Battlefield 1943

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

I can't wait for this! It's scheduled for a "summer release" on PSN and Xbox Live, with a PC version coming in September. It'll cost 1200 MS points or a tenner on PSN (probably).

It features three maps from the original Battlefield 1942, re-done and looking swanky using the Bad Company engine, with a fourth map unlocked after the entire community kills millions of people, which should take a week or two after release, weather permitting.

It looks awesome. Everyone has to buy it for bezzie squad-based action.

Various media and info below:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/battl ... 3-hands-on

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Battlefield 1943 will have players playing as either the United States Marine Corps or the Imperial Japanese Navy with up to 24 players on mainly three classic Battlefield maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima; but after 43 million kills upon both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3's release, an additional air combat only map called Coral Sea will be unlocked while the PC version will be accessible during its release.

Like Battlefield: Bad Company, 1943 will feature the Frostbite Engine for its environmental damage. The game will only feature the series' signature Conquest mode when released. Similar to Battlefield Heroes, 1943 will only feature three clases - infantryman, rifleman, and scout. The game also features a regenerating health system similar to the Call of Duty or Halo series.

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FUCK YEAH!

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

High quality version of the gameplay video:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/nyc-c ... 1943/45234

:metul:

Oh, and for the interested, it runs on dedicated EA servers, so no laggy self hosting, and supports 24 players (12 on each team). You can also create your own game with just your chums, and it'll plonk you on the nearest empty dedicated server.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Are those three/four 'classic' maps the only maps in the game, and not even new? That's a bit shit, if so.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Craster wrote:

Are those three/four 'classic' maps the only maps in the game, and not even new? That's a bit shit, if so.

Yes, there are only four maps. Have you ever played a Battlefield game? One map is enough!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

1942 had about a dozen, didn't it?

And oh god, Coral Sea is the one with a massive stretch of water between you and the opposition. That's not one to play with randoms.

Still love the series, mind.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

It's a fascinating concept, this. The polish of a retail release -- dedicated servers are a very nice touch, a fraction of the content, but punted out over XBLAH etc for pretty cheap money. Be interesting to see how it plays out. I'm sure they're considering more maps etc as DLC down the road if it does well.

I've never actually played a Battlefield game. I take it it's a class-based FPS with vehicles?

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Craster wrote:

1942 had about a dozen, didn't it?

And oh god, Coral Sea is the one with a massive stretch of water between you and the opposition. That's not one to play with randoms.

Still love the series, mind.

Yeah, but this is a Live Arcade game! 1200 points and download only, hence the awesome!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

That's an awful lot of graphical fidelity for an Arcade game. Have Microsoft let them off the maximum file size?

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

It's a fascinating concept, this. The polish of a retail release -- dedicated servers are a very nice touch, a fraction of the content, but punted out over XBLAH etc for pretty cheap money. Be interesting to see how it plays out. I'm sure they're considering more maps etc as DLC down the road if it does well.

I've never actually played a Battlefield game. I take it it's a class-based FPS with vehicles?

It's THE class based FPS with vehicles! I absolutely love the series thanks to the many crazy things you can do with its sandbox-ish set up. Attaching satchel charges to a jeep and driving it into the enemy base on a suicide mission is awesome, as is crashing your plane into a jeep, etc.

Everyone should be getting this!

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

That's an awful lot of graphical fidelity for an Arcade game. Have Microsoft let them off the maximum file size?

I think they eased up a while back when Portal came out, didn't they?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Mr Meaty Angel and I were discussing this over lunch a few months back. We wondered why no-one has shipped Tribes for XBLAH yet.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Another epic trailer here:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/annou ... 1943/45143

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:35

I'll be up for this if the hivemind says so. Never played a BF game before.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Hivemind says... YES!

I'm really surprised so many people haven't played a Battlefield game before. You'd all do well to buy Battlefield 2 and give it a go, it's probably less than a fiver now. Or, just, y'know, wait 'til this one comes out very soon indeed.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

They've all been good, to be honest. BF1942, BF2, BF2142.

nickachu · **Posted:** Sun Jun 21, 2009 13:56

I have 1200 points... I want this

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Craster wrote:

They've all been good, to be honest. BF1942, BF2, BF2142.

I didn't play/fancy 2142, but by the time it came out I was into Xbox 360 and had more or less given up on my PC as a gaming machine.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Jun 21, 2009 14:04

Probably will, but it's new Fallout DLC this week too.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Dimrill wrote:

Probably will, but it's new Fallout DLC this week too.

Schmallout! Although, we don't know when this is actually coming out yet, do we? All I've heard is summer... I'd be chuffed if it came out on Wednesday, though!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Dimrill wrote:

Probably will, but it's new Fallout DLC this week too.

Are you not just holding out for the GOTY one?

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

jonarob wrote:

You'd all do well to buy Battlefield 2 and give it a go, it's probably less than a fiver now.

I love Modern Combat to bits, but...
Despite still selling the game in the shops (around 12 quid last I looked) they've pretty much stopped supporting it. Last I played there was one server that kept crashing & they'd took away the ability to request/start a new game. Cunts.

Also, the campaign was kind of interesting but ultimately just a tutorial for the multiplayer. Bad Company is cheap as chips now & has a campaign that stands on it's own. Unfortunately the multiplayer is a bit wank.

Despite all this I'm fairly optimistic about 1943, although it would be nice if they managed to squeeze more peeps in because the maps are fucking huge.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Oh, you don't buy a Battlefield game for the single player campaign! to be honest, I'd forgot BF2 even had one...

