At a recent LAN party I played on a 32 player server (hosted stand alone on a 1ghz celeron). I have a 1.1 ghz athlon + GF3. It played fine and dandy at 800x600 16 bit with a reasonable view distance (no shadowns or lighting)

I find this game dissapointing in a performance kind of way. They said 64 player support (among other things). What they didn't tell you was the list of bugs and the fact that you need a $3000 computer to even play on a 32 person plus server. I have a Duron 800MHz running 256MB PC1600 DDR200 Ram and a GF3. When I got this game it ran so bad that I couldn't move, even with 4 people on the server. Of Course the minimum requirements stated I should be able to run it fine. I know its a shitty machine and I do have a high horsepower secondary machine (2400+, 1GB Ram, etc.) but it just goes to show you that companies arn't putting care into their games now a days. And with this expansion coming so soon, it just tells me more problems are coming.

You guys ever stop to think that maybe there is more than one team at Dice working on these two projects? For a patch the original team would be needed to adjust code and such. For the expansion you need mappers, artists, etc. A completely seperate team could handle that pretty easily. I'm getting tired of game companies taking advantage of their consumers, but I'm getting more tired of whiney ass gamers like all of you. If you have the right system and the right internet connection the game runs well. Most of you babies expect your 4 year old equipment to run the latest and greatest and that just won't fly. Anyway, that's my 2¢.

Whether you like BF1492 of not, I think we should all boycott the expansion until they take out all the CD checks when playing online.

Ireland is part of the British Isles. IIRC, it was originally simply the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The "and Northern Ireland" was added when the rest of Ireland became independent.

I thought I already posted this the other day, but I don't see it appearing anywhere.

Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain. It's actually the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

From IGN:

"The new expansion is an outgrowth of the upcoming 1.2 patch. Scheduled for release next week, the new patch makes mod support and expansion much easier."

From TWL:

http://www.teamwarfare.com/forums/showthread.asp?forumid=27&threadid=24432&page=1

It is a stupid fight at the begining, but if you read it you find that the 1.2 patch is supposed to be a HUGE upgrade, fixing the game and makign it smoother.

From common sense:

Having a few mappers make 6 new maps does not take away from the CODERS working on the gmae code.

Eat your what? Too much of a sissy to actually say it? Or too much of an asslicking pwet to admit that you were gloating at the wrong person? Or was your mommy watching you type that?

Go flex nuts at someone else. You bore me.

Sorry about the England mistake. I meant UK of course.

Hmm..., well the game needs a patch or three before they shove more code out the door. Otherwise you'll just be waiting on a patch for your expansion for the same old issues. I'm sure EA will be happy to take your money of course, patch or no patch.

Sp in BF1942 could be fun, if they figure out the "I" is for intelligence.

And if you people haven't hit on this, when you say "legionnaire" you are not talking about the regular French army. It's the La Legion Etrangere -- the French Foreign Legion. Anybody who makes fun of them is an idiot. Probably a dead one too. The roll of the resistance in occupied France, while important is generally overated, but that doesn't detract from the courage it took to do it. Grow up people.

"...forget the bots and the single player..."

What a load of shit that is. The bots only suck because they half-assed them. When I got the game I was surprised they actually flew the planes and stuff, but their stupididy quickly outweighed their strong points. Some people like playing against AI, and hence we want the feature improved upon. Sure it is designed for MP, but they ran with the idea of bot support, and just like the rest of the game, it needs work. Either do it right, or dont do it at all. Theres only so far the vehicles carry the game, then the flaws of combat start to get on peoples nerves enough where they go elsewhere. Reminds me of tribes2, problems out the ass and taking them forever to patch the mofo, although not to the extent of t2.

Todd you can eat my .....


For those having LAG problems there are known issues with (and you likely won't believe it) earlier nVidia drivers. They cause a lag that seems like network lag, but it will happen even in SP if you are suffering from it. Try one of the newer drivers.

