Battlefield 3

[feedback]

I'm honestly really terrible at this game, I played until I got my first kill, it took 22 minutes and it was a guy in the gunner seat of a blackhawk. Lots of spawn rape and getting sniped by people I couldn't see. A couple times I ran towards vehicles running away from me trying to get in them until they killed me, only then did I notice they weren't on my team lol. Are there no more radio commands? I couldn't find a key other than "mark enemy".

[4days]

if you hold down Q, you'll see the communications rose/goatse from previous battlefield games - then you can use the mouse to try and flick over the thing you want with little or no visual feedback, select the wrong message (which is ignored anyway) and then get shot.

despite the greater scale, it's a much less well thought out game than BF2 or BC2 and does take a little getting used to - and it's worth looking up all the config tweaks to make the visual effects less nauseating. once you get into it, it's loads of fun.

[andyman]

The reload time on the flares isn't twice as fast as reload unless the gunner has them too. 1-2 men with stingers on a single map made any chopper useless. It wouldn't be so bad if you knew where you were getting shot from, but on a large map infantry has all the advantage of being able to hide and sneak out for a quick stinger hit. Imagine what its like on any full server when 80% of the players are engineers. 1 stinger hit and you're disabled. If you work in pairs..both lock on..one fires...when they pop flares the other fires...chopper dead. I'm glad they were nerfed.

Real manly pilots fly fast and low and make sure their gunner has flares equipped as well, making it as good as impossible to get a lock in the first place. And you do realize that a chopper popping flares makes you lose lock? The 2 man AA tactic you describe doesn't actually work, tried it many times - until i got bored with missing all the time. I guess if 80% of the players goes engi (never seen that) it would become a problem for pilots but the obvious solution to that is to switch to any other class, leave the vehicles for a bit and proceed to rape some people. Engi's aren't exactly stars in a straight up firefight, especially on open maps.

But i didn't know 1 missile was an insta-disable to be honest, in that case i guess i'm ok with the damage being nerfed. But the chance to hit is still way too low :E

Flying fast and low is all you can do if you're flying fast and low. there generally isn't a reason to fly fast unless you're evading a lock-on. Fast flying won't let you shoot your rockets or let your gunner gets hits on target. Typically after killing a few tanks and choppers, those guys get their stingers out and then it's a constant beep fest but it keeps them from capping points.
Anyways, a chopper team with two sets of flares is hard to stop unless you whip out the laser designation tools. Guided missile from a tank/citv is a one shot kill

[andyman]

this is what 2v11 looks like. http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/ba ... 201072974/

extremely frustrating

[feedback]

half the fucking time when I launch the game my view will rotate like 200 deg a second to the right and there's nothing I can do but quit and retry. Anybody else seen this?

[shaft]

make sure you dont have a gamepad/joystick plugged in...and clear out all the joystick binds under infantry tab.

[andyman]

all one tank... destroyed the team. the last spree was a 6 man on the amtrac, killed em all in like 20 seconds

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/ba ... 201072974/

[feedback]

i'm really starting to despise this stupid fucking unlock system now everyone's unlocked the practically wallhacking infra-red scope and various other cheap and cheesy shit like stealth and air radars. You should get better at a game the more you play, not unlock stuff that makes pissing on newer players ten times easier on top.

Here here. Fuck DLC and fuck unlocking things that give you advantages in MP.

Also, is it me or is every game lopsided? Like winning/losing by 200+

[brisk]

That's exactly the reason I hate it too. Give everyone the same guns, the same equipment and just let the skill be the difference, rather than spending money / grinding to get the advantage.

[Psyche911]

While you are totally correct, Memphis, there are a number of early guns that are better than everything after them. M416 is the best Assault gun, IMO and it's the 2nd or 3rd unlock. M249 is only beaten by the M240B for Support. SCAR-H, again second unlock, is (or at least was until the change) the deadliest Engineer gun. Recon is the only class where the last unlock is definitely the best (M98B).

That said, unlocks are lame. had it right. :P

[feedback]

Also, is it me or is every game lopsided? Like winning/losing by 200+

certainly not you. watch the scoreboards and how most prestiged players all bulk up on one side. any server with 'noobs' in the title typically has this where all the noobs end up being trounced by a far superior team. it's easier stats innit.

I got spawn-raped in 2 games today, I mean literally the entire team had bunched up by the spawn and nobody had a chance to survive the hail of bullets. In both games, the other team had 2 sets of clan fags, making up like 10-12 members of the team.

[andyman]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r6MgpK3 ... _embedded#!

[feedback]

Mav is so fucking annoying with the bug where it can kill you by flying through you.

[Psyche911]

Mav is so fucking annoying with the bug where it can kill you by flying through you.

Not a bug. Just like the UAV in Bad Company 2, it's fatal if it runs through you. Try it, it's not that easy.

