Orbital Strikes, the creation

[TheDesert_Fox]

We all know what Orbitals/EMP strikes do, but where do the come from? Surely something is up there letting them loose. Satellite, spaceship, space station, what is it DICE? Will we see anything based around space battles?

[JerKinXx]

Satellite.

[TheDesert_Fox]

Satellite.Proof or just assumption/something you heard?

[WarGimp]

HAARP?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program
http://video.google.ca/url?docid=-5536399294758425202&esrc=sr3&ev=v&q=haarp&vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DsyrCLK0zbY4&usg=AL29H20A8vPAlzn_Cc6HR3r0_X2UBJMA-g

[NKDeus]

starwars

[LahLahSr]

Divine intervention?

[Bahraini_Killer]

talking about Orbital strike they dont have that very impact that arts do in BF2....

I still rmember BF2 hell from air that takes troopers very effectively

[Grayzag]

Theres millions of unused Orbital and EMP strikes hovering above the clouds, waiting for a commander to call for them.

:nod:

Really

Thats what the little orbital strike units are for, its like a telephone for the commander.

[Demize99]

Actually, its a massive Space Vacuum that collects Space Dust and then when the commander asks for an Orbital Strike it turns the switch to "blow" and sends it down to Earth. True story.

[Alaz]

Actually, its a massive Space Vacuum that collects Space Dust and then when the commander asks for an Orbital Strike it turns the switch to "blow" and sends it down to Earth. True story.

lol, I'd hate to see what happens to a map if that vacuum accidentally sucked up a meteor or something, goodbye half of Gibraltar :D

[Ghost 1800]

lol, I'd hate to see what happens to a map if that vacuum accidentally sucked up a meteor or something, goodbye half of Gibraltar :D
ya and good riddance! :p

[TheDesert_Fox]

Actually, its a massive Space Vacuum that collects Space Dust and then when the commander asks for an Orbital Strike it turns the switch to "blow" and sends it down to Earth. True story.But what about the poor space dust? It never returns to it's loved ones, you're cruel people! :cry:

[Vikaman]

I say its an Ion Cannon that went wrong.

[Shellsh0cker]

Um . . . Orbital Strike. It comes from something in orbit. Therefore, a satellite. I really fail to see how this is not incredibly obvious.

[TheDesert_Fox]

Um . . . Orbital Strike. It comes from something in orbit. Therefore, a satellite. I really fail to see how this is not incredibly obvious.A satellite is really just a broad term for anything in orbit, a spaceship can be in orbit of a planet...

I bet the US supplied the Space Vacuums, Hoover FTW!

[MassaStorm]

Actually, its a massive Space Vacuum that collects Space Dust and then when the commander asks for an Orbital Strike it turns the switch to "blow" and sends it down to Earth. True story.

That made me think of Spaceballs "Oh, my God. It's Mega Maid. She's gone from suck to blow."

[Vikaman]

Um . . . Orbital Strike. It comes from something in orbit. Therefore, a satellite. I really fail to see how this is not incredibly obvious.

The moon too?
But the moon is a satellite too....

[TWRAM]

I thought it was God spreading his cheeks?

[Wizrdwarts]

It's cosmic retribution for all those grenades you've spammed.

[blank1]

Actually, there are missiles that were launched into space on a boomerang path 140 years earlier, and it is mere coincidence that whenever a commander orders an OS, several dozen of those missiles land where he ordered. As for EMP strikes... I heard its the reincarnated souls of nade spammers being used to punish living people by being bombarded into the ground so they spread to surrounding players, infecting them with stupid (hence the crazy effects and no cross hair to aim with) for a short amount of time. When these reincarnated souls infect a host for too long, what you get is an APM spamming recon.

This is all verifiable fact.

[Venomous]

Actually, there are missiles that were launched into space on a boomerang path 140 years earlier, and it is mere coincidence that whenever a commander orders an OS, several dozen of those missiles land where he ordered. As for EMP strikes... I heard its the reincarnated souls of nade spammers being used to punish living people by being bombarded into the ground so they spread to surrounding players, infecting them with stupid (hence the crazy effects and no cross hair to aim with) for a short amount of time. When these reincarnated souls infect a host for too long, what you get is an APM spamming recon.

This is all verifiable fact.

Yes....Yes...YES!!! That makes perfect sense

[dontsh000t]

lol ok... back on track, there are these programs to develop satallites which carry dense tungsten rods or something liddat, and rely on velocity and heat to kill when released in space to the earth.

[MIB]

It really doesn't matter if the strikes are coming from a space station, a ship, or a satellite. If the projectiles are coming from orbit, the kinetic energy they deliver should be enough to wipe out anyone that is dumb enough to remain in the kill zone. Yet orbital strikes are utterly pitiful compared to BF2's artillary strikes. You can have guys standing right in the middle of it all and STILL come out of it alive.

Say what you will about artillary, it at least made things a bit more interesting in BF2 since it was something to be feared. Orbital strikes by contrast barely qualify as nusances.

[TheDesert_Fox]

MIB is right, a little off topic but who cares, artillery is wimpy. Commander can get maybe 7 kills total in a round using artillery if he/she is good, not much. I can see it being weak to prevent TK but it can't kill the enemy either!

[Bahraini_Killer]

Um . . . Orbital Strike. It comes from something in orbit. Therefore, a satellite. I really fail to see how this is not incredibly obvious.
Good point there.

[Kasei]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHGl6R7tAY

Its the orbital strike's big brother.

[Merlin]

Actually, its a massive Space Vacuum that collects Space Dust and then when the commander asks for an Orbital Strike it turns the switch to "blow" and sends it down to Earth. True story.

You DICE guys smoke some crazy stuff:D

[MIB]

MIB is right, a little off topic but who cares, artillery is wimpy. Commander can get maybe 7 kills total in a round using artillery if he/she is good, not much. I can see it being weak to prevent TK but it can't kill the enemy either!

Indeed. And the hell of it is TKing wouldn't even be a problem if people would just pay attention to their maps which give them plenty of advance notice of a friendly artillary strike. As far as I'm concerned, if they get themselves killed it's their own fault for not paying attention.

Anywho, I'm done hijacking this thread. ;)

[Ized]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#Project_Thor

Project Thor is an idea for a weapons system that launches kinetic projectiles from Earth orbit to damage targets on the ground

[Zarious]

Probably based off of the "Rods from God" project that was proposed a while back. It's basically a pair of satellites in orbit one to target and one to carry the payload. The payload/s are a bunch of heavy metal rods, that are dropped into the earth's atmosphere and reach metoric speeds before they smack the ground. Tho the ones I heard about are powerful enough to replace tatical nukes.

Aaah found the article on it here

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/700oklkt.asp

Ized beat me to it by 3 mins cause I went looking for the article :D

[CRIMS0N_W0LF]

Whatever they come from i HATE THEM! I'm the unluckist guy i ALWAYS die in an ortibal strike. I hate it more then BF2 artillery because only I die. At least in BF2 I wasn't the only one to die...




I'm an Oribital Strike/Artillery Magnet!