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« R²» Raging Rebels www.r2clan.com are very pleased to announce we have our very own "RANKED" BF2 server. Thats right we have Official Trusted Ranked Server status now. Our new "Ranked" BF2 server will be up and running in the next couple of days. Its still undergoing setup and testing. Its a Windows based server "not Linux" is a 32 player server, will feature all 12 BF2 maps and did I say its Ranked. Hehe The server name "will" be www.r2clan.com if you just put r2clan in the filter you will see our servers listed. Currently www.r2clan.com is still the unranked BF2 server but this will change in the next couple of days. All are welcome to come and play on our "Ranked" server. See you on the Battlefield Soldier!

OK this is a world wide problem at the moment about ranked servers. Firstly all ranked servers are very laggy, secondly the ranking updates are very slow,not just for GA servers but all ranked servers, like next day if you are lucky. There is a major problem with the ranked servers at the moment. Stay tuned I will have more info about this as our own server is undergoing ranked status which if you are aware is extremely difficult to achieve but hopefully in 24hrs I can come back and confirm our R2 server will be one of the few in the world to achieve Official Trusted Ranked Server Status. I can't confirm this at this stage but we are suposed to be a ranked server. This has taken more effort than you can believe as clan servers are only supposed to be unranked and hopefully we will be one of the very few in the world to achieve official trusted ranked server status. I have a long 24hrs ahead of me which I'd rather be playing BF2 but it will be all worth it if we achieve ranked status. BTW all ranked servers are packed. It will be very hard getting onto "any' ranked server in the world atm. Good luck if you do get onto a ranked server, if you do stay on there because it will be hard getting back on. See you on the Battlefield soldier, I just hope you are on my team.... muhahahaaa Cheers

I'm getting my 2 copies tomorrow, damn I'm getting stung too at $89.95 for each copy getting 2, one for me and one for the Mrs. Yes thats right my wife is playing also watch out for her she is a sneaky bitch. hmm makes me wonder what else she gets up too. I had to still pre-order mine so I get the Logitech official BF2 headsets with each copy also. I would also like to announce that our clan « R²» Raging Rebels have just setup our own BF2 Retail conquest server. The server name is www.r2clan.com come and join us for a bit of fun. A further annoucement regarding this server will come soon! I hope I'll catch up with some of my fellow SAU buds, doesn't matter whether you are a noob or a gun BF2'er its all about us Aussie's having some fun and getting some!! Maybe we can pick up some potential BF2 recruits from SAU. We are after especially some more Aussie recruits as we want to enter a gun team in the GameArena BF2 ladder. We'll get our 2 copies tomorrow and will be spending some time testing our new server then I hope we can all get together for a game!! From what I hear from our US guys so far is the ranked servers are very laggy. It doesn't matter how your PC is or how its setup its got to do with the ranked servers. Watch out for a patch to fix this soon from EA. Glad to see we have some guys here from SAU going to play I hope to catch up with you guys soon, just make sure you are on my team or you will be in my sights muhahahaa. Cheers

Ok I've played the BF2 demo a fair bit now to get a good feel for it and have a few problems with it. Firstly being a heli whore from BFV and absolutely loving flying the helis, the BF2 heli's really suck. The problem is the rotate speed or lack of it. This presumably was done to satisfy all the whinging noobs in BFV from getting owned by us heli whores. Not my fault they didn't have any skill to fly a heli at all but it looks like they have won. The heli's are all about the co-pilot now, which I can live with as I'm a team player but what sucks is when you get a co-pilot thats not in your squad and just can't use the tv guided missiles. I steady up for them so they can aim at say a tank and I even say like TV now then they shoot off a few rounds with the cannon which does nothing to a tank. Arggh that annoys me. 2ndly is the relative ease to TeamKill (TK) someone. I'm not a TK'er unless someone does it to me on purpose, then I spawn and knife the idiot, but the accidental TK's are so easy to do. Spin a tank around and you TK someone, same doing it with a heli. These have all been accidents yet the guys that got tk'ed all chosen to tkpunish even after I say sorry like I always do. Get too many people tkpunishing you and you get banned from the server. This is going to be a major problem especially on ranked servers where friendly fire (FF) is on, same with TKpunish. I don't think I'll play commander on ranked servers unless my whole team are R2 guys otherwise on so many occasions I have warned of incoming artillery strike, yet some noob in an APC filled with noobs goes into that base as the arty hits then they all tkpunish you. grrrrr Like I said this will be a major problem. The other thing that has annoyed me is the rambo/lone soldiers out there. BF2 is a team game which means "all" should join or form a squad. Playing commander I had squad 1 with 6 people in it. Squad 2 had 1 person and the rest were all one man armies. No matter how many times I politely asked all these rambos to join or form a squad it didn't happen. Whilst squad 1 were excellent and followed all commands, you can't win a war with only 1 squad. Having said that Voice Over IP (VOIP) is excellent and really makes this game but its only good when everyone is in a squad. Its useless when a non squad member hops in as co-pilot in your heli. The heli pilot needs an ejetca-noob seat or should be able to block non squad members from getting into the co-pilot seat. Give it a month and just about everyone will be banned from Aussie servers because of the accidental tk'ing and resulting tkpunish. Only good thing will be if you haven't be banned it will be easier to get onto the limited number of ranked servers. Other than that BF2 is kickass!!! Cheers

