With all of the games out there in today's world, I still think BF2 is one the best FPS out there. It's slowly dieing, but not as fast as many of the FPS that have recently been released (Crysis, UT3 (pc version), and Quake wars). There are many others but I am just talking about FPS. If you think about it, I would say that BF2 has a lot more servers when it comes to multiplayer, or it seems on my computer, and its a 4 year old game too! Now I am really hoping that DICE and EA are working on something f***ing AMAZING! I think Battlefield Heros will FAIL miserably! They should just push that to the Wii and call it a day. If you were to Google Battlefield 3 there are some rumors going around about what its about and what are the upgrades from bf2. This is what I would like to see in the game. -Same destructible engine as in Bad company. -DICE not forcing the player to play as a squad member or as a team. ~Army of one! -DX10 -To be able to throw C4 again. -I want to see a huge draw distance (Crysis style of draw distance!). -I want them to keep the bullet drop. -Be able to customize your weapon more and drop the premade kits, make it 100% customizable (scope, muzzle, rails, clip, ammo, silencer, etc.) -Have some sort of main utility shack to where you can walk up to and change out your weapon, get ammo, or heath. This would only be available at the UCB! -64 player again, that was fun! -Keep the same controls when it comes to the helicopter and planes! -Be able to customize your character. Personally I know I would want to run around all day wearing a gillie suit! -Get long grass in there so when I go prone I wont be able to be seen. -Thermal goggles would be kickass. -Maybe have a night/day effect of the servers. -Take the dog tag effect from BF2142 -Maybe keep the friends list idea from BF2142????? -Have different climate situations. -Shouldn't have all of the maps made around the middle east -Have boats that could carry cars/cargo so you can do a front beach raid (Vietnam style! not the game but like in Forrest Gump) -Many more but cant remember them at the current moment.
BF2 is far from dead, its just gone a bit skew wiff, hopefully the 1.5 patch soon to be released should fix things up nicely. All I want to see in BF3 is more close combat.
One addition I would welcome, is a setting up phase, whereby before you enter the battlefield, certain players are assigned roles i.e pilot / tank commander etc to avoid the queues for vehicles fiasco. Once assign a role of pilot you cannot instantly jump between different classes. If a designated player like pilot goes afk or leaves, then the position can be voted for and someone else assigned (based on rank like the commander position). Nothing worse than playing on maps where people kill team mates for vehicles and all the other childish tactics.
I thought DICE stopped updating BF2 after BF2142 released. There was an announcement saying that they would no longer update BF2.
bigger maps in single player, nothing worse than flying in a small map. re-make of BF 1942, loved that. just needs its texture updating and true widescreen. Thats where EA failed, to pick up on widescreen developement, NFS:C prime example.
I don't think Battlefield Heroes will fail myself, it will be pretty hard for a high profile free game to fail.
Can you really say back in the day with BF2? Especially good times before they made jets un-invincible.
Enjoyed bf2 alot. If they got bf2 and map size with a COD4 sytle gameplay and graphics id be in heaven.
BF2 is the game I play the most, the last time I checked I had 1100 hours played online. The thing that keeps me playing it is the squad based play. Some other games have similar ideas but when you are in a good squad and everyone using voip it's great fun. I play on the Full Contact War server ( http://www.game-monitor.com/bf2_GameServer/69.12.111.7:16567/FullContactWarSquadVoIP_Preferred.html ) which is in the US but I get decent pings even though I live in London. One of the server rules is no commanding or squad leading without voip which is adhered to for the most part. Also after each game/map you don't get split from the squad you are in which helps a lot. I would like the weapons in BF3 to be more powerful (i.e. a headshot should mean death with any weapon) and the jets and choppers are to hard to shoot down from the ground. Maybe DICE should give stingers instead of mines as an option to the engineers or something. Oh and make the damn boats faster. An option to link the voip/audio of two or more squads would be nice. One button to speak to your own squad and another to speak to all linked voip squads. There are 100 & 1 other things I'd like to see to but can't think of right now.
Id be happy with a game that didnt miraculously b0rk its self for no reason(though 2142 is pretty stable) More of the same. Less dolphins. and more customisation.