Quick MOB rant for shits and giggles:

Bargod rules, even though he has a fascination with sleestaks. You want Holly you perv.
Druid is eternally the shit.
Hellfighter get your ass on COD5 with the rest of us!!
Mechanic! $270 for brake rotors?
Geno is the best in every game, unless faced with Bullseye.
Heated! Get rid of the hackintosh and run a real rig. Like Vista., ooopos nevermind
Pancakes! You noob. Syrup is for losers you need to run Molasses 2.0

oooot

Shred and Burn

Lol.
Dude, I amuse myself. It ain't right.

Who is running COD 5?

Just loaded it up last night on the iHack.

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we are running 3 servers. just scroll until you see.....










BLAM!!!!

Shred... ....Actually I broke three of my extraction tools on your brake pads and i never re-cut your rotors!

I had to call customer service over at GM and they gave me the run around..No one at GM had a clue.. To make things worse they sent me new rotors for a freaking John Deer tractor..Morrons....So if you hear a WAA...WAA..WAA.. noise and then a bang ...you best pull over Partner.



"T.M."

Druid, you have COD 5?

Who's going to kick Bar and Shadow's ass if you don't jump on?
j/k

Seriously, we miss you over there. Jump on. You know the address..

How does Cod 5 compare to Cod 4?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I sure don't see much difference between the two, but I've only hopped on for a few minutes here and there.

I've noticed that some of the battles are on Pacific Islands where there are palm trees and the enemy speaks Japanese and carry very big and very pointy swords.

Can't say I've noticed a single thing that is different beyond that.

I think I've reached the point where the same old thing just isn't doing it for me any more.

One thing that drives me nuts is to have an environment built with fake corridors. You HAVE to follow the path the game designers laid out, no flanking the enemy unless the designers want you to flank the enemy. No destructive environment. See that wooden box? Hit it with a howitzer and the damn thing won't move. Try to shoot through slats in floor boards and the bullets bounce off the invisible barrier.

Oh, wow, you can shoot through glass now ... that's so COD2.

This game feels like 2004 all over again.

It's on the same engine. But they basically took a bunch of guys who had obviously never played COD or talked to anyone who had and put them in a room and said "make us a video game". What they came out with was a POS that sounds like it was recorded underwater, bolt action rifles that might as well be rubber band guns, and a dizzying effect sort of like MOH Airborne had. Yes I'll still rape you but man do I really miss cod2...... I give it a 3 out of 10 cuz I'm feeling chipper. I will say all I heard for 2 freaking years was tanks this bigger maps that blah blah blah and I've seen exactly one of those people playing and or in a tank.

dont waste your time with cod5 hamma get arma 2 or flash point 2 or both me and dean could use a good man the tanks in that game are awesome not that im saying you would only use a tank happy turkey day to you as well i hope you had a good one

As Geno said, Cod4 Engine and shitty sound.

However I find it to be a lot more playable than COD4.

The main reason is that not every gun in the game shoots across the entire map for a single shot kill.
What is the point of so many different guns in Cod4? Why would you use a assault rifle when any machine gun with iron sights throws much more lead and can be shot accuratly completly across the biggest map for a kill?

Shooting across the map with a pistol for a 1 shot kill, in Cod4 come on that's just plain stupid.
There is no advantage for using slower weapons to improve accuracy, because they are all deadly accurate!

Everyone plays Hardcore in cod4 mainly because there are so many camping spots that shooting somone with anything less than a sniper rifle and they duck behind cover and get back to full health immediatly.
A health pak system would have helped this game tremendiously.

So in my opinion COD4 it is strictly run and gun or camp and snipe. There is no middle ground it seems.

COD5 at least got the weapons close to having some balance, Yes the bolts need tweaked, and they are not as smooth as COD2, they at least add some dimension that COD4 was missing. You can run and gun a little with the bolt.

The Machine guns in COD5 also are not as overpowering as in cod4, With a bolt I can get into a firefight at a dstance and win. That was not at all the case in COD4.

The tanks are nice, it adds a new dimension to TDM, they seem to be popular and make the teams work together to destroy tanks.

