Well, now with the official release of Battlefield 3 under way, I figured it would be best to de-clutter the forums or prevent what is to happen, with a heap of "my Origin name" or "Join me join me now!" Now this thread will serve as a purpose to collect all the necessary information for new and old users to the Battlefield series, and just to give an all round helping hand. (If Trog or Dan don't want this, please delete)
Forums are located in the actual Battlelog, with sections for each platform and technical/help issues
RockitMan has a server up, address is: 203.46.105.24:20650.
Ok, on with the guides/advice;
I firstly suggest, get to know your surroundings. Look up maps, look up YouTube videos of maps etc. Best way to know the enemy is to know the field of battle. While in-game, press N to increase/decrease mini map size, and pressing M will bring up a larger map. Take notice of icons that will help: Letters mean M-Com Stations/Conquest Flags, Ammo/Health are retrospective of their use.
When low on health/ammo, pressing Q while looking at someone with a ammo/health symbol will notify them that you require their assistance. I can not stress enough, if your Assault/Support, give out your kits to help team mates. This isn't COD, you can't go ninja solo and try and kill the whole opposing team. You will die.
Spot as much as you can. Press Q, and if your looking at someone/something, it will pop up for everyone else on your team. There is Line of Sight now, and if someone runs behind a rock, it won't show them anywhere on the screen, so try to take notice. Sadly VOIP isn't yet in the game, but hopefully soon it will be added and calling out will be much easier.
Lastly, play how you want to play. Just remember though, if your sitting back at base being a wookie, there will be consequences to the team, but that is your choice.
I have tried my debit card and paypal but nothing works. I am going to buy it locally. Maybe my account has been flaged for trying to do dodgy VPN stuff with origin lol.
Apparently people are going into a server with a friend 1v1 and simply arming and disarming MCOM stations and racking up 40k points per game...haha
I just found a server that only required 2 people, but was conquest :( Though I did get 5000 or so points by capping flags then switching. Got boring though, so found a Bazaar server and racked up 10,000 points :D
Anyone having issues getting the physical warfare pack going? I go to battlefield.com/redeem and then it tells me to enter username and password. I figure it's my origin one but that doesn't work. It even says on the page that origin is linked to the site. Any ideas?
Will play on ya server RockitMan once i get my copy from fixah
Sweet, it's just on default settings so if something else is better just let me know. I'm still waiting on my copy from game.co.uk and also need a new PC before I can play!
Anyone having issues getting the physical warfare pack going? I go to battlefield.com/redeem and then it tells me to enter username and password. I figure it's my origin one but that doesn't work. It even says on the page that origin is linked to the site. Any ideas?
Yeah Rev, just ignore that link they tell you to go to. Just redeem the code in Origin bud and your away.
Edit: on a side note, I started playing through the single player last night (which is something I don’t normally do) an fuck me, its good :) The sequence where you start on the carrier and do a mission in a Hornet is very well done. Especially immersive with 3 screens going at once :)
I unlocked it a few days ago on a US VPN, so I finished the single player campaign last night. It was really awesome, I loved it. The estimates I've read of it being about 7-8 hours are about right, I'd say that's how long I spent on it.
Got stuck into the multiplayer last night. I had a few good rounds on Caspian Border, since I already knew the level, and got royally spanked while I tried to find out where the fuck I was in the new maps. :(
Also, I'm stuck on the first lvl in the train. There's a shotgun wedged in the door and I can't move it. What key do I use? I've got one key bound to interact and another to enter vehicles and both don't work. WTF?
Fuckit. I give up. I've hit every single key on the keyboard and nothing will pick it up. Back to WoW. LOL
Its reload, and you need to hold it down, thats how you pick up guns. It even tells you that on the screen it flashes up a big "Hold R to take shotgun" type prompt. Or at least it did for me.
How do you get the "Back to karkand" map pack? Is that just included in the game? Cos when I grabbed a copy on Origin I didn't get another code or another download or anything for that pack, just a code for the Physical Warfare addons.
Yeah same Khel, i was just under the assumption it hasn't been released yet, seeing as there aren't any servers running it (i can see it in origin under filters.).
How do you get the "Back to karkand" map pack? Is that just included in the game?
It's not out yet, if that's what you mean. The estimate was for about a month post-release.
I presume since it's supposedly included with the Limited Edition that anyone that owns the LE version will just automatically get it in a patch, whereas those that own the standard ver will have to purchase it separately from Origin.
Yeah, it's heaps better now. Go to squad/team, and you'll be able to leave current squad, and join any other one. Need 2 people to officially make a squad though.
Its reload, and you need to hold it down, thats how you pick up guns. It even tells you that on the screen it flashes up a big "Hold R to take shotgun" type prompt
Since I remapped all the keys it didn't bring up that prompt. Pretty silly way of picking up weapons but I got it all sorted. Got up to the night mission where the enemy tank rolls in and so far I'm pretty bored of the single player. It's too fucking dark and most of the time I just end up following the blue markers because you can't see shit. Much preferred BC2 single player to this. Was heaps more fun and you could actually see what the fuck you're doing. Will give multiplayer a go now since I don't think I could be bothered with single player anymore.
Battlelog is running like a turd sliding down a hill. Can't work out how the fuck to join specific servers if I have the address and the pings stop working if I hit refresh more than once so i'm screwed when picking a server. Oceanic filter only gives me like 10 servers and when I AM able to play i'm getting horrible positional lag where I keep getting put back where I was 1 or 2 seconds ago.
And they fucked up the mouse sensitivity as I play with low, but if I set it low in this game there is a large deadzone where no movement registers. Fuck sake. Beta worked better than this so far.
Bloody edit. Playing the game and then suddenly I got rage style graphic problems with the walls being blue and trees being rainbow colour as well as my team being entirely in blue while the others where in black. Then After 5 minutes of that I get kicked with a "server is full" message. Regret buying this so soon after launch.
sigh I've been that busy at work and too tired once home to even think about this. I forgot to preload and everything ><
Ah well, I'll install now so I can maybe play the fuckin thing on sunday.
speaking of which, how are peoples cards/cpu etc handling bf3?
I got pretty fucking awesome performance out of a slightly clocked gtx260 with an i7 870 on the caspian border map, metro one not so much. don't ask me why, it boggled me too.
Weird, that post doesn't want to show my other half of the post...
Third, try a re-install, there may have been some corrupt files.
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I'm running on Ultra with everything maxed and it hasn't missed a beat. Maybe I'm just really jaded, but I expected it to look better than it does, with everything maxed out. I mean, it looks good, really good even, but I dunno, doesn't quite live up to my expectations. Doesn't seem to be much use of DX11 fancyness, and some of the textures (particularly inside buildings) at times range from bland to outright horrible. Its probably just me having unrealistic expectations, but with it cranked all the way up to Ultra and maxing out every setting, I was anticipating my jaw being on the flaw and being knocked out by the beautiful graphics, and it hasn't really had that impact.
I'm running on Ultra with everything maxed and it hasn't missed a beat. Maybe I'm just really jaded, but I expected it to look better than it does, with everything maxed out. I mean, it looks good, really good even, but I dunno, doesn't quite live up to my expectations. Doesn't seem to be much use of DX11 fancyness, and some of the textures (particularly inside buildings) at times range from bland to outright horrible. Its probably just me having unrealistic expectations, but with it cranked all the way up to Ultra and maxing out every setting, I was anticipating my jaw being on the flaw and being knocked out by the beautiful graphics, and it hasn't really had that impact.
Is that in single player or multi?
Apparently single players looks a lot better.
If I compare Rage to this...rage looks a few years old :E
I am thinking I am going to need to upgrade from my trusty old HD4800 series.. any ideas for those running the game?
rest of pc is I5, 8gb ram etc etc so I think just my gfx card requires upgrading - and if so what should I get?
I have to turn my speakers up to halfway in order to hear shit, very weird. Sleepy, your CPU will be fine, what is your graphics card? As in, a 5400, or a 5700 or something?
I love that they tweaked all the unlocks so it's like playing the game new. After a few days I suspect the lag issues with most servers will be dealt with as right now there is a bit of people jumping place to place.
Oh and I was in a game in that highway level where I was playing recon. Everyone on my squad was screaming and freaking out that I wasn't helping them but I had the highest score out of everyone and was helping secure points. Weirdos.
I was in a tank on a conquest map and I was stationary....but the tank was sliding around a bit lol. I am doing poorly in the game so far, one game I had 0 kills and 8 deaths. As for video cards, Get a nvidia card, GTX560 Ti minimum.
Took me ages to work out how. The join button didn't stand out :) That's the one thing that is bugging me with the interface, stuff doesn't stand out and I find it complicated to look at (like modifying weapon mods compared to BFBC2).
speaking of which, how are peoples cards/cpu etc handling bf3?
I turned the graphics down to medium, was buzzing along OK at high. But preferred the 100% stability of medium when there was explosions and stuff going on. Similar system specs.
Intel i7-870
ATI Radeon 5850
4GB memory
I could maybe upgrade the memory up to 8GB or something for a bit of boost maybe. My load times are bloody awful though. Joining a game takes ages and in between maps sucks too. Haven't updated my ATI drivers though.
To modify weapons, all you do is go customise in each kit. Mmm, put IR Smoke, Autoloader and Coaxial HMG on a tank, and by god can you not die. What's that, just used a tank shell, switch to heavy machine gun and hit them where it hurts!
I was in that firestorm level and was playing the role of anti air in that awesome vehical. Got over 10 disables, 10 flat out destroys and a few kills randomly, one of which I wish I could of seen. I'd launched my 2 anti air rockets and was waiting for them to hit the plane. He must of gone close to the ground because somehow 1 of the missle managed to land on top of someone randomly on the ground, and the other one then blew up his plane. I was making at least 2 people on the other team rage because that's all I was doing, shutting down their air attack options.
So far Caspian Border, Operation Firestorm and that level with one side on a boat are the best maps. But I have to admit, they have done damn well with the graphics. I had to play on low at uni and it still looked beautiful.
The rubberbanding in servers is getting worse and fuck me it's annoying. Just trying to move out of a staircase because someone is coming down is a real feat with all the snapping back you do.
I'm finding the spawning in Multiplayer to be a bit broken. I've spawned heaps of times directly in front of enemy soldiers, dying in less than a second. Just before, I spawned at one of our bases with an enemy tank 10 metres in front of me. I was killed from behind after about half a second by an enemy support soldier. It fucking spawned me between a tank and a guy with a machine gun.
I've also had enemies spawn directly in front of me a few times as well. It's like it doesn't actually check to see if you're spawning somewhere safe. It's pretty annoying.
Midda: In Rush and Conquest you can see what the action is like at the chosen spawn before you deploy, so I presume you're talking about Team DM.
In TeamDM, the spawns are reasonably random, but there seems to be some logic that gives a best effort to try and spawn you on the general side of your map that is most heavily weighted to your team. I've been spawn-killed a few times, but I've also gotten the jump on enemies a bunch of times fresh off the spawn, so it kind of evens out imo.
Bf3 arrives in the uk today (fkn finally) and amazon will deliver my copy. Question - can we add the product code to origin and download it instead of installing? I dont have a cd/dvd drive lulz totally forgot when i ordered.
Midda: In Rush and Conquest you can see what the action is like at the chosen spawn before you deploy, so I presume you're talking about Team DM.
No, I'm talking about Rush and Conquest. Yeah, you can see what the action's like at a spawn point, but the actual size of the area you can spawn in is pretty large. You don't just spawn at the flag when you chose a base that you've captured, it's a random spot in the general area. My complaint is that it just picks a spot without any regard to how close you'll be to an enemy. It shouldn't be that difficult to just pick a spot where you're further away or not in line of sight.
Twisted i have the same specs as you, i OC'd the video card, maxed the fan speed (to prevent over heating) and i can run the game in high with no drama's at all.
