Absolute best way to kill time waiting for ns
MonsieurEvil
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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<a href="http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/battlefield1942/gamedemo.jsp?state=111" target="_blank">Battlefield 1942 MP Demo</a>
Despite having a million things to do, I still found a few hours this weekend to play this sucker, and all I can say is:
Wow.
More fun than a barrel of playboy bunnies. This demo has become the number 2 online FPS in the past couple days (second only to CS), and for good reason. It's awesome.
Despite having a million things to do, I still found a few hours this weekend to play this sucker, and all I can say is:
Wow.
More fun than a barrel of playboy bunnies. This demo has become the number 2 online FPS in the past couple days (second only to CS), and for good reason. It's awesome.
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Hopefully one day, I'll have enough time to learn how to play.
<a href="http://www.3dactionplanet.com/features/articles/bfstrat/" target="_blank">BF42 MP Demo guide (3 pages)</a>
God hates me...
Jeep pwns!
The red servers are passworded and the white ones are unlocked or unpassworded.
I have to say although I cant fly worth crap, it's VERY VERY fun!
Well, I'm hearing it's an awesome game. So it's probably worth a dl.
Note: It's bout 1.1 gigs
Im having fun though.
Being an infantry and just seeing a plane buzz by the houses by mere meters and tanks rolling into a village with the rocky stop action ... oh my ...
The only thing I dont like about 1942 is the people who play it. Unfortunatly it seems like CS players on speed ...
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I think I'm a rather good pilot, I can hit any target now and can do mad barrel rolls. Starting to become a pretty good tank driver too - actually starting to prefer it to the planes ... which <b>everyone</b> runs for on either team when ever they pop up - so it leaves my tanks more or less open ..
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Whenever I try to look up, its like it has trouble and the camera shakes alot. I have to struggle to look up. Does anyone have an answer?
P.S. I once parachuted from a zero, pulled out my sniper rifle, and killed to Yanks who were mining up the island. All before hitting the ground.
P.S.S I once Ran over a swimming dude with the mini-boat thingy's. He didnt die, so i drove it next to him, hopped out, and loaded the boat with explosives (I was an engineer). I died troo but it was sure fun to see his body fly out of the water.
I was in a jeep, trotting towards one of the cap points. a friendly tank was blocking most the road, I was a bit annoyed, so I just figured I'd go around. Well, when I swerve around the tank, I see our engineer had placed several land mines, so I put on the brakes and thought for exactly 1.7 seconds (I timed it).
Seems an enemy jeep was clocking in the direction I was coming from, swerved to miss the tank like I had done and hit the land mine. This did no damage to me, however the big mass of metal that was formally know as a jeep, landed <b>on top of me</b>.
Not crashed into me, not rolled, slamed or nudged ...
it became airborn, flew a bit, then landed right on top of me, killing me instantly ...
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No one got the kill for it, but it was hella-funny.
TychoCelchuuu: The AA guns are the best weapon in the game! I've taken out many a careless tank with them and you can't beat the feeling of blowing a parachuting zero pilot out of the sky with a burst of flak.
Strangely enough, the hand-held weapons are the worst I've seen in any game. It's almost impossible to accurately aim with any gun as the netcode is so damn bad. Jerking and wobbling around with a ping of < 100.
--Scythe--
<a href="mailto:the_only_scythe@subdimension.com">the_only_scythe@subdimension.com</a>
One thing that really irks me is when your trying to type out the message: "You can't hit aircraft with <b>depth charges</b> you batty bastage" While in midair flying a torpedo bomber and for some reason the characters don't register when you type out the message, It usually comes out as "Yo c't t acft i thrge u btt btg". And I plunge into the big blue sea typing it out again. I've said it before and I'll say it again, <b>nothing</b> beats voicecomm.
--Scythe--
<a href="mailto:the_only_scythe@subdimension.com">the_only_scythe@subdimension.com</a>
P.S. And yes, I was actually being shot at with shells being fired by massive deck guns and having depth charges going off under me whilst torpedoing this gunship.
My Pentium 3 450Mhz just isn't up to it.
I'll have to download DoD again. But it's not the same...
Wilco....
Anyone have a machine with enough power to run this game as a server?
Maybe we can borrow shodan?
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I must say the netcode leaves loads to be desired...it's tough for me to find a game where I don't lag in...but I'm persistant
AAA is fooking awesome!!!! put me in one of those, and NO ariplane is safe, no parachute will hit the ground and damnnit, I can take out tanks too!!!
ahh yes.. tanks. I use them as mobile AAA, thou I usually end up getting a plane to about 50% before they bomb me, but still..
engineers own, sorry, but I always repair the carrier when I respawn.
oh! and my favorite tactic!!!!: parking the gunship right next to the airport and use it like a seige cannon, just blindly blowing away the ariplanes and tanks, and spamming the buildings. if I've got a scout on the ground... then watch out, 'cause it usually takes me 3 shells (if the scout is good) to get a precision hit on a target.
although I found out that the anti-ship gunnery is weak... I got into a standoff with my cruiser and two turrets, and despite the fact that they hit me with almost every single ####, I still took both turrets out.
jeeps are cool! you can go from one side of the island to the other really fast!!!
oh, and I love the troop transports: one driver, one gunner, and four people in the back... hell yea. speed out to the airfield or the norht base, hop out, call for bombardments, and voila!instant flag.
one bug that I noticed is that on the north base there's a spot where you are at the edge of the water, but you're still capping the flag. I exploit it, but it's still lame.
Oh, and you CAN rocket jump and survive!!!.... you just tend not to live once you hit the ground again.
BTW, tailgunner sucks, but if your pilot is on a straight bombing run, then he needs someone to bite the fighters that will be on his tail.
a great game. my former clan has a server for it, but due to only having 512 2700 DDR, it can't support more than 8 people. as soon as the 9th person joins, everyone's ping goes to 1023. wierd eh?