Or This was the first time I played BF2 in six months.

You could say that too.

For what it's worth, i love BF2 for the gameplay, the way commanders and
squads work together is just what playing online against other real people
is about. Of course, i rarely find actual working squads and/or commander,
but when i do, i must admit i love it. The tools are there for powerfull
teamwork and it's a welcome change from those silly deathmatch
'headshot' pissing contests in CS. I kinda miss the music from BFV
though..."I fought the law and the, law won..." Oh and that sniper IS
ridiculous, it's not innacurate, it's WAYYY too accurate, what it is is
unrealistic Makes me miss JO where the sniper physics was pretty nice
and you actually felt like you deserved the kill, especially when the guy is
a mile away and running. I'd sit for hours in trees sniping guys down in JO.

As for AA, i'm sorry, but i feel it's one of the best FPS simply because of
it's ambience. I'm not sure what it is, but my heart beats like crazy when
i play it and there's something that feels so real about it. It's a bit scary,
just like if i was really fighting for my life. The people playing it aren't
great though, but that's true in many games unfortunately. It's a bit
under-exploited though seeing how there is a ridiculous amount of
maps and most are never used. Sounds and graphics are decent too,
better than BF2 imo.

Btw, i go by the name Nailgun/Nailgun2

I must confess to to never playing AA, so my comment was extremely toungue in cheek and the point that Fonnybone made about BF2 having it's truly golden moments is right. When everything is working; when you have your squads and a comander that not only cares but does his job too; when you know there are other squads out there either backing you up or competing for their own flag; When you have an enemy that is equal if not better playing fair and well; when everyone can get the vehicle of their choice and hold on to an experianced and reliable gunner; when all that comes together then BF2 is one of the greatest games that has ever been created.

But, it happens all to infrequently. Maybe if I had joined a clan it would be different. But I don't have the luxory of having a set timetable to my life to dedicate evenings or weekends to quality gameplay with fellow clanmates. I want to be able to pick up a game anytime and have a good one. Plus with the load times and the general shitty patching efforts and gameplay issues and lacklustre developer support BF2 just doesn't have the legs for me. But saying that . . . . . . . .

Quote from thisnameistaken :

If my spelling was anything like yours, I'd keep my mouth shut about other peoples' grammar.

yeah whatever, I think someone has a bad case of verbal diarrhea lol

on a different subject:

Who thinks we should start a BF2 clan? I am sure we can use one of the race servers occasionaly.

How many people would be interested?

mebbe when i have a gaming rig back up. But that won't be for ages yet.

Mega Bump

Got some good news on the bf2 1.5 patch.... it's arrived but only in beta stage , when you install this you can only get servers which are 1.5 compatible with it

BattleField 2 Patch 1.5

Requiring v1.41 to be installed, the incremental update brings the new "Blue Pearl" map to the multiplayer shooter, along with better Vista support, widescreen support, compatibility with Novint's three-dimensional Falcon controller, and more.

Quote :

FEATURES
o Additional support for Windows Vista.
o Added Highway Tampa as a required map.
o Added a new map called Operation Blue Pearl.
o Added support for Widescreen resolutions
o Added support for the Novint Falcon controller - www.novint.com
GAMEPLAY TWEAKS
o Changes made to both the J10 and F35B to make them more balanced. Please note that the J10 is a superior dogfighter to the F35B and as such these two aircraft will never be equally matched.
o AA targeting tweaked to make it more effective.
o Added checks to prevent "runway grieving".
o Various changes made to prevent cheating.
o Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model.
o Increased the time to go prone after jumping from 0.3 seconds to 0.7 seconds
o Fixed G36E HUD during sprinting to match other weapons.

i wish i had this game but it might not run on my computer anyway.