BF2 Special Forces

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:51 am

Our server is up and running the SF mod.

70.86.55.19

Feel free to drop on by and play a bit.

I must say, this is a great expansion to an already great game.

At 25000+ points I was able to grab the 4 latest weapon unlocks available for the expansion. The addition of the grappling hook and zipline are awesome. The nightvision and gas mask are cool too. The flash bang and tear gas also have a really unsettling affect on you when you're hit with them.

All in all a definite improvement and further encouragement to play as a team.

Now get in there and get some frags.

GL

Post by **Canidae** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:22 am

I'm gonna wait a bit

Post by **Duhard** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:29 am

I'm gonna wait forever.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:54 am

You should. You'd only ruin your sacred Qauke 3 reputation.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:01 am

lol, xpacks. It's going to have 10% of the community that bf2 has.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:06 am

My server is in Texas and it is full at 1:00am on a Wednesday. It filled up almost immediately after I restarted it with BF2SF.

You should really re-think your comment. Especially if you haven't played the expansion yet.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:10 am

I'm speaking for team arena, call of duty: uo, battlefield 1942: road to rome & secret weapons, and pretty much every other expansion pack ever made that has bombed miserably.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:21 am

BF2 is different from all of them. In BF2 you play for rank and for new weapons. Without the expansion you don't get them. That's why BF2 and SF are more like EverQuest or WOW in their motivation for future game play.

I also believe BF1942 Desert combat mod and BF Vietnam were just as or even more popular than BF1942.

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:58 am

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:59 am

dzjepp wrote:I'm speaking for team arena, call of duty: uo, battlefield 1942: road to rome & secret weapons, and pretty much every other expansion pack ever made that has bombed miserably.

What he said.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:37 am

How many players does your server hold?

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:33 am

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:31 am

YourGrandpa wrote:I also believe BF1942 Desert combat mod and BF Vietnam were just as or even more popular than BF1942.

BFV was a standalone game, not an expansion.

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:43 am

Aww, there goes gramps argument.

Post by **stocktroll** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:38 pm

rofl you guys are promoting the bf2:sf expansion?
they think they can throw out a broken game, throw out 3 lazy patches that barely fix anything, and then move on to other expansions and installments to take more of your money.
Well i say hell no to this and even BF3. Us gamers have to send the message NOW that we aint going to fall for this or its going to get worse and more widespread in the PC gaming market.

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:41 pm

Memphis wrote:And Desert Combat was a free mod

And it fucking owned. :icon14:

I can't see buying SF any time soon, too many other games.

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:23 pm

stocktroll wrote:rofl you guys are promoting the bf2:sf expansion?
they think they can throw out a broken game, throw out 3 lazy patches that barely fix anything, and then move on to other expansions and installments to take more of your money.
Well i say hell no to this and even BF3. Us gamers have to send the message NOW that we aint going to fall for this or its going to get worse and more widespread in the PC gaming market.

I agree with you. Though the 1.03 patch actually addressed most of my issues with the initial release.

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if we don't buy it. EA has thousands of other people who will. Just like how millions of people bought The Sims and the seven expansion packs.

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:47 pm

stocktroll wrote:rofl you guys are promoting the bf2:sf expansion?
they think they can throw out a broken game, throw out 3 lazy patches that barely fix anything, and then move on to other expansions and installments to take more of your money.
Well i say hell no to this and even BF3. Us gamers have to send the message NOW that we aint going to fall for this or its going to get worse and more widespread in the PC gaming market.

fix what? Where you unable to play the game or just upset they didnt tweak every aspect to your liking?
The game ran fine for me, I've been playing it and having fun since it came out. I also bought the expansion.

The new maps are nice, I played on a map last night that was all ground, no arty on the map, just like 7 spawn points on the carrier and 2 on the coast. I had a blast chucking gas in a room going in and wasting everyone with the pkm.

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:57 pm

shaft wrote:
stocktroll wrote:rofl you guys are promoting the bf2:sf expansion?
they think they can throw out a broken game, throw out 3 lazy patches that barely fix anything, and then move on to other expansions and installments to take more of your money.
Well i say hell no to this and even BF3. Us gamers have to send the message NOW that we aint going to fall for this or its going to get worse and more widespread in the PC gaming market.
fix what? Where you unable to play the game or just upset they didnt tweak every aspect to your liking?
The game ran fine for me, I've been playing it and having fun since it came out. I also bought the expansion.

The new maps are nice, I played on a map last night that was all ground, no arty on the map, just like 7 spawn points on the carrier and 2 on the coast. I had a blast chucking gas in a room going in and wasting everyone with the pkm.

You spawn on an aircraft carrier and have no aircraft? ...

Post by **Canidae** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:00 pm

Ryoki wrote:Aww, there goes gramps argument.

Yeah he can't be more wrong than 100% of his statement.

You don't need expansions to get weapons, nor did they need to make SF an expansion to give us weapons because of our rank in BF2. They could just give us new weapons in a standalone game.

Also Vietnam was a dog.

