Road to Rome GONE GOLD

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  please stick to the desert combat then. Some people have to make a living. : quietb0y
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    As someone mentioned earlier, Epic releases more content and releases it free. As a result, Epic has a l... : Xenolith
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      Don't get me wrong. EA is the money whore. But, it still cost money to keep a product up. I don't know... : quietb0y
      • Because they aren't a bloated company! :) : diehlr
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  Desert Combat has more content? Are you on crack? : Katarn3279
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    Yes I am, have a problem with that? : Xenolith
    • As long as you admit it, nope. : Katarn3279
• $20 is a very reasonable price tag imo. : brewsterdog
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  Yeah I can't believe people found a way to complain over 20 bucks, its not almost 40 like the WC3 expansi... : Skeez187
  • Or the three hour MOHAA expansion that cost 40. : trove
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  Then don't fucking buy it. Yeah, someone else (Among many, Valve and Epic) release free addon packs fo : timm
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    I paint other houses for free all the time, bad analogy. It's called doing volunteer work, try it someti... : Xenolith
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      Then come paint my house already. What you say? You don't know me? Well, fuck that, nobody at DICE or... : timm
      • He'll prolly just get the Mexican version in Juarez anyway. As for me, a $20 pricetag for this is, i... : Dechter
      • Blizzard has learned that they can charge what they want for their games because people BUY LOTS OF THEM.... : brewsterdog
      • Lord of Destruction is one of the best addons to a game of all time. : grendel
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  obviously people think its worth the price tag if they're buying it right? i mean if no one bought it the... : Cpt. Baseballbat
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    Hence the post. Trying to convince you EA fanboys to change your ways. EA is all about the money. All ... : Xenolith
    • I'm not an EA fanboy, I'm a BF1942 fanboy. It's the only thing by EA I own, I hate them and the way they ... : Old_Fart
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      Fuck EA, man. Seriously. DICE, on the other hand, has my vote. For once, making a game under the EA l... : timm
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        Note the correction on Desert Combat, it is in alpha and isn't a finished product. When it is finished i... : Xenolith
        • Yeah, fuck DICE for getting a greate game published! Fuck them for making a buck on it! Fuck them! Ser... : timm
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  waaaah why aren't all addons to game free!! i am poor and can't pay for stuff! : grendel
  • Xeno: You are pathetic. Complaining over a studpid 20$-fee. "Thats FREAKIN 3.33$ a MAP, not coun... : Agge
• DC is a laggy POS Needs a lot of work still : Peace frog

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• Bah, stupid reply button. Was meant to be a reply to 11. : SatansFist
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  motherboard? cpu? : Old_Fart
  • ECS-K7S5A Athlon 1700XP Here's a related link (other people w/similar probs) http://forums.bfnation.... : SatansFist
• Turn your sound detail to low, set hardware accel to on (page 2 of the sound options). Had the same probl... : Cpt. Baseballbat

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• and make it so you can blow up bridges. : []v[]adwacker
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  And fly like Superman. : Skeez187
  • gimme a break. Im serious. Blowing up bridges (that respawn) would add a huge bit of tactics to the game. : []v[]adwacker
• and be immune to bullets : -dm7
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  I agree with 2 and 3. 1 is ridiculous. : brewsterdog
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    how the fuck is it ridiculous, it's ridiculous when you have 32 players respawning every 10 seconds with ... : esky
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      You'll argue the other way when you are being spawncamped by a tank and half track and have no other way ... : Joseph
      • That's a flaw with the game, you shouldn't be able to get repaired in enemy occupied pads/hangars. : esky
      • he's usually the one spawn-camping : Old_Fart
• Bah, tanks are perfect right now. : trove
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  they should also increase the damage takin to a player on foot by a bazooka. You can fire a bazooka poin... : crinos
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    they DO kill in one hit if it's dead on, I've done it many times : Old_Fart
    • me too, you just can't ground-shoot like this is Quake, hit them dead on in the torso : jimmy-buffett

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• yeyeye! :D : -dm7
• Oh man you are bad! *hopes to get add-on on release day* : MrLobo
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  * P A I D B Y E A ' D * ;-) : Wolfanoz
  • I wish they were! ;( : timm
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  We need to schedule regular times for people to gather on your server. Playing on the public CS-hax0r ser... : Dechter
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    You don't read my SHACKBATTLE posts? :( : UtilityMaximizer
    • There aren't enough of them. I mean something like three/four times weekly. : Dechter
• yay ashkie you rock sir!!! : grendel
• I love you man. In a totally platonic masculine way.]/ : trove
• Ashkie, post your paypal acct. I want to donate for server usage, I'm on there every night : hoonis

