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Special forces. Grappling hook rocked.

Hey Ninja!

Yeah, on maps like Warlord or Ghost Town you really could use the grappling hook and zip line to your advantage.

The other map - which I thought was fantastic but everyone else seemed to hate - was Devil's Perch, the infamous night map, where it was all up hill and on different levels so the grappling hook was useful.

While I am finding it harder to find servers with these maps I have downloaded a mod which allows me to play the 62 man 'big' maps in teh single player/co-op mode.

R

Hi DD, I'm the same - I had to buy it twice myself in it's heyday. I remember a big hoo-ha at the time about the cost of the expansions on top of the basic game, things that are taken a lot more for-granted today. But I was over the moon with the Special Forces add-on in particular and we played it to death (the zip line was huge fun).

In a way this is exactly the sort of fun that was taken out of BF3.

A friend of mine did point out that BF2 Karkand looks like 'toy town' compared to BF3 Karkand, but the sheer enjoyment of the gameplay are miles apart, BF3 might as well be CoD.

A funny thing...

I was a bit miffed that all my add-on CDs seem to have gone missing. This was upsetting as I particularly wanted to have a go at the Special Forces expansion and as my BF2 install CD was very scratched I decided - in a fit of extravagance (brought on by several gin and tonics!) - I bought the STEAM collection...

Well, while I was on my Win7 machine - the same machine which has flatly refused to run BF2 from a CD installation in the past (no matter what I tried) - I thought 'what the neck!' and I downloaded and installed BF2 directly from STEAM onto it. Guess what? It worked!

I've even been online with no Punkbuster problems.

- SO - it seems that for people like me who have had problems installing BF2 on Win7 STEAM's pre-updated v1.50 BF2 apparently works! (Sorry if you guys already know all this.)

........A funny little postscript to this is that I wanted to access online play so wracked my brains for one of my old BF2 user IDs, when I got in I found the player set-up as it was when I last played...On 26th October 2009! Spooky, it was like a time captule!

WHile cleaning out our attic I found one of my old gaming PCs which I put away as a 'just in case' backup and I thought I would spark it up - came across my BF2 installation and so thought I would give it a go for old time sake...

Well, I have to say as soon as I heard the music it sent shivers down my spine! I ended up spending a few hours playing the single player 'practice mode' just so I could visit all my old favourite maps, what a buzz.

It's amazing looking at this game again, just so much of it was so well thought out and designed - why we ended up with that hideous mess called BF3 I will never know.

Obviously this nostalgic return to look at the game has limited play value, but I was surprised to see that there are still a reasonable amount of servers out there and I had a quick dabble of multiplayer.

The sad thing is that more people will not be tempted to go back and have a go again with BF2 because it's problematic as to whether anyone on WIndows 7 can get it to work (I was one of the people who could not get it to work no matter what I tried). I was just lucky I had this old 32 bit XP machine in the loft.

One thing - I did notice that STEAM are selling the complete BF2 collection (with all the extras) for £14. This includes:

Battlefield 2 (v1.50)
Battlefield 2: Special Forces
Battlefield 2: Euro Forces
Battlefield 2: Armored Fury

...Karkand is still the best map ever! It was like travelling back to a place you used to live! LOL

My attitude towards BF4 is simple...

No commander - no purchase.

First off - I'm one of those folk who can't seem to get BF2 running on my Win7 - I know there is lots of talk about how people can get it to run, and I have tried all the dodgy 'hints' I have found on line, but no luck.

But the main topic for me is just how much I miss BF2...OK, some of this may be rose-coloured nostalgia but I really didn't get along with BF3. I just can't put my finger on why (maybe it's my age).

I just wondered if anyone else out there still has a hankering for the classic BF2?

Ranger

Again - Amazing - I didn't realize you guys were still running BC2 games. (I should check these forums more regularly!)

I will be having a bash over the Xmas holidays - so hopefully will get a chance to play with you.

All the best - Ranger

Join us on TS, there's often a band of folks there!

Ello there TeaLeaf - I certainly will. My WoT play seems to go in cycles (depending on what FPS I am trying out at the moment) but I'm into Tanks big time just now. What with the Christmas holidays coming up I will be getting quite a lot of play in.

...I will have to download TS - been ages since I used it (we went onto Ventrillo and then onto Mumble)!

Hopefully see some of you chaps online over the holidays.

Ranger (Steve)

I didn't realize you guys played! I do love the new physics...The ability to cliff-leap ONTO an opposing tank and destroy it does put a big smile on my face!