Ok lots have had this problem with booting into the game then it drops you back to windows its mostly caused by 2 things A: your PC doesn't meet minimum specs, such as nghiagero Ti4200 is not supported.Topaz your FX5700 only just makes the grade but it is supported and B: its a vid card driver problem. Make sure you install Directx 9.0c that comes with the game (even if you already have it installed) and install the Nvidia 77.30 driver that comes with the game obviously for Nvidia cards only or download the 5.6 catalyst driver for ATI(there are some problems with this driver that ATI are aware of like the game freezing, texture corruption so keep a lookut for a new ATI driver) Topaz your PC makes the grade and it should run ok if you set the detail to 800x600 medium detail. Make sure you use the 77.30 driver that comes with the game, Nvidia haven't released this yet on their site. As for nghiagero your Ti4200 is not supported. However if you upgrade your vid card you will be fine to play the game but I'd make sure you have min 1 gig of ram, this game is very ram hungry otherwise your hard drive will make up the difference and it will lag the game. Until you upgrade your vid card you won't be able to play it. Cheers

Never heard of it LOL well go and download the demo and check it out. Here's a look at some screenies from the game I took last night doing a few parking stunts http://www.r2clan.com/modules.php?name=For...iewtopic&t=1083 56'ker warning these all full size pics. Cheers

EA has banned all the modded BF2 demo servers (any server with no time limit/unlocked weapons) By banned I mean they have removed all these servers from their master server list so they don't show up in the in-game server list but they still apparently appear in the ASE master server list. The 12min time limit for the demo sucks. I know its a demo and only supposed to give you a taste/tease until the retail version comes out and encourage you to buy it but 12mins is not long enough. EA originally said the multiplayer demo would have a 30min time limit. But of course some idiot in a suit changed this to only 12mins for the multiplayer game and only 10mins for the singleplayer. If they didn't want people to unlock the time limit and unlock the weapons then why make it so easy to do. To unlock the timelimit it only requires 1 keystroke to rem out the line using # infront of it. My 3yr old could do this. As for the unlocked weapons why then include the unlocked weapons in the demo at all so they can be unlocked. Thats just dumb. Also EA encourage modding of the BF games, even supply a mod creating editor with everygame and have even pre-released it before the retail version is shipped. They also hired the DC guys to help make BF2, its a contradiction. Cheers

Cool, good to know, I also play on those servers, I'll keep an eye out for you 'blakrok', R2HKS is my nick, when we catch up we should form a squad and go and get some. Maybe the rest of you guys who play should also put your nicks you use for this game in this thread so we know who is who and game on! See you on the battlefield soldier Cheers

Yeah we can do that no probs and its very funny hey when you drop a boat on someone, death by falling boat hehe. Have you downloaded and watched this stunt vid yet? http://r2clan.com/modules.php?name=...viewtopic&t=965 Then try and do some of those stunts. BTW the video was done using the patched retail version of the game, not any stunt mod at all. Check out the heli's that are floating in mid air and one of my favourites, the jeep sitting on top of the heli's, also the 2 heli's at the end that are merged together and the Mi8 that is sunken into the ground. Top vid and like I said "Aussie of course and the best BFV Stunt vid there is bar none, thats why is called The Ultimate BFV Stunt Vid" So when are you going to swing by www.r2clan.com and sign up, say hi in the Say Hi to Raging Rebels thread and come and have a game with us? Seen you soon mate! Cheers

