far cry has a good way to get rid of bunny hopping. Your stamina takes like a 30% hit every time you jump. At most you have 3 jumps and then you are down to a slow walk to move around. Its so inefective, noone does it.

12/20/2005 1:50:27 PM

Ugh, bunny hopping is one of the reasons I stoped playing. I was on one karkand knife server and these guys bunny hopped so fast that you couldn't even hit him, I don't know if it was a hack or whatever.

12/20/2005 7:19:08 PM

Rat,

I welcome the opportunity to annhilate you at will.

Name the time and the place.

12/20/2005 10:14:57 PM

Last weekend I decided to be a plane whore, and learned two things.

a) It's even easier than I thought.
b) More often than not, enemy jets won't even attempt to shoot you down. Why spend 5 minutes helping your team by dofighting when you can just rack up kills?

12/21/2005 2:36:10 PM

I <3 shooting down bombers. Usually you will get a bomber pilot and (obviously) it isn't that difficult to shoot him down from a fighter. After you shoot him down (or after he realizes he can't get rid of you, he ejects) a few times he realizes that he won't be able to bomb again so he either tries to shoot you down from another fighter or just stops bombing and allows another pilot to try it. I do love a good dogfight though.

12/21/2005 2:49:53 PM

Best. Precision. Bombing. Ever.





I've never seen anything like this happen before, so I had to take some shots. I was driving the BTR across the bridge, and a fighter swooped down and attempted to bomb me. Instead of hitting me, the bombs hit the bridge directly underneath me and my BTR fell in. There were 2 other guys riding with me, and they both thought it was hilarious when they saw what happened. Strangely enough, the BTR was completely unscathed. I had no idea fighter/bomber bombs could destroy a bridge! Does it have to be weakened first, or what?

1/3/2006 12:21:09 AM

The bombs work just like C4. If it can be blown up with C4, it can be blown up by a plane.

1/3/2006 1:10:40 AM

circuit city has special forces for twenty bucks. me and my roommate are picking up copies today.

1/8/2006 3:47:47 PM

Quote :

"b) More often than not, enemy jets won't even attempt to shoot you down. Why spend 5 minutes helping your team by dofighting when you can just rack up kills? "

If I'm in a fighter, the first thing I do is hunt down helos and other jets.

Then I murder helpless little ground pounders.

1/8/2006 5:11:29 PM

are you guys playing PC or PS2? If PC can I hook up a controller? Which looks like a PS2 controller?

1/10/2006 10:43:13 AM

I play PC

I just upgraded my PC so I can play everything on high detail (well, one of the reasons)... wow... amazing difference.

Yesterday I actually found out how powerful the tear gas can be with squad tactics. That shit is amazing. One team member throws in a flash grenade, then we launch tear gas, then we go in... worked awesome in Warlord in the back building

1/10/2006 1:30:10 PM

new top bug fix request.

When I mouse look, I want to be able to still control my jet.

1/10/2006 3:58:20 PM

^I think that it would be a good idea to have some kind of visual lock button so that as a pilot you can keep your eyes on the jet as you are trailing him.

To the dude who asked about the PS2 thing, you CAN play BF2 with a PS2 controller if you have a PS2 -> USB adaptor. This will allow the PS2 controller to function just like any game controller would on a PC.

1/10/2006 4:24:23 PM

wraith: I Disagree.

I don't use the missiles to shoot jets anyways, so a lock would be a meaningless feature that would only be abused by the noobs.

Next request by the noobs is to have the warning klaxon sound when I've got my bomb sights on.

I just want to be able to control my jet with my joystick while I'm looking around. That so much to ask?

[Edited on January 10, 2006 at 4:29 PM. Reason : .]

1/10/2006 4:28:33 PM

After having not played for a week, I finally thought to try out whether or not a fighter or bomber can destroy enemy assets. To my complete amazement, it works like a charm. I have no idea why I've never tried it before, but this is a HUGE advantage for a team with a good pilot. Prime example is on Kubra dam, where the MEC artillery pieces are all lined up right beside each other. With a good drop, you can actually get all 3 at one time! This is SO much more effective than Special Forces sapping - it's a lot quicker and reasonably safer, plus you can do it over and over again without worrying about running out of supplies. It's definitely one of my new highest priorities to bomb the enemy UAV trailer ASAP.

