Guys I just got this game and a new monitor to immerse myself on with it. Downloading now. I will probably play the single player campaign first to familiarize myself with it as its been awhile. I am a dedicated BF 1942 and Desert Combat vet so it shouldn’t take too long for me to figure everything out. I totally want to play with you guys although I suspect I will suck balls.
FWIW, the single player is completely useless. Just hop in with us, we have lost the last 5 maps and counting, so there’s not a lot of pressure to be the best ever. We’re just having a good time messing about. Add SDMB as your clan-tag in the in-game player profile, just makes it easier to recognize each other at a glance.
Also, get on vent, even if you don’t have a mic and can’t talk. We’re a good bunch for voice chat. Torus has been regaling us of tales of his job as an electric meter programmer, which are fascinating beyond belief. Has all the ladies in his lap.
How do you change your name to add the SDMB tag?
Click on your name at the very top middle of the page.
That’s your profile. Now click on edit on the left menu.
You’ll see some settings called “Soldier Settings”. In that box in that section you can put in your tag: SDMB.
Be careful though. Once you do that the ladies will be all over you. It gets tiring at times.
I can only imagine what it’s like for Torus with his double whammy.
Captain_C: “Torus has been regaling us of tales of his job as an electric meter programmer, which are fascinating beyond belief. Has all the ladies in his lap.”
Electric meter testing device programmer.
Oh, and who is Torus here?
Oh man, do I hate snipers. Not just when they’re on the other team, but especially when they’re on mine.
And even more so when our base is being blown up and there’s ten people on the outskirts just laying prone waiting for someone to be in their sights.
Really, an entire team needs one, maybe two.
Been playing a small bit, added “SMDB” as my clan name, is there anything else I need to do, or just jump in the SDMB server whenever it’s up? Saw some mentions of a platoon, is that helpful?
Yeah it can be. Have you joined the SDMB platoon yet?
Did now, thanks, had to look it up.
edit - name, anvilcrawler.
Welcome on board soldier!
I’m starting up another round of sweet sweet death in about an hour.
Get your gear on people!
The game inexplicably doesn’t have built in voice support (and if it did, it probably wouldn’t extend past squads), so you’ll want to get ventrilo to coordinate with us. The game is a lot better that way.
Go to the setup page and pick a push to talk key and any other settings you need to do, then go to the main page and create a new server profile.
Hostname vent3.gamespeak.com
Port 4303
Password deathrays
Ok, so after a few days of playing and letting it sink in, I will say that this is an awesome game.
It doesn’t feel dumbed down or handicapped or any of that stuff that almost every crossplatform game has been for years. It’s clearly a PC game.
It does the realism aesthetic - an atmosphere of realism without actually trying to be a simulator - better than any other game ever made. The game is beautiful and all of the various little things the game does makes it amazingly immersive. The way chunks of walls get blown up and turn into dust clouds, the suppression system, the way you lose your hearing from nearby explosions, the way you even see dust on the inside of your visor when looking at the sun - there are tons of tiny touches that make the world feel detailed, chaotic, and real.
The vehicle modelling is pretty good - decent variety, hopefully they expand it in the future. The aircraft aren’t as dumbed down as I worried - the helicopters aren’t nearly as fun to play as desert combat (still the gold standard after all these years), but they aren’t as dumb as BF2 or BC2. Well, BF2 may have had better jets, but not better helicopters.
The squad system is similar to BC2, which is good. It really feels like you’re making a cohesive, substantial effort to an overall huge battle by sticking with and communicating with your squad mates. Really, everything that was good about BC2 is replicated here, and most of the bad stuff (movement, hit detection) is fixed.
Movement is actually particularly good - it does as well as any game ever made at making you feel like you’re controlling a real body, and not just a floating camera in space with a gun in front of it.
Playing through it, I kept thinking that it was an Arma2 where the developers remembered that the point of a game is to be fun.
My only major problem with the game is the squad management when trying to get on a server. It has been nearly impossible to have our entire squad enter a game, and all four of us be there when the level loads. It seems to always kick at least one player off if not three.
A minor beef I have is once the round is over you have to wait for the next one to start before disconnecting from the server. Super annoying.
Like I said earlier though, nothing that can’t be fixed with a patch or two.
Of course after hearing you guys talk, I’m tempted to upgrade my pc so I can play on here.
The helicopters are harder to fly, but at least they don’t dominate the game like in BC2. The right Apache pilot in BC2 could just circle-jerk the enemy base camp to death.
I finished the single player campaign.
I don’t get where all the reviewer hate is coming from.
This is an almost exact replica of the latest Modern Warfare campaign.
It’s the same length, it’s on rails in the same way, cutscenes all over the place.
It’s exactly the SAME thing.
And yet some people actually scored it a 7.5 because of that, while the gave the last call of duty a 9.0.
They keep on harping on it not doing anything new, but I guarantee you, these same reviewers are going to see what is an identical campaign in MW3 and praise it.
You should. It’s better, of course, and we’re having a blast playing it together.
Probably too underpowered if anything, it’s pretty hard to kill anything or stay alive more than a minute.
The heat seeking missile mechanic makes the game really uninteresting. I realize that it’s part of the realism aesthetic - that you don’t just launch dumb missiles at aircraft nowadays and it would seem out of place - but that’s what desert combat did and it was just flat out way better.
“Look at target until it beeps, fire, oh, he launched countermeasures, ok, wait for it to beep, fire” is really boring gameplay both for the guy on the ground and the aircraft. In DC, you’d have proximity detonated rockets - you’d shoot a rocket straight that would detonate if it got within 15 feet or so of the aircraft. So it required skill on the part of the user, it rewarded the pilot for skilled flying to avoid them, and if you set it up right, it gave you a chance to sneak attack the aircraft instead of always giving the targeted aircraft a heads up.
So… the lock on system gives more of a realistic aesthetic, but it’s worse in gameplay terms in every way, both in terms of balance, rewarding player skill, keeping player interest, etc.
Anyone else get a private message from this guy, Major-Easy?
Don’t let the win.
OK so you are new to the game i have been playing for two mouths now and before that was 18 mouths ago yes they are good but not that good.
E mail me, as soon im going to start a sever for team death match and need people to be admin for me im a lot older than you but don’t let the teens think they are that good.
you can learn to be good also some of them cheat I want a sever where we keep the cheats out so if you are intrested E mail me. Major easy.
Check my website out at www.wix.com/major_easy/major_easy ok take a look.
WTF? Dude can’t even spell. Is this some kind of reverse Russian bride/blackmail swindle or something?
Any word on whether Dice is going to up the number of players for consoles? 24 is kinda low for many of these massive maps.