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

jonarob wrote:

Oh, you don't buy a Battlefield game for the single player campaign! to be honest, I'd forgot BF2 even had one...

I know that, but it was worth mentioning since it's the only bit of BF2 you're still able to play :'(

EDIT: On eggbox at least.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

BF2 came out for Xbox?

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

jonarob wrote:

BF2 came out for Xbox?

Not quite the same game as BF2, but BF2:MC came oot for the 2 eggbox's & the PS2.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Ah right.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:41

jonarob wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

It's a fascinating concept, this. The polish of a retail release -- dedicated servers are a very nice touch, a fraction of the content, but punted out over XBLAH etc for pretty cheap money. Be interesting to see how it plays out. I'm sure they're considering more maps etc as DLC down the road if it does well.

I've never actually played a Battlefield game. I take it it's a class-based FPS with vehicles?

It's THE class based FPS with vehicles! I absolutely love the series thanks to the many crazy things you can do with its sandbox-ish set up. Attaching satchel charges to a jeep and driving it into the enemy base on a suicide mission is awesome, as is crashing your plane into a jeep, etc.

Everyone should be getting this!

You somehow seem to have mistyped "getting your team to jump into the back of the lorry you are driving, and then drive it off the cliff".

BF1942 was seriously awesome good fun, even when playing it properly, even if I was shit at flying. Although setting yourself up with a chum and operating as a 2 man bazooka sniper team was fun, IIRC.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

There was something amusing about people silently being really pissed off with you for driving them into a ravine as well. Nobody used voice chat then, just the keyboard, and it was almost more fun to imagine them shouting at you than actually being able to hear them.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:25

I'd be interested in this, seeing as BF1942/2/2142 passed me by. I justified buying Sam and Max (which is brilliant, btw) for 1,600 points because of all the points I'd saved from not buying 'ok' games for 1,200 points when I'd have impulse bought them for 800.

It's like MS are filtering out the mediocre. I've got about 40-odd XBLA games and half of them I probably only bought because they were 400 points.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

I watched the Sam and Max trailer and it looked genuinely hilarious. Might pick it up on payday.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

I tried the Sam & Max game having never played them in the old days but having to actually sit through every bit of dialogue rather than just reading and skipping to the next bit was a complete deal breaker.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:46

markg wrote:

I tried the Sam & Max game having never played them in the old days but having to actually sit through every bit of dialogue rather than just reading and skipping to the next bit was a complete deal breaker.

Well, the dialogue is kind of the point. If you took out the humour and story, you'd just have a very basic puzzle game.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:47

myp wrote:

markg wrote:

I tried the Sam & Max game having never played them in the old days but having to actually sit through every bit of dialogue rather than just reading and skipping to the next bit was a complete deal breaker.

Well, the dialogue is kind of the point. If you took out the humour and story, you'd just have a very basic puzzle game.

I don't like having to wait for the voice acting to finish before you can go on, but I think I read quite quickly.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:48

Put subtitles on, turn voice off and press B to skip through, then. Easy. It's all in the options.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Coral sea is the mass-TK level, too - because it's the one with two small bits of land with planes on, and a big stretch of ocean in between.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:13

Dimrill wrote:

Probably will, but it's new Fallout DLC this week too.

Again?

Sheesh, not got any DLC for FO3 at all, yet.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

How do I get XBox points if I don't pay for my Live with credit card?

Also - have they switched Live back on yet? I couldn't connect all weekend.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:14

Zardoz wrote:

Again?

Sheesh, not got any DLC for FO3 at all, yet.

Do what I'm doing. Trade in your vanilla copy and pre-order the GOTY edition.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

Mr Chris wrote:

How do I get XBox points if I don't pay for my Live with credit card?

Also - have they switched Live back on yet? I couldn't connect all weekend.

You can get them in shops.

Yes, Live was only down for one day last week.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:17

myp wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

Again?

Sheesh, not got any DLC for FO3 at all, yet.

Do what I'm doing. Trade in your vanilla copy and pre-order the GOTY edition.

Good point.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:17

Argos sell them.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

markg wrote:

You can get them in shops.

How peculiar. Thanks.

Quote:

Yes, Live was only down for one day last week.

Oh, that's worrying, then. I'm pretty sure my sub won't run out until August so fuck knows what that's been about.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:18

Mr Chris wrote:

How do I get XBox points if I don't pay for my Live with credit card?

Also - have they switched Live back on yet? I couldn't connect all weekend.

It's been back on since Wednesday, chap.

You can buy a points card from anywhere that sells games, pretty much. HMV are doing 2,100 for £16.99 at the moment, I think.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Mr Chris wrote:

markg wrote:

You can get them in shops.

How peculiar.

You can also register your credit card and use it to buy points without it being used to renew Live -- I do. It's the most expensive way to buy points though.

As for not being able to reconnect to Live, try rebooting your router in the first instance.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

As for not being able to reconnect to Live, try rebooting your router in the first instance.

Yeah, tried that. It's on and off all the time. Hmm. Will investigate this evening.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:42

Have you checked for any possessed Japanese swords in your house?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

Mr Chris wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

As for not being able to reconnect to Live, try rebooting your router in the first instance.

Yeah, tried that. It's on and off all the time. Hmm. Will investigate this evening.

Did you let the 360 run its little diagnostic test?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

markg wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

As for not being able to reconnect to Live, try rebooting your router in the first instance.

Yeah, tried that. It's on and off all the time. Hmm. Will investigate this evening.

Did you let the 360 run its little diagnostic test?

Its what now?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:51

In the network settings bit.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:52

it tells you at what stage it's carking out at, and gives you some notsohelpful tips to solve it.

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