June 13, 2005

Battlefield 2 Demo Rant

I played Bf2 (Battlefield 2) and CSS (Counter-Strike:Source), and I looked at some forums. People were ranting about how poorly optimized Battlefield 2 is. I agreed with them because Half-Life 2 has insanely better graphics and physics objects and AI, etc. yet I can still have medium graphics options on and still play smoothly. Yet when I play Bf2, all of the settings are low and I can't play on 64 plyr servers because I'd need a T1 connection and a GeForce 6 series graphix card. Who's going to drop $500 to get a new graphics card to play a game that's $50? Yeah.

I realized that HL2 (Half-Life 2) is more taxing than Bf2, but it doesn't have nearly as strenuous system requirements. My point? Battlefield 2 is poorly optimized, and EA needs to work on its coding before they do a final release. Or they could do what Garry did for Garry's Mod for Half-Life 2 and spend time rolling out 7 versions before just using a different engine that ran a hell of a lot smoother.

Well, this is the end of my post.