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My thoughts exactly!

Rabbai has written his opions about the full game somewhere and I'm grateful he's put his opinion on, cos I've been waitin ages for it Well obviously i'm not gonna base my purchase on one persons opinion, but many people seem to have said similar things if you look through the threads. Quite a few people think its not a fully new game and is more like what GRAW should've been like in the first place. I'm not gonna bother ranting on or anything, it's just not worth bothering any more Buy it if you're not bothered about "the direction in which the ghost recon series is going", or if you enjoyed the demo so much you just have to have the full game. I haven't got it yet, i'm trusting my instincts. I enjoyed the GRAW1 demo, got the full game and then just got frustrated with it, didn't even finish it. Its still a decent game, but I dont want to go through that experience again. When I pay full price for a game in the week its released I still expect stuff to be coming out for it after a year or two. If I pick it up out the 2 for £15 or buy one get one free then i'm not too bothered. Ooops i'm goin off on one... Take a risk, buy it. Then come back here and tell me what you thought.

This is all I play now, can't stomach any other form of TvT. Only problem is it can be hard to find people who will speak up over the mics. I don't like being team leader yet, but I like to spot stuff

Thanks, this is what I wanted to know

Hmmm thats kind of what I mean. In the 360 version (yeah I know they are 2 seperate games, but bear with me) there's a video of a mission where everyone seems to be on full auto and can't hit the side of a double decker bus (its a bit "vanilla BF2", really) even though they are only across the road from each other. To me that seems more like the all out confusion that you mentioned and thats what i'd expect. I wouldn't expect enemies to constantly engage you (sometimes only one by one) using single shot. Can you see what I'm getting at? The firefights feel too clean if that makes any sense..... add to that the fact that I can see all the enemy coming on my tactical map and something just feels like its missing. A certain je ne sais quoi If I could change something i'd have a proper video feed for the headcam (all that high tech gear and money spent and we only get a Tron video feed, come on now ), i'd make the overview map the only map so that you dont get the detail and i'm make it so that the drone only sees in the direction you point it in and doesnt magically show all enemies. If the drone's meant to have some kind of commanche style target recognition system then so be it, but at the moment it seems like its just magically finding targets. They eye in the sky satellite view would have to be limited in the way the drone is at the moment. I'd rather have limited access to that and have to drone in more missions so that I can recon things myself Also, if the enemy are meant to be the heavier armed against our technology, why dont they engage us more aggressively and pin us down with full auto? Only the .50 cal guys seem to do this. Is it because they arent as heavily armed as we were led to believe? After all they only have 5 mags when i pick up the guns they drop Anyway, back to the point. Maybe with a few changes there'll be a bit more oooomph or whatever, but I won't be getting scared of any enemy if like people say, they only attack from the front or possibly the sides and once an area is clear nobody is going to attack from behind unless its a scripted predictable event. Especially if know they have 5 mags and i've got 4-5 in my primary weapon alone! Another 4 in my SMG, 4 in my pistol, a few frags and smoke (so i can just smoke them and run away like in RvS). Consider the fact that you can give your team pretty much the same and you have a small army right there. I havent even mentioned the fact that we've been told there's a mule. All in all its no wonder people have completed the game so quickly now is it? This isn't a moan or anything, at the moment I see it like this. It's like a Tyson fight where we're Tyson and we knock out the enemy with 2 punches, or the enemy's Tyson and batters us. What i need is Ali vs Fraiser.... some give and take! Fingers crossed for the added content this time round. I appreciated the fixes for GRAW, but one new map just wanst enough.

But did you ever try playing the aztec-type map that got ported into [GR]? I can't remember what it was called, but people seemed to love it. I hated it because all you could do was run about. I tried the slow walking and creeping and I was always the first person to die so i welcomed the spawns. I don't know how many tvt maps are in GRAW2, maybe they are fairly big and suitable for the way I like to play. But even though this is meant to be a tactical suspense-filled game to people like us, we are in the minority.... sorry to say it, but we are . A lot of people might plan to play that way, but once the round starts the tactics and sense go right out the window. From a co-op point of view, how many times have you seem people just start shooting as soon as they spot an enemy, rather than spotting it for their team and covering angles etc? Hardly ever. What normally happens is that at least one person runs off and starts shooting at the first person they see. They die and then there arent enough people to cover the angles and it all falls apart as your position gets overwhelmed. That always used to happen in the blackhawk down type misison in GRAW. From a TvT point of view, I'm all for zero spawns, but I don't like they way grenades are thrown. I'm more likely to blow up my own team unless i'm throwing it way down the road. How're you gonna feel if someone accidently blows you up and you have to sit out the round, then next round u get nade spammed, etc etc? For me, zero respawn worked best when the map was as big as possible, or all explosives were banned.

