Firebird takes Battlefield 2 and adds a balance of arcade and realism to the gameplay with lots of new vehicles, weapons, and over 100 individual maps to choose from. Multiplayer, co-op, and Singleplayer are available on all levels.
I have been playing this mod for the last 2 days and as far as i know, the mod works just fine and haven't had a crash or anything. This mod pretty good and fun despite those who say this is a copy-paste mod. I don't care about that since it's so stable compare to other mods that try to stuff so much assets into them. However this mod does have some issues that I would like to point out:
1. The A.I seems to be not as consistent and polished as other mods. Although the enemy team's bots are very agressive and dangerous because they supressing-fire you, have amazing accuracy and like to push you out of your cover using many methods. The friendly team's bots on the other hand feel very awkward and sluggish. They often stand in the open just to get shredded by enemy's fire, they don't operate vehicles quite well or they straight up don't drive their vehicle at all and they almost never respawn in captured points other than the staging area.
2.The Holo scope on NATO weapons doesn't have a holo at all which makes it useless. I don't know if this is because of my game version (CE 1.50) or the mod itself but i hope the developer will look into this soon.
3.The weapons work fine most of the time but the accuracy in some situations can be very frustating. The recoil of the gun doesn't match up with the bullet spread. This makes guns occasionally feel like a super soaker. The MGs (M240,249,MG3,...) are the most affected, like you can spray 100 rounds at an enemy squad at a relatively close range and only kill 1-2 of them. I think this because the dev took BF3/4's weapons model and shooting animation combined with PR's bullet spread to make the weapons somehow more realistic?
These are 3 issues that I have encountered after some playthroughs. Sure these issues sometimes take me out of the game but I still like the mod nonetheless. The maps, the sounds, the effects (having PR's explosion and impact effects is always a plus point for me),etc...., everything is put together pretty well, the developer just need to improve upon what's already in the mod, tweak and rebalance the weapons and AI, then the mod will be even better than it is now.
wonderful , just WONDERFUL
Greetings!
I want to say a few words about this mod.
In general, it all started with the fact that I felt some kind of stagnation in my evening gatherings playing my favorite mods, which at the moment are Damocles mod and mod Zone of Continuos Fire.
The gameplay in them, in my opinion, is the most pleasant, believable and fun, and what causes my keen interest: I am often surprised by the bots there, which sometimes act unconventionally and even sometimes manage to trick me around their finger. In such truly WTF moments, there is a feeling that I am playing with live players. I do not know what the mod creators did with AI there, but it's really fun when you first get angry and then laugh at yourself. I even recorded several webcam videos for myself and I will say that it's even more fun to look at myself in such emotions.
These are really my favorite mods. The core of course is taken from the beautiful AIX mod, which used to be my old favorite, because I liked absolutely everything there. But these two mods have significantly embellished the gameplay and now they are played better than our favorite AIX mod.
But I recently thought that it's still not worth dwelling on these two beautiful houses, and since I'm a fan of BF2, it means it's worth exploring other mods, of which there are plenty for this game and it's worth watching something else.
I didn't like a lot of mods that I downloaded. Very often it happened that small arms were made perfectly, but the vehicles is often nondescript or even broken physics of movement, helicopters are very unstable in flight. In short, I tried and removed many different mods that I didn't like for various reasons.
I came across the Firebird mod and downloaded it without much interest. But when I launched it, I played for probably 6 hours without stopping, forgetting that I actually have to go to bed.
First of all, I appreciated what I always pay attention to: these are aircrafts and vehicles. And I can immediately say that all this is on top.
Still, I perceive Battlefield as a game where war reigns in all its manifestations. Like a rock-paper-scissors game, when everything can destroy everything, rather than just a shootout of one team with another.By the way, I changed a lot of things in those mods for a brighter gameplay. I increased the speed of shells and missiles there to make it a little more realistic. I couldn't not raise it too much, otherwise the balance would collapse and it would become uncomfortable. Even then I thought that I would like to make such a mod, with a more realistic approach, but without restrictions and that excessive hardcore for me, which is offered by some good mods like Project Reality or AIX Reality.
A fun, but slightly more realistic game.
And I can say now that Firebird has hit the spot.
Very pleasant aircrafts, shells and missiles fly as fast as in reality, IFVs have ceased to be so defenseless against aviation, tanks have become much more dangerous, their destruction is now really a small victory.
I also like to choose shells on the tank for effective shooting at different targets.
I really hope this will appear in the BMP in the next versions of the mod.
Small arms are quite good, there are different sights, everything as it should be in good mods and there are also here.
In general, I am happy with the mod.
I will look at other maps.
So far, I haven't really been into editing. The only thing I changed from the Kiowa helicopter gun parameter Helicopter Red Projectile to machine gun 50BMG, because the Kiowa machine gun 50 caliber M3. The sound is now perfect and in general otherwise plausible.
Many thanks to the author of the mod! I will follow the updates and even support you with my coin.
All the best! Peace and tranquility to all!
Its really an awesome mod to play for BF 2, probably the best I would say. Just one query though, how to unlock weapons in this ?
Amazing, balanced mod that managed to strike that delicate middle line between arcade and realistic. Really nice for those who wants intense yet not goofy and comical, body-grinder kind of match.
Cool mod finally i can play my favorite ground attacker panavia tornado! Also the fact that there is more then 100 maps is just mindblowing when you keep in mind that there are alsao ton of new vehicles and bots just works better. Perfect mod for sombody who likes vehicles warfare.
Very fun
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Great mod lots of fun !!
Nice mod, all is incredible models\effects\sounds\maps. Waiting Izrael\Japan faction.