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5.0 out of 5 starsBooster Problem o.o
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2013
Battlefield is a great game ^^ even if shooters aren't your thing or if you're hardcore on CoD, you're just a punk if you can't admit BF isn't a good idea (one that's executed with such accuracy :D). The game is fun, but depending on where you are, finding a full server to jump in on may be a problem. It's a lovable game, that's still classic, but most people that are into BF have obviously ALREADY played BF2 and have moved on to the BC games or BF3. Still, it's not like NO ONE plays ^^ when I go on, for example, most servers are locked or empty, with at least two running, and yet only one has say 34/64 players active. But come one, that's plenty enough to have fun. Any lower, and you'll just run into small squad on squad battles over large maps, which will either keep you spread out and bored, or strategic and tense, hunting each other from the rooftops or whatever. Depends on you and how much you're willing to take control, and on the other folks ^^
Anyways.
If you're without a server or internet connection, the game has 8 vs 8 bot matches you can play offline. There's an extremely easy line of code you can insert into a single file from your docs that'll jump it up to how many number of bots you want, if you're that tech smart, but you'll still be limited to 16 player versions of the maps, which isn't all that bad at all, really. The bots are dumb (but not as dumb as what I've seen on some other games ^^) unless you're on expert, where they'll knife you, take smart cover, snipe from afar and frag you should you duck in cover inside that low fountain. If you're online and you open up a co-op match vs bots, it jumps to 32 of them, and they can get cranked up to 11, scoring headshots with shotguns from across the map and whatever). You CAN unlock guns, though only like 1 alt per class, but only online, against real people.
Teamwork is key in BF, but blah, I'm not going on about the classes.
Engine wise, you should be able to max out the graphics and still play so long as you've spent $400 or more on your laptop, idk, and idk for you hardcore desktop computing gods out there. You tanks, you.
I bought my first OWN laptop from amazon along with some junk for it and some games, this being one. It was an asus K55N, with AMD A8-4500 1.9GHz, on win8, with AMD 7600-ish graphics, idk what I'm talking about, but that's not very bad at all. I've played Sniper 2 or whatever on low with direct x11 (though on default it started me on x9, which was unplayable, CHECK YA OPTIONS FIRST) which had like BF3 graphics if you where on console, with just a tiny tiny tiny REALLY TINY bit of fps drop. I'm not reviewing my laptop though (not here anyways), but just so know what your spechs value should be around to run the game. Not much ^^
>__< the stand alone expansion game with the SpecOps blah works, but you need to install the game TWICE to access it, kind of weird. To get to the tab that lets you do it, just go to my computer and find the drive with the disc in it (this is all on one disk btw) and click that to find install. Don't click the shortcut, or you'll just wind up BF2 regular. The boosters don't work D: at all, no chance. It's not the code that's faulty, it's the old service behind this game. You register your packs online from a link on that same tab thing you install specops blah from ^^ but D: the link is no longer active, the website doesn't exist anymore. You won't get the boosters online this way if the website doesn't exist >.<
You COULD buy the packs separately, I think, because you're getting the date physically on a disc, buuuuut that'll cost a lot more than getting this. But then again, getting this means no actual boosters. At least, that's what I went through.
So for me and probably for you too, getting this gives you the classic BF2 game, the SpecOps blah standalone, but no booster packs. ^^ You should be able to run this so long you're not chugging along a dinosaur ^^ I hope this is helpful and cool stuff <3
I don't know if this is all controller compatible, but you can definitely try ^^ I doubt it though, seeing there's different keys you need to use in order to communicate to teams and squads, etc.
