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<blockquote data-quote="Arc" data-source="post: 2394854" data-attributes="member: 12184">It's plagued with minor problems (weird spec requirements, bad netcode, server memory leaks)... but damn, BF2 is probably the most fun I've had online in a long time. The ranking server lag got (mostly) fixed in the first few days, and now that it's working... it's awesome. Getting various badges, medals and ribbons, not to mention ranks and unlocks, is so much fun it's scary, and the &quot;highest ranks get priority for commander&quot; feature makes it so most commanders are competent at the minimum. It helps if you play on good servers (I prefer the CAD/8BT ranked servers, just search for CAD), but most pubs are pretty fun if you join squads and communicate with your squad (Hit L to chat with them. Too few people know this).I've heard lots of gripes about the requirements... but they're really not that steep. Even &quot;Low&quot; is absolutely gorgeous, if you don't mind a few jaggies, and I can't imagine what higher resolutions look like. I'm on an Athlon XP 1500+, 512 of ram and a Radeon 9700 Pro, a system that was good but not amazing 3 years ago, and I haven't run into any stuttering or system hangs, even in the most heated of firefights, and I've got most settings up to &quot;Medium.&quot;As far as weapons go, the 3 round burst of the M16 is suprisingly effective. The shot grouping is much tighter than you'd think, and if you take a half second to really truly aim, you'll get many more kills than spraying away or even burst shooting with a full auto gun. Good practice for this is to switch to single shot mode with any rifle for a match or two and working on solid aiming. Once you get that down and switch back to auto or 3 round burst, you'll be amazed at how accurate you are.<img src="http://bf2stats.ausgamers.com/sig/45086895/sig.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arc, post: 2394854, member: 12184"] It's plagued with minor problems (weird spec requirements, bad netcode, server memory leaks)... but damn, BF2 is probably the most fun I've had online in a long time. The ranking server lag got (mostly) fixed in the first few days, and now that it's working... it's awesome. Getting various badges, medals and ribbons, not to mention ranks and unlocks, is so much fun it's scary, and the "highest ranks get priority for commander" feature makes it so most commanders are competent at the minimum. It helps if you play on good servers (I prefer the CAD/8BT ranked servers, just search for CAD), but most pubs are pretty fun if you join squads and communicate with your squad (Hit L to chat with them. Too few people know this). I've heard lots of gripes about the requirements... but they're really not that steep. Even "Low" is absolutely gorgeous, if you don't mind a few jaggies, and I can't imagine what higher resolutions look like. I'm on an Athlon XP 1500+, 512 of ram and a Radeon 9700 Pro, a system that was good but not amazing 3 years ago, and I haven't run into any stuttering or system hangs, even in the most heated of firefights, and I've got most settings up to "Medium." As far as weapons go, the 3 round burst of the M16 is suprisingly effective. The shot grouping is much tighter than you'd think, and if you take a half second to really truly aim, you'll get many more kills than spraying away or even burst shooting with a full auto gun. Good practice for this is to switch to single shot mode with any rifle for a match or two and working on solid aiming. Once you get that down and switch back to auto or 3 round burst, you'll be amazed at how accurate you are. [IMG]http://bf2stats.ausgamers.com/sig/45086895/sig.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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