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At the beginning, a couple of years ago, BF2 came out and my gaming group dove right in proclaiming it “the game to replace CS”.

I live over 20 miles outside the city and was relegated to a 28.8 kbps DU connection, which would barely handle DoD and CS, let alone BF2.

Got the demo (DL at work) and at the time it indeed seem phenomenal. I bought a laptop (company paid for it) capable of running BF2 and would drive into town in the evening (30 minutes each way) to plug into ADSL and play.

Didn’t take long (about 4 times in total I think ) to realize that BF2 was, to put it mildly, boring, repetitive (die, spawn), full of smacktards trying to garner points and ranks. Team work and tactics, though much touted, weren’t that effective as most players weren’t as interested in covering an advance as they were in hopping into a tank solo or bomber and attacking anything that moved.

I had heard of Project Reality but with dial up it was out of the question so I gave BF2 to my nephew and went about my merry way playing mostly SP games.

A few months ago, miracle of miracles, I was able to get hooked up to a wireless high speed ISP.

Like every new comer to high speed, my first evening was spent on YouTube. I stumbled across a PRM video made on an insurgency map with a few people actually using VOIP (rather than the perpetual RAP music in the background).

I assume it was the SL that was directing fire, checking on the status of his squad (“how is everyone doing”) and ordering the squad into various areas and reporting contacts.

I also saw the weapon performance where they are deadly if aimed right (rather than the 2 headshots from a .50 cal sniper rifle required in BF2) and went for it.

Got my BF2 back , DL’d and installed PRM , fired it up and gave it a whirl.

There was so much to learn in the game my first times on line were a mass of confusion so I decided to go the SP route for a while to figure things out. (Bots don't really mind if you TK them to figure out the medic kit. ).Then I was able to log on and play as a squad member.

I fell in love with PRM. It has turned out to be almost EXACTLY what I was looking for in a game for all these years.

Like all other on line games, it depends so much on who you are playing with as to whether or not you end up in a cohesive squad or a group of soloists (even applies to BF2). I’ve found both but the times I’ve played with a cohesive unit have been so immersive I simply didn’t want the map to end and the squad to disperse.

My only regret is that I found PRM in the early summer when there is so much to be done around the home and gaming time is so limited, especially for PRM which, at least for me,requires at least a dedicated 2 – 3 hours to play rather than the 20-30 min maps in DoD/CS/RO.

But winter will be here shortly (actually seems like we just got rid of the snow yesterday) so hopefully gaming time will be enhanced by the long, cold winter nights.

Good work on PRM developers. Loving it.

Nice post beerhunter.

I actually didn't care for BF1942 at all, and played MOHAA. I heard about the mod support, and had already learnt the amazing things people have dont to mohaa over the years (e.g. bringing liberation mode from mohaa breakthrough to allied assault, or maps with all buildings enter-able). It was clear to me that mods can achieve results vastly superior to 90% of development companies (Blizzard would be in the 10%, so would the guys from ArmA).

So I bought BF2. After years, and luckily discovering tacticalgamer, we are finally there. Everything EA has done in BF2 has been improved upon in various mods, including PR.

It never ceases to amaze me what people can make out of these games. I'd hope to see a company at some point releasing not much more then a bare engine, with the explicit intent of letting the community make the game, because they are simply much more dedicated to YOU, the time magazine person of the year.

Imagine if BF2 had actually good mod support! Imagine if they had put in an auto-map downloader (cs had that already right lol great step forward).
Instead of the horrible stats perversions. Even PR hasn't dared to shake those. Yet I see no better way to deter "elite pwners" from the game. You take a way their points, you take away their reason to play.

My story is a bit similar to Biggaayal's. I played MOHAA (and a bit of BF1942), when I discovered the CKR-realism mod for it. Then I realized that it was the way the multiplayer should have been from the start: weapons that kill without having the need to shoot the whole clip in the enemy's face. I never played enough to see the other mods, I changed to BF1942 and Forgotten Hope quite soon.

It was the same with BF2. I played vanilla for a couple of months before getting bored. I came back as the first mods started pouring in, and now the way I see it; Project Reality is what BF2 should have been all along

There are always people who think it "takes no skill to kill" in a realism mod, "you die all the time"... I tend to just laugh at those statements and enjoy the immersion and teamwork that most unmodded games lack.

Couldnt agree more

I first played a realism mod on joint operations P90 ftw!

When I bought BF2, I was looking for a game like PR. But... you know... it was just a Unreal Tournament with a actual war skin.

But PRM is THE game !

Wellcome and see you on the battlefield.

I only bought bf1942 for desert combat mod, I hate ww2 games
Fast forward to bf2, I played it for about 3 weeks on vanilla before giving up on it, it was shit and not fun - UT with modern skin.
I accidentally stumbled in to a PR video in youtube..ever since then..hooked

BeerHunter wrote:A few months ago, miracle of miracles, I was able to get hooked up to a wireless high speed ISP.

