Battlefield 3 General Discussion Thread

this game is not funny anymore , look at this Charmeleon , He knife me 5 times this morning , and he was at 100 feets of m, I was way at the back snipping, no one around me , 500 kniffes in 7 hours

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/#!/bf3/soldier/CharmeIeon/stats/375050716/


Nettwerk said:
I guess we cant snipe from the top of the tower anymore..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaNDwOM9Lwo
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So bad, I like so much kills noobs snipers in the tower, so easy target , same with the chimney and crane in Firestorms


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this knife hack seems to pretty wide spread, you think they would have put a stop to it in this latest client patch
 
Just saw two cool videos from the PS3 patch:
1. The big antenna on Caspian Border now comes down at the end of the round. As it ought to. I wondered why this didn't happen first time I played the map.
2. IRNV got nerfed big time. They might even have nerfed it too much as it seems to be mostly useless now.
 
ballpoint said:
Just saw two cool videos from the PS3 patch:
1. The big antenna on Caspian Border now comes down at the end of the round. As it ought to. I wondered why this didn't happen first time I played the map.
2. IRNV got nerfed big time. They might even have nerfed it too much as it seems to be mostly useless now.
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yeah, but the antenna should be able to be shot down. The fact that it falls with 10 tickets left is lame, IMO.

Cool idea, lame implementation.
 
§·H·ï·Z·N·ï·L·T·ï;1038085837 said:
GG's last night FearTheCow :) We were tearing it up! Looking forward to play with you more.
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I was there but my son was ban from PC last night after the director of his Scholl call me ....but I let him make 2 rounds, he was too petty …
 
GullyFoyle said:
The second one was the one linked by Demize99 in a tweet. I can't tell what the differences are from the original.
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It seems they limited its range even more and they made the "glowing" effect drop-off more with range.

Still allows you to spot people "in cover", so I imagine it won't do anything to stop the complaining.
 
If anyone wants to add me, Congalong, so I have more friends to play with and get better please add me :) Right now I've just been playing on a Metro server that disallows M320/RPG/SMAW/auto shotty and it's been a blast trying to push through as US. Had a lot of fun yesterday night with some compentent teammates where we'd smoke bomb the elevators and rush out laying down cover fire with support, recons trying to get to a safe place to plant spawn beacons, etc :)
 
§·H·ï·Z·N·ï·L·T·ï;1038085837 said:
GG's last night FearTheCow :) We were tearing it up! Looking forward to play with you more.
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After I invited you on Battlelog, I still haven't been on the same time as you! I need a squad to roll with :D


Anyway, I think it's time for me to level some Engi and Recon. But I always come right back to Assault and Support... By the way, always funny getting a headshot with a Smoke Grenade!


TheMadHatterXxX said:
How do you get smoke grenades??? :confused:
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I think it's 20 kills with a M320. Or was it 10?
 
So when is Back to Karkland going to be available? Please don't tell me it's been availalbe the whole time and I just didn't know it.
 
Well that's good news.

On a singleplayer note, I'm actually stuck in the office area with the cubicles. Got the gas mask on, following some guy, he stops at a doorway. I go up the stairs, no doors open, come back down, and not sure what the heck to do.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I was thinking it was a bug and one of those doors should open.
 
webbed said:
There seems to be a couple videos of the new irnv scope floating around on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGlZLHonrY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Picz26O0UVA

not sure how real/accurate they are. they both seems pretty different.
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That first one seems ridiculous. The guys don't glow at all anymore and the when you use it it suddenly looks like you are in a cloud of smoke. I doubt that's real, but honestly even if it is I will be happy because people won't use it anymore. That's just about as good as taking it out of the game entirely.

The second one just looks like maybe they made the guys glow slightly less bright and change at different distances. Not really enough of a nerf IMO in that one.

Somewhere in-between these two videos is where IMO the real nerf should be. Not totally unusable but not a ridiculous rape machine, either.
 
Anyone getting annoyed by all the poorly balanced games going on? Usually one team dominates and the end score is something like 600-0.
 
soulesschild said:
If anyone wants to add me, Congalong,
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I just add you on our 2 players names GG-Snipes and GG-Markedone, by the way my other will be PC-Quebec ( this one will be use by friends or customers who come to my house, I don't want they lower my stats, I know it happen with BF2 and BC2 , lol )
 
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Can someone please help me to remember what the keyboard shortcut it for pulling up chat and google search and so on in BF3 between rounds. I found it the other day and now I can't remember....There was some shortcut where the screen goes white and you get a few options. One is a Google browser and one is chat I think....

Thanks in advance
 
Rogue_Apprentice said:
Can someone please help me to remember what the keyboard shortcut it for pulling up chat and google search and so on in BF3 between rounds. I found it the other day and now I can't remember....There was some shortcut where the screen goes white and you get a few options. One is a Google browser and one is chat I think....

Thanks in advance
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Shift + F1, you can view/set it in your Origin options.
 
