Battlefield Vietnam Announced

Yay EA! continue to split up the gaming market for the BF series!

If you're lucky you can release 300 products based on this franchise all costing 50$ a pop and due to so many of them there will only be 500 players worldwide per title! GG


Meanwhile CS will continue to sell more copies.

EA = trash

No more fucking war games!

Alright, let's have it out... I can't understand why folks wouldn't like BF1942 overall. To be fair, I'll list the things I don't like about it to start out, since there aren't many -- In my experience, BF1942 has been the most fun I've had with a multiplayer game since Quake1. Adding to this (and not in EA's praise or detriment) are cool mods like Merciless and Desert Combat, which would not be possible without the BF1942 platform to start with.

Anyway, I don't like the front-end at all. It's very poorly done; it seems almost as if another team made the server browser and front-end from the game development team, it sucks so much. Note to EA -- switching resolutions every time you drop into the menu blows, and the server browser itself is atrocious.

Moving on, I don't like the way that sound travels across the map. Merciless fixed this by having sound get shallower and quieter the farther things are away from you; BF1942 seems to have a distance threshhold at which point sound just cuts off entirely. A worse offender is that bug where if a few sounds are playing at the same time, one of them will just be cancelled out. This seems to happen with airplanes the most... about once or twice a game, a plane will fly overhead during a huge firefight on the ground and the plane will be totally silent, or it'll be playing the engine sound, then just shut off. This bug is most irritating when you can't hear a plane coming to bomb you, so you can't shoot it down first.

Anyway, that's about it really. There might be one or two more little things, like the weird design for using artillery (I'm finally able to bombard a target after about 3 misses and adjustments), but that's so minor it's something I hardly notice.

People complain about the graphics -- on a high end videocard and mid-range system, BF1942 is gorgeous! No other wargame looks as good currently.

People complain about the physics -- they're goofy in some ways, but they're simplified to be fun, like driving the jeep or ramming boats.

People say it's vanilla -- how? Multiple vehicles and classes, fighting on land, sea, or air, on huge maps with radio commands with a bunch of weapons to choose from. This is the most varied action-oriented wargame ever made. BF1942 is king. And I can't wait for BFVietnam :)

Isn't there a Vietnam mod in development for BF1942 right now? Does this mean that that mod gets foxed?

Like someone else said. EA is trash. And i will never buy anything else made by them or remotely related to them. bf1942 was a quick, buggy and shallow game to begin with. Lots of promises and a very poor delivery. Money well wasted.

I want Battlefield 1492. Or Battlefield: 2000BC or something. Game developers need some original ideas these days :(

Christ, 99% of these messages I read in this thread are just whiny little bitches. I guess we should just play BF1942 forever. Whatever.. As far as I am concerned, if they can make the BF1942 style play work in a Vietnam setting, I am all for it. Jungle warfare, huey's flying above, napalm and carpet bomb dropping, PT boats.. Whats NOT to like?

Sweet it has single player! oh wait nevermind


(given that they dont develop kickass AI to go along with it)

Battlefield: Milk Franchise

What about Battlefield: Seoul... Not enough games try the Korean war...

I thought it was April Fools day for a second, Battlefield Vietnam? lol what a joke.
so now you have to lead your target while they hide behind foliage, great fun.

But primarily I refuse to play a cartoonized version of a very depressing and damaging period in my countrys history. War games are getting really tasteless.

Awoh, BF1942 was such a great game. Only EA would be as cruel as to milk it until all of its credability is gone.

as everybody else noticed before Ea sucks donkey.
and at second i really dont't feel like playing any other wargames.
there are a bunch of games out there i wouldnt touch with gloves on.
example: americas army .maybe its just me

I really don't want to buy this thing. I know the SP bots will be absolute crap. And I think this might just be a nice mod for 1942.

This is just one of those wars that I don't want so simulate in a video game :/ Strikes a little too close to home.

My only complaint is that I'm getting kind of tired of all the Vietnam games coming out now. Vietcong, Men of Valor, Battlefield: Vietnam, and theres a bunch more. I wish the developing community could be a little more diverse. It just seems to me that they all moved on from the WW2 era (MOHAA, RTCW, Battlefield, etc etc etc) to Vietnam. I suppose Desert Storm is coming in force in 2005.

Sweet... will there be an option to get $5.00 sucky sucky? :P

I wonder how they're going to render the jungles... BF42 has hardly any trees or shrubs really.

Wicked. I'll buy it

So, can we use Agent Orange?

Fucking awesome !

-Xian

I really wish they would ditch the historical war jive. I want BF2942!

And if I was the authors of EoD, I'd be pretty annoyed about this.

They're just pissed that DCombat is doing so well and they're not making any $$ of it.

Damn, the whole Battlefield francise reminds me of... those Delta Force games. Didn't they make a game for like every war the US was ever in?

This is probably a stupid question, but can anyone tell me the best way to request a feature/bug fix from DICE?

Early 2004? Somehow I doubt that...

Show me some screens and I might care.

LOL Now this is some funny news! Wow...just wow. EA and DICE are truly unbelievable. I cannot conceive of any possible circumstances that would actually cause me to purchase this game.

sigh, someone needs to make a alternate reality game that would be WW3 evolved out of the korean war

That rendering engine better be overhauled. I'm having trouble imagining a good vietnam setting on the current BF engine (open terrain with one or two trees). Vietnam games need at least VietCong levels of terrain clutter/detail.

Ok, well after thinking about things it seems like this *game* is going to come out a little early to be anything special. Maybe I am just being negative, but if this is coming out in 6-8 months what can we expect over something like EoD? Its not going to be on a new engine and probably not even an improved one right? Its just going to be new maps and vehicles like we have already seen with these cool mods coming out. They should make THIS an expansion not some secret weapons crap or whatever.

Is this the addon that makes BF1942 fun?

sweet. about the only thing that can be improved about this game is the graphics, so it'll be great to see the new version done with a new rendering engine. bring on the vietnizzle.

So do we as americans get overinflated kill ratios? and have to tally up how much rice we capture? Hmm capture the rice paddy i smell. But it better have f'ing napalm in it or i'm not buying.

Charlie don't surf!

Hope this tops my current 'Nam game favorite: VietCong, which had AWESOME single player missions.

Hooray! I hope this is as good as VietCong!

DC Sucks poop, too fast and furious...overpowered allies gallore.

Do we get to build systems of interconnecting tunnels though?

Go EA and Dice. u must REALLY be worried about DC now. since every time they make a new release you go digging for something to offer the "community" yourselfs. God. what a joke this timing is.

watch out for charlie in the tree!

BF1942 did NOT HAVE A SINGLE PLAYER GAME thank you...........