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[Nikov]

A new patch has come out with graphical improvements and new game elements, and I'm wondering if anyone else plays this massively multiplayer military simulator. I play Axis under the handle "wesreidau", if anyone bumps into me. Free 14 days at www.battlegroundeurope.com.

Thus far I've been pleasantly rewarded for true-to-life tactics and brutally pwned for attempting Counterstrike run and gun. Its an ironsights infantry shooter similar to Red Orchestra in one aspect, a high-grade tank simulator akin to good old Panzer Commander in another, something of a 'turret shooter' as a FlaK or PaK gunner, a solid combat flight sim in another aspect, and even the very first game I ever played that let me shell Antwerp's suburbs with utter impunity from the fire control room of a Z34 Kriegsmarine destroyer. Over the course of a campaign (there have been 62 thus far) the sides improve their gear from about 1939 to 1944 weapons, making classes like the anti-tank rifle go from dominating to desperate over a course of a few weeks. However with the simulator's fidelity even a lucky burst of submachinegun fire into the driver's viewport can kill and wound tank crew.

All and all its better than the sum of its parts, and a very good development team constantly striving to improve it and listening to the player base means its a pay-to-play game where your money is an investment in a better game next patch, rather than funding for the expansion pack's development, which they'll charge you for.

[Virtz]

I used to play. Was fun. Especially fun was paratrooping in with 2 dozen other people. Paratrooper life expectancy was hillariously low.

Probably closest thing to an mmo Operation Flashpoint we'll ever get.

Did they eventually add panzerfausts/panzerschrecks, etc.? Was a bit daft having to fight tanks primarily with satchel charges.

[CJ1145]

I'll check out the trial, heard a lot of good things about the game.

EDIT: Oh God. They want my billing info NOW? It's not fair My dad will kill me if I ask to borrow his credit card again. I really need my own...

[Akura]

I've seen this before. And yes, it does look awesome. If I had the money, I'd probably play it. I'm not the biggest fan of those limited-time trials.

EDIT: Oh God. They want my billing info NOW? It's not fair My dad will kill me if I ask to borrow his credit card again.

Especially after this.

Paratrooper life expectancy was hillariously low.

Just like reality.

[Rakonas]

I used to play this game, and loved it. It actually has a feeling of not wanting to die enough to make anyone hesitant to be a hero.
I just flew across the north sea and some of my comrades are pinned down by a sherman, do I try to sap it and risk death, setting me back an hour, or pretend to not hear their cries for help?

[x2yzh9]

Paratrooper life expectancy was hillariously low.

This, this so much. It was fun riding the airplane and then jumping out, but you had a 20% of living the jump after that.

[Pillow_Killer]

Hahahahah yeah, Im so entering my cc info or the free trial. Thanks, no.

[x2yzh9]

They don't charge you, if you think it's a scam.

[Pillow_Killer]

I know, and Im still not entering it. Piece of shit registration, grouped with a buggy site built atop of a old version of joomla, yeah, thanks no.

[Deadmeat1471]

Ill do the trial, Ive had my eye on this for a long time and looks great!

We so badly need a bay12 squad

*Bay12 platoon parachutes into Berlin, only surviver is Urist 'Elfhater' Mcdwarf.

From what i understand of the trial, you DO pay $14.99 after the two weeks, but you get that two weeks free (being the trial).

Be awares.

[x2yzh9]

Well if you don't want to play because of a shit registration and bad website then I don't know what to say.

[Akura]

Well if you don't want to play because of a shit registration and bad website then I don't know what to say.

It's not so much a bad registration, it's just that it's not exactly a free trial, it's more like a subscription that gives you the first two weeks free. Then again, such methods are not uncommon for subscription-based games that off an x-amount-of-time free trial.

And a website is often the main form of advertising of itself. If the website is bad, it doesn't look good for the product being advertised.

[Cthulhu]

I'm with Pillow Killer here, providing credit card information for a trial smacks of "If you dont' cancel your account the moment your trial's up we're billing you for a month" which is sleazy business.

[Puck]

Well if you don't want to play because of a shit registration and bad website then I don't know what to say.

How about "You're making sound and solid choices right there." without any sarcasm?

[Nolor]

When I signed up for this back in 2006 I just used one of my mom's ridiculously overcharged credit cards to ensure that they wouldn't have a chance of charging me after the time limit. It was a solid game back then, though you really do need a joystick to appreciate the flight sim part.