Comments on: War is a Hell of a Game

by: Energie Wg » Blog Archive » One Hell of a Game.

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:29:01 +0000

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by: spider

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:30:25 +0000

I curse, variously, my computer, my income and my internet connection for conspiring to prevent me from playing this game.

In other news, I am accepting donations to save my aging squid Fluffy, who desperately requires an operation to save his ink (and not at all so that I can buy some upgrades that will allow me to play BF2).

by: Holliday

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:11:03 +0000

After a bit more time with BF2 it stays pretty constant. The gameplay is truly amazing yet the outside of the game is dissappointingly lacking. Now my complaints are with the dedicated server management. Since it is rather apparent I shall be playing BF2 for some time to come I have started a server. It is actually the CS:S server we used to run switched over.

At first EA’s linux server files were completely useless. They demanded to “take over” the whole computer and screen space in order to run. This is pretty unacceptable for any server rental company since more than one server runs off a machine. They quickly stealth fixed that somehow but now a reoccuring problem is the server kicks all players on map switch. The only way to get it to properly work is remove control of map choice (ridiculous) or disable the end of map stats (which are really cool). They promise to fix it soon but still, linux really got the shaft this time.

If any of the aeloners want to hop in and play with us the IP address is 67.15.20.111:16567

Damn it is such a good game I must go play.

by: Cyrris

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:08:46 +0000

I’ve been playing the demo a little more recently. I’d say I’ve found my niche - definately spec ops, and I quite like being a squad leader. It tends to be that most of the servers I play on don’t get teams cooperating too well, so I enjoy bringing some cohesion to the team. It usually makes a pretty big difference. I haven’t tried being a commander online yet, but if I found myself being so poor at it in singleplayer, I can’t see myself being any better at it online.

Squads are definately where it’s all at, and C4 explosives are brilliant.

Also, some interesting revelations about co-op mode. Turns out you can have a singleplayer bot match going, and people can join if they know your IP. So it’s there, just not supported properly by EA/DICE. Interesting.

by: Kelmon

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:23:40 +0000

Here’s hoping for a Mac version to be made available by about the same time I replace my laptop with something with a bit more whumph behind it. Here’s hoping that Apple makes a PowerBook capable of playing this one and that it hasn’t all been written in Direct-sodding-X rather than OpenGL (they ported BF1942, so I’m hoping that they do the same again).