Do you play games in the Battlefield series?

I tried the demo for BF1942 a while back, but couldn't get into it. The maps were so large that walking wasn't really an option. To make matters worse, movement is much slower than in other shooters. Quake- or Unreal-like gunfights seem utterly impossible to pull off.
"Game"play mainly consisted out of spending several minutes in search for an opponent, only to get killed by an plane. This might have been due to the demo servers, but it certainly didn't convince me to buy it...
 
BF1942 maps were certainly large - particularly the desert maps - that really required a full 64 player server.

Hell, I remember one time I had to bail out of a plane over the desert, right in the middle of nowhere. In vain I pushed the "I need a pickup" button, only to be shocked when, seconds later, a friendly jeep pulls up beside me and the driver cries 'get in!"

Most perfect timing I've ever seen.
 
I remember following an enemy tank across the desert in a jeep, took a hell of a long time, when he finally reached his destination I blew him up :p
 
I play battle field 2 owned the game for a month but am a lousy shot so i am only the 2md rank now
 
I play Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam. Mostly I play 1942 because Vietnam lags in multiplayer and the single-player bots are horrible in Vietnam - so annoying to die and not be able to respawn because the bots lost all the control points in 2 seconds. 1942 is great. Even when I'm killing "impossible difficulty" bots at a 10-to-1 ratio, a lot of the maps are tough to win on. Last week I played an epic Iwo Jima. I was American and had captured the Air Base, and my comrades had made it up the main hill and were trying to make progress on the road to Mount Suribachi. I got in a tank and went around the hill across the runway on the right side, killing a few guys on the way, and went right into the fray. Firing a few times on the enemies fighting my guys, I entered right behind the flag area on the first Japanese Bunkers, and started fighting the Japanese between the first and second bunkers like crazy. Bazookas were flying everywhere and somehow I just avoided almost all of them. I was firing shells and machine guns as fast as possible, and my allies were finally gaining some territory. At last my tank was about to blow up, so I bailed, ran over towards the bunkers, and started nailing the enemy with my M1 Garand. Pretty soon I ran out of ammo, and there wasn't any in the bunker, so I took out my pistol and battled my way to a dead Japanese whose weaponry I picked up, all the while with 25-30 Japanese and half as many Americans firing bullets at a dizzying rate across the battlefield. Still dodging bullets, I keep on fighting with the new Type99, and kill probably a dozen more enemy before finally succumbing to an enemy bullet. All told, it had to be one of the craziest battles I'd been in, and I racked up more than 40 kills in the process.
 
I just uninstalled BF2 this morning. I was sick of being bombed by jets, helicopters or artillery when taking a flag, so I tried some Infantry Only servers. After constantly being killed by G36E's from 200m away, I slammed the keyboard and threw the disc away.
I'm going back to BF1942 & BFV.
 
I think you're exaggerating with the G36E at 200m, no player can fire a weapon that far and see what they are shooting at :p. But I get your point and totally agree it.
 
I've always loved BFV multiplayer, it's much better than th AI. The AI always sees you hiding in the jungle, and can cheat and shoot you when you can't see them, because of grass, or leaves, or whatever. Other humans, OTOH, are in the same position you are, and you can actually play levels like Cambodian Incursion with a fair degree of fun. Also, the AI is a perfect shot at any range with the .50 caliber machine gun, a human is not, and thus won't gun down your Huey in two seconds flat from a freakin jeep.

Lastly, you can tear up commies (or Yanks, if that's you cup o' tea) while rockin out to the Kinks or CCR, gotta love that!

In conclusion: the Bird is the Word.
 
my favourite part of Vietnam was the ability to hide easily.... just jump into the jungle and then nobody could find you

used that tactic whenever i saw a tank comming
 
gandhi rules said:
Impassable is to easy on 1942...
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QFT.

The problem I have with multiplayer is that most of the online players are jumping around like caffeinated monkeys, and it's just not fun when that's happening. I found one good Road to Rome host where people were actually fighting and not jumping, but I don't play enough to find very many of those.
 
Lately I've been playing 2142 as it seems to scale better with widescreen despite that widescreen isn't supported. :(
 
@leonel How do you like 2142. I do find it to be a lot of fun. Titan mode is crazy fun. It's too bad it's filled with exploiters.
 
Mehmed100 said:
@leonel How do you like 2142. I do find it to be a lot of fun. Titan mode is crazy fun. It's too bad it's filled with exploiters.
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Yeah BF2142 is brilliant. Its the only battlefield game i play, and i only play in titan mode. Taking down an enemy titan with a well coordinated squad kicks ass! As for exploiters, with recent patches i dont really see to many of them.
The only thing that sucks with BF games is that there are so many people playing that arent interested in teamwork and cooperation. And thats no fun.

Anybody else looking farward to the promising First strike mod?
 
The rare group interested in whole-team cooperation is a blast. The funnest of those rare games I've played was Defense of the Phillipines. The map had been modded just a bit, and expanded water-wise to create a huge naval battle as well. With people cooperating on the ships - repairing, gunning, spotting for artillery, or being lookout on the deck, and commanding, it was serious fun.

But games like that are rare, most people just want to hop around, TK, and go it alone. News for them: this isn't HALO.
 
Hopefully the new BF will be WW2 era with updated graphics, squad functions, limited kits and realistic ballistics.
 
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