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The controls for this game [are horrendous] take some getting used to, I'd be better off [running around as infantry with a scroll ball] playing Uno instead of a shooter that actually makes me aim...
FTFY
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EDIT: Guess not.
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For some reason this game is still throwing me for a loop when I play. Right now I play more of the air superiority match than anything else because something doesn't feel right on the other maps. I wish I could pinpoint it. Maybe it's the total number of people on the map throwing me. I feel like I'm having a very hard time seeing an enemy when I play. They are tucked away and they don't stick out like I remember them doing in the past. I get pretty much owned on any map but the all plane map.
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Could be because the uniforms are green and brown
On yknow, green and brown landscape
But thats not necessarily a bad thing. Works both ways. Means you can sneak around easier, too.
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Out in September I believe.
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1. Being able to see, and shoot to, the other side of the map. I've sat on my aircraft carrier at the beginning of the map and sniper headshotted some guy on the other aircraft carrier who was stupid enough to not get off their anti aircraft gun.
Seriously, most epic hilarious moment for me ever. I didn't get any points for it because he was in their 'base', but it was still pretty funny. I can only imagine his reaction like 'Did I just get shot from the enemy aircraft carrier?'.
2. Throwing three dynamites onto a jeep and driving it helter skelter towards the enemy base. Seeing a tank come over the hill and fire at me. I drive my jeep straight towards the tank, jump out, let my jeep crash into the front of it while he's reloading a shell and jamming on my detonate button.
Tank removed.
Also... throwing a bunch of dynamite onto a plane you're about to fly and then using it to kamakazie an enemy bunker as a Japanese soldier is pretty epic, lol.
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Sniping is awesome. The range is incredible and the best I've seen in a recent fps.
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lol
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Lol, thats pretty funny. I usually tank drive in third person, myself, so chances are he saw some body just plummet from the sky and splatter all over him, haha.
@all
Hey! Don't you buggers be stealing all my ideas! Ah, well, who am I kidding, its more fun when people start getting creative when fighting you anyways.
A good trick, if you want to be a douchebag, is to find an enemy base that contains a plane. Do NOT throw your Dynamite onto the plane. Instead, throw two dyanmites onto the spot where the plane spawns, or in front of it (like in a line). You can usually see where this is based on the oil slick on the ground.
Throw your third dynamite onto the tail of the plane, so its out of the way. Do NOT fly the plane away. Then go hide somewhere, just far enough that you're hidden, not too far that the little white plane disappears off your radar.
The moment that little white plane disappears off your radar, it means an enemy just hopped in it. Cause it would turn blue, if a friendly was in it.
Press detonator. Laugh and laugh and laugh when you see the kill come up on your screen and realize you just killed some poor schmoe who was getting ready to dogfight in the air and didn't even leave the ground.
(Yes. If you play with me, I'm a complete asshole, lol)
@DigitalHero
For reals. The bullets take a really long time to travel (as they should) but yeah, the rifles have some insane reach. I'm glad the accuracy at that range isn't 100% or it would be retarded, but its still fun to ping someone across the map or hope for a lucky headshot.
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And it shouldn't. It does for headshots, but for non headshots, it would be stupid to have one shot equal one kill when you're able to hit someone on the other side of the map
Now before someone says 'Oh, you exaggerate', I do not. And before someone else says 'Oh, well, thats just the way it should be...' no. If I were able to one shot every player with my rifle (I'm fairly decent with it) the game would be absolutely balls. Cause it just means it would be an endless stream of people playing snipers and not moving to take each other out.
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Theres 'reloading'. You have to constantly click a new bullet into place.
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I like to capture bases far behind enemy lines. No one is ever home!
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I have fun with those idiots who just sit around waiting for planes. I just throw a dynamite onto each plane spawn spot, and the moment the planes respawn, blow the planes up.
Then they shoot at me and I laugh and laugh at the lack of friendly fire damage as I put two more dynamites down and wait for the next plane spawn.
If you're going to fuck around, I'm going to fuck around and make sure nobody gets what they want.
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...and that's why you're my friend. :)
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@aw3str1k3r:
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Thats the first time I've just about peed myself from a PA strip in a loooooong time.
ahahahahaha. ahahahaha
ahahahahaha
07/17/09
I jumped in a plane as soon as a match started and didn't take off. 6 people (I counted) started jumping on and shooting my plane.
So I started to take off while two people were on top of it, the bailed out at the last second so the plane, with my teammates landed in the water stranded.
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You sir may be my hero. Thanks for all your gameplay enhances, slightly douchey, but totally funny tips. I will likely use some of those going forward....lol
07/17/09
Its also fun to drive your plane to the end of the runway, stop, and get out.
Then its got no room to take off and anyone getting in and trying will just plow into the water, lol.
@ VXXXJesterXXXV
Np dood. Sometimes being douchey is an appropriate way to play. You're not teamkilling, you're just showing people who want to sit around sipping tea and waiting for airplanes that you can, and will, ruin their day.
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Where does it end?
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Well, it could be argued that those people are ruining it for the rest of the team who are trying to invade and take the island by just being 'dead weight' hanging around, waiting for a plane.
Its one thing when you see one guy waiting for a plane.
Its another when you see 3-4 guys standing around being lumps because they all want to fly planes.
If you start playing the game for any length of time, you'll know sooner or later, theres an opportunity to fly a plane. It might be that abandoned one sitting in a base, it might be later into the battle, when none of your soldiers are on your aircraft carrier, so you can choose to spawn there and take one.
Or, on the Xbox version, just play air superiority, and voila, theres a plane.
First timers can even go to the tutorial and fly one there.
My point is... get your ass moving and stop waiting around to fly planes, soldier, or I'm just going to contribute to the problem of dead team weight by ruining everyones day myself! :P
07/17/09
Also, this only affirms my position that next-generation every title will be available for download (perhaps as well as in physical form). I predicted it five years ago people, and now it's happening!
07/17/09
I would love to see the gaming world go digital, if only for developers to get the money for their titles instead of Gamestop's used car salesman bullshit. But though it's cool that this game is taking this path... it's hardly a trailblazer, and I think it's exaggeration to even call it a sign of things to come.
Games like Call of Duty, Halo, Metroid, Bioshock... big, triple A titles... none of them have announced any kind of move toward digital distribution. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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The XBLA limitations screwed over the PSN people. Should've had 2 separate versions. I would mind paying 30 dollars for the game if there were like 6 maps for the PSN version.
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What limitations do you speak of?
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He also doesn't seem to realize that there hasn't been size limitations on Arcade Games for a while, with something like the Watchmen game clocking in at around 1gb.