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

haha shagg and RappingGranny? (MrBigJohnson)

I had no clue why we were dominating like that. Around 7 vs 3 ouch, I like sniping with the tank. I get a good oversee hill and catapult nukes on battling flags. Tanks can defend and help overtake bases well if they keep their distance while foots work on capturing the area. Starting to love the tanks + engineer combo.
 
Earlier this morning I did the calculations for when Coral Sea would be unlocked for each platform based on the kill rate since release. I posted this on my site this morning, so the numbers are probably different now, but ballpark estimates:

-At the time of this post, the Coral Sea Community Challenge has been going on for 73 hours. The Xbox 360 version has racked up an amazing 31,475,536 kills. That's roughly 431,171 kills an hour and 7,186 kills a minute (which in turn is about 119 kills per second). Next time you pull that trigger as a sniper, remember that there are 118 other players going down at the exact same time across the network.

-By our calculations, it will take ~99 total hours of Battlefield 1943 at the current rate to unlock Coral Sea on the Xbox 360. This puts the 43 million kill mark around 1:45 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, a mere four and a half days after the challenge started.

-The PlayStation 3 version is clocking in with a respectable 17,201,100 kills to date, which is 235,631 kills per hour, and 3,927 kills per minute. PS3 owners can expect Coral Sea to be unlocked after 182 hours of killing at the current pace, which puts the date somewhere around Saturday at 12 a.m. PST
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Finally got the leatherneck badge, was close a few times, but it took an opposing team full of autistic monkeys (that's my best guess, seriously, they were terrible) to put me over the hump, and it was 21 to 2 no less, yeah, that felt good, even if the adversaries we're not the sharpest bayonets in the bayonet storage facility.

Phthisis said:
That's roughly 431,171 kills an hour
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Roughly?
 
Ploid 3.0 said:
haha shagg and RappingGranny? (MrBigJohnson)

I had no clue why we were dominating like that. Around 7 vs 3 ouch, I like sniping with the tank. I get a good oversee hill and catapult nukes on battling flags. Tanks can defend and help overtake bases well if they keep their distance while foots work on capturing the area. Starting to love the tanks + engineer combo.
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Yeah it got boring, hard to find and kill people in that match, that's why I wanted out.
 
I was on a car bombing mission tonight. A few matches I got 10 or so kills and 9 of them would be from that. Too much fun

Got like 9 explosive efficiency stickers tonight doing that.
 
I love buying a game and being unable to play it.

Played a couple games earlier today, fun stuff. Go out, come back, and "failed to connect to EA online".

Really EA? Really? I was under the impression that purchasing a game means that I would be able to play it. Guess that's a stretch these days?
 
FunkyMunkey said:
I love buying a game and being unable to play it.

Played a couple games earlier today, fun stuff. Go out, come back, and "failed to connect to EA online".

Really EA? Really? I was under the impression that purchasing a game means that I would be able to play it. Guess that's a stretch these days?
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EazyB said:
:lol

That game was wacky

Eric WK and I just had a game where I went 1179 and he had 917
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I'm trying to find a fuller match, but all of these only have six or seven players per side. I don't understand it.
 
FunkyMunkey said:
I love buying a game and being unable to play it.

Played a couple games earlier today, fun stuff. Go out, come back, and "failed to connect to EA online".

Really EA? Really? I was under the impression that purchasing a game means that I would be able to play it. Guess that's a stretch these days?
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"Bugs: They're in the game."
 
Can someone help me figure out how to get the vehicle assist kills or whatever it is? Its pretty much the only badge need.

I can not figure out how to even get 1 of those.
 
I wish they would do a Battlefield 2 remake for the consoles. MC was decent for the 360, but I think that was just a port of the XBOX/PS2 version. As much as I'm enjoying this game, nothing beats a good red dot scope.

Maybe I should check out BC multiplayer. What would be really cool is if the would start letting us choose to download just the MP for some of the FPS.
 
