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The Battlefield 1943 (XBLA/PC/PSN) Official Thread

Yea, yea...one more Warhawk reference....sorry..

The air only board should spawn you IN a plane like dogfight servers do in Warhawk.

damn, Warhawk got so much right
 
shintoki said:
Midway or Invasion of the Philippines would have been much better choices. Personally, I think they should give those 2 away for free.

Bring out a Western Front Expansion, and Eastern. Both with 4/5 maps each and 1 or 2 that will be free over time if you bought that expansion. So then we have all the maps ^_^
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I wish they are planning this, but the likelihood is that it won't happen. El Alamein was by far my most loved map.
 
Kureishima said:
WAnt to buy this game, but afraid it won't connect just like the demo. :-/
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Game servers are working fine. Probably noone in the demo servers. Since the trial is only 30 minutes.
 
MMaRsu said:
Game servers are working fine. Probably noone in the demo servers. Since the trial is only 30 minutes.
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I'm pretty sure there aren't any demo servers; the demo connects to the full game servers, and locks the user out after thirty minutes.
 
Link.

While un-locking the Coral Sea map was definitely a communal effort, we here at EA DICE would like to give a shout out to Xbox live user James (jkasapi) from Peterborough, England.

It was James' virtual bullet that registered the 43,000,000th kill, un-locking the Coral Sea map and Air Superiority mode for all Xbox users.

For his trouble, James wins a pair of official 1943 sunglasses, a 1943 t-shirt, and custom Battlefield sneakers! Congrats James!

Playstation fans, keep playing! We'll have a similar give-away when the PS3 community hits 43,000,000 kills.
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Qwell said:
Are you on PS3 or 360? and have you previously been able to play any other EA games?
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360. I don't traditionally play EA games.

But this has been failing to connect since the day it went up. There's just some kind of problem. Fail to connect, fail to connect, fail to connect. Fuck EA.
 
Technosteve said:
any of you guys ace pilots? i need pro tips to take down planes
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Fly in the cockpit, aim just a little bit infront of the other plane if you are turning and learn to feather the throttle to get tighter turns. I'm getting better overall, just had a 600+ point round. Just wish I wouldn't have issues connecting when I wanted to play most (before I head to bed) and that I could mute the retards on PSN :|
 
Kureishima said:
360. I don't traditionally play EA games.

But this has been failing to connect since the day it went up. There's just some kind of problem. Fail to connect, fail to connect, fail to connect. Fuck EA.
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Go to the website and follow the instructions on the web page. You have do some work, but if you don't bother researching the problem, then you're pretty stupid. Sorry
 
Kureishima said:
360. I don't traditionally play EA games.

But this has been failing to connect since the day it went up. There's just some kind of problem. Fail to connect, fail to connect, fail to connect. Fuck EA.
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More like fuck your connection, it's working fine for the vast majority of players.
 
ergo said:
Go to the website and follow the instructions on the web page. You have do some work, but if you don't bother researching the problem, then you're pretty stupid. Sorry
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Just crazy that while other games work fine and I have no other problems this title should require some special shit. How am I to know that?

Coin Return said:
More like fuck your connection, it's working fine for the vast majority of players.
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You guys are so fucking nice in here.
 
ok i need more pro tips is there any way for me to stall the plane while climbing to do a dead man's drop to get behind an attacker? what's the best way to do the tightest turn, speed angle yaw etc etc... i should look at youtube for protips >.>
 
CrazedArabMan said:
If they remake that map, they need to put in the flying fortress. That was always one of my favorites. It would be cool having a squad in the bomber, a pilot/bomber, and everyone else being gunmen to protect it from planes.
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YES, they need the bomber with all the positions. And if they do the eastern front maps they need the Katyusha, Wespe, Stuka, etc.

Hope they don't dumb down this game by removing everything and just making it 1 tank/1 plane/3 infantry classes.
 
Goddamn, I wanna play Coral Sea, I fucked up my arms yesterday so I can't play any games for a couple days. I'm glad it's not in the normal rotation though.
 
what the fuck is console's aversion to auto team balancing? the entire last match was fought where the enemy had twice as many members members. when i kill one of them, they should be transfered to my team to make it more even.

edit: now my team has twice as many. what the hell
 
Trax416 said:
People never learn anything it seems. A single Scout can hold down the lighthouse for the entire match. just lay TNT on the flag and in the door. Hide/snipe in the middle or at the top, when it gets taken, blow it up, take it back. Rinse and repeat this almost forever.

People literally never learn. They will continue to come back and get blown up over and over. Or try to climb up and get chomped down repeatedly. It's sad.
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Every time we play this map we have our snipers constantly checking the lighthouse. First blowing it up with a tank so there is no room to hide up top. Anyone up there is plucked off super... super easy.
 
