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Lets play some FH2
Fandyien
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Forgotten Hope two. It's an awesome, epic, realistic, slow-paced, and utterly fantastic BF2 mod. Volyu introduced me to this some time ago with a thread but I missed the radness, and, after booting this shit up again, I'd like to see if I can convince some of you douchebags to play this sweet mod with me.
It focuses entirely on the Africa campaign, giving you the option of being either British or German. It functions via the same basic system as all Battlefield games, with an emphasis on tank combat and realism. I admit it can be difficult to learn at first, but after a few rounds, I promise you will enjoy this mod more than most of the other shooters available right now.
There's a decent map rotation, and I've been playing on the hslan server, since it's usually the only one with people on it, and usually 25-60 of them. It's absolutely awesome. I have grown fond of the Recon class with it's rifle and incredibly useful binoculars, but all of my attempts to take the fight to the jerries in vehicles have more less ended with me getting exploded in some spectacular way. The fighting is always super intense and the level design pays incredible attention to detail, particularly in the small, close, urban fights.
We should play. I will maintain a nice little list of anyone who is down and also here are some pretty screenshots.
You can download it here, at www.forgottenhope.bf1942files.com
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Jerks who might play this
It focuses entirely on the Africa campaign, giving you the option of being either British or German. It functions via the same basic system as all Battlefield games, with an emphasis on tank combat and realism. I admit it can be difficult to learn at first, but after a few rounds, I promise you will enjoy this mod more than most of the other shooters available right now.
There's a decent map rotation, and I've been playing on the hslan server, since it's usually the only one with people on it, and usually 25-60 of them. It's absolutely awesome. I have grown fond of the Recon class with it's rifle and incredibly useful binoculars, but all of my attempts to take the fight to the jerries in vehicles have more less ended with me getting exploded in some spectacular way. The fighting is always super intense and the level design pays incredible attention to detail, particularly in the small, close, urban fights.
We should play. I will maintain a nice little list of anyone who is down and also here are some pretty screenshots.
You can download it here, at www.forgottenhope.bf1942files.com
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Jerks who might play this
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Lots of neat stuff. More content then most modifications, by all means.
But if you truly yearn for bazookas, there are plenty of artillery positions on pretty much every map that can be satisfying to man.
Mostly because the anti-tank rifles aren't that effective for killing tanks, but they sure do make for satisfying infantry kills.
Guys that are interested in FH2 should also look at this. It's a monthly subscription, but if you have a hardon for realism it is awesome. They seem to be leaning away from their ridiculously time consuming setup that they used to have for infantry and tanks, but it's still not too great. The flying in it is awesome though.
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I played WWII online back in 2004 for a few weeks. I remember how all the buildings had 2d walls.
It was actually a decent game, but it's not 'fun' in the same sense that FH2 is. It's much, much, lamer.
That game game out when I was still playing Asheron's Call back in, like, 2001 or something.
That's ridiculous. I thought it failed fucking hard. I remember at one point that it took like six steps just to start a jeep.
Then I hid under a tree for twenty minutes and a German feller shot me
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Once you actually know what you're doing it's a shitload more fun. Knowing one of the top 10 tankers and top 50 pilots when I was learning was pretty handy, too. And as I said before, planes are a shitload more fun than anything else. It can be one of the most frustrating games in existence though, oh god the ragequits. They're still making a heap of improvements to the game, it looks a hell of a lot better than it did, but having it play well with so many people around is always going to require it to have crappy graphics in relation to other modern games.
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I had given up hope of FH2 ever coming out. I remember... god, it's been so long I actually can't remember his username... but he showed me a bunch of the models and textures he was working on for the mod. This was more than two years ago!
bombardier would know who I'm talking about. SET ALIGHT THE BOMBARDIER SIGNAL
In fact I'm surprised he hasn't told me the damn thing is in a playable format!
mcgibs? Is the mcgibs that posts in AC a bit here the same one that works on FH2?
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I've given up on BF2 because even freshly installed and everything it's the only game that crashes to desktop randomly.
I played the first Forgotten Hope for like 2 years, loved every minute of it. Forgotten Hope 2 is awesome, and they're coming out with a patch that will finalize the North Africa theater, fixing some issues and adding new maps and shit.
They've already begun work on the Western European theater, so expect that sometime in the coming months.
The original Forgotten Hope had like 40 maps, all theaters, so don't expect this mod to "finish" any time soon.
PS, Fandy, I love you.
Edit: Also duders if you do install the mod be sure to adjust your graphics so that you can play with a good framerate while also having your draw distance completely maxed out. You need the full draw distance because tanks have realistic ballistics (hell, so do the rifles and shit) so they engage at long distances. Nothing sucks more than getting shot by something you can't see, so trust me, this is something you'll want to do.
Edit 2: And pay attention to your God-damned minimap. Don't expect any magical blue or red names to pop over your enemies. Learn to tell the uniforms and tanks apart or you'll kill teammates.
I may take you up on this because the only reason I even owned BF2 was in anticipation for FH2. FH was so good but I didn't get in until around 0.6 so the lack of content and steeper learning curve has made FH2 tough to get in to.
So how 'steep' is the learning curve? Like, how long will it take for me to fly a plane with any precision?
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I know the game is going to be fucking amazing it just sucks how slow the development has moved.
The learning curve in relation to, like, basic infantry combat and vehicle usage is pretty easy. But as to flying, I still can't do it - though I could never fly in BF games, and the planes control a lot like the ones from 1942.
As far as tanks, what Volyu said about them functioning realistically is pretty accurate. There are three types of ammunition available for the main cannon, each useful in a different situation. You have to choose your ammunition carefully and generally stop to site your shot, etc, making tank combat precise and exciting.
Planes play a pretty important role and look as if they'd be fun as hell to pilot. I just suck at that sort of thing.
Maybe thats why all of my flights end with me banking sharply and being unable to recover, and thus crashing into a dune or something. The firefights look really intense from the ground, though, planes all swooping around, strafing infantry, dropping bombs and shit.
But enough of that jazz, here's the trailer for Forgotten Hope 2, showcasing the North Africa theater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlLp1WGF7Y
Plenty of gameplay videos on youtube where you can watch stuff like tank combat, infantry combat, and so on.
And this is a pretty hilarious of some infantry combat narrated by some crazy British dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS2Suf45C-g
The way he rejoices when he makes a great shot is hilarious.
Edit: Whoops fixed the links
Yes that is exactly why. Get a joystick. It doesn't even have to be a good one. It makes all the difference in the world.
ah nevermind, restarted twice after the update and now its going.