| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159555 is a reply to message #159434] |
Sun, 12 June 2005 21:05   |
Chronojam
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I haven't yet managed to get it, I figure it won't run anyways, but I did read the descriptive text document regarding it that was provided.
It's fucking hysterical! Seriously.
"What's laughable is that Creative is a 'sponsor' and most of their existing hardware is listed as incompatible."
It can't get more true than this! The majority of cards listed on their incompatible list were CREATIVE cards. However, as a consolation prize, your one Useful Links (why'd they pluralize it?) for drivers was Creative's site. It's laughable that they even wasted the time to make a little formatted header for this single link, rather than saying "Check with your manufacturer."
Another favorite of mine? They don't support any joysticks plugged into the joystick port. Wait a fucking second, what was that? I bet they won't support keyboards plugged into the PS2 port either, right? Actually, they seriously don't suggest any keyboards that don't let you hit 3 or more keys at once, meaning that (as far as I can tell) they want you to go buy a USB keyboard (?) and that surprised me that they didn't list a particular brand)
The more I read, the more I laughed. There were laughs right up till the end even, where they listed another little Fun Links Nobody Will use section. Three of them. "Microsoft, Our page, Our page." And that's it.
Maybe I'm being unfair to EA/Dice, or maybe they're just trying to be ridiculous and force us all to buy only Alienware computers that feature the hardware they support because EA has triangle deals with Alienware and nVidia and Creative that take priority over making a quality, mass-appealing-and-playable game.
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159560 is a reply to message #159434] |
Sun, 12 June 2005 22:06 |
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Who gives a fuck.
And go back to school JP, you should be learning spelling and grammar instead of playing games and making yourself stupider.
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159577 is a reply to message #159560] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 06:15 |
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I'm learning english on school.
And maybe its a good idea to bring some valuable input in next time. Because there is alot of people who cant play this '' demo''
WOL nick: JPNOD
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159579 is a reply to message #159434] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 06:28 |
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My main complaints with this game, I'll start with my biggest, then the rest are out of order:
-Infantry combat still fucking sucks. Its their 3rd freaking game and they haven't fixed this one. It STILL takes way too many shots to kill a person (I shot a guy 4 times in the head with a pistol and he didn't die), and the combat in general seems slow, poorly done, and boring. Plus vehicles can make short work of foot soldiers. To make matters worse, DICE went with that 2D pasted on iron sight for when your trying to aim down the sight with a rifle or other gun. That kind of sight is just annoys the hell out of me. It takes up way too much of the screen and just looks shitty.
-It still takes 3 hands to fly any aircraft.
-Lower end systems get shitty ass support.
-There is no reticle when using the 3rd person camera on a tank, and it lacks the "Lock camera to vehicle turret" function that almost every other game has.
-They cut off support for gameport joysticks. Goodbye 90% of joystick users.
-There are a ton of useless camera angles that you have to cycle through to get to 3rd or 1st person (The two useful angles).
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159589 is a reply to message #159434] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 08:10 |
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Ok I lied... well rather, BF2 lied to me. When I installed it first, I put the settings all on max. And pressed apply. It told me to restart the game to make the new settings work, fair enough. So I do that and then play and its still running on all the old medium settings wtf? Well I've got it all on Max settings now and it all looks much better. A slight bit of jerkiness in some places for the first 2 minutes of playing but after that its fine. Although, I do get some crashes quite often.
I dont find aircraft too hard to fly anymore. I still suck but I can last more than half a minute before I fly into the ground or anything. Although I still suck at attacking the ground in the jets. And for some reason, whenever I aim at someone's head with my sniper rifle, and shoot. They dont seem to die until another shot. Am I missing some detail which the sniper rifles have?
I like the game overall though.