Just did a speed test and my virgin media upload speed has gone to shit. Didnt notice till now cause never play games. Grrrrrrrrr. Ruining epic bf time
Best map for getting points i've found is Grand Bazaar since tons of people nearly always flock to the center. I crack out my explosive round loaded shotty and go to town getting bonuses let and right.
what are the attack heli's like in BF3 compared to BF2?? I'm talking physics and controls btw.
I don't know how to describe it... it's almost as if the choppers are much more sensitive to movement. they also roll left and right much faster than you can pitch up and down. very difficult to make tiny changes, but maybe it's a sensitivity issue (??). I don't like it one bit, so i'll let the team fly them in BF3. more RPG kills for me :)
1. go here: C:\Users\YOU\Documents\Battlefield 3\settings
2. Open PROF_SAVE_profile with notepad++ (can download for free)
3. Change the following variables:
GstInput.MouseSensitivity 0.050000 ;1st one is the normal mouse sens. USE whatever you like, or keep it the way it is.
These three however I edited and it solved many problems for me.
/facepalm. Shows how often I check keybinds. Also something that is really fucking shitting me is not being able to walk through team mates like in TF2. When you are doing Rush mode it can turn into a giant clusterfuck in doorways and end up killing half your team.
I'm really getting shitty with how it always seems I get killed too easy. I'm staying with my squad/in a group, i'm stacked on multiple healing kits and I still get killed in 1 or 2 hits but I have to shoot people up to 7 times before they go down. This one fuck I was shooting him clear in the head as he was prone and he took 6 shots to kill, some guy comes flying around the corner and picks me off in 1 pistol shot from full health. Ugh why do I play online FPS games I suck and always seem to die to random bullshit.
DM - check which server types your playing on - Hardcore mode usually means 1/2 hits and your down.
Remember to use burst fire too - spray and pray (if you are doing this) is not going to help you at all!
I'm loving it so far - though the first 2 / 3 games I play in every session are horrible as I get my bearings. To used to going rambo in BC2 which does not work in Bf3...
Also - the new ati preview 3 drivers on the guru3d site are supposed to assist any ATI owners having issues. I upgraded and have not had any probs so far with Bf3 - though I do get an odd green flicker sometimes.
163 Jet kills and going up slowly, everything unlocked and I can say that 90% of the unlocks are useless. Even Air Radar in Hardcore sucks, the range is nothing like what the radar appears to be.
Stealth/Flares/AGM for all flyboy maps except Dashahr (or whatever) Canals.
In which case it's
Beam Scanning/Flares/AGM.
You need the beam scanning because its such short range and low flying the faster locking is really necessary.
Only nooby pilots need need heatseekers for air-to-air combat. Usually all it does is give away the fact that someone is looking at tracking you down.
Guns is far more efficient and by the time they realize then it's too late. With AGM you're actually useful to the rest of the battlefield (even if they are a bit underpowered).
Saved natslovr with an AGM when his jeep took on a tank once :)
I've tried flying a few times but I suck at it. Can't get the hang of the controls and my fucking GOD do you get screamed at if you take a jet but aren't an ace pilot. People lose their minds, like how DARE you try and learn to be a better flyer you selfish cunt.
I've found the choppers to be much better in handling and rolling then BC2. I can also dive then pull back up nice and easy, and swing round using A/D a lot quicker and smoother. But that's just me. I also switch views constantly and abuse my on the fly DPI switching on my mouse.
Added new names to Origin Name List, remember to join Ausgamers platoon! It will make Dan feel like he is loved.
I've found the choppers to be much better in handling and rolling then BC2. I can also dive then pull back up nice and easy, and swing round using A/D a lot quicker and smoother.
yeah they're worse than the BF2 choppers though...
Weird, that post doesn't want to show my other half of the post...
Other half of the post is there, you just didn't close a tag propperly. Actually, you didn't add the second " <~ quotation mark at the end of http://etc.com/etc and so the rest of your stuff is gone.
Third, try a re-install, there may have been some corrupt files.
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Game has run fine my end with one crash but i always get a message from Origin saying an Error has occoured but it doesn't specify what error. I just click accept and it starts as usual.
Bought myself a new GTX 580 and wouldn't you believe it, the fucking thing is faulty. Fans don't run... so it'll run BF3 for 2 minutes on ultra and looks the bomb before it overheats and shuts down... FAIL
Ah well back to the old HD4870 and 38 fps on medium...
Oh and getting shocking lag and rubber banding in MP at the moment but have only been playing on 64 player servers so that could be the drama
yeah they're worse than the BF2 choppers though...
Why is that though? Because I think in BF3 they handle more like they have some 'weight' behind their their movements.
Which is a good thing that they're not some hovering jet.
The jets on the other hand are able to slow down and turn in far too quickly and are almost the opposite of the helicopters, they lack that sense of momentum.
I've been thoroughly enjoying playing BF3 except for last night when I rage quit because I couldn't catch a break. My squad was all doing their own thing so it was pointless.
The only thing I would like would be a way to squad invite from within BF3 client. It's all still too difficult. Also the voice thing works ok, but it's not as easy as teamspeak, and too hard to get someone who's already playing in to a party and then in to a squad. I should just be able to join a server with someone who's playing jump in an empty squad, invite them too it since their squad is full and VOIP should then work.
Because so few people would drop ammo in the beta, I've gone support and am racking in the points. Usually get 4 or so Resupply ribbons a match, even when i'm getting arseraped it helps keep your score up.
I love C4ing tanks, but for some reason Jeeps take 2x C4 to kill.
I've got engineer up so that he has the anti-air and on an air map when the helis are annoying i'll switch to him for a life to take out some fly-ers, then run out of ammo BECAUSE NO ONE DROPS AMMO, and then spawn back as support.
I've been thoroughly enjoying playing BF3 except for last night when I rage quit because I couldn't catch a break. My squad was all doing their own thing so it was pointless.
the only way I can enjoy BF3 is if you're playing with friends with voice comms.
Because so few people would drop ammo in the beta, I've gone support and am racking in the points. Usually get 4 or so Resupply ribbons a match, even when i'm getting arseraped it helps keep your score up.
I know it's not much but another easy points grab is to mark the shit out of everyone. No one seems to do it yet, and you get a few points for just spotting people when they're killed.
I make sure to choose the Explosive Specialization just for this reason when playing Engineer.
Same here man, 8 rockets on start up is amazing. Though I play with 3 other friends, and we go on Skype, destroy people because we actually use teamwork.
why can't i rebind the flight controls? I want my flight view (up/down look) the same as on foot. If I select invert in the options...it inverts everything lol including roll. I tried rebinding it in the menu but it just seems to stay the same :(
Anyone tried that? I don't want to go from moving mouse up to view up on foot then have it reversed in plane/heli.
I might just make a few tips for flying with some situations to help people out.
1) Bind "F" to 'pitch up', no need for a joystick and enjoy the same maneuverability.
2) Maintain airspeed around 270 when turning unless 'drifting' (how to later), this is your maximum 'turning speed : ground coverage relativity' ratio.
3) Remember, you can turn sharper over a lesser ground coverage distance (relative) if you go a little slower, but you will conversely turn more slowly.
[This is useful to stay within another pilots turning circle briefly for example, then release brake/tap afterburner back to around 270 airspeed and repeat in quick successions - you will notice the speed turning difference so just practice]
4) Use High and Low Yo-Yo's (wikipedia real plane maneuvers if unsure) to adjust your speed more rapidly, BF3 jet combat is more about who can manage their airspeed:turn capability more efficiently than who performs the most appropriate counter/turn for the situation/time).
5) If you're being locked on and you have a bit of height, aim for the nearest mountain, pitch down to the ground as much as able in the distance and afterburn. Maximum velocity is about 430-440 airspeed for any plane that's not vertically downwards. Use that to your advantage to slowly get distance on someone using heatseekers. Once you are locked and the rapid tone of a missile is incoming, wait a few seconds while continuing to AB away before dropping flares, then duck behind a mountain to break the lock and draw enemy plane on more even terms.
6) If you have no height, go low! Duck behind any smallest hill you can, if you don't lose the lock you know it's an enemy plane and refer to 5), if no mountains in range, brake hard pull up and head straight for them to close the gap and force a 'turning circle dogfight' so they can't missile you a second time between flare cool down.
7) 'drifting' - Brake hard + pitch up. At the same time use rudder in the direction of the wing pointed to the sky. For example, if banking hard to the right with right wing down. Rudder left towards the sky. Plane will drop airspeed rapidly and drift in the sky (nose of plane will be pointed on a much sharper angle of attack than actual direction of flight). Release Brake and Use afterburner to quickly pick up speed until turning faster again (you'll notice the difference), repeat until you are in line with another pilots turning circle and their tail.
8) Don't stay over the battlefield, hang around the sides and move in to attack then move out. Too many people pointing AA into the sky. It also gives you the *huge* advantage to initiate air:air combat on your terms, and usually start on their tail and end it quickly: Use guns, they'll be dead or at least disabled before they know its another plane.
9) In a 2v1 situation, aim to disable one plane and then engage the other. Very few pilots out there are capable of still being effective once disabled, and most panic and bail.
Its depressing reading all that, cos I know that I'll never ever be able to do even half of that :( Scary to think about coming up against other pilots that are already that good.
10) Getting on someones tail takes some time and perseverance. If you're not sure if you're still fighting it out and you've lost sight of the enemy plane. *only* perform a disengaging maneuver. This is where you roll the plane upside down, hit the brakes and half-loop outwards to finish at a 180 degrees to your original direction of travel.
Bank hard in the opposite direction you were then originally turning to be sure or just in case you were successfully followed.
E.G. Originally banking right, Roll upside down and half loop out, followed by turning as sharp as possible left.
If someone has been following your tail, chances are you should crossover head:head paths, at least if on outside view (non-hardcore mode) you should see (or at least HEAR) their jet.
If only thing to take away from it, is never afterburn and turn if you're dogfighting.
And pick your timings when to engage and where/when it's safe to be over what parts of the battlefield.
What's the go with the 1 minute between map loads? Far out that's shit...
I was bitching about this with my clan mates last night, they should start loading a new map instantly after the previous one finished whilst your oogling at the ribbons and medals you got ffs. I believe in BC2 the next map loads in the background whilst looking at medals/scores etc.
that benchmark basically shows that shit cards perform shit, good cards perform good and excellent cards perform excellent. you get what you pay for, just go for what your budget allows you to.
lol, I just had a game where I finished 16-0 in the mobile AA and was on top of the scoreboard (woo MVP!), brought down about a dozen planes and helis and helps heaps of others, I was pissing the other team off so much they constantly tried to kill me from the air and ground... was so win.
...and then at the end just before we won, some douche on MY team says 'please use the mobile AA better next time'. I lol'd so much.
I just unlocked that shotgun thing in the assault tree and god damn does that thing pack a punch. Still feel as if everyone else is hacking but me though. I only play in non hardcore servers and If I can get over 2000 points that's amazing for me.
Is it just me or does the US team consist of 99% black people?
Last night I unlocked the... M23 I think, the shotgun attachment for your rifle. Holy crap is that thing good. It can take nearly anything out 1 shot at close range unless you get a cheating bastard who can take up to 3 or 4. After a few kills with it I unlocked the Dart ammo version which I guess shoots out small darts or nails but that unlock lets you kill people from really far away for a shotgun. If your target is under 80% hp even at short-medium range there is a chance you will kill them.
What's the best way to practice with helicopters and jets?
I know in co-op there is a helicopter mission and you start straight away in the helicopter but that's random between who gets to fly the heli or not (unless someone knows a way to make it one person only??).
I hate having to wait around for ages just to get a helicopter or jet and even then people just spawn straight into them!
