"Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too—ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth." M.A.A.A
I don’t like the idea of ONLY being able to play against people with the same rank, but whatever, it still looks pretty cool. I really hate to think what the ad downloading is going to do to latency though, assuming it doesn’t just crash explorer with even greater reliability then Steam (every single fucking time!). They never ever did fix the latency on BF2, and yet EA is still charging forty bucks for it three years later.
EDIT: Looking at the other articles, it seems you WILL have to pay to get access to the full range of weapons and skins, and the rounds will be short. This has killed off a great deal of my interest. I just hope they eventually make a PC version of Bad Company, I'd figure there holding off on that because not that many computers could even support it right now.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
The bussiness model is based, according to the site, on advertising and micro-payments, wich probably means, as Sea Skimmer said, that there's content only accesible to paying users... If done like many other similar games (Silk Road, Dungeon Runners, Flyff...), it could eventually mean that paying players get an unfair advantage, and freebie players get frustrated. Not nice.
On the other hand, this might just be a publicity stunt for their next BF release, getting more people hooked on the gameplay before launch. (Wasn't the next BF installment going to be something like BF3:BF2 on Steroids?).
Anyway, I'm quite content playing Desert Combat, not sure why, but the original BF1942 still has something that the sequels lack.
LordOskuro wrote:The bussiness model is based, according to the site, on advertising and micro-payments, wich probably means, as Sea Skimmer said, that there's content only accesible to paying users... If done like many other similar games (Silk Road, Dungeon Runners, Flyff...), it could eventually mean that paying players get an unfair advantage, and freebie players get frustrated. Not nice.
On the other hand, this might just be a publicity stunt for their next BF release, getting more people hooked on the gameplay before launch. (Wasn't the next BF installment going to be something like BF3:BF2 on Steroids?).
Anyway, I'm quite content playing Desert Combat, not sure why, but the original BF1942 still has something that the sequels lack.
I watched the trailer last week and was unimpressed.
Automatching = No server choices. You'll be playing on a server in the US with a 500 ping.
Persistance and levelling = No thanks. I want the guy who just installed the game to have the same stats and abilities as the "15-year old kid who plays the game 8 hours a day". He already lacks map knowledge and a host of other experience-bought advantages, why punish him further?
BF2142 was at least somewhat tolerable in that it didn't take long to unlock the extra kit options and they were generally 'sidegrade'.
ray245 wrote:Well...that means we need to have more skills...
Or we could just keep playing the games we already have.
