Author Topic: BattleField: Vietnam (Read 645 times)

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #15 on:** March 21, 2004, 12:30:35 PM »

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Originally posted by 10Bears
Sour, tell me,

If one of your guys gets wounded, are you able to call in a dustoff? The chopper arrives 10 minutes later but not there’s another problem.. Someone has to pop off smoke.. green for safe red for hot or he won’t land. If you play the role of medic, does your command bar fill up the entire screen?.. determine what the wound is.. then select the right procedure?.. Is the wounded soldier screaming in pain, drawing enemy fire to your position?

Are the missions varied? In one, you are tasked with setting up a small relay tower on the top of a mountain?..

Reason I ask is all this is available now in Operation Flashpoint Resistance. The scripting language is limitless.

I’ve tried several of these first person shooters -- “Call to Duty“, “America’s Army”, the demo of “BF1942“ and felt put off by the small maps and heavy mission scripting. Ended up going back to Flashpoint because of the freedom you have to conduct your mission.

Well, first off. Its exclusively multiplayer - so there are no 'missions.'

In addition to that, I dont think OFP is the target for this game. "realism" isnt exactly what they were shooing for, an in that aspect, BFV doesnt hold a candle to many other games.

If "fun" is what youre looking for, however, I dont think you can do much better.

moose · « **Reply #16 on:** March 21, 2004, 09:02:12 PM »

I personally have had a blast, but I'm sure a patch will be on the way to address some balance issues;

1. US M-60 class; ridiculously overpowered. No one uses the regular M-16 troops cuz the M60 just destroys all AND has the LAW which means you can kill tanks.

2. UH-1 gunship 2nd seat machine guns kill MiGs like they are made of paper. My friend and I were doing so well that people refused to fly them in our server cuz we'd shoot em down quick.

3. Mi-8 attack is way too powerful. If there isn't a phantom around, then the US can't stop from being destroyed at will. I went something like 54-3 the other night with it and singlehandedly won the map we were on.. lang valley or something. The US also has the Cobra but the heat seekers are the 2nd gunners secondary fire so its a lot harder to coordinate.

4. personal rifles do jack against aircraft;; which is realistic, but as said above the heli's really can be used quite effectively. my friend brought his machine over and between the two of us, we were unstoppable.

anyway, its really quite fun

SunKing · « **Reply #17 on:** March 21, 2004, 09:19:50 PM »

I;m having a blast chopping up GI's with the machete. Lay in the grass.. let em run by and then pull a Jason Voorhees on em!

LWACE · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2004, 12:44:45 AM »

Can you use a joystick for flying the aircraft in vietnam? Flying with the arrow keys etc is fricken hard! (specially with the jets!)

LWACE · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2004, 10:38:07 AM »

Nevermind i figured it out!:)

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2004, 12:36:12 PM »

I stil wish teh choppers felt like DC.. they are way too 'stiff' and dont obey the laws of physics.

SunKing · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2004, 12:43:22 PM »

Been playing this game daily since the release. I'm gonna stick with the NVA team. USA is just to over powering with the helios and the deadly accurate at any distance sniper M-60. It takes skill to get the job down with NVA infantry classes. Fear the bungie sticks!