Bop said:
Anyone getting annoyed by all the poorly balanced games going on? Usually one team dominates and the end score is something like 600-0.
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usually the team dominating has a few squads filled with rank 45+ players on vent/TS/mumble coordinating while the other team consists of all randoms with no communication.
 
MavericK96 said:
That first one seems ridiculous. The guys don't glow at all anymore and the when you use it it suddenly looks like you are in a cloud of smoke. I doubt that's real, but honestly even if it is I will be happy because people won't use it anymore. That's just about as good as taking it out of the game entirely.

The second one just looks like maybe they made the guys glow slightly less bright and change at different distances. Not really enough of a nerf IMO in that one.

Somewhere in-between these two videos is where IMO the real nerf should be. Not totally unusable but not a ridiculous rape machine, either.
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I'm skeptical about the first video because as well as what you said, the torches are still like fucking floodlights, something DICE said would be addressed in the upcoming patch.

I don't see much difference with the second video.
 
KillRoy X said:
Well that's good news.

On a singleplayer note, I'm actually stuck in the office area with the cubicles. Got the gas mask on, following some guy, he stops at a doorway. I go up the stairs, no doors open, come back down, and not sure what the heck to do.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I was thinking it was a bug and one of those doors should open.
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ya i seen the bug on a video not sure how you can fix it.
 
A friend of mine is having a bug where when joining a MP game, it does the standard loading process in the browser and then launches....single player. Anyone had this experience and have a solution?
 
TwistedAegis said:
A friend of mine is having a bug where when joining a MP game, it does the standard loading process in the browser and then launches....single player. Anyone had this experience and have a solution?
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I get that randomly as well, nothing I've tried has fixed it however.
 
skigz said:
usually the team dominating has a few squads filled with rank 45+ players on vent/TS/mumble coordinating while the other team consists of all randoms with no communication.
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this and if you're playing on a Clan's server all the clan members are likely on 1 team leaving randoms on the other team.
 
So I'm playing the game for the first time tonight. What's the best class to start with? I have played over 750 hours of BC2, are there any major major differences in gameplay? (other than the way squads work, and new weapons/vehicles?)
 
MisterClean said:
So I'm playing the game for the first time tonight. What's the best class to start with? I have played over 750 hours of BC2, are there any major major differences in gameplay? (other than the way squads work, and new weapons/vehicles?)
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Even coming from BC2 there is a bit of a learning curve, IMO. I would suggest starting off as assault as it is the most "basic" class and having health on hand is handy and keeps frustration down a bit.
 
TwistedAegis said:
A friend of mine is having a bug where when joining a MP game, it does the standard loading process in the browser and then launches....single player. Anyone had this experience and have a solution?
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I get that sometimes. Closing Origin completely and re-launching it seems to help. If you do, be sure to close BattleLog also, otherwise you can get caught in a loop of getting the "Launching BF3" pop-up, then it closes, then opens again, and on and on.
 
stevedave said:
this and if you're playing on a Clan's server all the clan members are likely on 1 team leaving randoms on the other team.
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Yeah, even if the teams are horribly imbalanced by player count alone. I.E. like 10 clan members on one team and 5-7 randoms on the other. Of course no one will switch, either... :rolleyes:
 
TwistedAegis said:
Even coming from BC2 there is a bit of a learning curve, IMO. I would suggest starting off as assault as it is the most "basic" class and having health on hand is handy and keeps frustration down a bit.
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I recommend Assault if for no other reason because I hardly EVER see any other assault players these days. Mostly it's all Support running around with the M249 + Bipod + IRNV rape combo, or Engineers with the SCAR.

Either that, or none of the Assault players I see either a) have the Medkit equipped or b) ever throw down the Medkit.
 
MavericK96 said:
Yeah, even if the teams are horribly imbalanced by player count alone. I.E. like 10 clan members on one team and 5-7 randoms on the other. Of course no one will switch, either... :rolleyes:
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Associating yourself with winners makes you a winner too :p
 
Well I'm going to come out and say it.

I'm not having fun playing Battlefield 3. I think I'm going to put it away for a couple of months and give it a try later.

I'm a longtime competitive gamer going back to when Source first came out. I played Cal O and Cal M. I played the Battlefield series from 1942 all the way up to BC2. In source pubs I can throw up a 10:1 kd ratio without a sweat, and in BC2 I cannot remember the last time I wasn't first place in the server.

I realize that BF3 isn't about kills and deaths, and I try to capture points as best I can. But I'm just going to throw this out there - I get raped no matter what.

My BC2 accuracy with a sniper is around 40%. In BF3, it's like 20. More times than not, I spawn and instantly die. When I'm playing engineer, I can't kill tanks before I run out of rockets. I'll hit the damn things five times and nothing happens, not even a disable. Maybe it's just the SMAW that sucks and when I'm level uber 50 I'll get a better RPG. Dunno. When I get in the tanks, I die after two rocket shots. I just don't understand it.

