WWII game for goofing around online??

[fivetiger]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a WWII game that would be perfect for when my friends and I just want to mess around without other players.

The game needs to run well on older systems (friends have a 6 year old Dimension and 3 year old Dell laptop)

We used to play Medal of Honor together. Something like that would be nice, but would be even better if we could have bots shooting at us as well.

Ideally, we would like to make a passworded server, and fill the extra slots with competent bots (ie, not RO bots).

What about Day of Defeat:Source? We could all download that from Steam for $10 and play tonight. Is that game anything like what I'm asking for?

Thanks for your advice.

 

[dogbadger]

has to be battlefield 1942 surely
you could get the full packs with road to rome and secret nazi stuff ( or whateveritis) addons phaps cos although they aint played online so much there are so cheap and it will give you and your mate more toys to muck about with.
Although the bots are pretty poor - it's still the best solution i can think of

 

[Zetsumei]

Hidden and Dangerous 1/2 coop

 

[Murphy]

You need the expansion! HnD2 doesn't have co-op.

What about the ww2 part of the Finish Defense Forces mod for Operation Flashpoint?

As for Battlefield 1942: If you don't like the bots in RO you won't like the ones in BF1942 either. Battlefield Vietnam bots are equally horrid.
Battlefield 2 has relatively good bots and there is a ww2 mod for it (Forgotten Hope 2) but I'm not sure how well that runs on your friend's 6 year old calculation slave.

 

[Sined]

return to Castle Wolfenstein (3d) has mulriplayer and is similar vintage to your friends electronic abacii (is that plural of abacus?... well it now is )

Edit No bots in RTCW3D :-( (wow was fun playing that again for a few minutes)

 

[dogbadger]

Hidden and Dangerous 1/2 coop

yeah i thought of this but it might be hard tracking down a handfull of copies of H&D with sabre squadron.
Also for some reason i got it in my head there was a large (10 or so) bunch of friends.

 

[hrhr]

WW2 Online

http://www.battlegroundeurope.com/

MMOFPS

 

[dogbadger]

WW2 Online

http://www.battlegroundeurope.com/

MMOFPS

can set up your own passworded server to muck about with on a fee paying MMOG?
might that not defeat the purpose of one?

 

[Zetsumei]

WW2 online doesnt even run well on todays systems while it looks like crap :\
Its not a bad game but i would not recommend that on a bad computer.

 

[fivetiger]

Thanks for the help everyone. I'll look into those. Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe is available as a free download, so I'll start there.

I can't wait to tell my two friends that they have an electronic abacus and calculation slave, respectively.

 

[Murphy]

Edit No bots in RTCW3D

There are custom-bots that are as good as most custom bots, ie they work but they aren't great players. You can download Enemy Territory. It's a free multiplayer expansion for RtCW and runs without it installed. Completely free and there are custom-bots around for it too.

 

[fiftyone]

Unreal 2004 with RO mod !

This is the correct answer in the right place...

 

[D3terioNation]

Day of defeat 1.3? (one before source)

 

[Nimsky]

Well, that would be BF1942. There is an abundance of basecamping, teamkilling, kamikaze tactics, wingclipping, and fooling around in that game, so much that basecamping, teamkilling, going kamikaze, and fooling around yourself is much more fun than playing the game "normally".

Hmmmm.... it's been 5 - 6 years... might reinstall it just for ****s and giggles.

 

[Marquis24]

http://battlefieldsingleplayer.planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/
For some good mods and better bots

 

[LogisticEarth]

Is the Tweedle 24/7 Wake server still running for BF1942? If so, I might just reinstall it and go to town.

That stuff was so fun. For kicks I used to just not use any weapons at all with the Zero and just kill infantry by wingclipping. Of course then you have to watch out for the crack bazooka troopers. Also, loading up jeeps with detpacks and using them as anti-tank weapons was the best ever.

BF1942 is great for the ridiculous over-the top stuff. It's a good combination of "realism" and arcady gameplay.

 

[fivetiger]

I can't get Hidden and Dangerous to load up on my computer, but I'm still working on it.

I've been playing RtCW:ET with the Fritzbot mod, but still stuck on one problem. I can host a game with bots, but I don't know how to tell anyone how to join a Fritzbot server. My server name doesn't appear on the standard RtCW:ET server list, and Fritzbot doesn't seem to have a "Join" option; only host.

Anyone know how to join Fritzbot servers?