One of the most annoying things :(
Why can't they just allow empty servers to have some sort of practice mode!?!?! FUUU
Why can't they just allow empty servers to have some sort of practice mode!?
I can setup my server so it will let you play with only 1 person in it. Just tell me what mode/map you want it left on - i dont actually have bf3 yet so I don't know which maps have planes etc.
I can setup my server so it will let you play with only 1 person in it. Just tell me what mode/map you want it left on - i dont actually have bf3 yet so I don't know which maps have planes etc.
Oh!! That'd be awesome, I can only think of Caspian Borders though (at work at the moment!). I don't know the map names off the top of my head hah
Some of the physics are hillarious. I was in a tank yesterday and a door from a blown up vehicle hit my tank throwing it up into the air. WTF :) I hope they tweak this sort of thing.
Caspian Border, Operation Firestorm, Damavan Peak (on conquest only I think), Kharg Island, and Noshahr Canals have helicopters. Just put them on Conquest to get the choppers more efficiently.
Guns usually have at least 2 firing modes. Some don't. Full auto, 3 round burst (despite icon showing only 2 circles) and semi auto. Bottom right hand corner shows what mode your in
Why is that though? Because I think in BF3 they handle more like they have some 'weight' behind their their movements.
I dunno, I guess I am too used to the BF2 heli.. but damn was I a boss at it.. I'm not able to pull off the sort of manouveres with BF3 chopper that I could with BF2.
Also flying the chopper solo all round and randomly jumping in the gunners seat tv missiling the shit out of everything.. ahh those were the days.
Guns usually have at least 2 firing modes. Some don't. Full auto, 3 round burst (despite icon showing only 2 circles) and semi auto. Bottom right hand corner shows what mode your in
The 2 circle notion is just to show burst fire. Basically presented as 3 levels of variation.
arg i wish there was a queue for servers that are full function ><
Will update post with a solution I saw on Reddit.
Wish DICE had a massive slogan on Battlelog saying "Spotters are winners, are you one?" Amount of times while roaming around in a tank and it would make my life so much easier if people spotted enemies/tanks. Also, an AA tank sitting on the hills near the RU base on Caspian Border seems to be a common trend now.
Caspian Border seems to be my favourite map, It's just a good overall map. I have been in the plane a time but have not shot anything down, I never seem to hit other planes and its hard to shoot anything on the ground. What makes it worse is that you don't have flares to start off with and you die 15 seconds off the ground.
i am an absolute gumby.
never played any battlefield.
have no idea whats going on.
actually worked out you can choose your spawn point after about 10 respawns and having to run for 5 mins to find the action.
Caspian Border seems to be my favourite map, It's just a good overall map. I have been in the plane a time but have not shot anything down, I never seem to hit other planes and its hard to shoot anything on the ground. What makes it worse is that you don't have flares to start off with and you die 15 seconds off the ground.
Yeah this, it's so hard to get started on the jets. That said, I'm a fucking pro at the mobile AA now, so satisfying to see the enemy team rage when your team rules the skies.
I was the chopper gunner with some guy as pilot yesterday, holy fuck could he fly that thing, seriously mad skills
Caspian is probs my fav map, though I haven't played the maps in anything except conquest.
Anti Mobile AA: Stay at a distance, come over mountains into range, drop AGM's and retreat back out of range/mountain, rinse and repeat. AA will be able to get a shot off and *nearly* get a second shot off, but not if you're quick with mountain dodging.
Mobile AA missile range is absolute bullshit and needs a nerf.
Have yet to be hit by one, but it means you are pretty much constantly being locked on until you locate it.
And even then you *CANNOT* take it down with AGM's IF it's an engineer (AGMs do too little damage and take a good 15+ seconds to reload per shot, plenty of time to fully repair the damage dealt).
To get started on jets is very very easy:
Step 1) Take off and fly AWAY from the battlefield.
Step 2) Fly straight on an outer edge parallel to the battlefield, keeping looking inward until you spot an enemy plane.
Step 3) Head for them and get on their tail and shoot them down.
Step 4) Repeat Step 2-3.
You'll probably shoot one down and get shot down by the 50000 people pointing unnecessarily into the sky, but it only takes a kill or two and maybe a few disables before you unlock flares.
Most of the unlocks are worthless (as someone who has them all and tried them all).
Found out that the SV98 sniper rifle with a silencer on it is great for siena bridge map where people hide in buildings and on top of higher terrain. Lets you somewhat get over things you normally couldn't because the bullet doesn't drop fast enough.
What is it with the semi auto sniper rifles you unlock though? they are horrible. Takes 2 or 3 shots when an SV does it in 1. Yeah I know you should be aiming for the head anyway but no one can be that good of a shot, much less me. I'm lucky If I break 2000 with any class per game. Been playing FPS games with mouse and keyboard since the quake 1 days and I swear i've gotten worse when it comes to aiming. Tried my ass off to get good but guess i'm destined to be a shitty sniper.
I nailed a 4800 round last game. Got MVP to... lol'd when i saw the ribbons, Instead of having all of them shown it just groups them together under the heading of (10 Ribbons)...
Loving the maps on this hey... really good mix of open and tight areas that suit everyone's style.
what annoys me is the icon above a marked enemy isn't centered all the time. you could often use it as a guide to shoot.
This is the reason it's not centred... in bad company 2 on normal mode it was pretty much a game of shoot the red dot, not try and shoot the bad guys.
If you had the 50 cal which shot through almost anything, all you had to do was line up the red dot in your cross-hair and you had an 80% chance of getting a kill.
In all BF games, you will never get a higher score then 2000 if you just go for a high k/d. You have to remember this game is all about teamwork and objectives. Spot, cap flags, destroy/disarm mcom stations and overall do stuff to stop the enemy winning. I had a 4-1 k/d once with nearly 8000 points or more. I was shooting tanks down, capping flags and repairing vehicles.
Currently it's on Squad DM 32 but I can change it to anything. I'm a bit of a noob at game create admin but yeah if some other mode is better or whatnot just tell me. In fact Python if you want to PM me I'll make you an admin or something.
Currently it's on Squad DM 32 but I can change it to anything. I'm a bit of a noob at game create admin but yeah if some other mode is better or whatnot just tell me. In fact Python if you want to PM me I'll make you an admin or something.
put it on a conquest large map, make the vehicles instant and put a password on it so we can practice flying and vehicles :D
Depending on what you want to do with it, keeping it public or not (password protected) or just for a brief moment setting it up as a practice server for flying is the way I'd set it up.
I wouldn't set it up for 64 players, from what I've been playing there's heaps of rubber banding on just about every 64 player server I've played on (others who play with me on ventrillo say the same thing so its not just me).
We've actually moved to 48 or 32 player servers because of it and it's a much better experience. I'd say set it to 48 for the moment and see what people say about it until they fix the rubber banding somehow.
Perhaps establish a rule where you can't shoot heli's/jets/whatever? I was in a server last night that was meant to be for flying but instead people just camped outside enemy base with AA and shot down newbie pilots...
I'm happy to help admin and go through stuff with you, haven't admin'd a BF3 server but have for others (black ops blah blah). Up to you, I'm more of a go with what everyone else wants haha.
Got a triple kill with the SV98 in the mining map. Hallways are great for that but besides that i've been sucking arse and it's making me want to break my monitor that i'm so shit.
Been hanging to play this......bought and installed it on Friday but hell busy weekend meant no playtime. Will jump in tomorrow night for a bash.
Origin ID: Gotkids
I ditched my sniper rifle in some maps and run around with an UMP-45, MAV drone and beacon. Seems to work well for some maps such as metro conquest which turns into a massive spamfest now. Managed to rack up about 2200 points from standing in 1 spot, emptying clip after clip into a wall and having enemies run out in front of it.
I'm unlocking the 33000 point rifle and after that I think i'll change back to engineer as that will be the lowest ranked class I have, with next unlock only being 18000 while the others are all about 22000 or more.
Oh interesting thing about the MAV drone, if you land it manually and then switch out to a weapon it seems to turn off and just sit there. If you just press E though and let it float to the ground on it's own it will be "active" and ping the map around it like a motion detector. This is amazing for some areas where you can fly the drone to a unreachable area, land it, and let it target everyone while you are shooting.
Well I mostly used Engineer and Support and sniper, never used Assault till a few days ago but it does very well. I find myself spamming SMAW a lot on maps with choke points, Played a Metro CQ this morning and it was nades and SMAW/RPG7 spam at the escalators. Did enjoy it though, I unlocked the bi-pod for the SCAR-H which seems like an odd unlock unless they are going for a poor man's marksman weapon.
I'm finding myself only ever using assault and engineer. I think the engineer is a little too powerful though.
Any favourite maps?
Still really enjoy Caspian Borders. Tehran Highway would be the other.last edited by Python at 12:02:21 02/Nov/11
I only use Engineer. I don't really find them over powered, especially when I come up against infantry. Though if I dart between walls firing rockets at tanks, they'll be dead within 3. I love getting people out to repair, shooting them, repairing the tank then driving off. So satisfying :D
Yeah, stealing vehicles is epic, especially just repair tooling it, then when they get out to get you, just hop in and drive off... don't even kill them for epic humiliations.
Ahahah razer1911 released an origin bypass for legit customers, which lets you play the game online without needing to have origin running or even installed. I like these guys more now.
I've been playing a fair bit of recon and gotten the 40,000 point unlock as my next reward. I'm playing engineer/assault now though as I suck as a sniper.
Ahahah razer1911 released an origin bypass for legit customers, which lets you play the game online without needing to have origin running or even installed. I like these guys more now.
If you use that crack you're very silly and deserve the battlelog ban you're entirely likely to receive as a result of using a modified bf3.exe.
I saw the nfo released along with it and they are utter retards, claiming that it's fighting against Origin spyware, when the Origin EULA now explicitly legally prohibits EA from using the software in anything resembling that manner.
In other news, I found a 24/7 Operation Metro conquest server 64 players. That means all you need to do is go assault and either lob grenades into the choke points or do what I do and hang back going full medic. I'm throwing revives and health packs left and right and just got 6000 points, coming 3rd. 1st guy was 0/0 and had 8100 points from the same thing.
so I got this in the mail today and am trying to install but origin is being a faggot and trying to download the game instead of installing off the disc.
how the fuck do make it go from the disc and save myself 11gb quota?
reload, when installing it with using autorun from the disk, it will run through the install procedure. When it actually comes time to install the game it will say it is downloading it.
I freaked out too then, but I saw the 4.0 mb/s download speed (way too high my connection) and watched the light on my CD-ROM go on and off, then I ejected the CD and it stopped, put the DVD back in and it resumed.
TLDR version: It 'downloads' from the DVD. Ignore it.
The first time, and this was straight after launching origin from install and updating itself, it was downloading away at ~500kb/s which is normal for me.
Had to cancel that install and take the disc out and back in. Clicked install again and this time it was going 10mb/s.
Quick google seems it's happened to a few people. Weird.
played for about five minutes and then the game crashed. now all I get when trying to join servers is Could not join server since it couldn't be found and problem with EA backend.
Yeah they seem to be having connectivity issues since the maintenance. All to be expected really, tis a new game. Hopefully they can fix it quickly, need ma engineer fix. I'm contemplating running Assault with medic, I see you can get 100 points a revive, might help with the global unlocks. Also the G36C is utterly amazing. With a heavy barrel, ACOG 4x scope and grip, it works perfectly, dead accurate.
I was trying to snipe yesterday on that oil refinery map, Nearly got one guy in a building from the mountain near US spawn. He was in the last large building I think. Missed him by 50cm or so.
I never noticed that leaderboard thingo.
The first thing I noticed was that the #1 for played time is 116h D:
Game has been out for approx 9 days?
That's 216 hours the game has been live for (approx).
Subtract a reasonable 8 hours per day for sleeping, thats 72 hours.
