PR made me enjoy Vanilla more?

[arjan]

miss the awesomness of 0.5 lol, it was easy but more challenging than bf2
im sometimes thining of 0.5 mixed with 0.85 for the lulz ;D

[h0mie]

miss the awesomness of 0.5

I dont know if it was 0.5 but i often have the feeling older PR Versions had sort of a smoother gameplay experience?

[Demonic]

I dont know if it was 0.5 but i often have the feeling older PR Versions had sort of a smoother gameplay experience?

0.5 and earlier versions were more or less too much like vBF2 but better. They were what vBF2 should have been however with the release of 0.8 patch and all the cool stuff they released. It was more like a evolution than a patch really. I prefer the newer patches myself because you can really see the all the work the devs did and appreciate it a whole lot more as PR is so completly different from anything of vBF2. The game-play is far more team-work based than the 0.5 patches. The 0.5 patches has a more regular BF2 feel to it IMO.

[Raniak]

0.5 was another game. It wasn't PR and it wasn't vanilla. It was a mix of both.

Sometime I wish there still was some .5 servers when you don't feel like getting into a server and playing hardcore.

[Arnoldio]

I went to a nilla server for shits and giggles, ended up second in total ad quit ^^

[Conman51]

my joy for both both went up after playing PR


when i want a quick r n gun, bf2 seems better because i dont play it as often as i used to

after i get pissed with BF2 Pr keeps me happy

[maxkill42]

Vanilla is great because you dont have to depend on others, since its hard to find a good squad

[Conman51]

Vanilla is great because you dont have to depend on others, since its hard to find a good squad

join a clan or add good people you already met on x fire

makes it alot easier to work with people you know and trust

[PLODDITHANLEY]

I was always annoyed and frustated by VBF, wingers, cheat accusations, TKers, bunny hoppers, grenade spammers, name spoofing, haxxors crashing servers, childish clan problems, aimbots, and virtually never ever any teamwork (none of which I have EVER seen on PR).
The final straw for me was when my clan idling account was banned by PB for a 'gamehook' when the account never even played, it was on my slow computer at work and only used to get the clan servers populated, I have never ever ever even thought about any kind of cheat, to be accused and found guilty wrongly really upset me, since then not once have I played VBF.

I will never forget my first time on PR, I spawned on the Essex to find three Hueys waiting for passengers which deeply shocked me, then I hesitantly hop on to the nearest one to receive the now familiar text 'where too mate?' and off he goes and leaves me where I asked, after VBF (the blackhawks just sit on the Essex until they are used solo and the guy jumps out with a parachute) I was totally impressed and loved it.
I also enjoy talking with other SM's hearing occasional London and other accents (I am a brit expat unhappily stuck in France) and the occcasional joke and laughs on VOIP I do appreciate alot the contact and chatting with likeminded people. Playing as insurgent with a squad mate with a very heavy arabian accent really added to the realism!

Aswell as VBF is the first game I have ever played since I was a kid (20 years) I could never be up to the level of the more experienced gamers, who have been playing many different games and FPS for years, but in PR patience and intelligence are more important than the speed you dolphin dive before shooting someone as in VBF.

The day I finally decided to download PR was a happy one as i was worried it seemed impossibly complicated having never played it before.

I cannot bring myself to play VBF if I hadn't found PR I think I would of stopped gaming altogther, so put off by online gameplay that I was.

But I do understand it could be fun for a quick 30 min blast, I was just completely put off by VBF.

[JKRMAUI]

I can enjoy aspects of both. I like PR better. More professional game play. I was on a the US Carrier in the rear gun. Because some J10 was strafing us.

A guys spawns and puts C4 by the ladder tops, so if I went for the jet he could blow me off the deck. I looked at that and just felt pity for him.

[Masterbake]

Vanilla is just pointless action, point and click... You don't need much to be a good vanilla player, that's the game for masses. You'll probably get same kind of answers here, because this is the home for PR community.

It doesn't take much to be an above average vanilla player on a 60 man IO Karkand server (nadeskills basically), but play 5v5 or 8v8 against any decent clan and you can't deny they have as much raw skill or more than you would find in PR.

The kind of skill you need is far different - PR is more about awareness, overall strategy and patience. To be good at vanilla you need reflexes, quick thinking and good keyboard and mouse manoeuvreabilification.

[h0mie]

The kind of skill you need is far different - PR is more about awareness, overall strategy and patience. To be good at vanilla you need reflexes, quick thinking and good keyboard and mouse manoeuvreabilification.

completely agree

besides i think some people do vBF too bad. There aint cheaters on all servers (as a matter of fact i had never seen one personally) and nadespamming most of the time is only a problem on karkand only inf servers, but i dont like those too.

[Wolfe_Steiner]

For me PR gave a different kind of gaming experience, and when I went back to vbf2 I really only did that to drive those jeeps/trucks/technicals/cars that are just so much fun to drive around in with some buds of mine.

Thats really one of the only things about vbf2 that I wish PR had, more of those kinds of vehicles.

Plus its kinda fun sometimes to just play a quake style game, run and gun and snipe some snipers with RPGs.

[Gordon_Dry_[GER]]

I think "long periods of boredom" are not without action in a fundamental way.

It's intel and intuition and discussion and quest when there is "no action".

If you use the boredom wisely you'll suceed, anyway, also when your team loses.

If you lost the war there can be such a frustration and paralysis still be alive in the minds of the victorious and alive enemy troops...