OldJadedGamer said:
Every time we play this map we have our snipers constantly checking the lighthouse. First blowing it up with a tank so there is no room to hide up top. Anyone up there is plucked off super... super easy.
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The main issue is you can get into the middle section of the lighthouse. The only way someone can kill you is if they get up there (you kill them), or toss a grenade/explosive up there (blow them up with your TNT first).

They need to change the LH so you can't fall to the middle area, and just have to go to the top or bottom. Then it wouldn't be as big of an issue.
 
dfyb said:
what the fuck is console's aversion to auto team balancing? the entire last match was fought where the enemy had twice as many members members. when i kill one of them, they should be transfered to my team to make it more even.

edit: now my team has twice as many. what the hell
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i played a match a bit ago and we started up wake island with about 8v7. i bailed outta a plane - after i was about to do a way too often head on with another - and actually swam for like 3 minutes to get to the coast. i was waiting for the boats but nothing came of it. then i looked at the scoreboard and it was 9v1 lol.
 
chubigans said:
I'm pretty sure there aren't any demo servers; the demo connects to the full game servers, and locks the user out after thirty minutes.
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There are demo servers, because the only map you can play in the demo is Wake Island so those servers only rotate Wake Island.
 
Coral Sea is a really nice change of pace. Just got 8 kills my first game, with probably 4 or 5 assists.

It's pretty fun shooting down a plane that's trying to take down one of your team mates.
 
I fucking hate coral sea. So dumb. such a waste. Almost hit 1000 just before. had 2 games in a row with 30 then the third with 25 kills. rocking it so hard now :D
 
JB1981 said:
why does this game have to synch trophies each time i hop on?
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It's one of the things I hope gets patched and sooner rather than later. Add it to the pile with being able to mute player, more customizable controls, ect.
 
God the MGs are fucking useless in this game.

rhfb said:
It's one of the things I hope gets patched and sooner rather than later. Add it to the pile with being able to mute player, more customizable controls, ect.
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Not like anyone uses voice chat in this game.
 
Glad I bought this game, tons of fun. The only downsides I dont like is the fact that there is no prone, and the fact that a fucking shot from a tank won't kill infantry unless its practically dead-on. Other than that, best bang for your buck.
 
shintoki said:
Well Coral sea sucks for multiple reasons

-No ground combat, Only planes and the occasional plane that comes by your carrier
-The spawning sucks, It seems to spawn 80% of the time on one of the carriers. So you have 5 waiting for planes, and the other one has no one but 2 spawned planes
-If someone gets in a plane and doesn't move....awesome grief
-You can't move the carriers nor sink them, so it's just a Deathmatch in the air. Pretty much decided on which team has the guy who can't fly.

Midway or Invasion of the Philippines would have been much better choices. Personally, I think they should give those 2 away for free.

Bring out a Western Front Expansion, and Eastern. Both with 4/5 maps each and 1 or 2 that will be free over time if you bought that expansion. So then we have all the maps ^_^
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Damn.... that fucking sucks...
 
Kureishima said:
Just crazy that while other games work fine and I have no other problems this title should require some special shit. How am I to know that?



You guys are so fucking nice in here.
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Have you created an EA account and linked your XBL tag to it? that is probably it.
 
Kureishima said:
Just crazy that while other games work fine and I have no other problems this title should require some special shit. How am I to know that?
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I couldn't connect either until I registered at EA. I can't believe they give no heads-up on this. they without a doubt are losing alot of sales because of this. since registering, the game is awesome, I just suck at it. 6 kills is the most I ever got. and FU snipers.
 
Phobophile said:
God the MGs are fucking useless in this game.


Not like anyone uses voice chat in this game.
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They don't use it for its intended purpose, but on PSN I'm getting tons of idiots just playing loud obnoxious music
 
I've never played a BF game before, but after playing the demo, I spent most of my time running around the map trying to find enemies.

Is this the case with the full game as well? I don't know if everyone was just in vehicles or what....but even though both teams had 9+ players, I rarely ran into anyone...
 
My first Battlefield game and I've been searching this thread and the EA forums for some basic questions. Got some answers but some things I still haven't gotten figured out.
Is there a manual that I'm missing?

1. Air strikes - Well, I figured out that those three planes together is an air strike. Can I shoot it down? How/where do I launch it? Does a requirement have to be filled to be able to launch it?

2. flags with circles around them - just noticed this tonight for the first time, what does it indicate?

3. squads - what is the purpose of squads when the team size is only 12? who is the squad leader and how is that decided?

4. triangle above everyone's head - the triangle appears only after you have been shot (tagged), correct? If you find a place to hid out, can you lose it?
 
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