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  Ya cheese-eatin surrender monkey! : Old_Fart
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    It's all true, except about the monkey : elementZen
    • it's a Simpsons quote : Old_Fart

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  "Though for me, the biggest thing would be "mouselook while flying doesn't freeze plane control". I want ... : tronnc
  • well I think it's in there so you can fly & look with mouse, assuming nobody would use joystick or altern... : hoonis

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  I present you with parts of the Community Update 1.3 Patch Fix List: 2: Client performance optimizatio... : timm
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    doesn't necessarily mean they addressed those issues. but i hope it does. : rudds
    • Nah, that's not what I'm saying either, I'm just saying it's probably improved. There are ways around ... : timm
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  cdclone + daemon tools : yautja
  • roger that! works pretty good, except when I leave a cd in the drive. For some reason, even with a virtua... : Joseph
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  use the nocd patch.. you'll still need your cdkey to play, but thank god someone patched out the CD check : hoonis
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    but i thought the no-cd for 1.2 still didn't let you play online? maybe i'm behind the times. personal... : rudds
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      Yeah, there's one at gamecopyworld that works online & still requires legit serial. Of course I bought it... : hoonis
      • same here, I don't understand what's up with the constant cd checking while the game uses a cd key... : tunis5000

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  It's not a Gainward card, is it? Scotty22 had a weird problem with a Gainward Geforce4 card that he mana... : UtilityMaximizer
  • I don't recall what manufacturer it is... : SatansFist
  • my gf4 card is a gainward, is that why my video is stuttery? : grendel
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  It's a sound problem. I have the exact same setup you do. Make sure onboard sound is turned off, and ... : Scotty22
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    Oh and I get every time I reinstall the game if I don't click that switch. : Scotty22
    • Hmm, i'll look into this onboard sound issue... thx. : SatansFist
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    Hmmm I have the same problem as well. How do I check wether or not onboard sound is turned off? : Craven13
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      I'd start in the BIOS. : SatansFist
      • yeah I just found it. : Craven13
• check that your agp aperture is 64M I RMA'd a gainward card that had bad capacitors, there are enormou... : hoonis

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• oops, that's in response to #152, i accidentally pressed [click to clear] : accused

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• There's always the next expansion... : SatansFist
• Come on.. it's not supposed to be realistic. I mean.. the French? pfff : Dick Marcinko

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• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=6534444 Yea, I guess so ;) : Joseph

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• I've got an XP 2100 (1.74 Ghz) and an 9700 pro, and the game is silk for me. : Dynotaku
• I have a P4 1.8Ghz /w GF3 Ti200 and I have no issues like that.. : dn__
• I also have no issues with the water slowing things down. Im still having sound probs tho : SatansFist
• I doubt it has anything to do with the CPU, it's probably the graphics card or drivers. As always make su... : koder
• i have no probs with it on my radeon8500 and 2000+ :\ : pinkeye
• perfec on geforce 4 : Rapid 99
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  My old tbird 1 gig and gf4 4400 would bog down with the water effects. My P4 2.53 with same video card i... : Peace frog
  • I'm guessing it's my CPU then : diehlr
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  I have a celeron 1.4ghz and GF4Ti 4200 and it runs just fine at 1280x960. It even hits the 60Hz limit ev... : Dechter
  • refreshforce is your friend : rudds
• how much ram you got? : radicus

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• forgive or punish set by client side! I want to have that control! : quietb0y

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  After a fresh install of XP and then installing/patching BF, I get lots of static and crackling in the so... : SatansFist
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    What motherboard do you have..? : dn__
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      The "live" click thing is well documented, I read a lot about it while searching out my audigy problem. d... : hoonis
      • Don't see anything that would help... : SatansFist
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        i have an audigy gamer and it runs like a turd when sound accel is turned on. I have no clue what to do, ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
        • hmm, mine worked like a champ. The drivers I used were Oct 10 I 2002 I think, or close to that. I had it ... : hoonis
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    Do you have a via chipset? Download this --> http://www.shackspace.com/~theta@shackmail.com/vlatency_v01... : theta
    • Not running a VIA chipset. : SatansFist
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  Try the on-board nForce2 sound? If you've got a decent board with SoundStorm, it should kick pretty much ... : timm
  • Yeah, the soundstorm is >= audigy in my opinion. I'm selling my audigy on ebay now that I fixed my sound ... : hoonis

