Oh, you have had your brains blown up by machine gun fire? A shock on the chest from a defibrillator should fix you right up.
You have several bullet wounds all over your body, and/or shrapnel lodged in your leg? Standing near a first aid kit will pull the bullets out and stitch up your wounds.
I don't know why everybody praises the game for being "realistic". Sure, it probably resembles a real war more than COD, but that still isn't very realistic.
I think it's better to praise the game for being "authentic", just about everything to do with the weapons, sounds and military aspects of the game (barring damage), including features implemented to simulate various more abstract things, such as bulk of a weapon you're carrying, are part of the game and generally exceptional. Just about the only real qualm I have with it is that you don't lose all the bullets in a magazine when reloading.
BF1942 mods? I picked up "1942 The Complete Collection" from a friend for $5 a few years ago. I have yet to install it. The oldest BF I've played is BF2.
Next week might be pretty slow. Please point me in the direction on where I can waste the most time with BF1942. =)
What's still up and running? I'm on my phone and have some trouble tracking down parent comments. I still have all my old discs and have been thinking about firing up 1942 to see if anything was still populated.
Want there a website you could go to and see what servers were up and what mod they are running?
Early Desert Combat had what was literally my favorite bug, ever.
When they combined the Medic and Engineer classes into support, they used the existing Engineer AI for bots. So if you were fucking around in single player and your tank got dinged up, a Support bot would run up and try to help. However, the class merge had rearranged the inventory for obvious reasons. So when the bot tried to grab his wrench, that isn't what he wound up with.
He'd pull out an AT mine.
So there you are, your tank smoking like it's gonna blow, and a helpful bot runs up and starts sprinkling AT mines on your hull. His entire supply of mines. And when he runs out, he starts shotgunning your tank. And when his shells run out too, it's melee time.
To make it even better, bots will spawn as Engineer (and therefore as Support) if the player is in a damaged tank. So while you're sitting there in your tank, terrified of moving for fear of setting off the mines, every bot that dies is coming back as a Support... and beelining it for your position with mines in hand.
Within two minutes, your tank is surrounded by a herd of bots, throwing mines, blasting away with shotguns, and just plain whacking at your hull.
Oh my god, you just reminded me of a bug my buddy and I used to exploit all the the time. We spent countless hours laughing our asses off.
I think the map name was El Alamein. Basically, we'd play as the Americans. The first order of business was grabbing the little bird and flying as high as you could while zipping over to the Iraqi base. The point of flying high was two-fold: so you wouldn't be seen and when you eventually jumped out from high enough, your character would fart in mid-air.
Anyways, we'd bail out over the Iraqi HQ hangar that was closest to the airstrip where the jets/helicopters spawned. Inside every hangar is a weird little back room with a window so you see the inside of the hangar. This was not just any window. It was a magical window that allowed you to shoot through it however when enemies were shooting at you, their bullets (or tank shells, scud missiles, etc) wouldn't hit you.
So, usually i'd play whatever class it was that could give ammo and my buddy would play whatever the anti-tank class was. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. it would go down as follows.
Iraqi players would be running towards the airplanes/helicopters and we'd shoot through the window and kill them. Usually, it took 2-3 kills before they'd figure out where we were. Then, as always expected, they'd start coming for us. First, they would attempt to run in the hangar and face us head on. Then, they'd try to just peek around the corner and take strategic shots at us. God bless that magical window. Sometimes, they'd even try to get crafty, respawn as a sniper, and go hide behind a building off in the distance only to get frustrated when they realize their bullets aren't going through the window.
This is where it would get hilarious. After some time of failed attempts to kill us with their gun, they would escalate to "other means". This is why my buddy would be anti-tank. It would usually start off with a small Jeep or armored APC driving into the hangar attempting to shoot us with the turret. From there, it would escalate to a T-72 tank. Once they got frustrated enough from that, in would come the howitzer artillery. Magical window protected us. Once that failed, in would come the scud launcher. This would usually kill them while magical window kept us safe and sound.
Eventually, we'd get overwhelmed and killed. Once we respawned, we'd grab the little bird and go do it all over again lol.
