lol of course you wont see them. They are inside the walls.

True, but I know when blaster bolts are coming from places they shouldn't be! Last I saw was someone firing out of the crashed transport on Endor Clearing. That was about 3 months ago – and they probably discovered it accidentally, as did I, just before I reported it here.

Welcome BattleDonkey. Cool name

I've not seen anyone exploiting any of the known glitches (like dodgy walls) for months.

lol of course you wont see them. They are inside the walls. The only glitches i know of in 1.3  i have never seen anybody use.

Once again thanks guys for the welcome hope i dont miss too many battles, and am definately tired of the 2142 side of the game.

Where is the best place too look for playtimes, or when  at least someone will be on the servers ?

Best time is 9PM GMT (4PM EST) on a Saturday evening.  Thats when we host the Official Community games.  As for other times, Shorties hit that bang on the mark.

Where is the best place too look for playtimes, or when  at least someone will be on the servers ?

This is a clean, fair-playing community as far as I'm concerned.

However, 'fair' doesn't mean there aren't some hard b*st*rds playing! A trooper with an awesome blaster rifle, a couple of frags and a personal UAV takes some contending with!

People will try to help you out if you join a squad, though, so don't wait to be asked.

Im at FS 1.3, up and running, ready for some womp rats... now if i could just find that blaster.

My first question before i get dissapointed is,

"Is First Strike full of all the exploiting, glitching, and hackers, that is inherent and ruins the BF series ?"

There are many little bugs and exploits which can be used, but thankfully almost NOONE knows about them, they are mostly fixed for the next patch.  Those people that do know them are all clean players who never use them.  Across all the time I have played FS, I have only heard a story of one possible hacker, and he was only playing for about 5 minutes before leaving never to have returned.

Yes.  You can get the 1.2-1.3 patch Here. You can get the FULL 1.3 installer Here.

Welcome to First Strike, I look forward to getting some games in with you.

Have had a little trouble finding the FS 1.3, few places talk about it and then dont link it.
Little help please.
Also info if its full client or update, if its not provided.

Thank ya, BattleDonkey

Yes, you will need to get fully updated to 1.3 to play on servers as that is what they'll be running. You'll also need the latest version of BF2142 (1.5 if I remember rightly).

As far as glitching is concerned we try to keep it down to a minimum and once any exploits are discovered we do our upmost to counter them, in fact with the latest release coming soon we intend to address a lot of the current exploits and issues to result in a cleaner more glitch free game. As with all online games you are going to get the occasional idiot who tries to use an exploit or hack, but I think our community is such that you won't see much of this, and if they are seen to be glitching or hacking they'll get named and shamed pretty quick.

You've not got many years on me as well actually, was born in '73 myself, so I've been a life long fan too, and that is what keeps me and a lot of the team toiling on this mod, a love of the franchise and a desire to create the best Star Wars game out there mod or otherwise.

So get all up to date and I'll see you out there for some good clean intergalactic hot blaster action.  We hope you enjoy the mod.