DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
The planes in 1943 give me very high hopes for A10 Warthogs in BF:BC2.
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The Battlefield 1943 (XBLA/PC/PSN) Official Thread
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The Faceless Master
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well, if one player is having trouble doing something, and another isn't, what other argument is there?BattleMonkey said:
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Cosmic Schwung
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Woohoo, finally topped 1000 points in a game.
I know everyone has different play styles, but I can't see why people wouldn't want to be in a tank. You move more quickly, you have a ridiculous amount of firepower, and you can take a fair bit of punishment before going down. The only thing you have to fear is large groups of enemies when you're not being supported, or the occasional sniper sneaking up behind you.
I know everyone has different play styles, but I can't see why people wouldn't want to be in a tank. You move more quickly, you have a ridiculous amount of firepower, and you can take a fair bit of punishment before going down. The only thing you have to fear is large groups of enemies when you're not being supported, or the occasional sniper sneaking up behind you.
The Faceless Master
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i did testsFlyinJ said:
The Faceless Master said:
Nice. And agreed. I feel like snipers are just wasting their time and mine, sure they may get a few kills (probably not as much as the other classes on foot) and a nice K/D ratio but they'll never end up with that many total points and are the worst at capping bases.Cosmic Schwung said:
CrazedArabMan
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EazyB said:
Gonna disagree with this, I play as sniper class quite a bit and usually have a ton of kills, most captures, and a good k/d.
BattleMonkey
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Most snipers tend to do nothing, and them putting the demolitions ability with snipers who do nothing but sit back most of the game just usually makes no sense. Rarely see any sniper putting down explosives or them doing anything useful in matches. Snipers in BF1942 were more useful as a support role.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Frostbite engines destruction is pretty shitty, to be honest.DeathNote said:
Seems the only way to really do well is to be a ground trooper..usually a rifleman.BattleMonkey
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cjelly said:
It looks good for buildings but on anything else it's silly.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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cjelly said:
Yeah but it's the only destruction engine out there that looks fucking awesome and not a fucking gimmick!
GodofWine said:
You're only on the enemy radar when you are spotted i.e. someone looks at you and try to shoot you or stare at you with ironsight. "Enemy Spotted!" or "Tank Spotted" or whatever will show up on top of the screen and everyone will be able to see where you are running for 10 or so seconds.
DragoNZ DZ
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shagg_187 said:
Red Faction: Guerrilla
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Seriously. Someone needs to shop that quote to the back of the box.DragoNZ DZ said:
The explosions and smoke effects are pretty nice in 1943 though. They were never very impressive in the PC iterations.
Felix Lighter
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Sh0k said:
I've had it happen 4 times or so and I've seen a lot of other people complaining about the same thing. So I'm guessing it's not something to be concerned about but it is very annoying.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Sh0k said:
I am having the same problem actually. It has definitely gotten me gunshy on playing sometimes. It is so frustrating.
Felix Lighter said:
I luckily haven't had a freeze, but I have seen that "poly stretching to infinity" mess that happens every once in a while. It's usually a sign that your system is about to die, so it's scary. But, it seems like everyone is seeing it in the game, so I wouldn't be worried.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
It's a known issue caused by packet loss on EA's servers. The netcode chokes on it and the game freezes. I would avoid peak hours.Sh0k said:
Very true but Battlefield doesn't revolve around the destruction, the destruction compliments the games sandbox design. On the other hand, Red Faction: Guerrilla feels like a destruction engine with a game designed around it, from the mission design to the environment design. Not to say it isn't fun, however going back to it today, I'm struggling to finish liberating Oasis through an overall sense of tedium towards the game. The multiplayer is still fun as hell.DragoNZ DZ said:
Back to 1943, I am sick of people thinking they are straight out of top gun because they managed to shoot and plane down in a dogfight. They spend the entire round in the air and have an average total of 50 points at the end of the match.
Finally, I would like to repost the Bad Company 2 video from E3 to show all the 1943 players the improvements to the Frostbite engine already made with roughly a year left in development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNG2I_zgjY
People really are morons. If you're a sniper, then please stay the hell out of my squad. Same with the guy who, get this, was swimming around the enemy carrier for the entire match. I accidentally spawned with them a couple of times and it's so freaking annoying.
Playing with a good squad really improves this game a tenfold (or so).
