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halonachos wrote:There isn't that much of a difference, if you have the points they have the chopper.
... which won't happen until later in the game, because of the cost of the chopper. Points don't carry over between matches, only between lives, so the start of each match is infantry and drones only.

Also, it was mentioned it still only takes two rockets to take down a chopper on the forums. There are guided rockets as well as the proximity rocket, with the price in battlepoints for rocket launchers being unguided < proximity < guided.

halonachos wrote:So it makes me wonder if HF is going to have a dedicated place for vehicle purchases or is it going to be similar to how the killstreaks in CoD work(ie you can do them anywhere).
Neither. You purchase vehicles before you spawn like you were selecting which class you are going to play-- in fact, the class menu has the infantry options up top and the vehicle options below, with whichever options you can't afford being greyed out. You then spawn inside the vehicle and drive onto the battlefield.

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Gathering the Informations.

Actually Melissia, that's wrong.

You can purchase vehicles before you spawn or at control points you've captured.
   
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Source? That has not been mentioned thus far or demonstrated in any video that has been linked to on the game's community forum.

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Kanluwen wrote:Actually Melissia, that's wrong.

You can purchase vehicles before you spawn or at control points you've captured.


I would prefer that if it is true, instant gratification is awesome!
   
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Gathering the Informations.

Whatever the video they released that was describing the multiplayer "story" arc was. December or so.

And it's absurd to assume that it would only be "before you spawn". They don't want to encourage you to just run in stupidly and die just because you got enough points for something.
   
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Not really, because that's the only time they actually showed it happening.

Regardless, if it is purchased on points, that's fine. There's still no waiting in line.

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Seen some footage of the campaign, looks grim. Can't wait to try it out.

Demo is out on XBL marketplace tomorrow/today (25th). Must be a multiplayer one then. Doubt it would be campaign... fingers crossed though.

   
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Does it also look dark?
   
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It looks Grim to the power of Dark, people here should love it.

   
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I don't know maybe the chaos players will like grim*10^(dark), but I prefer plain grim-dark.
   
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You'll probably like it. The taglines often involve knowing the true horrors of occupation.

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halonachos wrote:Reminds of Freedom Fighters, but looks like it will be better done.


Freedom fighters was an epic game, one of my most old time favorites apart from FF8...

 
   
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Me too! Glad someone else in the world likes it.

 
   
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Wait, more than two people in the world like Freedom Fighters? I am actually quite surprised.

My brother and I used to play the multiplayer against each other all of the time. Grabbing a sniper rifle and shooting his bunker guards was most satisfying.
   
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halonachos wrote:Wait, more than two people in the world like Freedom Fighters? I am actually quite surprised.

My brother and I used to play the multiplayer against each other all of the time. Grabbing a sniper rifle and shooting his bunker guards was most satisfying.


As was A quick Bazooka run and gun.

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metallifan wrote:Maybe it's not the ROFLSTOMP that Americans are used to...

Best summary of foeign policy. Ever.
 
   
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Seems really innovative.

Something that shooters DESPERATELY need

Also the scale reminds me of BF: Bad company 2, one of my other favorite shooters

 
   
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Hopefully without all of the hideous gaping flaws that BFBC2 had that made it a piece of mediocre gak.

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It certainly isn't any harder to kill someone in BFBC2 than it is in Black Ops. Tons of lone wolves operating in BC2, too.


We should get a time machine and go back to the launch. The hit registry was SO atrocious on any gun that wasn't the Abakan or the M60. I resorted to just spamming out RPGs and Gustavs.

Ima have to agree with the implausible scenario. I love Red Dawn, just because it was one of the first action fills I watched when I was a kid, but really. North Korea? That's a bit too much for me, especially with Shogun 2 coming soon, and Space Marine/Skyrim later down the road. That style of Tom Clancy stories is so 80's. Everyone knows that the bad guys these days are some small crazy band of people with sinister plots to overthrow the world from within

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I have no problems with an alternative universe story. The idea is simple, and at least borders the realm of possibility (though perhaps my suspension of disbelief is stronger than most, given that I am an avid roleplayer)-- NK and SK unite together peacefully after KJI's death, eventually forming a very imperialistic Korea. Eventually, they set their sights on the USA, which is facing its worst depression since, well, the Great Depression.

Said Korean Empire plans out a series of EMP strikes that devastate the nation's already staggering economy and disrupt the nation's chain of command-- while some military equipment is capable of withstanding EMP strikes, the nation's military is already in shambles due to roughly twenty years of constant economic downturn and eventually crisis.

Without warning, immediately after the EMP strikes Korea attacks, taking Hawaii and the west coast quickly. This is 2025, the time where the multiplayer takes place-- the US Military is fighting a losing battle against Korea, holding on to what they have and taking back as much as they can, while the Korean army is trying to finish conquering the nation.

