Punky's review of BC2

[Punky3025]

In a moment of weak mindedness I bought this game. I still have no real idea why. I suppose it must be a subconscious attempt to restore the days of hack free BF2

From a graphic point of view I think BC isn't to bad. Some very nice video clips in the SP story line. The language is an issue for me. I need no assistance what so ever in that department. Trying to curb it and not encourage.

What really annoys me is the voip...or lack there of. In my opinion voip made BF2. There were many FPS on the market at the time but the voip made it. Okay TS3 can run in the backround without much hastle and I can talk to my clannies....HOWEVER, you are cut of comms wise from any other squad members. This can be frustrating.

The connection and Punkbuster issues. The friends list and server lists that don't work....All of this smacks of a total lack of respect for the paying customer. How can you release a product with so much crap. I am not technical programing wise but I have No idea why they bothered with a beta...WE ARE THE BETA. Just we paid for it. PB is currently not running on the SGS servers and you can tell. The number of bullet proof snipers is amazing (Hax already)
I wish some of the hax programmers worked for EA. Maybe they could teach them how to write programs that work.

Right now I am sorry I spend my hard earned moola on BC2. Maybe once they have ironed out the bugs it will be better.

Hope to see you online when we can get a spot on a working server

PS. DON'T squad with vorty. He spawns on your carefully selected hidey spot where you have been successfully sniping, to the point where you are even earning all sorts of lovely badge thingys, and screams look here shoot me shoot me......or nade my sniper friend here next to me.


Vorty

[TG]

In a moment of weak mindedness

What do you mean, 'a moment' ? I thought it was a permanent thing with you.

Anyway, had a good time on TS and BFBC2 with mah geekies last night. I still need to tweak settings though - although it could be the server. I was getting some nasty lag in places.
At least I managed to get my assault unlocks.

[Bass]

Hehe - I must admit to being one of the guys that spawns on a sniper hiding away, and then rushing out furiously to my death ...

[TG]

Heh, I think it's hilarious. I think I'll make a point of finding the sneaky squaddie who's sniping, then spawn on top of him and jump around like an idiot.

[Askari]

Agreed, kak game.

[rainy]

I bought it as well, and am not sure yet if I regret it or not.

I guess if you can ease into a round and don't get prawned all the time by 24/7 players who are already 20 ranks ahead, you can have an enjoyable time. As I did now for a few minutes. Even managed to get a few remarkable sniper kills.

As a sniper, I dislike a few things. No prone (but I knew that), very little high ground, lots of shrub and foliage on some maps (= no distance view), and generally a faster pace as opposed to BF2. The death cam (stupid COD thing) is absolutely pointless if you want to snipe - the point of being a sniper is that the other bugger doesn't know where you are (or at least has to figure it out by himself).

What I find extremely annoying is this stupid, loud blaring alarm siren that goes off when your team is about to lose. Totally messes up the concentration.

Server browser is an abomination. But we went over that already.

There is a lot of stuff in the game that tries to appease the COD/Fast-pace crowd. I don't see myself putting nearly as much time into this one as I did into BF2 or even BF2142.

But I also knew that...

[Voicy]

I'm enjoying the game's SP campaign a lot ... I never bothered with MW1/2 online and basically just played the game for the SP aspect. If the same happens with this title, I wouldn't regret it. Still awesome SP fun.

[Flatty]

I am enjoying it at maximum resolution in SP. The one thing that irritates me is the voice-overs seem to die out intermittently, mainly in the cut scenes. Anyone else experienced this?

[TG]

Nope, no issue with the cut scenes.

[Vortex]

I'm sure that all the BC2 issues will be sorted out over time.. Punkbuster was disabled because of an issue, but I believe that issue was resolved so hopefully PB support will resume shortly?
The swearing can become a non-issue in the multiplayer - turn dialog off. You miss out on a couple of things, but generally no big loss.

Anyways I think the main issue for me is the lack of local game servers.. That being said there's enough place for about 230 players to be playing simultaneously, however about 230 ARE playing throughout all the peak times! I'm getting good at playing on International servers, but there's a lot more randomness that occurs possibly due to my 1 second lag spikes that can only be blamed on our lousy shaped International bandwidth, however I have enjoyed some really great games!

You should see how awesome it is to spawn on Punky... TBag him a little, then once the enemies notice you, flee for your life.. let them take it out on His Punkiness!
Hmm.. perhaps I need to play some more PR.. there's some incendiaries left in my medpack I believe..