Battlefield 2

[Goodsport]

I played this game (as well as the Special Forces expansion and the two booster packs) when it first came out... or rather, I tried to play it several times at relatively-high video settings on my older PC system and got frustrated enough with the system's performance to stop playing.

However, with the help of this tweak guide, I've recently loaded up BF2, Special Forces and the booster packs again on the same older PC (haven't been able to upgrade my system yet), updated the game with the latest full v1.41 patch and have finally gotten smooth gameplay with still relatively-good video settings (it turns out that some settings are more important than others, as the tweak guide explains).

Also, quite coincidentally, I was surprised to learn soon afterward that the beta v1.5 patch was just recently released, with the full version to be released in a few weeks. Seeing as how no other official patches were released since v1.41 almost three years ago, I didn't expect any more to be coming.

Anyway, what an absolute gem of a game! I've been having an absolute blast playing it (pun intended ), though I've admittedly been playing it in single player mode thus far to once again get acclimated to the controls and the gameplay.

How many of you are still playing this game, and will my experience with this game change once I start playing multiplayer?


-G

 

[Goodsport]

And for the record, I did previously play Battlefield 1942 and all of its expansions for quite a while (mostly in single player mode) and enjoyed the heck out of them some years back, especially with the Merciless Creations mod.

However, for some reason, Battlefield Vietnam didn't hold my interest nearly as much.


-G

 

[mach1.9pants]

I play it with my group of mates at least once a week, sometimes more often. We hoon around in jeeps, capping flags, teabagging corpses and generally have a good laugh and don't take it too seriously. APart from maps were you get completely airwhored (jets and attack helos are virtually impossible to shoot down from the ground, I have played in over 2,000 matches and probably have killed less than a dozen) it is still great fun. We have played CoD4/WaW, L4D, BF2142 and others...but we still come back to good old BF2

Bring on BFBC2/BF1943/BF3!

 

[Goodsport]

I play it with my group of mates at least once a week, sometimes more often. We hoon around in jeeps, capping flags, teabagging corpses and generally have a good laugh and don't take it too seriously. APart from maps were you get completely airwhored (jets and attack helos are virtually impossible to shoot down from the ground, I have played in over 2,000 matches and probably have killed less than a dozen) it is still great fun. We have played CoD4/WaW, L4D, BF2142 and others...but we still come back to good old BF2

Bring on BFBC2/BF1943/BF3!

It's great to hear that I'm not the only one who's still enjoying this game.

I've played Battlefield 2142 as well (though I've since uninstalled it only because I currently need the hard drive space for something else). It's certainly a fun game too, but for some reason it still hasn't captured me as much as BF1942 and BF2 have. I suppose it's because it's easier to identify with the faction you're playing as when you're actually familiar with it, such as playing the U.S. Marines rather than a fictional faction such as (for example) Pan-Asian Coalition.

That may explain why the rights to well-known properties such as Star Trek and Star Wars are so heavily pursued by game-makers alike.


-G

 

[Goodsport]

I recently went against my own advice by downloading and installing the beta v1.5 patch. Though it certainly introduced many improvements, it had a few game-stopping bugs - enough so for me to completely uninstall the game, expansion and booster packs and reinstall them all with the v1.41 patch.

Incidentally, it seems that the v1.5 Beta 2 patch was just released last week. However, this time I'll simply wait for the full version of the patch to be released before installing it.


-G

 

[Goodsport]

The v1.5 Beta 3 patch was released a week ago.

Hopfully that means that the final version of the patch will be released sometime soon.


-G

 

[Goodsport]

I can't believe I missed this from earlier this month, but the final v1.50 patch has finally been released!

• Patch v1.50
• Patch v1.50 Alt+Tab Hotfix

Download those two and install them in that order. Then go out there and have fun, soldier!


-G