Battlefield 3 General Discussion Thread

Do you need an unlock to be able to revive people as medic?

I need to be able to get points fast so I can unlock useful shit. I'm fucking useless against everyone with their guns all decked out out with 4x holographic auto aimbot scopes and heavy barrels and auto massage handles and shit.

I can only play a couple of hours a night and I can't deal with everyone else having better shit then me isn't fair, gotta level the playing field a little. Anyone know of a good points farming server to level up quickly?
 
Mark_Warner said:
Really, really, really not a fan of the web front-end.
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I'm still "on the fence" about it.

But I can honestly say I don't know what I could criticize about it... it's working flawlessly for me.

I'm liking how fast the stats are tracked, the invites to games.

Used party mode last night with friends and it also worked flawlessly.
 
TheMadHatterXxX said:
Do you need an unlock to be able to revive people as medic?

I need to be able to get points fast so I can unlock useful shit. I'm fucking useless against everyone with their guns all decked out out with 4x holographic auto aimbot scopes and heavy barrels and auto massage handles and shit.

I can only play a couple of hours a night and I can't deal with everyone else having better shit then me isn't fair, gotta level the playing field a little. Anyone know of a good points farming server to level up quickly?
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You unlock paddles real quick as assault...

I think guns aren't that important honestly. People die so easily in BF3, the default guns are pretty good.
 
TheMadHatterXxX said:
Well I fucking suck. :( I used to be great in BF2 and BC2 but in this game I'm total shit. I routinely go like 3 Kills and 12 Deaths a round. I have no scopes on any weapons yet. The enemies always seem to kill me even when I get the first shots in. Maybe I should turn my settings down from Ultra a bit or something? But I'm always above 30 FPS. It's not fun spawning and dying all the time.
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I'm in the same boat. Used to rock out on BF2. And this game, I die instantly before I can even see the player. There is so much dust and smoke, and shit flying around that it totally obscures my vision. After playing an hour, I was starting to get used to it, and was closer to 6 kills and 12 deaths per round. So I assume there is just a bit of a learning curve.

I do like that aspect though, its challenging and rewarding.

ZCaptainAmerica was my nemesis on the server I was on, and after about 4 rounds I finally got the bastard and his buddy who was also killing me lots with a single grenade. I think I started cheering at my desk... I was so happy.
 
idk about you guys but im an amazing pilot with my mouse + keyboard, maybe its just because ive got the sensitivity turned all the way up.

anyone noticed that the planes do like a tail slide through the air if you're strafing in on a target from a wide turn?
 
My largest complaint so far is the stinger missles against the jets. Makes having the stinger equipped worthless. I fire, they just pop the flares. There should be a limited amount of flares or something. I know they should have some defense against em, but I tried to shoot down the same guy for a few minutes just baseraping us, and he seemed to fire off about 100 flares.
 
So the mortars are pretty much pure win on maps with lots of chokepoints. Had an epic mortar fight on seine crossing yesterday. Playing cat and mouse with the other mortars is pretty fun. Though on rush maps like bazzar the mortars on defense may need to be rethought. I went 15 and 0 just defending chokepoints around the first set of mcoms and never moved my mortar once.
 
Yeah I am a bit underwhelmed as well. BF2 had much much larger maps. And the dumb web browser to launch the game as well as having to have origin launched. You need 3 things launched before the game starts lame. The map sucks big time very confusing. I'd give the game a 6/10 And right now any way my 6950 says its getting between 50-60 frames on all maps indoors and outdoors, but it sure doesn't feel that way, its almost like it has micro stutter or something. Oh and the other thing is you can't tell what your ping times are in game another lame thing......
 
This game is freaking amazing... I sniped a guy in a helicopter last night killed him then the helicopter crashed into another guy on the ground... it was EPIC!!!

Also do you guys keep the inverted settings on when flying the aircrafts ?
 
Accidently deleted punkbuster from control panel programs. How do I reinstall it?

Went to punkbuster site and installer there only installs something on the desktop and doesn't have BF3 listed for games.
 
shawnoen said:
Accidently deleted punkbuster from control panel programs. How do I reinstall it?