Subtract his play time, thats 28 hours...
They've played every waking hour except for 28 unaccountable hours, that's insanity! Unless they've sat idle on a server I guess that didn't have idle kick
I never noticed that leaderboard thingo.
The first thing I noticed was that the #1 for played time is 116h D:
Game has been out for approx 9 days?
That's 216 hours the game has been live for (approx).
Subtract a reasonable 8 hours per day for sleeping, thats 72 hours.
Subtract his play time, thats 28 hours...
They've played every waking hour except for 28 unaccountable hours, that's insanity! Unless they've sat idle on a server I guess that didn't have idle kick
I get the occasional white screen at map loading between rounds. CPU useage spikes to like 84% and it just sits there... only way to stop it is task manager end process... shits me too, but if i exit and enter the same server again it seems to be fine after that...
Also one of the things i noticed (think it's been mentioned here already) is that your stats count regardless of if you quit out or not... thought i might have a round fking around doing stoopid shit, got to 0 - 6 and quit out thinking it wouldn't count, but there it was in my battlefeed and on my stats lol... good thing i don't really care that much but i know others who wouldn't be so happy about it...
That Kimko123 guy.. looks like BS. Looking at his actual profile, he's only got like 12800 kills all up. I imagine all his kills are with support. He's only played for a total of 5 hours. He's played 30 games.
I wonder exactly how he did it, because if you do the maths that's a lot of kills in a short time and in a short amount of games.
Also.. he's spend 34 seconds in an M1A1 Abrams tank and got 100 kills. That's two kills a second continuously for 30 seconds. Did this guy set up bots or something??
I think I found a resolution to my constant disconnect issues. Not sure. But I was seeing constant block requests for an inbound connection from the game servers to my machine on port 3659. Anyone know what this is all about? Since I've allowed that through I haven't been getting disconnected. It seems to connect to the Windows System process rather than the BF3 executable...At least according to Comodo.
that 1.9km shot is bullshit I would say. That would mean from 1 side of the biggest map to the other. My shot was hard enough but fuck me over double that? Bullets don't even go that damn far I don't think. Would be with a humvee gun I think.
Yeah nats i assumed that was the issue however only ever had problems on bc2 so just left it. Was worried it was going to carry onto bf3 however all good so far.
I think last year another record was some guy in the US Marine Corps who used a 50.cal BMG on a tripod or mounted on something and hit 1 guy then the second shot hit his weapon (think it was a LMG). Think it was around the same distance or more mentioned in the wiki link.
I have a odd request... If anyone wants to sell their original DVDs / box etc could you please msg me. I dont need the KEY so its just the media. You could copy the content to save it if you want.
I only want it for a project, not to use to play it. (I bought it via origin).
Let me know if you want to re-coop some of your cost but still play it. :)
I get the occasional white screen at map loading between rounds. CPU useage spikes to like 84% and it just sits there...
If you can be patient, it will release the CPU and the game should load.
FYI - I get 100% CPU usage sometimes on load up and my rig is an i7 960 3.2 @ 3.6
Go figure....
Also, AV applications can create excessive disk I/O as tries to scan each file from the .cas
I could hear my drives thrashing so I opened up Resource Monitor on my second monitor and saw Kaspersky running a bundle of scans on bf3 files during game.
I try and stick to GameArena as they're the only servers that I actually know for sure aren't lagging because of overloaded hosts and that if there's any server-side lag it's because of the codebase. Not spruiking for the company or anything, I just know that they installed a bunch of new hardware specifically for BF3.
#345 worldwide for jets :)
Not bad considering I don't just play on instant vehicle spawn maps and full anti-air whore it up for quick kills :)
I've changed my mind on the usefulness on some of the air gadgets.
Air Radar + Flares + Rocket Pods
That's pretty much my consistent loadout now. Can punish tanks and infantry with a run of rockets + cannon.
Air radar makes dogfighting much easier too, can work out their turning arc vs. yours and directions of travel far easier when they are out of sight.
If you just want to whore for kills but be generally useless to the actual 'fight'. then undeniably the best combination is:
That was some damn good teamwork Nats. You can quite easily rack up the points if you actually doing teamwork. Loved the rounds, was heaps fun, must do it again! Oh yeah and sorry about the team kill haha, you ran in front of my LAV.
That was some damn good teamwork Nats. You can quite easily rack up the points if you actually doing teamwork. Loved the rounds, was heaps fun, must do it again! Oh yeah and sorry about the team kill haha, you ran in front of my LAV.
That was my first try of hardcore, so I was doing stupid things like jumping out of moving vehicles, or running in to the path of them (in your case) to try and enter them :-)
I have no idea how we managed to repair that vehicle and keep going, but it worked. Great round.
I find the party system fairly frustrating since many people either aren't using voice or are off on their own TS servers.
With my slightly upgraded ram and ssd things run much better now.
The best thing to do is think "what i do irl" then you start to move and approach situations in a much more self preserving way.
That's good advice. You feel like you are getting spawn raped you die so quickly, but it really is that since you don't know the map at all you don't realise how open/exposed you are at most points in any map.
I normally play like that but maybe I just came across too many snipers and spawn campers. Calling down mortars on spawns is no fun :(
The other thing I'm struggling with is just seeing enemies. I found it a lot easier in BC2 for some reason but in BF3 they could walk in front of me and I can't identify that they are the other team.
Yeah they really need to get VOIP into the game itself, as you said Nat, I wasn't using the battlelog voice chat as I was in my own TS server with mates. I have used the battlelog voice chat before, was very clear and crisp, so it does work, just need to get people using it.
Next on my list of rage inducing events is the random "You have been disconnected from the server" messages which are only occurring when I'm Charlie Sheen Winning (tm).
oh yeah, 500m headshot. Got it just before and was pretty happy seeing as i dont really snipe that much, i usually just use the sks with red dot and suppressor.
Hah, last night I scored 2 headshots with one bullet, win. Also scored a quad kill with a single rocket that wasn't aimed at anything, I didn't even know anyone was there, lol.
I've gotten into getting out my MAV drone and slamming it into people and killing them. Frapsing some kills so I may put together a short video to flight of the bumblebee.
Is it true that with all the destruction enabled now, you can knock over the comms tower in Caspian Borders, if you take out the wires holding it up? Or was that a bullshit rumour.
Is it true that with all the destruction enabled now, you can knock over the comms tower in Caspian Borders, if you take out the wires holding it up? Or was that a bullshit rumour.
I've seen some youtube clips of that tower (the red and white one) in caspian border falling over
So is there actually more destruction now? Or were the "A lot of the destruction is turned off in the beta" claims just them trying to cover their collective arses.
What's with server names having "Not GameArena" or the like in them? That just ensures they turn up in GameArena filtered searches. Are these guys dumb or hoping to get people searching for GA servers?
Still having an awesome time here. Topping the scores most of the time, its just so satisfying mowing down people in the tank gunner, or with an M249 with thermal optics, this is the finest FPS gaming ive had since quake 1 days
I'm just enjoying the game overall. It's just to much fun. And especially when I get awesome tank shots that clip a helicopter and send it spiralling down. So Hollywood.
Yea I feel your pain on getting stuck, sometimes vaulting won't work,but other then that, I'm lucky to not be getting any disconnected or bugs. Starting to get annoyed though at tanks and LAV/APC's getting spun round if you hit a ditch.
With BF3, I'm finding a lot of the team work has gone out of the game. Just playing on pub servers, but still....BFBC2 vs, this is almost free for all. The only map people really tend to throw down health packs or ammo is that shitty train tunnel one, and even then it's because it's the only way 1/2 the people will get points...
Well I've managed to become adept at the jet now, can take down most opponents in jets, but cant seem to do shit to anything on the ground, is there a trick? I play on hard-core so I cant rely on team spotting.
I haven't had much a chance to give choppers a spin, for some reason people tend to TK for them a lot.
I had a few good games last night in between building a second pc.
I managed to shoot down a jet from a M1 Abraham and a helicopter lol.
I also went to town a squad of infantry who were down the alleyway on the Gran Biazzr? they had nfi.
With BF3, I'm finding a lot of the team work has gone out of the game. Just playing on pub servers, but still....BFBC2 vs, this is almost free for all. The only map people really tend to throw down health packs or ammo is that shitty train tunnel one, and even then it's because it's the only way 1/2 the people will get points...
I've found it completely opposite. If you only go for kills, like most stupid people seem to be doing, you get max 3000 points, but if you actually use teamwork, revive/resupply and give health, cap points, destroy vehicles and actually use teamwork, you can easily swing the battle in your favour, and get a lovely 10k+ of points. My minimum now point wise is 10k, because I actually do objectives. And if I have friends playing, we can easily spin the battle if we work together, which I absolutely love, and reminds me of older battlefields, where squads define who wins.
I am really sucking about 90% of the time and when I do ell the game ends up crashing. A couple of rounds last night were horribly embarassing :(
I think the lack of team work is a bit more evident in this but I suspect it may be because a lot of new comers to the game that don't get teamwork. I had 1 awesome squad last night with lots of talk, taking objetives together, defending, etc and then I crashed .. Goddamit!
Easily TicMan, especially when every now and then I get a team that listens and works together, and the game rewards us for it. Just wait for MW3 to come out, take anyone who doesn't want to help with teamwork, and it will be like BC2 after Black Ops came out, where there was a crapload more teamwork, and essentially more fun.
My personal favourite and highest scoring weapon so far is the grenade launcher you unlock for the assault class. Got to lose the med pack though.
Pop one of those off down the end of a tunnel on Damavand Peak or down the escalators on Operation Metro and you can rake in kills. Have had 5-6 kills in a single shot or more than one occasion.
Can you still put C4 on the MAV? the thing is pretty useless, was trying to road kill people before but it didnt do anything.. Just don't understand the point of it.
I was mucking about with Frackture on it earlier trying to learn to fly, next thing I know there's another ~20 people joined and they are playing properly :S
If you manage to swap out a motherboard with a new one and with a different CPU without reinstalling windows 7 and getting away with it, don't try it a second time that day with a different computer and very different Motherboard manufactures...
So yer, I have to reinstall Win 7 on my main computer because Windows was not at all impressed with the new mobo, BSOD impressed. Meanwhile my offhand computer points and laughs with its gigabyte to asus conversion with differnt CPU (not only that, it did it a few day ago too with another different motherboard...)
TLDR: Swapping in a new mobo without reformating windows may or may not work.
Also, yes..his server crashed. I got to changing some configuration stuff and then about an hour+ later it was almost full with people actually playing properly hah!
I've managed to fix the white screen or eternal loading problem i was having. I went into Origin, right clicked BF3 and hit the repair installation option. It did it's verifying thing, then it redownloaded a patch for it and since then it's been awesome... worth a try if your getting the same error...
On Friday I upgraded my memory from 4-6gb and put bf3 on a ssd. The game loads much faster, on new levels I can see the jet spawn spots (briefly) and spawn at the front of the clusterfuck that is the rush to vehicles.
Got the next primary weapon for support, but since that tec doc was released showing shooting damage over distance I think I'll stick with the 240B or whatever it is called, no motivation to lose all accessories for a similar but less powerful gun.
I don't get the flimsyness of the jet. I ran into another jet and bounced off with no damage yet I probably nudged the top of the tree and went spiralling into the ground :(
I don't get the flimsyness of the jet. I ran into another jet and bounced off with no damage yet I probably nudged the top of the tree and went spiralling into the ground :(
They seem to be a bit sketchy with how they get damaged. Certain spots are weak compared to other spots. I'm just sticking to tanks/AA/APC, easiest way to rack up points. But going Support/Medic now, boy is it fun. And my team mates love me, actually my whole team comments on how they actually enjoy getting ammo/health.
