Half Life 2 netters of BF2 days, Lend me your ears!

Krynn72 said:
Missiles take time to lock though, and ive always been able to act quickly enough to maneuver the instant the beeping starts. When I played back in the early days, I ruled the skies.

I suck at bombing though :|
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Oh, I know, but with the latest patch, they made the hitboxes stupid huge on every jet but the J-10, and made missiles never miss. Sure they take time to lock on, but any competent opponent will be able to follow you easily, and hold that extra 1 second for the lock. I've been trying to get it down, but no matter what I do, I can't bank them away. Hell, missiles go through the flares at you now, :LOL:
 
Whaaaat. Thats retarded. I never flew with the latest patch, so I guess that explains it. Thats lame as hell.
 
^

It's harder to fly now since there's less nubs and more competent people (ZOMG in a BattleField game!? No way!) piloting. To rely solely on banking is... a bit inadequate since you'll have to pray the other pilot isn't good enough to keep up with you. The two tricks I know both require a ridiculous amount of skill to pull off. The first one requires the F-35B and basically you hit the limit right before stall-range (~9xx), then you level off and hit the afterburners. You'll be going at ridiculous speeds and there are no jets that can keep up with you. This of course, is a lot easier said than done. However, I highly recommend trying it since if you're in the cockpit, the sound completely changes (warped?) and the whole plane rattles like there's no tomorrow.

The second trick is much less awesome, it involves looping straight up and down but again you barely reach the stall-range and then pull back down. More often than not, the other pilot won't be able to react fast enough and will end up stalling out.

I remember there used to be some video of a guy that absolutely raped in jets. The dude was considered a top 10 jet pilot and the video was absolutely amazing. Sadly, I have forgotten what the video was called ;( I only remember a godly heli pilot a while back, his video was called 'Redux'.
 
I was thinking of buying it, then i saw it was ?27 on amazon...
Where are you guys getting it so cheap? And you cant buy it second hand because of the cd key i guess?
 
I HATE Infantry Only servers, but I like some infantry combat maps, like Sharqi and Mashturd. Karkand is OK...but gets old really fast. I don't mind those bigger maps, either, because they orchestrate such a large amount of teamwork, it's just awesome.
 
Sharqi is my favorite map... and yes, Infantry-only servers suck. Basically defeats the point of BF, the mix of infantry WITH vehicles.

Mashturr(or turd... ????) is good also, it's fun to fly the blackhawk full of people and ninja'ing flags. :D

Xombine: http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...119&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5 Must watch this

Skip to his 1v1 section if you want (~6:30) and watch how ridiculous this pilot is. This is the pilot I was talking about earlier. The heli-kill and subsequent J-10 kill while in a F-35B is absolutely insane (~3:45).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...=18&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

^ Video of the guy who invented solo heli! It starts off with a bunch of infantry fighting, but once you see him gunning in a heli by switching seats it's amazing. I can pull off the TV-missiles easy but using the actual gun is hard D:
 
Wow, I just remembered one of the best kills I've EVER done period, and I wish I had it on video...

I was in a tank, trying to evade/kill the attack heli. He's strafing about trying to get his idiot teammate to stop shooting me with the gun, and TV me. Well, I take aim, fire, MISS...was like "SON OF A BITCH" But see an explosion right behind him. I took out a jet going on some bombing run behind the heli. First, and last time I'll ever do that :(

And I love solo-heli'ing whenever there is no good pilots around. As for shooting the gun, just counter spin and just do a quick throw into the gunner seat, and you'll have the second of non-movement where it's simple to blow the bastards away.
 
ah yeah I've seen both of those videos before Aim, Duck and Cover has always been one of my favorites.
 
Qonfused said:
Goddamn it guys, I want to play.
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Yes but if you feel that way then imo it's worth it...plus you'll almost be getting more than that with mods like PR and FH to try out. Just 10 bucks anyway... :/
 
Qonfused said:
Rebuying a game... D:
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I did it. Plus I couldnt remember my login, so I had to make a new one and start over. Totally worth it.

