As a matter of fact, Vietcong is a pretty good game, even though the graphics are - say - somewhat outdated. I didn't play VC for like 2-3 yrs at least but I used to play a lot before, though not the TK way.
It's a shame that Ptero and Take2 abandoned the VC 2 project, it could have been just as much of a hit, as VC 1 was...
Regardless I'm pretty sure I still have the game somewhere at the bottom of a cardboard box, so I might just dig it up and put it back on the machine again.
I was almost always a square shooter/player who -averaged- a 10/1 kill-death ratio without any cheats.
I played many looooooooong days with VET/6th and others in team respawn games...the point being to NOT die.
Lets understand how things are/have been here and now,VC2 NEVER had more than 96 people playing it on-line at any point in time during it's first 2 years.
All of us die hard VC players know that for a fact.
Many of the VC beta testers,the PMT members,Pimp Cong and others involved in aspects of VC1/VC2 and it's anticheat or many mods ARE members of TKC.
We know who each other are,we talk and aid one another...not all of us support the game publishers actions on every level.
It was perhaps my favorite game,I had access to every cheat or bypass under the sun but for the most part never used them on-line and NEVER used a cheat in a on-line ladder contest.
I along with others DID raid some servers that were very anti TKC and "needed" a good Old Fashioned TKC Ass Kicking...and I was one of those who made sure that they got it -and- TOOK OVER the official Pterodon VC game server.
Could not resist showing that EVERY cheat ever made by TKC would still work with the last HB update/patch and make public fools out of those who "thought" they had stolen information to make the latest anticheat update.
I loved doing that.
In responce to TKC's last few weeks "pwning" the Official Pterodon Vietcong Game Server....the company gave up and CLOSED it while it's main bitch boy TKC FATE,aka TKC DARKBYTE,aka Andrew Killham (who runs a VERY over priced AU hosting company. A true rip off artist) was now made an official Pterodon Moderator kept up the "official" rant that TKC was defeated and kaput.
I loved my roll in shoving a big,oversized TKC BOOT up the ass of those people...elitist snobs.
Just a few weeks later Pterodon closed it's official server via massive complaints of cheating bypassing the latest/last/finale anticheat program.
Ahhh....the memories!
Z
PS: Basicly I can enter any game that uses GameSpy without even instlling the game and do as I wish and never be banned...the true TKC God Mode!