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I picked this up over the weekend. It's a sci-fi MMORPG. At first I was not impressed, but it is growing on me. One of the reasons is that in many respects, it plays more like BF1942 than WoW. There is plenty of wild and wooly combat, and a growing number of options for dealing death. I've now got a...

What kills me (literally) are the bot "bazooka snipers" -- they hit you from what seems like the horizon line.

I've noticed recently that it takes me 2 or 3 countdowns to spawn at the start of the map. I select a spawn point, the counter goes to zero, and it tells me I have not selected a spawn point. So I re-click and eventually it works. Not a huge issue, but it often means I miss a chance to grab a tank b...

I have twice now pulled off the double-sow-tow maneuver of leaping in the air over a speeding jeep/motorcylce just about the run me down. Once, I even managed to plug the driver after I landed and spun around.

The kind of stuff that keeps bringing me back to the game. OK, just one more map.....

Not from me, I swear.

Huh, I did not know that. I've seen it so often I thought it was a legit tactic. Seems to me it's not so much different than driving a tank into a side's uncappable spawn point and blasting away. But now I understand better why the guy got so pissed off. Breda? Hell, you've probably knifed me severa...

The other night I had, for me, a typical BF1942 moment. I was coming up behind someone at medium range, emptied about a full clip of automatic weapon fire at him, then he turned around and killed me with what seemed like a single shot. I seem to consistently lose these one-on-one gun battles, even i...

Pretty hairy Husky fight the over night. We as the Allies had the upper hand for most of the map and then Axis took one spawn point after another until we were left with only the one on the beach. Then the "nade-a-thon" began with the Axis throwing them down from the hill and we throwing t...

I've bought two e-Machines in the past two years and been happy with them. I got both at CompUSA when they had a special rebate going, and paid a net $300-400 (without monitor) for a pretty top end machine. I've then added a good monitor (~$200, Viewsonic 19" at Circuit City) and video card (~$...

Yeah, you're right, I meant kick vote. I've probably died 100 times already from someone camping a home base -- usually in a tank. Had a nightmare with this the other night on Gothic Line as the US. After 5 or 6 respawns as a bazooka-guy, I finally got him. Like the sever line says, "don't like...

How does a ban vote get started? Seems like there are some bozos continually starting them for no reason, and it is a royal PITA to clear the screen when they come up. By the way, other day we were on the Husky map and I was on the house porch, throwing grenades at the Axis spawn point near the brid...

A couple times over the past few days 've been unable to get because the server is full! Maybe the word is getting out on it.

LOL I know just what you mean. To paraphrase Comic Book Guy, last night I had some of the "worst spawning ever!."

How about the Mimoyecques map where we, the Allies, couldn't even get a flag until the very end. If the Germans have good pilots, that map is nightmare for the US.

Well, it's truly an honor to join you guys. I'm amazed at how many of us old farts there are -- I'm 48. I never really got into BF1942 until I found the JIF server -- maybe it's the maturity level that makes it work so well. Anyways, I've been having a blast but still can't pilot a plane to save my ...