Battlefield 3 General Discussion Thread

D*MN KNIFERS!!! Several times in the last few games, i get killed and it shows the guy that killed me getting knifed. JUST SHOOT! Don't sacrifice your teammates for your ego!!!

On the other hand, if you're on the enemy team. Go ahead and knife. I usually get two or three kills if i just ignore the guy running towards me.

Blame DICE. In their infinite stupidity, there are three or four different assignments requiring knife kills and takedowns. There will probably be another one for Endgame.
 
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I just bought Premium Service tonight. When I joined a server on Markaz Monolith, I noticed the level appeared to be very, very yellow. Is that normal?
 
I'm basically sticking to TDM, since I do not have to rely on my teammates having some kind of sense of intelligence and teamplay. I can just concentrate on doing my own thing while doing the occasional revive and/or dropping ammo packs. In a game on Conquest on Caspian Border, I had to fill anti-sniper, support/mortar, AT and AA roles in the space of a couple of minutes, because nobody on my team was competent enough to contribute. Most of them were jerking it in the uncap.

It isn't even "Christmas Noobs" that are the problem. Bless their hearts, most of them actually try to capture flags, since it's the fastest way to get XP points without actually doing anything. It's these piece of shit trolls/vehicle whores/AFKers with high-ranks who do nothing for the team. So frustrating.


I just bought Premium Service tonight. When I joined a server on Markaz Monolith, I noticed the level appeared to be very, very yellow. Is that normal?

Pretty much.
 
In the hot deals section someone has already linked Amazon has the full game with all DLCs for $25 :).
 
I'm basically sticking to TDM, since I do not have to rely on my teammates having some kind of sense of intelligence and teamplay. I can just concentrate on doing my own thing while doing the occasional revive and/or dropping ammo packs. In a game on Conquest on Caspian Border, I had to fill anti-sniper, support/mortar, AT and AA roles in the space of a couple of minutes, because nobody on my team was competent enough to contribute. Most of them were jerking it in the uncap.

I personally tend to get really annoyed in TDM at all the people running around who aren't Assault. It's TDM, you revive someone and that ticket the opposing team got for the kill goes away. Yet I can go entire matches rezzing people and never get revived.
 
I personally tend to get really annoyed in TDM at all the people running around who aren't Assault. It's TDM, you revive someone and that ticket the opposing team got for the kill goes away. Yet I can go entire matches rezzing people and never get revived.

I feel ya. Happens to me all the time. When first leveling the assault class I would just go to a metro meatgrinder and revive/heal only. I would easily have the most points on the team and only have a handful of kills.
 
Did they fix the 10 metre player draw distance and fuck-awful hit detection?
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I read a lot about this problem in Planet Side 2 but I do not experience it myself. For me infantry some times disappears if I am at 100+ meters from them.

Otherwise it is a far more deep shooter then BF3.
 
I'm basically sticking to TDM, since I do not have to rely on my teammates having some kind of sense of intelligence and teamplay. I can just concentrate on doing my own thing while doing the occasional revive and/or dropping ammo packs. In a game on Conquest on Caspian Border, I had to fill anti-sniper, support/mortar, AT and AA roles in the space of a couple of minutes, because nobody on my team was competent enough to contribute. Most of them were jerking it in the uncap.

It isn't even "Christmas Noobs" that are the problem. Bless their hearts, most of them actually try to capture flags, since it's the fastest way to get XP points without actually doing anything. It's these piece of shit trolls/vehicle whores/AFKers with high-ranks who do nothing for the team. So frustrating.




Pretty much.

Holy fuck. For a game you hate so much you sure play it enough?
 
I'll add to the hacking/not hacking conversation.

I got banned from a German TDM server today. I had a ping between 170 - 200 most of the time and my INSANE hacking-like stats were 38-8. I kid you not. Banned for suspected hacking. ROFL

It makes me wonder if server admins even play the game. Isn't it amazing what you can do camping in a server with no mini map? :rolleyes:
 
I'll add to the hacking/not hacking conversation.

I got banned from a German TDM server today. I had a ping between 170 - 200 most of the time and my INSANE hacking-like stats were 38-8. I kid you not. Banned for suspected hacking. ROFL

It makes me wonder if server admins even play the game. Isn't it amazing what you can do camping in a server with no mini map? :rolleyes:

38-8 with a ping like that, I would suspect you of hacking too.
 
