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Whats your connection like? If you've got high ping, then the chances are the other guy will always be getting the first shots on target, when yours may very well not be, due to lag (even though they look like they are).

Assuming it's got some huge animation, its just going to be a giant lag-bomb. Kills a bunch of people, and lags the hell out of anybody who happens to be looking in the general direction.

Another vote for dao12 + l96.

The dao12 is better than the p90.  If you got them both, you'd just end up using the dao12 all the time. Same with the scar. The g36c is better than the scar.

Personally, I'm not too sure if EA are to blame. The latest nvidia forceware driver (84.21) has caused me untold problems, and I reckon somehow thats got something to do with it.

Am I the only one left puzzled why the constant claymore abuse is still going on? Since 1.2 they've become the weapon of choice for many people and it ruins the gameplay in a lot of servers.

I think they seriously need nerfing somehow.

There's 2 good ways they could do this. They could leave the new no friendly fire thing alone, but make it so explosives can detonate the claymores.

They could remove the no friendly fire thing, but make it so the sniper doesn't get any TK's from claymores.

Of course, the second option is going to be open to abuse, with people using claymores on airstrips to TK for planes, so the first option of making them detonate with explosives is probably much better.

Hello friends. My name is Monkey and I've been an armour whore, on and off,  for approximately 6 years. I started in the year 2000 when I dicovered tribes, and I've had quite a few relapses since. In 2002 I found a much easier, more popular source for my addiction, by the name of battlefield 1942. I'd dose myself up for hours at a time, savouring the sweet sweet goodness I'd gain from my senseless inconsiderate rampages. After 1942, things only got worse. I started to abuse the street versions, there was eve of destruction, forgotten hope, and the ever addictive desert combat. I whored for hours, with the help of my pimp, mr ASE (now mr Xfire) I'd always find plenty of punters willing to suck on my big cannon.

I had a breif respite. After a while I got fed up with the dirtyness of desert combat, and the cleaner versions just didn't have the same kick as they did before. I was cold turkey for a while. Occasionally having a does of tank whorage in san andreas, but it really wasn't the same thing. So cold and lifeless. No punters to recieve my explosive discharges, just row after row of lifeless zombies. And thats how I felt..... Like a zombie.

Then, along came my current addiction. The first time I saw one of my old babies in 1600x1200, with shadermodel 3.0, I knew I had to strap my belt on for one last hit. 20 hours or so later, and I've managed to please over 1400 customers. If it wasn't for all my whoring, I'd be a bitch with a negative score. As is it stands, I'm a whore and proud!!!!

I don't know how to hack. I once downloaded a hack for CS, and played a few rounds until the novelty wore off and I got bored.  I thought cheating in multiplayer games would be more fun, but after the novelty wears off, its just as boring as playing doom3 with god mode on.

I've thought about hacking to get the unlocks, but I've already got all the guns I want, and I'm too scared of loosing my points.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They bloody well should. Get rid of all the MEC crapness and give us some germans to shoot! I wouldn't want them to remake the levels exactly the same though, like they did with wake and the bf vietnam thing they released.

Flying across the desert in Al Alamein in a jet 2 feet of the ground...... killing unsuspecting enemy soldiers by ramming them and scooping them up.

Doing the same thing to tanks in the ac-130!

Does anybody remember the version of DC that had suicide bombers in? It was only the current version for a single day..... version 0.3m..... before they released 0.3n which removed them.

That night of crazed suicides was legendary!!!

monkeyhunkeytunkey wrote:

all i know is if you got skillz with the barret 82 in real life then expect to have your head blowen off

What are you trying to say? If you're skillful with it you're more likely to get shot? Or does the gun explode when a really skillful operator is using it? Or did you mean the bullet will travel the whole way round the world and hit you in the back of the head?

Great post Jonnykill.

Personally, I think the media are using Islam as a scapegoat for a lot of the worlds problems.

I don't believe the vast majority of the insurgents in iraq are "muslim extremists". Some of the leaders probably are, and many of those wouldn't be of Iraqi origin.... they'd have travelled there afterwards to provoke the situation. I think the vast majority of Iraqi suicide bombers are just going to be regular men, who've lost the will to live after their families have been killed in the war. Its got fuck all to do with religion.... they're fighting because they hate the countries that started an illegal war and murdered their loved ones. They've lost the will to live, and they want to lash out. It's only logical that they're combining the two.

