# Battlefield 2 Sucks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104 "2006-01-15T18:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/101 "2006-04-27T13:54:51Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > I might post a new thread about this. > > Anyone interested in a bf2 SDMB night? I finally got my copy working… > > We could go to a relatively uncrowded public server and form our own squad - since you can spawn on the squad leader, we could all play near each other even on big servers… we can use the VOIP and squad command/maps to coordinate. I’m all in. Thursdays are good for me. Name the place. I prefer ground/city maps… I can wear out a Shark-n-Kark server… but I’ll go with whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/102 "2006-04-27T14:16:49Z")
A squad of people working together hardly seems fair to the other team. Anyway, I’ll play, but I’m occupied until Saturday evening. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/103 "2006-04-27T14:55:41Z")
> [@Palooka](#): > > A squad of people working together hardly seems fair to the other team. 😕 Teamwork is the whole _point_. Nothing prevents the other team from organizing and working together. But if we have enough people, we could of course have organized squads on opposing teams. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/104 "2006-04-27T15:59:14Z")
Speaking of VOIP… I was trying to get it working last night with no luck. I run the test in the control panel and set my threshold to 6%. I can hear myself talking during test so all seems well. When I got into a game and then a squad, I hit “B” and a green speaker showed up on the right of the screen, but nobody on the squad was able to hear me. The server we were on supported VOIP and my squad mates were unable to get it working as well. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/105 "2006-04-27T22:54:19Z")
> [@Brain Wreck](#): > > 😕 > Teamwork is the whole _point_. Wooooooooooooooooooosh! That’s the point he was making 😉 I’m allllllllll in for a SDMB BF2 night. However, latency could be a problem for me, being in the land of Oz and all. Let me know the server’s IP and I’ll give it a go! Max. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/106 "2006-04-27T23:11:47Z")
Well, I can try to run pickup games through IM like I did for CS. senorbeef00 (aim) or senorbeef (yahoo) - contact me. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/107 "2006-04-28T03:54:58Z")
A server out of Dallas is probably the best geographical compromise or maybe where your CSS server was hosted, as that was pretty even for everyone too. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/108 "2006-04-28T11:19:44Z")
Within North America the geography doesn’t figure into it much. it’s more about the network layout (which we can’t really know). If somebody’s in Australia though, that does figure into it. Not only are you bottlenecked across transpacific routers, the signals traveling at 1/3rd the speed of light can take physically 200ms to travel half the circumference of the earth. Not cool. I tried it in Japan and I found it virtually impossible to play. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104/109 "2006-04-29T03:26:58Z")
I’ll play. I just got a cam and a mic today for my PC. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefield-2-sucks/340104.md?page=5)