i lost a bunch of cool frag and guild videos. i remember at one point everyone uploaded their stuff to google video because it was so obviously the option for posterity. lol. goodbye sweet vanilla WoW PvP montages.
not only are all those videos exactly the same, they would all look horrible on a phone or laptop screen now. 480p at best? have fun listening to now algorithm-copyrighted music and watching brown-orange squares murder one another.
They nerfed the TV missile - they shortened the range at least once. I want to say it went from 650m to 450m, but i could be mistaken. It's been a long time!
Wow, I do not remember that. Maybe it wasn't noticeable to me because the maps were kind of small. Still, it doesn't seem like as big of a nerf as the Blackhawk's guns got.
They nerfed the TV missile - they shortened the range at least once. I want to say it went from 650m to 450m, but i could be mistaken. It's been a long time!
Wow, I do not remember that. Maybe it wasn't noticeable to me because the maps were kind of small. Still, it doesn't seem like as big of a nerf as the Blackhawk's guns got.
didn't they nerf the rockets too? i thought all the choppers had like double the amount when bf2 first came out. maybe i'm thinking of BFV. the huey and mi-8 were fuckin crazy in that game. i wasn't that good when that game came out since i was only like 9 yrs old so i was just ground pounding while my brother was in the helis n shit
^ my bro played with this dude a lot. made a BFV chopper compilation with his own rap song back in the day lmfao
i was super into the heli side of BF2. played a lot of modded chopper only servers, 2v2 and 1v1 matches etc. banned from quite a few pub servers for destroying ppl and causing chaos. redlining scrubs out of my heli so i could solo, M95ing teammates outta the seat. then all the drama when i used a nametag reg.edit thingy (can't remember if it was thru the console or not) and i got screenshotted by punkbuster lmao. no hacks, my highest killstreak was around 110 as a gunner in the mi-28 playing sharqi peninsula with a fellow chopper pro clanmate piloting me.
They nerfed rockets (halved from 14), TV range (to 450m) and added the spinning after the seatswitch to nerf soloing. Yes I was looking for the montage itself, cause it was full of very sick jet shots
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they were both pretty good. the RPK however was so much better than the SAW. and the PKM was basically a sniper rifle.
one thing i miss in current games is genuine variation between weapons, and forced diversity between teams. in contemporary games everyone gets access to all the weapons (because the devs are banking on people spending major in-game bucks on weapon skins and customizations), and all that happens inevitably is the meta boils down to about 2-3 guns out of a choice of 100.
The PKM was basically game breaking for me. I could do very specific stuff better with other guns, but it was too well rounded and versatile. So much cheese.
I like shooters where you can unlock weapons through a very specific and reasonable set of goals. I don't like having it dictated by a loot box's gambling exploitation algorithm.
the PKM in the latest call of duty game is my current jam. the game feels very, very similar to BF2. it even has 20v20, medium-large sized conquest maps with 5 points, ground and air vehicles, and squad spawns. it is super BF2-like.
i haven't played it at all since cod4, and didn't like cod4 at all compared to vCod/cod2. but the latest game, 'modern warfare', as the namesake alludes, is the closest game they've done to cod4.
the battle royale game-mode for it is free, cod:warzone.
I only played World at War and Black Ops 1, tried one of the futuristic ones, Advanced Warfare I think, at a friends and hated it. Haven't played pvp in a shooter in a couple years now.
I downloaded the new CoD: Warzone and was pretty impressed. I'm a little tired of battle royale, honestly. The regular CoD: Modern Warfare was a free trial a couple week back, and I haven't had that much fun in an FPS game for a long time. Very tempted to spend the $60 or $80 they want for it. Little hesitant, though, only because none of my friends play it and I'd be somewhat out on my own.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
i think i probably spent about 30 hours of my adolescence, all-in-all, with an RPK and an ammo pack proned on top of that burnt-out APC on karkand facing US spawn. lob, lob, lob, ching ching ching, lob, lob, lob.
hahah the whole area in front of that first flag was just a nade spam fest. Don't forget the medic packs and revives only to get shot again. The smart ones wouldn't kill the medics.
That map was only good if someone on the US side either drove a humvee down the right side of the map to the bases beyond the water, or a small squad was able to avoid snipers and leak up the hill on the left to that flag.
legendary maps tbh. i could probably still dolphin dive my way from flag to flag with my eyes closed now from pure muscle memory.
playing the latest cod is very reminiscent of bf2. the one thing that strikes you is how bad bf2's netcode was, and how much of 'good' play was taking advantage of that. remember the rubber-banding? and how horrible the model collisions were? trying to play in alleyways and strafing around corners with shotguns or whatever hardly ever worked. lmao. it felt horrendous.
My personal favorite design issue was the J10, which was particularly noticeable on Wake Island. Some poor smuck would be in the F35 and just get dumped on. Like why did the J10 have the smallest vehicle hitbox in the game lmao
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
F35 was such a shit jet. It was always the goal of the American side to steal a J10 on any air maps.
The wake island version in BF5 sucks so much. One thing that Bad Company and BF5 just fail at is map scale. You spend a majority of time running in to action.
Pochsy do you still play CS:GO? I haven't touched that game in years
Not nearly as much as I used to. I'll occasionally pick it up if I can get 4 friends on at the same time, but I don't solo queue it anymore. I've gotten so much worse now that I don't play 2 or 3 matches a night.
I'm trying to get better at Rocket League at the moment, but I really have no natural ability for it. Wood 2 forever.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
The dream was to midair-snipe a J-10 pilot, then steal their plane out from under them. That said, if I was playing on China's side I'd still ditch a J-10 to steal an F-35B just to -1 the reds' jet count and make it that much easier for my team to cap points without being bombed. Cheap move, but effective. Also the VTOL made for some nice turning and trolling so it did have that going for it.
Driving the US back to their carrier on a map like Dalian plant just turned the entire round into a stat pad if they had no aircraft spawns left.
The one vehicle I'd sacrifice any I was in to steal would be the Mi-28. Snatch it, pick up a buddy or any other eager gunner, and mercilessly camp spots like the TV tower on Sharqi Peninsula. OP, OP, OP.
The helicopters were so so good in that game. Easily my favorite thing to goof around with. The chinese one wasn't half bad, but not many maps were in heavy rotation that had them.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
I got a kitten back in Feb and this really speaks to me.
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The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
