I loved 2142, I should find my disc and reinstall again. fun fun fun.

12/8/2010 9:36:15 PM

i did enjoy 2142 not gonna lie but i prefer the modern stuff, like Battlefield 2, BC2, the upcoming Battlefield 3. altho titan mode was pretty badass

12/9/2010 7:51:03 AM

The Riesig walker is the single baddest thing which has ever been put in a Battlefield game. Anti infantry guns? Check. Anti vehicle missiles? Check. Anti aircraft guns? Check. Ability to sprint and crouch? Check. I miss going on rampages in that thing.

12/9/2010 8:02:20 AM

servers really need to reduce the tank spawn times cause it feels like I'm killing those one after another every 10 seconds. It's almost worthless to play those tank maps without a working squad with one assault, engineer and medic to just be able to not constantly die. My KDR was down to even till the maps forced more urban combat than just simple vehicles. There really needs to be a way to kill tanks in one shot, like hitting the rear. Or the very least an ammo cash in the center of town.

12/9/2010 11:46:04 AM

the tank maps are pretty brutal when you have a well-working squad to support the armor. i've been in matches where 1 squad completely dominated the match because there were 2 engineers, 1 medic trailing the tank with 1 guy inside driving and firing. and then occasionally someone would jump into the gunner's seat to help with the infantry. it was really very impressive but damn was it near impossible to take them out.

12/9/2010 11:50:47 AM

I really want to work on my platinum stars, but every time I get away from my usual group of weapons and my KDR suffers.

12/9/2010 11:58:57 AM

I have just accidentally accomplished something I never knew possible: I destroyed a helicopter with a land mine. Enemy Apache pilot on Oasis was flying much too low to the ground to avoid AA fire, and he dipped one of the wheels into one of the tank traps I had placed on the main road. I got credit for both kills, and 1 of my squadmates also saw it happen. In my whole history of playing Battlefield games, I've never once done this before. Too bad there's no achievement for that.

12/10/2010 8:41:07 PM

^ I took down a chopper the same way by accident lol

Did you mean heavy metal though? I didn't think Oasis had helicopters

12/10/2010 10:13:45 PM

i played some with jbaz i think i a bit ago and a few other old tourny friends of mine, the new maps are fun but i don't know them at all...

12/10/2010 11:32:39 PM

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"Did you mean heavy metal though? I didn't think Oasis had helicopters"

On Rush mode, yeah. Attackers get an Apache at the first and second bases. This occurred during defense of the first base.

12/11/2010 1:06:00 PM

man, axelay you need to get the pc version or something...

12/11/2010 1:34:40 PM

Don't need it, already got mouse and keyboard with my 360.

12/11/2010 5:18:35 PM

not for that reason, so you can play with the rest of us!

12/13/2010 12:08:33 PM

I'd surely like to, but I tend to have some inconsistent gaming hours (unless I'm on vacation). I'm generally only on from between 4:00-6:00 on the weekdays, and usually not much on the weekends.

12/13/2010 3:16:57 PM

finally getting used to the new maps, but man, I've been getting annoyed with fast respawn rates of the attack helicopters in this.

12/14/2010 12:49:21 AM

the AA on the new maps takes care of the fast respawning of the choppers pretty darn well

12/14/2010 8:05:56 AM

Well, yeah, unless the pilot and gunner constantly strafe the location of the turret. I don't understand why the developers put the VADS in the game if it only appears in 1 multiplayer map. I'd have liked very much to have seen it used instead of the ZU-23.

12/14/2010 8:41:29 AM

sigh, in raleigh, will play some when i get back to greensboro for a few days, need to pick up some stuff from there before xmas....

12/14/2010 2:34:08 PM

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"the AA on the new maps takes care of the fast respawning of the choppers pretty darn well"

Half of them are in the worst god damn defensible positions ever made. You might as well hold a sign "here snipers, kill me". and if the other team is good, they'll just flank your AA position with a tank and destroy it.

On another note, I was just playing the windmill map and I shot down a helicopter from C that was near A with a tank shell. I arced that son of a bitch like crazy just for shits and giggles and couldn't believed that I sniped an attack helicopter from that far away. Even my gunner was stunned as he was shooting at it too.

12/14/2010 5:25:41 PM

I just don't understand why we can't have a man-portable anti-aircraft launcher. The tracer dart + RPG used to be a semi-viable option until they nerfed the speed of the dart and then made it so that the helicopter pilot got flares which completely negate the dart. There are few things in the game much more infuriating than only having 4 slow moving and even slower reloading darts, miraculously landing your last one on an attack helicopter, and then having it instantly nullified. Don't get me wrong, I can tag transport helicopters and even the HIND with decent probability. Those don't bother me half as much as the attack helicopters. Give the helicopters flares - fine. But give infantry a Stinger. Even more amusing is that in 2142, the game with the LEAST threatening aerial vehicles, we got a SAM launcher and all of the walkers have AA capabilities.