1/11/2006 1:41:28 PM

^^I don't mean to lock on with missiles, I hardly ever use them myself. I mean say you are behind a guy and he pulls up... you pull up too but you might lose sight of him because obviously you can't anticipate what he is gonna do. You probably can still see his vapor trail but sometimes if you are in the clouds or whatever it is difficult. Visual lock means that once he leaves your HUD, you will still be looking straight at him. Most flight sims have an option like that and I have found it to really help if he is a good pilot.

1/11/2006 5:41:42 PM

played iron gator for a little while today... that map is insane

somehow someone always seems to sneak into the front hanger and then it gets exciting

1/12/2006 12:30:24 AM

My alltime fav's:

Wake Island
Ghost Town
Warlord
Mass Destruction

1/12/2006 1:04:26 PM

^sniper?

1/12/2006 2:56:16 PM

I dont even touch the sniper class.

I am more of a plant C4 in the bushes and wait kinda player.


Sometimes I think I use C4 more than I use my primary weapon !

1/13/2006 9:22:18 AM

I seem to be having some problems with my headset in game. I know I've got everything connected properly since I have used it with other programs (such as Ventrilo), but I can't seem to talk at all with my squadmates. Any suggestions as to what I need to check? I know I installed the VOIP client and server when I installed the game a LONG time ago, so I feel sure that's not it.

1/25/2006 2:10:49 PM

I played on Monday night for the first time in what seems like forever.

Ground pounded the whole night with a bunch of buddies. Was a lot of fun, but infinitely more fustrating than indiscriminately killing hordes of helpless bullet sponges from above

Spec Forces is fun. Warlord and Ghost town are awesome.

1/25/2006 2:56:15 PM

Quote :

"Ground pounded the whole night with a bunch of buddies"

You sir, are not Maugan.

1/25/2006 3:47:17 PM

i was playing cleansweep last night as the USMC and the other team had two good pilots. none of us could even make it off the fucking island. so frustrating


their highest score was like 85, i had 6 (highest on USMC)

1/25/2006 4:27:27 PM

yeah spec ops is great. i love that zipline. i play warlord and ghost town almost exclusively.

i just dont like the night maps and having to use night vision.

im also lookin to join a clan. so if anybody knows of a good one thats recruiting...holla

1/25/2006 4:40:17 PM

breezer, it sucks to play as a pilot with a group.

I play pilot when I'm by myself... which isn't often anymore

1/25/2006 4:40:23 PM

^^I agree, I'm not much of fan of the night vision maps. The zip line definitely makes up for it though.

1/25/2006 4:50:48 PM

I really dig the new maps that came with the SF pack.

The only problem is that my laptop's specs are starting to get a bit behind with all the games, so playing BF2 with nightvision on and whatnot makes the game unplayable once you get near any action.

However, in the next 2 weeks I hope to fix this problem by upgrading my desktop.

1/25/2006 5:15:28 PM

Pilot can be good if you know the person flying the other plane. If one is in the bomber and the other is in the fighter, it helps a lot. But it usually doesn't usually last long because there is always someone else who grabs the plane before you.

1/25/2006 6:36:27 PM

wraith,

If its just me and another person playing together, we'll try to get the fighter bomber. Now that's fun! Basically locking on to whatever poor sap decides to get in a tank.... really pathetic but ohh so fun. I've gotten shittons of points on a map before and didn't drop a single bomb ... all driver assists.

The one time we broached 120 doing that, it was so fun that my girlfriend had to come upstairs and ask what I was making so much noise about. My buddy and I were on Teamspeak and were just laughing our asses off.

1/25/2006 10:29:17 PM

I fucking LOVE co-piloting the bomber. Only found like one or two guys that could hold it steady and straight on a target long enough to get a lock though.

1/25/2006 10:31:20 PM

slipstream

I come in from above, and know exactly how long it takes to get a lock. we coordinate what we're shooting at so if there is more than 1 target available, he'll take out one while I bomb the other.

First priority though is maintaining air superiority. The best way I've found to do this, is by shooting the other "pilot" out of the air a couple times so he just gives up. I wish I could put that warning klaxon on mute damnit.

1/25/2006 10:37:38 PM

Well getting a good co-pilot is rare unless you know the person beforehand. I was in the SU-30 on Operation Clean Sweep (my fav. bombing map) about a week ago and we absolutely decimated them. He even got a lucky shot off by somehow hitting the F-15 with a laser-guided missile.

