PR First time player evaluation

[Benning]

First off, let me compliment the programing team for producing such a pretty and stable mod. The workmanship is of high quality and everything works as listed in the packaged manuals. I was actually suprised at how easy the whole set up was!

I found this mod because I was looking for something that represented a slightly more realistic gameplay from BF2. I presonally love BF2, and think the game has many merits. So this mod sounded like it was the answer to my search.

I was wrong. I have found the gameplay to be slow, with large amounts of downtime. I found that the lethality combined with very distant spawn points and long respawn timers excessive. Basically, I found that after several hours of play....I pretty much spent alot of time doing nothing. Waiting on respawn, waiting on a chopper to spawn, running for 10 minutes to die once I got there, ect....Then repeat above.

Now I know the idea is "Reality". I know the reality of combat. I have served 8 years in the 82nd Airborne. What I was hoping for was the "Fun" of BF2 with a touch of reality. I think this mod has awesome potential. I think reality has gotten a little overboard at the cost of the point of playing a game. Which is to have fun.

Its your mod after all, I just hope you loosen up a bit, so to speak.

Thanks,

Benning

[Dr2B Rudd]

you obviously havent been to an iGi BBQ session

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

Fair enough, your points might be valid.
However, if you are not filling out a role to a squad or working with the team, then you will find PR very unsatisfying, as it has been designed to be played this way; without the option of lone wolfing, unlike BF2.


...mongol...

[gazzthompson]

did you join a squad that was vocal and seemed to work as a team?

[nicoliani]

It's all about squad play. First off all make sure you find a squad with a SL that uses VOIP and know's what he's doing. If your still not impressed there is allot of videos that shows PR being a game with enough of speed and action combined with reality to make you enjoy the game.

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f112...mpilation.html

[gazzthompson]

yea check them videos, thats whats PR is all about, also make sure you join a squad that either:

1. is called voip or teamwork or something like that
2. the squad leader is vocal
3. the squad leader has officer kit.

also, what servers are you joining ? i assume you are American, join tactical gamer as it a very popular American server

[ostupidman]

Probably just not the mod for you man. You say you wanted the "fun" of BF2 with a little realism in it. IMO most people play this because we don't like the "fun" of BF2. We wanted realism and alot of that is what we get our fun from. Def agree with everyone else if you didn't get in a good VOIP squad you should before you judge the mod completely.

[[R-CON]Mescaldrav]

Practice Benning. When I first started it was like that. You get killed a lot, can't find enemies and spend a lot of time running around then dying. 8 years in the airbourne won't help much until you have mastered how the game plays. Try and find a squad with mics that stick together and put down rally points a lot. Then you wont have to spawn miles away and can stick with your squad. Then you will discover there is an awful lot of action waiting for you! I used to be very happy if i got any kills at all when I started, now an average game gives me roughly the same KDR as when I used to play bf2...

[Waaah_Wah]

If your new, my best advise would be to grab the medic kit and be your squad leaders little nursey.

[Sir.Saul]

Lol Waah, no reason to degrade anyone to a SLs bitch :P

Well anyways Benning, I'm sad to hear that, ofcourse going from Vbf2 to PR is a big leap due to all the changes which you normally wouldn't be working with (deviation, respawn time, all that).. Unfortunatly as much as I also dislike it, I find it fun, because once you get good, you will be superior with whatever profession that you have chosen.

But really this mod is not something you can try out for 4 hours and then jugde from what you've seen. I would recommend alot of thing for you to try, but my fellow gents have already posted that so

Though this game has dramaticly changed in gameplay, it kinda focuses more on the players than anything else. As said you can't really solo without paying the ultimate price of being seriously owned.

Well I don't know, maybe this just wasn't your cup of tea.
But cheers for posting your thoughts, I think devs like such things.?.?.