like Lucid said... sometimes you just end up running across the map to find a fight.

 

[knut]

If you enjoy running across maps for 8+ minutes trying to get to the action only to get picked off by a sniper all because for some reason you can't drive a humvee.

Then hop into a Humvee with someone who IS driving. Last time I played PR, which was a while ago, I recall being able to drive Humvees as default. Or at least I think you could.

The key element of PR is depending upon each and every member of your team. Firefights are often far away but I never had any problem getting to them.

 

[Lucid]

Then hop into a Humvee with someone who IS driving. Last time I played PR, which was a while ago, I recall being able to drive Humvees as default. Or at least I think you could.

The key element of PR is depending upon each and every member of your team. Firefights are often far away but I never had any problem getting to them.

Every time I played all the vehicles would be gone and every time I'd try to request someone come back from the frontlines with a transport to pick us(I was usually with about 10 other people) up nobody would respond, so we'd all trek across the map and get blown up or shot. D:
It was an immersive experience, sure, but it wasn't that much fun after the 4th time of dying.
I mean, don't get me wrong... when you actually get to the action and are with a squad, it's the best game ever made.
It's just that you better join a server WITH people you know instead of hopping on a server alone and trying to talk to strangers who ignore you.

 

[Unfocused]

Yesterday and 3 days ago I decided to play some PRM and once again was amazed at how many people are willing to work together and communicate. Yesterday the squad I was in was deadly, with me in the APC gun, a good driver, an engineer repairing us and constant coms from the rest of the squad.

Lucid, AFAIK anyone can drive a Humvee, but for the other vehicles you need a crewman kit. Also, I recommend joining a squad with a squad leader that uses the officer kit and sets up rally points regularily.

I mean, don't get me wrong... when you actually get to the action and are with a squad, it's the best game ever made.
It's just that you better join a server WITH people you know instead of hopping on a server alone and trying to talk to strangers who ignore you.

Truth. As I said above, one of the things I like about PRM, is that it's much easier to find a proper squad spontaneously joining a server than in for example vBF2.

 

[kupocake]

I miss Tribes 2. Even if that means missing having a 28k connection in the land of ADSL.

 

[Lucid]

Oh man, 132 player servers were insane.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Hell yeah.

 

[Arrowhead]

Not exactly your traditional shooter, but Savage 2 is a great large-scale multiplayer combat game. I'm hooked on it right now.

 

[Drackard]

Frontlines Fuel of War. Brilliant. Biggest maps ever, brilliant graphics and extremely simple. Having never played Battlefield but knowing from others that Frontlines is an awful lot like Battlefield, it fits perfectly with your description. Almost every server is 32 player but it can be 64.

Is it even working now ? I got it a while ago and it was utter shite, the multiplayer was a complete lag fest and the server browser was terrible!

 

[Nibwoddle]

Is it even working now ? I got it a while ago and it was utter shite, the multiplayer was a complete lag fest and the server browser was terrible!

The server browser isn't too bad. If you live in America the lag shouldn't be too bad but there aren't any Aus servers for me so it can be pretty laggy. I don't see how you can think it's utter shite, with astounding graphics and the like plus the unscripted cinematic physics. You do need a brilliant computer though otherwise it'll look like some half-assed Gmod map the whole time which really detracts from the experience.

 

[Drackard]

The server browser isn't too bad. If you live in America the lag shouldn't be too bad but there aren't any Aus servers for me so it can be pretty laggy. I don't see how you can think it's utter shite, with astounding graphics and the like plus the unscripted cinematic physics. You do need a brilliant computer though otherwise it'll look like some half-assed Gmod map the whole time which really detracts from the experience.

Well, when I last played it on a European server the lag was terrible .. literally to the point where everyone was warping around the place and it was like that on most servers. The physics I can agree with being quite good, wouldn't go as far as saying the graphics are astounding though.

I may give it another shot at some point if it has improved, but I really didn't enjoy it last time.

 

[Lucid]

Not exactly your traditional shooter, but Savage 2 is a great large-scale multiplayer combat game. I'm hooked on it right now.

Too bad Savage 1 is doing so much better than it right now.
Savage 2 has a lot of potential for greatness, if only they would fix the net code and add more official servers.

 

[Arrowhead]

Too bad Savage 1 is doing so much better than it right now.
Savage 2 has a lot of potential for greatness, if only they would fix the net code and add more official servers.

Hmm, I just don't see the negatives you are raising here. The netcode seems just fine for me, no lag whatsoever. And while there are only a dozen official servers at present, a few are always populated and I've never had problems finding a good low latency game.

 

[Krynn72]

Soldner.