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Poll

How many hours of play did it take for you to "flourish"?

0. I am God.10%10% - 16
0-25. It came naturally.22%22% - 35
25-50. It's fucking easy, folks.10%10% - 17
50-100. I lost a few days of my life to this.18%18% - 29
100-150. If at first you fail...6%6% - 10
150-200. I may be in need of a life.7%7% - 11
200-250. I knew it would pay off! Say, where's my wife?5%5% - 8
250+. I had nothing better to do.10%10% - 17
FOREVER. I still suck balls.8%8% - 14
Total: 157
2006-11-10 15:42:30
Pisacis
Member
+1|6829|UK
At what point did something "click", turning you into the player you are today?

I'm curious to know how naturally this came to everyone, especially those of you out there with incredible stats. Taking into account all online play - i.e. including all your accounts (even that noob one you try to forget) - how long did it take you to become the player you are now?

I know that for me, at around 200 hours, something clicked and I suddenly started becoming a decent player. Up until then I was the spastic who crashed the full blackhawk. Then, something happened, my ratios began to climb, and the game became infinitely more enjoyable.

Anyway; share your thoughts on what turned you/ when you turned from the noob you were into the god you are today!
2006-11-10 15:43:50
jord
Member
+2,382|7125|The North, beyond the wall.
Probably about 3 hours.
2006-11-10 15:45:58
Mouse315
Bash.org Junkie
+105|6967
This was my first online FPS, but I still started with a k/d of over 1, just had to learn the controls.
[0-25 hours]
2006-11-10 15:47:06
kylef
Gone
+1,352|6940|N. Ireland
200 hour mark for me has seen a turning point. i am getting more and more medals each round and frequently come first in my team!
2006-11-10 15:47:24
scottomus0
Teh forum ghey!
+172|7083|Wigan. Manchester. England.
When i reached first sargeant. Ive always been a console person really but i used to play UT quite alot online. I sucked coz my pc was shit basically but i got the hang of it eventually.

That was atleast 4 years ago though and since then i never played a pc game untill BF2. So i had to adapt again.

Everyones a noob at some point. No one is born 1337.
2006-11-10 15:48:29
SysTray
"Generous mods" < Thats right Systray !
+180|7268|Delaware
One doesn't "flourish" in Battlefield 2. One "flourishes" if one stops playing Battlefield 2.
2006-11-10 15:50:56
jord
Member
+2,382|7125|The North, beyond the wall.

SysTray wrote:

One doesn't "flourish" in Battlefield 2. One "flourishes" if one stops playing Battlefield 2.
I stopped playing Bf2.

Thus,i flourish.
2006-11-10 15:51:08
DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+796|7131|United States of America
It's not like it's hard. I was pretty damn 1337 at Black Hawk Down when this game came out and as I slowly phased it into my computer gaming repertoire, I also brought my experience from 1942 and Vietnam out here. So I was fairly well off when first starting.
2006-11-10 15:52:01
URE_DED
BF2s US Server Admin
+76|7066|inside the recesses of your...
I've always been a pretty good FPS player, online or otherwise.  But even good players on foot get owned by vehicles.  The big "click" for me was getting attack choppers down.  Now I have my expert heli, global KD over 2 - feel like I've been a pretty decent player for a long time now.  But if you look at my history, my KD climbed steadily immediately so what can I say?  I'm a GAMER.  It's comes natural.
2006-11-10 15:55:25
brome
brap.
+244|7034|Accidental, TK

Pisacis wrote:

At what point did something "click", turning you into the player you are today?

I'm curious to know how naturally this came to everyone, especially those of you out there with incredible stats. Taking into account all online play - i.e. including all your accounts (even that noob one you try to forget) - how long did it take you to become the player you are now?

I know that for me, at around 200 hours, something clicked and I suddenly started becoming a decent player. Up until then I was the spastic who crashed the full blackhawk. Then, something happened, my ratios began to climb, and the game became infinitely more enjoyable.