Everyone seems to forget the "war on terror" and the war in iraq were not supposed to have anything to do with each other. It seems to me a lot the talk of muslim extremists in iraq is just a conveniant smokescreen, to divert people's attention away from thinking about Blair and Bush's international crimes. All the anti-west extremists have just adopted the religious thing because they feel it gives them a louder voice.

These muslim extremists are a paradox in themselves. They either don't understand Islam, or they don't have any faith in the first place.  Islam is the same as christianity. It's all about forgiveness. If you do something wrong to a Muslim.. he'll turn the other cheek, and inside, he'll be thinking "well, either Allah will forgive this, or this guy is gonna burn for eternity, so either way, theres no action needed from me".

If a muslim murders somebody, he's pretty much guaranteeing himself a place in hell. Thats what all the scripture and holy books say. I can't really believe any true Muslim is going to take heed of what Abu hamza has to say about a thousand virgins, when all their scripture very clearly says if you murder, you're going to hell.

The Koran already says everyone who doesn't believe in Allah is already going to hell, so a true devout Muslim would know that all us westerners are already doomed to an eternity of hell, and nothing they can do to hurt us is ever going to compare to that. Why would they risk their place in heaven to hurt somebody who's already doomed? It does not make sence. Why would I be standing in a court room... talking about chewbacca? It does not MAKE SENCE!! Ladies and gentlemen of the "supposed jury" I ask you this..... "why would a wookie want to live on a planet of ewocks?" IT DOES NOT MAKE SENCE!!! If any of this makes sence, then surely sucide bombing doesn't make sence? WHy am I talking about chewbacca anyway? IT DOES NOT MAKE SENCE!!!!!

Yeah, don't worry at all about AMD's having low clock speeds.  Its mostly down to a clever marketing ploy from Intel.

At some point in the past, Intel realised their chips will sell well just as long as they've got a huge number stuck to them... such as 3.0ghz.

Once they realised this... the numbers were all they aimed for. They didn't really care about making the best performing chips, as long as their chips had the best numbers associated with them.

If someone is driving a tank as engineer, and you're his gunner...... if he stops in a quiet corner to use his wrench.... DO NOT STEAL THE TANK!!!!!!!!

Chances are you're driver is just going to get angry and TK you with his mines.... then TK you again when you're waiting for the tank to respawn.

If theres a threat you can't handle with your machinegun.... you just have to use the "get in" command. Theres never any excuse for tank stealing.

Jarheadz wrote:

karkand is the best map to get ez kills and points and etc

I expect theres guys that play exclusively on wake or Kubra... but they don't show up in the top 10 because you've can't get same SPM on a big spread out map than you can on karkand.

General_CoLin_Tassi wrote:

Adapt. You know the problem so find a tactic around it. Asking for the game to be changed is not the way forward. Asking for the AT class to be removed is nothing short of noobism. Use the force!

PS. Am I the first person to use the word "noobism"

"Don't whine. Its a waste of good complaining"

I have.... I take a boat out.... get it in just the right position so I can see shadowy shilouettes on the carrier deck.. and sit in seat number 3 getting plenty of kills with a sniper rifle.

I always get plenty of kills.... but it does fuck all to help the team.

Its a situation you can't really adapt to. I can get points for myself, but when the chopper is in use.... theres not a single thing I can do to help my team capture flags.

I think the requirements are kinda stupid. Looking at the hours the top guys have put in....... I doubt anybody is going to get Brigadier General, just because they'll have easily exceeded 200,000 points before they make the vehicle requirements.

THe guys with high SPM's aren't going to stand a chance of getting this rank..... the only way you can acchieve Brigadier General is if you make sure you've got a SPM of less than 2 or so, and unless you're REALLY crap....nobody's going to have a SPM of less than 2 if they're whoring vehicles for all those hours.

They need to rethink it.... if they lower the hour requirments and maybe increase the Kills I.A.R. requirement, it'd reward the skillful players more, instead of the guys that play a lot.

No.... it really is not balanced at all.

Go to a public server that runs it, and you'll see the win/loss ratio is often several hundred to zero.

If I can get the chopper myself, then fine..... I just fly in through the hangar doors......... but sooooo many games on this map are unplayable because the chopper gets piloted by a noob, and the rest of the team are left to either die in the boats, or stat-pad on the helipad.

No... but I've been knifed a few times.

I got mine really easily, the first time I tried. I just kept spawning MEC at the hotel in Karkand and running towards the us spawn point. No stealth.. no flash bangs, just lots of bunny hopping.

I just tried to get my veteran..... and since the 1.2 patch I've found knifing extremely difficult. The resrictions on bunny hopping are a pain in the arse.. and not being able to slash mid-leap means its fucking difficult to time the death-slash properly.

