Is it just me or the game feels 10 times harder than before?

[Mr Nothing]

I don't remember getting my ass kicked this hard back in my ps2.

[Cosmic Heavy]

same, it could just be how we remember it though. even on normal, i get some of the hardest matches ive had

[AnthonyBF2]

The PS2 only had 16 AI per team whereas PC is 32 per team and the PS2 processor was limited to 295MHz which made it very hard to focus on all the bots at once, so each and every bot was just dumber, but on PC, everyone has a good processor where the game can focus on all 32 vs 32 bots very easily, so in the end, you have double the enemies with double the skills due to better CPU power.

[Mr Nothing]

Originally posted by AnthonyBF2:

The PS2 only had 16 AI per team whereas PC is 32 per team and the PS2 processor was limited to 295MHz which made it very hard to focus on all the bots at once, so each and every bot was just dumber, but on PC, everyone has a good processor where the game can focus on all 32 vs 32 bots very easily, so in the end, you have double the enemies with double the skills due to better CPU power.

Well that makes sense.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[DlemmoR]

It's been found that PC enemy AI are harder in general than PS2/Xbox enemies. This is especially the case with 'Hard' since there was a patch released shortly after launch (1.2) that GREATLY increased 'Hard' difficulty on PC. The first Steam patch (1.3) kept this increase.

Let me know if you need help with any of the maps - I have videos on all of them on every difficulty.

[LeoNexGen]

Originally posted by RommelD:

It's been found that PC enemy AI are harder in general than PS2/Xbox enemies. This is especially the case with 'Hard' since there was a patch released shortly after launch (1.2) that GREATLY increased 'Hard' difficulty on PC. The first Steam patch (1.3) kept this increase.

Let me know if you need help with any of the maps - I have videos on all of them on every difficulty.

Oh ♥♥♥♥, is this right? As if Hard mode isn't unfair enough. You got any tips for Yavin: Temple on Clone Wars? I can never beat that map unless I steal an AAT from the droids.

But back on topic. One of the reasons why the game was easier on the PS2 was because of the aim-assist. You barely had to do anything. It almost auto-locks unto an enemy once you're in range. It helped level the playing field because the AI on Hard have some seriously good aim, and strafe too erratically.

[DlemmoR]

Here's how I did Temple with Republic on Hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4j6Rw3EEzE

[TheSpartan]

Probably because the multiplayer lobbies are full of PC sweats

[Kylän Diplomaatti Viljami]

I cannot really remember how hard bots performed on ps2 version, since my console broke over a decade ago. What I have noticed that PC version hard difficulty enemies "wobble" away from your sights and have very high accuracy. They also have jedi senses and know when you are shooting them from a distance.

[Bfloo]

Bots are so dumbed down these days, I think the bots were just a lot better back then.

They are harder than I remember from console, but it has been a long time since I played on ps2.

Yavin Temple I have better luck working along the flanks than going through the middle.

[Myth[Alex]]

Originally posted by BigDad:

due to spectre related issues (cpu hardware bug discovered in 2018) getting patched with some kind of software plug many games started to have weird issues like mouse lag/ jerky physics bugs, and i am afraid its here to stay as even running on a patched cpu still looks a bit weird at times of all games released prior to the 2018 software spectre patch. hl1/2 for example lags much more atm and they trying to fix it with vulkan renderer, not sure if it will ever be fixed for older unpatched titles.

If I remember correctly, there's a 3rd party tool that allows you to disable the Spectre protection. You can actually toggle it on-off.