Speaking of rockets, infantry is helpless against aircraft. Like, literally helpless. I've shot off stinger after stinger and never once gotten a kill. My overall Stinger accuracy is 4 - FOUR percent. This is what I could do in BC2 with the AT4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwCpJTVLHw

I get killed by four things: by a M294B with IR, G36C with IR, a shotgun with a SNIPER SCOPE ATTACHED that can outsnipe my SV98, and tanks. Problem is, 95% of people use one of those combinations. Yet for some reason when I try to whore them, I get raped.

Hitboxes are good - improved from BC2 actually - but netcode sucks. I'm on a 50mbps fiber connection and get one shotted and die before the animation of them raising their gun even plays.

The LAV should not be able to mow down entire waves of enemies from sniping distance.

There needs to be a better team balancing system. My last five games today I've been on the losing end of 700-0 rapefests. I'll be in first place on the team and like 4-21.

Anyway, I realize most of you disagree with me but I'm just frustrated and wanted to vent. I typically dominate FPS's but am struggling like hell to maintain even a positive KDR in this game. It's just not fun to constantly die by bullshit things happening. Today I was climbing a rock (did NOT fall) and randomly died by "bad luck."

This, combined with serious, game-breaking punkbuster and Origin issues, makes it simply not a fun game. Maybe in a few months I'll be able to join a game without:

You have been disconnected from EA Online
Punkbuster kicked for ignoring queries
Punkbuster kicked for prior ban (1 minute remaining)
Random black screens with the game freezing
Random crashes to desktop
Stuck waiting for host when friend initiates party join
Origin thinking my friends are offline when they are not

Until then, it's just not a fun game.
 
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^ and thats exactly why i waited to buy this game. Im very competitive as well, and have been raping people in FPS since CS came out. I used to get banned all the time in CS / DOD for noobs who accused me of hacking, even when i was playing on friends computers. I still go back to CS because of the skill level involved. After playing BC2, it always felt like the games buggy netcode was holding me back. You could only be so good but the bullshit would always get you. I knew that wasnt going to change in bf3, and thank god i saved my money.
 
computerpro3 said:
Well I'm going to come out and say it.

I'm not having fun playing Battlefield 3. I think I'm going to put it away for a couple of months and give it a try later.

I'm a longtime competitive gamer going back to when Source first came out. I played Cal O and Cal M. I played the Battlefield series from 1942 all the way up to BC2. In source pubs I can throw up a 10:1 kd ratio without a sweat, and in BC2 I cannot remember the last time I wasn't first place in the server.

I realize that BF3 isn't about kills and deaths, and I try to capture points as best I can. But I'm just going to throw this out there - I get raped no matter what.

My BC2 accuracy with a sniper is around 40%. In BF3, it's like 20. More times than not, I spawn and instantly die. When I'm playing engineer, I can't kill tanks before I run out of rockets. I'll hit the damn things five times and nothing happens, not even a disable. Maybe it's just the SMAW that sucks and when I'm level uber 50 I'll get a better RPG. Dunno. When I get in the tanks, I die after two rocket shots. I just don't understand it.

Speaking of rockets, infantry is helpless against aircraft. Like, literally helpless. I've shot off well over a hundred stingers and never once gotten a kill. This is what I could do in BC2 with the AT4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwCpJTVLHw

I get killed by four things: by a M294B with IR, G36C with IR, a shotgun with a SNIPER SCOPE ATTACHED that can outsnipe my SV98, and tanks. Problem is, 95% of people use one of those combinations. Yet for some reason when I try to whore them, I get raped.

Hitboxes are good - improved from BC2 actually - but netcode sucks. I'm on a 50mbps fiber connection and get one shotted and die before the animation of them raising their gun even plays.

The LAV should not be able to mow down entire waves of enemies from sniping distance.

There needs to be a better team balancing system. My last five games today I've been on the losing end of 700-0 rapefests. I'll be in first place on the team and like 4-21.

Anyway, I realize most of you disagree with me but I'm just frustrated and wanted to vent. I typically dominate FPS's but am struggling like hell to maintain even a positive KDR in this game. It's just not fun to constantly die by bullshit things happening. Today I was climbing a rock (did NOT fall) and randomly died by "bad luck."

This, combined with serious, game-breaking punkbuster and Origin issues, makes it simply not a fun game. Maybe in a few months I'll be able to join a game without:

You have been disconnected from EA Online
Punkbuster kicked for ignoring queries
Punkbuster kicked for prior ban (1 minute remaining)
Random black screens with the game freezing
Random crashes to desktop
Stuck waiting for host when friend initiates party join
Origin thinking my friends are offline when they are not

Until then, it's just not a fun game.
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Did you just start or have you been playing since release?

because I started about 4 years late with BF2 and I felt exactly this way..... aside from performance issues.

By the time I got into BF2 everyone was at expert level and it completely ruined the fun factor of the game for a long time........That is why I bought this bitch on release day.

I am loving BF3 because I'm at least above par where with BF2 I was DEFINITELY below par. With the amount of useful upgrades in this game I can see it being a bitch to get started in once everyone has all the good upgrades.
 
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