[AAR] My first PR game
Posted: 2009-08-26 15:51
Last night, on the way home from work I picked up a copy of BF2 with Special Forces and the other two addon packs for a nice price (£9.99 at GAME) with the intention of playing PR. A good friend had been raving about PR for a fair while and finally got me interested enough to get it.
My first impression was good, the mod looked of high quality, the forums are 99% mature and useful posts (unlike 99% of the internet), even downloading nearly 3.5gb worth of files to install the mod was not too painful on my somewhat lacking internet connection.
I was a little worried about the requirement of joining squads and following orders, the avalibility of certain kits etc but my concerns were not warranted.
Everyone I spoke to on the server(s) were a great help and very understanding of my skill level. I picked up on the game very quickly, being new to PR but an experienced FPS player.
The game is very different to my normal "haunts", being, Counterstrike 1.6, COD4 and Black Hawk Down. However I do concider it to be a beter game, more my prefered style of game play and game pace.
I spent a little over two hours playing in different training servers, messing around with player movement, land based vehicles and iron sights. This alone is somthing many, many games could benifit from (the use of training specific servers).
I managed to play a few games on "regular" servers, I find myself prefering Insurgency games over AAS, playing as a civi was fun and different, IED's were fun until i accidently blew our cache, I decided to not be so trigger happy with IED's after that.
During one game I aquired a Marksman kit, was great fun although trying to stop a car, intent on running me over, alone was not a task to be taken lightly and i was promtly splattered several feet down the road.
I have mass emailed my intire clan (long time multiplayer game friends, since DF2) of 22 people, who play a mix of FPS and RTS/MMO suggesting that we should all get on PR. We have been looking to get into Opperation Flashpoint 2 upon release but a fair few of our guys will not be able to run it so PR, being as good as (imo) will be a great comprimise.
TLDR: I love it! Great atmosphear, good players, friendly servers and awesome gameplay. I look forward to getting some hours in over the bank holiday weekend.
My first impression was good, the mod looked of high quality, the forums are 99% mature and useful posts (unlike 99% of the internet), even downloading nearly 3.5gb worth of files to install the mod was not too painful on my somewhat lacking internet connection.
I was a little worried about the requirement of joining squads and following orders, the avalibility of certain kits etc but my concerns were not warranted.
Everyone I spoke to on the server(s) were a great help and very understanding of my skill level. I picked up on the game very quickly, being new to PR but an experienced FPS player.
The game is very different to my normal "haunts", being, Counterstrike 1.6, COD4 and Black Hawk Down. However I do concider it to be a beter game, more my prefered style of game play and game pace.
I spent a little over two hours playing in different training servers, messing around with player movement, land based vehicles and iron sights. This alone is somthing many, many games could benifit from (the use of training specific servers).
I managed to play a few games on "regular" servers, I find myself prefering Insurgency games over AAS, playing as a civi was fun and different, IED's were fun until i accidently blew our cache, I decided to not be so trigger happy with IED's after that.
During one game I aquired a Marksman kit, was great fun although trying to stop a car, intent on running me over, alone was not a task to be taken lightly and i was promtly splattered several feet down the road.
I have mass emailed my intire clan (long time multiplayer game friends, since DF2) of 22 people, who play a mix of FPS and RTS/MMO suggesting that we should all get on PR. We have been looking to get into Opperation Flashpoint 2 upon release but a fair few of our guys will not be able to run it so PR, being as good as (imo) will be a great comprimise.
TLDR: I love it! Great atmosphear, good players, friendly servers and awesome gameplay. I look forward to getting some hours in over the bank holiday weekend.
) and/or an active clan is always a good idea once you get more experience.
