I sat down today and figured out how to fly. It's pretty fun and pretty challenging. They make you at least try to fly it like an actual plane. Once I realize that you need to try to stay fairly level and that the left stick is only for left and right it got a lot easier.
It's 6 central now, I'm going to jump on for a bit... and I should be on a lot on Sunday if anyone wants to play...
tymbuktu on live.
Anyone figure out how to parachute?
I thought it was just being in a plane and pressing "b" in the air to get out.
I was wrong
So, what are people ranking by now? I'm at Sergeant Gold (LV.12, I think).
I play the shit out of some 1943
Once your in the air you just hit "A" and your parachute will deploy.Originally Posted by bridgetosolace
Anyone figure out how to parachute?
I thought it was just being in a plane and pressing "b" in the air to get out.
I was wrong
Now that I got this down, it's a GREAT method of sneak attack.
Although in COD4 I'm almost always a small arms P90/uAK47 guy, being a sniper in the game is so satisfying. There's not a lot of more satisfying videogame feeling than a long range head shot. Especially since it's not just point and click and you actually have to lead the target.
I've found that rolling about 3/4ths as hard as you want to and using the left stick too makes it way easier to come out of turns smoothly.
There are already 23 million kills on xbox.. This is why I don't think they realized how big a hit they had on their hands... There's going to be 43 million kills on xbox by the end of the week... so the contest that they thought would take the summer to complete will be over in like a week and a half.
I hope they actually have that map ready. It should be fun, now that I've gotten the hang of planes.. I can't get enough of them.
I hope this bodes well for smaller, cheaper, full-featured games distributed digitally in the future.
Saves developers money, saves us money.
Well, it's now at 30 million kills. The map might be unlocked by tonight. Insane. I don't think they had any idea it would be this big... as evidenced by their complete lack of server space the day it was released.
I didn't even know this was in there.... When leading a squad, simply point your cross-hairs on a flag and press "Back" on Xbox 360 or "Select" on PS3 and the game will automatically mark that flag as “Attack” (red circle) or “Defend” (blue circle) depending on which team currently owns the flag. This informs your squad of the desired focal point and action (attack or defend).
It is kind of funny how much EA underestimated how quickly people would unlock Coral Sea. Xbox will have it in the next few days and PS will likely have it by the end of the week. Did they just not think people were going to play their game?
That and the complete lack of server space would lead me to believe, yes. It runs great now, everything worked all day yesterday save one freeze in about 4 hours of playing off and on throughout the day. (Laundry day, cut me some slack)
I haven't been watching that tracker until today, but they're averging like 1.5 million an hour. If this keeps up, it will indeed be unlocked at some point tonight. They called it a contest "for the summer"... I'm assuming they thought it would take months to unlock.
It's kind of an untested market.
No one really has tried something like this before (released over the internet, based on a popular existing franchise, inexpensive).
How would they know?
At least they pulled it off well. My overwhelming problem with downloadable content, like game specific DLC, is that is is often used as either a means to make money ("Hey, let's do episodic content! People will pay!") or as a way to put off completing a product and releasing sooner ("Oh, don't worry. We can always add that later in the DLC.")
Battlefield works well since it is a complete product. Or at least, in the sense that they knew the size of what they wanted to make and set out to make exactly that. They used the downloadble meduim specifically to distribute their product, not to supplement and existing. Same thing worked for things like Braid or Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty. Not to say DLC does work, I just think that it can lead to sloppy developing.
I still need to really dig into Battlefield. The twenty or so minutes I played with a few of you guys yesterday is literally all I've played of it. I broke my microphone to other day and for some reason that's kept me from playing. I need to get a new one pronto.
I downloaded this Battletimes thing everyone loves, but sure enough it won't connect to EA. Can't even get a taste of it. Color me unimpressed.
You mean you downloaded the trial? The only thing I got to work with the trial was the tutorial, at which point I had to take it on faith that I liked the mechanics enough.
Cam, I barely use the microphone. Probably from my first 360 game being Halo, I just decided that people generally aren't communicating useful information over that thing. If you're playing with people you know, use the mic, but if you're just playing with strangers, fuck'em.
I usually listen to NNF so I feel like I'm playing with hilarious people.
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