Im slowly converting..

[Combat-Quokka]

Re: Im slowly converting..

Ouch. I hear ya, I requested a vehicle drop today, COmmander obliged. SOme guy on my team(squadless, definately a "team player") takes it and speeds off, I ask for a ride, he keeps driving, so I take a few potshots at the bumper, to make him aware of the situation. He stops. I run up, he jumps out and kills me with his shotty. Than gets mad when I punished him. Some peoples kids.

Jeez mate, when you take a few shots under such circumstances, do what I do... do it with the AT rocket. They don't tk you then...

[zipp0r]

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If there's anyone who thinks the time spent in a jet vs. any other vehicle doesn't have a greater timespent/affectiveness ratio, then they should read this thread. Oh they are reading this thread

I'm happy for all of you.

But don't you think it' sort of odd that you can buy a joystick and only after a few hours be more afraid of hitting a UAV then anything ground troops can throw at you?

I'm not suggesting jets shouldn't be the biggest dog on the block. They should be. I would just like it to be a little more difficult to get to the point where you can dominate ground troops. Personally I think it would make for a better game.

It's not the power of the jets that concerns me, it's their ease of use. "Drives like a car"?

In some ways I'm glad pilots are getting TKd at airfeilds and C4ing jets that they couldn't get. Could you imagine how full the skys would be if it were an orderly process as to who gets the damn things?

ground troops are the lowest on the food chain in this game and theres absolutely nothing wrong with that. if they are stupid enough to be in a good bombing place then they deserve death.
little jimmy should not being able to take out a plane by shooting an ak47 at one and moan about it being unfair.

and everything in this game is easy to use and many things have been nerfed to make it even easier.

[RavenRealms]

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I wouldn't say groundpounders are the lowest on the food chain. If you get a really skilled spec ops guy who knows exactly what he is doing, he could take out anything.

Tank whores feel my wrath when i make up my car bombs.

[zipp0r]

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I wouldn't say groundpounders are the lowest on the food chain. If you get a really skilled spec ops guy who knows exactly what he is doing, he could take out anything.

Tank whores feel my wrath when i make up my car bombs.

say you have a decent player in every vehicle and every class, it makes infantry the lowest on the food chain. the odd time the lower people will nail the higher up people, but can you see generally thats not the case.

[DrJambo]

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So what it boils down to is those with the best hardware (high spec PC, joystick) get the best toys to play with. They'll load in quicker, pick the best vehicles (i.e. jets) and away they go as the top of the food chain. This presumes of course that they have the basic skills at hand to play a fps, which most people do.

BF2 is the only fps that it can make such a difference having quick loading hardware. Other games just notching down the settings is all that is needed to compete. Here you can be skilled but if your PC sucks, you're a groundpounder every which way you look at it.

In one game I played recently (using Beta 2), I spawned on the carrier on Dalian Plant to see an enemy sniper parachuting from a J-10 to steal one of the US jets. Luckily for me he landed right in front of me. :> Something's clearly wrong when it's possible to do something like this in a game...

[Lamri35UK]

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I'm SOOOOOO glad its not just me that is slowly going over (a bit) to using a plane. I can't fly for toffee, but I am getting better all the time, and really enjoying myself with it!

[zipp0r]

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So what it boils down to is those with the best hardware (high spec PC, joystick) get the best toys to play with. They'll load in quicker, pick the best vehicles (i.e. jets) and away they go as the top of the food chain. This presumes of course that they have the basic skills at hand to play a fps, which most people do.

BF2 is the only fps that it can make such a difference having quick loading hardware. Other games just notching down the settings is all that is needed to compete. Here you can be skilled but if your PC sucks, you're a groundpounder every which way you look at it.

In one game I played recently (using Beta 2), I spawned on the carrier on Dalian Plant to see an enemy sniper parachuting from a J-10 to steal one of the US jets. Luckily for me he landed right in front of me. :> Something's clearly wrong when it's possible to do something like this in a game...

hang on, look at it from the other side... so they have a quick pc, they load the game first, why should they have to wait for loads of players with slow pcs to load the game? it can take nearly 5mins for everyone to finish loading!!
everyone has the option to buy a faster harddisk, its no bug or huge advantage and it only applies to a round where the level had to be loaded. theres always a swarm of people the next round...