Fuck me people are retarded with the med & ammo pack. I was out of ammo and standing in front of the ammo giving out guy, saying in team chat to drop a pack, jumping up and down in front of him, following him around whenever he moved. I eventually jumped in front of him with a "BOO GIMME AMMO" and he TK'd me.
I agree on the Jets, can't really get a handle on them - much prefer trying to take them out with the attack helicopter, however miserably that goes.
I also can't really get into any class other than recon at the moment. I tried assault and engineer, but I seem to just end up back at recon running around with the SV98 and more recently the M98B with an 8x scope as if it was a normal rifle lol. Not a fan of sitting high up on a mountain for entire rounds.
On a seperate note, we also have a 64 player GA server with a similar configuration to Rockitmans (faster vehicle spawn, 1 player round start - great for flying practice) which we're always playing on and fills up easily, search for [HG].
I was out of ammo and standing in front of the ammo giving out guy, saying in team chat to drop a pack, jumping up and down in front of him, following him around whenever he moved.
I haven't unlocked much for support, but do they always have ammo drops available?
I know with assault class, you have to choose between the grenade launcher or medkits. So maybe he didn't have any ammo packs to hand out?
I drop ammo all the time as support. I don't get why people wouldn't Easy 100 points just running up to a couple of team mates and plonking ammo box down then run off. Takes maybe 5 seconds round trip. I usually do it in between mortar set-ups.
What's everyone think of the rush game mode? I don't like the fact that when ur attacking . You destroy an objective and the next one is available you get bum raped by the campers that were defending the site you just destroyed. What I would like to see is if your I front of the site you just destroyed you get automatically resplendent at the next defense position without ticket loss.
I stick to conquest as much as possible. I just don't enjoy rush, to campy and to cramped. Just had a conquest before, was on RU and had 3 tickets left each, grabbed E on Caspian Border and held 3 flags, won the game. Was so damn close.
I stick to conquest as much as possible. I just don't enjoy rush, to campy and to cramped. Just had a conquest before, was on RU and had 3 tickets left each, grabbed E on Caspian Border and held 3 flags, won the game. Was so damn close.
Sa me I try and stick to conquest but I don't like playing by myself so I just click join game with who ever is online. Normally speete(Elvis) normally lol always on he is
Fuck me people are retarded with the med & ammo pack. I was out of ammo and standing in front of the ammo giving out guy, saying in team chat to drop a pack, jumping up and down in front of him, following him around whenever he moved. I eventually jumped in front of him with a "BOO GIMME AMMO" and he TK'd me.
I'm primarily support, and while my points/game from support is dropping as people get better at doing it I still make 3 or so resupply ribbons a round (200 point ribbon for 7 resupplies @ 10 points (for stranger) or 20 (for squad) per resupply). I calculated recently that more than 15% of my score was from dropping Ammo.
Support can always drop ammo. Takes about 4 seconds before they can drop again. There's no excuse for the map to not be covered in Ammo.
Yesterday I went Engineer for a bit, ran out of rockets. Saw a support. Q'd him to no avail. Chased him around for a bit. Finally when he went prone i stood in front of him blocking his view and shot my pistol in to the ground in front of him while jumping up and down. He then got the message and dropped ammo.
I don't understand how support can run around for over 90 seconds and not have dropped an ammo unprompted. It makes no sense.
Im 100% support and so much of my score is from dropping ammo, i'll go out of my way to drop a box on snipers/players where ever, easy points and I feel helpful, at chokepoints (like outside tunnels at the d/peak) you get so many ribbons
Just had a weird bug where my entire hud disappeared, everything including menus, spots, ammo, map, friendly markers, flags, all of it was gone, just pure game. Now that's hardcore!
I've had that as well. I also had no crosshairs and couldn't see my weapons or arms. I was a floating spectator camera who could attack people. Dying fixed it though.
Yeah I had that too while playing on HC so it meant I had to sit and spam Q waiting for my guy to say whether or not it was an enemy. Ironically it ended up being one of my better rounds.
I'm basically at the point of being unable to play the game. It just crashes non-stop. Tried on a fresh Windows install. No good....since that last patch the game is just crashing all the time.
Just played on Rockit's for about a solid hour or so. Might have to take operation metro out of the rotation as that seems to lower the player numbers (we just had about 4 maps in a row of a full server). Perhaps take out Rush?
Metro conquest style is absolute balls I swear they didn't think about it at all and just dropped in a couple capture points, worst map/game type combo. Metro as rush is pretty good though.
I played some TDM last night and it was some serious amount of fun, probably the most fun I've had since buying the game. Conquest is my favourite but TDM changed the game dynamics enough to give a few hours of pure enjoyment.
If you want a shit load of points, cap flags, and destroy shit. Go engineer, and disable/destroy jets/tanks/vehicles, and you will easily come out with 10k points. Go support/medic, and drop your packs in groups of people, you will rack up 10 points each heal, 20 for team mates. Last night, I ran a medic while my mates on skype all went support. Points, points everywhere. And reviving gives you 100 each time to.
Yer you regularly see a medic on Metro Conquest do NOTHING BUT REVIVE AND HEAL at stupid chokepoint B and easily come out on top with 5000+ points usually with a score like 0 / 4.
I'm always trying to tell my team, if they have point B make it a fun game and let them cap our other point, it moves the game away from Spam Central.
Just broke my marksman record. 890 meters. I was using a low mouse sensitivity and was adjusting my aim by the lowest increments my mouse movement would allow. If I had adjusted my aim up 1 increment, the bullet would of vanished and I was using the strongest gun you can unlock (at least I think) which is that M305B 50.cal gun. I call bullshit on the people getting 1900 meter headshots. Not possible outside of a tank or something.
EDIT - Just worked out how super long headshots are done. Not even with the fucking recon class so that's horseshit.
Just unlocked the Slug and have been flicking between these and frag rounds.
I think the frag rounds are probably abit overpowering... I have been using these in combo with the IR scope on city maps. Makes it easy to pick out ppl in buildings and spam the windows with the frag rounds for some easy kills.
Watching the bodies ragdoll is hilarious too... they will usually flip over in the air! With an auto-shotty it will be game over.
the 6x scope is fun but will probably flick between 4x / ir and holo long term... Sniping at any long range is not going to work to well due to the massive bullet drop (which is a good thing)
Yesterday I went Engineer for a bit, ran out of rockets. Saw a support. Q'd him to no avail. Chased him around for a bit. Finally when he went prone i stood in front of him blocking his view and shot my pistol in to the ground in front of him while jumping up and down. He then got the message and dropped ammo.
Your first mistake was not just killing him, taking his weapon and getting your own ammo.
Unlocked rockets for my jet, now the armour can fear me denting it! Serisouly a barrage of rockets on an AA gun didn't kill it? Most hit. Then I ran into with my jet, the mobile AA gun Still lived. That tells me something is over armoured or something else doesnt do enough damage (pssst the jets need to do more damage to armour).
Most of the time your are dealing with other jets. However during that small window you can target ground vehicles, you should be able to smash them.
Well I've had my rocket pods for a little while now and taken out a couple of tanks, they must have been damaged first though..
My standard equipment set up is:
Stealth, Rocket Pods and I.R. flares.
I may swap out rocket pods for guided missile as the pods are FAR FAR too weak. A full salvo with gattling gun follow up does NOT kill a mobile AA gun, that is balls.
On the air-to-air side I manage to take out about 2/3's of the pilots I come across, some are realllllly easy to dispatch kind of what I was like when I first started. I like those that use heat-seeker missile on me, plenty of warning they are behind you. I find that if you have been sprung by a gattling gun without warning you have a pretty low chance of survival unless they are crappy pilots.
I think the damage you can take is about right, I would much rather they beef up anti-ground weapons then anything else.
I'm on 855 Air Kills with the jet and #108 worldwide (was 99 before sleep last night.
Believe me when I say the jets are not underpowered.
You can take out any armour in one strafing run with rocket pods + guns.
And once you have a lot of practice, I have no issues going for individual infantry and taking them out either.
I tend to average anywhere from 8-13 kills in conquest per round with the fighters (their guns do significantly less damage to Armour/infantry) and anywhere from ~10-50 kills per round of rush. (A10 and frogfoot do more damage).
If you have Air Radar, take it. Stealth is unnecessary.
Most of my deaths come from me crashing into something just from a misjudgement. Also, if you get hit by a missile. Just land and repair :) (Though landing consistently will take you some practice while disabled)
Mephz, got tips then with the rocket pods. As I haven't killed a full health mobile AA gun yet with a full barrage of rocket pods plus guns. Perhaps I'm hitting the side too much and not the top?
Yer I had Air Radar for a bit and didn't find it as useful as the normal map, I'll give it another try.
Most of my deaths too are from a slight misjudgment from that really low flying (just clip the top of a low lying rock) or doing those half barrel half turns a tad too fast and not being able to pull up in time, usually over a mountain.
My biggest problem I've found in jets is everyone seems to be able to out manoeuvre me. Anyone have any tips on how to out manoeuvre someone when you're both going in a circle. Is there any way to look around easily as well? I'm using a joystick.
Don't know about joystick. With the mouse you can hold right mouse button and look around the cockpit without moving the jet, very handy.
I found myself having trouble with air-2-air combat for 2 main reasons.
1. Being in a crappy position in the first place before the battle even started.
A. This was easily the biggest problem. You should only ever be directly above the battlefield when you are chasing down a jet or bombing the ground when the air is clear.
B. Flying high in the sky is a bad idea unless you have to or setting up for a bombing run (again after the skies area clear). It is very, very easy to spot a jet in the sky so expect to shortly be gunned down, also your IR flares will evade 1 missile, but the next one will get you as you have nowhere to hide. Flying low gives you plenty of ground cover to break locks, particularly stingers. Flying low is also much harder to be spotted, so you can sneak up on other jets who are flying in the middle of the battlefield.
Which leads to point C.
C. Stay on the outskirts of the battlefield while you look for a target, this makes a huge difference. Be the one surprising the other jet, not being surprised. Once you kill a jet/chopper or do a bombing run, get down low and back out to the edge and check for new jets.
2. When in the middle of air combat, don't use afterburners while turning and keep your speed to about 240 during the turn. Get comfortable with doing a half barrel roll, so your head is facing the ground and loop down towards the ground. This gives a nicely tight 180 turn, try and do it somewhere where there is a visual obstacle you can briefly hide behind while the guy follows you (unless he stuffs up the turn). Mountain areas and tall buildings can help. That moment of obfuscation can allow you to change your flightpath and give the other guy too little a time to follow. Then escape, flying as low as you can.
Flying high isn't necessarily bad.
To destroy armour in conquest you need Full RP's + Decent hits of cannon (not every bullet hitting) + Another barrage of rockets.
You'll need to start at about 500+ ft and just go nice and slow. Hit the brakes hard and pitch up (with cockpit right way up), then pitch down hard. It'll cause your plane to slow to a crawl and drift upwards. For some reason, whenever you pitch downwards the plane will drift the opposite way. (fly upside down and pitch down which points the nose into the sky, and you'll see what I mean very shortly if you're close to the ground ;P)
This is where air radar is helpful + awareness.
Air Radar is useful not just to know that an enemy is there. It also tells you which way they are facing when you can't see them. Once you use it a lot, you also know what kind of turn/maneuvre they are doing just by looking at how their icon behaves on the radar. You can then turn accordingly.
You can also tell if you've successfully lost their tail or not as well.
Circlers (those who just go round and round): Circle with them in their direction but do it nearly vertically in either direction (downward and being higher than they are is usually easier). This gives you a far far greater turning circle air:relative to theirs (and ground:relative). By the time you get to their altitude tagging directly onto their tail is a piece of cake.
The only guys I've had any issue dogfighting so far are the top 20 guys.
I've versed 3minence (top 15) and after a few solid minutes he always seemed to win out.
