BF1942: Battle of Britain Released

I go back and forth :(

Dice releases a great game! Yey!
Its super buggy, unplayable for some. Boo!
Dice releases patches to make it better. Yey!
Patches introduce cheats. Boo!
They release official maps for free, giving us more then what we paid for! Yey!
They release expansion packs to milk the cash cow and hold back dev tools so if you want something different, you have to pay them. Boo!

Until I can start seeing those boos go away, I doubt Ill be purchasing their new vietnam game.

You shouldn't base camp in war!! Waa waaa germans are camping our base waaaa waaa i'm going to complain to ea to have this map changed in the next patch. They should only have 1 bomber on this map and we should have more aa emplacements.

This flame directed all all the whiners who complained and had it changed so you can't repair in a hanger and complain about base camping in general. Can't hack it i suggest bejeweled for your intelect level.

This is a sweet map, definitely like it. Nice and big too. I see some awesome air battles happening. My only worry is how lopsided this may be on pubs. Without good, solid teamwork and people willing to do the "dirty work" and repair the towers, the Germans will have a cake walk. But definitely a nice change of pace.

Any recommendations on a good beginners Joystick for flying in 1942.. Just seems like I get shot out of the sky too fast by some of you aces. while i'm keyboarding it.

as of this second, theres no wait for either file from the ea ftp server:
ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/misc/bf1942_battleofbritain_map.exe (client ver)
ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/misc/bf1942_battleofbritain_standaloneserver_map.zip (Server ver)

Wow. This is one seriously cool, interesting map. I love it! I hope there's more objective-based gameplay of this type on the way.

Like rosewood said, teamwork REALLY pays off here. I found that I was so much more effective in a fighter if I would hang around a bomber and try to keep allied fighters off the bomber's tail. And for the allies, two planes shooting at a bomber results in a bomber that is destroyed twice as quickly.

I have to give praise to DICE for this. It's very well done. Now just fix the chat lag, supermanning and land mines.

Inintial notes / ideas / imrpessions

Germans: You have it easy. You attack. Every so often you may get an allied over your base. Just man the top gun on the ju and blow his ass out of the sky. Now, how to attack.

ALWAYS move in groups. There was a reason they did this in the movies. I see that a diamond formation works well BUT the targets are pretty small so straight line isnt bad but obviously open for attack. Maybe with TS a team could go in diamond. Anyways, the first route is easy. Attack far left and then circle around back, hit factory, then hit far AA gun. YES, YOU WILL GET SHOT DOWN. Unless your name is gims and you can snipe like none other and can do some damage on their ground, just die, respawn and attack again. Slowly but surely, if you are hiting them 4 bombers at a time, they will all be DEAD.

When you get close, an unmaned radar station shows up on your radar. If they are too daft to man a radar station, blow it up for them, mmkay.

ALSO -- Fly low! You can fly in under the radar. They will most likely see you visually but it helps, especially in a pack.

Finally, Imagine if you have 8 bombers moving in a straight line, boom boom boom boom. Well, when the payload is droped, first guy go left, second right, etc. This fan out motion causes them to have to split up their resources.
Notes: Detpacks seem to work but not well on the radars. Stick to the big bombs. If you kick ass at dog fighting, go for it. Ive yet to see a really good gunner so odds are you would be better suited in a nother bomber. Its hard to shoot down 8 bombers, no matter how many fighters there are.

Allies: I didnt play much as you but think coral sea. You need lots and lots of engys repairing like mad. If you have 2 man teams on every radar station, plus two engys in the holes at the factory, and everyone else in the air shooting bombers, they are going to have a fuckall time raping you. However, 8 bombers hitting you at once is going to be hard to stop. If you suck in the air, MAN A RADAR TOWER. Be honest now. Be nice and switch with the guy who is fixing your ass too, I doubt he wants to play for half an hour and have 0 kills, 20 deaths. There are AA guns w/o radar on this map -- ESPECIALLY AROUND THE FACTORY WHICH IS SO DAMN EASY TO TAKE DOWN -- use them.

Once again I see how Team Speak would just change the dynamics of this map. Imho, this is a germans win map -- its always easiest for people with the uncapable spawn. However, if you have allies calling out the packs and teams manning aa guns and fighter packs raping them, it could easily be germans getting their asses kicked.

Wow this map rocks, it's certainly my new favorite. Thanks for the ponters Rosewood, it was certainly working on Ashkie's server so far today. :D

-Captain_Chunk[H]

Just FYI that the www.rnp.ca / www.redphive.org server has been update to run this map only for 24 hours or so. If your anywhere on the west coast, should be good pings (filling up fast though. :) ). The ip is 24.207.0.251 default port. Enjoy!