Lastly CTF is back and a hell of a lot of FUN

I guess the execution on the game is a little off and it's not as polished as COD4, but I think it plays a hell of a lot better. If they add a Base Assault expansion pack this would be a great game, because it allows for all skill sets / styles to play with various weapons.

Blitz won't toot his own horn, so I will.
He has done a fantastic job balancing the weapons and the dogs etc. on the BLAM! servers.
Good job my friend.

Stop by and get some, MOBsters. Oh wait, most of you have already.

I got the game for minicross and he plays it now and then ,but he perfers cod 2 and 4 better.

I won`t even load it on to my rig ,as to me (and this is my opinoin) it looks just like cod4 but with WW2 theme ,and i really hated cod4 .

As for the tanks I have heard that they are slow and cumbersome to say the least ,but I have not played ,or am going to play it just to find out.....I have better things to spend $60 on.....



OHHH Hamma ........WANKER ....can`t do the training EH......LOL

I am not even going to think about buying this game, i've been playing the beta on x box and i reeeeeally dont like the fact that you can get a silencer or apeture sight for most of the weapons. cod2 kicks this games ass

Dean, my dear old buddy - you BLOODY wanker! How good of you to drop by. Good to know you are still about and causing a ruckus.

For the record: COD5 TANKS SUCK ROYAL ASS!! They give you a sight, but it serves no purpose, your elevation marks are completely bogus. Just move your target until it glows red. Shoot through the thickest fog when your sight turns red, you know you are landing a kill. COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS. I didn't realize they had such advanced electronics in WWII. Hell, I could even kill a lone infantryman by aiming through heavy smoke and firing when my sight turned red. BULLSHIT!

And it's not just the tanks, my god, try to play just the single player. It will quickly drive you insane. Not only does it sound like you are underwater, they must have paid for Keifer Sutherland's voice-overs by the word and they clearly didn't want to buy many words!

And yes, my chortling cockney-eyed friend, I should have spent the wasted time I put into COD5 into ArmA training. Hell, that time would have been better spent dusting off an old version of Tetris and whiling away a few mind-numbing hours.

Dean, knock Michael aside from his COD5 for a minute and pick up the MP-44. The bastards have destroyed a right fine piece of equipment. Others may disagree, but I think they turned a beautiful killing instrument into a pea-shooter, and an ugly one to boot.

I'm not sure where I am on the whole health-packs vs recovery period debate. It is pretty lame to be in a firefight, hunkered down behind protection, pop up firing away until you've taken a few rounds, then duck down for cover and watch your health suddenly rebound. Obviously this is ideal if you like to camp. Healthpacks at least force the camper to come out of his secure box and do the vampire trick of gulping up his conquest's blood.

I still say Frontlines: Fuel of War was a step in the right direction. Destructible environment, respawn near your squad (which makes the concept of fighting as a squad in a large theater actually possible) have big tanks but provide the tools to completely disable them. It was interesting to play in a mixed environment with helos and jets, but they were so damn hard to operate properly and in reality they really weren't fun. Frontlines suffered because they didn't have the big bucks like those behind a COD production. The maps kind of reminded me of the first edition of Tuchola Forest when we still had big gaps in the mesh. Not quite ready for prime time.

And, now what? Return to UO?? Maybe I'll go play some Crysis to put me in a better mood.

As always ram some doooo down yer gregeroy now and again......you o`l tosser.

So I take it (from your post) that you don`t like CoD5 then ????

As for kicking Micheal off it ,that won`t be that hard as he doesn`t even play it that much now.



I saw him use the 44 and I did think it was abit pants,but like I say I haven`t played or will be playing it ,so I really can`t judge too much on it.



As for the Arma Training me o`l cock n` spaner......you should have another go ,then get on vent with Matt and me and do some Soviet / Towel Head shooting





anyways goner hit the frog n toad ,goto the boozer and throw afew back (just anormal Tuesday0 minus the fights like back in blithy

Bristol cities for the win.

i had heard it was mostly single player and nothing new MP verse cod4 so i held off. would like to hear any game sugestions

http://www.codemasters.com/flashpoint2/



http://www.arma2.com/





Both are FPS and very relistic in gameplay ....not a run and gun type..

Hmmmm, Flashpoint looks like it has a lot of potential. Any idea on the actual release date?