Trying to knife people in 1.2, I've realised once you've run out of sprint.. people can run backwards just as fast as they can go forward.

Orion 5413.... I'm pretty sure you can't do that. If you get Veteran before basic..... the game doesn't see you've earned basic..... so you never get the good rank. I dunno if they've fixed this bug or not, but it hasn't appeared in any fix-lists.

I get RSI in my right hand from using my mouse.... and I get RSI in my left hand from my obsessive guitar playing.

When I'm gaming and my right hand feels bad, I'll pick up the guitar to give it a rest. Once my left hand starts hurting, then I know it's time to switch back to gaming for a bit.

Boxing is my other main activity..... so it doesn't matter which of my hobbies I choose, I'm gonna fuck my hands up one way or another.

I've had it do the opposite thing.... it gave me the option of the flashbang before I had the g3. Theres definately some bugs with the unlocks. I was just lucky I had a nice bug.

This map could be balanced fairly easily with a quick fix with a patch. All they need to do is make most of the flags neutral, and force the americans to all spawn inside the ship, away from the neutral flags. The MEC would always be able to get a foothold, and make the map play a lot better.

The other simple fix would be to remove the AT launcher for that map. The MEC boats are a suicide trap as it is. Every single round there are a few AT guys on deck, killing any boat that even thinks about entering the back.

Most games I play, a lot of the players don't even bother with the boats and jetski's. Only the noob's are willing to go 0-10 before the game starts proper.  It's apc, helicopter or fi you can't get a place in either of these........ hang around the helipad annoying your team-mates with flashbangs and gas.

Its such a great map on the odd occasion the MEC get a foothold straight away...... but this so rarely happens I end up quitting a lot of the time.

I think it's something to do with lag. I've seen it in a few other games too.

I think it's a lot more fun than regular. The maps are all well thought out and fun to play, and there seem to be way less disruptive players on SF maps.

The new tools are fun to use as well.

IvysDad wrote:

Last unit I was in they carried an M4 also.

Would that be the special needs unit?

I've gotten everything turned up to max.

Sure you use your settings to let you see into the shadows.... but it also means you won't have a lot of the shadows to use yourself. Over time, you'd forget where all the great dark areas are, and you'd stop using them to get kills yourself.

As well has helping you see everything, in many ways, you're creating your own disadvantage.  There are tons of players who DO get fooled by shadows, and you're depriving yourself easy kills by not being able to see the best hiding places to kill them from.

IvysDad wrote:

I would like to see the sniper kit carry 4 claymores.  Also agree on the TK aspect.  If you hit the big red skull and crossbones.....then you did, but should not be able to punish.

Additionally.....snipers usually carry another weapon, like an M4.  If EA wants to make the game realistic then give the sniper an M4 to use at close range.  Pistol vs. PKM.....you do the math.

He's a sniper.... not a minelayer. He should have 2 maximum, for guarding his arse.

I dunno what kind of army your country has, but NO kind of sniper is going to carry an m4. 99% of snipers have a spotter (the more experienced of the two) who would have a rifle of his own..... but really no snipers ever carry a secondary rifle. That only happens in airsoft.

And yeah..... pistol vs pkm works fine, as long as you've hit him with your rifle first, you've only got to hit him once or twice.

I wouldn't choose the mp7. I play engineer a lot, but I make sure I'm always in a vehicle. If I have to fight on foot, due to loosing my tank, or not getting one in the first place, I look for a dead guy to rob for a more suitable kit. Your style of play might not be the same as mine, especially since the landmine changes have made playing engineer-on-foot a more viable option.

I'd say the f2000 is the best choice. Flashbangs are more useful in vanilla than sf, because people don't expect them as much...... and theres nothing funnier than hanging around an enemy runway, using the flashbangs to blind the pilots as the take off

Aardcore wrote:

Oh man, I'm pretty excited about Armored Fury comin' out, but what unlocks would they release? Isn't Armored Fury more... vehicle based gameplay? I'm thinking there'll be a vehicle for practically EVERYBODY on a map and there won't be much emphasis on ground infantry unless you're anti-tank or specops to infiltrate enemy territory.

Yeah, it should be good. If theres a map that vaguely resembles aberdeen from 1942, then I'll be in heaven.

As for unlocks, they could upgrade the kit's secondary weapons. Give the antitank a better rocket launcher, the support guy could get a smoke grenade launcher, the engineer could get different mines. Theres a few things they could do.

pope wrote:

1000-2000 but my best record is 15,000 in 5 days now that was awsome

Pope, can you come round and boost up my account? I'll feed you burgers and beer the whole time you're playing

I get about 300-500. I don't play every day and when I do, I usually only play for 2 hours or so.