Dogfighting is boring anyway, nothing greater than your squad mates on voice yelling out for a tank and a few seconds later it explodes as you rocket/cannon it.
Rushmode: Frogfoot/A10 the gun does significantly greater damage to armour than the fighters one does. Once you can consistently kill armour with those, apply same tactics for the jets but start higher up so you do two barrages of rockets. (second hint, they are pretty bloody accurate even from 600-700 foot of altitude)
P.S 240 airpseed is too slow ;)
Speed up a fraction, to about 260-270. And just keep tapping the brake for a few seconds and releasing. Each time you brake you'll snap into a tighter turn but maintain speed so they can't "cut in" on your turn.
I'm probably not 'super pro' at dogfights though Toll so yeah :)
I'll be on a little later tonight and we can try have a go on an empty-ish server if you like?
I can't remember my origin ID thingo. I'll see if I can find yours on that other thread and I'll add you (or pop it here).
A practice partner would be good! And I can teach you everything I have worked out so far young padawan :)
Cheers, will add you when I play. Tonight it is Skyrim's turn. The tug of multiplayer is strong in me and I wont be able to resist it long, tomorrow for sure haha.
I wondered what had happened. My score / round seemed to be down in the last 24 hours through lack of contact. You don't see people wondering around by themselves as much any more, almost always with their squads, and tanks are often accompanied by infantry making attaching C4 more problematic. Guess the noobs have moved on.
I wondered what had happened. My score / round seemed to be down in the last 24 hours through lack of contact. You don't see people wondering around by themselves as much any more, almost always with their squads, and tanks are often accompanied by infantry making attaching C4 more problematic. Guess the noobs have moved on.
Yeah, I was just kidding, but it makes more sense that the noobs have migrated to COD now. Tbh I've barely even had a chance to play BF3 yet, so many awesome games all came out at once and I have so little time right now :(
I'm so very addicted to one server that is 24/7 Caspian Borders on Conquest. I end up getting into a tank or AA and racking up a few thousand points. I still need to work on my chopper and jet skills, I can fly them easily enough but it's not long before someone has shot me down :(
So I think I'm getting what people were talking about when they say micro-stuttering. My frame rate is awesome, but when I turn, I get this shuddering, jerking sort of thing happening, and my UI does the same weird shuddering/flickering sort of thing.
What was the fix for that micro-stutters thing? Was it to turn hyperthreading off?
So I think I'm getting what people were talking about when they say micro-stuttering. My frame rate is awesome, but when I turn, I get this shuddering, jerking sort of thing happening, and my UI does the same weird shuddering/flickering sort of thing.
What was the fix for that micro-stutters thing? Was it to turn hyperthreading off?
Mouse acceleration and Vsync are the problems, same with Skyrim. Search the interwebs to see if there is a fix.
How the hell do these people get 10k+ in one round? ridiculous.
Every time I try to play the objective (as support) i get killed by some sneaky engineer running up behind me, or fucking tanks.
I only survive/get points in defensive situations with covering fire on choke points and constantly checking flanks/giving ammo, which even then doesn't get me much :/
Although points aside, IMO there's nothing more gratifying than setting up a MG position just outside a point and waiting for the opportune moment to completely mow down an entire squad.
How the hell do these people get 10k+ in one round? ridiculous.
capping flags racks up the points. 200 to neutralize then another 200 when capped + another 50-100 for squad orders followed. Do this twice in 30 seconds and you have about 1000 points.
It's making me very happy double tapping players you like two in the face and pissing on your tents :P
nah you have to find somewhere good to hide, usually too far away from people with normal guns to get me, unless they find where i am and knife me or something obviously
i'm liking in the rocks at the forest cap point in caspian too
but it's pretty easy to run around and cap points and snipe as well
i don't even bother with planes/helicopters i can't fly them at all
have been doing some mad tanking as engineer with the guys i was playing with on the weekend, getting out behind the tank and repairng when needed and moving on is fun and can pretty much turn the game if only one team has a pair doing it
Had a fucking horrible round last night, I ended up TK'ing 3 team members in a row. First one was hiding behind a cargo container as I trundled down in my tank on 3x zoom and he had an RPG ready to fire with no blue dot.
Second & third TKs were fucking atrocious.. I was aiming at an enemy helicopter, fired a shell, and the guy on my team put his helicopter in the way - took out the chopper, pilot and gunner.
Played this for the first time tonight. Definitely an improvement on graphics but it's pretty frustrating being a low class nothing with no items so I'll have to dig in and get some items, then hopefully enjoy it more.
Struggled to get kills. Ended up being ammo/med-pack boy mostly just to shore up some points.
So..i've figured out my problem with the jets. Binding anything other than the defaults won't work properly. LOL, no esdf for me :/
Theres separate keybinds for jets, did you change those? I don't really know though cos I just play with defaults, but one thing that did annoy the shit out of me was the option to invert controls for flying vehicles. Cos I normally play inverted, so I figured yeah I want it inverted for helicopters and planes as well. But inverted seems to be the default for helicopters and planes so when you switch on "inverted" its the invert of inverted, so its just normal (up makes the plane/helo pitch up and down pitches down). Fucked me till I realised what had happened.
Theres separate keybinds for jets, did you change those? I don't really know though cos I just play with defaults, but one thing that did annoy the shit out of me was the option to invert controls for flying vehicles. Cos I normally play inverted, so I figured yeah I want it inverted for helicopters and planes as well. But inverted seems to be the default for helicopters and planes so when you switch on "inverted" its the invert of inverted, so its just normal (up makes the plane/helo pitch up and down pitches down). Fucked me till I realised what had happened.
Yup, I changed it for the jets...just another bug :/
I have an aging rig, just bought a GTX 570 to help the problem but on 64 player servers, regardless of whether the graphics are on max or low, in open fucking areas its definitely not smooth :(:(::(, very noticable slowdown!
My specs are:
Mobo: Gigabyte S series ep45-ds3L
Processor: Intel core2duo E8400 @ 3ghz
RAM: 8gig DDR2 (my mobo cant do DDR3 :(:(:(:(:(:( )
Graphics card: Gigabyte gtx 570
Plenty of HD space.
Am i fucked? Do I need a new mobo with DDR3 to go on 64 player with no slowdown of FPS anywhere or is that just the nature of 64 player servers? I really dont have the coin to shell out more......
I got the latest 500 series geforce drivers........sadface.
one thing that did annoy the shit out of me was the option to invert controls for flying vehicles. Cos I normally play inverted, so I figured yeah I want it inverted for helicopters and planes as well. But inverted seems to be the default for helicopters and planes so when you switch on "inverted" its the invert of inverted, so its just normal (up makes the plane/helo pitch up and down pitches down). Fucked me till I realised what had happened.
Yeah, that caught me out too. I have nfi why non-inverted would be default for ground shooting but inverted is default for jets.
Is that really the default config that people would use? Are there really people that would play with 1 direction for when they're on the ground and another for when they're in aircraft? Seems really daft if they do.
there's the problem, bf3 wont run smoothly on a dual core, you can try to find a Q**** series quad core which will fit in the same slot, but the prices seemed to go up around the time the game came out, long story short, you need a new mobo/cpu/mem combination
I couldn't justify splashing out $1k on a game, so no BF3 for me :(
there's the problem, bf3 wont run smoothly on a dual core, you can try to find a Q**** series quad core which will fit in the same slot, but the prices seemed to go up around the time the game came out, long story short, you need a new mobo/cpu/mem combination
Id prefer to pay ANOTHER couple of hundred bucks (like i am about to) to upgrade equipment than play on an xbox.
Fuming more than u can believe. Fuck u duo core, fuck life. MSY gonna judge me when I walk back in there tomorrow. Can you fine gents recommend a high-mid range mobo and process0r????????????? If i dont get this game working I could do a Peter Roebuck so plz take this cereal.
I have a similar setup, well the CPU anyway (have an HD5850, 4Gb RAM, E8400) and the only problems I have on 64 player maps is the rubber banding from my bandwidth, I just don't think I have enough tubes to support it.
would you describe your experience as silky smooth? Mine is defs playable but fucked if i want to die all the time cause the thing is slightly laggy in open busy areas when u need to be sharp. If urs is silky smooth then......fuck
I just had comp formatted and windows 7 installed. Do you all have that bs origin window in your internet browser open while u play?
I have an E8500, 8GB RAM and a 9800GTX. Goes well enough. I just left the settings on auto and it seems ok. Could probably turn down a notch, maybe drop res a fraction for a bit smoother game.
Yeah it's pretty smooth, def not laggy enough to get shot and killed (that's just being a shit player). Origin & the BatteLog thing remains open while playing and it's generally the only thing I have running. Like Pinky I've got mine set to Auto as well so not sure if that drops the quality down on the bigger maps or not.
Oh yeah I also run at 1680x1050 so if you're at 1080p it might be the reason why things could be slowing down?
Other internet threads seem to indicate coreduo is shit for this. Will keep googling but if that is the common result then may have to bite bullet. Just ran it down on like 1280 x 1060 or wahtever res on all low settings and it still wasnt smooth (smooth being like, no change from 60 fps even if doin 360s with a mouse). Are there any updates for windows 7 or something that I need to download? I reckon there is something im missing but i doubt ill find it.
Did you get the latest beta drivers for your card? Cos I got the latest beta drivers for my gtx590 and bf3 runs worse now, and I also get all these annoying flickering textures everywhere :( Thinking I might have to downgrade back to the latest non-beta ones.
Have a video of 3minence (world #19 BF3 Jets) vs. Myself (World #120). in an empty server dogfighting it out.
I get my ass handed to me about 10-2. But I learnt a heck of a lot and even corrected some misconceptions I had with the jets (particularly about airspeed, need to be a bit faster than I thought) was able to make it at least very difficult for 3minence to get a hold on me towards the end.
The once or twice I was starting to get on his tail I made mistakes getting too anxious and hit the deck :(
Anyone able to tell me how to stitch AVI files together? as 8 short parts the filesizes total to about 350mb compressed, but trying to stitch them with virtualdub it comes to 1.3gb, makes no sense.
It runs pretty well for me. I run everything on high and I don't really notice any choppiness. I am running an i7 @ 3.3ghz , GTX 570 . (Gigabyte OC version).
I have noticed a couple of bugs but I'm not screaming from the mountain tops for a patch like some of you guys.
Yeah if they're the whql ones they aren't the beta ones, the new beta ones just came out in the last couple of days. I would not recommend getting the beta ones, apart from the flicking textures it has also made the shadows in Skyrim flicker.
Yeah its cool to see Dice put in realistic sounds in the cockpit. They do make those sounds to keep blood from draining away from their heads to stop them from blacking out. They always do when they do High-Gs.
I can't fly for shit in the outside view, I was mucking around in a server last night with some friends practising flying, and I was doing decently from inside the cockpit, but when I'd switch to the outside view I'd go all spastic, it just felt really weird.
Chase cam, default key is C in all vehicles. I'ts only disabled in Hardcore mode
Oh right. I've never played on a non-hardcore server. Oh well that would have been cool. Yeah on hardcore you have to actually swivel your view around inside the cockpit :)
people would probably fly hardcore if if wasn't so noob friendly. You can't move the plane (except rudder) and look at the same time = retarded.
To be honest, it doesn't make much difference. If you're both stuck in cockpit then the fight stays the same anyway.
Hardcore is too hard to see enemy ground units vs. damage dealt by jets.
If the damage was upped significantly I'd play more HC when flying. But the damage is barely different. So, no point gimping yourself for no reason.
One thing annoys me is that high power scopes shine like flash lights and I think thats a stupid idea. Now having a chance of seeing the scope glint is a good idea. Depending on you position and it would only be for a second or so.
Shot a guy out of a chopper the other day and on Noshahr Canals I shot a dude while he was in the cockpit of the attack chopper sitting on the aircraft carrier deck.
people would probably fly hardcore if if wasn't so noob friendly. You can't move the plane (except rudder) and look at the same time = retarded.
