Great moments in games.

[Katulobotomia]

In this thread I would like to know what are your favourite moments in any games you have played. It is ok to post several posts and moments.

For example: just 10 minutes ago while playing Operation Flashpoint, I made my own mission and had 5 squad mates. there was a enemy camp where were 20 units and one T90. I tried to take over the whole camp without loosing any squad members but for about 2 hours I got killed over and over again. Then I thought that "I must be doing something wrong because nothing seems to work.
Then after carefully studieng the map and the soil, I put everyone on "hold fire" and "stealth" and "engage at will". Then positioned every squad member around the camp to about distance 100-200 meters. The positioning took about 20 minutes because they had to go on prone the whole process for not being detected. Then finally when all were on position and our cover wasnt blow. I ordered everyone to target a specific target and one LAW unit targeted the T90. Then when all had engaged the targets, which took another 10 minutes, I ordered the LAW soldier to open fire. He destroyed the tank and every enemy unit went prone watching the tank and the LAW soldier, when they opened fire I ordered everyone to open fire at their selected targets. Every single enemy unit was under fire from every single direction and the firefight took about 5-10 SECONDS!!! and it was over. I didnt loose any member and the fight was over before it even started. That was a "wow" experience for me because then I really realized that with good planning and luck a strategy can be the key to victory in any situation. :)

[enigma]

Op Flashpoint, made a patrol type mission on the map you get with Resistance, forget the name.

A squad from the 82nd, patrol north through a woods. In the woods is a german squad on a simlar patrol. To the north of the woods is another german squad and a halftrack. On the western side of the wood is a 2 man panzershreck team.

Through the rain during dusk we set out, about 10 minutes later the Sgt is shot. the squad spreads out and a massive firefight erupts in the woods. Armed with the bazooka i took out the halftrack but then dumped the zook and my carbine for teh Sgt's tommy gun.
The German squad brakes and retreats north and our squad legs it south, in the confussion the german patrol comes across us and for a momment we are surrounded.
We brake out and head south, were down to a handful of men and then walk right into the shreck team, another of our number falls and i go after these last 2 krauts with the tommy gun ... blasting away i nail one but the other, hiding behind a tree got me with his kar.

Ended up 1 Haltrack and about 15 germans for about 8 of us. It was a great lil battle.



Another comes to mind, BF2, me and my friend on wake island moved from the north village westwards, clearing the strip of land of Americans.
A sniper drives past in a tank and dumps it at the bunker on the end of the island just as some yanks had landed, who promtly jumped in the tank and blasted him.
The two of us dived to the side of the road, waited for the tank to pass then contuined to the bunker.
We held off like 2 waves of yanks trying to get on the island. We got quite a few yanks, of which about 3-4 where long range shots with our rifles (L85 and a AK) agaisnt them in boats.
We kept calling for reinforcements and supplies but our CO was an idiot and wouldnt help us.

Bout 10 minutes later after our succesful defence the airstrip fell so we hopped in a jeep drove throguh the yank lines and helped retake the airport ... both of us bought there though. Best run and some great teamwork by us but thrown down the drain by stuipidty and uncoperatiness from the rest of our team :(

[BillSpargo]

When I first finished the Sachsendorf level in Panzer Front. The level involved the player in a Tiger II with another Tiger II in support along with a panzerjäger 38(t) supporting Fallschirmjäger as they advanced, with only two friendly Panther Ausf. Gs nearby. Against them are sent rocket artillery barrages, infantry and successive waves of IS2ms and T34-85s from nearly every direction. The ground is muddy and the germans only have a narrow road to supply and protect. The only re-inforcements are two more panzerjägers if the Panthers are destroyed.
After destroying about 35 Soviet tanks and all their infantry I only had my Tiger and panzerjäger and one of the re-inforcements left.
An old game with ancient graphics that I still play often as it has the best atmosphere of any WWII game I've played.

