First impressions?

xane · Mar 23, 2004

My helicopter certainly drops out the sky like a broken bird, I must learn how to use the keyboard again, leave my uber-joystick to one side.

Cdr · Mar 23, 2004

The problem I've found with the throttle and the nam helis is that say 50 - 100% is where it registers for making the chopper gain height. At about 25/30 - 50% will bring you into a kind of auto-hover, were no matter where you put the throttle you'll neither gain or lose any altitude. Then 0-25% is where you'll start losing the altitude. Its this extra auto-hover type situation that wrong footed me for a while, until you get used to it it is a tad strange. As its not like DC at all.

I do think that this system is slightly easier on the keys because pressing neither up or down will use this auto-hover feature, then obviously down will take you down and up will take you up. It is a system designed more for the keyboard, but not unworkable on the joystick - once you get used to it.

Mofo8 · Mar 24, 2004

I've never understood why Battlefield handles joystick throttles this way. I want all the way back on my joystick throttle to represent 0% throttle on an aircraft and 0% collective in a helo. I'm not really comfortable with this weird 'reverse throttle' thing. I usually keep my throttle all the way down when not in use, so I find it disturbing to jump in a jet and start going backwards. WTF is that all about?

In most games involving helicopter flight (Flight Sim 2004 for example), I can pretty much do all the fancy stuff: take-off, hover, hover taxi, land, side slipping, flaring, landing, etc)... but to attempt this properly in BFV i reckon I'd benefit from a speedometer and an altimeter at the very least.

One tip for those with force-feedback joysticks (which BFV doesn't support). My stick has an option to turn on 0-100% default force in games which don't have FF. I was crashing within a minute every time before I turned this on, as without it, the stick is totally loose with no self centering or resistance at all.

adams901 · Mar 25, 2004

its a good game with 2 small issues. The M60 is a better sniper rifle that the actual sniper rifles, and the grass doesnt provide any cover from a certain distance.

Dillinja · Mar 25, 2004

Yeah, I've noticed that too - sometimes seems like people can be easier to see when they are further away than they are when they are close up as their clothes contrast with the background more.

Clown · Mar 25, 2004

Right, first impressions, afte playing with 64 bots single player for a while.

It's like an expensive mod for BF1942 (as in not like DC). Different guns, different player models, blah blah. I've found the mouse to be laggy and unresponsive in any resolution over 1024x768 and the graphics go cuckoo when I use AA or AF.

Can't think why; my AMD Athlon 2600+ XP, 1GB RAM, GF4 Ti4200 128MB plays BF1942 fine. I'm gonna upgrade soon, but still... this shit shouldn't be happening.

Mr.Bee · Mar 25, 2004

I know most of you dont care about this but the AI is really unfinished in most of the maps it seems (they grab tanks/jeeps then just stay there...) and of course with them being bots they can see through all the jungle trees and bushes making it a nightmare to play against them. I know the game is mainly multiplayer but I wish they would take more time on the AI...

adams901 · Mar 25, 2004

The messed up textures can be fixed by rolling back to an older graphics driver for the Nvidia cards, the ATI cards are screwed until a patch is released.

Not played against any bots yet, to be honest i doubt if I will as i very rarely play single player anymore unless it has a good storyline.

Clown · Mar 25, 2004

So I need the latest nVidia drivers for DC, and roll back for Vietnam? WATTAFAK?

SheepCow · Mar 26, 2004

adams901 said:
The messed up textures can be fixed by rolling back to an older graphics driver for the Nvidia cards, the ATI cards are screwed until a patch is released.

Not played against any bots yet, to be honest i doubt if I will as i very rarely play single player anymore unless it has a good storyline.

Seems to work fine on ATI cards if you disable AA

Cdr · Mar 26, 2004

Clown said:
So I need the latest nVidia drivers for DC, and roll back for Vietnam? WATTAFAK?

The latest nVidia drivers from the nVidia website (not off the Vietnam CD), will work fine with 'nam.

Make sure you have the very latest

Clown · Mar 26, 2004

Ok. I'll check when I get home. Last time I said I had the latest drivers, I got home to find that they weren't. I did only download them on Tuesday though... Hmm.

adams901 · Mar 26, 2004

On a different note, the custom combat settings look quite good with the exception of one thing, you cant remove individual weapons. It lists the 6 weapons slots but if you remove a slot it removes that slot from all classes.

Prehaps this is something else EA need to look into.

xane · Mar 26, 2004

Can you replace a weapon in one slot for one class ?

kosh · Mar 27, 2004

bfveitbug....laggy buggy worse than bf19laggy2, and worst of all NO SABER !!!!

Deadmanwalking · Mar 27, 2004

kosh said:
bfveitbug....laggy buggy worse than bf19laggy2, and worst of all NO SABER !!!!

Lag tends to happen when running it on a pentium2 and geforce.

kosh · Mar 28, 2004

Deadmanwalking said:
Lag tends to happen when running it on a pentium2 and geforce.

maybe so but im not, and that still doesnt explain the lack of a lightsaber

leggy · Mar 28, 2004

This game has gone from good to god awful and shite.

I can't even join a server most of the time, it's that bad. And when I do it's completely unplayable.

mank! · Mar 28, 2004

leggy said:
This game has gone from good to god awful and shite.

I can't even join a server most of the time, it's that bad. And when I do it's completely unplayable.

I was playing the reclaiming Hue City map earlier and the lag was fucking awful. My mouse was moving all by itself. Pity because I was having fun until then.

Cdr · Mar 28, 2004

If thats been within the last day or so, that may be due to the new Black Bag Ops Server Manager. It's only in a beta stage atm, but if a lot of the servers have upgraded to this and it does create lag (which I'm pretty sure it might), then thats the problem.

Hopefully (if this is the case), it shouldnt be too long before the problems are identified and fixed.

throdgrain · Mar 28, 2004

When its good I love this game.
When its bad i hate it !

The-Don · Mar 29, 2004

I love this game, I mainly stick to clan servers since the public servers seem to attract spammy idiots.

I am however finding the m60 is getting on my tits, it's over powered and everyone uses one... hopefully it will be 'downgraded' with the next patch if EA ever do release one

mank! · Mar 29, 2004

Ater all I said about the M60 I've decided it doesn't need downgrading or making any less powerful, there just needs to be a limit to how many people can carry them. I can people with the AK47 just as easily with the M60.

Paradroid · Mar 29, 2004

leggy said:
This game has gone from good to god awful and shite.

I can't even join a server most of the time, it's that bad. And when I do it's completely unplayable.

What's your problem? You got an old PC? Using a 56K dial-up?

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