Joint Operations?

[The Tuffen]

I was wondering if anybody here plays Joint operations:Typhoon Rising as i want to know if its any good as I've just got broadband and i'm tempted to get it.

Also what other online games (pref FPS) are good to play?

[ranpiz]

check out my post below "like wargames? waitign for the patch? play this!"

its a link on how to get a Free Trial account for planetside. you dont need a credit card or anything.

great FPS, largest battles of any game, and lots of team work if you're into that.

[The Tuffen]

If i get the chance I'll check it out.

Can anybody recommend a good online RPG. I'm thinking of getting star wars galaxies but it depends on how much a month it is and whether people think its any good

[Kongamato]

I purchased JO and the expansion over winter break and have been playing for about 2 weeks. The game is generally fun, but there are times you'll be highly infuriated. On the outside, it certainly looks like footage of battle. Tracers, NVG, tanks, aircraft etc all paint a nice looking picture. Of course, beneath the surface it is a game and many things are not realistic. The common realism is there, vehicles don't move too fast or too slow and bullets will kill you. The unrealistic things are that sometimes dancing around can get you to survive faster, and it's very annoying when some button-tapper kills you in a shootout. However, I consider that a fact of gaming and there's not much you can do about it. Perhaps Novalogic is reworking the damage model, many complain about bullets not registering. It's also about running speed. Acceleration from stop to run is instant, and this helps the dodgers. You also run pretty fast. Due to this, close-range battles are dominated by the knife. Sometimes there's nothing you can do when you're close to a knifer. They can take whole control points if you don't have a way of stopping them, like a mine or your own knife ready. Many times you're not prepared for them. Shoulder-fired missiles are a common weapon and are sometimes used for anti-personnel duty, much to the anger of some. Personally, I figure they waste a missile doing that. I also have a hunch that the players who dress as generic Pilots, Indonesian Special Forces, and Indonesian Ex-Military do so in order to make you think twice before you fire, as they might look like teammates. Most of the time teamkill is not enabled, so fire away. You might blow your cover though.


Teamwork is there, mostly at a low level. There's no serious tactical communication, and vehicle raids are often "get in before the guy drives away". You had also hope that you didn't get into a sniper's vehicle, as he'll take you to the middle of nowhere. Other armed vehicles are used as stationary defenses by single players who'll get mad if you take them. There's usually enough vehicles to go around. Higher levels of teamwork do win games, however. People will stick together, and many of the most skilled players are medics. These will soon be your favorite teammates. A team of skilled medics can be a team's entire offense, and it often gets the work done. There are squads, but don't expect to run into 30 squadmembers in a coordinated blitz. I haven't seen that yet. Teamwork can be disrupted by a few things. The recon bikes of Escalation are fun to ride around on like Evel Knievel, and that's the problem. A ride on one of them can separate you from your teammates. Teams in Escalation get diluted because of this. Also, spawn snipers will draw out a bunch of people. The snipers' want for kills inadvertently becomes a diversionary tactic, drawing people away from objectives. I prefer to think of them as a fact of life, something to be ignored. Most often than not they won't get you.

I've named a lot of individual annoyances, but when I die, hindsight always finds a mistake I made in combat or preparation. You can usually keep your life out of the hands of a glitch if you want to. It will be a fun game, but you need to know what you're getting. It's not a complex military simulator. If you do get it, take the training missions. They can help you learn the controls, there's a lot of them. They're even narrated by a guy who sounds like a really strung-out Spike Spiegel.

Hope I could help. If I missed something, ask about it.

[The Tuffen]

cheers for the advice. I got it yesterday and have been playing quite a bit. It is quite fun.

I've only played Team Deathmatch mode at the moment. What are the others like?

I'm getting quite good at driving land based vehicles and speedboats although i can't fly heli's at all (infact i prefer not to fly at)

[Kongamato]

AAS(Advance and Secure) is much like TDM. You take the control points and spawn from them with the objective of taking them all. Sometimes I cannot tell the difference between AAS and TDM. I like this version most as it has objectives and is more of a stand-up attack/defend fight.

TKOTH(Team King of the Hill) is where the map has a circular zone in the center where you must dig in and hold for a certain amount of time. Expect a lot of mortar and mounted grenade fire. Get there FAST at the start! A proper game of this captures the rush of hanging on while being surrounded and pounded.

Many of these vehicles seem designed to get you from Point A to the afterlife as fast as possible. Helicopters are pretty easy to fly, but you'll need teammates at the gun positions to constantly dispense flares if you want to live longer. Your jump key does this. If you want to paradrop, be sure to get as high as possible before jumping so you don't attract attention. You'll still be used as target practice if you're seen jumping, but it gives you a better chance at being unseen. Also, know where the front line is. Driving full-on into the fight has killed me a few times. Land or park behind some cover and then go into battle.

[Nerouin]

I was wondering if anybody here plays Joint operations:Typhoon Rising as i want to know if its any good as I've just got broadband and i'm tempted to get it.

Also what other online games (pref FPS) are good to play?

Don't buy Novalogic games. Trust me on this. I bought three. They are good at first, but very prone to trainers and other cheats, and Novalogic stops patching their games a few months after they comes out. With one of their games (DF:LW), they actually systematically destroyed the game with patches; they devalued all the ranged weapons with the second to last patch, then introduced a random death bug in the last one, which was never fixed.

TRUST ME. DO NOT BUY GAMES FROM THIS COMPANY. IT IS MORE FRUSTRATION THAN IT IS WORTH.