[Sgt So and So]

Playing Rome: Total War as the Carthaginians, whom, may I say, are the second hardest to win with on the campaign, and losing dreadfully to the Scipii Romans. We had taken Sicily, but at a massive cost. Our men were spread out and the cities were rioting, and a Roman counterattack was imminent. And, to my surprise, they launched an all-out assault on Sardinia, my only open flank. With my five groups of troops(two town militia, two Balearic slings, and one kickass general), we sat on our arses until the Romans had to come at us. And they came at us hard- two full armies of Romans, one Scipii and one Julii, enclosed the walls. I formed a circle around the town square with the troops, with the general on horseback sitting dead in the middle. Finally, the Roman auxillary troops came. And then the entire infantry showed up. My men held their ground for over half an hour against successive assaults and retreats, until, finally, I had only three balearic slingers still alive, along with my general. The Julii had had a full-fledged rout, but the Scipii were still breathing down our backs. So, as I was readying to surrender, my general goes and charges right into the enemy without orders(units do that sometimes, randomly), and, without losing a man, cuts a swath straight through the infantry and sticks the enemy general. Soon, the Scipii had to retreat, and we killed nearly their entire army as it retreated. And all that with five troop formations;) . It was definitely a "HOLY **** HOW DID I DO THAT?" moment.

[biggles]

Well one of the greatest moments for me in a game is actualy a scripted one. When I played Call of Duty (1) for the first time I was really impressed by the whole game, and was looking forward to play the Russian part of the game, since I have never played as a Russian in an Singleplayer FPS. The introduction in itself is such a great momen tof WW2 gaming history: the opening sequense of the move "Enemy at the Gates" (quite a good movie), but here it was transferred as the coolest and most exiting sequence in gaming history for my part!
But I think the storming of Red Square is the best part of the game since it's so powerful and brlliantly done:

You stand at one side of the square as you see a group of the previous wave retreat. The Commisars screams at them "Turn around, keep going forward!"
they answer "we're getting slaughted out there, retreat!"
"No retreat! Not one step back! No mercy for cowards, OPEN FIRE!!! FIRE!!!!"
As the Mg's fells to silence the music starts to play this sad musical bit while the Commisar is warning the remaining troops for an defeat.He screams: "VICTORY OR DEATH!!!!!!" takes his whistle, and blows it, at the same time the music is rising to an extremly powerful mood rising bit while all the comrades around yourself is screaming "URAAAAH" and starts to run out on the square. The german MG42s starting to shoot at once and several russians are killed at once. I almost teared up there, because it was so powerful and (in it's way) beatiful.

I died on purpose many times just to see it again.:D

[Sgt So and So]

Well one of the greatest moments for me in a game is actualy a scripted one. When I played Call of Duty (1) for the first time I was really impressed by the whole game, and was looking forward to play the Russian part of the game, since I have never played as a Russian in an Singleplayer FPS. The introduction in itself is such a great momen tof WW2 gaming history: the opening sequense of the move "Enemy at the Gates" (quite a good movie), but here it was transferred as the coolest and most exiting sequence in gaming history for my part!
But I think the storming of Red Square is the best part of the game since it's so powerful and brlliantly done:

You stand at one side of the square as you see a group of the previous wave retreat. The Commisars screams at them "Turn around, keep going forward!"
they answer "we're getting slaughted out there, retreat!"
"No retreat! Not one step back! No mercy for cowards, OPEN FIRE!!! FIRE!!!!"
As the Mg's fells to silence the music starts to play this sad musical bit while the Commisar is warning the remaining troops for an defeat.He screams: "VICTORY OR DEATH!!!!!!" takes his whistle, and blows it, at the same time the music is rising to an extremly powerful mood rising bit while all the comrades around yourself is screaming "URAAAAH" and starts to run out on the square. The german MG42s starting to shoot at once and several russians are killed at once. I almost teared up there, because it was so powerful and (in it's way) beatiful.

I died on purpose many times just to see it again.:D

I loved that part of the game! I wish they would update Call of Duty into the reality engine, just so we could do that whole scene again!

[BillSpargo]

The Call of Duty demo where the paras take on the mg42 did it for me. Went straight out and bought the game.

[biggles]

yeah, that whould be so cool!!!

Another thing that I really liked was this time I played Bf1942 on the net, and I became really popular by almost every player on the server, mostly because my sense of humour in gaming situations. When I acidentely killed a guy in my team, and he was quite pissed off by that, so he started a kick vote on me. Then many players on both my team and the hostile wrote down in the chat: VOTE NO, DON'T KICK HIM!!!!!!

That moment made my day,since it was com+pletely strangers I played with...:)

[2ltben]

Napoleonic Total War. I had three battalions of Tommies, all of which are at perfect health. I made an L-formation at a village the French were heading to and started to fire. I dropped about 3500 Frogs and didn't lose a man.