1/25/2006 11:27:26 PM

btw, Apparently punkbuster made an update to some files recently automatically that has broken several peoples' installs. You can join a server, ever a squad, but once you spawn, the game reboots the whole system.

Its very odd.

I saw it happen first hand to a friend of mine that plays with us.

1/28/2006 1:34:10 PM

Hey, is anyone up for some squad play? I want to start playing with more teamwork and I figured some of ya'll might be up for it.

1/28/2006 3:06:57 PM

^i would for sure...i tried lookin at joining clans...but even they dont play as good squads until tourneys roll around

1/28/2006 3:20:53 PM

We could start a [TWW] Clan. It doesn't have to be anything major, just a bunch of us in the same server.

[Edited on January 28, 2006 at 5:36 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2006 5:36:22 PM

anyone have success playing bf2 on a wireless connection? i havent tried yet since i had to switch to wireless

1/28/2006 6:25:18 PM

^^lets do it! roger that! go go go!

1/28/2006 7:27:21 PM

I played BF2 through a wireless connection before, it had a little lag sometimes but that was mostly because the connection in general was regular cable modem as opposed to the T1 I am on now.

1/29/2006 12:15:29 AM

DD: it can be done but its not recommended.

Also, that punkbuster update seems to have fried all the Win2k BF2 installs

1/29/2006 6:55:52 AM

I still just can't get over the fact that you can bomb commander's assets. I have thoroughly enjoyed this. It's even more entertaining when you keep on doing it over and over, and the enemy team keeps sending out people to repair only to get bombed.

1/29/2006 11:15:46 PM

bombing bridges is where its at too....

can't tell you how many tides of battle have been turned with a pivotal bridge blown up.

HINT: YOU CAN BEAT GHOSTTOWN SUPER EASY LIKE THIS.

1/29/2006 11:28:35 PM

^that ghost town bridge is really retarded (at least the side with one bridge)

I tried my usual method of taking a small car/atv, loading with c4, then parking on the bridge and running before I blow it. Well half the time it doesn't blow and the other half the time you have to place the charges on the bridge itself. I suppose since it's a concrete instead of wooden, but it works for the other bridges on that map.

1/29/2006 11:40:48 PM

I just got this game yesterday.... Yeah, late to the party, I know... I am utterly lost. I have no idea what I am doing. Hopefully, it will come with time, but it is very unlike typical FPSers

1/30/2006 8:39:31 AM

search for BF2 Noobie Guides online.

Should give you a good idea.

Basically you capture those flags by standing around them long enough. In between taking flags you kill the other SOB's that are trying to kill you.

There are all kinds of toys available to help you do it.

1/30/2006 9:13:36 AM

and practice driving the jets and choppers in single player mode.

1/30/2006 11:21:19 AM

Anyone have any info on the Euro Force expansion? I'm curious as to what new weapons, units, and maps may be included with it.

Also, I need a good chopper guide. I can fly the transports with no problem, but admittedly, I am only mediocre with the gunships. I have seen people do some incredible maneuvers with them, and I'd love to learn how. I just can't understand how people can fly those and yet be so aware of their surroundings from what seems like every angle. I can only guess that they are flying from a 3rd person POV?

1/30/2006 11:33:26 AM

Oooh, they do now have a section for it on the official site.

3 New Maps

* Operation Smoke Screen
* Taraba Quarry
* Great Wall

4 New vehicles

* Main Battle Tank - Leopard 2A6
* Main Battle Tank – Challenger 2
* Fighter – Eurofighter (Typhoon T1)
* Attack Heli – Eurocopter Tiger (Tiger HAP)

7 New Weapons

* HK53A3
* Famas
* SA80 L85A2
* SA80 L85A2 with UGL (AG-36)
* HK21
* Benelli M4
* P90
* L96A1

1 New Army

* European Union

1 new award

* European Union Special Service Medal

Hell yes, the Eurofighter!

I love the assortment of new weapons. I'm hoping that Engineers can get both the M4 and the P90.

1/30/2006 11:46:28 AM

Axelay,

really the only way to learn how to fly the chopper is to practice

I fly in 1st person but manage to fly between buildings and so forth. Ghosttown is awesome for chopper flying.

I look forward to the Eurofighter.

1/30/2006 1:14:11 PM