Yeah, the early BF games were where I found servers that were communities. We’d even host events like stunt flying or trick shot challenges where we’d throw a pssword on the server for a few hours so nobody could troll us.
Or for certain days of the week, we’d be running the Desert Combat mod. It was a different time in online gaming.
Another thing I miss from those days is friendly fire. I get why it had to be removed, but it allowed for big, overpowered thing like artillery strikes and naval bombardment that were as likely to wipe your own team as help without coordination.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, the early BF games were where I found servers that were communities. We’d even host events like stunt flying or trick shot challenges where we’d throw a pssword on the server for a few hours so nobody could troll us.
Or for certain days of the week, we’d be running the Desert Combat mod. It was a different time in online gaming.
Another thing I miss from those days is friendly fire. I get why it had to be removed, but it allowed for big, overpowered thing like artillery strikes and naval bombardment that were as likely to wipe your own team as help without coordination.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh man. Desert Combat was incredible.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love that they basically just hired the Desert Vombat team to make BF2.
Though the AC 130 in Desert Combat is still my favorite game vehicle of all time.
Mobile, pilot-able spawn point for the entire team with awesome air-to-ground weaponry that had to be defended by fighters.
It could fly over an emeny base and rain troops and death, but if it got shot down or the pilot wasn’t amazing, it was a huge liability.