Play Bf2 Now!

...wish I could join you guys ;(

*sigh*
 
15357 said:
Finally, got Xfire installed. :x
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Good. It's been mostly a nightly basis for me and my roomate to play....though when it's just us, it gets boring since 2 people can't squad very well.

Now hurry up and get back into BF2 you jerks!
 
I'm FINALLY on BF2, only a few problems.

1) I'm on wireless and the connection is pretty dodgy. 60 player maps are pretty horrendous, but it depends every now and again.

2) Punkbuster. I'm no good at downloading stuff about servers, clients and versions, and the main site is so useless. Can someone PLEASE tell me where I can get the bog standard Punkbuster and/or the latest update. The sites downloads are just... argh.

3) I haven't patched up to 1.41 or whatever it is yet. When I can be arsed to do the download I should be alright. I'll do that tomorrow if anything.

I'll install xfire tonight.
 
TheAntipop said:
I'm FINALLY on BF2, only a few problems.

1) I'm on wireless and the connection is pretty dodgy. 60 player maps are pretty horrendous, but it depends every now and again.

2) Punkbuster. I'm no good at downloading stuff about servers, clients and versions, and the main site is so useless. Can someone PLEASE tell me where I can get the bog standard Punkbuster and/or the latest update. The sites downloads are just... argh.

3) I haven't patched up to 1.41 or whatever it is yet. When I can be arsed to do the download I should be alright. I'll do that tomorrow if anything.

I'll install xfire tonight.
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Installing the latest patch should patch Punkbuster too..if not, it should do it itself. I've only had to manually update once, and that was a couple years back..
 
See now, I don't even get how the latest patch works.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bf2.php

All that's here is a bunch of links that are just Firefox/internet text pages, and even so it says ''Right click the appropriate links below and choose "save as" to your "pb\htm" folder''

What folder? How do I GET this folder, as in wheres the original Punkbuster that will GIVE me this folder?

Worst and most uninformative download page... ever.
 
TheAntipop said:
See now, I don't even get how the latest patch works.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bf2.php

All that's here is a bunch of links that are just Firefox/internet text pages, and even so it says ''Right click the appropriate links below and choose "save as" to your "pb\htm" folder''

What folder? How do I GET this folder, as in wheres the original Punkbuster that will GIVE me this folder?

Worst and most uninformative download page... ever.
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Yeah, I can't remember for my life how to get it to download either...it was hell for me. I ended up having to ask some people, and they told me what to do. I'd try to get the latest patch first...see if that fixes the problem before trying to fix it this way.
 
I can't play online with the rounter I'm currently using.
 
CyberPitz said:
Yeah, I can't remember for my life how to get it to download either...it was hell for me. I ended up having to ask some people, and they told me what to do. I'd try to get the latest patch first...see if that fixes the problem before trying to fix it this way.
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If you could perhaps ask said people again I would be vereh greatful. :cheers: :thumbs:

Or, in general, if anyone else can help me, 'cuz I'm stumped at where to download this damned piece of software from.
 
TheAntipop said:
If you could perhaps ask said people again I would be vereh greatful. :cheers: :thumbs:

Or, in general, if anyone else can help me, 'cuz I'm stumped at where to download this damned piece of software from.
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It was on the forums. Try searching for battlefield punkbuster and you might find it. haha.
 
Well I downloaded the latest patch (1.41) and I think I've got Punkbuster now (got the PH update thingy too) so I should be online properly from now on, although at the moment the Internet is really playing hell with us. I managed to get to the server listings and then it dropped out on me again, but I'll try later tonight and reconnect.

I'm aphexacid198d (only thing I could think of at the time / 198d has always been a specific number to me), I'll get this xfire stuff downloaded later.
 
TheAntipop said:
Well I downloaded the latest patch (1.41) and I think I've got Punkbuster now (got the PH update thingy too) so I should be online properly from now on, although at the moment the Internet is really playing hell with us. I managed to get to the server listings and then it dropped out on me again, but I'll try later tonight and reconnect.

I'm aphexacid198d (only thing I could think of at the time / 198d has always been a specific number to me), I'll get this xfire stuff downloaded later.
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I'll be online possibly tonight or tomorrow. The servers I play on are usually DrunkenMasters BF2, =SSE= server, and FullContactWar. If you're online and see those servers, join, and if I see you on, I'll hop on straight away.
 
Alrighty then, I'm usually on around 12 til 2am GMT as I play on my dads iMac so it's the only time I can get it free. I'm not the best of players just yet - esp. not at shooting - so I've been mostly going Medic and AT. Then again, the AK-101 is a beast. Played some pretty lenghty games on Karkand and Road to Jalabah; the latter was utter chaos, I got so many revive and healing points. MEC had us proper surrounded. Grenades everywhere.

I'm going to download Project Reality tonight, though, so if that works then I'll be on that from here on out.
 
