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My wife has offered to buy me video games of my choosing for my b-day. Currently I'm planning on Mass Effect/Mass Effect2 to be stacked with the rest of my "Games to play during deployment" pile. However, I remain intrigued here right now. I see many others with full expectataions of buying...i expect a play by play review/comparison to bf2...ground combat/classes/experience gains/vech combat/heli and plane dominance/etc. Give me specifics and convince me dammit!
Alright, here goes. Keep in mind I didn't play BF2 heavily. Also keep in mind I haven't played too much today.
Combat - Each weapon has strengths and weaknesses, unlockables seem to cater to certain playstyles.
Classes - Recon (sniper), Medic, Engineer, Assault. Each class has three holdable items. Rifles, machine guns, pistols, smoke grenades, whatever. Each class also has specializations, such as increased armor for vehicles, increased mounted gun damage, pulsing radar around vehicles, etc.
XP - Experience comes from capturing points, kills, kill assists, earning badges, etc. Yes, there are ranks. The unlocking system operates very much the same as BF2. Play long enough as a class, you'll start unlocking things for that class.
Vehicular combat - Tanks, jetskis, humvees, ATVs, APCs, etc.
Air/heli dominance - I haven't run into much flyboy faggotry yet. One of the class specs, I noticed, armors vehicles heavily against missiles, though.
Other things to note. Squad warfare has again been implemented. However, instead of now only being able to spawn on your squad leader, you can now spawn on anyone in your squad after a very brief (3-5 seconds) wait.
I don't know if Steam friends functions in BC. There is, however, an in-game friends list available to use. It looks like we'll have to play the teamswitching game again.