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Actually I just checked and you joined in September 2006, and your user name was =XDC= wildeggtamer (that’s with a space between the XDC and WET. I’m forever forgetting the space in my username when logging on there, and running out of login attempts.
Can you remember the email address you used for their site? I signed up there in January 2005, as did most of the rats I see, so if you can still access the email address you had then, you can use the forgot password option linked from the login screen.
I’ll have my net here sorted out next Wednesday all being well, and will be getting BF4 probably a day or two before that (to download). Can’t say I’m too excited about the game, given the feedback here so far, but I’ll be up for some competitive stuff once I’ve got the hang of it.
@=XDC=MADMAX wrote:
free to plays put me off for some reason
The main worry about any f2p game is that you pay to win, but this game works very similar to world of tanks in that regard. You can pay a monthly sub and accelerate your XP gain which means you can level up and build your characters faster, or you can purchase weapons that would otherwise cost a lot of XP to buy for free. Neither is really necessary as the stock weapons are amongst the best weapons in the game and are sufficient for all round play. The upgraded weapons are more accurately described as side-grades, in that they offer you alternatives for different situations, most of which are more specialised options for each class for different situations, eg a more accurate gun for long range fighting, which would sacrifice performance at close range, and vice versa. In short there is nothing you can buy which you can get for free through an XP grind, so cash just saves you the time.
Sounds like they’ve made some nice improvements. I may give it another go at some point but BF4 and other games are taking my time at the moment. Loads must have changed since I last played!
I don’t know when you last played but the game is certainly looking a lot more polished than 1 year ago, and there’s still more to come from the devs (although the focus right now and in the run up to Christmas is on optimisation – we think because of the imminent release of the PS4). Obviously there have been numerous balance passes, and that’s always a work in progress, so how certain things perform will likely have changed slightly to the last time you played. They’ve also introduced a lattice system for two of the continents which changes how the battles flow there, and they’ve provided a lot more cover in bases against air rape and options to help versus spawn camping (although it’s fair to say that when a battle reaches the stage where you’re camped in the spawn, it’s usually lost). That being said I managed to break out of the spawn in a fight yesterday and took down a 12 man squad virtually single handed, destroying their spawn options, several aircraft, and delayed the cap long enough for the cavalry to arrive and save the base. It was awesome, and all thanks to a new role for the infiltrator class which you may like. Infiltrators can now be kitted out with SMG’s, which are devastating at close range. Not as good as shotguns, and due to the low health of the class, you have to get the drop on most classes (especially heavy assaults) to put enough dmg on them before they can kill you, but my god is that class fun now! You really do play it like a ninja 🙂
The biggest change I think will be the resource revamp which is likely coming after optimisation, as I think they’ll be introducing a need to harvest resources in order to resupply bases. With this I expect to see a much deeper meta game, in having to take down supply trains, and maybe also hunting for miners like you would do sometimes in eve.
Jumped on a US server last night on a character I’ve not played for a while and ran about in a biolab fight where there were well over 200 people fighting. Not just fighting though, the vast majority were congested around one teleport room, so the spam was ridiculous with grenades, bullets, rockets, all sorts of max shit flying about, and lots of those wee fireworks gadgets going off. It was by far the most congested I’ve ever seen a fight in this game, and it’s fair to say that performance took a dip below 60 fps here 🙂 Even though it was the heaviest fighting I’ve seen in one spot, I was mostly playing at 45 fps, with some dips to 30. Definite improvement on pre patch gameplay.
Have to say I’ve been impressed by it tonight, not dropping below 60 fps at all, even in some really large fights with 100+ players.
Some might also want to try planetside, while bf4 problems are sorted out. I’m having a blast in it atm and if you need a hand i’ll be in that channel on ts.
Thanks for the offer Pharty, but the cost of a ts server for a year is nowhere that much, I think it was £50 or so (but I may have got a discount on that in the end). Although it was a little tight the month it came due, I was ok covering this.
Actually there’s still not really a game like it out there, and although a few interesting ones are in development, they’re still quite far off. Pretty sure this will be the one I’ll be getting anyway.
SOIA still shows up on the forums occasionally, not really active with us in games for a while, Spugs is often on Steam, Jar is as well and sometimes pops on ts, and Judge is in New Zealand so tends to play along with some guys located down there (although we tried a few rounds of BF3 together on 300 ping servers :)).
Digit left XDC after he fell out with Seven back in 2003 or so. Milo also plays with the rats these days.
Oh and CC was active within the last year playing DayZ with us, but tends to come and go.
Glad you got it sorted wet, now just don’t get too good at flying and play against me!
From what people are saying here I think I will get this but so you know, it won’t be for a couple of weeks yet. I’ve moved into a place where the connection is being shared by a couple of guys who stream videos and abuse torrents like fuck which makes it virtually impossible to play a game really. I’ll be getting a second line in but that will take time sadly. Unfortunately I can’t even shut the wireless off anymore as now they just reset the router, not realising it’s me. Fucking students is all I can say.