I just bought Premium Service tonight. When I joined a
server on Markaz Monolith, I noticed the level appeared to be very, very yellow. Is that normal?
It really pisses me off that the color is so outta wack in this game. It has so much
potential to have a "crysis/far cry" look to it with nice vibrant colors, instead every map
has a terrible blue or yellow mono tone tint to it...

I was thinking of buying another BF3 account and use this color tweaker...
http://bf3.realmware.co.uk/colour-tweaker/
***WARNING*** might get you kicked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbf_8AROae0
**Image removed due to malware warning** -Oldie



Metro looks amazing with the colors fixed...

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I'm basically sticking to TDM, since I do not have to rely on my teammates having some kind of sense of intelligence and teamplay. I can just concentrate on doing my own thing while doing the occasional revive and/or dropping ammo packs. In a game on Conquest on Caspian Border, I had to fill anti-sniper, support/mortar, AT and AA roles in the space of a couple of minutes, because nobody on my team was competent enough to contribute. Most of them were jerking it in the uncap.

It isn't even "Christmas Noobs" that are the problem. Bless their hearts, most of them actually try to capture flags, since it's the fastest way to get XP points without actually doing anything. It's these piece of shit trolls/vehicle whores/AFKers with high-ranks who do nothing for the team. So frustrating.
Hey man you should add me, what's your in game name, I also just started playing TDM, it's pretty fun, canals is my favorite.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/user/SHiZNiLTi_OG/

LOL, I love the christmas noobs, last night was DOUBLE XP and the xmas noobs were in full force. One scavanger map I took 1st place using only the knife.
 
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It really pisses me off that the color is so outta wack in this game. It has so much
potential to have a "crysis/far cry" look to it with nice vibrant colors, instead every map
has a terrible blue or yellow mono tone tint to it...

I was thinking of buying another BF3 account and use this color tweaker...
http://bf3.realmware.co.uk/colour-tweaker/
***WARNING*** might get you kicked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbf_8AROae0

Looks amazing ;) I have always thought BF3 was a great looking game, texture and details wise, but the colors always seemed off to me, too muted and brownish like Quake games used to be. At first I thought my Dell U3011, was getting old, but Planetside 2 still looks very colorful and nice, so it must be BF3.

I would try this, but afrid to get booted per Punk Buster.
 
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I'll add to the hacking/not hacking conversation.

I got banned from a German TDM server today. I had a ping between 170 - 200 most of the time and my INSANE hacking-like stats were 38-8. I kid you not. Banned for suspected hacking. ROFL

It makes me wonder if server admins even play the game. Isn't it amazing what you can do camping in a server with no mini map? :rolleyes:

Due to the client-side hit detection you actually have an edge with a ping that high versus a player with a low ping when it comes to a photo finish situation. Because the rubber-banding becomes even more pronounced, meaning other player has gone around a corner on his PC, but on your PC he hasn't rounded the corner yet and you shoot him, he then proceeds to squirt tears that you're "hacking" because he is shot dead behind cover.

Its for that and other reasons I ran a plugin while I had a server that auto-booted high ping euromullets. God I do not miss BF3 or trying to keep a server populated, spoonfeeding noobs, playing whack-a-mole with toggle botters thinking they're clever flying under the radar, dealing with braindead brazilians and their "jajajajaja" chatspam. Never loved and hated a game so much in such equal measures.
 
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Anyone have any ideas as to the best amateur competitive leagues? Preferably North American? Looking for some clan on clan action at non-professional levels. Basically go up against groups of guys at our skill level. My Stats I'm the strongest player in our group, we average around 1.3-1.5 KDR all told.
 
Due to the client-side hit detection you actually have an edge with a ping that high versus a player with a low ping when it comes to a photo finish situation. Because the rubber-banding becomes even more pronounced, meaning other player has gone around a corner on his PC, but on your PC he hasn't rounded the corner yet and you shoot him, he then proceeds to squirt tears that you're "hacking" because he is shot dead behind cover.

Its for that and other reasons I ran a plugin while I had a server that auto-booted high ping euromullets. God I do not miss BF3 or trying to keep a server populated, spoonfeeding noobs, playing whack-a-mole with toggle botters thinking they're clever flying under the radar, dealing with braindead brazilians and their "jajajajaja" chatspam. Never loved and hated a game so much in such equal measures.