TheAntipop said:
Alrighty then, I'm usually on around 12 til 2am GMT as I play on my dads iMac so it's the only time I can get it free. I'm not the best of players just yet - esp. not at shooting - so I've been mostly going Medic and AT. Then again, the AK-101 is a beast. Played some pretty lenghty games on Karkand and Road to Jalabah; the latter was utter chaos, I got so many revive and healing points. MEC had us proper surrounded. Grenades everywhere.

I'm going to download Project Reality tonight, though, so if that works then I'll be on that from here on out.
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Booo! Not another one lost to PRM :(
 
It depends how it runs, but yeah, pretty much. :p

How do I find specific servers? And are they pretty tight about bunny hopping, dolphin diving and all that other lame stuff? I was in a server the other day and it was completly clean of assholes because of the admins. Was great.
 
TheAntipop said:
It depends how it runs, but yeah, pretty much. :p

How do I find specific servers? And are they pretty tight about bunny hopping, dolphin diving and all that other lame stuff? I was in a server the other day and it was completly clean of assholes because of the admins. Was great.
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To find specific servers, you just type in the name of it in the name field, and hit enter, and it will search.
 
Ah, okay. Will try tonight.

BigBoss7556 said:
Seriosuly, it's much better than vanilla BF2 I can't even go back to it anymore.

Antipop, tacticalgamer is a good server that enforces teamwork and rules.
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Cheers, checking it out now. Hopefully this'll do until I get PR working... if it works.

Does anyone know if a 1.83 GHz 32-bit Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with a ATI Radeon X1600 graphics processor with 128 MB GDDR3 VRAM and 1GB of RAM will run PRM in a steady state? Not too fussed about graphics, just need me some o' that gameplay.
 
Bleh I just got out a Karkand game and was just constant grenade spamming. Sucked ****ing ass. Whilst I'm finding some fun games, this game is full of bellends.

I need PRM.
 
PRM is way too twitchy for me to play...
 
I'm going to give PRM 0.6 a shot again...lets hope it goes over better than last time for me.
 
TheAntipop said:
Bleh I just got out a Karkand game and was just constant grenade spamming. Sucked ****ing ass. Whilst I'm finding some fun games, this game is full of bellends.

I need PRM.
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And that's why I'll never go back to vanilla BF2.
 
BigBoss7556 said:
And that's why I'll never go back to vanilla BF2.
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I just stay away from the shitty maps that are like that, especially away from IO. If I try PRM and don't like it, I'm going to be pissed. ><
 
I'm just avoiding Karkand from now on. The fights that go on around the Hotel area and that forecourt place are just ridiculous. That levels only good when you've got the Train Wreckage and the city and the enemy have the warehouse district/harbour.

I played a CLASS game on Gulf of Oman today though. Or 8 games, even. Was in an awesome squad defending the Construction Yard and the riverside flags. Got myself a spec ops medal, moved up in rank and generally had a good solid game with no lag and no annoyances. I'm loving the AT kit at the moment though, except on a Mac mouse the right click is very sensative, so often when you go to aim in the iron sights you end up just firing from the hip, which sucks with AT kit and the missile launcher. Other than that, great fun. Took down about 6 helicopters in one game using AT and GTAM. :)

EDIT: Oh my days PRM is SO good. I just had the best 2 hours of BF2 I've ever played.
 
I don't understand why you guys think PRM is the god to all games. I gave it another shot, hoping that when I first played it, I was just being a twit. Well, despite the utter glitch of me not being able to request ANY kits, because it didn't like me....I just didn't have fun. The fact that you don't know who/what killed you, and once you're shot at, you're pretty much dead....I don't know, I don't like games that you die so fast. And for being reality, the helicopters fly around like they are on a string.

And when I asked a question about the glitch in hand I was experiencing, I got EVERYBODY cursing at me telling me to "go read the manual newb". Yeah, great way to keep a player base. All in all, very unimpressed with PRM, and will stick with Vanilla. At least I don't have to request a kit to get in a vehicle there \= I'll never understand that. Were they just trying to curb who could get in a vehicle? If all else fails, just spawn less vehicles, and don't worry about it.

And the fact that when i went AT, I never got my "RPG" or whatever...I just kept my original kit equipment. I don't know, I guess I was doing something wrong, but I thought it was "Spawn as kit, request AT kit, get accepted, you get weapons!"
 
CyberPitz said:
I don't understand why you guys think PRM is the god to all games. I gave it another shot, hoping that when I first played it, I was just being a twit. Well, despite the utter glitch of me not being able to request ANY kits, because it didn't like me....I just didn't have fun. The fact that you don't know who/what killed you, and once you're shot at, you're pretty much dead....I don't know, I don't like games that you die so fast. And for being reality, the helicopters fly around like they are on a string.