Went to punkbuster site and installer there only installs something on the desktop and doesn't have BF3 listed for games.
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Use that "Repair Game" or whatever option in Origin?
 
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My largest complaint so far is the stinger missles against the jets. Makes having the stinger equipped worthless. I fire, they just pop the flares. There should be a limited amount of flares or something. I know they should have some defense against em, but I tried to shoot down the same guy for a few minutes just baseraping us, and he seemed to fire off about 100 flares.
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I agree, and it is specially a problem given the very short range of the stingers. Flares should be something to allow the jet to get away. Not have such a short cooldown where they can just keep hitting the same place without having to move.
 
Curious what frame rates are people getting to say its amazing? Are you getting a constant 50+? Anything below that to me makes the game play crappy...
 
DarkCloud said:
This game is freaking amazing... I sniped a guy in a helicopter last night killed him then the helicopter crashed into another guy on the ground... it was EPIC!!!
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Those moments are so spectacular. My girlfriend always comes running into the room wondering what the hell happened that I am so happy. Priceless! :D
 
zod96 said:
Curious what frame rates are people getting to say its amazing? Are you getting a constant 50+? Anything below that to me makes the game play crappy...
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It's pretty unshakeable on my rig at Ultra settings (only Post AA and no Motion Blur).

It's super smooth.
 
last night, the last few maps played i was getting green flashes. i noticed earlier i had red flashes but attributed to someones laser pointed at me. if i pressed esc key it stops for abit. hoping my gpu is fine but i alt tabbed out and it was only hitting 82c with no oc.
 
I went down to one monitor last night after getting frustrated at not being able to tell the difference between enemy and teamates in eyefinity. Sort of glad I did. I was able to turn up the settings and HBOA and it looked like a movie. In the bizzar map I played, I was getting around 70-120 fps with dual unlocked 6950's. No microstuddering for me that I've ever noticed. Using the new AMD driver, but the old CAP. I want to say HT is on too, but it's been so long since I've looked in BIOS lol...
 
Even single player is decent and shows off some good looking and sounding stuff. With the eye candy maxed out some things really do look damn near real in this game IMO. Very impressive.

If you just want a little change of pace in between epic huge battles, the SP is worthwhile.
 
I've been really impressed with it. Got the newest drivers for my 4850 and bumped the core to 750mhz and got my PII720 at 3.5ghz with the 4th core unlocked. Everything set on low @ 1920x1080 doesn't even look that bad. Runs a shit ton better than it did than beta, but I didn't really tweak that much for the beta because that map fucking sucked. It's actually enjoyable to play, but I definitely need to invest in a new video card soon.

Also the sound is noticeably amazing. It was insane hearing all the gun shots going off through the whole map and explosions, it just sounds so good.
 
03grandam said:
Has anyone been successful in getting the wireless Xbox controller for the PC working with this game yet? I just want it for flying, damn it.
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yeah mine works just fine. it's great for flying helicopters...haven't spent a lot of time in jets yet.

TheMadHatterXxX said:
Well I fucking suck. :( I used to be great in BF2 and BC2 but in this game I'm total shit. I routinely go like 3 Kills and 12 Deaths a round. I have no scopes on any weapons yet. The enemies always seem to kill me even when I get the first shots in. Maybe I should turn my settings down from Ultra a bit or something? But I'm always above 30 FPS. It's not fun spawning and dying all the time.
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i keep my fps above 70 and, for me at least, it really helps. the biggest hurdle IMO is just becoming familiar with the maps. the kills come much easier once you get an idea of how a map operates (where flags are, typical hiding spots, choke points, etc.)

Mark_Warner said:
Really, really, really not a fan of the web front-end.
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meh i'm fine with the server browser, it works great for me. the only downside is that the game loses a feeling of 'cohesion'. it feels fragmented because you load directly into maps instead of having an in-game menu screen to pull it all together.
 