[NortherlyNanook]

Call of Duty: United Offensive

On the greatest multiplayer map for UO, Foy, I managed to convince the whole team to stage a big offensive on one of the bunkers that we were supposed to be attacking at the time. All of our tanks pushed through the left flank, along with some infantry moving within the outskirts of the village. Since the enemy didn't know of the giant attack, they didn't really think about pushing through our right flank and destroying our bunkers behind us. We pushed forward, and one by one destroyed the bunkers. Good fun, especially since it was actually planned out.

[enigma]

Napoleonic Total War. I had three battalions of Tommies, all of which are at perfect health. I made an L-formation at a village the French were heading to and started to fire. I dropped about 3500 Frogs and didn't lose a man.
got a link to this mod? :D

[2ltben]

http://lordz.thelordz.co.uk/index.php?index

You need Medieval Total War and the expansion to play it. The RTW version was pushed back to Medieval Total War 2 because RTW, quite simply, sucks for modding. Creative Assembly is very hostile towards its modders.

[Ron]

My best moment was in red orchestra ostfront me and another guy were in a tiger on orel huge custom tanking map, we were up against T34 76's su-76's and KV-1s's we decided to take the path through the east flied on the left where immediatly we were in a firefight with 3 76's naturally at that range the 76's shots bounced off our front armour while we prceded to take out the 76's with our 88 gun with help from a friendly stug.
After that we moved on towards their bridge which took them to the east field we were again attacked by three more 76's naturally the results were the same as the 76's were unable to flank us because of the river, i then destroyed the bridge with a satchlet and we moved on towards the south lake destroying another bridge on the way and a su-76.
Then once we reached the south lake cap zone we set up facing the bridge which allowed their tanks to get over the river from their spawn zone 1.5km back. With a building covering our right side and our front almost impossible to penetrate with their 76's, we managed to prevent them getting across thus cap the south lake and win the map plus destroying a couple more tanks.

[xplosiv]

Storming the beaches for the very first time on Medal Of Honour:Frontline :cool:
The sights, sounds, emotional score.. awesome. The series which got me, and many others interested in the second world war. Although one man armies isn't realism :p moh was like an introduction. Look where we are now :)

[Jimmy]

I had a good one in Battlefield 2 a while back. The map was Gulf of Oman, and I decided to take a breather from the action and sit back as a Sniper. I took my L96 Rifle up atop the crane in the middle of the map. There was next to no fighting at my flag so I could just take pot shots at the people on the beach flags.

One particular infantryman was at the Olive Hill Fortification, and was sprinting across, so I adjusted for bullet drop, aimed far to the right as to catch him whilst running and fired. I didn't think I had him at first, but roughly a second later the bullet hit and I got a kill. So I have recorded that as my longest range kill on a moving (Fairly fast) target.

[2ltben]

Storming the beaches for the very first time on Medal Of Honour:Frontline :cool:
The sights, sounds, emotional score.. awesome. The series which got me, and many others interested in the second world war. Although one man armies isn't realism :p moh was like an introduction. Look where we are now :)
I remember when MoH was about espionage and not about World War 2 combat. That lasted about two games and then it went to over the top action. That's why the original is still my favorite of the series.

[[BEF]-R!G4M0RT!Z]

Yea, I used to love playing MoH 1 or 2. I thought they were amazing, and I used to love it when you could shoot German's in the leg, and they would collapse, etc. Oh, that was AMAZING! Then I played Frontline, and it was like WTF... This is CRAP, I hate the storming of the beaches, it was so rubbish! :D

[biggles]

Well, MOHAA is a great game, it was,in fact, my first FPS, and my first game bought in the U.S. I was stunned by how hard it was for me in the first days, when I had not a CLUE how to get passed the 3rd mission in the first scenario (Tunisia). It was bloody hard for a little noob like me:D

[Lordwatson]

Well, MOHAA is a great game, it was,in fact, my first FPS, and my first game bought in the U.S. I was stunned by how hard it was for me in the first days, when I had not a CLUE how to get passed the 3rd mission in the first scenario (Tunisia). It was bloody hard for a little noob like me:D

lol


That was my first real FPS. Completed it on medium pretty quick. Really the only difference between the diifficulties is the bullets do more damage eg a rifle round on easy does like 5 damage while on hard it does 20. I started doing it on hard but it just felt like the same thing.