I know that promo video and screen shots are often doctored beyond belief, but I saw some things in Flashpoint that were really impressive. COD5 was incredibly awkward as they attempted to simulate areas of focus. The video they have up for Flashpoint seems to indicate they are using a much more sophisticated method. The lighting effects are outstanding. This seems to further illustrate that COD is stuck with 2004-era code.

I asked the question above, and then found the answer myself, it will be released sometime in the spring.

Got to admit, Dean, this one seems to have everything we have been demanding from game developers.

Terrific explainer video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-odAncq8bI

Good bit of info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flashpoint_2

I can't get over the incredible size of the island. It is 134 square miles! It takes 4 1/2 hours to walk across the island in real time!

I'll be anxious to learn more about how they handle multiplayer. Will it be squad-based? Will you respawn with your squad? Each MP game will 16 vs. 16. That's a lot of people on a big assed map. Not much fun if you aren't respawning with your team mates.

Okay, guys, this may be the game that will push you to upgrade your rig. Better start saving $$ now.

Thanks Cross ,will check them out. Flash point looks good as well.

Mutiplayer will be capture the island ...YES thats all of it....

Attack and defend (usually towns) as the map is abit large and capture the flag .....mostly though it will be co-op using either the whole island or bits here and there.

You will either be respawnwed with or without squad ,loneworlf (so when dead thats it) it really depends on the mission maker ,I myself do realism missions ,so therefore once dead you have to start again ,unless you get a mod that makes you carry a med kit.Or if theres a medic in your squad....

The multiplayer is the same as Arma (the first one)....

Operation Flashpoints engine is what the US Marines and Australian Defence force use to train their recruits...they use a program called VBS or Virtul Battle Space....which you can buy from BI for a mere 1500$ plus afurther 300$ for the addons like speacial forces ETC.

BI make Arma and Arma 2 but Codemasters make OpF and OpF2.

Out of the 2 I have played so far OpF 2 will be the better as Codemasters are the ones that made the engine for it first ,then some guys left CM and formed BI and modified the engine for Arma.........



As for the maps being big ,1 in Arma (the first 1) is over 500 miles long and will take you over 9 hours to walk from end to end.

Plus ALL the maps have no out of bounds...so you can get in a plane or helo and just fly for ever ,well till you run out of fuel .

As for the mods for the games ,there is a very large community for both games and you can see some of the mods for Arma here www.armahiolic.com this is where I get my stuff from.

As for the video trailer for the game ,that is also the gameplay graphics.....there is no difference in them



Hope this helps...

forgot to add that the number of players will depend on the mission....so can be from 2 to 100 players on the maps........you will beable to do 4 man squad co-op campaign and single missions...

The MP44 is the best gun in MP. At least for hardcore. Or so far anyway. The thompson is good but I think I like the MP44 better. Not sure why everyone is crazy about the dot sight. It's not as good as in COD4 and the iron sights are good on most of the guns (except LMG's) The rest of the guns are pointless. I thought I was the only one that thought the voice sounded like Keifer... is it actually him? I really want to like cod5. I keep trying to play it but end up playing 2 rounds and we head over to cod4. The game play in 4 is just all around better. I might feel differently if the sound in 5 wasn't so God awful. I just can't get past that.

I found a site that might be useful: http://www.ofp2dr.com/

They define the different multiplayer modes as:

Annihilation - The standard deathmatch.
Frontline - Team-based game for control of the map.
Infiltration - One team will be a small special forces unit with superior equipment who try to take control of a base from the second team, which is larger but not as well equipped.
Multiplayer Numbers

This is currently only speculation, we will confirm when its official!
PC Version

* 32 player (16 vs 16) in addition to the 256 squad members (8 per squad per player).
* 4 player campaign and single mission co-op

I REALLY like the idea of Frontline. Is this similar to how you spend your time in ArmA, Dean?

And, yes, that is actually Kiefer Sutherland on COD5. He is an actual character in the Single Player, fire that up and you'll recognize his face as well.

Frontline is similar to what Matt and me have played,in fact theres a mission called EVO BLUE and EVO RED.... basiclly you have up to 60 players ,all on 1 side going up against AI who have control of the towns and cities ,you have to destroy the radio towers in the towns/cities and then take them over ...the idea of the towers is ,if you dont do this then the AI just keep calling in reinforcements from the surrounding towns ...you can have some really long and good battles.....



