Battlefield2 Demo Released!!!

[KG_Zulu_5]

FYI the demo for Battlefield 2 was released just a few minutes ago.

From my understanding Gamestop has an exclusive deal with EA allowing their site to be the first to distribute the file for the first 24hrs.

Here's the direct link to download. No need to sign up for an account.

Battlefield 2 Demo (http://www.gamespot.com/promos/bf2demo.html)

:D :D :D

[KG_Kharkov]

Be sure to post your impressions if you try it out. The game sounds pretty interesting because of all of the command overlay on it. If it's good, I might pick it up if other KG'ers will be playing it.

[KG_GASXTREME]

If ya'll want, you are welcome to use my fileshack.com mercury account to download the file so you don't have to wait....
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7176
Username: gasxtreme
Password: changeme (no, this isn't my usual pw)

PLEASE don't use the Chicago server until after 5:45 PM EST(if you start to download off of the chicago server while i am still downloading, it will cancel my download)

Feel free to use any other mirror until that time. :)

-steve

[KG_Soldier]

John, do you have Rome: Total War? If you don't, you should pick it up and come play some on-line games with us. Cooper, Panther, SSpoom, GDS_Dickhead, Noggs, CrimsonTrooper, AGC, and myself all play occasionally. The 4 vs 4 and 3 vs 3 games against other people while we are on TS are a blast.

[KG_Kharkov]

I'll put in my list of things to buy -- maybe I can find a cheap copy somewhere. I've heard great things about the game.

[KG_Noggs]

I HAVE NO LIFE UNTIL THIS GAME WORKS AND I AM PLAYING IT..

Today is a wonderful day!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :D :D
SCHOOL GETS OUT AND A COUPLE HOURS LATER BF2 DEMO IS RELEASED!!! :) :oops: 8) :o :lol:

[KG_Noggs]

Oh look a bird, btw the game dosent work for me..............

[KG_Zulu_5]

why doesn't it work??

I know that most of the d/l mirrors are extremely congested. It took me 3.5hrs to download this from gamestop I hope others have better luck.

[KG_Zulu_5]

Perhaps GasX or I could upload it to the FTP server for everyone.

[KG_GASXTREME]

use my fileshack account....
http://www.kampfgruppe.us/forum3/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2771#2771
took me 20 minutes :)
-steve

[KG_Noggs]

A little history about me and bf.......and why things dont work for me.......................................

Back in the day....... i found out about bf...... and wanted to play it!!!! and the story begins.....


BF multi demo... took 3 hour to download with 56k... 2 months, a new computer with the only thing left of my old computer is a 20gb hard drive, new internet connection, and a joystick to get it to work!

BF Full ripoff version... 10 min to install of cd... 2 weeks to get it to work only in single player!

BF Full Real copy... 2 days drive time to store and install time... 3 weeks, a couple of reformats of different drives, and still saving everything else, and a new account on windows xp just for BF to work!

BF2 demo... 24 min to download... 1/2 a day and counting to get it to work!

And this is just at my moms house...I played bf at my moms, and my dads!!! And my dad did not even have the internet!!!!

Aint it great!!!

All that for a silly game!!!

But a great silly game at that!!!

[KG_GASXTREME]

Well I have two words to describe BF2: KICK ASS
Wow, I never realized how much I miss good ol' battlefield till I played BF2, this could quite possibly be the first game I have ever pre-ordered :-D

So far my favorite part is the VTOL fighter jet on the US carrier.... simply awesome..... I'll get a screeny for you guys tommorrow :)
-steve

[KG_Noggs]

lol u stayed up until 1 am lol

[KG_GASXTREME]

if anyone is interested, i have uploaded the bf2 installer to one of my servers, here is the direct link:

http://www.thehostingservers.com/battlefield2demo.exe

-steve

[KG_AGCent]

Well, having DLed and play BF2 and bought and played CS:S I have to say that I am quite dissappointed in CS:S and very impressed with BF2. CS does not even live up to CoD IMHO.