On the down side my lovely Object 704 has sort of been bumped down a bit now - but the improvements in the audio means everything rattes when I fire my BL-10! LOL

Anyway... My game tag is BIGRanger - give me a shout next time you are on!



Ranger (Steve)

Hi Chaps - long time and all that..

Anyway - I *DID* buy it! (Completely bored with everything ese at the moment)...

I completely agree about the graphics, I was surprised how mediocre they were. There is also something not right abou the way the maps play - I don't know what it is but the designs seem to be like tight little mazes especially designed to force you into run and gun. Or maybe that's because I am playing on my own instead of in a team?

I seem to remember having a few more proper gun battles in CoD:MW.

I have had fun with it - mainly because its just a new game, but the long term potencial doesn't look good. The weapons are nice, but the cooky futuristic stuff is a bit daft at times...And what's with knifing now? People seem to be able to stab you from five feet away!

I'm sticking with it - although I am completely rubbish at it - i does make me smile sometimes(but mostly there is lots of swearing)!

Hope you chaps have a really nice Christmas...All the very best...

Ranger (Steve)

Much to my surprise, I logged on to BC2 last night on a whim and I REALLY enjoyed it!

I didn't get on with BF3 at all and sort of went off FPS games for a while so a stint on BC2 was very refreshing - Vietnam was just as fun as I remember it (I went a bit flamethrower crazy again)!

I may have to have a bit more BC2 (at least until Borderlands 2 comes out)!

Long story short - you've probably heard of Kickstarter game developments - the new Carmagedon project is one where gamers are asked to donate towards a development that might otherwise not see the light of day.

Basically these tend to be 'fan' projects - you know, where someone (usually an out-of-work game developer) says 'wouldn't it be great if they made a new version of '> enter name of favorite classic game here<'

Ground Break is a sort of homage to the Classic Ghost Recon and it's in development and they are trying to get Kickstarter donations to take the project to a release state.

Personally, if I had to name one game that I thought exemplified the Dead Men spirit of team tactical play, I'd say that was the original Ghost Recon. But obviously compared to today's FPSs the graphics now leave a lot to be desired - so you can think of Ground Break as being in the mould of the original Ghost Recon but with modern graphics! (Similar to ArmA2).

Well I hope that has illicited your interest and if so you can...

Visit the official development site here (nice pics and video see): http://groundbranch.com/

OR f you are convinced, why not  do what I did and chuck a small donation at the project at Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/670743543/ground-branch

Hope you like what you see....

BIG hi to everyone, it's been a while.


Ranger (Steve)

So, when the Tiger hit North Africa, Monty got on the phone to Rommel and asked for a diagram from the Afrika Korps? Only fair, after all dear chap.

So you are saying that each tank in the game and it's weak spots are a complete mystery to everyone? Sure I follow your logic IF we were playing a game where new technology was entering the game dynamically through the campaign - so there would be a tactical advantage. But this is not the case in WoT.

ALL tanks are available from the moment you enter the game - so if you are trying to rationalize the 'authenticity' of this tactical situation you are on rocky ground as the whole foundation of the game is hardly authentic when ALL tanks through ALL periods of the war are available at the same time and thus make the authenticity argument mute.

WoT is like Monty having ALL the plans of ALL German tanks available to him BEFORE El Alamein....

...'dear chap'.

As BF3 was down last night BIG Paddy and I had a bit of a WoT 'Redux' session!

And - I know this ain't a big deal - I actually (FINALLY) managed to take out a T95 on my own! Two shots from my Object's 152mm - second shot set him alite big style! Whoo-hoo!

Sorry - I'm just so happy! LOL

(Yes, how sad!)

:yahoo:

It'scheating if you ask me.

If someone replaced their Counter-Strike models with neon-yellow ones so they were easier to spot, you'd consider it cheating and I don't see any difference with what you're doing.

Hardly - in my opinion - the overlays do not make the tanks any easier to spot than they are (due to the passive base colours they use and the contrast of these base colours against the map environments that exist). All the WoT stick out like sore thumbs anyway and most importantly the overlay does not effect the camoflague module OR the distance a tank can or cannot be seen (if the enemy is camo'd well you still can't see him overlay or not).

So to recap - the overlay DOES NOT:

> Allow you to see a tank that you would not otherwise be able to see
> Does not affect the camoflague module ability
> Increase a tanks inherant visibility (as the level of contast between base colours and enviroment aready do that)

It is what it is - a visual reminder of where a particular armour weak points are.

If you were to carry the 'cheating' argument to it's logical conclusion you would have to say that the tactical guides given to tank crews during WW2 (showing these weak points) were against the Geneva Convention (and 'cheating'!). LOL