Anyway; share your thoughts on what turned you/ when you turned from the noob you were into the god you are today!
I ticked the "forever - I still suck balls" box. Why? Because it's true. I may be the absolute worst/ least accurate / lowest scoring player in the whole history of th eearth, but I have a great laugh and that's all I care about. I took somebody's advice and started playing more with really good players, and I'm learning But sad to say, I am crap. I've come to accept it
2006-11-11 01:12:22
Jelecak
Member
+1|7072|Vodnik camper van, Ghost town
I became a player like I am now when I unlocked the L85A1 and PKM. Without them I'd still be shooting with M16 or SAW and have a 0.3 KDR. I didn't stop using L85A1 even when I unlocked G36E and I didn't stop using PKM when they nerfed it.
2006-11-11 01:21:47
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|7121|Canberra, AUS
If you mean by flourish you mean you beat the other players by 20, 30 points, then that took about 120hours.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
2006-11-11 03:54:32
SargeX_au
Member
+29|7199
750 hrs...its been linear improvement the whole time.
2006-11-11 04:02:58
EVIL_STYX
TANK WHORE
+62|7129|FIVE RIVERS OF HELL
To tell the truth, it was about 115hrs before I REALLY got it and all of the sudden it just went...

Damn, This is a F**KING GOOD game!!!!!!!!!!

It was my first ( first person ) shooter I have ever been a part of! on-line!!!

I will look at every other game ( period ) allot different after BF2!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That about says it

EVIL_STYX OUT!!!

EDIT: The STYX MAN is BACK!!! to BF2s!!!

Last edited by EVIL_STYX (2006-11-11 04:14:30)

2006-11-11 04:03:25
Sydney
2λчиэλ
+783|7290|Reykjavík, Iceland.
0, veteran 1942 player so I had it in the blood.
2006-11-11 04:04:50
..teddy..jimmy
Member
+1,393|7096
like 200 hrs

my first FPS, used to play a lit of football games on PS2
2006-11-11 04:32:47
EVIL_STYX
TANK WHORE
+62|7129|FIVE RIVERS OF HELL
PBA_ U mess with your sig ALLOT

EVIL_STYX IS BACK!!!
2006-11-11 04:34:44
ssonrats
Member
+221|7092
I was shite for ages, i had 512mb RAM and a fx5500 128mb = 15fps. Anyway when i upgraded my k/d went from 0.6 to 1 quickly and has kept rising, up to about 1.7 now. I'd say about 200-300hrs.
2006-11-11 09:24:02
Sydney
2λчиэλ
+783|7290|Reykjavík, Iceland.

EVIL_STYX wrote:

PBA_ U mess with your sig ALLOT

EVIL_STYX IS BACK!!!
Actually it's a rotator
2006-11-11 09:27:30
drake666
when Hell is full...
+184|7157|austria
ull never learn out!
https://team-ex.de/imagehosting/daten/1323768139_m98b.png
Usque Ad Finem
2006-11-11 09:39:47
-Gunsmoke-
Member
+165|7082|South Jersey
Null, not sure.
2006-11-11 09:40:35
Lucien
Fantasma Parastasie
+1,451|7100
not a month has gone by where I haven't learnt enough stuff to completely kick the shit out of my previous self.
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
2006-11-11 10:13:24
basetballjones
Member
+30|7195
After I realized this wasn't Halo, I got alot better!

Seriously, it took about 50 hours to get decent, about 150 to get good, and by approx 300 hours to gain the respect of my peers and earn the fear of my enemies.  I still may not be the best, but I am most certainly stomping around somewhere near the top of the food chain.


There is absolutely nothing more satisfying than seeing people run away when they see you coming for them.

RRAAAWWWRRRR!
2006-11-11 10:14:57
BigmacK
Back from the Dead.
+628|7197|Chicago.
50-100 on my origional account. But I played in moderation, I didn't loose many days playing.
2006-11-11 10:16:40
Ryan
Member
+1,230|7290|Alberta, Canada

I just started getting better a few months back. POstive KDRs in one round, getting verteran awards, high points, etc. I still have the ocassional bad day though.

 

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