BF : 4 million in sales
BF/V: 1.3 million (of which 700,000 were suckers sales in the first 2 weeks before the word got out how bad it was)
BF2 : 2+ million (in onlly the first few months of sales

DC was never sold, it was put together by the community ,despite the usual roadblocks the companies put up to prevent anyone from having the tools to make anything for their games and threaten their expansion revenues.

The result is buggy games that would be alot better if they took the time to perfect them and listened to the community instead of moving their developers into making the next money making expansion

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:03 pm

Psyche911 wrote:
shaft wrote:
stocktroll wrote:rofl you guys are promoting the bf2:sf expansion?
they think they can throw out a broken game, throw out 3 lazy patches that barely fix anything, and then move on to other expansions and installments to take more of your money.
Well i say hell no to this and even BF3. Us gamers have to send the message NOW that we aint going to fall for this or its going to get worse and more widespread in the PC gaming market.
fix what? Where you unable to play the game or just upset they didnt tweak every aspect to your liking?
The game ran fine for me, I've been playing it and having fun since it came out. I also bought the expansion.

The new maps are nice, I played on a map last night that was all ground, no arty on the map, just like 7 spawn points on the carrier and 2 on the coast. I had a blast chucking gas in a room going in and wasting everyone with the pkm.
You spawn on an aircraft carrier and have no aircraft? ...

There are planes on the deck but they are mostly for cover you cant get in them. There are also a couple choppers on the deck that you can get in and fly. Like I said its an 'infantry map'. Most of the fighting is done on the deck or below...a plane would be pretty useless.

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:05 pm

Canidae wrote: Yeah he can't be more wrong than 100% of his statement.

You don't need expansions to get weapons, nor did they need to make SF an expansion to give us weapons because of our rank in BF2. They could just give us new weapons in a standalone game.

Also Vietnam was a dog.

BF : 4 million in sales
BF/V: 1.3 million (of which 700,000 were suckers sales in the first 2 weeks before the word got out how bad it was)
BF2 : 2+ million (in onlly the first few months of sales

DC was never sold, it was put together by the community ,despite the usual roadblocks the companies put up to prevent anyone from having the tools to make anything for their games and threaten their expansion revenues.

The result is buggy games that would be alot better if they took the time to perfect them and listened to the community instead of moving their developers into making the next money making expansion

BFV was bad? :icon27: I played the game for over a year, no trouble finding full servers. Tons of people were playing it.

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:23 pm

shaft wrote:
Psyche911 wrote:
shaft wrote: fix what? Where you unable to play the game or just upset they didnt tweak every aspect to your liking?
The game ran fine for me, I've been playing it and having fun since it came out. I also bought the expansion.

The new maps are nice, I played on a map last night that was all ground, no arty on the map, just like 7 spawn points on the carrier and 2 on the coast. I had a blast chucking gas in a room going in and wasting everyone with the pkm.
You spawn on an aircraft carrier and have no aircraft? ...

There are planes on the deck but they are mostly for cover you cant get in them. There are also a couple choppers on the deck that you can get in and fly. Like I said its an 'infantry map'. Most of the fighting is done on the deck or below...a plane would be pretty useless.

I see what you're saying now.

They give you smaller levels, and a couple new weapons. And like I said, with the same structure models. Sounds like it's worth $30 to me. Yep.

[/sarcasm]

On another note. I upgraded to 2GB of RAM. The shiny OCZ 1GBx2 set, Platinum or whatever they call it. Windows starts up faster, things seem a little more responsive, surprisingly. I haven't noticed much difference in BF2 as my framerate is usually low enough I don't notice if it "jerks" like some people said if you have "only" 1GB of RAM. But when I quit it doesn't sit there loading everything back of the hard disk like before.

After selling my old RAM and the mail in rebate, the upgrade will only have cost me $40. :icon25:

Post by **shaft** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:41 pm

Don't by it then. Considering how much you spend on your pc in the first place and all the rest of the games that you never play...$30 is a pretty small amount for more hours of fun. 8 new maps? 6 new armys? 5 new weapons, numerous new vehicals, not to mention the added equation of teargas flashbangs, nightvision, grappling hooks and ziplines. Its somthing new, and that is worth $30 to me. Well $24, I had $6 in gift certs at BB.

What makes it like crack is a whole line of new medals, badges, and ribbons to aquire.

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:45 pm

shaft wrote:
Canidae wrote: Yeah he can't be more wrong than 100% of his statement.

You don't need expansions to get weapons, nor did they need to make SF an expansion to give us weapons because of our rank in BF2. They could just give us new weapons in a standalone game.

Also Vietnam was a dog.

BF : 4 million in sales
BF/V: 1.3 million (of which 700,000 were suckers sales in the first 2 weeks before the word got out how bad it was)
BF2 : 2+ million (in onlly the first few months of sales

DC was never sold, it was put together by the community ,despite the usual roadblocks the companies put up to prevent anyone from having the tools to make anything for their games and threaten their expansion revenues.

The result is buggy games that would be alot better if they took the time to perfect them and listened to the community instead of moving their developers into making the next money making expansion
BFV was bad? :icon27: I played the game for over a year, no trouble finding full servers. Tons of people were playing it.

Agreed, I thought BFV was great after it was patched.