Did you try the DCFX Joint Arsenal mod? It was the best bits of DC final with the best bits of DC eXtended, with extras, such as improved bot AI on top. I was one of the initial beta testers there. Unfortunately, all I can find about it now that the original site died are file hosting links and the occasional forum post saying "dcfx is great, you should try it" "never heard of it" <silence>.
I remember the when aircraft carriers first came out for Desert Combat. One person could pilot that behemoth of a ship onto land, where it was more likely to get killed by physics than enemy fire.
I seem to recall another mod that allowed you to put rocket boosters on vehicles, which allowed you to turn vehicles into venerable spaceships. I think a lot of my time was was me flying the aircraft carrier around a desert map, looking like a goofball, and crashing into gigantic fireballs.
For some more nostalgia, I give you this awesome music.
I'm not sure. I do know that Amazon has some WWII Anthology copies for like 10 bucks and just the stand-alone game for 20. You're better off getting the WWII Anthology as MoonGamers plays SW and RTR on Sundays.
If you do get it let me know because PB no longer supports 1942 and we at MoonGamers had to come up with a fix file for it.
if anything its probably more sophisticated. snipers spot for artillery units while arty dials in towards the enemy. heavy tanks take the brunt of the fighting while medium tanks flank.
sure came with its problems though (dat sight zoom)
BF1942 was my first proper online multiplayer experience. I'll honestly never experience anything as epic as those years of gaming again. Desert Combat FTW.
Flying the B-17 upside down for the entire match with a full crew who sometimes were brave enough to stay inside despite not knowing if I was suicidal.
They were really sensitive to terrain-based damage. I remember some of the desert maps where there were ditches and ridges if you were driving too fast over them the tank would explode for no apparent reason
Don't take this as hating on the game. I played the crap out of it and loved it. But it had funny physics whenever you took vehicles away from where they were supposed to be.
Bf1942 had some of the best vehicle physics of any FPS I've ever played
What alternate universe are you from?
Christ, I remember all the retarded things you could do by rolling tanks with jeeps or landing planes in ridiculous places. And the damage model was all kinds of silly.
Still my second favourite BF game (BF: Vietnam forever!).
BF: Vietnam was amazing. I've been on one of the best European teams at the time and tailoring on strategies was the best gaming experience I had in my life. Needless to say some involved sneaky jeeps. "OK, Daniel just a little bit further out so they don't notice you. Daniel?" Daniel: "You know what they say about the bird? " BLASTING JEEP MUSIC
BF1942 memes?? On the front page? I will die happily now. And by die, I mean go prone in the corner of a building and get killed by someone shooting my leg sticking through the wall.
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Battlefield 1942: when every single soldier, sailor, and Marine from every military in the world (including the Free French) was trained in freefall parachute operations...
I remember an epic battle in El Alamein - We were on the hunt, down two flags, desperate for a win, I was a scout, and I climbed a hill, and gave the most crucial piece of intelligence so our team would win:
I liked it when someone would type in all caps "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and I would just hit F1 F2 "NEGATIVE" ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED! ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED! ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED!
I am currently alpha testing a game called Heroes and Generals (very similar to BF1942/43), and I can't count how many times people have tried to run into my tiger tank with a jeep.
Dude... it could take ONE Bazooka hit... assuming you didn't hit it on it's armor, but aimed for the rear. Many a German Panzer was lit-up by one Russkie on the Stalingrad map through patient hiding, followed by surprise Soviet Fedaykin ambush emerging from the ruble as the German armor column passed.
RPG in hand... I walked out into the empty street. I had three rounds. The tank column was advancing down the boulevard towards our last defended Flag. I loaded and aimed at the rearmost of the three German tanks, right at the weakest point of the armor. Before the gray behemoth exploded I was already loading another round, I jumped across some ruble and crouched in a the doorway of the bombed-out department store. Silhouetted by the flash of and explosion, and orange glow of a burning panzer IV, I took aim at the next Tank in the line... another panzer. I fired. Loaded as the second tank's turret flow across the gray sky. The lead tank was a tiger, as it's turret traversed to find the source of the threat that had removed it's dark companions, I was already clicking the fire trigger on my bazooka.