Timan said:
Can someone help me figure out how to get the vehicle assist kills or whatever it is? Its pretty much the only badge need.

I can not figure out how to even get 1 of those.
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You have to do more than half damage to a vehicle and someone else gets the kill. Not exactly an easy badge to get. Personally, I'm having a bitch of a time getting the recoilless rifle one at the moment.
 
God I hate when some servers seemingly stop accepting people and the population dwindles.

Edit: WTF, search for a match as 3 and put us in a 4v4 game...

Kibbles said:
http://i31.tinypic.com/fumaki.jpg
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:lol
 
Timan said:
Can someone help me figure out how to get the vehicle assist kills or whatever it is? Its pretty much the only badge need.

I can not figure out how to even get 1 of those.
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Just play more with the Infantry class and start shooting at tanks, that's how I got mine.
 
Broadbandito said:
Eazy, me you and Eric are def gonna have to play. there would be no stopping us :lol
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For sure, it's amazing what a good squad of 4 can do even if the rest of the team totally incompetent.
The Faceless Master said:
:lol :lol :lol had a 1600 point game earlier

it was 3 on 4 in guadalcanal
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Holy shit.
 
Was playing for the past three hours. Got dc'd, and literally everything I did in that time span vanished. Ranks included. WTF is this shit.
 
playing this and watching all the trailers for BC2 is making me want to buy the first one for the MP. I tried the demo, but was turned off because of the corny shit in single player and never gave it a chance.

How is it graphically? Is there a big difference between the PS3 and 360 version graphically or in any other important way? Are the online communities still strong?
 
There is some kind of annoying bug (360 version at least).

Bunch of dudes will start dropping and I guess no one else is able to join. It ends up turning into a game of 4v4 (sometimes even less) which is kinda stupid on those large maps.
 
What the fuck? After it working always and never having this problem, now I can't connect to EA online? What the fuck??

What to do? I want to kill people with my rifleman :(
 
MMaRsu said:
What the fuck? After it working always and never having this problem, now I can't connect to EA online? What the fuck??
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Dude, calm down. :lol

They go down every night at this time. Server maintenance or some shit.
 
Jtrizzy said:
playing this and watching all the trailers for BC2 is making me want to buy the first one for the MP. I tried the demo, but was turned off because of the corny shit in single player and never gave it a chance.

How is it graphically? Is there a big difference between the PS3 and 360 version graphically or in any other important way? Are the online communities still strong?
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-360-vs-ps3-face-off-round-13-article?page=6

Frostbite is one of those engines built from the ground up for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and mooted to have equal performance on both platforms - claims we've heard before and rarely believe. However, DICE's coders are more open than most and they claim that PS3 performance has been substantially optimised. According to posts on the Beyond3D forum from one of Bad Company's developers, the game makes extensive use of the SPUs - everything from animation to the Havoc physics and even the generation of undergrowth are farmed off to PS3's satellite processing units. The result is a game that is pretty much identical to its Xbox 360 sibling.
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Oh shit allright I didn't know that. It's just morning here and I was getting ready to have some fun :p.

Well it's good to know it's not me! Time to start watching True Blood!
 
Sean said:
I agree, but I was happy to hear in the major nelson interview that Coral Sea is going to be separate (basically it's own playlist that you have to choose via the main menu) and it's not going to be in map rotation with the other three.
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Hopefully, this will also improve the current game where you sometimes can find five-six players waiting for a plane to spawn. Now they'll have their own mode where they can fly all day.

Of course, the downside is that Coral Sea will be filled with hardcore pilots so I'll probably only survive for four-five seconds every time I hop into a plane there.
 
strange_booj said:
If you are on opposite teams on the same server just send your friend an invite and it will automatically swap him over to your team as long as your team isn't full. (Worked for me on 360)
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That's sometimes a problem. Team balancing isn't very good in BF, i found myself playing with 5 vs > 10 last night :|
 
Jtrizzy said:
I wish they would do a Battlefield 2 remake for the consoles. MC was decent for the 360, but I think that was just a port of the XBOX/PS2 version. As much as I'm enjoying this game, nothing beats a good red dot scope.

