Battlefield 1943

I just checked, PS3 did unlock it.

I’ve had a hard time with planes too, but since I’ve been playing that map, I’m a lot better.  It’s pretty easy to fly once you start dogfighting.  Evading is a bit difficult, but chasing & gunning has been improved dramatically from just playing.  Bombing runs…that’s a different story.  I’m not to great at it, but there are tips out there.  Fly, fly, fly some more is what that’s about.

I had one game last night where I was chasing a really good pilot and doing a nice job of keeping me from getting some good shots in.  Finally, I was able to rip him some shots and knew he was going down in the next few hits.  Instead he bailed out over one of our flags so I followed his flight & jump path, estimated, and dropped my bombs.  I got him, amazingly, especially since bombs are terrible at killing infantry.  Couldn’t do it again though.

Yup, I’m on the 360.  A good friend of mine has a PS3 now, but playing MW2 too much.

I did download the Bad Company 2 demo from Xbox Live.  It’s pretty neat - far from the demo I played for BC1 and the last Battlefield game I really played, Battlefield 2.  It feels like it needs some polishing though - everything feels kind of clunky, the bullet spread is pretty ridiculous, or perhaps it’s the hit detection.  But overall it’s a fun experience.

@frimmel:

I think it is more a weapon thing.

Or maybe a gravity thing? There is ‘bullet drop’ in BC2.

I felt like I couldn’t hit anything at first during the Beta but after the first assault weapon unlocked things felt tighter but still seemed to need a whole clip to drop a guy.

There was a long list of changes from the Beta and it certainly seemed like the devs listened to player feedback. Can’t wait to check out the demo.

It hasn’t been terrible, but definitely some instances of “what the hell?”  I was a medic class one game attacking, hid out for a sec, squatted down, saw another medic come trotting up.  I had the jump on him by a second, burst fired, and he fired while moving and killed me in just a shot or two.  When it did the “showing your killer” thing, he still had 100% health.  I do not get how that could happen. Or you’ll be nearly toe to toe and nothing hits even aiming down the sites. I had to figure out about bullet drop the hard way defending as a sniper as I kept getting sniped.  I finally located the sniper (actually 3 of them in a stepping stone fashion FAR down the left), missed my first shot which went low.  After that I raised my shots and somehow headshot all 3 (in 3 shots, not 1) of them pretty much from maximum distance.  That didn’t make sense either…

I like the game it just feels it needs a little polish, which it’s in that stage to do so now.

I don’t think BF43 is on PC…

Yeah, I miss ships.  But I think I miss Battlefield 2 with squads and commanders more.