First Impressions: USI

[redish16]

I am trying to keep this separte from the released thread so people don't have to go thru it to find out about it.

Very VERY armor/vehicle heavy. It reminds me a lot of Euro Farce. Its a recreation of the first Desert Storm. The tanks can one hit kill some tanks. It takes a sweet shot but can be done.

There are no night maps, but plenty of open field tank battles. Learn to love the engineer. There is one infantry only map, inside a city. One other map has no attack choppers but has transports and some APCs that takes place on the docks. There are about 6 or 7 new maps. They do not use the vanilla maps at all.

Rifles kill very quickly. It doesn't take much. Thre is a red spray when you get hit that loks pretty cool. There are still medics to revive you tho. The recoil on the guns is pretty hefty so learn the short burst. Machine guns blind you after about two or three shoots.

There are no unlocks and the servers are not ranked so there are no points going to EA and it will NOT add anything to your stats there.

I didn't fly so I can't comment on the planes, but the A-10 looks and sounds like death when the Avenger cannon is spitting fire. It howls when it flys by and it sounds awesome. Unless, of course, you are receiving the fire.

All in all, a good release for a .1 release.

[Tykwer]

I think there was something weird about that server. I got lag on my normal settings and if i tried to turn everything to low it would crash to desktop every time i hit "join game" after it loaded up the map. I joined the developers server and not only could i play the game with everything on low, but it didnt seem to have the lag problem when i played it on med settings. There were about 25 less people on the server, but i never saw more than 10 people at one time when i was on the FMJ server. i dont know.

[Drayu]

if you are CTD'ing, update your video drivers to the latest.

[Drayu]

I am trying to keep this separte from the released thread so people don't have to go thru it to find out about it.


:cylonA10: Resistance is futile, you thread will be assimilated....err merged :say_lol:

[Tykwer]

if you are CTD'ing, update your video drivers to the latest.

I seriously think it was somethig to do with the server cause they said "if it ctd, set all settings to med" on their loading screen whereas on the dev's server i had no such issue. Also one of the people on the server made some mention of the problem too. If we play this tonight and i can make it, i hope we try playing on the jarhead server. I think they ought to know best.

[tfncRedDog]

I got to fly the jets today on the U.S side and there all great A-10 will out fly the mig no prob but the mob aa will always get ya

[redish16]

:cylonA10: Resistance is futile, you thread will be assimilated....err merged :say_lol:

:borgsmile:

[Smurf]

Played last night, I was impressed, but not super impressed. Anyways, if you guys want to set up a time, I'm all for that. :xyxthumbs:

[Redy]

My drivers are updated, and I still crashed on join with low settings.

It worked only after I set graphics to medium, and turned off shadows, lighting, and AA. I was able to play in full 64 man servers with no lag at all.

[kippendrecht]

unfortunally my computer cant take med. settings...

but I got to play on 1 server and I liked it

the A-10 is deadly, it has 6 bombs, 250 very powerfull cool sounding cannonshots and 25x3 air to ground missiles. those air to ground misseles combined with your cannon rocks.

the fighter, for air to air combat has only 6 missiles...and a cannon, but is no different then the normal mig.

I tried the HIND 2. it is very different. it has 4 seats in the back and 1 pilot and 1 gunner, you can use it as a attack or transport. the pilot has the normal missiles + some bomber missiles, thos who get a lockon. the gunner is always in the grey cammera mode and the gun is powerfull. overall the choppers are instant dead to tanks...

the AA and APC's are both for 5 ppl. 1 is driver. 2 is for the AA or GUN. 3 and 4 for the side gun. and 6 is looking to the front doing nothing...

the tank is almost the same.

the new jeep is different. but not that cool.

the classes are different. didn't checked them out but some have stingers and the AT guy has mines and AT rockets. the guns are the same except the USMC spec ops gun, but the sounds are different. they sound pretty cool now..

my first impression was cool, unfortunally its very vehicle based...

[deathcar]

I was seriously impressed, especially considering this was a beta release. Some aspects of the game are rather crude and I was hoping for a more original small arms layout but they've definitely gone to a point that makes this game feel a bit for realistic than vanilla BF2. Killing someone in this game makes a lot more sense, it doesn't take much to die so I think it trains players to play the game a bit more cautiously which I like. The gun shots sounds are loud and not as pretty which I sort of like. The jet sounds are fantastic! Overall I can see myself playing a little more of this game, especially if we all could find a server to play on together. Its just never as fun playing a game without the WiH crew.

[papasan9]

one thing to remind everyone of is that US intervention mod is themed after the '91 gulf war, so the only weapons you will find are those that would have been used in that conflict. which is why we get the a10, but is also why the weapons lineup might feel dated. but where else can you take your own shot at saddam.

[deathcar]

Good point brother Papasan.

The one thing I do like about this game is that the sounds of war actually are scarey. If you have a good sound card and headphones turned up, occasionally the sound of your own M16 will make you jump.

[papasan9]

yeah the sounds are seriously good.

[WINGCOMM]

The first impression is good, but the way I think of it if this had a lot more people able to play it would be a great game. Just the way its set up with the vehicles and the choppers.

The sounds were ok but it sounded more like CoD.

I think we still have a problem with the way guns are matched up. AK is god, you realize who evers the Iraqis on that city map wins, every time. Probably the way they set it up with you can't take as many bullets and the M16 can't fire as fast as the AK.

WC

[slacker_fse]

I thought the Game was great the only issue I had was finding anyone to team up with and run around. This game would rock if you could put a squad together and use mics. I love the stingers all I have to say to all you pilots you better be aware of slacker causes his out there waiting for you.

[deathcar]

I played a pretty large open desert map with a lot of people yesterday. I must say it was quite fun but incredably imbalanced. Playing a game like this really makes you appreciate what the mod community can do to a game to make it fun, but at the same time it makes you also appreciate the sometimes more conservative approuch taken by a real software company to balance the game out properly.

[Drayu]

I played a pretty large open desert map with a lot of people yesterday. I must say it was quite fun but incredably imbalanced. Playing a game like this really makes you appreciate what the mod community can do to a game to make it fun, but at the same time it makes you also appreciate the sometimes more conservative approuch taken by a real software company to balance the game out properly.

Don't worry deathcar, there are other MODs that are taking a little more time to release, and you WILL notice a difference!!! The extra time will pay off. With that said though, I am DAMN glad USI and PRMM .3 are out!

[[W33T] JimmytehHand8]

I wish I could play them. I want to smack the moron who came up with the idea "hey let's make this for people who can run medium and high settings only."

[kippendrecht]

JimmytehHand8']I wish I could play them. I want to smack the moron who came up with the idea "hey let's make this for people who can run medium and high settings only."

second that!

[deathcar]

That's a good point Drayu and you're right on both accounts. Its definitely good to have a chance at playing around before the really good ones come out. I'm just glad I'm finally part of community that's willing to play all these new releases with me.

With that said,

Check out my thread on OPK (Operation Peace Keeper) another really decent mod that just came out.