[DrJambo]

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Having just a 20 sec time to start would encompass the majority of players' PCs and level the playing field a little, giving more people an opportunity to once in a while pilot a jet or use the tank...

[zipp0r]

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Having just a 20 sec time to start would encompass the majority of players' PCs and level the playing field a little, giving more people an opportunity to once in a while pilot a jet or use the tank...

there is already, the faster you load, the more of that timer you have to wait.

[Cap`N Hagen]

Re: Im slowly converting..

So what it boils down to is those with the best hardware (high spec PC, joystick) get the best toys to play with. They'll load in quicker, pick the best vehicles (i.e. jets) and away they go as the top of the food chain. This presumes of course that they have the basic skills at hand to play a fps, which most people do.

BF2 is the only fps that it can make such a difference having quick loading hardware. Other games just notching down the settings is all that is needed to compete. Here you can be skilled but if your PC sucks, you're a groundpounder every which way you look at it.

In one game I played recently (using Beta 2), I spawned on the carrier on Dalian Plant to see an enemy sniper parachuting from a J-10 to steal one of the US jets. Luckily for me he landed right in front of me. :> Something's clearly wrong when it's possible to do something like this in a game...

This is easily rectified by setting a 30 second delay at start.

[ActiveMatx]

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Having just a 20 sec time to start would encompass the majority of players' PCs and level the playing field a little, giving more people an opportunity to once in a while pilot a jet or use the tank...

NO!!!!!!!!!!!

I Hugely disagree. I have a F**King fast computer and it is that way for a reason. I LOVE being the first person in the game.

Sometimes I will be in the game a full 3 or 4 minutes before most of the server is in. I am without a doubht always the 1st person in the game too. I love it.

I can go fly a jet, die, respawn, and the jet will still be all there for me. :)

If they had some countdown, that would just suck. The only time I ever get the jet is the 1st round, because on the 2nd round everyone is already loaded in.

By the way, flying jets, or playing battlefield for that matter is much more fun with a widescreen monitor. I have a larger field of view, and can see much more on my screen than a lot of people. Heh heh, I think part of the reason I dominate so bad is because of my PC Hardware. :p

[Cap`N Hagen]

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!

I Hugely disagree. I have a F**King fast computer and it is that way for a reason. I LOVE being the first person in the game.

Sometimes I will be in the game a full 3 or 4 minutes before most of the server is in. I am without a doubht always the 1st person in the game too. I love it.

I can go fly a jet, die, respawn, and the jet will still be all there for me. :)

If they had some countdown, that would just suck. The only time I ever get the jet is the 1st round, because on the 2nd round everyone is already loaded in.

By the way, flying jets, or playing battlefield for that matter is much more fun with a widescreen monitor. I have a larger field of view, and can see much more on my screen than a lot of people. Heh heh, I think part of the reason I dominate so bad is because of my PC Hardware. :p

You are so right.
What were we thinking?
After all, this game was created, marketed and sold , just for your personal enjoyment.
Please forgive us.

[Metasynaptic]

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In one game I played recently (using Beta 2), I spawned on the carrier on Dalian Plant to see an enemy sniper parachuting from a J-10 to steal one of the US jets. Luckily for me he landed right in front of me. :> Something's clearly wrong when it's possible to do something like this in a game...

If the round start time is 60 seconds and not 15 seconds, this usually evens this out.

On 15 second round starts, I often get to gear first... but on 60 second starts, I'm usually waiting while more people sign in.

[Blades]

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Planes are quite possibly one of my favorite things in this game.

Especially the F35. The rush of going 62 kills for 0 deaths (which i did, a couple days ago) is unmatchd.

[imported_Jazza]

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Planes are quite possibly one of my favorite things in this game.

Especially the F35. The rush of going 62 kills for 0 deaths (which i did, a couple days ago) is unmatchd.

I can't even got that score in a J10 on Wake :)

In Australia theres pretty much 2 servers you can play on, either Internode or Gamearena (which each have about 15~20 servers).

On Internode you can't bomb or use any vechile in the uncapables, but there is no wait time at the start of the round.

On Gamearena you can bomb and kill anything and anywhere you like, which is good but sadly Gamearean servers are full of TK'ing morons. Theres also a server wait time at the start of the round, its 45 seconds if I remember correctly.