BF2S Forums What do the stars mean?

Yeah, vehicles were not really balanced in BF2. Neither were the weapons or kits that came with them. G36E being the best Assault rifle and easiest to use, Medics being able to rack up so much points and heal themselves they even had loads of grenades, no shit everyone and their dogs used the medic kit. God I hated the G36E medics. Even the SA80 unlock was good. Such a god damn noob kit.

The jets weren't balanced, god knows why they couldn't just make all the jet types exactly the same except for visuals. The AA took an age to fix.

Random deviation yet zero recoil in the weapons made things frustrating. Should have been the other way round, lots of stance dependent recoil and little deviation. These aren't fucking muskets...

BF2 was a good game, there was something about it which kept me playing it, but it was far from perfect, and certainly one of the most imbalanced games I've ever played.

I enjoyed playing PR as they got rid of alot of the shitty weapon handlings and niggles like that. Then they started heavily focusing on increasing content rather than actual gameplay innovations, presumably because of the limited mod tools. I started to lose interest afterwards.

Last edited by Mekstizzle (2010-03-06 06:33:29)

Doliss wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

Going 19-1 in bf2 is not special with or without vehicles.

full squad with a bunch of good medics on an inf only server can get you this

Which is special

Pochsy wrote:

I'll say that the stars on their own mean nothing. I've been working on theories of order for a paper, and really am leaning towards a solipsistic take on things. I just don't feel that there is a hidden order that we expose in anything but the natural sciences. We certainly can influence the concept of order in other people, but fundamentally that order is derived from no where by our imaginations.

So if I understand this post correctly....what you're saying is, the stars are measures of progress and proficiency with certain weapons and vehicles. So you get a bronze star after acquiring a certain amount of kills, then silver, etc etc..

I quite liked the fact some medals in BF2 were/are really hard to get, it made the game frustrating but soooo rewarding when you got it (like my expert pistol, THAT I'm proud of). A game where eveything is relatively easy to get = short lifespan IMO. I hope BFBC2 isn't like this. Yes, I know there's a lot more to it and if the gameplay is great you'll play regardless, but sometimes I couldn't get away from BF2 till I got my award, it's like you get a bee in your bonnet and you simply can't give up till it's done. It makes it addictive.

And yeah, BF2 is pretty unbalanced. Like Mek said in regards to deviation, and hit registration is a fucking joke sometimes. Quite often I've been aiming dead on someone's head whilst they're not moving with an M95 from only up to 100 metres, 4 shots doesn't even hit, they notice me and headshot me with the medic L8A51. Yet if I use the same gun the deviation is terrible and I can't seem to hit a thing at even close ranges... then there's the instances when a bullet dead on a target gets only dust, but a bullet a foot away to the left will get a kill... what the fuck is up with that?

Some consistency that rewards skill over luck (ie. bullets hit when they're meant to and don't when they're not) makes the gaming experience a lot less frustrating. But the rare times when I do manage to score those bullshit kills doing barely nothing does have a certain charm.

I'm waiting on BFBC2 to arrive. Someone please tell me the hitboxes are fixed, surely with pretty graphics and destructible terrain they can at least make bullets hit when they're meant to.

Last edited by Jaekus (2010-03-08 05:23:51)

Jaekus wrote:

what the fuck is up with that?

cos you suck















joke

Mekstizzle wrote:

Yeah, vehicles were not really balanced in BF2. Neither were the weapons or kits that came with them. G36E being the best Assault rifle and easiest to use, Medics being able to rack up so much points and heal themselves they even had loads of grenades, no shit everyone and their dogs used the medic kit. God I hated the G36E medics. Even the SA80 unlock was good. Such a god damn noob kit.

The jets weren't balanced, god knows why they couldn't just make all the jet types exactly the same except for visuals. The AA took an age to fix.

Random deviation yet zero recoil in the weapons made things frustrating. Should have been the other way round, lots of stance dependent recoil and little deviation. These aren't fucking muskets...

BF2 was a good game, there was something about it which kept me playing it, but it was far from perfect, and certainly one of the most imbalanced games I've ever played.

I enjoyed playing PR as they got rid of alot of the shitty weapon handlings and niggles like that. Then they started heavily focusing on increasing content rather than actual gameplay innovations, presumably because of the limited mod tools. I started to lose interest afterwards.

+1

Also you can get patch for having collected a certain amount of gold silver and bronze medal ,

JohnG@lt wrote:

Got a gold star for heavy armor today. 5000 pts

Just wait till you get 10 silver stars bro.

I still really like BF2, but I am trying to adapt : )

Last edited by JadedDope (2010-03-10 11:05:01)

Doliss wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

Going 19-1 in bf2 is not special with or without vehicles.

full squad with a bunch of good medics on an inf only server can get you this

lol

After your 9th gold star you will get an Platinum star worth 10k points. There will be no more stars after that one.

The game isn't too easy to rank up at all. After you hit like rank 25 it seems like a brick wall. You hardly get any awards and the ranks take exponentially more exp. There are 50 ranks in total. I only get a rank per day and it is slowing down more and more. Soon I would probably need a week per rank for the last few.

Last edited by Rofl_My_Waffle (2010-03-14 13:52:56)

And like BF2 once the leveling up gets hard you're usually at least decent at the game by then to compensate, if you were new to FPS like I was.

Mine is still only about 1.2 or something but in the past couple months I've been getting a lot of rounds finishing at 49-20 or recently 43-9. Gotta love US shottie + Karkand IO.

H3RB4L ABU53 wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

Mine is still only about 1.2 or something but in the past couple months I've been getting a lot of rounds finishing at 49-20 or recently 43-9. Gotta love US shottie + Karkand IO.

That gun requires some serious skill to use

I wouldn't say SERIOUS, but it requires a *fair* amount of skill to use.

DAO-12 is no skill. powpowpow *dead*