I am thinking about buying this game, although hardware-wise, I believe I can run the game on low, I express some serious concern that taking this game online might create sub-par results, as the game uses a lot of bandwith, compared to other shooters like SWAT 4 or UT2004, apparently.
However, I did a little research, and I discovered that if I can connect to a server that is nearby, I might be able to play the game. There are over 2,000 American servers alone. Of course, some of them are bound to be within a 50-300 mile radius within me. I found some servers in New York, upstate New York, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania via Game Monitor (which is a server tracker for online games.)
I play UT2004, and when I connect to servers that are situated on the East Coast, I get pings of 150-200, sometimes spiking up to the lower-mid 200's, which is very, very playable, but on games like BF2, that might be otherwise... On SWAT 4, even when I join West Coast servers, I get pings of 250 and up, which is still playable. (Although when it spikes to 300 it gets laggy.)
Considering that I don't live on some remote island in the Pacific Ocean, I thinking that I might be able to join local servers and get a ping good enough to allow gameplay. So far, I've seen a good number of BF2 servers situated on the East Coast.
Thoughts?
However, I did a little research, and I discovered that if I can connect to a server that is nearby, I might be able to play the game. There are over 2,000 American servers alone. Of course, some of them are bound to be within a 50-300 mile radius within me. I found some servers in New York, upstate New York, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania via Game Monitor (which is a server tracker for online games.)
I play UT2004, and when I connect to servers that are situated on the East Coast, I get pings of 150-200, sometimes spiking up to the lower-mid 200's, which is very, very playable, but on games like BF2, that might be otherwise... On SWAT 4, even when I join West Coast servers, I get pings of 250 and up, which is still playable. (Although when it spikes to 300 it gets laggy.)
Considering that I don't live on some remote island in the Pacific Ocean, I thinking that I might be able to join local servers and get a ping good enough to allow gameplay. So far, I've seen a good number of BF2 servers situated on the East Coast.
Thoughts?
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