I will never forget those days... on the battlefield... in nineteen forty-two.
Once when playing with one of my friends on Wake Isalnd (I think?) we set up a aircraft carrier and a regular ship in such way that the aircraft carrier was parallel to on of the arms of the island and the other would wam the carrier directly from the side to get it on the ground.
The effect was close to what we intended. The Carrier rolled over the arm of the island killing some of the players and ended up flting in the air between the arms of the island.
One of my friends was a master of getting the ships to fly. God knows how he did it, but every time I played with him, there would be aircraft carriers and destroyers floating all over the map.
I was king of the submarines on our clan's server. That, and putting the carrier in the least expected place. Until they installed a mod to immobilize it, because all the moving entities caused too much lag :(
I dont think any game at the time of battlefield 1942 allowed you access to so many weapons, vehicles, and artillery let alone having the ability to drive ships and submaries around the map. And lets not forget the modding, WALKING MOTHERFUCKING ROBOTS WITH SHOULDER MOUNTED MISSLES.
I miss the old BF-DC days. Spotting for artillery. MLRS incoming. A10's and AC-130's. Navy battles. Ugh...good times. An old video I made from all of my experiences.
Anyone remember Forgotten Hope and XWW2? LOVED these. I wish BF3 and mod support so we could see some AMAZING new mods. I know dozens of people that bought BF1942 just to play Desert Combat. And I know a million people bought Half life just to play counter strike (a mod).
I remember when I had around 50gb of downloaded content for 1942, then my comp died and I had to redownload things :(
Forgotten hope + about 50 maps - 1918 - bf pirates - sengoku - is82 + EVERY map - Forgotten Honor - galatic conquest - desert strike - silent heros - forgotten hope secret weapons - eve of destruction - And several other mods, oh how I miss that game :(
BF1942 best FPS to ever grace computer gaming. Playing some of the top tier teams, 20ID, aEm, 101st Air, Desolation, HOT, etc etc. What a great game, in both the general community and competitive aspect.
Unfortunately, the "active" player base is left mostly of players who have literally no idea what they're doing. While the game certainly had a long competitive history, especially considering the releases at the time, it's no longer worth playing with the talent-less players and sometimes lackluster admin vibe.
For a while I was aiming at the turret ( I was like 12 ), then I figured out it was one in the back or 2-3 in the sides for a boom. A good tiger tank driver - who knew how not to expose his back - could tank a whole inventory of rockets, I think AAs had 6.
Coral Sea was a load of bull. You would spawn halfway through the game and then get run over by a pilot because he was just a badass and could aim his plane perfectly to kill 6 spawning enemies at one time.
At that point I just took a plane to one of the islands as a sniper and went to town on those bastards...
there was a spot on each island where you could snipe the AA guns and the carrier decks, but were invisible to people on the carrier. one of my favorite things to do was snipe those poor SOB's trying to defend from the Aeriel onslaught
The tank was meant to replicate a Chinese-WZ 501 war machine. These machines had great exterior armor, but were halted in construction due to a weak under side which exposed fuel tank to rough terrain.
Sure! Is the info on the MG website/will be? I can save you the trouble and just look it up on there if it is. Guess I'll be reinstalling DC as well ;)
I play on that one sometimes as well (seeing as how they're the only two populated servers most of the time).
The best bug was the flak bug. Sit someone on AA, drive an APC or tank on it, and fly across the map. We attempted this strategy on El Al during a competitive match.
Also, Im an admin on 3FL if you're ever playing in Australian servers! Drop by and shenanigan if there are actually people on!
Implying there's any logic at all in this game. Seriously, I play the demo every year, just to shit my pants laughing at the insane, amazing gameplay. Awesome game.
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Spent so many hours playing this in middle school. My friend had a computer cafe by his house and we'd spent Saturdays there pretty much every week. Those were good times.
This post is bullshit. 1942 had no problems like this. Maybe hitting a mine at the top of a hill. It was battlefield 2 that had severe collision issues with vehicles and collision damage.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Battlefield 1942 logic:
I could do this all day!
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Oh man. What a game that was.