[Lord Justin]

There's only one great moment that comes to mind immediately (although not very great in terms of grandeur or skill). I remember one time I was in Kursk in Battlefield 1942 (classic, classic game). I was Russian and began from our home flag towards the battle; I was bazooka class. When I got cover behind a destroyed Panzer, I started talking on the game chat about hitting a plane with a bazooka. I don't know why :p but I did. I think I said "has anyone here ever hit a plane with a zooka" or something, and got a reply like "I think it's impossible" or soimething. So, thirty seconds later, a German plane comes roaring down towards me, machine guns blazing, and I took a leap of faith and took careful aim and fired my bazooka, then saw the plane's wreck come crashing down :p .

It was a great moment because of the impulsiveness and irony. I've had many other memorable moments, only I can't remember them right now :p.

[Jack {RAAB}]

Well, In OFP. Playing a wgl mission as US SF on everon, 2 10/12 man squads Alone of everon facing about 3-4 enemy companys, I took one and two of my friends took the other. After capturing a Russian base with a helo pad, The other US squad is taking a chopper captured in the base away to recon the area, So im left to defend the Base until they return with my Small now 8 man squad. Just as they take off *Whizzt* one of my men get shot, Then all hell opens up on my position and the chopper with Russian Spetnatz and VDV with BMPs converging on the base, The other squad takes off succesfully in the chopper and im left for dead to the oncoming onslaught, partially deaf from my mates shouting at each other to take off faster.
As soon as the left airspace, I took a round in the arm, with half my squad dead I run for the medic, On the other side of the base. I Ran like hell constantly blacking out and my avatars heart pumping like mad, I get to the medic start the healing anim, And as soon as it finishes *Thump* the medic gets shot, I Can only see 2 of my guys alive on the other side of the base shooting like mad at the oncoming onslaught of VDV that were now in platoon strength. I leg it to the other side of the base again and *Bamm* The base walls coming tumbling down as a BMP mows through it, That moment, that single moment I fealt fear of death, of me and my squadmates. No other game has made me feel like that and thats why I love flashpoint so much.

Oh and theres always a happy ending, me and my 2 AI squad mates nicked a URAL truck and drove like hell to safety.

[[BEF]-R!G4M0RT!Z]

Wow that sounds like it would have been cool to watch. I used to love BF1942, I thought it was amazing! Then I got BF2 and thought that was amazing... :D

[Sgt So and So]

Well, In OFP. Playing a wgl mission as US SF on everon, 2 10/12 man squads Alone of everon facing about 3-4 enemy companys, I took one and two of my friends took the other. After capturing a Russian base with a helo pad, The other US squad is taking a chopper captured in the base away to recon the area, So im left to defend the Base until they return with my Small now 8 man squad. Just as they take off *Whizzt* one of my men get shot, Then all hell opens up on my position and the chopper with Russian Spetnatz and VDV with BMPs converging on the base, The other squad takes off succesfully in the chopper and im left for dead to the oncoming onslaught, partially deaf from my mates shouting at each other to take off faster.
As soon as the left airspace, I took a round in the arm, with half my squad dead I run for the medic, On the other side of the base. I Ran like hell constantly blacking out and my avatars heart pumping like mad, I get to the medic start the healing anim, And as soon as it finishes *Thump* the medic gets shot, I Can only see 2 of my guys alive on the other side of the base shooting like mad at the oncoming onslaught of VDV that were now in platoon strength. I leg it to the other side of the base again and *Bamm* The base walls coming tumbling down as a BMP mows through it, That moment, that single moment I fealt fear of death, of me and my squadmates. No other game has made me feel like that and thats why I love flashpoint so much.

Oh and theres always a happy ending, me and my 2 AI squad mates nicked a URAL truck and drove like hell to safety.

Damnit, I NEED OFP!:D We should all get together and have an uber-co-op game for 1944 forum members.