Enabling 2x MSAA on my 6950 crossfire setup causes weird hitching....anyone else have this problem?
 
zod96 said:
Curious what frame rates are people getting to say its amazing? Are you getting a constant 50+? Anything below that to me makes the game play crappy...
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I'am getting around 85fps AVG with Ultra, NO MSAA (POST at HIGH) and Motion Blur to the middle (default setting). I got 2x460GTX SLI (833/4000) with a I5 2500k OC to 4.3ghz (for now).

I can enable 4XMSAA, i got around AVG 60fps.. but there's so MUCH memory swap (i think i saw that it takes around 1.5gig of Video Ram with that setting) that's it's unplayable..
 
dekruyter said:
Very easily over 60fps (usually much higher); w/ a Q9550, 5870, 8gb ram; all "high" setting", and everything else off; 1920x1200.;) Dice has done a great job w/ this game; it was a great 1st day release. Glad I didn't freak out from the beta, and not buy.

If it's going over 1gb of Vram, per other threads, who cares; it has had no effect on the fps that I'm seeing.
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I'm running pretty much the same rig as you, except 560ti, it's been a great experience playing this game.
 
Have to say I'm pretty disappointed with this game in terms of polished release quality. They definitely needed to fix more shit than they did for a good release.

The bugs are annoying enough that I don't even want to play this game right now in it's current state.

You still can fall through the ground in Metro.

Random kicks from servers "by administrator."

HT bug.

No que system.

I think the destructible cover is a bit sketchy still, and their hit detection seems off.

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Maximus825 said:
The dirt smudges on the camera are really annoying.

"Hey, I have a GREAT idea. Let's create a very good looking game but only let the gamer see half of it because the other half is blocked by dirt on the camera!"
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Yeah, I've only had a chance to play a little of the SP, and I'm at the part where you wake up with only your knife and the whole "let's cover the screen with dirt, water and other crap and then have you running around at night" is a bit stupid!

TheMadHatterXxX said:
Well I fucking suck. :( I used to be great in BF2 and BC2 but in this game I'm total shit. I routinely go like 3 Kills and 12 Deaths a round. I have no scopes on any weapons yet. The enemies always seem to kill me even when I get the first shots in. Maybe I should turn my settings down from Ultra a bit or something? But I'm always above 30 FPS. It's not fun spawning and dying all the time.
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Some of what you describe could well be lag related, during the beta, and again last night, I found myself on servers where I would get just the right amount of lag (or should I say wrong amount?) that would result in my getting killed almost instantly by people, even if I fired first, at least on my screen.
 
thesixth said:
Have to say I'm pretty disappointed with this game in terms of polished release quality. They definitely needed to fix more shit than they did for a good release.

The bugs are annoying enough that I don't even want to play this game right now in it's current state.

You still can fall through the ground in Metro.

Random kicks from servers "by administrator."

HT bug.

No que system.

I think the destructible cover is a bit sketchy still, and their hit detection seems off.

The list goes on...
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Weird.. i havn't glitch out yet. I had one server with Lag this morning but that's all in about 3-4 hours of gameplay. I was kicked once, but they annonced it on the battlelog. No problem with hit detection. I die and people die.. LOL Lag sure doesn't help but so far i've got none or very little in big server.

I don't have a HT system so i don't know about that one but i saw threads about it.

The only thing i don't like so far is people abusing the flashlight at close range outside. I only saw this in Team Deathmatch so far and the throw grenade animation is a little on the slow side..

Appart from that.. it's a great launch, from my side..
 
Someone mentioned green flashes, yup I was getting them last night for about a minute or 2. And as for dying too easily..I think I must have a huge target on my head cause even if I shot first I would die.
I think I need to disable HT though cause on my 580GTX it wasnt smooth even on Non Ultra settings.
 
do you guys use default settings for flying helicopters? I can fly jets pretty good now, but damn it the sensitivity in vehicles and planes is way to high. its perfectly fine, when I'm on foot, but right when I enter a vehicle it sky rockets.
 
Been reading through the thread backwards (I always read the latest post and work backwards ;) ) It's the closest thing I've got to BF3 at the moment.

Do you realise how lucky you are in North America?
 
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