Maybe somebody should be the designated pilot of certain aircraft on each teams. Watching people swing back and forth with a chopper was funny last week, but not anymore.

Yeah, not having ""quality"" flying ruined that map. Time for some of us to practice. I am going for the joystick soon.

I''ll take arcane ascii art for $100, Alex..
What is a videogame mobil over a Christmas tree?

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FPS comparisons aside, I was able to hop on for the last couple of rounds tonight. Good time as always.

The M""InstaGib""60 needs to go...

It''s like get Sniper''d at close range and really really fast..

Its a head shot in your foot.

When I''m on the US side, I love that gun. I can just charge into a base Rambo-style and take out as many as 2-3 people and still live. Just by raining lead in the entire area. But, when I''m VC, I *hate* that gun. There''s practically no way to avoid that ""shower of death."" Had fun last night, though. Maybe next week we put the password on so that we can get a good 10v10? I''ve found that with 32 people on a big map that requires vehicles I spend most of my time waiting for a ride. When I get to hop in a chopper, someone else who has no idea which way''s up has jumped into the driver''s seat and has decided to run us all into a cliff or nose-dive into the runway trying to pick a tank up.

On the flip side, the M16 sniper rifle is a piece of crap. Not last night, but the last time we played I hit somebody 3 or 4 times without dying. DIE, I was saying, DIE, you turd, only they wouldn''t die and finally I was like well if you''re hunting turds I guess you need bigger guns.

Were you saying DIE, you turd, DIE, too? Do you think the same is true for the scoped Communist sniper rifle, the M21, and the M40(is that right?)?

I call victim. I''m not into the shooting part, I just like the getting hit part.

Sorry I had to skip out right before everyone else showed up last night (~9:00EST). I looked at XFire before I went to bed and there were a lot of GWJ folks on. Sigh.

I agree about the M60. I think making it harder to control, with a bigger spread is all they need to do. Right now it''s easier to aim than the M16.

I realize that I need teamspeak. There is nothing worse than dropping a bunch of bouncing betties around you flag, only to see a team-mate come strolling up like he has nothing better to do, while you frantically try to type out a warning. And then, click, pop, blammo. Guh.

Mostly we really wanted to test the server, and see what sort of turnout we got. I think if we have basically the same number of GWJers next week we''ll go to passworded server. I tend to agree that having the other folks on wasn''t exactly an ''enhancement''.

Overall, I''m pretty disappointed in Vietnam. I''ll continue to play on GWJ night, but I''d be hard pressed to find an interest at playing any other time. It''s not just about unbalanced weapons for me, but when I got my ''invalid CD key'' error last night and discovered this was a known issue from the Battlefield 1942 release that never got solved, I was pretty surprised and annoyed. The same with many sound related slowdown issues people have been experiencing. To release an entirely new product and not make any progress on some of the basic bugs of the previous version is absolutely pathetic.

What he said. I love BF-V, warts and all, Playing with people I know (or kinda know, if you will) makes it even better. I''m looking forward to next Wednesday night''s game, and spending more time in it.

I''m with you Flux, I favor BFV right now. I just like the strategy over the twitch -- especially since I suck at the twitch. It''s what EA always does, they release great games with the bare minimum polish allowed to make it sale-able. It''s a damn shame. That said, since I don''t experience too many problems (aside from an occasional crash-to-desktop) I really enjoy the game.