Well lets think about this for a minute, Gentlemen. I see a lot of you saying that who shoots first, wins. Isn't that the way it should be? Isn't that the way it is in real life combat? If you are not paying attention and someone gets the drop on you, and their aim is true, by all rights, you should be dead. You have to re-think your movement strategies (if you have them) and act more like a real soldier. You can't just run around with no cover or you will get fired on, blinded/suppressed and killed. That is the way it is in real life. True, some of the maps make this sort of thing a crap shoot, like when trying to take back the Gas Station from USMC Main on EJOD, but that is the situation and in RL it would require some armored transport to make it across. You are just going to have to keep these things in mind guys. The old run and gun tactics don't work as well when all it takes is a few near misses to turn you into a scared, confused monkey with a rifle not knowing where to go or what to do. Move with your squad, stay in cover or concealment as much as possible. If you come under fire and are suppressed, your SL should direct the other members of the squad to fire on the enemy so you can move to better cover/get revived, etc.

This is a hefty dose of reality in Project Reality. You can't play like it's vanilla BF2 anymore and it pay off as well as it did before. I must admit that I don't like the suppression effects when I am pinned down and there is no one to help me, but when I have backup and can suppress the enemy in turn, it is a very realistic game dynamic. Don't just say it's a crap change in the game without thinking it through a bit. There are ways to use all of this to your advantage and like Masterjack said, real military tactics do seem to work better now since this aspect of the game has changed to a more realistic effect. True, you don't go blind when fired on in RL, but there is no way for the game to instill fear for your life in a player. There is no way to make you panic because you are right on the edge of death and you know it's coming. The respawns and constantly dying and being revived have dulled our sense of realistic death and we have no fear of charging a tank to put C4 on it, or running across open ground with a whole squad of enemies firing on you. This effect simulates that fear and confusion and artificially instills the loss of coherent thought and action. It's not perfect, but I think it's one of the best compromises I have seen, short of having a no respawn server which is sort of impossible on a 64 player map in BF2.