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Geek Culture / BF1942 Dog Fighting

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Fallout
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 02:00
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Just curious, any of you guys enjoy dog fighting in the planes in BF1942? I've been thinking about flight sims recently and I personally found BF1942 the most enjoyable plane experience. It's all down to the low level flying, machine gun attacks on running soldiers, dog fighting etc.

I'm gonna have a bash at putting one together, so am starting to make my first map. Any things you didn't like about BF1942 planes, or particularly liked, or would like to have seen included, let me know!

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Wiggett
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 07:58
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teh wake island map, that came out in teh multiplayer demo and is still the best level for it. i love doin sweeps of the bridge in the zero. try and keep the mouse flight similar to bf1942, and if ya want i can help out witha few media bits, anyway gotta run im filming my ninja short.

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flibX0r
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 14:53
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love it, and love doing the loop trick in the jets (Desert Combat) to confuse enemies. You put upwards sharply, get out, fall downwards and get back in the plane when it comes back under. Really hard to perfect


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Van B
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 17:14
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I've always had a soft spot for flying in Battlefield, it is pretty tricky to dogfight, but the controls and feel are great fun. If you can model an aircraft carrier then that'd be cool, like each side of the islands you'd have a carrier, then they'd battle with their planes, sorta like team combat.

I liked the planes in Battlefield Vietnam too, dropping napalm is great fun, and the jet's are real easy to fly.


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Wiggett
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 18:38
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yeah but the jets are pretty fast, i like dth ehelicoters in bfv, specialy teh troop carryign one, so many times did i pilot my crew into a hot lz, then under rpg fire extracted them after aflag cap an dreturned safely, reminded me of flashpoint.

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Van B
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 19:18
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Yeah, the Huey - I like carrying boats and jeeps around with troops inside, like a mobile death conker. Some of the heli skills on the hardcore online players are insane, strafe flips aplenty .

I like the ATV best in Battlefield, running over land then right into and across water quickly is ideal, the boats are fairly boring unless you have a couple of passengers to man the guns.


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Wiggett
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 19:28
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nah its awesome in the boats cause u sit there and pretend to be in apocalypse now. i remember beign at a lan and we botoed up bfv and had two guys go the black models and me and two guys go the white ones an dwe drove roun dfor a bit quoteing the movie, and we even got a vc to kill the black guys with a spear, well logs, but they were close to spears. anyway i just loaded on operation flashpoint, anyone up for some flash action, i am a good pilotzorz.

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Fallout
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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 05:31 Edited at: 25th Jan 2005 05:32
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Operation flashpoint 2 will be emmense.

Yeah, thanks for the feedback though guys. I do want to keep this WW2 and want to achieve a level of authenticity even if the game itself won't be that realistic (you can't claim that flying 10 metres above land in BF1942 is realistic, but it's good fun).

I agree aircraft carriers should definitely be in. I also like the idea of bottleneck bridges. I'm going to have people to gun down, not just vehicles, but they'll be super low poly as there won't be any on-ground action. I really want straffing runs though.

Still gonna have to think about AI and enemy planes, but for now I'm just working on making a big test map that I can start building an engine around. Hopefully I'll stick at this one.

@Uberwiggett cheers for the offer of help. I'll be sure to call on ya when I have a clue what I need.

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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 06:24
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Fallout - I like your music on your website: reminds me of massive attack.

The track "Cacoon" is good for coding to

Drews free DB games - http://www.drewsgames.com/
Time Ship : out now! Check out the link above!
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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 06:48 Edited at: 25th Jan 2005 06:50
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Cheers mate. Always good to get positive feedback on the choonage.

EDIT: Btw, with regard to your screensaver email, I already knew about the SCR trick! Was just thinking about the whole windows setup choices etc. plus preview window but cheers for the words anyway.

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Oneka
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Yes iam the master of the skys I play on BF1942 and Desert Combat if you ever see the name Vietcong there is a 90% chance that is me

Making better games everday!
Oh yeah and just so you know its Oh-nek-a not One-ka!
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