BR's are a plague to the gaming community. especially in DOTA dude.
 
Problem with playing early in the day on the east coast is that you get plenty of high ping drifters from europe and such.

Need to favorite servers that kick for ping above 150.
 
Agreed. They wanted to "set the mood". I just want to "mod the set" without getting punkbuster-banned. :D

I can see it now..."Pre-order BF4 now and receive maps without any blue or yellow tint in them" lol. I am sure they will go with natural colors and call it a feature.
 
Not really. All of the ones I used to play on are dead. Might be a community ya'll can join that has scrims and such but I am unaware. TWL still alive? lol

That's what I thought. The game itself, as well as the lack of mods, just didn't seem to lend itself to a competitive league style situation.
 
That's what I thought. The game itself, as well as the lack of mods, just didn't seem to lend itself to a competitive league style situation.

Would you be interested in playing against a group of 4-6 people? Maybe do some squad DM, rush, etc?
 
Would you be interested in playing against a group of 4-6 people? Maybe do some squad DM, rush, etc?

No, to me to be enjoyable given the map size and terrain it would need to be larger groups. Really, 10v10 is what I envision myself enjoying, at a minimum. This would need to be some type of objective based gameplay as well, such as rush, conquest assault or even the new CTF mode coming out. Maybe 8v8. Although I guess to be fair, I can't really knock it not having tried it.
 
A lot of cheaters today. They take no damage, can shoot through 5-7 feet of concrete, can make your weapons accuracy have a 500 MOA, and can even disable your weapon from firing. Or it might be a result of the "2x multiplier weekend". My advice is to just stop playing it today as it isn't worth it.
 
A lot of cheaters today. They take no damage, can shoot through 5-7 feet of concrete, can make your weapons accuracy have a 500 MOA, and can even disable your weapon from firing. Or it might be a result of the "2x multiplier weekend". My advice is to just stop playing it today as it isn't worth it.

Having my weapon stop firing happens to me quite often. Sometimes I can't move forward either. Not sure what's up with that.
 
Now the game crashes for me every time I load in a new map after completing a game. Actually its not a crash its a full on system freeze. I can play ANY other game without freezing my system. But the moment I play this one it goes to shit.
 
I think the cheating QQ'ing is getting a bit much. I will agree there are definately cheaters in BF3 but the hackusations are getting a bit much.
 
Due to the client-side hit detection you actually have an edge with a ping that high versus a player with a low ping when it comes to a photo finish situation. Because the rubber-banding becomes even more pronounced, meaning other player has gone around a corner on his PC, but on your PC he hasn't rounded the corner yet and you shoot him, he then proceeds to squirt tears that you're "hacking" because he is shot dead behind cover.

Not really. You spend the same amount of time exposed whether the ping is 50 or 1000. Your run speed is still the same, running across the clearing takes the same amount of time. Popping in and out of cover is still the same.

He's still in the open on your screen, but what you failed to mention is that he also appeared on your screen late. You still need to react fast enough to shoot someone that's only exposed for half a second.

And in a face to face shootout (which is pretty much what a fire fight is), the guy with the higher ping has to react and shoot a lot faster than the low pinger since he sees the enemy late, and his shots takes longer to reach the server. Even if he shoots first, if the low pingers bullets reach the server first and is fatal, all the damage he sees he inflicted (The enemy's life bar goes down on his screen) gets nullified and the enemys life bar goes back to 100%.
 
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I can see it now..."Pre-order BF4 now and receive maps without any blue or yellow tint in them" lol. I am sure they will go with natural colors and call it a feature.
LOL! Could you imagine if they sell it as a unlock. Sad thing is with as much time I put towards this game I'd probably buy it :eek:

A lot of cheaters today. They take no damage, can shoot through 5-7 feet of concrete, can make your weapons accuracy have a 500 MOA, and can even disable your weapon from firing.
Not really cheaters, just people with lag or hit detection issues. It happens all the time.

Having my weapon stop firing happens to me quite often. Sometimes I can't move forward either. Not sure what's up with that.
You know what's crazy, I've been having the same issue with my gun not firing all the time. Usually happens when I'm using the Spas-12 or 870 with slugs. I will be in a gun fight and get one hit on them and the 2nd shot will not fire sometimes while I'm getting sprayed and I'll die. I wonder if suppression also causes this?
 
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