Agreed. Ridiculously overpowered, especially in maps with lots of foliage, like caspian. I have unlocked plenty of other LMGs but stick to my type 88 just because of the IRNV on it.
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Agreed. Ridiculously overpowered, especially in maps with lots of foliage, like caspian. I have unlocked plenty of other LMGs but stick to my type 88 just because of the IRNV on it.
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the IRNV scopes are a ridiculous advantage. i still use them from time to time...but i feel like a giant dipshit when i do.
If you do the legwork, the research, pick the right maps, and do the work, who cares if you have some fun w/ the IR. The IR scopes also have some significant disadvantages. BF3 is not a socialism experiment. Just have fun, and don't be too obnoxious if you get good w/ the IR.
BF3 is pretty well balanced when is comes to guns and equipment...pick your poison.
Ridiculously overpowered, hardly....you don't give yourself enough credit.
EDIT: Look at the Mobile AA post below, and how easy that is to "spray" the enemy....at least I use "burst" shots w/ the IR scope.
BF3 is pretty well balanced when is comes to guns and equipment...pick your poison.
Ridiculously overpowered, hardly....you don't give yourself enough credit.
EDIT: Look at the Mobile AA post below, and how easy that is to "spray" the enemy....at least I use "burst" shots w/ the IR scope.
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I absolutely love the mobile AA. On some maps (Firestorm, Caspian, Keug Island) if you setup in the right spot, you can tear through enemy infantry at long range as well. I've taken out soo many snipers with the mobile AA by just spamming at them with the gun. Eventually 1-2 of those bullets will hit and its all it takes. Jeeps are also a good ground target for the mobile AA. Just gotta keep your distance and use that insanely high ROF gun to your advantage.
My favorite combo has to be the tank on the Peak map. Get in the tunnel, and with a good gunner/engineer backing you up, you can go 50-0 or better and just control the tunnel.
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I need to get better at this game. I'm only level 9 with 8 hoursof game play. at least my kd ratio is above 1.0.
I was raging so hard at the mobile AA gunner on Canals in a rush game. The defending team can sit back just above the sea wall at their spawn and have a clear view of the landing area, as well as, the carrier.
That's all well and good. What made me rage was when I decided early on to go Engineer and go pop the top on that AA. As soon as I jumped up over the wall it said I was out of bounds; the defender spawn is off-limits for the attacking team! So the AA guy just sat back there, hitting the choppers as soon as they lifted off and the infantry on the ground alike.
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Went 25-1 last night on that map just holding the tunnel cap in a tank. Can only imagine how many repair points engi's on my team got during that time, haha.
I wouldn't agree with wallhack but I do agree with the sentiment. DICE needs to make it so that looking directly at a light source would cause temporary blindness. As of now you can be inside the tunnel in Damavand map and look out to sunlight with no ill effects at all.
If some 12 (or 8) year old is completely dominating a game by being obnoxious w/ the weapons and vehicles and is causing mass murder....I unfortunately just have to leave that server. Said person/server will soon get a bad reputation. I have no doubt that, give enough time, people can figure out how to get an upper hand, that might be viewed by some as, for the lack of a better word, unfair.
However, for the most part, all's fair..............
However, for the most part, all's fair..............
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I actually screwed myself with the IR scope once... heard some guy dropping a medkit and scoped in. Ended up riddling his medkit full of my bullets because it was bright green. He was nowhere near it and killed me.
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PKP + IRNV + Extended Mags + Foregrip = Support killing spree
If I start having a bad match, I just switch to the combo above and take out a ridiculous amount of people. I feel like a cheap bastard doing it, but oh well
If I start having a bad match, I just switch to the combo above and take out a ridiculous amount of people. I feel like a cheap bastard doing it, but oh well
If you had and IR scope on that Mobile AA, you'd own it all...lol
The AA tank does have a thermal optics mode and it's so good at picking out infantry... also helps with targetting tanks from a long distance.
I felt the same way about that and the flashlight, until I realized that I should probably just stop whining and do it too and watch the points roll in.
M416 + IRNV + Foregrip + Tac Flashlight = Unstoppable Killing Machine
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for a while last night i used F2000 + IRNV + Foregrip + Silencer. it works well but i have yet to find an assault rifle that works better than the M416. just a great weapon in any configuration. i have a lot of fun using the M416 + iron sights + foregrip + silencer.
Ugh guys, I cant pick a class to stick with and tech up on.
On BC2 I was 100% Medic, then switched to Scout.
I have a thing for machineguns, but the class doesn't have defib/firstaid. And I love to heal.
Engineer class more like snooze class.
Sniper class in BF3 seems so much more uninteresting compared to BC2...