I remember my best kill. It was when I was playing a game with Amishslayer and probably some other guys. We were capping a point as MEC when an attack helocopter came flying in over the ocean. He started launching his rockets, and his gunner was messin people up. He came around for a second strafe, so I switched out to my M16's grenade launcher, and as he was flying directly at me I launched one, nailed it right on the cockpit and blew them out of the sky. The debris fell and landed just a couple feet in front of me. I felt so badass.



Then we all got blown to bits by artillery.
 
I'm going to trade in a couple of my old games to get this. Trying to save my monies...

Although, would it be better to buy BF2 and then sell my games on my own? I'm thinking of getting rid of Bioshock and Diablo 2 and a few others.
 
I guess...sell them whenever you want, though. Also, I know I sound like a broken record but this is only 10 dollars. :/
 
I know it's only $10 but I'm trying to save every dollar I can. Just trying to minimise losses :p
 
For those of you without CD2 but HAVE a legit CD-key... just download BF2 "alternatively" and install with your original CDkey...

Also: I finally fixed my disconnection issue. Problem with running BF2 on dual core.
 
Pesmerga said:
For those of you without CD2 but HAVE a legit CD-key... just download BF2 "alternatively" and install with your original CDkey...

Also: I finally fixed my disconnection issue. Problem with running BF2 on dual core.
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I found that so weird. I'm running BF2 on two cores, and it doesn't disconnect me. I wonder why yours is so special. >: |
 
I'm gonna try and pick this up today. Trading in my games 'cause I'm lazy.
 
CyberPitz said:
I found that so weird. I'm running BF2 on two cores, and it doesn't disconnect me. I wonder why yours is so special. >: |
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My dual cores are bigger than yours.

Apparently the problem only resides with AMD X2 chips.
 
Pesmerga said:
My dual cores are bigger than yours.

Apparently the problem only resides with AMD X2 chips.
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Out of curiosity, were you getting sync stutter as well?

Whenever I play I have ridiculous amount of network stutter. Sudden mouse movements will jerk me way more than I was aiming for. Running on rooftops is nigh guaranteed suicide, as the server will often send me flying too far in the direction I'm running i.e. off the edge.

The only reason I think it's network related is because I don't get it in sp or lan. But I've tried everything under the sun connection wise and still no luck.
 
I can't really say, I wasn't able to stay connected long enough to really notice. But off the top of my head, no, I don't think so.
 
Picked up the game for $11, downloading the 1.41 patch now :D
 
Didn't notice this thread until now, silly me.

Tried to install it a while ago, but Vista was giving me trouble. Has that been fixed yet?
 
Someone post the stunt video. That one always cracked me up.
 
Shakermaker said:
By the way, the 256 game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7POC_saTfHM
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FOOK YES!

Too bad you can't really make out the names of the players, I remember the end of the Karkand battle with 256, it was a pitched fight for the final MEC CP on the opposite side of the bridge(the one to the north east of the map, the final MEC Cp in essence on the 32 player map):sniper:

Good ownage at the end there btw.
 
jimbo118 said:
FOOK YES!

Too bad you can't really make out the names of the players, I remember the end of the Karkand battle with 256, it was a pitched fight for the final MEC CP on the opposite side of the bridge(the one to the north east of the map, the final MEC Cp in essence on the 32 player map):sniper:
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We are MEC. The dude laying the C4 is Pitzy. In the corridor is CrazyJeepDriver I think and you running upto him in the end. Dunno who's firing the SAW and who's in the tank but the end is you and me again. Dude Squad ftmfw!
 
Yeah that was great stuff lol, it was quite awhile ago and I'm trying to make out the names in the top left, but I think that Aim was in the Z-10 and I was gunning in the Cobra while Augiep was flying. :)
 
Man, I forgot what a piece of shit BF2 is.

I often can't connect to games. The server browser is one of the worst I've ever seen. The game hitches randomly. A lot of the balancing is just terrible. And it's downright impossible to map your controls properly. For some reason I can't bind crouch to Shift, because that conflicts with the Helicopter controls (I guess DICE doesn't want me to crouch in the cockpit?). But when I go to unmap Shift in the Helicopter controls... it's not there. Nothing is bound to Shift, but somehow I can't use it.

But on the other hand... it's a ****ing fun game. I missed it.
 
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