They should split out the noob stats from the HC stats I reckon. But yeah, typical EA/DICE at failing to provide proper support for joysticks. Would be nice to use the look around button on my joystick while flying or even TrackIR :(
Hardcore is too hard to see enemy ground units vs. damage dealt by jets.
Mephz, this is why I am saying the air-to-ground needs increased damage or ground vehicles need a nerf vs damage from air. I pretty much just play hardcore I recenelty fot my guided missiles and that has helped a bit, spotting ground vehicles from up high is really hard.
Gents, i have to upgrade to play this, would the below build run it super smooth on high settings in a 64 player server?
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Intel Core i5 2500K Processor LGA1155 3.3GHz CPU
Asus P8Z68-V Socket 1155 Intel Z68 Chipset
G Skill 4G(2x2G) DDR3 1333Mhz PC10666 CL8(CL8D-4GBRM)
Hitachi 1TB SATA 7200RPM 32M
Asus ATI EAH6970-2DI2S-2GD5 2GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI 2x DP DX11 Fan
Samsung 22X DVDRW Black SATA (SH-S223C-BL)
Fractal Design Define R3 Case Black USB3.0
SilverStone ST85F-P 850W Strider Plus Power Supply
Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit OEM(Microsoft OEM Terms&condition apply)
1. You are getting 64bit windows and Ram is cheap. Grab 8gig of ram, not only that there is little point getting faster then CL9 RAM unless you are going to try and overclock every inch of your PC as the speed increases are negligiable and hardly noticed unless you are just looking at benchmark numbers.
2. I personally would go Nvidia 560ti or in your case a 570
3. Consider getting a Samsung Spinpoint 1TB HDD 32M.
Hay Mephz, do you get that issue with jets where it bounces around for no reason every second or so. Usually starts off slow but gets worse over time to the point where it is unplayable?
Yea sometimes.
It's part of the rubber banding lag. Jet acts as though you've hit something.
Seems to happen when you hit the genuine turbulence (which is just a small bump/shudder) and it gets amplified a thousand times.
man that sucks! when exactly does it crash? while loading or mid game? how long can you play before it crashes? have you updated your video drivers? what are your system specs?
man that sucks! when exactly does it crash? while loading or mid game? how long can you play before it crashes? have you updated your video drivers? what are your system specs?
Crashed once on the loading screen and three times mid game. Anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes.
* As Support using a Mortar, after clicking fire there's about a 2 second delay before the round actually leaves the tube (due to the firing animation). Does the mortar actually get fired where your reticle is aiming as you click the mouse button, or as the round leaves the tube? I often find myself adjusting my aim while the animation is happening, and logically it'd make sense for it to be adjustable right up until the round fires, but there isn't really a way to test it out being that I can't actually see where the round lands.
* Why is my mouse sensitivity through the goddamn roof in vehicles? Makes them so hard to play. Is there some sort of config fix for this?
* Best way to rank up as Recon? Just MAVing 64 player conquest maps?
A disabled vehicle will slowly burn down until it dies if not repaired. Air vehicles that are disabled become really hard to fly (though still managable). Ground vehicles pretty much get stuck, though they can move a little. Also, the smoke tends to make it hard as fuck to see anything.
Anyone having dramas with disappearing crosshairs after the latest patch? Mine just disappears randomly constantly. There doesn't seem to be any particular 'thing' that I can do to force it to happen, but it happens constantly. If I pull out a pistol then quickly pull out my primary weapon, it comes back but in 10 seconds it's gone again.
"We will release an update to the PC version of BF3 on Dec 6th -- that is, Tuesday morning around 8AM GMT next week.
It will be both a client update -- approximately 2GB in size -- and a server update.
The client update is large because it contains most of the content for Back to Karkand. This is not ideal, so we aim to make potential DLC content in the future as optional downloads.
Bugfixes:
Fixed a problem with spawn timer now showing blue border on startup and lost spawn point
Fixed a problem where player who joined queuing on End of round got spawn screen stuck on screen, but unable to do anything with it untill next round loaded
Fixed a problem where camera would change to 3rd person on killcam when killcam was turned off in server settings
Fixed stat references on several dogtags
Fixed for surveillance ribbon not counting TUGS
Fixed a missing combat area lines on the minimap for Grand Bazaar conquest small
Moved a tank spawn in US base on Caspian Border so it would not be destroyed by a falling tree
Fixed a problem where placing C4 with the russians soldier was playing US faction VO
Fixed a problem where TV guided missiles could be shot into its own helicopter and destroy it
Fixed a problem when attempting to fire lock on weapons without a target
Tweaked the chat, it should now be a bit easier to read
Fixed several vehicles that did not properly shoot rockets and guns towards their predictive sights
Fixed the G17 Supressed Laser not working properly
Added alternate HUD colors to help colorblinds
Added a network interpolation setting. This allows users with good bandwidth reduce latency, but might increase some stuttering. The user can find what works best for his connection by tweaking the slider.
Increased the Spawn protection radius on TDM
Fixed a problem with smoke on land vehicles, Missiles should now miss more often
Fixed a problem where users could end up with IRNV scope in any vehicle
Fixed a problem where player dies if vaulting over a ledge and into water while sprinting
Fixed several crashes and increased general stability
Fixed a problem where the user was unable to revive two players that have the bodies one over the other
Fixed so you can assign an axis and use as a digital input. This makes it possible for the player (on pc) to assign one of the sticks on a gameped to be used for throttle/brake.
Fixed a problem with the Kill camera acting up when suiciding from parachute
Fixed air radar was showing to much. now lasertagged, heatsignature above threshold, enemy missiles and capture points are only visible on air radar
Fixed a problem where the game would enter a technical hang if the user pressed pause menu and tilde at the same time
Fixed a problem where you could get green flashes on screen
You can now reassign cycle weapons
Fixed so the weapon zooms automatically after bipod deploy is gone when using zoom toggle
Fixed a problem where the parachute would stay stuck in air if the owner was killed
Balance Tweaks:
Fixed several weapons so they are properly suppressed and hide the player on the minimap when fired.
Tweaked Tactical Light so it is not as blinding over longer ranges.
Tweaked the IRNV scope so it is limited to usage only at close range.
Reduced heat masking effectiveness of Spec Ops Camo.
Fixed a bug where Ammo spec would give additional 40mm grenades instead of Frag spec.
Increased the number of additional 40mm grenades from Frag spec.
Fixed so AT mines only live for 20 seconds after a player dies to prevent infinite mines. (We want to make a different fix in the future, it’s in JIRA).
Increased the Time to Live on sniper caliber rounds to allow extreme distance shots.
Fixed several weapon descriptions, calibers, and fire rates. The weapons themselves have not changed.
Fixed so the M9 and MP443 pistol can be equipped by the opposing faction when it is unlocked at 100 kills.
Fixed Laser Guided Missiles missing their targets if the target is moving too fast.
Reduced the effectiveness of Stealth on Air Vehicles.
Reduced the effectiveness of Beam Scanning for Jets.
Reduced the damage done to Armored Vehicles and Infantry from AA guns.
Increased the damage RPGs and Tank shells do to AA vehicles.
Slightly decreased the accuracy for all weapons on fully automatic, burst fire is now preferable at mid to long range.
Increased the effective accuracy of long bursts for LMGs when using a bipod.
Slightly increased the range of the 44magnum bullets.
Increased the close range damage of 4.6x30mm and 5.7x28mm bullets.
Increased the reload time of the Mortar from 3.5sec to 4.8sec and increased the time it takes before a shell hits the ground.
Reduced the aimed accuracy bonus given by a Suppressor for the MP7, P90, PP2000, PP-19, and UMP45.
Increased the range and FOV for designating targets with the SOFLAM and vehicle Laser Designators.
Decreased the effectiveness of 12g FRAG ammo when equipped on semi-automatic and automatic shotguns.
Slightly Increased the power of Fighter Jet Cannons against all vehicle targets, especially Helicopters.
Decreased the power of Miniguns against Jets and Helicopters.
Increased the power of Stingers against Jets.
Flares reload times for Jets and Helicopter Gunners have been increased.
Tweaked the AN94 so its burst fire better conveys the real world advantage offered by this weapon.
Added Single Shot to the AN94 as an available fire mode.
Slightly increased the recoil on the M416 and removed the Burst Fire mode (this weapon incorrectly had burst fire, which was not authentic).
Tweaked the spawns for TDM on Kharg Island, Grand Bazaar, Caspian Border, Seine Crossing, Operation Firestorm, Damavand Peak and Noshahar Canals
Moved a tank spawn in US base on Caspian Border so it would not be destroyed by a falling tree
Tweaked the Gas station Capture area on Conquest on Caspian Border
Tweaked the max vehicle height on Noshahar Canals"
The screen constantly jerks, (its not lag but it feels like it). It makes it impossible to aim as i come down in the chopper to take out a tank my whole vehichle jerks for no reason, it also happens when running around, it makes it hard to aim. I cant see anything on google about this kind of issue.
I get that with jets on some servers. I'm pretty sure it is a Server issue. Low quality/low bandwidth servers.
Also:
Added a network interpolation setting. This allows users with good bandwidth reduce latency, but might increase some stuttering. The user can find what works best for his connection by tweaking the slider.
Man, that game I was in with you pave this arvo, I was doing pretty good, but some cunt admin decided he didn't like me, kicked me twice, and once when I was in a tank he team swapped me so it'd die.
I like my IFNV scope the way it is. Also I am going to try and snipe with the pump shot gun when I get the 6x-7x scope. I was trying it out with the ACOG yesterday with slug rounds.
Level 5 is fine. Unlike other games or even previous Battlefields, the starting guns are actually very good.
Only thing that helps is better sights on some guns. (some I prefer the basic iron sights).
i've only just realise how awesome mines are, so satisying getting kills from them for some reason. especially when it happens ages after you drop them
i've only just realise how awesome mines are, so satisying getting kills from them for some reason. especially when it happens ages after you drop them
They are about to get whole lot less awesome in the next patch.
• Fixed so AT mines only live for 20 seconds after a player dies to prevent infinite mines.
yeh i am having problems getting into the game after patch.... just get black screen
As I posted as well I am/was having the same problem.
To speed entry into the game I run task manager. As soon as BF3 turns up in the apps I 'switch to' and it loads straight away.
I am still in the habbit so not sure if its fixed itself.
Just in case anyone still having trouble connecting.
was having a mad game last night with infi, fraktured, teq, sleepy and a few others
we had teq and i sniping on the antenna in caspian with fractured going support for ammo for us and mortaring off the antenna
and half the server trying to shoot us
I tried for ages getting a good screenshot of that.
No dice.
I got bored of sniping cause I dont have a decent rifle yet.
It was more enjoying the Tom Cruise stylez..
'requesting fly-by' and dumping and burning past your nostrils.
you can either close and open origin again and it will do it or you can just click on the drop down menu up the top right and click refresh games and it will start updating
i bet its like last time where the servers were buggy/laggy as shit for hours after the update, meaning we might as well just wait until tomorrow to try play multi
you can either close and open origin again and it will do it or you can just click on the drop down menu up the top right and click refresh games and it will start updating
thanks.
i have now brought the whole house into go-slow interwebs :)
So I downloaded the patch while putting the kids to sleep, yer all 3.9 gigs of it.
So I come back to origin, click to load up BF3. Then it says 'patch available, download, plz k thx bi, bendover'
For some dickward of a reason the 3.9 gigs I downloaded disappeared (quote was used tho...) and now I have to get it again. RAGE now I have to get it at offpeak....
