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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2359433" data-attributes="member: 143">I agree with some of the complaints folks here and elsewhere have made.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Server browser is probably the worst for any online FPS I've ever played. No favorites, lots of hangs, filters don't work, no friend search. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ranked servers all lag to hell, slow stats updates.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bugs (allies showing up red being prominent), occasional CTDs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Woefully understated specs. I have a P4 3.4ghz, 2 gigs of RAM and a 256MB 6800GT card, but even on my machine the game gets a bit choppy when riding vehicles (medium settings). I think a lot of the poor performance people are getting is due to machines that meet or even slightly exceed the minimum specs. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some poor design choices. E.g. instant kill by being tapped by a vehicle, the ability to "heal" artillery by dropping a supply crate on it (essentially nerfing the spec ops class). I do prefer weak snipers myself, but I know a lot of people gripe about this choice as well. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Helicopters that can take 122mm sabot shells or AT rocket hits without flinching. </li> </ul>Even with all that given, when it works right, BF2 is the greatest MP FPS experience I've ever had. Just the built in voice and the squad/commander functionality pushes this beyond anything I've played before. The other day I was part of an efficient 6-man team in one of the urban maps (the one with a dry riverbed in the middle). We were running all over, taking out the enemy arty, hopping into a Blackhawk and dominating the battlefield, setting up and holding a last flag and cutting down platoons of the enemy while medics rushed about healing people. The ebb and flow was insane; over a half-hour the tide of battle rushed back and forth, with each team reduced to only one flag several times. I remember at one point we were pinned down behind a low wall, with red dots all around us; it was intense. I ended up with over a hundred points, only about 3/4 of which were from kills. Other times I've gotten over a hundred with only a dozen or so kills. I do hope that EA listens to all of the legitimate complaints and patches swiftly, without ruining the balance of the game. But I think this one will have a long life on my hard drive.</blockquote>

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