Battlefield 2, Best Game Ever

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by DrSpike


So you get kicked for AOE team kills as well?

I got penalized it said

geesh

In another instance I was on something like an LAV (Light Armored Vehicle) on top with the machine gun and saw a red tag and heard round hitting my vehicle, opened fire and hit my troops on other side, got a warning for that

oh well, at least its strict, but that once @ZZ that was on the ship killing all his teammates from the gattling gun didnt

[DrSpike]

Penalised how?

[Chemical Ollie]

One thing that really annoys me about this game is the time required to find a decent server. It could take half an hour or more from the point where you enter the game lobby until you can actually spawn. You chose a server, sit there and wait for 5-10 minutes then get an error message and have to start over with another server. It could go on forever. And the ranked servers say I have an illegal mod, and ask me to use the vanilla game.
I JUST INSTALLED THE VANILLA GAME THIS WEEK, STUPID! Right out of the retail box!

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
One thing that really annoys me about this game is the time required to find a decent server. It could take half an hour or more from the point where you enter the game lobby until you can actually spawn. You chose a server, sit there and wait for 5-10 minutes then get an error message and have to start over with another server. It could go on forever. And the ranked servers say I have an illegal mod, and ask me to use the vanilla game.
I JUST INSTALLED THE VANILLA GAME THIS WEEK, STUPID! Right out of the retail box!

umm usually 5-7 minutes max before I am in and playing

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Penalised how?

Not sure but most probably points off you getting advanced and unlocking weapons or something like that, it just said I would be penalized

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
One thing that really annoys me about this game is the time required to find a decent server. It could take half an hour or more from the point where you enter the game lobby until you can actually spawn. You chose a server, sit there and wait for 5-10 minutes then get an error message and have to start over with another server. It could go on forever. And the ranked servers say I have an illegal mod, and ask me to use the vanilla game.
I JUST INSTALLED THE VANILLA GAME THIS WEEK, STUPID! Right out of the retail box!

I do have some beefs with the server interface. What I don't like is when you spend 5 minutes scrolling down the list of servers, and you click on a server, and it's full. So then the damn list goes all the way back to the top! You lose your place in the list.

About the "mod" thing, you might want to install the latest patch, maybe that is the problem?

[Rasbelin]

@ Chemical Ollie

Always remember to stay up with patches when you buy any new game. Install any before you start playing it the first time and check out ocasionally the official website of the game for new updates. Especially as BF2 is a game which most likely is going to see some 4-5 patches overall. Now for those error messages, you've most likely tried either a full server or the server has been running a different version (the patched one), but for some reason those haven't been filtered out.

@ others

Only amateurs use the in-game game server browser. There's far better utilities out there for more easy game server searching. Kali, GameSpy 3D and The All-Seeing Eye are the best choices out there for online multiplayer opponent locating software. All do require subscriptions, but yiu can have a free try. None the less, that's what hardcore gamers use. I myself have two lifetime subscriptions for ASE. The in-game game server browser of BF1942 was quite okay with in 1.61, but in 1.0 it was crap.

[Ted Striker]

Thanks for the tip Rasbelin.

[Chemical Ollie]

The game doesn't auto-patch? What a joke! I remember Starcraft always updated automatically when you logged in, and WW2online surely does.

[Rasbelin]

Very, very few games patch themselves. Thankfully. It would be a PIA to have some autopatch mechanism. Following up on what's up is much more comfortable.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Very, very few games patch themselves. Thankfully. It would be a PIA to have some autopatch mechanism. Following up on what's up is much more comfortable.

Eh? I've played several, since we're talking about MP games anyway. Lots of Blizzard games do, and it's the norm for all MMORPGs I've played.

[Carolus Rex]

I've never heard of auto-patching games...

At work, however, the system administrators have set my computer to auto-downloading Windows components once they're available... I don't like it one bit, I want control...

Carolus

[DrSpike]

Well there's a terminology mix-up. Chemical clearly meant that the game auto-patches when you log in or launch the game, and there are many examples.

[Chemical Ollie]

What I meant was that on a MP game with global stats recording, like Blizzard's games, WW2OL etc, you would expect the game to automically update itself with the latest patch when you log on to an official stats server, so that every player have the same version. BF2 is the first game I played in a long time that doesn't (except mods or cracked games, naturally).

[Chemical Ollie]

In any case, installing the patch solved my "access denied to ranked servers" problem. Now I have multiple CTDs instead.