Playing alone can be really frustrating, but if you're lucky it can be fun. This game obviously opens up when you have friends to play with though. It's even significantly better when I'm playing with people who aren't even very good. I just played a couple of good rounds solo though, and I know they were good because I got called a hacker. Some people just can't stand gettin' their butts kicked.

I've decided that the 12g slugs are a little too frustrating. They highlight the games poor registration. I miss too many shots that clearly should have been hits. I hope they continue to improve reg.. because it's a super fun weapon despite those issues.

I also think the game needs a hotfix post patch. This spawn lag stuff seems specific to certain pc's. It was happening when I played on a buddies rig post patch, but mine is fine. I also think they need to rethink some of their revisions. The 1911 is still just as good from the hip at uber ranges, but significantly worse in close quarters. All they seem to have done is lower the rate of fire.. which makes it feel sorta clunky. That's why I don't use the Rex and now I'm thinking of changing my primary side arm. None of that is as serious of an error as what they did to the vehicles though. Every land vehicle is soooooo slow now. The quad feels like they've halved the top speed and that's just bullshit.

Add me, Neo BogaRd, and Uruk and Isomac. That's a start.

I'm sorta still playing. I haven't been playing much, but I'll probably return to it full time shortly after I'm done with other gaming distractions.

C4 rules. I love playing assault with the Saiga+shot or 870+slugs.

The biggest problem I have with the level design is how limited the choices are. There was so much more variety in any given Battlefield 2 map. Conquest in this game is really inferior to pretty much every single previous Battlefield game. The fact that you can only get air to air combat in one map is really depressing. White Pass is actually one of my favorite levels, despite only having two APC's. I love the vehicles in this franchise even though I prefer playing infantry. It just gives you so many more options in terms of how you want to play the game. And even though this game has much less gameplay variety than previous BF titles, it's still at the top of the FPS pile.

The LMG nerf is mostly a bunch of bullshit by the way. I still think medic is the best combat kit in the game.

I played a ladder match with my clan last night, and it was sorta horrible. They're so unorganized, and I don't really have the time to dedicate to competition right now, but I figured I'd help them round out the roster. So I load in, and find that we're down two men, and we had to start 6v8. That's with me showing up out of nowhere! And to make matters worse, our best FPS players are so completely detached and uninterested these days. The most dedicated group are some of the worst players. No insult intended. So we got spanked. No surprises there. They don't even attempt to strat. I'll keep trying to lend a hand when I can, but I think they practice maybe once a week, and they're not going to see any results. A bit of a bummer, but I don't think that BC2 is particularly well suited for competition anyway.

And TWL (yes, I know, noob league!) banned the M60 and GC, so I started pubbing a little with different weapons to get used to something new for my medic and engi kits. I'm using the Type 88 right now with the medic, but I'm not sure if I'll stick with it or move to something else. I have to say though, after two pub games with the T88 resulting in KDR's above 4.0, who needs the M60? It just goes to show you--people cry too much about that gun. The popularity of the weapon is what people hate, not its actual effectiveness!

It makes me feel more confident that medic is still the best combat kit in the game. Gun combat, at least. Rockets and tubes really skew that balance completely.

This is a great game, anyway. I think I'm going to uninstall MoH before the beta is over and reinstall COD4. That way I get the best of both worlds and not some half assed game that meets you in the middle.

Well, yes, but I guess it's mostly because having COD4 and BC2 pretty much eliminates any drive I'd have to continue playing the MoH beta.

But then you have to play with Brits ;)

You know what I really like about this game? Is it how searching for "North American" servers in the browser dumps you into a Dutch server? No, clearly not. I really dig how when you change the FOV the gun models don't scale. So many people consider this a bug. The developers even consider it a bug! People hate it, but I think it's awesome. It also adjusts the FOV based on its height and not its width. They "fixed" this issue in MoH, and it's just like FOV scaling in any other game now. If you pump it up too high, you get the tunnel vision effect, which is applied to your gun and player model too. You're doing yourself a big favor by allowing the game to display more on the screen, but your gun looks so ridiculous! It looks all skinny and goofy. I love how that doesn't happen in BC2.

Too bad it's probably the last game that they'll ever do that in. :/

You just stay on your own side of the pond thanks.

He plays the PC version. The Saiga really has always been good there. It was one of the first weapons I got a platinum star with (after the AN-94 and 1911).

Can PC players bitch now? Where's our new patch? It's been forever.

You know what's semi-good since the last PC patch? The M9-3. It's not completely useless anymore. It's sorta fun since I hate the shit ROF on the 1911 now.