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• Maybe a few days after to see who else gets it first : ghost in my shell
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  If Ashkie puts it on the server, I'm getting it. That's all there is to it for me. : UtilityMaximizer
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    Same here. : sysmanager
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      I think he already said he would : jedi_27
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        That he did. : SatansFist
        • Yes he did, and I AM TOO!!! woot! : lobo_ca
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  I will, the new maps look just as good as the original set. Has anyone else noticed just how *good* the m... : hoonis
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    Berlin sucks, though. It almost immediately turns into "grenade spam the Russian spawn", which is why As... : UtilityMaximizer
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      Berlin (and Stalingrad) are maps that I think need their own set of special circumstances to work. Spe... : Luminair
      • heh, both of those maps are fun to grenade or detpack jump on. Get on the roof where the flags are in sta... : hoonis
• B O U G H T ' E 'D (uh) : dn__
• only if it becomes very popular for mp. i don't need more maps or weapons and i don't really need mor... : BadRespawn
• yep, I'm in. and I still suck at this game. : Downforce
• I will be purchasing it, great game and would galdy see another 20 bucks go towards the developers making... : stgdz
• I'll definitely be picking it up. : SatansFist
• I'm getting it no matter if anyone else here does. : Old_Fart
• Yes, I will be purchasing this soon. : quietb0y
• i'm waiting a month or so to see peoples reactions and if you all are still playing it or what. doesn'... : pyide
• Ill be digging up $20 for this and getting it after the 7th :D : supaslasha
• even though they didn't add the damn Panther, I'll be picking this up. The StuG looks like it could be f... : beastrabban
• most certainly I will pick this up. it looks like max fun. : hirez
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  I will be buying it the day its released. I use Boomyguy when playing. see you out on the battlefield! : Peace frog
  • Will I be picking this up? Roger that! : -dm7
• I'll be getting it the day it comes out. Hopefully everyone else will too. : stump
• I'm getting it the second it's availiable, and hopefully the whole office will get it as well. If noth... : timm
• Definitely gonna pick this sweet action up. : brewsterdog
• Definently buying. Vanilla BF1942 owns me. : dordy
• I'm buying. : Skeez187
• Buy'n. : jhof
• Already put myself up for a copy. Have to pay about $28 for in in Sweden though, which is pretty sucky..... : znk

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  "Free" is on the endangered word list.. So what, you have to pay a couple of bucks for a loaded expansio... : dn__
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    Bad analogy, how about if you had to pay for a free sample? Its the same situation, its not quite a full ... : elementZen
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      No, his example is just fine. Yours, on the other hand, is not. You don't PAY for a FREE sample. Those ar : timm
      • a free sample is a demo. you didn't pay to play wake island as much as you wanted. the expansion is li... : rudds
• this game kicks so much ass..its worth the $20 : []v[]adwacker

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  Give us more information, uh.. Personally, I have no issues with the game, so the difference would be yo... : dn__
  • Same here... I don't have any either : Wolfanoz
• I was hoping they would fix the problem of enemies using your repair pads. Then camping your planes :( : Peace frog

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• YES couldn't even reply to the right fucking thread. : brewsterdog

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  7th plus 7 days = 14th. Today = 22nd. You lose! : johnny rotten
  • Well, yeah.. I'm 2-3 days late, since it'll be SHIPPING on the 4th.. but still, I was right about the thi... : timm

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• theres other servers, you know ;D : pinkeye

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• the patch's readme.txt will show you the way. : pyide

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• yeah, I have had it happen as b17, or a fighter. : hirez
• yeah I see that too, though I wasn't sure the bombs were actually falling in my case. I do a quick positi... : hoonis
• I'm pretty sure I've run into this issue in the bomber, but not sure about the rocket launcher.. : dn__
• yes. sniper rifle to. : BadRespawn
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  Yep, had that happen quite a few times. Also sometimes in a plane I'll drop a bomb and instead of droppi... : Katarn3279
  • That happens to me pretty often : Phalex

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  It's $20! Suck it up! : sysmanager
  • :( *sucks it up* : Silent Wolf
• Maybe after they suck some more money from us with the expansion, EA will allow Dice to finally release t... : Old_Fart

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  Agreed. Once you're used to using the Merciless addon, having to play without it is pretty much torture. : Craven13
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    Yes it is....The addition is very good. but I'm with Wolf, I wonder if it's going to screw up a lot of st... : Scotty22
    • I dont think it will since RtR will run separate to BF. That just means RtR won't have Merciless until th... : SatansFist

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  Six maps if im not mistaken : krakhead420
  • Yes, I didn't read it correctly.. DOH! : dn__

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• yeah, it's the suck in mozilla : hoonis