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[Game On] Battlefield 2142 : Striketh the North!
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That depends on what you mean by 'underpowered'.
If your talking about flying around the map with nothing that can shoot you down while you bomb 50 people into oblivion, racking up points for doing nothing, then yeah, their underpowered.
If your talking about being a good support vehicle that can take out a tank, guns on a Titan, infantry with ease (With gunner in seat), opposing transport ships and harass walkers, then no they aren't underpowered.
XBox ID - therealmasume
Oh holy God.
That big ass anti-armor gun?
Oh God. I shot a tank in the back at full health...there was this bad-hollywood-action-movie-moment-of-delay and then it exploded..killing the occupants instantly.
It was glorious. I came.
It doesn't suck at all if you know how to use it.
I disliked the power of the gunner's ATGM against a Walker. I always liked that rock-paper-scissors balance present in BF. The top gunner could do some damage against air units but the rockets for the air units had poor splash and I disliked the tracking of those rockets against the other air units. It felt too easy, less complicated as the series progress with air units. I've been playing Battlefield since it the first game but they just kept getting little things wrong that made the rest of the game annoying.
NOT AT ALL LIKE EVERY LIONHEAD GAME EVER MADE
..sorry. Seriously. I'm just joking with you, but I had to.
Say 8:00 EST?
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Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
Im on at random times though so meh
I never asked for this!
The jets/transports are VERY easy once you get a handle on them. The transports handle like giant boats, the immediate effects of thrusting/backthrusting aren't felt, then suddenly your stopping on a dime. Also your speed is determined by your angle, much like a choppers. You'll find with the transports that you'll need to angle it only slightly so that your not coming in *too* hot while throttling down, nice and slow. Once you get to the deck inch your angle back slightly and simply let the thrust go. It should land nice and smooth. Now the gunship is another matter...it floats without even holding the thrust half the time, and if you backthrust you go into a hover.
XBox ID - therealmasume
1. Alright, the game runs fine but there's still some stuttering. I can't explain it, but the game doesn't run smoothly. I join a 4 player server and it was running like butter. Then I joined a 48 player server and it ran like ass. Now I thought 1gb of ram would be enough, but apparently it isn't. You guys recommend buying another stick of ram? Will it improve or is this game the problem and just can't handle that many people.
2. Ok, this one is weird. For some reason, there is ALWAYS noise. Like a jet engine constantly around me. Doesn't matter where I am. I joined the 4 player server and ran right to the edge of the map. No one there. No vehicles or anything. Still happens. Noise. This loud blaring noise. What is going on?
Oh, sorry man, you need to get on my team/squad! I didn't even notice you until I killed you that last time on the Titan. FYI, there aren't really any safe places to stand in that sucker besides a hallway once it's open for invasion. Their are walkways overlooking the whole area.
XBox ID - therealmasume
1. 2 gigs of ram is a *must* for any high settings whatsoever. This was also true in BF2. Try turning down ambient lighting/shadows, or shutting them down altogether.
2. That's your sound card, or perhaps lack theroff. It uses quite a few channels, and if your running with an onboard sound card or something with very few channels (Onboard usually only has *8*), it will overlap sounds through the channels it has available, thus you will hear most everything within the map.
XBox ID - therealmasume
I R n00b, and don't know how to do that.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
Caps Lock is your friend. It is used for squad management and the commander screen.
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/878/878421/vids_1.html
I don't know what to think about this
Sounds like a solid expansion pack to me.
I never asked for this!
All I know is that it is so very hard to keep a bead on a moving ground target when you are operating one of the passenger guns on an air vehicle.
And the fact that your life is in the hands of some joker who may not even be able to fly the thing well is not comforting.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
It depends on weather or not the expansion pack weapons are ungodly powerful like in BF2. Also, the whole trend of a few new weapons/vehicles/maps requiring money is rather annoying, especially when the original game isn't finished before the expansion is announced.
They should have made an airplane only map. It would have attracted most of the people causing most of the problems in other servers.
You mean... a game still has bugs after being released? Eep!
If I assume correctly, Northern Strike will cost about 10 bucks over EALink, since they are referring to it as a "Booster Pack." It's better than the $40 I paid for the BF2 expansion, Special Forces. The later booster packs for that game were $10, though.
The only thing I dislike about the BF style expansions is that it segregates the entire community. It's not like you'll be jumping from a normal BF2142 game into one where people have the expansion. Once you install it, you've got a whole new game and you can only play with people who also have it. That is, unless, you launch the old game. Problem is, what if only a fraction of the BF2142 community buys Northern Strike? Hopefully with the low price point we won't see that happen.
Gunship aren't as useless as you think.
I've gone rounds upwards of 30:1 in 'em. If you learn to not try to use them like BF2 air vehicles you'll be fine. The only think I don't like about them is that the gunner's missile is pretty useless against ground vehicles taking 2 or 3 hits to take down.
Regardless of wether the new APCs are available on the new maps only, or game-wide, there are other unlocks and such with will serve to drive the sales of the booster.
And wouldn't it be insteresting if the new APCs were game-wide, but only actually useable by those who had the booster? I don't actually see much segrigation in this.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
From what they have been saying about this thing is that there is no separate NS game. It just adds 10 new unlocks and ranks to you and some maps. Sounds like the preorder bonuses really.
It would be kind of interesting if the new vehicles are in the old snow maps too but you cant use drive them if you aren't qualified (have pack).
I'm more interested in what the 10 new unlocks are gonna be.
I never asked for this!
I am the best man with a Pilum you'll ever find.
I don't know about that, the Pilum is pretty popular, and I'm hardly a slouch.
FYI Guys, please post your name and good playing times so we can organize something. I've seen a bunch of you on lately, remember you can join servers your friends are on!
XBox ID - therealmasume
See you all on the field.
I <3 my pilum, but I've been field upgrading to the SAAW lately in air heavy maps and, lemme tell you, them gunship and transport fiends HATE it. After awhile, they stop flying.
But, <3 titan defense, I have my Ganz, shield, and sentry gun set up and ain't no one getting past unless you're brining like 4 buddies to rush me.
XBox ID - therealmasume
While piloting a walker, it's best to press the Shift key to make the walker run. I find that it's better to walk while firing at at target though, as it reduces the walkers bobbing.
I don't know. If they don't segregate original BF2142 from BF2142+NS, you'll see this happening:
Player using stock game joins server.
Plays a map until the end of the round.
Server changes map to new NS map.
Player gets booted.
Rinse. Repeat.
For this reason, BF2: Special Forces actually segregated the two games. You could go and play on the old maps, but people with the old game could not play on the new ones. Whats more, the new weapons weren't available on the new maps (grappling hook, zip line, etc)
As far as the unlocks are concerned, I see no problem with those going game-wide, but it's the maps I'm thinking about here...