vapor24

Silly me. I should have just bothered someone in-game to begin with... But thanks anyway!

Another thing: A couple of times I've logged in and the "receiving" bar hangs after completing, and I have to ctl-alt-del to get out of the game. What causes that? Is the side full? If that's the case, why don't they let you GTF out of the game when that happens?

This was my 2d day of playing multiplayer, and it was some fun. Is there carryover from one session to another, or do you start out every time as a private? The reason I asked is that when I left yesterday I was a corporal, then today I went into a mission, destroyed a couple of vehicles (enemy), and all of a sudden I'm promoted to colonel... Does each host set promotion rules, or is there a universal rule of promotion? Also, one of the guys I was running with brought in an AI rifleman to sit in the helo while we assaulted the town, I guess because it keeps the helo from disappearing. How do you do that? My ground vehicles stayed around forever when I parked them, but the helos eventually disappeared. Where is the info for that kind of stuff?

I ended up just killing all the infantry by sniping, then going into town (where I found one M113 just sitting there with its engine running, nobody attacking it, it not attacking anybody...), picking up an RPG, then taking out the BMP as it sat behind a building separating it from the M113. But the mission goes on... After being picked up by a chopper (after one of the cut scenes), working out on ground units using the gatling gun, the chopper got shot down and the pilot and I are being stalked by nme troops. That's where I left it before going to bed last night... Headed back in to see where it ends up.

Heh, I walked back to the helipad to end the mission, but did get it done. Had one piece of armor left when I finally went down (the eject feature is unrealistic, but I do like it...). Just picked up an RPG and took care of that, then hiked back to town. Then finished the campaign without much drama.

That's what I'm going to do. My gunner won't attack anything, and I can't apparently switch weapons in manual mode. The manual is a POS on this subject...

"Ain't easy, is it?" Actually, the fighting part isn't all that hard, it's the inane things like this that are annoying. A vague, near-meaningless game objective, an undetermined AO (you have to guess where you're supposed to be looking for the glitchy AI who's holding up the mission ending), things like backing into a flagpole and having the vehicle code collide with the pole code to keep them together like super-super-glue, not being told what exactly is the problem with the mission. Those things are "hard" to put up with. I'm going to do the mission over because whoever wrote it must have been busy dl'ing porn at the time...

Apparently my description of the mission wasn't clear, or someone would have commented already. Since it's an early mission, I'm assuming that everyone who's asking about the later missions have already gone through it. Anyone have any ideas about how I can word the question so people can understand which mission I'm referring to here?

I got the ambush down OK, but regarding the attack on the town, it seems I'm the only one attacking. Homey blew something up at the beginning, but then disappeared. I'm left with a sniper rifle and a silenced carbine to kill everyone at the installation. (And whenever I snipe someone, they send out a squad to beat the bushes for me and I have to slink around and hide till they go away.) And Stegman, I haven't seen an Alizee sig since I left WW2OL... :>)

This is the mission where you drive some troops to the airfield, defend it and eliminate the enemy there, then go to the beach to defend against the boat attack, then go down the road and defend against enemy armor. I've done all that, can't find any enemy personnel or vehicles that aren't dead and destroyed, but the mission goes on. The last item on the "things to accomplish" list is to clean out all enemy that have breached the defense line. I don't care to start the mission over until I know what I'm missing. Anyone have any ideas? I've driven and run over all the area between the beach, the roadblock and the airfield, and can't find anything else to kill.