Talk:Battlefield 2/Archive 2

there are factual errors: 1. Eryx is NOT a Soviet weapon. 2. The Chinese in Battlefield two do NOT use Soviet style weapons. 3. AK-101 is NOT a Soviet era weapon.

This page needs to rolled back to some previous good version. It seems to have been vandalized --rasmusdf 20:01, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The demo is actually 10 mins long, not 12.

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Anyone else get a bad taste from the news that Trauma Studios were axed by Dice? Tzarius 10:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not really. Trauma got quite a lot of money when Dice bought them, and all employees have been offered jobs in Stockholm. After all, Dice had no obligation to buy Trauma in the first place. Dice is a private company, and therefore needs to be driven by profit. abelson 16:17, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

F keys

I took out the "F keys change vehicle position" section from New Features since it is in Battlefield: Vietnam. --167.181.12.201 30 June 2005 12:53 (UTC)

Game reviews

Seems to me like a lot of the best parts of what made Battlefield 1942 (and also Vietnam) fun were excised for this sequel. You can't have a small number of players on a huge map anymore. Extras that added to the sandbox feel, like jet packs and other arcade style power-ups are gone, replaced with an Enemy Territory sort of system. The function key menu is gone, replaced with a console style radial menu. You can't honk the horns of the cars, or use the radios to play music as in BF:V.

The backstory is also far less immersive, and even creepy. It was already somewhat disturbing to reenact actual battles of history. The near-future scenario that Battlefield 2 posits is many times more unsettling.

There is not enough fun to weigh against the competitive elements, and it seems to have been designed for the hard core pro gamer and a league play environment. You could never say that about Battlefield 1942, which was both easy to learn for newcomers and fun for experts.

• You can, in fact, honk the horn of light vehicles. And personally, I never played BF1942 or BFV, and I think BF2 was quite easy to learn. /Wik-E

• • That and...You can too have a small amount of player (you set the player limit in the server options), and the sandbox feel wasn't what they were going for [more realisitc]. I like the radial menu more, you can honk the horns of cars, and why would you want to annoy your teammates with music?

gameplay

Is anyone going to write a section on gameplay? And the bad taste the current TK system leaves in players minds?

• The textbook response to that statement is to "be bold", go ahead and do it! I've started it off, perhaps some people will add to it later.--inks 05:35, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

• Does anyone find it annoying that you get punished for TKs that other players caused (aside from blatant bugs)? Such as,
  • running in front of a moving tank or vehicle,
  • running under a landing helocopter,
  • walking into claymores or driving over AT mines,
  • two vehicles colliding (team-team or enemy-team, e.g. if you crash you can get a TK for a passenger),
  • sprinting Rambo-style into an enemy group while teammates are firing at the enemy group? -- BeastRHIT 16:26, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

So many external links

Do we need so many links to so many mods? Couldnt we trim that huge list down to several popular mods? Seems like blatant advertising to me. Anouymous 05:19, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

• Im gonna begin trimming links one week for now if noone objects; primarily, Im gonna remove most of the fansites and most of the mods, probably taking out all mods except for Shattered Faith. If anyone has objections post here. Anouymous 03:36, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• Hmmm. Not so much advertising, as it's nothing more than a link, plus it illustrates the point that the game is very moddable, plus indicative of the games large following. I would not have found out about many of those mods if they were not listed here. I'd be strongly in favour of keeping them all for now, and perhaps removing only those that have clearly stagnated, say in a few months time. What think you, Anouymous?--inks 03:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
• I'd rather have an additional page with the mod listing than removing then. For one thing it is a good source for information at the moment and second it is not possible to say which mod will become popular because nothing has yet been released (setting aside mini mods like the night thingy). User:JeanJoswig

• Sure, its just that its looking a bit cluttered. How do you feel about the external links? No need to have links to some of those such as that fan discussion one regardeing expansions and such. But soon, at least by expansion time we should clear out some of these mod links. But how do you feel about those external links? Ill put the ones I disagree with 04:29, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

• Why I support the idea of an expansion boycott - The Battlefield 2 community weighs in on the timing of EA's expansion announcement

1. PC Gamer Blog - Battlefield 2 First Impressions

• 1. Battlefield 2 Demo Review

1. Battlefield 2 Benchmark Tests

• 1. AusBattlefield

1. Finnish Battlefield site, Battlefield.fi

• The Sir Community - Sir. SashDaMan

Heh, so I agree with what you said about the mods, we will have to clear it out soon though, its rather expansive Anouymous 04:29, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

• Agree that those links can probably be removed now (excepting AusBattlefield, it's quite popular down under). We could revisit the mod links when the expansion pack comes out.--inks 04:36, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

• Perhaps someone could make a new page titled "List of Battlefield 2 mods" or something like that and put all of the mods there to remove the clutter. MegaSlicer 22:38, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

picture is not a screenshot

The picture is a promotional image, created artificially and probably touched up. Why not get a couple gameplay screenshots? Combat, vehicles, and commander mode seem worth highlighting. Twinxor t 23:56, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I think there is some touch but the most on picture is real gameplay screenshot. So, why did you think that that was created artificially? Izumi5 18:00, 30 September 2005 (JST)

Black Hawk

Uh, my edit that there are Black Hawk(RH-60) in Battlefield 2 was deleted. But I think there were Black Hawk in Gulf of Oman Map. When I kill someone by that transport helicopter, it surely shows that I killed by Black Hawk like Izumi5[Black Hawk]XXX. Is there a mistake, isn't it? Official Site in US shows there are Sea Hawk, but in JPN, there are Black Hawk, not Sea Hawk. You can see it by clicking the same position that ARMIES is located in US official site. Next, click Stars and Stripes, Jet-shaped silhouette, and click Right Arrow for a few times. Then you'll see the picture of Transport Helicopter, and you also see that the top of descripition shows Helicopter is UH-60(Black Hawk). Izumi5 17:53, 30 September 2005 (JST)