Also though DICE doesn't admit it, I personally believe the rest of the lag issues are due to Client-Side Prediction. Which btw IS from this decade, it's the new solution for LPB's (low ping bastards). This is for those lovely 56Kers who have no hope of killing us LPB's in most games. (Personally I can't stand Client Side Prediction as it causes exactly the troubles we see in BF)

That being said, I play BF ALOT, on many different servers. When I find a server that's causing the lag problem for me (even though I often have a 60 ping to the servers I play on) I simplly go to one of the other 1000 servers that are running at any time for the game.

Sure BF needs a patch, but it's not a crap game like some people here have stated. Simply it pushes what your system can handle. I've seen it run on lots of systems, of every configuration.

UT2K3 is not nearly as (system)RAM hungery as BF is. It requires much more video ram (if you use higher textures) than BF does though.

While I do not think that the game is "broken," I am certainly holding off on playing it further until the patch is out and working its magic.

Wanting to see/play a fully funded DoD,
Ray



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I'm in full agreement with all those who are crying for improving the original game. It seems quite premature to even talk about an addon when so many people are crying over some very real and substantial flaws in this game.
For those of you that have mentioned emptying a clip into someone point blank and not landing a single shell, I feel your pain. Its got to be one of the most frustrating aspects of the game. Also, does anyone else have a problem using the mousewheel to select weapons? Not only does mine skip weapons, but when I do select a weapon, sometimes it will appear as if Ive changed weapons, but then it will delay 4 or 5 SECONDS before it actually lets me USE THE THING!!! Then lets mention the slower than molasses game browser that often times will register your single click attempt to refresh as a double click attempt to enter game. Then you've got to wait another 20 seconds to cancel the loading process and get back to the game browser...:(

As for the single player, forget the bots and the single player. This game was clearly designed for online play, period. The fact that they claim to have a single player game is just the marketing department's way of getting the Single Player folks to go in for this. Most hardcore gamers do their homework anyway and few were surprised or even cared about the quality of the Single Player game.

Here's the kicker. Despite my frustration with these things, I still find myself playing this game 2-3 hours a night. Im on a DSL and have what could be considered an average or below average system for the times (PIII 800, GeForce 64MB DDR, 256MB RAM). For me and a ton of other people the good clearly outweighs the bad, but its the bad that tends to stick with you. If anyone from DIce or EA are reading this, I think the message on this board is clear - we'd rather have a game that works than more of a game that doesnt.

And finally, I think we should all remember that a lot of good, honest, and innocent people died fighting to preserve freedom aduring WWII -- this includes Americans, Brits, French, Russians, Italians, Austrians, Poles, Czechs, Canadians, Flemish, Swiss, Danes, okay do I need to go on here? We love to rip on the French but lets not forget the French resistance...they knew they were outnumbered but they fought anyway..That took guts.

WE'VE GOT EM ON THE RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Slingblade

Sorry to sound a bit anoyed but its not England, its Great Britian or United Kingdom. England is a country that is part of Great Britain which also Include Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.

As a Person who comes from Scotland it really anoys me when people refer to Great Britain as England.

And I agree with you're comments Fear the Ripost. If it wasn't for the French Resistance feeding the Allies information about German movements and positions, and also fighting a Guerilla war themselves World War 2 could have been a bit longer.

Regards
Big_Bear

hehe, i'm sure that's why all those police departments, such as sapd, selected glock .40 s&w's also

Glocks and Cannondales, worthless items bought by Fratboys types to look cool.

and what do you think is wrong with Glock firearms?

There are not a lot of frenchmen reading this board. So I am and if the white flag comment made me laugh, theses kinds of belief are not historically accurate. The french army during WW2 was not a ridiculous force, it had many brave soldiers who fought till death to defend their country. During the german invasion, the army was not prepared to fight such a war machine and leaded by a bunch of WW1 old stupids commanders. But many forces stayed in the colony, fought the allied side, and gained many respects. I agree nowadays, France is a little country with east countries internal policies, and switzerland-like external policies. But I believe US should not forget that they won WW2 not only by their own forces, but by a common effort from countries such as England, Canada, Australia, USSR (circumstance ally) and others I don't have in mind. Free French Army and the Resistance played also an important role for the final victory (or the saving of american lives, if you prefer). Please don't forget that.

Gandalf, that was a response to the joke I made earlier in the post. And by the way, i am Canadian, and know the role we played in ww2.

So chilax