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"Right, BF2"

Considering getting this one, have a couple of questions first to ease my troubled mind.

Is it subscription based, like WoW?
Have they sorted out out that awful unwieldy menu system?
Does Xfire work with it yet?

Cheers

You can see the server IP that the person is on in Xfire, you just can’t click “join game”. If you copy and paste the IP number into the chat window, and then type it into the IP address in BF2, everything is fine. It’s a little more trouble, but it doesn’t take much time. I understand they’re trying to fix that in the next Xfire release/BF2 patch anyway.

Ah, cheers Nash.
Sold.

xfire has always worked fine for me if im joining people, provided that there is actually room in the server.

J Nash wrote:
> You can see the server IP that the person is on in Xfire, you just
> can’t click “join game”.

You can now, nashy baby

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Well considering the 360 is more powerful than the best PC's around
> and everyone will be running it on the same hardware....

Whether it looks pretty or not isn't the case.


Joypad for FPS?
Compared to mouse/keyboard?


ESPECIALLY for BF2?
I really don't see it being even REMOTELY as good or as in depth

blimmerfisch wrote:
> Joypad for FPS?
> Compared to mouse/keyboard?

Nostrome n52 from Belkin. best buy I've ever made for a long time.

Driving vehicles would be easier, I suppose.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Well considering the 360 is more powerful than the best PC's around
> and everyone will be running it on the same hardware....

The Xbox 360 lacks a decent mouse/keyboard setup.

It is also designed to be run on a TV and will therefore look no where near as good as the PC version anyway.

The 360 has a measily 512mb of ram. BF2 on the PC requires 2Gb to get the best out of it.

And for the life of me, I can't understand the argument about people on different hardware setups. As long as you're game runs smoothly there is no difference other than one has flashier graphics. The only thing that really gives the player the edge, if any, is surround sound. However, this applies to both 360 and PC.

gerrid wrote:
> Driving vehicles would be easier, I suppose.

A chopper and plane with an analogue stick? Especially the plane part, would be far too slow of a responce.

Damarus wrote:
> Stuff

Yet the Xbox (and the 360) have custom hardware, as have all consoles. Halo was ported to the PC. It was appaling, and the game was already 3 years old. Most of the code was the same too.