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

Typical kotaku. It's weird, but certainly a mistake. EA store probably had a default date in the store system for 9/9/10 12:00 and nobody caught it. Game isn't out, just a website mistake (would love to be wrong though).
 
jlevel13 said:
Typical kotaku. It's weird, but certainly a mistake. EA store probably had a default date in the store system for 9/9/10 12:00 and nobody caught it. Game isn't out, just a website mistake (would love to be wrong though).
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Really? is tehre a source to this?
 
jlevel13 said:
Typical kotaku. It's weird, but certainly a mistake. EA store probably had a default date in the store system for 9/9/10 12:00 and nobody caught it. Game isn't out, just a website mistake (would love to be wrong though).
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It was not only kotaku. I put it in the basket and ordered it. However, I did not get a confirmation or similar.

The german shop worked.
 
Apparently the link is here: http://eastore.ea.com/DRHM/store?Ac...=XDvARgoBAlgAAFSHyE4AAAAI&rests=1284009553232

Doesn't work for me, just goes straight to the home page (I'm in the UK). It's £9.99/$15.

http://www.gamerzines.com/pc/news/battlefield-1943-pc-released.html
http://www.incgamers.com/News/25066/battlefield-1943-finally-available-for-the-pc

^ Two websites saying it's available for download.

EDIT:

Update: Unfortunately Battlefield 1943's appearance on the EA Store was actually an error according to a recent tweet from the publisher:
"BF 1943 PC is not available. This is an error on EA store. We are working to sort it out," explained BF1943's official twitter feed.
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http://www.gamerzines.com/pc/news/battlefield-1943-pc-released.html
 
Did anyone else just jump into this game because of the EA sale?

My first impression of the game was pretty simple (never played a Battlefield), its awesome and I loved the scale of the battle. In my 1st match it took me a while before I realized I had to get on a boat and drive it inland. I jumped in and out a couple times and then started swimming and I was like theres no way, so my 3rd try resulted in embarassingly easy success. As soon as I got out on the beach I was shot dead. That sucked, but things improved. I was getting some sniping kills rather easily. The shooting feels a tad bit off to me. I feel that quite often I have my crosshairs on a guy and shoot, but miss. And I have played countless hours on FPS online. I'm standing still when I shoot too. Also, I can barely fly that damn plane.

The gameplay was great, I was shooting guys out of vehicles. I ran up and threw some c4 on the back of a tank before running away and detonating the charge. I got in an epic knife duel between another sniper, who was as willing as I to forget about guns for a while. I almost captured my 1st flag...before a bomb was dropped on me.

In summation, what a great XBLA game. I'm not surprised it sold so well. I suck right now, but I'll be putting in a lot of hours into a game I only had to pay 600 points for. Thanks to alerting me to the EA sale GAF. I hope to see some of you guys online.
 
tc farks said:
Did anyone else just jump into this game because of the EA sale?

My first impression of the game was pretty simple (never played a Battlefield), its awesome and I loved the scale of the battle. In my 1st match it took me a while before I realized I had to get on a boat and drive it inland. I jumped in and out a couple times and then started swimming and I was like theres no way, so my 3rd try resulted in embarassingly easy success. As soon as I got out on the beach I was shot dead. That sucked, but things improved. I was getting some sniping kills rather easily. The shooting feels a tad bit off to me. I feel that quite often I have my crosshairs on a guy and shoot, but miss. And I have played countless hours on FPS online. I'm standing still when I shoot too. Also, I can barely fly that damn plane.

The gameplay was great, I was shooting guys out of vehicles. I ran up and threw some c4 on the back of a tank before running away and detonating the charge. I got in an epic knife duel between another sniper, who was as willing as I to forget about guns for a while. I almost captured my 1st flag...before a bomb was dropped on me.

In summation, what a great XBLA game. I'm not surprised it sold so well. I suck right now, but I'll be putting in a lot of hours into a game I only had to pay 600 points for. Thanks to alerting me to the EA sale GAF. I hope to see some of you guys online.
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bullets take time to travel, so if someone is far away and moving, you have to aim in front of them.
 
So does this game still see a lot of activity? I'm also thinking of jumping in because of the sale.

edit: I checked Major Nelson XBL activity list and it's not even in the top 20 arcade games... is that bad?
 
FunkyPajamas said:
Is this game still being played on PSN? Does it have EA Support? I'm thinking of jumping in. Any advice will be appreciated (:
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The game is still quite active on PSN (I still play regularly as well). No problem jumping in and finding full matches. What do you mean by EA support? If you mean like DLC and map packs then no they hasn't been anything added since launch besides the plane-only map after the kill goal was reached.
 
Looking to join up with some new people if anyone here is still playing. It's still one of my favorite and most active PSN games.

Hit me up if you want to play.

PSN ID: SlLENTCAPYBARA
 
so, i was playing this yesterday, and there were full games going still! game really is a nice, fun, relaxing game... DICE really missed the boat on not having a PC version of this, it's so good.
 
launched BF1943 yesterday (on PS3) and I was surprised by how many people still play this game – 20-24 people in every match:

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can't believe this game is already 8 years old
 
Damn man now I'm sad I can't play this right now. 1943 was a gem of the highest order. The best of the complete destruction of BC2 with the cut down stremlining of a game with a purchase.
 
What a great little game. Really sucks we didn't get to see a 1944 sequel, or even some more maps.

I would have loved to play in the European theater.
 
Reckless Onion said:
Holy blast from the past.


Never understood why they didnt release some dlc for this, they could have made lots of money
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dracula_x said:
yep.

also, it seems like the game was a commercial success, they sold 600K copies in just two weeks → http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=369052 I don't understand why they dropped support for it.
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The point of the game was to get more people into Battlefield via a low cost product as promotion for the upcoming Bad Company 2.

It worked as BC2 outsold BC1 by a large margin.


Random thing: The head of the game asked on UK EA forums for trailer ideas for 1943 and he used mine in the Wake Island trailer.
 
Loved this game especially the fact that everything was already unlocked and you could just play and have fun like a normal person instead of grinding for hundreds of hours for a red dot scope.
 
Neuromancer said:
Loved this game especially the fact that everything was already unlocked and you could just play and have fun like a normal person instead of grinding for hundreds of hours for a red dot scope.
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Agreed. That's why it's perfect

Tomcat said:
Great game. I hope we will get it on Xbox bc soon!
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btw, BF: BC1 is coming to Xbox BC program, so I think there's a chance that BF1943 will be available too.

Stallion Dan said:
The point of the game was to get more people into Battlefield via a low cost product as promotion for the upcoming Bad Company 2.

It worked as BC2 outsold BC1 by a large margin.


Random thing: The head of the game asked on UK EA forums for trailer ideas for 1943 and he used mine in the Wake Island trailer.
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funny thing, BF BC 2 is almost dead on consoles (at least on PS3), while BF1943 is still active
 
Yeah, I loved this back on the 360 and it was going super cheap in the PSN sale recently. I sensibility downloaded the trial version just see if anyone was still playing and expected nothing. Surprise surprise there were plenty of people playing, so I picked it up and had a lot of fun.
 
Last post before this bump came at a time when I just graduated college, and started my career ;_;

What a game

Completely forgot about it and it would be amazing if they could get this on the Xboc BC program.
 
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