Thank you for the memories

[Karimloo]

When I was 13, I played the shit out of BF2, I loved it. But as any PR player knows, it comes to that point where, you are just sick of all that ****. We can all relate to it, nade spam, horrible sniping, bunny jumping, dolphin diving, that weird gun play where the gun sometimes kills him and other times you shot a silhouette all around him. Yeah, those were the days. But then whoa, these PR guys come out of nowhere, and they're like, we've had enough of this shit and we're gonna make it better. And that's how I got into it, I was like what's this PR? I've never heard of it, but when I got it, played it, it blew my fucking balls off.

Starting from 0.6, I got hooked, I joined the now deceased 13th MEU, and had a blast with em. Najjar, Perreli, Baker, Zylik, Adical (Parsons), Thomas, to name a few. I remember this game and the events that took place as if I was a soldier fighting out there. I don't know why, and I've never had that experience like this since I played the NES's Castlevania as a kid, I never thought I could have that nostalgic feeling again. But PR came along and gave me that feeling again. Even today I remember when I was new to calling out targets. Me and Najjar were manning an Abhrams on Kashan back in .7 and he was gunning. I saw an infantry dude and I called out "Uhhh Uhhh, Infantry North East 80" Najjar yelled, "Dude I can't see him where is he? Tell me where he is" I yelled "EAST EAST" He replied "I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH 'EAST', IS HE TO THE RIGHT, TO THE LEFT, IS HE ON THE GROUND, IS HE FLYING IN THE FUCKING AIR?!!?!" He hated tanking with me and you see, these are the good memories I had. I did have shitty ones with arguing and racism but whatever.

After the 13th I tried other clans and the newer versions came out, but as they got better, I did notice the graphics were improving, the textures, the landscapes, the view distance. And that did a considerable slow down on my gameplay. And when I finally was in .9, the game was unplayable at that point. I don't even want to know what .95 could do to my computer. I remember on Operation Phoenix, it was a custom map, awesome at that too, using the standard BF2 models and textures, and it worked. Yeah, no fancy radios, no fancy guns or scopes, or anything.

It was just BF2, Scripted, tweaked, and made to be better, and that was it's charm, PR didn't want to be Call of Duty with it's new engine and graphics or physics, it just wanted to be different. I loved it. But now, as the versions got better, my setting went lower, from High, to Medium, and finally to Low, EVERYTHING, yet the game freezes, crashes, lags, and boy, don't get into my chopper when I'm flying it. I've been yelled at constantly because there are times when I freeze for 14 seconds and wind up if I'm lucky finding myself doing barrel rolls to the ground and hearing my crew screaming. But that never happened in .6, .7 and sometimes in .8. Even on my brothers Crysis running monster, I can't play the game on High. It is unplayable for me and many people I used to play with.

I applaud the PR team for becoming huge in the gaming franchise, even people at my school play it. But I feel as though they strayed from the things that made PR what I loved. The new graphics and constant addition to faction and guns. That's not PR, it's not about the gun, but the man and his squad, armed, moving together. Now people want to fancy scopes and guns and rails. What happened to the Ironsight? I liked those, they showed skill and they were awesome. There's so much additions and people want to play as different factions. My idea of PR was that it didn't matter about the gun or the faction, but about the teamwork, and the good ol' fashion PR tweaking.

Sorry for the long story but this is my recollection of PR and my experience. The fact that I can't play PR with this computer isn't the only thing either. Nowadays I can't play a game without devoting a lot of time to the match, or get a good teamwork based game without being in a clan and the only times I get that is on scrims, which I can't commit to. School, job, practicing art.

The only game I've been playing right now is Gothic 4 and Street Fighter, because they're either quick to play or I can save where I was and continue later.

Thank you for the memories Dev team.

P.S. Oh and you dropped all the Old soundtracks, what the hell? 0.6 Al Bashrah theme was frakkin sweet. And I loved spawning with Full Auto M4's as Brits.

[ComradeHX]

Unplayable?

Say that to my crappy PC that gets average of 17fps on muttrah...all low setting except for effects, on 800x600...

I still play it and have fun due to the game being more about positioning/be ready for enemy rather than twitch shooting.

[CC-Marley]

Later, live long and prosper.

[HileMighClub]

if you practice art.. i assume ull need a decent computer eventually.. play when u get one!

[Snazz]

I feel as though they strayed from the things that made PR what I loved. The new graphics and constant addition to faction and guns. That's not PR, it's not about the gun, but the man and his squad, armed, moving together.

The gameplay is still about teamwork and tactics, regardless of content additions.

Fair enough that you preferred the time when you could still run it on your dated PC, but PR hasn't changed it's core principles.

What happened to the Ironsight? I liked those, they showed skill and they were awesome.

There's still dozens of kits with ironsights, especially in insurgency mode.

Oh and you dropped all the Old soundtracks, what the hell? 0.6 Al Bashrah theme was frakkin sweet.

That was an Aphex Twin track, the PR team wanted their own soundtrack.

[goguapsy]

The new graphics and constant addition to faction and guns. That's not PR, it's not about the gun, but the man and his squad, armed, moving together. Now people want to fancy scopes and guns and rails.

Just thought I would say, in my opinion (despiste this being Project Reality, which means we try to get realistc about the assets, so we don't have, for example, paratroopers, .50cal snipers, Javelins or fastropes) new content makes the game so much fun... I mean, suppose you were playing The Game of Life. It gets boring after playing it again and again. What do you do? Buy the next version! In this case, The Sims 2. And you have a ball of a great time.

But after playing The Sims 2 for a long time... you look back and remember how that crappy-looking and "feature-less" The Sims 1 brought you good times... and you wanna play it again.


My point is, if you play something frequently, you will get bored, somehow (PR has a work-around - it is Multiplayer, meaning each time you play is a different game). But add that new gun, add those new sound effects, add that cool-looking faction and awesome-sounding language. There you go, more stuff to do, more opportunities to have fun.

If I miss playing good ol' PR? Yes. If you could play it one day, would you? Yes.

If you could opt to play just one version of PR, would you prefer the newer one or the classical one? The newer one, because I know that, with this skilled DEV team, these active MODs, these fun COMs and these helpful MAs, each single version that comes out means a better approach at teamplay, teamwork and realism in the right measure for a game that is supposed to be played seriously, and it is approaching, step-after-step, the 3 definitive objectives of this mod:

1. Realism
2. Gameplay
3. Fun


Do I have memories? Yes. Would I like to play them again? Yes. Would I give up everything so far to just play that ol' version? No. As I said, new things mean new opportunities for fun and epicness. Playing with memories is fun, but creating new ones... that's just great.





OMG I can't believe I just typed that about a video-game I really gotta get out of the computer.



EDIT: We know you are having a hard time playing PR with your current computer. But note that the objective wasn't to make PR a more "elitist" game, but a more realistic, playable and fun game. With every action there is collateral damage (I'm yet to see one situation in real life that this isn't true). Unfortunately, you got damaged by the collateral effects. I got damaged as well when my GeForce 4000 and later GeForce6600 couldn't handle the newer and more fun games. And then I got my HD2400. "Wow, was I missing something!". A few months later... well, welcome to the computer age. My obsolete HD2400 got swapped by my now 3 months old GTS250. Man... was I missing something!



EDIT 2:

Even on my brothers Crysis running monster, I can't play the game on High. It is unplayable for me

Is it unplayable because it isn't on high or you are getting low FPS/general performance issues with a PC like that? If the second option is the answer... try doing some disk cleanup, desfragmentation, Register Cleaning... Could do wonders.