Though I did get a double kill with it last night. Pretty much the best thing to happen to me in this game so far.

[andyman]

The fucking USAS-12.. omg just started using it today, already racked over 400 kills. That thing is insane and can work on any map between the 4 different shells to choose from.
Still trying to figure out the best way to use the frag rounds though. Shoot at the feet?
The slug is a one shot kil headshot from anywhere. SWEET... time to bust out the 6x scope lol

[Psyche911]

The fucking USAS-12.. omg just started using it today, already racked over 400 kills. That thing is insane and can work on any map between the 4 different shells to choose from.
Still trying to figure out the best way to use the frag rounds though. Shoot at the feet?
The slug is a one shot kil headshot from anywhere. SWEET... time to bust out the 6x scope lol

Still go for direct hits, the splash damage is too weak to really kill people who aren't seriously injured already. The splash is just supplemental damage and a good way to scare people out of cover.

Once you have the frag rounds, there's really no reason to use anything else. Just be careful at point blank or you'll kill yourself too (done that quite a few times). You can still use them like the slugs, as they are a solid mass with a similar trajectory. I've gotten headshot kills from a good 250-300 yards.

[andyman]

jesus lord... will doozers

and i got a capture card, can now make clips of some of the ridiculous shots i get every now and then. fun stuff

edit: and leave it my dumbass to get a 7 man flank spree and not fucking record it. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The frag rounds are not as good as regular buckshot IMO.

[shaft]

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is coming December 6th on PS3, December 13th on PC and Xbox 360

[Ryoki]

They should really nerf the fragrounds, it's like getting shot with a super accurate granadelauncher ffs.

Last time i played my entire team got cornered in the spawn on one of the urban conquest maps and i spend a good 10 minutes spawning and dying immediately - but then i spawned with a freshly unlocked shotty, ran through a guarded corridor somehow after confusing some cunt with a granade and blasted a shitload of guys in the face, clearing their little killing zone before getting killed when i tried a repeat in the next corridor. Of course my fucking team didn't move up a single inch, preferring to crawl around all useless like & probably wondering why it was all quiet for a few seconds without checking their minimap to see why - so i ended up quitting in disgust before the match was over.

I really want to like this game and the combat is absolutely glorious for the most part, but there's a couple of things seriously wrong with the balance and it's starting to put me off big time.

Also i hate how i don't have any time to play lately, the above shotgun adventure is like a week old and i havent had a chance to play since :/ For all i know they patched things... have they?

[4days]

haven't had much time for gaming either, but did get on for a couple of rounds the other night and think you're probably up to date on patches - it's definitely a lot more crashy than it was before, not sure about in-game tweaks.

got into the same situation with having a bloody useless team where only one or two of ever went forward. i really don't understand why some people (serial snipers that still hit next to buggerall) play this game at all. the next round was awesome though. i lost a dogfight, bailed out, stole a tank and then shot down the jet that'd turned around to finish me off - the problems this game has are really frustrating. i know they fuck up every release and then eventually patch most of the problems away, but it would've been nice if they'd taken steps forward from bc2/bf2 instead of backwards.

[andyman]

It seems like a lot of the problems and fixes/changes they are going to implement in the map pack release are things that should have been in the original release. For instance, trying to spawn on a squadmate but he dies at the same time and it puts you back at your base spawn. This has happened so many times and is one of the most frustrating things... did the testers not have this happen? If it did, they were fine with it? i mean wtf here...
I'd complain about spawning directly in front of an enemy too but I've had them spawn right in front of me, so..

They should have had the thing in the main release where if your own AA turret is shooting your aircraft, you don't lose control. Instead, cuntface teamkillers get to wreck all our aircraft from the spawn. Retarded shit like that.
Just about everything on Noshahr canals is glitched when it comes to the choppers. If you run a guided missile with a laser painter and shoot one at the other scout choppers, the missile goes haywire and never hits the target. Not to mention the crosshairs go nuts, sometimes they disappear altogether. The diamond for the laser painter completely covers the other chopper as well, making it impossible to see to shoot with miniguns when it is somewhat far away. Last night my entire hud disappeared for the whole game. Lots of problems with that map, including the balance. Russian side has such a huge advantage it's ridiculous, but playing with competent squad members helps if you're on the US side.

[andyman]

some videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at-s5t-1 ... ideo_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ria7eh6x ... ideo_title

[scared?]

can u rebind q yet on PC?...

[shaft]

nice flying

[andyman]

pretty sure this was my highest scoring game to date... http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/ba ... 201072974/
would have been more but the pilot said he was too high to understand what was going on so we missed out on a lot of kills

also a nice tank spree until some fagot steals my shit while i was repairing the reactive armor.... what a dick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqmExcBKq34