Fairplay EA and Irish clans/communities

Dcully

Just thinking how much we all still love BF2 after so long.
How long is it realeased now?
We put up with EA bull with dodgy patches and still come back to this game.
We wait for patches to fix patches but yes yet again we still flock back to BF2.
Only last week EA announced they hit 52,000 players actually simultanously playing the game.
Our GFF server is full everynight,im sure all the TiG,BTC etc ranked servers are pretty much the same.
I think its great to see it so popular and even more so its great to see an ever expanding Irish BF2 playing community.
Regarding the Irish community i think Irish based clans like ourselves @ GFF,TiG,NrG,1st-ib,ASCII,Irishwan etc [sorry if i left anyone out] should take a pat on the back also for providing a platform for the Irish BF2 player.
Also for once im going to praise EA/Dice for giving us such a great game that provides us all with such great fun.
Heres to many more great nights of BF2.

TheHairyFairy

God I couldnt agree more. Personally public BF2 is really crap. I dig the team game, and public BF2 is not a team game. Everyone is out to earn their latest badge or uber unlock, and its fecking ruining the game.

From an aspect of fun BF2 is poor. Anyone who played a lot of BF42 or BFV will agree that there was far more fun in those games.

As for support then I also dont agree. EA/Dice have made a bollox of this game. Their support is just fecking crap. Look at the debacle with the latest patch. It was leaked and they warned anyone running a ranked server that they would close them down if the server was open before a certain time etc. Piss off EA!!

The only reason I play the game is from a clan match point of view. Where proper team work can happen and everyone uses stock weapons. Clans are leaving BF2 very quickly as it isnt offering them much at all.

EA can and could improve the game, however people are looking to the modding community for that. Problem is EA have just basically stopped supporting the Mod community by firing Lawerence Brown, the mod support guy and shifting mod support to Dice, whos track record on this front is very poor.

So you see I dont agree with you when you sing plaudits for a game that in my opinion does not deserve them.

Fairy

Dcully

Lol fair enough hairy.
Me runs away with tail between my legs
Seriously though im still loving it.

TheHairyFairy

Cully, not knocking your view, I'm seeing it from a clan point of view

Fairy

Dcully

Ah i know m8,no worries
You could be right but im just enjoying it so much i could have a blinkered view

Pongo

You're right about one thing, and that's that compared to BF1942 or BFV, the game just isn't FUN. Unless you manage to get into a decent squad on public servers, forget it. BF1942 and BFV, they just had something that is lacking in BF2. May sound stupid, but I can't remember the last time I laughed while playing BF2, BFV especially used to be great crack...

TheHairyFairy

Agreed Pongo. However DCON CTF is mental fun for BF2. They have tweaked the maps etc and the game is mental fun. I must organise a game some night.

Fairy

ghost26ie

it has the potential to be a great game, but they f**ked up by releasing it early without checking for the bugs. then when they tried fixing the bugs they made it problem worse.

December Son

ghost26ie wrote:

it has the potential to be a great game, but they f**ked up by releasing it early without checking for the bugs. then when they tried fixing the bugs they made it problem worse.

Agreed.
I remember avidly waiting to play the demo when it was released, stayed up til about 5am trying to find a server with decent speeds, played it, and loved it. But after the initial 'WOW!' factor wore off (fancy graphics, beefy weapons, finally having organised squads even in pub games) i began to notice the cracks in the game.
Now dont get me wrong, no online FPS is perfect (alot of people, cully especially, would argue that my current fave game Dod:s is broken beyond belief), but what i get from dod, and what i got from BFV, was jsut pure fun. (even getting raped in matches!). The same, im sorry to say just cant be said for BF2.
EA have really fecked this game up releasing untested, buggy patches, buggier add on packs, and milking the players for every penny they can (booster packs, for f*cks sake?? in BFV we called it 'a patch').
The medals system is good and prvides a nice incentive to keep playing, but as fairy said, it lends itself to certain abuses, I.E 'ZOMG I GOT MY SPEK OPS BADG ROFL'.
Clan play, is probalby the only way ive enjoyed this game. Pubbing just is not fun. Simple as. The game is broken, and getting broker by the day. (or by the patch)

jonski

I am still having great fun with it .maybe that is more due to the fact that I am playing it with about 10 m8s most nights , but I still have laugh out loud moments most nights .

I also agree that it has many faults but for now it's still my favourite .

fightin irish

Well my tupenny bit is comparing bfv to bf2 is i have many many memories of pissing myself laughing on ts with bfv..just something about it...whereas Bf2 is just soooo serious. Now again i do love Bf2 but without the serious humor its gettin harder to enjoy other than the clan matches.

Dcully

BFV was/is a class game tbh.
Many servers running guys?
Might reinstall if there is.

R0ot

fightin irish wrote:

Well my tupenny bit is comparing bfv to bf2 is i have many many memories of pissing myself laughing on ts with bfv..just something about it...whereas Bf2 is just soooo serious. Now again i do love Bf2 but without the serious humor its gettin harder to enjoy other than the clan matches.

now fightin man ive heard you and your brother laughing alot over ts on bf2

fightin irish

R0ot wrote:

now fightin man ive heard you and your brother laughing alot over ts on bf2

lol thats all those animal noises...nothin to do with the game

R0ot

fightin irish wrote:

lol thats all those animal noises...nothin to do with the game

I wasnt refering to tonight, but now that you mention it

TheHairyFairy

Hows about an oul BFV night. We have the software installed on our server, so its just a matter of organising and firing it up.

Fairy

Dcully

Id be up for that Hairy,me plans on making a trip to me bros house to pick up my BFV.
The poor bugger has no net acess and is playing it with bots.

R0ot

TheHairyFairy wrote:

Hows about an oul BFV night. We have the software installed on our server, so its just a matter of organising and firing it up.

Fairy

That sounds like a plan

smokingman

Pongo wrote:

May sound stupid, but I can't remember the last time I laughed while playing BF2, BFV especially used to be great crack...

Now I may have only got this game last weekend but I've laughed with glee quite a lot since and as recently as last night when I came upon a server in Korea (about 6 guys just messing about on the map with the power station on the hill). They all had a bit of english but one of them was wondering if it was possible to fly under the wooden bridge - everyone thought nah, no way but we all took quite polite turns in taking the cobra up and trying it - I got it on my third try and spent the rest of the evening doing it again and again or standing on the bridge and watching everyone else try it. Smiles all around!

I'm usually a GTR/GTL online racer but this has taken over my broadband completely. I love this game!

By the way, anyone recruiting helicopter pilots?

December Son

Definitely up for a BFV night

fightin irish

Bfv :d

TheHairyFairy

For fun we could organise a one night BFV Comp between 1stIB, NRG and tig. Pick a couple of maps etc and kick the **** out of each other.

Fairy

December Son

How about we leave the competitive bit and just kick the **** out of each other?

fightin irish

R0ot wrote:

I wasnt refering to tonight, but now that you mention it

PMSL YA WHORE.

Dcully

For fun we could organise a one night BFV Comp between 1stIB, NRG and tig.

That rules me out so

spooky donkey

Dcully wrote:

BFV was/is a class game tbh.
Many servers running guys?
Might reinstall if there is.

Our server is still running BFV and we play BFV as a clan more so that BF2. All weapons are there in BFv.
-<{1st-IB}>-BFV Server
195.62.10.163:15567
32 Slots
Our IP in the sticky on this forum may be wrong so im sticking it in here.
Also www.gamecomunity.co.uk is a good servre and Jolt also have a few BFV servers still running.

Ive never really liked bf2 when it came out I only got into it back in December and I like it now, it has a lot of good things in there, just not the Fun of BFV or even DC.

R0ot

spooky donkey wrote:

Our server is still running BFV and we play BFV as a clan more so that BF2. All weapons are there in BFv.
-<{1st-IB}>-BFV Server
195.62.10.163:15567
32 Slots
Our IP in the sticky on this forum may be wrong so im sticking it in here.
Also www.gamecomunity.co.uk is a good servre and Jolt also have a few BFV servers still running.

Ive never really liked bf2 when it came out I only got into it back in December and I like it now, it has a lot of good things in there, just not the Fun of BFV or even DC.

Where were you all last nite for the game of bf2? We'll cyas next week instead though

spooky donkey

YEah sorry about that I was out and only had 10 mins to try get the team together and sort our server it was all a mess really. Will have it all sorted for next week promise. We had 12 players the night before and the other clan couldent get a team so we know how ya feel. Wont happen again.

BTW smoking man PM sent.

December Son

fightin irish wrote:

PMSL YA WHORE.

what in f*cks name were you doin? lol

smokingman

spooky donkey wrote:

YEah sorry about that I was out and only had 10 mins to try get the team together and sort our server it was all a mess really. Will have it all sorted for next week promise. We had 12 players the night before and the other clan couldent get a team so we know how ya feel. Wont happen again.

BTW smoking man PM sent.

Cheers dude, PM replied - cya on the battlefield!

Dcully

Point of existence now theres a reason to reinstall bfv in itself.
Loved that mod,dloading it now ,hope theres servers for it.

Gone West

Yeah, I always prefered PoE to DC. Much cleaner and better physics

R0ot

Dcully wrote:

Point of existence now theres a reason to reinstall bfv in itself.
Loved that mod,dloading it now ,hope theres servers for it.

My brother and my cousins always play that at our mini LAN's mad craic

Dcully

Just had a game,oh the memories
Class gameplay tbh,i much prefer these chopper physics to BF2.
ASE found some European server too.
Seems its still a very strong mod as the poe forums are very busy also.

R0ot

Dcully wrote:

Just had a game,oh the memories
Class gameplay tbh,i much prefer these chopper physics to BF2.
ASE found some European server too.
Seems its still a very strong mod as the poe forums are very busy also.

/me cant wait for poe2

Dcully

Yup,cant wait for forgotten hope also.