Should I just go the lame boring vanilla route and go Assault?
On BC2 I was 100% Medic, then switched to Scout.
I have a thing for machineguns, but the class doesn't have defib/firstaid. And I love to heal.
Engineer class more like snooze class.
Sniper class in BF3 seems so much more uninteresting compared to BC2...
Should I just go the lame boring vanilla route and go Assault?
I don't get questions like this. Don't people just switch kits depending on what is needed?
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Not if they like to whore a certain weapon.
They want all the options available to that class so they can continue to use their "crutch" weapon.
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Maybe this is just me, but I FUCKING HATE THE CONSOLE KEY. It seems like almost every time I go to hit "1" to switch weapons, I end up hitting the fucking tilde key and the nearly-invisible console comes up. Before I realize what's going on I end up getting shot or something because you can't exit the console by just hitting Enter, no, you have to press the fucking tilde key again.
Flashlight counters everything. It's absurdly bright and needs to be toned down significantly.
Flashlight counters everything. It's absurdly bright and needs to be toned down significantly.
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It's funny because I've never had a problem when my enemies have a flashlight (Oh you'd like to announce your position to my bullets? Fine by me) but on my own team they're constantly shining the fucking flashlight RIGHT into my eyes.
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i do that too, but i chalk it up to my own retardation.
oh man i agree. the only way i've gotten it to be even a little effective is by equipping a 4x scope (or no scope at all) and just using it as a single-shot assault rifle.
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If they're anywhere near you the white spot literally takes up your entire screen. I just fire randomly into what I can determine as the center of that. About a 25% chance it will work. In any case it's totally overbright.
Is that the starting Recon weapon? If so, I agree with you. Tried to snipe some guy up on a hill using an M249 and the shots were going all over the place. Wasn't even that far away, either.
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Hey guys,
I posted about this yesterday, but it got buried in the posts. I am running a contest on my server, the details are here: http://www.bootstrapbf3.com
The 1st prize has just been upgraded to a HIS 6950 2GB.
Just thought I would let you all know.
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I posted about this yesterday, but it got buried in the posts. I am running a contest on my server, the details are here: http://www.bootstrapbf3.com
The 1st prize has just been upgraded to a HIS 6950 2GB.
Just thought I would let you all know.
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I use a wireless ps3 joystick with the motionjoy 360 control pad emulator, for my movements= problem solved + benefits of analog movement.
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After playing the SP, does anyone think texture/lighting mods will help the visuals?
I think they did a pretty awesome job and will be hard to improve upon, unlike the first Crysis which was greatly improved.
I think they did a pretty awesome job and will be hard to improve upon, unlike the first Crysis which was greatly improved.
+1. I just put on the 4x scope and use it as a medium range rifle... it's very good.
Reminds me of SVU from bad company 2
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Oh man, I just had one of those epic "Battlefield Moments."
I was an engineer defending a warehouse with three other teammates and we had a frantic small arms firefight going on with a five man team burrowed in a swale on the other side of the road when all of the sudden an F16 swooped in steep and unloaded suppressing fire to the enemy, then lifted up in a shallow loop which ended tragically smack dab into the side of our warehouse wall!
The crash killed the pilot, but the plane was still in tact (love those wonky battlefield physics lol). The scene caused three of the enemy to come out of their hiding spots and I popped them all and jumped into the plane. Since there is no reverse, I said fuck it and gave it full throttle plus afterburner and launched straight up off the wall into the air like a shuttle, lol, then I proceeded to take down an enemy plane before grinding AA force me to bail to my flattening death....
EPIC, EPIC MOMENT! I LOVE THIS GAME!
I was an engineer defending a warehouse with three other teammates and we had a frantic small arms firefight going on with a five man team burrowed in a swale on the other side of the road when all of the sudden an F16 swooped in steep and unloaded suppressing fire to the enemy, then lifted up in a shallow loop which ended tragically smack dab into the side of our warehouse wall!
The crash killed the pilot, but the plane was still in tact (love those wonky battlefield physics lol). The scene caused three of the enemy to come out of their hiding spots and I popped them all and jumped into the plane. Since there is no reverse, I said fuck it and gave it full throttle plus afterburner and launched straight up off the wall into the air like a shuttle, lol, then I proceeded to take down an enemy plane before grinding AA force me to bail to my flattening death....
EPIC, EPIC MOMENT! I LOVE THIS GAME!
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haha sounds like a damn good time l88bastard.toiletducky
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There is no way MW3 is better than this for MP unless you just like CoD MP to begin with...
hahaha oh man that sounds epic. wish you had captured it because it sounds like good times.