Playing with a good squad really improves this game a tenfold (or so).
cann3dheat
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I don't understand the sniper hate. Maybe you just have shitty snipers on your squads, but I usually play as sniper and end up in the top two/three in the match. As long as you continue to move and spawn smartly you can do a lot of good. Even close combat isn't that difficult with the pistol.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I play all three roles within a single round. I play whatever the situation on the battlefield dictates. Whether or not I am a sniper or how high my score is at the end of a round is all secondary to the fun for me. If I can turn the tide of a match with my actions or have a particularly satisfying Battlefield moment, then I am happy. The fact I usually finish in the top 5 if not the top overall most of the time is just secondary to how I play. Perhaps some of you should not worry so much about how many points you score or how few someone else has and just enjoy the game by trying to control and defend the points on the map at all costs.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
I wish members of the winning team got an extra bonus or something. Maybe that will make people actually care that our team has no flags and losing badly while they are running around playing deathmatch.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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DragoNZ DZ said:
That's cheating! As pointed out, when RF:Guerrilla was initially announced, it looked like a shitty game with a destructive engine. That's called being gimmicky. Fracture has the exact same problem that the original rendition of RF:Guerrilla had: A great engine but no great way to take advantage of it. After reading all the "LOL!" concerning the game and the "Ostrich hammer!" jokes, they decided to change almost everything about the game. They tweaked things and made it ALOT better than that "tech demo" they first showed. But yes, RF:Guerrilla's engine is a godsend!
Ofcourse, engines can always be tweaked and made better (Refer to source engine). BC2 looks way more awesome than BC and 1943 can ever look (not saying that 1943 looks shitty. It looks FAR greater than any downloadable game out there and better than some of the shit released in retail stores, no offense).
SapientWolf said:
:lol
They can gladly quote me for the sequel
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I agree. I really hope BC2 does more to address this.dskillzhtown said:
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Flip a coin, they're pretty much identical. There are about twice as many people playing on 360, which means the Coral Sea map will be available there first. Otherwise, pick which controller you like better for FPS games and buy it for that system.CiSTM said:
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Other than the obvious differences (controller, online friends and connectivity) there really isn't much of a difference. I own both and prefer the PS3 version, but that is mostly due to the fact I could not connect with the X360 version much at all.CiSTM said:
ALeperMessiah
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Arnie said:
If they're not good at it then it sure is annoying. If you're good and can take down 3-4 before you die then it's worth it.
I feel like I've gotten a really good hang on the fighters, but I can't figure out how to line up a bomb drop out of a fighter for the life of me. You can't see where it lands no matter what view so I have no idea if I was on target or missed by a mile. Really frustrating.
But dogfighting is a blast, especially when you get on a roll and shoot down 3+ planes per life.
Tokubetsu
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ALeperMessiah said:
Besides that, I think pilots and snipers are essentially anti-harrassment. Outside of AA gun (which is mostly useless against good pilots) and dudes who just happen to get the drop on a sniper, they're the best thing to use against each other. I played a game of Guadalcanal yesterday where the opposing team had around 4 snipers and 3 planes and they were effectively shutting all of our offensive down. They kept our planes down and snipers were completely controlling mid map and harassing people spawning away from it.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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dskillzhtown said:
Oh! This is a great point! I KNEW something was missing from the game. It was the joy of extra 1.5 multiplier when you win the game :lol
The Faceless Master
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this.DenogginizerOS said:
i play all roles, generally i play infantry the most because i'm a tank whore, but i do play scout and rifleman if the situation dictates it.
yeah i hope they stick to the BC1 formula of 40 points for winning.DenogginizerOS said:
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
shagg_187 said:
When I was playing Saturday, it really came to me that was missing. I saw so many people trying to do deathmatch near a flag where a battle for control was going on. They didn't care, they were running in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION trying to kill someone. WTF?
We have a goal here and getting the highest score isn't it!
Yes that is true they can be useful for scuppering the enemies attempts to capture an early flag at the start of a round but after that they just become this destraction overhead that very rarely influences infantry combat in any way, to the point that they may as well effectively be playing a completely different game to the players on the ground.EazyB said:
With regards to the sniper class, I would prefer it if DICE completely removed it and replaced it with an MG class capable of supporting their team with suppresive fire, made increasingly more suppresive by the use of great bullet sound effects. This would also promote team play instead of allowing players to become a one man maverick sniper, a fantasy it seems over half of online gamers seem to have.
The Faceless Master
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PS3 ProsCiSTM said:
- it's Battlefield 1943!
- you can connect and play 99.9% of the time!
PS3 Cons
- R1 to shoot
360 Pros
- it's Battlefield 1943!
- RT to shoot
360 Cons
- there are still some connection issues!