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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 20, 2003, 02:41:21 pm

Title: I'm an idiot.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 20, 2003, 02:41:21 pm: I've just been playing OFP online, and in this mission I was squad commander, and driver of a BMP.
I spent about five minutes getting the squad ready, with the right weapons, and then into this BMP. I set off, and within 3 seconds ran over a mine, killing the lot of us.

I, am a fool.
Title: I'm an idiot.
Post by: aldo_14 on June 20, 2003, 03:08:49 pm: *Claps slowly*

Incidentally, what connection speed are you on? I've wanted to play OFP onlien for ages but, only having 56k, I've never really been able to get online.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 20, 2003, 03:11:28 pm: 512k:D
Title: I'm an idiot.
Post by: aldo_14 on June 20, 2003, 03:15:38 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
512k:D

Shut it. I feel enough of a bandwidth leper as is :p
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 20, 2003, 03:23:48 pm: You must be feeling the wrong part, then.:D
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Post by: Pera on June 20, 2003, 03:40:25 pm: Once I managed to kill my entire squad by shooting down a chopper that then promptly fell right on top of the truck where everyone else was waiting.

I laughed, they didn't.

Edit: In Operation Flashpoint, of course. What were you thinking?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 20, 2003, 04:35:36 pm: I'm going to have to play OFP more often, it's bloody incredible online!
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Post by: Darkage on June 20, 2003, 04:45:38 pm: I once sniped my squad leader and a 2 other players. Because a law was shot by one of them and came next to me so i started firing, they didn't like it:D

Also once shot down a cobra with a Sabot shell from the abram:D
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Post by: Thorn on June 20, 2003, 04:47:32 pm: I'll stick to Battlefield 1942 - Desert Combat mod...
I didnt like OFP that much, and you can do a lot of the same things with BF1942..
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 20, 2003, 04:51:58 pm: But OFP has more of a plot to it.
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Post by: Thorn on June 20, 2003, 04:58:29 pm: I didnt like the plot all that much...
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 20, 2003, 05:00:23 pm: Meh, fair enough.
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Post by: Turnsky on June 20, 2003, 06:29:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

Shut it. I feel enough of a bandwidth leper as is :p

i'm guessing you're still on a 56k then;)

me, i've never really played OFP much(never bothered buying it) squad-based combat is never really my thing, i always preferred the 'ol "run and gun" method, where you shoot some, shoot some more, and perhaps later on ask a question or two:p
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Post by: Thorn on June 20, 2003, 06:44:46 pm: Thats what I like about BF1842 :D Especially with the Desert Combat Mod. Just grab an Apache or a A-10 and go harass some tanks....
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 20, 2003, 09:44:06 pm: It's better to go for the pilot section than the motor or fuel tank, reduces the probability of the thing coming straight down on you. At least, when you're talking real helicopters. Dunno if they have that coded yet.

Oh, and don't ask. Damn ABC Traffic Watch...
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Post by: Turnsky on June 20, 2003, 09:45:32 pm: helo-skeet shooting are we?:p
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 20, 2003, 09:55:57 pm: You do not make annoying buzzing sounds in my ear when they're playing Bush on the radio.
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Post by: Turnsky on June 20, 2003, 09:57:15 pm: i have the same problem with mozzies when i'm trying to sleep:p

PULL!
-BANG!-
PULL!
-BANG-
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 20, 2003, 09:59:04 pm: See, there's where I don't agree. Sleep's overrated. That's when they come to experiment on you anyway.
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Post by: Turnsky on June 20, 2003, 10:00:52 pm: still, it's fun trying to shoot mozzies with a paintball gun
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 20, 2003, 10:05:37 pm: Hmm...

Try bottle rockets next time. Or water balloons, depending on how cold it gets out there.:D
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Post by: Turnsky on June 20, 2003, 10:10:17 pm: home made flamethrower works best, as it's winter over here, and fireworks are banned:blah:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 20, 2003, 10:13:44 pm: Ah, those things are overrated. Except the aerosol-hairspray-can-and-lighter kind, which are only cool by association.

Besides, the homemade variety tend to explode a lot, and no homemade weapon that does as much damage to the victimizer as the victim is any good. Except the coilgun- we loves you, yesssss...
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Post by: Turnsky on June 20, 2003, 10:15:10 pm: those aerosol ones are what i'm talking about..

and you gotta show me pics of that coilgun..:D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 20, 2003, 10:17:18 pm: Well, it's only half-finished. Like I said, there isn't a ****ing non-magnetizable piece of aluminum piping in the friggin' tristate area, and it'd be pretty useless without a barrel to wrap the electromagnets around.
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Post by: Turnsky on June 20, 2003, 10:29:43 pm: i'd help you, but you're a great deal away from australia...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 20, 2003, 10:31:25 pm: Exactly. Shipping costs would amount to more than I've paid for the entire rest of it. Granted, I scavenged a good bit, but hey.

Incidentially, does anyone know if magnetrons have any parts that overheat and break easily? I can't recall...
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 21, 2003, 02:55:05 am: You sound like that Python sketch,
"I follow the moth in the helicopter, and then Hank comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles."

And so on.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 21, 2003, 03:03:56 am: Depends on the size of the moth. Might need anywhere from a flyswatter to a SCUD missile.

Actually, scratch that. A SCUD couldn't hit the broad side of the sky.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 21, 2003, 03:14:01 am: True, very true, you'd have to fit it in a catapult, and fire it thus.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on June 21, 2003, 03:29:54 am: Elongated objects don't get launched properly. Maybe if you stacked it with milk jugs turned Molotovs (probably pretty hard to do), and launched those... get a cool shotgun effect, and moths are pretty flammable, so...