[Multiplatform] Battlefield 1943, a.k.a. Maybe it actually works now, awesome.

Voice chat only works within a squad. It's to cut down on massive chatter that would exist across an entire team, although the team sizes in this aren't large enough to present the level of the problem that they seem to be worried about.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Chalk up another two refunds. Omagnus and I scored one for how continually fucking broke this thing is. Even though the news ticker says Quick Match is fixed, going in this afternoon results in yee olde ass fucking again. I recommend Devon try it if she's as annoyed as I was.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Stats are very broken. There is a page tied to it on battlefield1943.com that gives you slightly more interesting numbers, but not only were they entirely incorrect the other day when they were up, right now they aren't even available. Super.

http://www.battlefield1943.com/soldier

Log in and use that link to find yourself, but chances are good that it'll be fucked up in one way or another.

Regarding "best squad". I have been in it well over 20 times now, but I've only got the stamp for 9 of those, and the achievement for it didn't pop until I started playing without joining a squad whatsoever. Came in first overall while not in a squad and oh there it was.

Hell, half those stamps seem totally random. The five airplane kills in a round one took me many rounds of fulfilling the said conditions before it would show. I think I got it on my fourth consecutive round of getting at least 6 plane kills, if not more.

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I'm surprised too.

Imagine if this shit actually worked properly? It might have been unlocked already.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

No idea if it'll work

It only works when the other guy isn't dicking around in a plane.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well, it's either that or explode randomly in a vehicle with a suicide claim, so there is no real avoiding it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

No one is actively talking in the game channel anyway. The squads you get thrown in are already in their own party chat.

Game runs the exact opposite of perfect, but you're fortunate to have that. The amount of times it won't let me join a friend's game, or split the party after a round, or randomly disconnect me, or have crippling lag, or freeze, or something, is still about a 6 (or more) to 1 ratio to having the thing actually work as it should.

This is doing nothing but give me headaches. I am very glad that, in the end, I didn't pay for it. It is a wonderful game marred by the worst execution I've seen in years. I'm going to give it a week to improve. I'll drop it afterwards if it's still garbage.

Air Superiority mode is fun until you realize that everyone on your team is just going to bazooka the planes on your carrier repeatedly (seriously, happened every time I did this mode) and that it's easy to dominate if you're more than competant enough to know how not to fly into the side of a mountain. I've gone 15 and 2 and 18 and 3 and all sorts of shit in that since it's so easy.

Unfortunately, it'll ruin pilot stats for those of us who specialize in that in the main game. Getting the fighter efficiencies shows a lot more talent when you get it in Conquest than in AS. Real men know how to pop tanks.

AS stats should be segregated from the others, but that won't happen.

FELIPE NO

Yeah, this shit has gone beyond being frustrated with the game to actually being angry enough to be nippy at each other in the voice chats.

There is no point to having your entertainment actively piss you off when it's meant to be something to relax with, so fuck this. I think I'm about to follow suit with Omagnus's fantastic idea.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The game didn't even have the kindness to lie and say "that's ok baby, I'm sorry, it won't happen again" after physically assaulting us though. After all the bruises and missing teeth all we got was a "clean the blood off the carpet, bitch".

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Soldier profiles are up, but still seem off in terms of stats. My most used class is Japanese Sniper? Huh? Or, somehow my playtime is higher than Omagnus's, my score is lower, but I still have more than double his points per minute.

Oh, neat. Division is hard.

Don't know if I can trust the other numbers after that. Some seem ballpark correct but I can't be sure. (Pretty sure Omagnus has more than 67 Allied Tank kills.)

I also can't find Ultima or Devo with it, although it does find Miles, who has less playtime than the both of them.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by LeHah

I'm sure people have complained about the issues on forums and probably to EA its self - but has there been any offical word from them about this garbage?

There have been no official statements outside of the postings made on the website, which consist mostly of "You love us too much, we have to fix this!" and various other coy rewordings of "oops, we fucked up".

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Both the patches and any new version would be required to go through that nebulous magical whatever-the-fuck that is the Microsoft certification process. If they could bypass that though, super. Bethesda's skipped it with the fixes for Fallout DLC, but that involved them actively admitting a problem instead of...well, this.

Half the problems this thing experiences are on their end, dealing with their servers, such as the squad splitting fuck ups and the other various connection issues. Freezing, error handling, and visual problems aside, there's not much (outside of the gameplay balancing issues Devo wants) that could be fixed with an all new product belched out right away.

I'm willing to try again in about 4 to 8 weeks, see if anything's been touched up, but that's about it. Here's hoping, since the core product is wonderful when it isn't choking to death on it's own vomit.

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In the simplest terms, most of the issues (both those already fixed and still remaining) fall into the latter category, while comparitively few of them fall into the former.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Tanks can be two shotted if you hit them in the ass. Armour is weaker back there. There's less distinct vehicle damage zones than in BF2, but the concept is the same.

I have found that, sometimes (most of the time), when you try to rejoin your squad after getting split, the damn thing rejects your connection attempts. At least, that's how it was before this last weekend. Perhaps that three hours of downtime actually resulted in some work being done.

How ya doing, buddy?

I dunno.

I can win battles in a plane against an AA gun, and using it anyone can destroy mobile armour extremely well. One (or two) decent pilots can halt most heavy attacks the enemy can mount, including the bombers. I'm not saying I'm great, but if you're anything above the level of "mentally handicapped" and have a little bit of practice, the things become pretty damn strong.

I guess the level of power is offset by how idiotic they knew the player base was.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

Also it's completely bullshit if you own the base that has the Air Raid a single dude from the other team can run in and set it off; only the team who owns the base should be able to call it

No, that would be bullshit. SOmetimes if you're the only person trying to cap a point on your team, sneaking in and wiping out the defenders in one go works pretty well.

You know what should be implemented though? A limit on how many times you can use the bombers in a round. Per player I mean. If you were the last one in there, you should not be allowed to be the next one in. It would, hopefully, cause less camping of that fucking shit, it's so aggrivating.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Only buying Crashers a week later would have solved nothing.

From the sounds of things, whatever they did that other weekend during that three hours of downtime really must have fixed a lot. People who have started playing since then certainly seem to be having far better of a time of it than the people who started (and got fed up) playing before hand. You can't really blame either party for thinking the way it does considering all they've experienced is one or the other.

Anywho, I'd be very, very down for open door bomber bunkers, that would solve a few issues with their relative power. Now a solution for the camping of them and I'll be ever so happy.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

For the first time since I bought it, I experienced a flawless play session. Could be because BIG APPLE 5 AM, or because it was GELB KICK SOME ASS FORCE, but I dunno. Worked super. Has me enthusiastic, too.

New personal record, too. 21 kills, 0 deaths, in the same damn aircraft the ENTIRE MATCH. People are terrible at this vidya.

Also, "I'll be right there" has a new space in the dictionary of awesome.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Air superiority mode's winner is determined by the team who has the least folks in the negative 100 point range.

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