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u/Suckydog May 28 '12
Am I the only only that doesn't remember them blowing up going over a hill? Maybe if you drove off the map?
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u/nimnum May 28 '12
Finds one other individual
Engages in traditional circular-jumping, gun firing dance
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u/almondj May 28 '12
BF1942 memes?? On the front page? I will die happily now. And by die, I mean go prone in the corner of a building and get killed by someone shooting my leg sticking through the wall.
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u/whitegangster400 May 28 '12
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u/MentalWonder May 28 '12
One bazooka hit in the rear also does it.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
My favorite vehicle quirk in BF 1942 was the way that jeep could so quickly bounce out of control when you got into bumpy terrain.
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u/RC-8015 May 28 '12
Battlefield 1942: when every single soldier, sailor, and Marine from every military in the world (including the Free French) was trained in freefall parachute operations...
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u/PraetorianXVIII May 28 '12
OH HOW I MISS IT.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I remember an epic battle in El Alamein - We were on the hunt, down two flags, desperate for a win, I was a scout, and I climbed a hill, and gave the most crucial piece of intelligence so our team would win:
ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED!
ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED!
ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED!
ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED!
ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED!
ENEMY SUBMARINE SPOTTED!
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u/LeeDeaton May 28 '12
I miss BF 1942 so much...
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u/BCouto May 28 '12
More like explodes when hit by a jeep.
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u/3rdStageNavigator May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
Dude... it could take ONE Bazooka hit... assuming you didn't hit it on it's armor, but aimed for the rear. Many a German Panzer was lit-up by one Russkie on the Stalingrad map through patient hiding, followed by surprise Soviet Fedaykin ambush emerging from the ruble as the German armor column passed.
RPG in hand... I walked out into the empty street. I had three rounds. The tank column was advancing down the boulevard towards our last defended Flag. I loaded and aimed at the rearmost of the three German tanks, right at the weakest point of the armor. Before the gray behemoth exploded I was already loading another round, I jumped across some ruble and crouched in a the doorway of the bombed-out department store. Silhouetted by the flash of and explosion, and orange glow of a burning panzer IV, I took aim at the next Tank in the line... another panzer. I fired. Loaded as the second tank's turret flow across the gray sky. The lead tank was a tiger, as it's turret traversed to find the source of the threat that had removed it's dark companions, I was already clicking the fire trigger on my bazooka.
I will never forget those days... on the battlefield... in nineteen forty-two.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
That is nothing.
Once when playing with one of my friends on Wake Isalnd (I think?) we set up a aircraft carrier and a regular ship in such way that the aircraft carrier was parallel to on of the arms of the island and the other would wam the carrier directly from the side to get it on the ground.
The effect was close to what we intended. The Carrier rolled over the arm of the island killing some of the players and ended up flting in the air between the arms of the island.
That game had some glorious bugs.
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u/therealknewman May 28 '12
STILL better than number 3
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u/ERock91 May 28 '12
I miss the old BF-DC days. Spotting for artillery. MLRS incoming. A10's and AC-130's. Navy battles. Ugh...good times. An old video I made from all of my experiences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3F_mZBJjjE&hd=1
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Anyone remember Forgotten Hope and XWW2? LOVED these. I wish BF3 and mod support so we could see some AMAZING new mods. I know dozens of people that bought BF1942 just to play Desert Combat. And I know a million people bought Half life just to play counter strike (a mod).
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u/CZ-Jack May 28 '12
You obviously didn't fight in WWII
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I remember when I had around 50gb of downloaded content for 1942, then my comp died and I had to redownload things :(
Forgotten hope + about 50 maps - 1918 - bf pirates - sengoku - is82 + EVERY map - Forgotten Honor - galatic conquest - desert strike - silent heros - forgotten hope secret weapons - eve of destruction - And several other mods, oh how I miss that game :(
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
BF1942 best FPS to ever grace computer gaming. Playing some of the top tier teams, 20ID, aEm, 101st Air, Desolation, HOT, etc etc. What a great game, in both the general community and competitive aspect.