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159634 is a reply to message #159589] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 13:11 |
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| Dan wrote on Mon, 13 June 2005 11:10 |
Ok I lied... well rather, BF2 lied to me. When I installed it first, I put the settings all on max. And pressed apply. It told me to restart the game to make the new settings work, fair enough. So I do that and then play and its still running on all the old medium settings wtf? Well I've got it all on Max settings now and it all looks much better. A slight bit of jerkiness in some places for the first 2 minutes of playing but after that its fine. Although, I do get some crashes quite often.
I dont find aircraft too hard to fly anymore. I still suck but I can last more than half a minute before I fly into the ground or anything. Although I still suck at attacking the ground in the jets. And for some reason, whenever I aim at someone's head with my sniper rifle, and shoot. They dont seem to die until another shot. Am I missing some detail which the sniper rifles have?
I like the game overall though.
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When flying the planes and using missiles, I noticed that when I fire the missiles, they fire about 10 feet in front of my reticle. 
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159649 is a reply to message #159434] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 14:12 |
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I agree, snipers are hard to use unless they are standing still. Although earlier today I seemed to get the knack of them a bit. I climbed up to the top of the oil derrick and sniped them while they waited for their aircraft in the prone position. I found that I had to hover over their head for a second, and then shoot to be able to kill them, but body shots seem to be worthless. I managed to kill a few people while they were running, I'm proud of that. Snipers tend to do better damage when an enemy is close up though, easier to hit =).
I've also found that by adjusting the yaw factor to 3 in the aircraft settings, Its easier to yaw faster and thus get enemy jets and missiles off your tail, and do some barrel rolls and loops. Using the A and D keys control your rudder and help aim at ground targets too.
One tank shell should be able to take out an aircraft.
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159665 is a reply to message #159434] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 14:50 |
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The only useful infantry classes are the Special Forces and Soldiers...
I have a ATI Radeon 9200 (64 mb VRAM) and I can run it like a train on lowest settings.
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159738 is a reply to message #159579] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 19:35 |
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| tooncy wrote on Mon, 13 June 2005 08:28 |
-It still takes 3 hands to fly any aircraft.
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You cant fly any Aircraft? The hell is wrong with you? I never played 1942, but in Vietnam the Choppers are easy as hell to fly, when you get used to them. It only took me a few deaths in the ocean to get a knack for flying them. Then i starting throwing APCs at troops on the ground by attaching the Vehicle Pickup wire to a damaged APC and dropping it over the Vietnamese forces. Fun. And the jets are pretty easy to fly to, when you figure out how to do sharp turns. Just turn with the mouse, and use the A&D keys depending on which way you turn. Or whatever buttons you use to strafe with. You perform a tight turn in which you may dodge AA fire, or other jets, aswell as just making a tight turn. Great for Napalming things.
| Aircraftkiller wrote on Wed, 31 May 2006 22:30 |
I've been Nodbuggered. =( =( =(
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159752 is a reply to message #159731] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 23:12 |
idebo
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| zgunner12 wrote on Mon, 13 June 2005 21:02 |
| gbull wrote on Mon, 13 June 2005 21:59 |
is it possible to run it on a 9000?
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Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:
Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)
GeForce 6600 (PCIe)
GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)
GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series
So basically,no
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You forgot the ATI Radeon 9200...
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| Re: EA and BF2 [message #159761 is a reply to message #159434] |
Tue, 14 June 2005 01:26 |
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BTF2 sucks.
Why? Consider I run the demo on HIGH SUPER MAXIMUM GRAPHICS with a Geforce 6800 GT 256 MBDDR3 + 1024 MB DDR + AMD ATHLON XP BARTON 3200+...
And what do we get?
This:
- If you aren't close to vegetation, it looks horrible.
- see the 2 metal panels on the side of the gun using a 64 pixel texture. Even the borders don't match the panels...(it's an example of common half-done stuff you can barely see everywhere on the demo, all looks liek rushed...)
- The game isn't slow and turn at 60 fps without any problems on high details but nothing impressive.
- EA...
- They worked a lot on the maps, on this pic you can already notice the same caban on right, left and further...
Conclusion: Hl2, Far Cry, Doom3 own BTF2
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