I liked zero respawn back in the day, but that was on massive maps where you actually hide somewhere and crawl around on you belly in bushes and along cliffs. The only map i've got to go on is the beta test/demo RvA map. Zero spawn on that map would just be hell for someone that plays slowly like me because the run and gun players will just run to the middle channels and start chucking nades. Then thats me gone for the round . But that kind of BS just wont work on the bigger and more open maps where you have to be careful and stealthy. I used to find that on small maps you are forced to run and gun with everyone else otherwise you jsut get nade spammed

Yeah, I hope the mature people from here have given it a go. The fact that you are forced to work together has its pros and cons. Some servers have an autokick if you dont join a squad after a certain amount of autocues. But, it's no use if the only squad with spaces has people speaking another language. You either have to be a TL yourself (i'm not confident to do this very often ) or risk getting booted. What I like best is the kit restrictions (only a few snipers, GLs, AT etc per faction), the way that you cant jump out of burning/moving vehicles without injuring or killing yourself and the way that the aircraft have a startup sequence. In fact I just love the whole mod AND its got british guys with SA80s

Can someone who's been in the armed forces/armed response unit etc and actually been in a firefight answer this please. Ok this might sound like a really stupid question, but does GRAW2 portray the action how it might pan out in real life? I mean, there's the 360 approach which people say is "arcadish", but then i see the news and there are people spraying bullets down streets with AKs and it seems like all hell must be breaking loose somewhere and to me it looks like the action you see in the 360 version (within reason ) Then there's the way that the PC versions (GRAW / GRAW 2 demo ) tend to pan out... more like a game of chess. Maybe it's somewhere in between. But has anyone in the armed forces played this and thought yeah, that would happen just like that! I know some people used to play VBS1 (i think thats what it was called) and that was a simulator used to train people. Could GRAW 2 come anywhere close to that if you disregard the view distance etc. For me, its's the sliding, being able to see my weapon, creeping about and being able to direct my "team" that makes it feel tactical, therefore more real. But then I see some 360 footage and I think to myself that looks intense, why doesn't the gameplay get as intense as that with bullets flying all over the place on the PC? If I remember from back when I used to play GRAW, there were 2, maybe 3 missions where my heart started beating really fast. The one where the embassy explodes and you have to defend it from tanks etc and you're ducking in the ruins thinkin s**t! and the one where you fight your way up a hill only to find that the team you are there to rescue is dead. Tnen the one where you're solo and your comms isoffline and you have to destroy the jammer. Those felt intense, therefore "real" So what I want to know is: does GRAW 2 feel "real" in the same way as the 3 issions I described from GRAW above? (i.e. do you feel your heart beating fast, or does it feel more like pop two shots and move on?). I'm only talking about co-op because from what I've read so far the TVT stuff is a nightmare.

In the unlikely event that you guys can tear yourselves away from GRAW 2 for a few min Project Reality is now at version 0.6 Have a look at the promo on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8MY-Z5PD6s If you're interested, you can download it here: http://www.realitymod.com/files.html

Yeah. If you're in the UK, you will be able to get in on the cheaper internet (somewhere like amazon.co.uk) before it goes cheaper in the highstreets, depends how much you have to pay for P&P, though. The price of GRAW dropped quite quickly, but I wouldn't say it was cheap considering it was pretty much unplayable straight out the box. Only people with an internet connection would have had access to the patches. Chances are you'll find it on a "2 games for £XX" offer, but the other games in the offer will be rubbish (that's what happened to GRAW in the UK. So i'd say an online shop is your best bet. I've seen GRAW2 for £14-£17 online.... Shocking considering the GRAW2 demo is better than the GRAW demo.

I liked the fact that GRIN came here and took notice of what was being said, we were lucky they did. But the fact that we're still here after the GR2 fiasco when we got no news at all means that Ubi know they can do it and we'll well still be here anyway. Don't you think? If they're stupid enough to gag the people who kept us hopeful, then that's their descision. All we can do is say thanks to GRIN (as we always do ) for taking the time to talk to us. I know for a fact that I won't be buying that new ubi game that people were talking about, that's the only way I can strike back. Everything else is just talk. Neither will a be buying GRAW3 if its made, unless we get the same kind of feedback that have given us. GRIN have set a new standard, gagging them will be to the detriment of the community.