You'll find others still that will testify on how the Desert Combat mod holds a place in their gamer heart that no other title has managed to fill BF2, 3, and 4 included. Were there weird quirks in subsequent titles that led to similarly emergent or accidental antics? Not that I can recall. Those of us around the competitive BF:42 scene will never forget a season final clinched by unveiling the 'wing walking' tactic the winning team discovered was possible on Iwo Jima, where the entire team spawned initially on the aircraft carrier, piled onto the bomber's wings, went prone, and could hang on across the water before parachuting down to the peak flag. The quirks of the engine it was built on ended up having consequences on gameplay that added to the fun. It found a rather endearing balance between hyper-realism and unrealistically goofy physical antics that many other games have tried and failed to capture. Most would put up an argument that :42 was the pinnacle of the franchise. You really should have spent some time with BF:42, or consulted some folks who have been sinking time into the franchise since it's inception. 5 minutes in it changes, starts to lag, environmental audio usually drops out entirely, and it gets to the point where the game is completely unplayable, sometimes taking 3-5 seconds to render one frame. So to sum it up, I join the game and get fluid fps, around 40 give or take a few. I can't get a good video of it with fraps however because like I said once it gets down to 1fps the video stops recording. Here is a short video where you can see the beginnings of the choppiness I am talking about, except it gets FAR worse than this, progressively. 5 minutes into the game I am down to 1fps every 15 seconds or less, and everything is extremely choppy. For some reason fraps stops recording if I hit 1fps, so I can't record the entire problem, cuz as soon as it hits 1fps for the first time it stops.īasically my problem is that when I join a game I can play at ~40fps with all settings on low at 1080p, it runs smooth enough so that I can play without any problem.