Er.... did you play online or against other people at the LAN place? Did you create your own account on one of their machines? If you created your own account there you should be able to play it again (if you can remember it's name and password). If you were just playing on an account the LAN organisers already made, then theres no way you can get the points back.

Again, if you've made a new account, there would be no way to transfer them across from an old account.

Sorry

If you wanna get technical on the reasons the support weapons should be more accurate than assault rifles, just look at the rpk.

What is the rpk? Well, it's an ak74 with a longer, more accurate barrel, a bipod to help with accuracy, and it's got improved grips and stock.... again... to help with accuracy. Other than that, it's got exactly the same internals.

Kinda stands to reason it should be more accurate than it's smaller brother.

I love it when this stuff happens. When I was new, somebody on karkand asked me to join his squad, and then proceed to show me a load of sneaky back-routes and hiding places.

Theres places on karkand he showed me, that almost nobody realises you can get to. I've been accused of glitching before, just because some of these places are so well hidden, and people don't know where you're hiding or how you got there.

If I ever notice a low-ranked player has joined my squad, I'll always try and find something cool to show them.

I like consoles and pc's for different things. Pc's are better for stratagy games, first person shooters, simulations and anything "adult".... consoles are generally better for sports games, beat-em-up's, platformers and anything japanese. It all just depends on what genres you play.

Spearhead wrote:

^^ Monkeyboy, you think you are a good Support player.  My ass.

People like you are why they partially ruined BF2.  Before, there were only 1,2 maybe 3 Support players per team.  Now, 2/3's of the team is full of PKM carriers. 

Get a grip, if you thought that the Support weapons sucked before the patch then you shouldn't even be THINKING about using it now.  Asshole

I didn't claim to be a good support player, and you can go fuck yourself with your random accusations. Firstly, they haven't "partially ruined bf2" it's a lot better now...... I hope the pkm stays as it is.  I still come of better with an ak, f2000 or g36e most of the time. Before the patch I always got the kill. It's nice the support gunner can fight back now.

I hate to break it to you....  but theres far more skill involved, now the weapons are more powerful. If you want to have a game where you can bounce around and have somebody fire 1000's of rounds before you die, then go play unreal 2004. The game feels so much better now the guns are more deadly.

Its a shame you haven't entered your stats, I wonder how good you are..........

Support guns are supposed to outshoot assault rifles. Thats the whole fucking point of them. When a support gunner is setup somewhere, he keeps heads down because if the enemy don't hide..... they get their fucking heads blown off.

This simply wasn't happening before the patch. If you looked at the highest scoring players with different kits, the highest score with the carbines was double that of the machineguns. They were seriously underpowered before. They're fine now. STOP WHINING!!

I've had an idea on how to make the support class more fun.  They should have to deploy their weapons before they can fire them properly. Either on the floor or on top of a low wall. That way they're really powerful if they're set up properly and you happen to walk into their killing zone, but they've got the weakness of being caught unaware (when their gun isn't deployed it'd be very inaccurate and crap) or being outflanked when setup.

If such a big change is too much for a patch, then perhaps giving them a "setup time" after they go prone would be more easily done. Instead of them being accurate the moment they go prone, they'd have to wait 5 seconds or so before their gun shoots straight.  It'd have the same effect..... you'd be toast if you walk into their killing zone, but they'd be an easy target if you caught them on the move.

Nah, that'd be even worse. It'd mean every server would be owned by 2-3 people. If they're good enough to get to 2nd lieutenant with a good k/d ratio then they need even less help than somebody who just got their through playing ages.

OddAngryShot wrote:

MG's were designed to give suppresing fire so the enemy kept their heads down !. Not to out do a sniper !.
Tried it the other night and couldn't believe the kills i was getting at distance anyway nice weapon maybe too accurate but hell ! all the more kills !!!!.

And how may I ask are they supposed to keep people's heads down if nobody's scared of dying from them?

The whole point of support weapons (in games and real-life) is that they're complete beasts. People are scared to poke their head out, because they know if they don't hide, the big nasty machinegunner is going to kill them.

If they want to balance them properly, they should make it so you have to deploy the machine gun, either on the floor or a wall, before they fire accurately. That way if you run into a properly setup machine gunner, you're toast, but they'd be easy to flank or catch unaware.

Hopefully this is just bug fixes. I like the new patch. I'd be gutted if anything was reverted back to 1.12.

