Battlefield 2

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I finally got an account on multiplayer. I've been playing for two days, and I have the following badges (all in lowest grade) and ribbons:

Airborne Ribbon
Anti-Tank Badge
Support Badge
Sniper Badge (first one I got, but I had to re-earn it and the spec ops badge for some reason, it didn't record)
Special Operations Badge
Assault Badge
Medic Badge

I'm working on the last kit badge, Engineer.

Who else plays, and what're your accounts like? It's a couple of years old, but I know Warman and some others still play.

[pevergreen]

I recommend, if you are looking for a fun group to play in, take a look at a MyIS tournament for it. The australian 2142 version i play in is great fun

As for BF2, i havent played in years...

[Mikeus Caesar]

Maybe one day if i can be bothered going through the horrific patching process i'll reinstall it.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I just got the Basic Pistol Combat Badge and the Engineer Badge, using a pistol for 80% of my kills in the round. I'll have the Veteran Pistol Badge as soon as I get 50 global kills. I'm only at about 14 now. My rank is 20 points away from being a Lance Corporal.

[Ramses II CP]

It's a fun game, but I pretty much quit playing after I got MTWII. All the guys I played with moved to 2142 and I have no interest in paying for an expansion pack that's more limited than the original.

Forget that infantry stuff, learn to fly a plane or gun a helicopter. You'll bounce up ranks in a hurry. Personally I always had the most fun being commander of a responsive team, which was pretty rare but excellent when it came around.

[Bob the Insane]

Loved my time in the game... Played mostly medic, but tried a bit of everything... Was really getting into the Zen of Sniper before moving on...

I would play now but there is no widescreen support and as with Ramses II CP above couldn't really get into 2142...

If they wanted to do a future one, why not go the whole hog with space ships, lasers and so on... Show Battlefront how it should be done...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Personally I always had the most fun being commander of a responsive team, which was pretty rare but excellent when it came around.

The Battlefield Gotland servers are great for that. Everyone works together and plays as a team on most of their servers, right down to the squad level.

EDIT: I got my Lance Corporal rank, and I'm about halfway to Corporal. I have the Engineer Badge and unlocked the G36 and M95. Enemies don't know what hit them when you pull the M95 out at long range. Also, what servers do you play on, Warman?

[Ice]

Maybe one day if i can be bothered going through the horrific patching process i'll reinstall it.

Yup, I agree. I use to play the game back in high school. I haven't played in a few years.

I was an ace with the helicopter, could pretty evade any SAM and kill anything with the wire guided when I wasn't flying.

I was decent at jets.

I think I enjoyed playing the SF model the best. I didn't like the expansions. I only bought the first one.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Sergeant rank today, unlocked the next medic and sniper upgrades.

[Sigurd]

Sergeant rank today, unlocked the next medic and sniper upgrades.

Hey Maniac...

Just link the fellars to your online stats: http://www.bf2stats.nl/player/115135805/

I too was 1a regular player (if an hour every other day can be regarded as regular).

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

I finally got an account on multiplayer. I've been playing for two days, and I have the following badges (all in lowest grade) and ribbons:

Airborne Ribbon
Anti-Tank Badge
Support Badge
Sniper Badge (first one I got, but I had to re-earn it and the spec ops badge for some reason, it didn't record)
Special Operations Badge
Assault Badge
Medic Badge

I'm working on the last kit badge, Engineer.

Who else plays, and what're your accounts like? It's a couple of years old, but I know Warman and some others still play.

We can Play Anytime You Want

[TevashSzat]

I used to play some, but then got bored of BF2 and moved on.

Really loved playing an Engineer and then just sit in a tank the whole game long; you get can get crazy amount of kills if they aren't too smart

[Kekvit Irae]

Considering that I have absolutely no skill in flying jets, and I have no joystick, and that single-player maps are too small for actual flying, the most I do in jets is to get from point A to point B before I parachute out.

Helicopters, on the other hand, I can easily fly. It's hovering with a mouse that tends to be a pain.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

It wouldn't give me my Air Defence Badge in Bronze, even though I spent (and counted) the required five minutes. Any ideas why? I'm sure the server was ranked.

[Ramses II CP]

The awards can be a little wonky, and sometimes I think they have a server side filter that tosses them out if you're just whoring to get them. I got the knife badge no less than three times, but it's still not awarded in my stats. Don't worry about it.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I finally got my first medal!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

A Bronze Star in my first time as commander! That's what I like about this server - they're all very good to people, and they'll let a complete newbie try his hand at command. Apparently I didn't do so badly.


Ramses, the reason you did not recieve the badge can boil down to two things:

A) You won the badge on an SF Map - AFAIK, they don't carry over.
B) You quit before the round was over. AFAIK (again), that eliminates the medal win from your stats.

[Dutch_guy]

I've recently started playing again. Don't know the English equivalent of the Dutch rank name, but I have a little more than 9000 points. Anyway, I'm currently only playing inf. only maps, I was getting rather tired of those über-pilots and tank whores, and I've always liked close combat better.

[Abokasee]

Shame I can't play BF 2 anymore (probally the 16th time i've moaned about this) heat sync panal (or something along those lines) died, anyway I can get a new one, or revive it?

[Ramses II CP]

Heh, there are other reasons. Two of those times with the knife badge I was playing on pistol/knife only servers, which are illegitimate. ::

FYI on playing commander, one of the best things you can do as commander is constantly spot the enemy on the overhead map. If you run a scan (The side sweeping rather than the circling drone) only you get that data, but if you then right click and 'spot' the red dots they'll show up for the whole team. Also you can zoom in the commander map to spot those fiddly snipers in odd, heli-dropped or etc. spots. Good players can take immediate advantage of that info.

Hmm, you probably know this, but you can drop a supply crate on a destroyed commander resource to heal it.

Personally I also try to respond to any and all requests from the team, even if they don't seem to make sense (Unless they come from an idiot TK'er).

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Heh, there are other reasons. Two of those times with the knife badge I was playing on pistol/knife only servers, which are illegitimate. ::

Oh, I just presumed you were playing on a ranked server. My bad.


By the way, Strike at Karkand is a good place to get pistol and knife, especially in close quarters near the Hotel, and in the Factory District on 64 player maps.

FYI on playing commander, one of the best things you can do as commander is constantly spot the enemy on the overhead map. If you run a scan (The side sweeping rather than the circling drone) only you get that data, but if you then right click and 'spot' the red dots they'll show up for the whole team. Also you can zoom in the commander map to spot those fiddly snipers in odd, heli-dropped or etc. spots. Good players can take immediate advantage of that info.

I was running constant UAVs and Scans, and all their troops of note were concentrated at the UAV. Thanks for the reference though, I'll need that in the future.

EDIT: Silver Star and Basic Explosive Ordinance in back-to-back rounds.

[woad&fangs]

I play it on the PS2 which I know doesn't even compare to the PC version but still... I am godlike on it. I play as rooster1 if anyone else plays the PS2 version. I stopped playing a few months ago when I got sick of all the wall hacks. My PPH is somewhere around 140 or 150. I play mostly medic and occasionly assault.