BF2 is awesome, only thing I dislike or hate are the heli's compared to BFV they suck, put simply they don't rotate fast enough especially compared to BFV and you can't do the same manoveurs as a heli in BFV. Other than that, the rest of the game is awesome. Played some great games tonight on a pub server, it was the 1st time I had experienced the VOIP (voice over IP) This is by far one of the best features of this game. I was the Squad commader of Squad 3 and spoke directly to the commander. The 1st commander we had was excellent issuing commands for attack/defence which lead us to taking all the flags over easily and having the upper hand. The second commander, (sorry Mrs I have to say it) was another chick gamer hehe. I'm use to it because my Mrs plays all sorts of games including drifting in Need for Speed Underground 2, Battlefield Vietnam and now Battlefield 2, but it was cool to see another chick playing BF2 and not only that being the commander. She started off slow, but then she was issuing commands which again lead us to having all the flags and winning the game. VOIP adds so much more to this game, sure we all use Teamspeak but to be able to communicate with your squad and your squad commander is very cool. Its this aspect of the game that makes it radically different to any of the previous BF's. BF2 is about teamplay whereas the other BF's were basically a do as you please game which you can still do in BF2 but you won't get far as a team. Also unlike all the other BF's this is modern weapons. Weapons like surface to air heatseeking missles, heli's and planes have flares to counter these. Planes have heatseekers, the medic has a defribulator which you can kick start a wounded soldier and also use it to kill the enemy by shocking them etc etc Put simply this is the best online game that you will play at the moment and probably for a while to come. The netcode is excellent which means that you can easily play a game with over a 200 ping and its so smooth you'd swear you were playing it on a LAN. Just to make sure anyone thinking of playing/buying it here are the minimum specs including vid cards that are supported: Minimum Specification Machine: 1.7 Ghz CPU 512 Megabytes of RAM 128 MB video card (must support 1.4 shaders Video Cards Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards: Radeon X700 (PCIe) Radeon X600 (PCIe) GeForce 6600 (PCIe) GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe) GeForce 5800 Series (AGP) ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition ATI Radeon X800 PRO ATI Radeon 9800 Series ATI Radeon 9600 Series ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX) ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series ATI Radeon 8500 Series ATI Radeon X300 Series NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra NVidia GeForce 6800 GT NVidia GeForce 6800 NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series I suggest a minimum of 1 gig of ram, 2 gig to get the best out of this game. A 256mb vid card like a 6600GT/6800GT a 3.0ghz cpu+ This game needs some grunt. Cheers

I pretty much answered about the snipers in the other post and also about the co-pilots. You will score better as a co-pilot in BF2 than as a heli pilot. If you are on the ball, have a good pilot, you can easily own any server being a co-pilot in a heli. Like I said we have all sorts in our clan, from ground pounders only, to kickass heli/plane pilots but we need more support roles like co-pilots. In BF2 now a heli pilot is only as good as the co-pilot is. Its a lot harder flying the heli's in BF2 compared to BFV as they just don't rotate fast enough in BF2, thats where the co-pilot comes in with the guns and tv guided missiles. So swing by www.r2clan.com sign up say hi and we will put you in with some good heli pilots, (scratches those ears, like myself) and go and get some. Cheers

OK this is what we are looking for guys with some skill. We can all do these stunts too. Inlcuding the apache jumping out, free falling then hopping back in and resuming flying. Go and check this stunt vid out done by another Aussie called Pulsar and edited by Ticklefist, this is the best and ultimate stunt vid I have seen and like I said done by Aussie's of course http://r2clan.com/modules.php?name=Forums&...viewtopic&t=965 The heli's are similar to DC in BF2, so you should be right to jump straight into one. The heli's though in BF2 are more about the co-pilots now, so don't worry if you can't fly a heli, find a good heli pilot and own all as a co-pilot. They now have kickass guns, and a TV guided missile weapons system. The heli's also have flares to counter the heatseekers from the planes and the ground-air ones as well which work well. No need to PM you just come to our clan site www.r2clan.com, sign up, say hi and come play some BF2 with us. Have you downloaded the demo yet? We have 2 BF2 servers currently and 3 on occassions so we are well equiped for BF2. We are always looking for new members with skill and those who have played BF 1942, DC, BFV are ahead of the rest. We are an International mutli-gaming clan as you see we kickass at Need for Speed Underground 2, play BFV, DC, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, will be playing Need for Speed Most wanted etc etc. We are especially looking for more Aussie's to join and the list is growing daily. Cheers

OK those 2 tracks were downhills, Powerline and City Lights, and if you can get half that score in any RWD car thats impressive. Its not that the RWD's don't whip out the tail well, they certainly do but its hard not to then smack the wall, cause they keep drifting but don't recover well. I originally wanted to use the AE86, the original drift weapon but soon realised to get the really big scores, that all RWD's in this game just don't cut it. I can get 600k+ on hillside manor in the GTO, but in the Lancer I can get 900k+ to show you the difference. The beauty of the AWD's is that they still hang the ass end out like a RWD but have the advantage of the front wheels pulling you out of the drift as well.

Yeah I have tried the sniper rifles in BF2 and even with the unlocked weapons (ask me how later) its a lot harder being a sniper in BF2. Unless you get a headshot, which is difficult it takes 2 to 3 shots to kill someone. Maybe its more realistic not sure but its definitely a lot harder. Cheers

Yeh I got mine from GameArena, a mate got his there too but his was corrupt. I think though it got corrupted from the huge demand, who knows. What did you think about the game? Cheers