Matt and Myself done EVO BLUE on my server ,just the 2 off us and I think it took us 9 or 10 hours to complete it......we just need to do EVO RED ,which I perfer as the weaponary is better I think.



But like I say most of the best missions will be done by the community ,rather then by either Codemasters or Bohemia Interactive.

Thanks for getting me salivating over OFP2. I can forsee my former obsession days with OFP coming back again. Mission making was a big thrill for me too- I did a nice one with WW2 mods involving a commando raid at the crack of dawn on D-day, taking out beach defences with MGs raking my 2 landing craft and the beaches we charged over to k.o the nests- then we went on to firefight a wandering patrol before getting into a huge battle with a coastal battery and garrison...but the task was not done; we [the few remnants of my force leftover -who would've fragged me in real life and headed back to be evacuated], we went futher inland to overun a roadblock, and then attempt to capture a german HQ with a British airborne squad we rendez-vous'd with for the final assault - I never could finish the mission at that point of almost wiping out the HQ..... I loved the OFP communities mods - there were lovely huge warships I could put in the horizon simulating the D-Day fleet.
I just realized my mission would've been better and exciting if I had raiders coming in to attack the HQ from sea to help me out.
I'll never know now- OFP was a game I had uninstalled to cut off my addiction to it, and upon a fresh install to catch up on good old times with the game it went bonkers permanently and was unplayable with all my fave amassed collection of mods

LOL- see you on the battlefield when I get that new pc- I went into shock when I saw what I'd been missing with new typical pc specs - 600GB HD, 3 gigs ram!!! lol. I feel like the geico caveman.

Hell that missions sounds like a great load of fun...you have to get back if you make missions like that...The last one I did you have to defend a town from 6 M113s , 3 M!A1s , 4 Hummers with MGs and arouind 250 Infantry along with gunshipo or 2 and afew SPeOPs squads .....and off course to start of you have 40 paras coming out of helos then the armour comes in.....all you have is RPGs and AK74s and nades...

the point is that i am awesome person so you would think an awesome person plays awesome games yes? well guess what i dont play cod5 nuff said... anyways hamma get your ass on flash or arma either one will be loads of fun man ever funner if dean dosint come and james man if you pick it up lemme know man the more the better













ps im really not awesome but cod5 does suck ass

OHMIGOD!! Matt must have gotten a new keyboard. Is that ACTUALLY punctuation I see in that last post!?!? He now owns a computer that has a period, question mark and a comma key! Will wonders ever cease!

Good to hear from you, buddy. Hope you are doing fine as always. If you see Eric, tell him hello. I'd imagine the baby is keeping him plenty busy.

I'm planning on loading up ArmA within the week. Not sure how much time I'll have to hone my skills, but I'll try to hop on with you guys soon. Maybe you can hand me a pair of binoculars and I can give you early warning as to when your position is being overrun!


... and I'm just joking about the lack of punctuation. I always admired the creativity behind your run-on sentences, even if others didn't appreciate the art. Good to see you tore out the shift key. Life just wouldn't be the same if you used that damn key! LOL!

hey with the amount of attention i put into school its a wonder i can read or wirte at all i

dont have time or the know how for your fancy punctuations commas and or periods lol always pickin on the poor farm boy who never had a farm



but yea man ill have to download team speak agein so me you and the ol wank of wankers can play some rounds



oh and i still have the same 20 dolla mouse and keybroad from my UO days and the same shity national georaphic mouse pad with a tiger on it MEOW

well, that 20 dolla mouse has killed thousands of gamers who never saw you coming ... must be because you and that damn tiger were sneaking through the reeds!

i kinda always thot that was sad all these guys run on about how they paid 60 or more dollas for this awesome mouse that has over 100 settings and what not and all the while im thinkn damn if that mouse really does improve your gameplay so much i sould get rid of this cheap microsoft mouse lol in the end its just a damn mouse people but to each his own

but ima ran this crappy thing till it dies then im off to walmart for an easy replace maby get a sponge bob mouse pad as well i did however upgrade to a flat screen moniter wich i do like

ill be on soon,upgrading.great to see you again !