I only just now figured out how to get into Ashkie's servers i suck at teh internet

Oh well. I'm at work, but when I get home, game on! ;)

I have mirrors up for people who know where to find them. Server being updated.

Only gripe I have on this beautiful map is all the germans really need to do is kamakazi into the aa towers. It takes off more than 25% if you ram it and does much more damage than just bombing them does.

That being said the allies do have a shot at winning this, although I played six matches and lost em all. If you get some good allies in the air with spitfires they work wonders alongside the aa. Good games all around people!

This is so totally excellent. And also totally sweet, and totally cool.

I can't fly worth a damn either, maybe it's time to learn!!!!!!!!111

I hope Secret Weapons comes out soon, maybe the code contained in it will nullify the Superman exploit... once the Jetpack is introduced you must have it equipped to fly! Could be that simple.

At any rate, BF1942 is DEFINITELY a great platform. The pros definitely outweigh the cons, and by a large margin.

Sgt. Hamburger says "see you at 9est kiddies"

I suppose I better get the stiff upper lip out of storage.

Here's he filerush.com bit torrent download link for this:

http://www.filerush.com/torrents/bf1942_battleofbritain_map.exe.torrent

THIS JUST IN: This map rawks

when is THE BATTLE going to take place on ashkies?

Everyone battle stations! THe Krauts are invading! To ashkie's right now!

Wait, wait... they released it when they said they would? I don't understand this method. *error*

looks like there is more worthwhile stuff in this map then in all of RTR. If they released one of these every few months that would be awesome

Someone wake up ashkie, I wanna play. I guess I could load up the single player... heh.

Has anyone ever played the single player on this thing? When I got my new video card, I loaded it up and checked it out. Holy crap. I did my list of boos and yeys and seriously, some points need to be taken off for the most asstastic AI evar. If the AI needs to storm the beach, they just sit in the boats for half an hour. They just do the stupidest things.

i've only got the original bf1942, what expansions/mods/addons are people playing on ashkie's now?

5 minutes impressions: It's looks greate, and should be very interesting to play on!

Truely a dream map for pilots!

All freeloaders - read http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=27386&8030189

quick impression:

flyers dream map

If you like to work the aa, you wont be disappointed either.

Very big map, and its funny, but I wasnt able to spawn anywhere near an airplane. You had to take a jeep of which there are quite a few. This might be good as it will probably keep people from camping the planes.

The towers and the airfield for the allies are key and its probably best to be an engineer to keep the towers repaired. The tower has aa so it does provide some defense for itself and you can also see detect incoming planes with it.

There were a few bridges placed in the map. I had fun just trying to fly under the bridge.

I've got it mirrored on my FTP for those of you who have access.

I always wondered if they Radar Towers did anything, is it just for this map or do they all have a purpose, and if so, what.

As much as I dislike some of the things that EA/DICE have done, this is pretty darn cool. Maybe they actually listened to all the people who were upset...

Does this map include any kind of small patch to fix the superman bug/exploit?

I have only one lame complaint about this map:

The loading screen! Yikes! Copy->Flip the B17 screen, and add sub-par illustration?

I find it strange I can dl at 400+kb/s from chicago or even san francisco, but from New York I only get about 200+kb/s even though I'm in NH.

You can take out the radar with detpacks. But it takes a lot of them. There aren't any ammo boxes around the radar dishes either, so it is a lot faster to just use planes.

45 meg map? jesus

The map is awesome.
On the round I played you get a lot of the annoying people that bail from their shot up planes, steal yours and repeat. Aside from that, the map looks like a lot of fun.

Interface cannot be registered :( What's wrong w/my computer?

Gentlemen, might I humbly point out my extraordinary prediction of this event:

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8020495

Got a torrent goin here for the client version:
http://dafox.org/~epit/bf1942_battleofbritain_map.exe.torrent

its prolly better if you use EAs server ( http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8029553 ), cause I guarantee it'll be faster, but if you cant get in, use this.

If you already have the file, and arent playin on the net with it, please fire up the torrent and help seed :)

Opinion after fly through:

this map is awsome, to say the least. the bases are seperated by a nice (huge) channel of water, so it'll make for some nice battles like coral sea. but there is also a large, nicely designed land mass with lots of places on the british side, plenty of area's to parachute in as axis and cvause trouble.