BF2S Forums So, is the new prone delay in the patch any good?

RoaringJet[FIN] wrote:

Maybe this change will reduce the amount of RPK-76 users... God I hate them

Support had prone delay since 1.41 and it is no different in 1.5. You might not have noticed because it was so slight.
However if you pick up a medic kit, you would instantly realise that the prone deviation is horrendeous and lasts for 2.5 seconds.

It is faster to swap to a knife before going prone and swat back to the assault rifle than it is to wait for the delay.

All in all, a medic should never go prone ever. If you like medic, better remap your keys.
It is not all about going prone either. Getting up from prone gives you unlayable accuracy for 2.5 seconds as well. Watch out if you are trying to take cover.

So RPK users won't decrese, just increase as people move off medic to other kits which didn't suffer from this patch. Grenade spamming is easy as ever though, now easier with less people hitting you.

I liked the patch where you can't go prone after jumping. That was much better. I don't care about dolphin diving and bunny hopping. I just want my guns to hit things and being prone was the only mode that can shoot straight.

Last edited by Rofl_My_Waffle (2009-09-02 08:38:01)

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Rofl_My_Waffle wrote:

I just want my guns to hit things and being prone was the only mode that can shoot straight.

remember now, everyone else is screwed too.  i like crouching instead of prone, so break old habits and soon you'll be fine.

I'm Jamesey wrote:

I still own, cause I didn't prone before the patch

its not the insta proning that anyone cares about, its the inability to effectively use cover, theres not much point now. all ive seen in gathers lately is people just standing in the street and crouching, boring

awesome

Last edited by Simon (2009-09-02 12:13:18)

I'm Jamesey wrote:

I never really used cover much either, never had the reg to win vs germans and frenchies trying to headshot each other  prone/crouchspamming up to the neck in cover

i do, its awesome
the game just seems too linear now, i guess time will tell

Simon wrote:

I'm Jamesey wrote:

I never really used cover much either, never had the reg to win vs germans and frenchies trying to headshot each other  prone/crouchspamming up to the neck in cover

i do, its awesome
the game just seems too linear now, i guess time will tell

Definately, thats why I didn't want any hitreg changes I liked the fact it took a while sometimes to get hits, everyone was the same, now I still see people go prone and wonder why they can't hit a thing, either that or it's standing or crouching with amazing reg on each other making prone pointless- I already see a lot more people playing sniper now, I thought sniper was a very powerful kit in 1.41, now it seems like there isn't a reason not to use it. I think the gameplay changes have made it quite boring already it's too predictable and I've always said it seems like people were happy the way infantry was in 1.41- just look at how many people played it, but like you say time will tell it's only been 1 day lol I predict a lot of people going sniper, and a lot of people flying F35 and that will be how basic the game is now.
I don't think the prone deviation is THAT bad, but like I said because sniper was good anyway without other kits having deviation, it seems to have made other kits not as worth playing

Last edited by H3RB4L ABU53 (2009-09-02 12:38:52)

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

remember now, everyone else is screwed too.  i like crouching instead of prone, so break old habits and soon you'll be fine.

It's not like I can't adapt/I'm not playing well, it's just kinda dumb. I still got my gold in public. It's just stupid that EA keeps essentially changing the game on us. If I want to play CS, I'll go play CS. If I want CoD4, I want to go play CoD4. If I want to play BF2, too late...EA already patched out BF2 lol.

BF2 is actually much less like CS or CoD4 now.

Much, much less.

BF2's infantry is in a league of its own now, no single online FPS game has been patched by DICE so many times before.

Noobpatty wrote:

That would be them dying. I don't think I've seen a player eat a direct him from a SRAW, k

Na, I mean they are running around, see you aiming at them with a rocket, they dive to the ground and make a nice, easy target

Just means your weapon will be significantly less accurate for a second or 2 after you hit hit prone, the effect is different for each weapon class.

Thanks to 1.5, the firearms in real life are actually much more accurate than they are in Battlefield 2.

It's hard to get much accuracy with light machine guns unless you are in prone, firing in bursts, and zoomed (depending on the range of the target). Crouching with an LMG still doesn't cut it. My oh my, what will =OSS*ROID= do now that light machine guns are practically useless in most situations now? Prone is the only position where you are actually able to hit anything at medium to long range in Battlefield 2. Especially with fully automatic rifles. 1.5 truly fucked this game!

I know that they made some changes to jets, but did they do anything to helicopters and armor?

Last edited by ISortGlass (2009-09-02 18:58:36)

Yeah dealys sucks arse. I try not prone as much as possible but I still do every now and then out of habbit and with the delay it's very noticable, it's deffo changed the feel of inf. But the reg (placebo maybe) is fucking sweet, AK from the hip, scoring shots every time.

TehMyke wrote:

ISortGlass wrote:

Thanks to 1.5, the firearms in real life are actually much more accurate than they are in Battlefield 2.

It's hard to get much accuracy with light machine guns unless you are in prone, firing in bursts, and zoomed (depending on the range of the target). Crouching with an LMG still doesn't cut it. My oh my, what will =OSS*ROID= do now that light machine guns are practically useless in most situations now? Prone is the only position where you are actually able to hit anything at medium to long range in Battlefield 2. Especially with fully automatic rifles. 1.5 truly fucked this game!

I know that they made some changes to jets, but did they do anything to helicopters and armor?

1. lulz here we go with comparing bf2 to reallife
2. 96% of the people that play support dont even use their guns.
3. and LMG dev is only fucked for like 0.1ms.. the crosshair is settled before you're even 1/3rd prone.

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