Hardcore Gamer Survey

A recent visitor to my site has a request of us hardcore gamers. He's a graduate student, who also happens to be a hardcore gamer himself, and wants to collect some information about us. It's a really quick survey and won't take more than 5 minutes to complete. Please take a minute to check it out and help out a fellow gamer.

*UPDATE 2-1-06* The survey was for a limited time. Thank you to those who participated. Please stick around and read some of my other postings and let me know your opinions.

Battlefield 2 Stats Site Tutorial

Sorry I haven't actively posted anything new in a week or so. Things have been getting pretty hectic lately. I'm going to be a father some time in the next four and a half weeks! I hope to post new topics at least once a week going forward. In the meantime, check out this weeks:

Ever wanted to host your own Battlefield 2 stats site? Or just had questions about how those sites do it? Check out this tutorial on TotalBF2.com. DISCLAIMER: I haven't read it myself, so I make no claims about it. Take a look, it looks pretty thorough.

Battlefield 2 Stats down again

Sadly, it seems my favorite stats site, bf2s.com, has been temporarily disconnected from EA stats servers. Read more information about the battlefield 2 stats shutdown. It seems that all stats sites have been disallowed access as well, not just this one. For now, stats will still be available, but they are only up to date from some time yesterday.

I'm not sure why, when confronted with the first major performance problems caused by stat sites, EA continued to allow some sites to have access. They should have just fixed the problem once and for all instead of continuously allowing access, then taking it away. It really seems like an oversight to me on EA's part to not be prepared for the onslaught of stats sites, or just create their own. It obviously wouldn't have taken that much more time seeing as how a bunch of these stats sites have popped up a few weeks after the game was released.

Anyway, it sounds like bf2s.com might be back in the next two weeks. Lets hope so. It's a great site. Jeff has done a great job with the site and I hope he is able to keep it going. And, he's recently taken on the additional site load of hosting the UBAR site with Award and Ribbon details, which I mentioned in another post. Keep up the great work Jeff!

Battlefield 2 special ops tip

Here's a little tip I read in the forums on TotalBF2.com and it works pretty well. Playing as a special-ops, you can hide your C4 so the enemy can not see it at all. It's pretty sneaky, and some people may call it an exploit, but all's fair in love and war, I say! If you plant a C4 right on the cement base of the flag itself, the C4 will stick to it for a second, and then disappear inside it. Sneaky, yes. Exploiting a glitch in the game, yes. Cheating, no.

Here's an example of a time I used this tactic that turned out pretty funny. On the Sharqi Peninsula map, playing on the USMC team, I planted C4 on the base of the flag at the TV Station, hoping to defend against any flag takers who snuck past our front lines. I then advanced to the set of buildings on the street adjacent to the construction site and climbed the roof to survey the whole battlefield and watch for any of the enemy who made it through our lines. Behind me, I hear the sound of a chopper, so I turned around to see the enemy Hind hovering near the flag attempting to take it. I thought to myself, there's no way that C4 planted in the base of the flag would take out a chopper hovering above it. The chopper dropped in a little closer to the balcony, and BOOM! The C4 did it's job, taking out the chopper and it's two passengers. I have to say, that was really sweet, especially considering the view I had of it as well. Much more gratifying than just flipping the switch and not getting to see what happened.

Favorite Battlefield 2 Map

Welcome to my newest subscribers. I'm astounded as to how much this blog has taken off in the past 2 weeks alone. I've gone from 1 Bloglines subscriber to 244 in the matter of a week! I'm glad you like what I write about, all I ask is that you leave more comments on the posts, good or bad. I welcome the feedback. So, today's post is about your favorite Battlefield 2 map and why it's your favorite. For me, it's a toss up between two. I love both Sharqi Peninsula and Battle of Karkand. I know, who doesn't love Karkand. When I'm in the mood for house to house, street to street urban warfare, that's the map I chose. I'd have to say it's the best urban combat map I've ever played, and I've played many.

If I were to have to chose between the two, I'd have to go with Sharqi Peninsula though. I can't exactly put my finger on why I love this map so much, but I do. It has a lot of different elements together in one map. There's always a few heated battles going on at once as the control points are all set up like miniature battlezones rather than part of a larger map. The hilltop CP and the TV Station are always the most heated and contested in my experience.

What is your favorite Battlefield 2 map and why? Tell us about some of your best battles/experiences on that map.

Mastering Battlefield 2

A friend passed along an article from SomethingAwful.com about what it takes to master Battlefield 2. This is absolutely a must read for any Battlefield 2, both noob and 733t alike.

Mastering Battlefield 2