Hehe, brings back memories... when the babe called from Verizon the conversation went something like this...

Caller: "Hello Mr. Cow, I'm Samantha from Verizon and I'm calling to let you know that your neighborhood was just hooked up to DSL so it's now avai..."
Me: "Sign me up now!"
Caller: "Ah, would you like to hear about the great benifits of DS..."
Me: "NO, get me on line NOW!"

Like every new comer to high speed, my first evening was spent on YouTube.

Yeah, right I spent my first night on "you toob" too ops:

so much to learn in the game my first times on line were a mass of confusion

I warn all the people I suck into PRM, you will get a sever pwnage lesson the first week you play, be patient as the learning curve is very steep and BF2 taught you all kinds of bad habbits.

I fell in love with PRM. It has turned out to be almost EXACTLY what I was looking for in a game for all these years.

AMEN Brotha! I went from playing POE for BVF to the then much talked about BF2. POE was pretty close to the ideal game, and BF2 sounded so cool. It was so dissapointing. I discovered PRM while waiting for POE2 to be released and was immeadiately blown away! I did get POE2, but its not nearly as good as PRM. I've also tried a few other mods, but compaired to PRM they are all just reskinned BF2. The only other game which I've played recently that is close is AA, but that tends to play real slow.

Welcome to the community!

welcome to pr =)

i stumbled across a early version of pr where they basically just changed the way weapons handled and damage, etc. i think before v3 but im not sure, didnt like it at first i thought they just made vanilla harder.

however one day i was bored and fired it up and played jabal, i was lucky and joined a good squad and right away knew it was exelent,

however exams have forced me to cut back quite a lot so i barely get on now. >_>

we should seriously consider putting up a customer endorsement section on our homepage. Thanks for the positive feedback BeerHunter. See you on the servers.

I know how you feel, I started BF2v a looonnngg time ago and got bored of it soon after the global unlocks started to suck more and mored. ((Thank you M95)) After so long of getting into a jet and only to be nailed in the head with a .50 caliber sniper round, I went home away from the annoying smacktards, idiots, and morons trying to ask you how to get the unlocks. When I got a broadband connection I did as the OP said most people do... Got on youtube. I had seen PR before and enjoyed it, but didnt really do much about it. After I got the good connection, I found it over again. The 0.5 promo got me hooked. I downloaded it early morning, played it at noon, was hooked the instant I was in the game. But before it was done downloading I asked people to give me some Juicy facts about the game, Eddie came up with a good one, "In regular Bf2, Its a 'Hey look, a tank!' *Shoots gunner* But in PR, its a 'Hey look, M249! Take cover or get ripped to shreads!' And thats the saying I've been playing Pr on for a while.. But... I need to wait till X-mas to actually play it again due to parents being annoying. I wonder if I can get my older brother to get PR on his computer.

i originally started out with bfv and got bf2 early last year and played it for a while but i got bored with it quickly, then while looking through one of the many battlefeild websites out there a saw a pic of one of the marines with the M21 (scoped M14) for PR so i searched it on youtube to figure out what it was exactly and saw the .5 promo vid
(loved that legion of doom song) so i downloaded the mod and began playing first at tactical gamer and then at one of the 24/7 albasrah servers were the majority of times there was at least 2 or 3 squads using VOIP wich really got me hooked because vbf2 didnt really have to much team work or voip usage. I mostly played vbf2 with the same 3 or 4 guys in my squad and all we did was mess around in mashtuur city until the round ended lol, tking on "accident" and sniping from that tall bridge near the power plant, good times good times

Is it me or was there a thread like this a day or two ago?

Where is Elvikingo shouting "search?"

He's banned

How did that happen?

Lampshade111 wrote:How did that happen?

He collected one warning too many. He should be back soon though.

Probably full of that whizz and vinegar stuff he throws about on most of his posts. Some times he just takes it a tad too far.

Hey i got BF2 just to play PR so to me its not free.

Outlawz wrote:He's banned

Didnt we all see that coming?

I wrote down a few notes for what a game I would make would be like, and then I found PR, and 50% of my notes where in PR like RP and buildings and Xtract. everything else was not possible in BF2 engine.

I played 0.1 I think, back when gloryhoundz was the only server with any players.

It was way too extreme though and I couldnt see any point to it being slower and harder
so I tried a few times and forgot about it until someone mentioned 0.5 and gave a link to all that stuff you had put in.

I downloaded pr and also desert con also. I tried dc and it was snazzy, tons of new vehicles, mobile artillery and scud launchers. Amazing and even more arcadey then bf2. Tried a few times but it had even less cohesion then plain bf2, chaos and I dont like deathmatch really

After a few weeks I decide to try that other mod I downloaded.
When I heard the humvee 50 cal,that was me sold Total quality that is and one my fav things about 0.6 is the sounds

But still the game is vertical in its difficulty, however every now and then I would get into a good squad and it was a good game then. So I persevere and here we are. I dont ever play bf2 now