Desert Combat .4j or .5l Beta??

[Alucard]

I'm 56k but will be on cable soon, so I'm downloading the battlefield and desertcombat patches so I can begin playing as soon as possible , which one should I download? the .4j full install or the .5l full install beta? are most of the servers already moving to .5l?

 

[OSUmaxx]

I believe the .4 was an alpha release still, and I'd go with .5 no matter what anyway.

 

[#18]

All the servers I saw are using the latest version.

 

[Robbie]

Just get the 5, it's REALLY cool!!
Rob

 

[#18]

Just get the 5, it's REALLY cool!!
Rob

Not much difference. They added M82 sniper rifle. Replaced Special Ops' gun on US side with a far more superior model + silencer.(it's better than M16 expect middle range - my opinion) Now two machineguns on both sides of Blackhawk. New medical chopper. Some planes can take more hits. Decreased the anti-armor missles to 8 on Iraqi's chopper.(while the US's has 16)


M82 is cool with one shot kill, but only limited numbers on limited maps. On some maps only the US side has M82.

There is a serious bug with one the left machinegun on Blackhawk. When you turn it to a certain angle, your view will be blocked by chopper itself.

Now more overheat issue with the machineguns. So unrealistic.

It used to take one stinger to bring down all planes expect AC-130. Now many planes can take 2 ~ 3 hits while chopper can only take 2 hits. The "1 shot" plane still won't blow up rightway, you get a few seconds left to bail out after it was shot by stinger.

One more thing I noticed, the grenade launch from M16 and AK47 are weakened. In early version they can blow up a jeep with one hit. Now don't even try it when there is a jeep rush right for you. I tried it to against infantry, it blew up left and right around the enemy and the enemy was still standing! It used to have much larger range against infantry.

Overall I think they are slowly unbalance the weapons to favor the US side little by little. Not to mention on lots of servers often the teams are 2 : 3 or 1 : 2 or even worse to favor the US side. I've played 17 vs 35, and the stupid kids told us to shut up when we asked them to even the teams!

 

[f00t]

your downloading DC .5j on a 56k

 

[#18]

It will take over 2 days if the link does not break.

 

[Alucard]

lol, thanks for all the advice, this morning i got up and my battlefield patch was just finishing up, i guess ill download dc.5l, sigh 600 megs

 

[Falcon-K]

you might as well wait, i believe the release date of .6 is december 22nd so in a few weeks you will have to download it again, so that would be another 500+ mbs.

www.desertcombat.com

and then go to forums and browse it they will show you all about whats new in .6

and it only take a few days before 80% of the servers switch over

 

[Alucard]

thanks for saving me falcon

 

[BigRed]

And if your getting cable why not wait until then to download it? You will have in in an hour on cable...

 

[SniperXX]

Or if you really want to play it ask a friend who has a CD burner and a good speed calbe or dsl line to DL it for you. I usually am the one that DLs it and distributes it to my unlucky friends wirh dial up. I just DL it and copy to the LAN file server @ our lans or if there isnt a lan for a week or two I burn it on a cd they can pass around.

 

[Falcon-K]

yea or if you dont have any friends with cable/dsl or better or you just dont have friends (jk) then id be willing to send it to ya as long as u pay for the shipping of it.

 

[wannaoc]

Yes .5 is the one to get. Its the most up to date one with all the new stuff. .50 cal rifle, better sound, etc.

 

[Alucard]

yea or if you dont have any friends with cable/dsl or better or you just dont have friends (jk) then id be willing to send it to ya as long as u pay for the shipping of it.

its not that i dont have friends, its that i live in west texas

 

[#18]

its not that i dont have friends, its that i live in west texas

What's with West Taxas?

1. No high speed internet in the entire state?
2. People there are all hostile?

 

[wpmegee]

I believe the .4 was an alpha release still, and I'd go with .5 no matter what anyway.

Actually all the releases have been alphas. They'll probably remain so until they hit 1.0 or go retail. I really hope it does go retail, it's a vastly deeper game than old-school bf. There's so much more to do, much better maps, and better graphics.

Also, check out the new Nimitz carrier to debut in 1.6:
Link
Just gorgeous looking. No idea how they'll get 30 planes on one though.

 

[Alucard]

thanks for all of the help!

 

[Falcon-K]

actually .5 was the first beta release that they have released, and im pretty sure that the picture of the carrier was just to show off the size, i counted 37 planes/heli on there, if they were to have even teams on a 64 player map that means that everyone would get their own plane or heli and then have 5 extra for the newbs to crash and try again and then the huge draw that it would take on peoples computers would just be horrendous so i think that its merely a show pic, but it would interesting to see