12/14/2010 10:05:04 PM

tell me about it. I was playing oasis and I literally planted myself at the AA gun for more than 1/2 the game to take down the heli. I mean it respawns almost instantly on that map. I got prolly 12 kills just that round from taking them down with the AA. Otherwise they would have been dominating that map.

I used to be really good with the dart and cg combo, but I cant dart attack choppers worth a damn in this anymore. Have to get used to the new speed. It's annoying as fuck to predict. I also used to be really good at sniping at them too, but I can't even get one hit on them. I agree with the stinger missile. I always laughed with the RPG being guided... And the heat launcher that no one uses is god damn useless in this.

In other news. Working on my platinums for the m24, m9, and a few submachine guns.

12/15/2010 2:40:27 AM

nice.... i don't know why but i don't really like sniping in this game much, used to love it in bf1942....

12/15/2010 7:33:03 PM

what you talking about? sniping is awesome in this, but depends if your team actually can hold the line cause the worst thing about being sniper is some fucker coming behind your ass and kill you. Or if your team doesn't fill up with useless snipers. I generally pick sniper 2/3 times now since I'm pretty good at it, but again, you need a decent team to use the sniper effectively without dying every 6 seconds.

That being said, i just did a rush round on that harvest map and got 48/6, mostly being sniper. I was doing 36/0 and finally died after I ran out of ammo and bum rushed a hill with a pistol with only one clip left. Killed 2 out of 3 guys there, but got shit faced by an Abrams. I'm liking the m24, but the gol is still king. m95 just sucks.

I wished they made a hardcore with the mini map; I rarely play soft core mainly because it infuriates me when you have to use a whole clip to kill someone. Just yesterday I was playing squad death match and I literally held down the m249 aimed with the red dot for 100 rounds into a guy that was 30m away from me. The guy literally had time to shoot at me, reload, and shoot back again before he died.

12/16/2010 3:39:24 PM

ok, that's pretty bad.... i dont really like hardcore b/c the snipers get overpowered there...

12/16/2010 4:23:08 PM

If you strafe you can dodge a lot of bullets very easily, I probably get shot at and they miss 9/10 times. Easy for me to spin around, find where their bullet trail came from, strafe till the guy pops his head and boom, headshot.

Its pretty easy to counter snipers with a good sniper on your own team or actually use some team work to take them down. If it's an urban map, I'll either go assault with smoke or engineer with cg and push their position. With a team of like 2 guys with me holding my flanks, I could either smoke my advancement or just cg the shit out of the building.

If it's an open map like harvest, then counter sniping or getting a tank would be my best bet, but if I'm attacking, I'd hop on the ole UAV and take out snipers entrenched with the vehicle scope pack. That's very powerful even though you have to wait like 20 seconds for the missile to get back online again.

I kept killing this one sniper over and over again with the uav from far away that his buddy on my team TKed me because I was pissing him off. I ended up just TKing him, switching sides, and TKing the sniper. lol

I just like it when guys go down after a few hits like they are suppose to. Not the run and gun bullshit. If I want that, I'll play COD black ops.

12/16/2010 8:21:29 PM

A. I don't know why people worry about k/d in this game especially when on offense... they have infinite respawns.

B.

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"m95 just sucks."

you sir need to learn how to aim...

http://g.bfbcs.com/4290/360_Bladerunner13.png

Quote :

" literally held down the m249 aimed with the red dot for 100 rounds into a guy that was 30m away from me. The guy literally had time to shoot at me, reload, and shoot back again before he died."

and burst fire...

[Edited on December 16, 2010 at 9:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/16/2010 9:17:04 PM

^umm... offense has tickets. it's defense that has infinite. for rush only...

And the m95's aim spread is a bit wider than the gol or m24, specially when you are moving side to side. The damage it does is only like 5% different than what the gol or the m24 does and really plays no part in soft core. I can use it, but I'm much much more deadly with the gol or m24. I tried to use it more to get the plat for it, but I'll focus on the m24 first.

Some guy literally said the m95 was better than the gol or m24 just because you could shoot trees in one shot and take out cover... I was like "that's what mortars, grenades, rockets and tanks are for..."

As for the m249, it was just a funny story, I just don't like soft core. I know how to burst fire with that weapon; i use it with great success in hard core, but it takes an insane amount of bullets when you don't have mag rounds in soft core.

