How Did You First Learn About Project Reality?

[Hawkeye92]

After a forum search, I could not find any other threads about this (surprising to me).

I've become quite curious recently, how did members of the Project Reality community come to first learn about this wonderful mod?

Did you hear about the game through a gameplay video on YouTube? Perhaps by searching for realistic war games on google? Or maybe a friend told you about this amazing game he/she had been playing?

Tell everyone about how you ended up here on these very forums! Perhaps this way we can learn the most effective ways to make the PR Community grow!

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Personally, I first learned about Project Reality around .85 when the mod was featured in the main advertisements on the vBF2 HQ home screen. Downloaded it, played, and never looked back!

[Vapourstreak]

I learned it from Wikipedia. I like to Wiki stuff I like, such as songs, movies, and games, and I found out about PoE, AIX2, and PR from there. Sounded fun, but it look like, two hours to download 0.85 or 87, i don't remember.

[Spec]

I think it was (R-PUB) bosco, back when he was still playing SWAT4. Met him on a SWAT4 clan forum. I played another BF2 mod, OPK, quite regulary, and he told me about PR. At first I was sceptical about the gameplay changes (that was around .5 though, so the gameplay was very different anyway), but ya. Sadly PR soon got too heavy for my computer, until I finally got a replacement for it a couple of days back.

[boom50cal]

Was searching for help with BF2 CTD's and punkbuster kicks and ran across this. Started reading on the forum and watching youtube videos and downloaded. Fell in love a .856

[Ford_Jam]

Read about it through an Australian gaming community that is tied with my ISP that had a PR server once upon a time.
Bought BF2 off my neighbour for $10 and hijacked his old account
Fell in love with it instantly, first match was Barracuda skirmish with about 6 v 6 people about 2 weeks before 0.86 came out.

[ebevan91]

The little main menu advertisement thing in vBF2 that still says Armored Fury and Euro Forces available in v1.5.

I saw where it said PR was awarded mod of the year or something (or it might have been that v.85 was available.

So I downloaded it, installed it, didn't like it, uninstalled it. Downloaded v.86 when it came out as a second chance for PR and I've seen and played through every release since then.

[BOBA_fat]

Can't remember how or when I got into this game,but there were still vanilla weapon models when I start playing,and there were M82 and dual uzi for snipers LOL

[Spec]

Hah, the good old times of hidden M82 with dual SMGs xD

[Hawkeye92]

The little main menu advertisement thing in vBF2 that still says Armored Fury and Euro Forces available in v1.5.

I saw where it said PR was awarded mod of the year or something (or it might have been that v.85 was available.

So I downloaded it, installed it, didn't like it, uninstalled it. Downloaded v.86 when it came out as a second chance for PR and I've seen and played through every release since then.

That sounds EXACTLY like my story. I saw the Mod of the Year ad around .85, and downloaded the game. I first tried a round on Karbala, I was completely lost and clueless. Not to mention my framerates were awful. I uninstalled and maybe 3 weeks later gave it another shot. I spent alot of time on training servers, became obsessed with flying (Kashan was decent with fps) and eventually went out and bought some more RAM. The rest is history.

[Gore]

few days after bf2 came out i searched google for mods someday and stumbled over project reality. been playing since 0.1. finally stopped playing vanilla when 0.5 came out.

[Ghostrider]

I don't even remember how..it was back in v0.20. I think I found it by some sort of 'mistake' or something..

~xghost();

[Hablos]

I found PR trough Tactical Gamer. I was a BF2142 player originally, but while browsing the forums I stumbled upon the PR forums (this was around 0.7 something). Thought that I'd try it out as I already had BF2 vanilla (which I didn't like because of the general bunny hopping, very little teamwork and frag fest [didn't find a good server around 2004]).

[Pendereckii]

I was a big fan of vanillaBF2... me and a good friend was looking for a serious/tactical clan to join and realized all theses clans "types" was operating under this platform... we made the move right away and tried PR... We found exactly what we was looking for !
We are playing since the 0.5 or something.

[boilerrat]

I saw it on BF2 but didn't download it because of my horrible download speed at the time.

Then I remembered it like a year later and got it after seeing some insurgent videos on youtube.

[Tartantyco]

Game magazine. I'm surprised this isn't an option.

[Nagard]

Game magazine. I'm surprised this isn't an option.

Me too. Was a small article about a "PR-Minimod" think that was the very beginning ^^.

[sgt.helltrouphy]

I was looking for some BF2 "black hawk down" reenactment and on one of the video comments it said it would be better if filmed with PR, soon i just started getting information for PR. It ended up to be my first PC game.

[Spartan0189]

Well, I was looking at Battlefield 2 videos on youtube, went to the store over the next few weeks, picked myself a copy of BF2, started playing it, I was like "I need mods" so I started googling BF2 mods, watched some videos on some stuff like AIX and those other mods (which I don't recall) then I saw the suppressor test video on youtube for .75? Anyways, I found that, got the mod (at a painful 60 kb/s) then played it, loved it, still play it to this day.

[Incognito84]

ModDB had something about it. I read about the mod and wanted it really bad but since it was for BF2 I couldn't get it (as I didn't own BF2).

About a week after I saw BF2 for sale at a local electronics shop and... the rest is history! (Yes, I did buy BF2 only for PR).

If I had known how much game time I would have got out of PR, I gladly would have forked over more for it than I forked over for games like Arma 2...

[KarateDoug]

I saw the 0.5 trailer and was hooked.