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Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:39 pm
by RazY70
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:46 pm
by Hgx
Nice
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:35 pm
by Róka
I don't like the idea of a crossbow... but whatever. I am excited to see how GC battles will be in Aftermath urban environments. Suppressive/Assault squads spreading out, sneaking between flags. Recon/Suppressive squads defending flags from across the streets, hidden in windows, etc.
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:36 pm
by tehman
I hope that this is a piss take.
It just seems a bit... childish.
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:46 pm
by StarfisherEcho
... This had better be some sort of bad joke.
I look forward to shooting people out of helicopters with crossbows. Also, it had better have a ridiculous reload time.
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:51 pm
by wizekraker
Yeah..Im all down to new guns but this...?
unless its new mode which involves using this..
but seriously...
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:05 pm
by V_
It's too early to tell, honestly. At first glance it seems childish and too much like COD, but I still have a few fragments of hope in DICE left to cling to...
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:57 pm
by zorplex
"Childish"? "Bad joke"?! So YOU PEOPLE are the ones stopping DICE from moving forward with the BF Dinosaur initiative!
Maybe your right that these can't be propperly balanced. Maybe they don't fit in alongside modern high power rifles. Perhaps they'll just be a novelty item used once and forgotten by the majority of players. But maybe, just maybe, they'll be a new game mechanic offering new and interesting options to the players that were previously unavailable.
Also, it's not as if we've never seen cross bows in BF. Zip lines people, zip lines! If that isn't made an alternate use for the weapons, I'll be sorely disappointed.
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:03 am
by wizekraker
zorplex wrote:"Childish"? "Bad joke"?! So YOU PEOPLE are the ones stopping DICE from moving forward with the BF Dinosaur initiative!
Maybe your right that these can't be propperly balanced. Maybe they don't fit in alongside modern high power rifles. Perhaps they'll just be a novelty item used once and forgotten by the majority of players. But maybe, just maybe, they'll be a new game mechanic offering new and interesting options to the players that were previously unavailable.
Also, we've already seen crossbows in BF2, though not as weapons. Zip lines people, zip lines! If that isn't made an alternate use for the weapons, I'll be sorely disappointed.
Yeah..I noticed people mention this on facebook..Although I never played BF2 this would pretty neat indeed.
But notice how they said "WEAPON"
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:11 am
by Fields
DICE PR people are saying it's real. This is what the soldiers resort too when they're in an earthquake devastated urban territory and cannot resort to conventional weapons. Apparently we have more to come in the vehicles they're gonna add.
Images come to mind...
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/zombie ... 089377.jpg
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:12 am
by Henidhor
Looks like DICE is trying to compete with some of the latest medieval combat games such as War of the Roses and Chivalry.
Edit: (That was a joke, by the way. I think it looks awesome - crossbows are always cool in my book!)
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:26 am
by Róka
I was looking forward to it being like this:
Róka wrote: Suppressive/Assault squads spreading out, sneaking between flags. Recon/Suppressive squads defending flags from across the streets, hidden in windows, etc.
not this:
Henidhor wrote:Looks like DICE is trying to compete with some of the latest medieval combat games such as War of the Roses and Chivalry.
although I don't mind this:
Fields wrote:
Images come to mind...
but in an urban environment, using that on the streets is just asking for a sniper to shoot you, and you can't get revived in a vehicle.
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:28 am
by Fields
Róka wrote:
but in an urban environment, using that on the streets is just asking for a sniper to shoot you, and you can't get revived in a vehicle.
We already have jeeps with no protection besides a roll cage and 4 wheel off-road bikes that leave you entirely open to getting snipped. What's new about potentially getting shot in a vehicle?
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 1:03 am
by Róka
Fields wrote:Róka wrote:
but in an urban environment, using that on the streets is just asking for a sniper to shoot you, and you can't get revived in a vehicle.
We already have jeeps with no protection besides a roll cage and 4 wheel off-road bikes that leave you entirely open to getting snipped. What's new about potentially getting shot in a vehicle?
My point is we'll be playing in an
urban environment meaning there can be a sniper hidden anywhere and parking a car right between two buildings will leave a person much more vulnerable than driving a high-speed quad bike across a desert.
Re: Check out the new Aftermath weapon :)
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 1:08 am
by Cheesy
I don't think that's a crossbow, isn't it the zipline from BF2: Special Forces? I would love to see that back in the GC mix.
