Battlefield 1943 (XBLA and PSN)

[Jebus]

Is there any splash damage in this game at all?

Seriously?

[MisterBubbles]

ok ive been hammering this all week awesome fun, needing the coral see to get unlocked ( PS3 ) , then after that we need 5 new maps at a sensible 5 quid all done. ( know there's no chance )

[MJ]

I had my second crash today, after I pressed A to get to the class select screen at the start of Guadalcanal.

[MisterBubbles]

hot from the battlefield official blog
 While un-locking the Coral Sea map was definitely a communal effort, we here at EA DICE would like to give a shout out to Xbox live user James (jkasapi) from Peterborough, England. It was James' virtual bullet that registered the 43,000,000th kill, un-locking the Coral Sea map and Air Superiority mode for all Xbox users. For his trouble, James wins a pair of official 1943 sunglasses, a 1943 t-shirt, and custom Battlefield sneakers! Congrats James!Playstation fans, keep playing! We'll have a similar give-away when the PS3 community hits 43,000,000 kills.

[MetalJoe]

Battlefield t-shirt, trainers and sunglasses?!

He's going to look like one cool dude... watch out ladies!

[mr_rich]

like Joey in friends when he finds that porsche, and wears all the gear?

[PeteJ]

Is there any splash damage in this game at all?

Seriously?

Not a lot it would seem, everything needs to be a touch more powerful but so much it makes the game down to luck.

Really enjoying this though, have had some cracking games recently.

[Matt]

More I play it, the more issues this has.

Splash damage - as keeps being mentioned, it needs SOME.

And I can't be the only person who is sick of being spammed with the Rifle grenade launcher. It's a 1-hit kill weapon that's easier (and faster?) to use than the sniper rifle. With 3 shots and the game's unlimited ammo system, it's now the weapon of choice on line.

It may be weird, but I'd love a dev to try a game like this where the explosives only do damage to vehicles and not people. I want a gun fight, and instead I get instagibbed. Wouldn't be so bad if the ****ing thing done a modicum of splash damage, but you can run up to someone, shoot it point blank into them, and not take any real damage yourself

[Jebus]

Agree with the rifle nader, but then the sniper in this game is rubbish. With a sniper that has such a poor zoom, a shot to the back or chest needs to kill them, sure, reward headshots with more points, but it's that difficult to aim this sniper, one shot in the back is less powerful than the other rifle!

[MisterBubbles]

well as a long time fan and player of battlefield have them all except 2143, im glad the sniper rifle has been toned down, anybody who played battlefield 2 modern combat will know what snipers where like on bridge to far, and other maps least if somebody has grenade launcher i can take measures to deal with it, 1 shot headshot's from the other side of the map i cant, think DICE has the balance pretty spot on, wonder if others would want stronger snipers for less powerful grenade launchers back,not me.

[anephric]

The rifle 'nades seem to do more splash damage than in Bad Company, where they deliberately do next to zero, to stop people spamming them.

Agree about the snipes - they take skill to use, which seems to confound the idiot yank kids hiding at the top of the mountain at Airfield on Iwo Jima.

[Jebus]

Bubbles, not a veteran of these games, but perhaps you could explain why it sometimes takes two headshots to kill people?

[MisterBubbles]

cause they've toned it down you use to get sniped from miles away, the game ended up about 6 or 7 snipers per team per match and i was just insta kill hell, i hated playing sniper before this, i always played engineer class and 1 hit kills was as fun as piles, nobody would take flags as soon as you went near the point you'd be dead, as least now you can hide and move away, plus other stuff is toned down for this too planes although great in the right hands the gunships in BF2MC just pwned you, or the mini chopper on the map the black gold in the right hands was very very powerful and near impossible to shoot down with a good pilot, these are just my opinions but would like to hear other battlefield vets opinions.
p.s i always wished they brought in class caps in BF2MC and bad company and BF2 it got so bad.
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[Jebus]

But this game is insta kill everything! You spawn = death. You spawn again = death. You spawn again = not death, but you've spawned in fire!!

Sniper headshot should = death, surely?

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

But this game is insta kill everything! You spawn = death. You spawn again = death. You spawn again = not death, but you've spawned in fire!!

Sniper headshot should = death, surely?

I agree. The amount of times I've spawned & been taken out instantly has really p1ssed me off of late & I'm really starting to hate the game. When it happens so often I turn it off b4 I lose my temper.

Then its the opposite with my sniper. I'm not a crap shot, but when I'm camped down & I pump 4 bullets into a guy on top of a hill who hasnt moved even a millimetre, yet he is still alive, then I start to question whats the point of the sniper rifle? I thought that due to the lack of zoom & the range not being too far then that would be good enough to stop ppl shooting u from the other side of the map anyway.
Mind you its not just the sniper. The Thompson p1sses me off when I empty a whole clip into a guy then he turns around & kills me with only a few shots.

The most kills I've got so far has been using the grenade launcher which isnt very skillful to use especially as I tend to use it at close range a lot.