[enigma]

-R!G4M0RT!Z']Wow that sounds like it would have been cool to watch. I used to love BF1942, I thought it was amazing! Then I got BF2 and thought that was amazing... :D
*i turn and look out of the window ... blinds partally open and the room goes dark ala Principle Skinner*
amazing ... until your in a bunker, surrounded, low and ammo and holding off the entire goddam other team seaborne invasion without any help from the rest of your team (bar your mate whos in there with you)! :p


Cant remember the name of the map now, but the one with the TV station in it, me and my mate tried in one game 3 bloody times to assualt that place. Dieing in each attempt, as we moved off on our fouth some other squad took it .... :mad:
(lol i remember this one, first we legged it to the roof, only to realise the flag was further down, 2nd time we hit claymores, 3rd time the game ended, there was a dude infront of us - my mate with his rifle and me with my pistol opened fire on this guy furhter up the flight of stairs, as we did game ended, me mate said from the scores at the end, if we had shot that dude we would have won the match for the team lol!)

happened around 3 more times (3 different servers that is) same bloody thing lol, it turned into our objective and then some smug gits would get it!

We, well my friend finallly captured it in what had to be our 4 match somewhere around a week later, same thing had happened, we had wasted everyone and got in there only to be shot up.
We went in again and i got killed somehow but he made it!

Dozens of enemy deaths, around a dozen of our own, days later, hours of gameplay later ... the Roughnecks took that bloody building!
(lol are squadname coz we were the bad*** mofos on the team always :p )

[Borus]

Ahh.. One of my great moments was from WWII Online.

I was originally taking a part in an attack on Saint Truiden at which was supposed to distract the Germans from another town. On arrival at the area with my A13, I learned that a Stug and Pz. IIIF have been spotted scouting the outside areas. After learning of that information I headed to their last known coordinates and listened for their position, I hunted out the Stug and wounded it but it managed to escape into the night. The Pz. IIIF was not so lucky. As night turned into dawn, I came upon a Pz. IIIF and at which point I unloaded about 5-10 AP rounds into the backside of it making sure it was dead. After that, I returned to the nearest foward base and despawned and returned later as an infantry to probe the city for enemy infantry. At the time I arrived, I was shocked to see this diversionary attack turn into a full out battle for the town. I joined up with squad of British riflemen who had just taken a small depot near the south edge of town where I soon learned that we had met the enemy at full force. We were pinned down in several surronding buildings for a short while but not before we made a breakout and nearly sent the Germans packing. They managed to come back with reinforcements and pushed our attacking force in half, leaving me at the south end at the brunt of the German counterassault. Things started to look grim until we learned of British paratroopers coming in and soon they landed. With enough reinforcements and having several decisive advantages, we managed to take the town and hold it for the night.

This was one of the most craziest battles I took part in. This is war is all about.

[Bartzy]

Finnaly beating Kings "Quest Six: Heir Today, Gone Tommorow", this game along with "Incredible Machines" were my first ever video games, it took me about two years to beat Kings Quest becuase back then I didn't have internet to look for walkthroughs.

[2ltben]

There's only one great moment that comes to mind immediately (although not very great in terms of grandeur or skill). I remember one time I was in Kursk in Battlefield 1942 (classic, classic game). I was Russian and began from our home flag towards the battle; I was bazooka class. When I got cover behind a destroyed Panzer, I started talking on the game chat about hitting a plane with a bazooka. I don't know why :p but I did. I think I said "has anyone here ever hit a plane with a zooka" or something, and got a reply like "I think it's impossible" or soimething. So, thirty seconds later, a German plane comes roaring down towards me, machine guns blazing, and I took a leap of faith and took careful aim and fired my bazooka, then saw the plane's wreck come crashing down :p .

It was a great moment because of the impulsiveness and irony. I've had many other memorable moments, only I can't remember them right now :p.
I once shot down a jet in BF2 with a tank's main gun.

[enigma]

I once shot down a jet in BF2 with a tank's main gun.
:D


But have you ever doen rambo and rammed one with a tank? :p

[[BEF]-R!G4M0RT!Z]