Maybe I should check out BC multiplayer. What would be really cool is if the would start letting us choose to download just the MP for some of the FPS.
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Same here. I LOVED BF: MC.
Easy to jump in.
Weapons were simple & classes.
Choppers easy to fly and PARACHUTES.
Arty strike was the shizzle.
Controls were perfect. Sniping guys out of choppers or as they were trying to freefall down before deploying parachute close to ground.
Vehicles were fast and maneuverable.
Jihad jeeps & snow-mobiles were my favorite. Speeding into enemy base and stealing choppers.
Dodging missiles with the choppers took skill.
Chopper squad bailing out to capture flag.

Then I tried BF: BC
WTF?
Hard to tell what is going on.
Controls changed drastically from BF: MC why?
Get two feet and sniped from God knows where.
Jump in a jeep and drove like I was driving a hover round old people electric wheelchair.
Spend like half an hour trying to figure out what weapons do what and are the best.
No PARACHUTES!!!
I aint got time to unlock all weapons.

Looks like BF: MC2 makers realized this and brought back the fast vehicles and simplified weapons and classes.
 
ChackanKun said:
That's sometimes a problem. Team balancing isn't very good in BF, i found myself playing with 5 vs > 10 last night :|
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I played an 8 v 0 last night. Something messed up big time there..
 
This is some bullshit. I beat every single map TWICE and was the top squad every single time and I did not get the Best Squad achievement. It's my last trophy aside from the Tour of Duty ones. >:(
 
Been having an immense amount of fun in this game. Definitely exceeded my moderate expectations.
So many HOLY-SHIT-WATCH-OUT-FOR-THAT moments.

I'm Cindres on XBL (In the GAF 1943 DEUX group), hit me up.
 
Oni Jazar said:
This is some bullshit. I beat every single map TWICE and was the top squad every single time and I did not get the Best Squad achievement. It's my last trophy aside from the Tour of Duty ones. >:(
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That achievement is glitchy. I got it after playing an absymal round (alone and nowhere near the top squad). Also, when you see "top squad" in the details, sometimes it's just your team's top squad and not for the match.
 
Jtrizzy said:
playing this and watching all the trailers for BC2 is making me want to buy the first one for the MP. I tried the demo, but was turned off because of the corny shit in single player and never gave it a chance.

How is it graphically? Is there a big difference between the PS3 and 360 version graphically or in any other important way? Are the online communities still strong?
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Aside from some tearing, which I'll go ahead and assume is on both versions, the game is great on PS3. Runs fine, looks fine, plays fine and the online play has been very consistent for me so far.
 
Wow, we're at basically 40,000,000 kills on the 360, this is taking way less time than i'd imagined.
Bring on Coral Sea.
 
OK, so what is the magic secret on getting to actually join a friends game and squad / get your 'party squad' into a match intact and not split on different teams despite there being room on a team for all TWO of us.

The ticker on the bottom says this is a fixed issue, I disagree...this shit killed Killzone 2 singlehandedly (yes, more than the balance issues), and should never happen in a game ever ever again...

Squad system needs to work.
 
GodofWine said:
OK, so what is the magic secret on getting to actually join a friends game and squad / get your 'party squad' into a match intact and not split on different teams despite there being room on a team for all TWO of us.

The ticker on the bottom says this is a fixed issue, I disagree...this shit killed Killzone 2 singlehandedly (yes, more than the balance issues), and should never happen in a game ever ever again...

Squad system needs to work.
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Here's what I have been doing, there is probably a better way but this works.

1) Join friends party in dash.
2) Run 1943
3) At the front screen, choose the option to join your party members' game
4) If I'm not in their squad/team, I have them send me an invite from the dash. When I accept it my soldier suicides and I end up on the correct team and in their squad.
 
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