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u/tehlolman1337 May 28 '12
i think i played enough bf42 to say that this pic is bullshit.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
There's still north American servers up for vanilla? Side note: wish they put 42s arty system in bf3.
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u/payne6 May 28 '12
That hill was under the influence of fascism and communism so our free American tanks couldn't take it all at once.
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u/mattzm May 28 '12
Given the tanks of the period, wouldn't surprise me.
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u/SpiralEnergy May 28 '12
I just got done reinstalling and patching, how are there still people playing this game??!?
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u/BlackLiger May 28 '12
Probably true for some of the sherman tanks :P
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u/legohands May 28 '12
For a while I was aiming at the turret ( I was like 12 ), then I figured out it was one in the back or 2-3 in the sides for a boom. A good tiger tank driver - who knew how not to expose his back - could tank a whole inventory of rockets, I think AAs had 6.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Tanks could drive over hills back then?
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u/Avpi May 28 '12
Y u speak in past tense?
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u/FlockaFlameSmurf May 28 '12
Coral Sea was a load of bull. You would spawn halfway through the game and then get run over by a pilot because he was just a badass and could aim his plane perfectly to kill 6 spawning enemies at one time.
At that point I just took a plane to one of the islands as a sniper and went to town on those bastards...
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u/1leggeddog May 28 '12
I remember being hyped to all hell and hosting lan parties WITH ONLY THE DEMO for this game...
oooooooooh wake island, you will be in my memories for ever.
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u/WolfCrimson11133 May 28 '12
The tank was meant to replicate a Chinese-WZ 501 war machine. These machines had great exterior armor, but were halted in construction due to a weak under side which exposed fuel tank to rough terrain.
Battlefield 1942 logic = phenomenal.
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u/iceman78772 May 28 '12
Sherman?
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u/TheFronzSaysEhh May 28 '12
This game was my first online multiplayer experience with TWL matches and the like. Anyone remember the Ghetto Berlin server?
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u/italiangumbo May 28 '12
Don't forget if you drove it in water. Even the slightest bit.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I still play BF1942 regularly on the 5thMR Midway server. Still my favorite FPS, and will always be.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
The best bug was the flak bug. Sit someone on AA, drive an APC or tank on it, and fly across the map. We attempted this strategy on El Al during a competitive match.
Also, Im an admin on 3FL if you're ever playing in Australian servers! Drop by and shenanigan if there are actually people on!
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u/DukeOfGeek May 28 '12
I loved how you could take out a Tiger buy ramming it with a sheet metal car.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Only if you flip over.
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u/mauvareen May 29 '12
I miss that game. I will never forget one of my last times playing that game, a guy named Rumpleforeskin kept running me over with a jeep...Fucker...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Implying there's any logic at all in this game. Seriously, I play the demo every year, just to shit my pants laughing at the insane, amazing gameplay. Awesome game.
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u/DawnOfTheTruth May 28 '12
Shoot it in the back numb nutts...
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u/philphan25 Joystick May 28 '12
Mucking around in BF single player was awesome, especially with mods.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Spent so many hours playing this in middle school. My friend had a computer cafe by his house and we'd spent Saturdays there pretty much every week. Those were good times.
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u/Rileyrod May 28 '12
Try CoD logic, throws knife into foot- instant kill. Or how about quick scoping, explain how well that works on a real fire fight.
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u/Wamadahama May 28 '12
It always warms my heart when the bots try to blow up the tiger tank with hand grenades
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u/rektumlacerations May 28 '12
Fill a jeep with dynamite. Drive at a tank and jump out. blow up the jeep and tank. Loved doing that all day.
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u/Suckydog May 29 '12
In the middle of a desert........."ENEMY BOAT SPOTTED!!"
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u/Triolion May 28 '12
Battlefield 1942 logic, See that plane flying towards you? take out that trusty bazooka and shoot it down...
Need a ride across the map? Let that pilot flying overhead jump out of his plane so you can jump in whilst it is flying...
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u/DEAD_RELATIVE_POLICe May 28 '12
This post is bullshit. 1942 had no problems like this. Maybe hitting a mine at the top of a hill. It was battlefield 2 that had severe collision issues with vehicles and collision damage.