Enigma, sounds like you had a fun time trying to cap the TV station :p Was it by any chance Sharqi Peninsula? I loved that map. I remember on RO:O, 2 days ago... (:p ) I was in a T34-76, charging for the left flank on the map 'Black day in July', and going over the crest of a hill, to find myself facing about 3 German Panzers. I had, a few minutes ago, learned that Northerly Nanook was on the server, and he said that he would switch teams once he died, to join me in my fight against the Nazi invaders. So, as I charged over the crest of the hill, I came under fire, from the 3 Panzers, all from different directions, and instead of stopping, and slugging it out with them, I decided to literally charge at the closest threat, a Panzer III, which had been the first one to fire at me. I drove, doing around 45kph down the hill, with explosions all around me, often narrowly missing, with the occasional glancing hit, straight down the side of my hull. I thought to myself how funny it would be if it was Nanook, but doubted the one I targeted would be him. In this charge over about 100 meters, or so, I had been fired upon, at least 10-20 times, each shot narrowly missing. I charged, to within about 10-15 meters, angled against the Pz III, with its flank completely exposed to my 76mm cannon. I fired one shot, straight into the engine bay and boom! I looked up at the score board, and it turns out its Nanook!
Unfortunately, though, while rejoicing and laughing at what had happened, a Pz IV had time to stick a shell right in my own engine bay, which in turn blew me up, although I think it was completely worth it :D

[ChrisHunt]

The final gun battle in Black (PS2 title), the most prolonged and intense gun battle I've had for a while. Thanks to Criterion Games for giving me what I have yearned for in gaming, prolonged and intense gun battles.

Playing DoD:Source and leading the field with my MG42 nests, drilling everyone.........even though I'm on a satellite connection and my ISP setup guy said to me 'You can't play FPS's online with a satellite connection because of the delay'.....the ping does suck though but for some reason it works and I always finish in top five of DoD:Source. Sweet.....:)

[enigma]

[BEF]-R!G4M0RT!Z: Aye thats the map,

hehe that RO momment sounds great :D

[Cobra427]

I would have to say the first time I really played WWIIOL ... I was almost a day 1 player but my PC only got like 5 FPS ... Well when I finally got it so I could play I went on a mission as a Brit sapper and I spawned on the frontline of an incoming german attack and they had the high ground ... A big hill and cliff infront of the town. So I started up the hill to try and scout and get any tanks that decide to sit up there. It took what seemed like forever to get up there and every now and then a rifle round would wizz by ot hit near me. I finally got to the top and what do I see sitt'n right on the edge of the cliff but what I think was a PzIVD shelling the town . So I crawled about 100m to it and I put a charge on the belly of the beast and ran, well he heard me and I could hear the turret turning then it happened ....The charge went off just as he took a shot and missed by an inch as I saw the tracer go by. I ended up running back to town as I was be'n chased by infantry.


That was my first kill in WWIIOL .... One of the guys back at the town in a AA gun saw the whole thing in his optics and snapped screenshots but they are long gone ... It looked like something out of a movie as the sun was right behind us ... He got shots of me placing the charge and running as the turret turned and as the charge went off at the same time as he fired .. And then one of me standing next to the burning wreck with the sun glaring behind me and the tank ... I was hooked after that

[[BEF]-R!G4M0RT!Z]

[BEF]-R!G4M0RT!Z: Aye thats the map,

hehe that RO momment sounds great :D

Yea, its a cool map, and yes, that was very fun on RO:O :D

[Sgt So and So]

Alright, so I just tried the OFP SP demo, and I absolutely love it. On the "Skirmish" mission that is exclusive to the demo, just 20 minutes ago, the squad of 4 and I moved up to a small village. I take a position behind a tree and see at least ten hostiles behind an empty BTR. Our leader gets the AT guy to blow the BTR, and then all hell breaks loose. There was an RPG, an officer, and two MGs on the road to the right and five guys in the town, so my squad was surrounded, trying to take cover behind the BTR wreck. Then, I see a nade get thrown. I hit the deck, and the whole squad except me is dead, and I try to stand up, but my legs are hit, so i have to stay prone. I ended up crawling my way to a med station, with a UAZ and three or so soldiers left in the forest. After that, I nab an RPG from one of the dead guys, get behind them, and blow the snot out of 'em.:D So, it turns out that one machine gunner on my side was still alive, next to a house on the other side of town, and we scampered off to the extraction point. It was a bummer so many had to die. This is the most fun with a war game I've ever had. I have you guys to thank!:D

[enigma]

played that mission so many times since ive got the game, never been able to recreate my results in the demo ... getting the heli extraction and being shot down behind the lines.

So good to see more people enjoying OFP :D

[Sgt So and So]

played that mission so many times since ive got the game, never been able to recreate my results in the demo ... getting the heli extraction and being shot down behind the lines.

