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Originally Posted by richcz3
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I was wondering if you could offer us any more negative insight or jaded gamer information on BF 1942. I personaly like a good counter to Karsten's positive posting. You do a great job at it amigo. 
umm lemme guess...you really really r e a l l y don't like the 3rd person perspective...right 
I love being an Engineer. Mines and Det packs are highly effective. Just need to play in a team or you'll get taken out trying to use that rifle. 
There is plenty of team play going on since the demo was released. There is a reason why BF1942 is 2nd most played game MP on the Web. There is a very small minority that dislikes it. Cheer up m8. The full version is only weeks away and all hell will truly break lose. 
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I'm not down, or necessarily jaded. I'm a realist, that's all. Foolish to get your hopes up when say 6mths to a year from now this community will be like CS and all the others with the l337 d00dz running everything. As for the engy use. I USED to play an engy. Then I started playing on the BF/CE community server (password protected, and it has been this way on all pswd servers I have played on unless they are newbies then I play engy and come in 1st) and found out why no one there does. The pilots there are literaly dead on with almost every bomb.
In vehicles everyone runs around in third person view. When they see mines they move to go around them. If they can't go around them they hop out of the tank/jeep/whatever and blow-up the vehicle so the enemy can't use it then go the rest of the way on foot. Try the server some time and you'll realise why engy IS next to useless on servers where the players know what they are doing.
As for the bashing the "guard" idea. It wasn't bashing, guarding is a tactically foolhardy means to try and win and will only result in faster depletion of tickets. Being ex-CCT I know this as we dealt with tactics on a daily basis. It spreads your forces too thin and in the end is futile. Better to take a strong defensive position and force their men to slam themselves against a brick wall repeatedly.
And as said before, I am cheery as heck, once I realised the inherent weaknesses of the various kits and the fact not to use them against people using team tactics because you just can't do anything contributory with them.
Like I said give the ce-bf server a shot (pass available on their forum) and you'll see what I mean. All of the players are old Codename Eagle players so they have the tactics and such of Dice's game down to a science. You'll see my point then, and it is an experience you can't get from playing any other type of player on this game. As CE is the only thing close to BF1942 in style and operation.
-J