Two years later (2027, the time of the single player campaign), Korea has used tactical nukes on parts of the heartland to destroy a large portion of the remaining US armed forces (all along the Mississippi river), and the fate of the east coast is unknown to most of the survivors in central and west United States. But even in the occupied territory, the fight is still going on, with the surviving armed forces and civilians in a constant guerrilla battle against the occupying Korean forces, which have stretched themselves thin in the fighting.

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Where the hells the UK? Uk would send in gak tons of units if US was being invaded

 
   
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Tophawtdog4411 wrote:Where the hells the UK? Uk would send in gak tons of units if US was being invaded


Nah, not unless NK launches a surprise attack on one of our ports...

   
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The UK has their own problems. Actually, the sequel is planned to be set in the UK I think. Homefront: London or somesuch.

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Melissia wrote:The UK has their own problems. Actually, the sequel is planned to be set in the UK I think. Homefront: London or somesuch.


I would love if one game set in the UK were set somewhere other than London...

Edit: And I bet we get saved by the damn yanks as well

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Heh. And I'd like to see movies that aren't set in NY,NY or the California Coastline...\

It's easier to use a country's better known locales for the worldwide audience.

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Melissia wrote:Heh. And I'd like to see movies that aren't set in NY,NY or the California Coastline...\

It's easier to use a country's better known locales for the worldwide audience.


At least you get the choice of a few different cities

   
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Mn, true... sort of. It's kinda justified by the fact that the US is about 31.5 times the size of the entire British Isles. Regardless, at least you're getting a game set in your country. Poor Canada gets ignored so much.

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Canada is part of England, so it is all good

   
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I'm certain my Canadian friends would disagree with that.

You can take Quebec all you want though.


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Oh, and just noticed this:

http://www.homefront-game.com/#/timeline

It explains the timeline better than my blurb does.

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It still doesn't mean it makes any more sense. The Koreans... really? Combined they would have a population of less than 100 million people. The North Korean economy is virtually non-existent. So much so, that its the primary reason why the South Koreans haven't really tried to reintegrate. A lot of what they do is pure talk. Everyone in South Korea wants the peninsula re-united, very few of them want it done in their own lifetime. Even peacefully, the amount of money that would have to be pumped into North Korea to rebuild its critical infrastructure would be too much to handle. Thats the main implausibility I have with all this.

The second one is China. It has 10 times the population of a unified Korea, and IT wants to be the top dog in Asia. You're telling me that they would allow their next door neighbor to become such a power without trying to keep them in check? Not only that, but invading the US? Assuming China was fine with being a co-power, there is still the issue of Sino-American relations. Even if the US economy is ailing, it is still one of the largest in the world. China has a vested interest in the well being of the US.

The third is Japan. The two nationalities have a really strong distrust of one another. That has been tempered as of late because both Japan and South Korea fear the mutual threat posed by China, but large parts of the civilian population of both countries are very unhappy about this trend. You expect me to believe that in addition to China putting aside its regional/global interests, Japan would peacefully surrender and allow itself to be integrated into what is in effect still a totalitarian regime... one that is still bitter about events that transpired 60-70 years ago?

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Melissia wrote:I'm certain my Canadian friends would disagree with that.

You can take Quebec all you want though.



You do know Canadians!


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chaos0xomega wrote:It still doesn't mean it makes any more sense. The Koreans... really? Combined they would have a population of less than 100 million people. The North Korean economy is virtually non-existent. So much so, that its the primary reason why the South Koreans haven't really tried to reintegrate. A lot of what they do is pure talk. Everyone in South Korea wants the peninsula re-united, very few of them want it done in their own lifetime. Even peacefully, the amount of money that would have to be pumped into North Korea to rebuild its critical infrastructure would be too much to handle. Thats the main implausibility I have with all this.

The second one is China. It has 10 times the population of a unified Korea, and IT wants to be the top dog in Asia. You're telling me that they would allow their next door neighbor to become such a power without trying to keep them in check? Not only that, but invading the US? Assuming China was fine with being a co-power, there is still the issue of Sino-American relations. Even if the US economy is ailing, it is still one of the largest in the world. China has a vested interest in the well being of the US.

The third is Japan. The two nationalities have a really strong distrust of one another. That has been tempered as of late because both Japan and South Korea fear the mutual threat posed by China, but large parts of the civilian population of both countries are very unhappy about this trend. You expect me to believe that in addition to China putting aside its regional/global interests, Japan would peacefully surrender and allow itself to be integrated into what is in effect still a totalitarian regime... one that is still bitter about events that transpired 60-70 years ago?


No one's claiming its actually plausible. Think of it as a parralel dimension were North Korea doesn't suck.
It's not our world. Just like a game that would depict a space ork invasion.

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