Tyferra wrote:

sounds to me like you're just dismissing that because you like beer and weed sometimes. That's okay, I have nothing against it. Everything in moderation okay.
A mate of mine died of alcohol poisoning when he was drinking and smoking weed.

No... i'm not dismissing it because of that. I don't drink alcohol at all or smoke weed. Stopped all that years ago.

I'm sorry about your mate, however as far as i'm concerned if somebody drinks until they're sick then they're a fucking idiot. I'm not saying they deserve to die or anything... just it's a fucking stupid thing to do.

I have a good wank to spur me on before battle. Hence the name.

I never managed to get past top-trumps.

And who the fuck are you to call all of it's players nerds? Frequenting a computer-game message board makes you a nerd by default... you hypocrite.

I like karkand but I don't really like the area around the hotel. Too many people spamming with tanks and grenades and c4 and everything else. I tend to hold back as a sniper until the hotel has been taken, or try and sneak round the side and cap the suburbs.

Get the extreme music. The ONLY reason to get one of the others is if you want to connect more than one external audio device (eg I've got my guitar plugged into the line-in, so I can't have a microphone at the same time).

I've got the extreme music, I wasn't gonna pay all the extra just for the extra connections. My inspire 7900 speakers arn't quite up to the job tho....... it sounds better with headphones.

Another thing is i'm not sure how your headphone with work out with this card. The x-fi has this ABSOLUTELY AMAZING surround sound thingy for stereo headphones. It processes the sound so well, it really makes stuff sound like it's behind you and at all sorts of angles.  I do way better in bf2 with headphones because I can really use my ears to work out whats around me.

The x-ram has been proven to be totally useless until developers support it.

Tyferra wrote:

I wouldn't worry. Most of the young people who reply to this will be lying to make themselves feel big. I'm okay with that.

By the way, Marijuana and Beer is the worst combination ever. You know when you're really drunk and you throw up? Yeah, well that's your body getting rid of toxins that would otherwise give you alcohol poisoning. When you smoke weed, it represses the need to throw up, so you get alcohol poisoning and have to get your stomach pumped or you die.

I have no problems with marajuana, in my opinion it's healthier than cigarettes, but having alcohol and weed together is just fucken stupid, don't do it.

And don't touch fucken meth, or even worse, pure meth, ("P") It'll make you kill everyone you know. I may be exadurating a bit but it's true.
Some bloke got a bunch of P, took a samurai sword and hacked up a couple of women, killing one. Fucking nut-job, but still methamphetimine is fucken poison, stay away from it, I don't care how cool you think you are.

And for god sake, why do people get drunk or stoned and then go on a computer game or a fucken forum? Getting drunk with mates is fun every now and then, or sharing a doobie or something, but try not to be an antisocial looser.

Anyway, it's fucking hot here, so I really hope there's a cold one in the fridge.

Do you have any evidence for your schoolboy rumours?

What the fuck are you on about? Weed doesn't suppress vomiting at all. If anything it encourages it. Uppers like meth and cocaine let you drink more, but even these don't stop you vomiting, they just  stop you feeling so tired, so you're alright to carry on afterwards.

And no........ its not true either that meths makes you kill people either. Just makes you talk a lot and makes you oblivious to the fact you're annoying the hell out of everyone.

Well with the new sniper rifles you are constantly bumping into people with 2 bars of health..... so you get more heal points now.

The only people who whine are the "specialists". The guys who play as one class on one map all the time.

Their skills are so finely tuned at one thing, as soon as the balance is changed, the get upset. The people that play bf2 for the variety just go "oh well, no more noob tubing, I'll switch to the pkm or sniper now".

ThomasMorgan wrote:

ewww, why do you use english only anyway?

ewww.

Cos I can't speak whatever language the MEC use. I can't speak chinese and I can't speak russian. I usually play on whatever side the server puts me on, so I'm at a serious disadvantage if I can't understand any of the radio chatter.

In bf1942 over time I learnt to recongnise all the common commands sounded like in japansese and german, but this time round the soundbites are far too complicated to recognise most of them.  For example the "spotted" commands in 1942 used to just say "enemy XXXXXX spotted" but now they're all something different.  "Enemy on the road"  "enemy slick inbound" "hostile sniper spotted."

This happened all through out the life of bf1942.

Every single patch nerfed either the aa or the planes. They took it in turns which one to fuck. One day the planes would be uber powerful, then a patch would come out and the aa would make it almost impossible to fly.

Don't see how it's gonna be any different here.