And when I asked a question about the glitch in hand I was experiencing, I got EVERYBODY cursing at me telling me to "go read the manual newb". Yeah, great way to keep a player base. All in all, very unimpressed with PRM, and will stick with Vanilla. At least I don't have to request a kit to get in a vehicle there \= I'll never understand that. Were they just trying to curb who could get in a vehicle? If all else fails, just spawn less vehicles, and don't worry about it.

And the fact that when i went AT, I never got my "RPG" or whatever...I just kept my original kit equipment. I don't know, I guess I was doing something wrong, but I thought it was "Spawn as kit, request AT kit, get accepted, you get weapons!"
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Ah well that's a shame I guess, people shouldn't really be rude like that though. I haven't really encountered people like that in PR, I guess you just got unlucky there. PR's player base is a lot more mature then that from what I've experienced.

But then again any game has people like that even in the most mature communities.

Well if you don't want to play the mod then fine, but reading the manual might help if you actually still have some interest.
 
BigBoss7556 said:
Ah well that's a shame I guess, people shouldn't really be rude like that though. I haven't really encountered people like that in PR, I guess you just got unlucky there. PR's player base is a lot more mature then that from what I've experienced.

But then again any game has people like that even in the most mature communities.

Well if you don't want to play the mod then fine, but reading the manual might help if you actually still have some interest.
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The amazing thing is, I did read it, and half the glitches I was encountering were just that, glitches, not something I wasn't understanding.

But then the whole idea of kits still bothers the shit out of me. I hate having to change shit up to drive a certain vehicle.
 
Yeah, you're pretty SOL. You're going to need to find that key, or buy another version of the game. At least it's dropped down it price!
 
$kelet0r said:
Gotta love PRM - it's really really GOOD
it's still fairly arcade and fast paced but I love it all the same



Pitzy - when you successfully request a kit, it spawns at your feet and you press 'g' to pick it up and voila. The reason the other players got pissed at you is because it's literally in the first paragraph of the manual, which in itself is really a 10 minute read at most.
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Except that wasn't what I was asking. In my previous posts, I said that the thing I was harping about is if the fact that when I request a kit, and NOTHING happens *IE QM doesn't say anything, give me any errors, success, NOTHING...I'm left alone*...they attacked me then. Nobody as said anything about they, they just assume I'm an idiot.
 
$kelet0r said:
right ok
assuming it wasn't a game glitch - you need to be within circa 5m of an APC, rallypoint or base flag only, you cannot get one in the first 2 minutes and you need to be in a squad of at least 3-4 people depending on the value of the kit. Straightforward enough.

Seriously though Pitzy don't play PRM the way you play BF2. Lone wolfing is an unsatisfying experience, unless you are surrounded by your squad ALL the time then you are doing it wrong.
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I was usually joining the squads that had 4+ people in it. And usually, if you would request a kit while not close enough to a flag/apc, QM will say something that you're too far away, and need to come closer. If you're in a squad and not enough people are in it for your kit, it will tell you that. I was always RIGHT next to the flag, staring at it with the nice indicator of 0m to the flag was in my face. QM would never let me know WHY I couldn't get it a kit, and I was doing the correct stances. Hell, I was getting kits last game. So I know I was doing it right, hell, I even tried being every single class for S&Gs, still nothing.

So, I'm rather sure it's a glitch, when I was just asking to make sure about it, I got bombarded with people telling me to read the manual, when I was in the cool there. It's just the elitist community that this game has spawned.
 
Stepping into PRi s a pretty scary thing when you've got BF2Vanilla on the mind. I was all over the place, wandering around on my own in those huge maps, trying to drive stuff, etc. The manuel is a great help and now I've pretty got all the basics covered. When you get down to it though it's such a fantastic expirience.

The whole 'not knowing who you killed' thing threw me off at first but after about half an hour there was something really satisfying about opening up into the load of trees, waiting, then cautiously wandering over to find two or three guys dead in some undergrowth. It is a reality mod, after all, so that plus not being able to just hop into any vehicle as, say, a rifleman makes perfect sense, and I love it. :D

I bought a mic today so I'm going to give this teamspeak/VOIP nonsense a shot tonight. No idea how it all works but hey.
 
I'm kinda stuffed as my rank stopped going up in February. Despite talking to an EA admin on one of the servers a coupla months ago and trying to get EA's crappy emailing system to work, nothing has been done about it. Without ranking up, the game seems somewhat... pointless. Roll on Team Fortress 2.
 
CR0M said:
I'm kinda stuffed as my rank stopped going up in February. Despite talking to an EA admin on one of the servers a coupla months ago and trying to get EA's crappy emailing system to work, nothing has been done about it. Without ranking up, the game seems somewhat... pointless. Roll on Team Fortress 2.
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Play unranked. More fun in my eyes, anyway. Some good maps are out there.
 
Yeah, but I find it more fun now winding up the cheats than actually playing to win. I need something else to play.
 
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