And I don't know you guys snipe on a controller. Also, is the knifing on the console easy? It's always fucked up since the summer patch on pc.

12/17/2010 12:07:34 AM

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"i dont really like hardcore b/c the snipers get overpowered there..."

I've played Hardcore mode a total of twice, and hated it for the very same reason.

Quote :

"Also, is the knifing on the console easy?"

Not sure what you mean. There is an auto-tracking which locks onto a target when you draw out the knife. It's sometimes really disorienting. I'm not much of a knife fighter, though.

For as long as I've played this game, I've never experimented with using the 4x optics with the HK416. Now I just love it.

12/17/2010 11:07:24 AM

Wished PC got that tracking for the knife, if your off by a fraction, you miss them completely, yet your knife some how reaches 5ft some times.

I haven't played much of the new squad deathmatch map, but really like them a lot compared to the original maps. A lot more wide open spaces specially oasis. I just wished that medics would return a ticket when they revived fallen teammates like all the other modes does... Would make more sense and give the medic a stronger role in that mode. I only play with someone I know is online and wants to team up.

Oh, who here is in the tww steam group? I need an invite.

12/17/2010 6:02:08 PM

you're invited

12/18/2010 1:09:56 AM

yo, vietnam is pretty fucking fun. The M16A1 is soooo good it's ridiculous.

12/18/2010 2:39:53 PM

... and you have this how? Do tell.

12/18/2010 3:34:28 PM

came out on steam today...

12/18/2010 5:13:00 PM

Yea, if you preordered it on steam or eastore before the 21st or whatever you had access to it starting today. I bought it this afternoon lol.

12/18/2010 6:36:55 PM

thoughts on BC2: Vietnam? worth the $15? do you get to keep your current rank or do you start over from nothing?

12/20/2010 8:13:47 AM

good question...

on the subject of vietnam....
i thought Edge of Darkness mod for bf1942 was the best BF vietnam mod, they used old school topographical maps for the game map with hand written directions on it. coffee stains etc. the vehicles and game play were superb. (century series fighters etc)
bf:v was ok, they never really supported it very strongly or for very long, very few mods for it.
dunno about this new one...

really wish they would allow the modding community to have much better much more accessible tools to really help shape games. mods are what drove bf1942 sales....

12/20/2010 11:30:05 AM

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"do you get to keep your current rank or do you start over from nothing?"

I'm fairly sure that because it's a standalone, everyone starts over.

12/20/2010 12:02:31 PM

No, you do not start over for rank, the only thing fresh is new weapon stats.

12/20/2010 12:21:56 PM

cool, BC2 is 6.79 on steam right now. Might get it for a friend.

12/20/2010 8:21:00 PM

i bought it today...its been downloading since i got home from work and its only at 40%

12/21/2010 10:16:46 PM

not as bad when thanksgiving sale and I got 16 new games. Was over 60GB.

In other news, all the n00bs that are now on BC2 are delightfully nice cannon fodder, My KDR has easily been up a good 25% in most cases. Although, I've been getting tked on purpose a lot more lately. Donno why, but when you mess with the beast, I'll kill you, zap you back, and kill you again; probably 5 times till the server kicks me for excessive tking. But in that glorious 20 seconds, you just die constantly, and theres nothing you can do but take it or leave the server before I do.

12/23/2010 10:05:15 AM

lol yeah i've noticed that too. i've been having rounds consistently a 4:1 ratio or better

12/23/2010 1:21:15 PM

anybody playin right now? i'm ready to be some n00b cannon fodder!

12/23/2010 5:48:22 PM

Ill be on later tonight.

12/23/2010 6:27:13 PM

I cannot believe how good the MAC-10 is. Virtually zero recoil, big magazine, and an incredible rate of fire. I've never liked any gun in any Battlefield game as much as the UMP, but the Ingram just blows it away. I wish I could use it in regular BC2 games now.

12/23/2010 9:36:06 PM

My EA name is General Ben

If anyone wants to play with meeeeee.

12/23/2010 9:45:40 PM

i think i added you... i'm saturn11

12/23/2010 10:56:13 PM

Just got this 3 days ago and have been playin' nonstop.

Username is K-Infection

12/24/2010 1:11:49 AM

I must say that while this mod is good, the people playing it are driving me insane. I don't know that I have ever seen a population playing a game which is so collectively GOD. DAMNED. STUPID. I don't see how you could even HAVE this game by this point and not understand the concept of defusing the crate once it's armed. I just played 6 games straight where I was the only person on the team who ever attempted to disarm ANY crate, and the attacking team got every single one of them because there were at least 3 guys working to arm and only working to disarm.

12/24/2010 3:17:43 AM

setemup

12/24/2010 11:37:44 PM