So good to see more people enjoying OFP :D
Nah, it's not Ambush, it's "Skirmish". Demo-only. Yea, the demo is a bit weird at times, but I'm sure gold edition will rock. only $12.80!:D

[Rapishorrid]

In BF2 on Karkand...

There is no really specific moment that I can recall but for some reason that map is able to make for a really intense game. If you are familiar with the setup the beggining is Americans assaulting down a hill into a city which is 100% MEC controlled. This creates for a single front where the 40+ players duke it out. It's during this stage that BF2 really shines. You can find yourself nearly dead lying behind an inch of cover to see a single medic sprint towards you and get mowed down as the rest of your team is shelled. As I said there is no single moment, but in my experience Karkand is the best BF2 can offer. Later in the matches the front moves from the original assault point to a bridge farther back in the city. The game always ends up having MEC control the flags on one side of the river and Americans control flags on the other side. This again creates a single front where all 40+ players converge into one huge battle. I can't help myself from thinking how awesome BF2 could've been with a little more realism, some blood and more desperate voice commands (from what I've seen they've done this better in 2142 because the "MEDIC!!!" scream when you die in all the videos I've seen is pretty crazy). Obviously the game is not realism based, but even just a little more like say headshots and less bullets to kill someone and a slower run speed would make this game awesome.

It sounds like you guys are having a blast with OFP... I just downloaded the SP demo and am dying to try it out. I've turned away from the game so many times simply due to the graphics... but hey I enjoyed playing HL1 for the first time (this year) so why can't I enjoy this?:D

[enigma]

In BF2 on Karkand...

You can find yourself nearly dead lying behind an inch of cover to see a single medic sprint towards you and get mowed down as the rest of your team is shelled.

eheh thats me! :)

SA80 switched for the pads or a medi pack and legging it through the fire to save a comrade! :D


It sounds like you guys are having a blast with OFP... I just downloaded the SP demo and am dying to try it out. I've turned away from the game so many times simply due to the graphics... but hey I enjoyed playing HL1 for the first time (this year) so why can't I enjoy this?:D
Dont worry about the graphics! ... the games great!
there limitations, like urban combat for instance but otherwise its great!

[EvilHobo]

I only played WWIIOL for the 14-day trial, but I had some memorable moments.

First day, we were attack Namur from the south, although I forget the names of the towns that we went to before that. Regardless though, it was a 120 man charge in to a French occupied military base -- brutal. Maybe 10 guys were there. We had armor support and all of that good stuff too. But the attack on Namur didn't go too great, we attacked from two sides, from across the river to the west I believe and from the east in the hills. The frogs blew the river so we had to swim across, while a French tank fired upon our infantry who were struggling to get across, and (I think it was a Blen) a plane kept flying over and bombing us. It was rather brutal, and we lost a lot of men, but we took the city.

Another battle that I remember was we were to attack a city that was divided by a river (so getting all of the caps was difficult). But the thing that was the best during this particular battle was that we were going to assault from a forest atop a hill which overlooked the town. However, we had something like 8 FlaK 36 guns and assorted artillery pieces on the ridge in the trees. We infantrymen gathered up, and then the artillery started pounding the city, just these masses of successive bursts going off, and then down we charged. After a considerable time of house to house fighting, the French blew the bridge and I joined up with a couple of our men to become engineers. We smoked the bridge area and tried desperately to repair the bridge, but it just didn't work, as they had infantry and a tank or two on the other side that gunned down our attempts to get to the bridge. I believe that at some point we had an amphibious attack launch through the river a bit away from the bulk of the fighting and those men captured a depot on the other side, I went and spawned over there after a bit. After about maybe...three hours or more we had to withdraw from the town. I and a few others once again were caught in street fighting to cover the withdrawal of a lot of our heavy equipment, and then we fell back in to some Opels that were servicing as mobile spawns and got out of there.

So many other good moments, I've got some from RO too but I don't feel like typing anymore.

[Rapishorrid]

Dont worry about the graphics! ... the games great!
there limitations, like urban combat for instance but otherwise its great!

Well I got it finally!:D

Haven't even loaded it up yet, but just out of curiosity what mod were you using in that first scenario you mentioned earlier in the thread (with you fighting a german patrol in the woods)?

(sorry to go off topic from the thread)