I'm not sure if I'm the only one who has noticed this but do you find it much harder to play BF2 at the weekends? Now I don't mean in terms of the skill level involved but the number of moronic players who descend upon servers making the game close to unplayable.
I find that TKs go up dramatically, you are more likely to be punished for accidental TKs, support players and medics consistently fail to drop their wares, and the friendly atmosphere that pervades servers during week days is almost non-existent.
Now a possible explanation for these happenings is the servers that I inhabit. I am usually found on any one of the numerous EA UK 64 man servers during the week which always have the occasional idiot lurking. However, a solid core of players populate these servers during the week days (although many of these are not present at weekends).
Whilst I don’t want to expound an ageist agenda, is the simple reason for all this unpleasant behaviour due solely to increased number of younger players … anything under say 16? It is true that I have no empirical data to back up this suggestion it’s just that I always thought that more kids played at the weekends because they are out of school. With that noted, however, many players who work full-time jobs play almost exclusively at weekends so an age related theory seems imperfect.
BF2 is a game that I enjoy playing and very rarely does it get me angry … weekends are the exception.
Would any other players like to comment on these thoughts and let me know if you have experienced similar weekend ‘issues’.
I find that TKs go up dramatically, you are more likely to be punished for accidental TKs, support players and medics consistently fail to drop their wares, and the friendly atmosphere that pervades servers during week days is almost non-existent.
Now a possible explanation for these happenings is the servers that I inhabit. I am usually found on any one of the numerous EA UK 64 man servers during the week which always have the occasional idiot lurking. However, a solid core of players populate these servers during the week days (although many of these are not present at weekends).
Whilst I don’t want to expound an ageist agenda, is the simple reason for all this unpleasant behaviour due solely to increased number of younger players … anything under say 16? It is true that I have no empirical data to back up this suggestion it’s just that I always thought that more kids played at the weekends because they are out of school. With that noted, however, many players who work full-time jobs play almost exclusively at weekends so an age related theory seems imperfect.
BF2 is a game that I enjoy playing and very rarely does it get me angry … weekends are the exception.
Would any other players like to comment on these thoughts and let me know if you have experienced similar weekend ‘issues’.