Fixed a problem with spawn timer now showing blue border on startup and lost spawn point
Fixed a problem where player who joined queuing on End of round got spawn screen stuck on screen, but unable to do anything with it untill next round loaded
Fixed a problem where camera would change to 3rd person on killcam when killcam was turned off in server settings
Fixed stat references on several dogtags
Fixed for surveillance ribbon not counting TUGS
Fixed a missing combat area lines on the minimap for Grand Bazaar conquest small
Moved a tank spawn in US base on Caspian Border so it would not be destroyed by a falling tree
Fixed a problem where placing C4 with the russians soldier was playing US faction VO
Fixed a problem where TV guided missiles could be shot into its own helicopter and destroy it
Fixed a problem when attempting to fire lock on weapons without a target
Tweaked the chat, it should now be a bit easier to read
Fixed several vehicles that did not properly shoot rockets and guns towards their predictive sights
Fixed the G17 Supressed Laser not working properly
Added alternate HUD colors to help colorblinds
Added a network interpolation setting. This allows users with good bandwidth reduce latency, but might increase some stuttering. The user can find what works best for his connection by tweaking the slider.
Increased the Spawn protection radius on TDM
Fixed a problem with smoke on land vehicles, Missiles should now miss more often
Fixed a problem where users could end up with IRNV scope in any vehicle
Fixed a problem where player dies if vaulting over a ledge and into water while sprinting
Fixed several crashes and increased general stability
Fixed a problem where the user was unable to revive two players that have the bodies one over the other
Fixed so you can assign an axis and use as a digital input. This makes it possible for the player (on pc) to assign one of the sticks on a gameped to be used for throttle/brake.
Fixed a problem with the Kill camera acting up when suiciding from parachute
Fixed air radar was showing to much. now lasertagged, heatsignature above threshold, enemy missiles and capture points are only visible on air radar
Fixed a problem where the game would enter a technical hang if the user pressed pause menu and tilde at the same time
Fixed a problem where you could get green flashes on screen
You can now reassign cycle weapons
Fixed so the weapon zooms automatically after bipod deploy is gone when using zoom toggle
Fixed a problem where the parachute would stay stuck in air if the owner was killed
Balance Tweaks
Fixed several weapons so they are properly suppressed and hide the player on the minimap when fired.
Tweaked Tactical Light so it is not as blinding over longer ranges.
Tweaked the IRNV scope so it is limited to usage only at close range.
Reduced heat masking effectiveness of Spec Ops Camo.
Fixed a bug where Ammo spec would give additional 40mm grenades instead of Frag spec.
Increased the number of additional 40mm grenades from Frag spec.
Fixed so AT mines only live for 20 seconds after a player dies to prevent infinite mines.
Increased the Time to Live on sniper caliber rounds to allow extreme distance shots.
Fixed several weapon descriptions, calibers, and fire rates. The weapons themselves have not changed.
Fixed so the M9 and MP443 pistol can be equipped by the opposing faction when it is unlocked at 100 kills.
Fixed Laser Guided Missiles missing their targets if the target is moving too fast.
Reduced the effectiveness of Stealth on Air Vehicles.
Reduced the effectiveness of Beam Scanning for Jets.
Reduced the damage done to Armored Vehicles and Infantry from AA guns.
Increased the damage RPGs and Tank shells do to AA vehicles.
Slightly decreased the accuracy for all weapons on fully automatic, burst fire is now preferable at mid to long range.
Increased the effective accuracy of long bursts for LMGs when using a bipod.
Slightly increased the range of the 44magnum bullets.
Increased the close range damage of 4.6x30mm and 5.7x28mm bullets.
Increased the reload time of the Mortar from 3.5sec to 4.8sec and increased the time it takes before a shell hits the ground.
Reduced the aimed accuracy bonus given by a Suppressor for the MP7, P90, PP2000, PP-19, and UMP45.
Increased the range and FOV for designating targets with the SOFLAM and vehicle Laser Designators.
Decreased the effectiveness of 12g FRAG ammo when equipped on semi-automatic and automatic shotguns.
Slightly Increased the power of Fighter Jet Cannons against all vehicle targets, especially Helicopters.
Decreased the power of Miniguns against Jets and Helicopters.
Increased the power of Stingers against Jets.
Flares reload times for Jets and Helicopter Gunners have been increased.
Tweaked the AN94 so its burst fire better conveys the real world advantage offered by this weapon.
Added Single Shot to the AN94 as an available fire mode.
Slightly increased the recoil on the M416 and removed the Burst Fire mode (this weapon incorrectly had burst fire, which was not authentic).
Tweaked the spawns for TDM on Kharg Island, Grand Bazaar, Caspian Border, Seine Crossing, Operation Firestorm, Damavand Peak and Noshahar Canals
Moved a tank spawn in US base on Caspian Border so it would not be destroyed by a falling tree
Tweaked the Gas station Capture area on Conquest on Caspian Border
Tweaked the max vehicle height on Noshahar Canals
Min player requirements
Also, it will once again be possible to reduce the number of players required to start a round to 1 both in ranked and unranked mode. We changed it back after getting a lot of negative feedback from both individuals and the RSP companies.
Our plan for the future is to introduce a warm-up mode, where players can move about and play the game, but with scoring disabled; then, when the number of players goes above the threshold -- that's when the real round starts.
I like the notion that they are putting in a warm up round, really annoying starting on a low server and not being able to practice. Will definitely help people getting use to vehicles.
anybody know if copying the Update folder from one machine to another will work? 3 of us here want to play and not whore 12gb of our data limit....
I can't see why not, give it a go. Its the same as when I formatted the other weekend and had to re-install origin, it had to verify the BF3 install folder but didn't download anything.
Anyone that has had to re-download the update, are you using a Russian version? Could be it updating english files or something to do with Russian version, as my copy did not re-download the update.
I don't get why they retarded up the IRNV scope so bad. I reckon fixing it for outdoors was a good idea. It's just cheat mode really. But why'd they break it indoors in the dark too...
i remember when people used to glow in cs, it was a fucking cheat.. the IR was just a "legit" cheat scope, i wish they ditched it all together from the guns, only place it should be available is on tanks / choppers
The IR scope before the patch was a very easy noob tool. You could hit someone from miles away because the heat signature given off was to accurate. Go put some night vision goggles on and ta da, it doesn't act like the game at all before the patch. Everyone that is complaining about it now is just upset they can't use it to their advantage.
but they don't work in the dark, they don't work at all now. What EA needs to do is return it to how it was, but include an ACTUAL sun that emits heat, not just a lense flare, so the irnv is effected while outside.
No real point in having IRNV any more then, Just take it out of the game, I don't want to see it. Also if Wake has only 3 control points.....that would be massive fail on DICE's part. Metro could use another control point too.
Does anyone else keep having to reset their password EVERY FRICKIN TIME just to login to Battlelog?!
Its so frustrating! I just to Google search it but got bugger all help from that.
Dude i was and i was getting that shitty with it. I think it's fixed now tho. Once you reset your PW check origin and make sure that it's logged in as well. Mine had a PW error too. I also started using chrome instead of ie and thats been a world better so far. Haven't had it happen for a few days now whereas before it was every time i logged in, even if i closed ie and opened it again...
I have a feeling it was origin not logged in properly that was doing it, but i haven't gone back to ie now chrome is not giving me the same error.
Anyone that has had to re-download the update, are you using a Russian version? Could be it updating english files or something to do with Russian version, as my copy did not re-download the update.
I downloaded the patch again last night, and I open origin to test it. 'There is a 3.9gig patch to download, herp derp!'
Before I raged this time I said, 'not now dear I have a headache' and went into battlelog and fired up a random server.. It loaded so maybe my patch worked it just thinks it needs to do it again.
I hope so, or the Rage will be on Epic proportions.
The IRNV scope should be useless, and it should act like it is now. People are going to complain because it was so effective when it shouldn't have been, and thus their cheat is gone, they want it back. It is much better now, with a slow kick to start, and a dense fog like affect which is what NV goggles or scopes do. They don't just instantly give you heat signatures from across the map. It neeeded to be balanced, and so it was.
I think they need to do something to improve the recon class. On hardcore it's great but I really think a shot to the torso from the M98B should be a kill. It's also a real pain in the ass to deploy the gadgets. New soflam is wayy better however.
Yeah I really miss the C4 and the mortar strike as Recon. You feel very gimped against vehicles now, there's basically nothing you can do except spot and hope someone else takes it out. I haven't had much luck with the SOFLAM, maybe now it's my chance.
As an engineer or Jet pilot I really get happy pants when I see the painted targets from a Soflam, makes shit heaps easier to kill. I didn't realise until last night that a Jets guided missile can lock onto mortar's. Made me happy dropping a bomb on them.
I used to really like recon, but having no ability to take out armour (soflam excluded since you need someone else to actually do the taking out) makes me not choose it.
alright after fucking with my pc for hours i have come to the conclusion that this is the most unstable buggy game i have ever bought. I knew i shouldnt have bought this.. the pirated version runs awesome and i never had a problem with it.. ffs.
I get the constant black screen error.. ive had the game for 2 days and i have 29 mins of game time. Fuck you EA and fuck you origin.
You don't have the russian edition do you? A constant blank screen plus background noise is a problem associated with the russian edition which can be easily fixed.
Me and my flatmate are trying to play on the same server but every time we join the same server it disconnects us. Anyone else having this shitty issue?
same network, 2 bf3 accounts bla bla
Works all sweet until we try to join the same server
Me and my flatmate are trying to play on the same server but every time we join the same server it disconnects us. Anyone else having this shitty issue?
Yeah, I've had that problem when me and my brother play on the same network, it seems to be really flakey. Sometimes no matter what we do it wont work, other times we're straight into a game no problems =\
Yeah, I've had that problem when me and my brother play on the same network, it seems to be really flakey. Sometimes no matter what we do it wont work, other times we're straight into a game no problems =\
I've tried forwarding all ports for 1 pc and doing a few other fiddly things I didn't think I would need to do for an FPS game (maybe RTS). Will post results later.
It was mostly Support with M60 and some Assault. It was on metro so thats why the scores are high. I have found kamakazi works well for that map, as in I just run around the corner and spam the m60 or a shotgun. Normally get a double kill that way. Also chucking grenades when your Russian is awesome, especially if you get the Frag perk thingey. The map is not balanced and I wish they would fix it up but I doubt they ever will, just spam us with new awesome maps.
Metro is a crazy map for Conquest. Get one flag each and then the carnage starts in the middle... I've been using M249 with extended mag for spray goodness... Yesterday i flew up a set of stairs unloaded on these blokes facing the other way, ended up with 6 kills before someone nailed me and i still had 30 odd rounds left...
Such a pointless map tho, ok for rush but for CQ it should be left in the rotation for the lolz only
Getting the damn wrong email or pasword error again. Reset each time to the exact same password and there's no problems, but fuck me what a pain in the ass just to log into battlelog... fking pissed off....
Trolling the net produces nothing but angry fuckers ranting on...
I get that message sometimes, just keep spamming servers you will eventually get in. Seems bf3's battlog error reports don't make much sense during massive peak usage.
Karkand is disappointing compared to the original..
On a 64 player map it pretty much consists of spawn, tank kills you, spawn, tank kills you, spawn, run 2 feet, tank kills you, spawn, try hide in a building, tank randomly shoots the building until it kills you
stuck between game content errors.
And party now broken for myself.
I get "could not find party." for any parties invited/attempt to join.
Anyone know of a fix? from what I can google it seems like it may be a broken account issue :/
Tried repair/changing browsers/uninstalling plugin/reset etc.
Of gulf of Omahn I shot a chopper 3 times, each hit and it still didn't go down. Not sure what the go with that was. I find hitting them once doesn't phase them much :/
The VTOL jets are great fun, they get totally smashed by normal jets though in Dogfights, I do love flying in from above, dropping a guided missile, then coming to hover and machine gun everything around. Usually ends to a tank round but so worth it.
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