[KG_Noggs]

THANK YOU!!! I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL THE PEOPLE THAT PLAY THAT HORRIABLE GAME THAT!!! CS does suck and i have another person who agrees with me!!! So Ha!

[KG_GASXTREME]

SSpoom, well said.... I totally agree, it takes a good bit of time to really get into it.... Personally, I doubt I'll really ever get good, just because its just simply a game I've never been good at, but its still fun to play on occassion.... :)
-steve

[KG_AGCent]

well now... that's the first time in a looooong time I have had ANYTHING in common with a someone unde the ages of 25.

The game itself looks very nice. The execution leaves a lot to be desired. I am not a fan of "buying" equipment any worthy commander would see to it his troops had as a bare minimum. Head shots while on the run from 100 yards away. I refuse to play on servers that allow "spraypaint" porno. One person head shotting 6 people in a row through a doorway that allowed maybe a 3" vision slot. No apparent accuracy penalty for standing or even running for that matter. All this in less than an hour of game time.

[KG_CrimsonTrooper]

I thought the same thing after the 1st time I played it.
Spray porno is only allowed on some servers(and is kinda sad).
Sometimes those Impossible shots arent from the guy you think it was.
This game heavily rewards teamwork, more than any of the other FPSs
I have played and is well worth trying a few more times before writing it
off.There are definately penalties for running/standing while firing and
spraying is relativly inneffective.
Steve

I couldn't agree more SSpoom, I would say that the majority of the servers don't allow the porno sprays. All you have to do is make a mental note to never play on that server again. This game over any other game out there right now rewards the entire team for playing as a team. This game also has plenty of penalties for running and gunning and that is your accuracy. If you play the game more than a few times you will see that a person crouch down to steady their shot and 9 times out of 10 they will live while the other dies. Plain and simple CS:Source is true in every sense of the word.... "Teamwork" if you don't play as a team you WILL lose no if's and's or But's

It takes a while to get comfortable with this game and personally this game helps transform a rambo type into a team player real quick or it will make them stop playing altogether because no one perosn is going to stop a whole team from advancing no matter how good they think they are.

After you've played the game for a few weeks then render your judgment..NOT after one time.

[KG_GASXTREME]

no one perosn is going to stop a whole team from advancing no matter how good they think they are.

Crimson, I agree with most of what was said in your previous post, however, I disagree with the statement above..... I have seen many times when a single player has DOMINATED an entire team, espically with an AWP....

As for the sprays, the admins actually cannot restrict pornographic sprays, the only way they could do that is by totally disabling sprays at all, which I've never even seen as in option in the server application.....

-steve

[KG_CrimsonTrooper]

no one perosn is going to stop a whole team from advancing no matter how good they think they are.

Crimson, I agree with most of what was said in your previous post, however, I disagree with the statement above..... I have seen many times when a single player has DOMINATED an entire team, espically with an AWP....

-steve

I agree, but when you play on servers that don't allow AWP's it makes all the difference in the world.

Lately, as a whole we only play on servers that use that are "Steam Secure" and it seems to help out.

:twisted:

[GDS_Starfury]

your all very very gay

[KG_CrimsonTrooper]

your all very very gay

And how do you KNOW that Rob's GAY?

[KG_Kharkov]

I played the demo at my parent's house (my youngest brother had DL'd it). I thought this was a pretty cool game. The air vehicles are damn hard to pilot which I thought was great because it neutralized their firepower and didn't make an infantryman irrelevant. I flew the chopper and SU some. I got my chopper hung up in power lines and flipped it -- that was a nice touch of realism.

I played most of the kit loadouts and loved the loadout with the heavy weapon. I also liked being a medic. Not being the best (but certainly not the worst) FPS player out there, medic was fun because I could tail some uber-FPSers and patch them up while taking out an occasional USMC or MEC dude.

Favorite kill -- using the grenade launcher on unsuspecting guy at about 30 feet.

Question: Is there more than one level of zoom on the sniper rifle -- we couldn't find one but then again we were too lazy to go check any tutorials.

[KG_AGCent]

The Demo is certainly a candy store of the new features. Squad leaders can now assign tasks to members of his squad; Assault, Defend, Move etc. The assigned objectives are on your inset map. I have found the aircraft, helo's especially are not nearly as dominant in BF2 as they were in Desert Combat. They are mostly dangerous to each other. A quick LAV or BMP can out maneouver a Hinds shots fairly easily. Tanks are slower thus easier targets. The ballistics are as close to accurate as I can tell for the tank main guns. The map is gorgeous (only one map is included in the Demo).

I enjoy playing as the AT soldier but try to find different rifle as soon as I am able as the MP5 is useless at range (very realistic). The SMAW is quite a nuisance to tanks and deadly to light armor if you get a rear shot. Anti-air static defenses have IR lock on guidance for their mssiles complete with lock alarm making it quite possible to keep the aircraft where they are supposed to be; up high for the fighters and NOE for the Helos. I don't have a joystick so I can't comment on the flight controls (I did fly off the carrier with WASD and the keyboard arrows but that was because my team had lost all land based spawn points, but just enough to get over land then I bailed to assault a flag.) I still don't understand why snipers are equiped with parachutes... Jumping off of a 20 story story building and landing softly after popping your 'chute 30ft above ground is dumb. Given enough terrain to move in and obstacles to dodge, I was able to on a couple occaisions take down a pursuing Hind with my 25mm LAV chaingun. The pilot was an idiot (flying low and slow) and I did have to work at it so I am led to believe that a good pilot will be able to handle his heavy armor targets but will have to watch for supporting Light armor.

As long as there is a good balance of vehicles and infantry, this game will prove to be fun. I am a grunt, through and through, and have no real interest in driving a tank or flying an airplane. It seems to me as though the infantry have finally gotten their due with decent support weapons, better modeling for airpower and scaled back artillery effects.

FPS games ought not accurately model wars of attrition. We could accurately model the Battle of the Somme all day but it wouldn't be very fun. This was my main complaint about DC; infantry stood no chance at all so it was not a match for my tastes. CoD is a damn good game and the vehicle modeling is good, but too little variety dooms those vehicles to boredom and thus suffer a death sentence at the painful end of my schreck.

[KG_Panzerschreck]

but too little variety dooms those vehicles to boredom and thus suffer a death sentence at the painful end of my schreck.

Since when am i "your" Schreck? :P

[KG_CrimsonTrooper]

I really wasn't too impressed with the graphics of the game, it is pretty much the exact same game (textures and so forth) as before except with some new features like artillery ( Not a big fan of it at all ). The interface is the same ( not a bad thing ) and I am still trying to figure out what they actually did to it other than approve a little on the graphics and modeling ( and I mean VERY little ). Game play is merely ok, I used every class on my teams side and the weapons are so-so. I used a sniper rifle on someone and it took 4 shots to kill him (2 in the chest and 2 in the head before he dropped) and the other weapons were pretty cool. I liked the ability to lay claymore's and the grenades( how long you hold down the button will depend on how far you throw it) were pretty cool, I still disagree that a grenade will kill a tank!

I certianly hope that they tweak this game BIG time but I doubt it since it went gold last week.

I give it 3 stars out of 5

[KG_GASXTREME]

I think the graphics are amazing.... have you seen the shellshock/blur effects? wow, i have never seen any game that comes even close to matching those kinds of graphics, simply amazing IMHO..... As far as the sniper, I agree, when I was shooting at people with it, I was actually wondering if there was a glitch in the game that makes it so im not actually shooting a bullet or something.... something needs to be seriously done about that........
-steve

[KG_Panzerschreck]

As far as the sniper, I agree, when I was shooting at people with it, I was actually wondering if there was a glitch in the game that makes it so im not actually shooting a bullet or something.... something needs to be seriously done about that........
-steve

maybe it was done that way intentionaly to cut down on the amount of snipers being used. its insane the amout of snipers you run into on servers in any FPS's. they shouldnt even be included in the game IMHO.