Battlefield 3 General Discussion Thread

How does the proximity sensor work on the tanks?

I have it enabled in my land customizations but I dont see anything..
 
Been playing with this kid since Novalogics Joint Operations.

He has been consistent with pulling 4.0 kdr's while getting crazy high points for being the most active player on the team when it comes down to attacking bases...

http://bfbcs.com/stats_pc/^Mr.HiDe

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MavericK96 said:
Umm...No, we don't dismiss all polls, but we do scrutinize where that information comes from. Haven't you ever taken a statistics class? One of the first things they teach you is to understand where from and how the data is being collected. A random poll on a random website that is not gaming-related would certainly yield more unbiased results than one on a forum for a particular game where many users are having problems, correct? Do you understand the difference?

It is the job of a well-informed individual to scrutinize studies and statistics and not just accept them blindly with no regard to where that data comes from. Then again maybe you're one of those people who just accepts everything the tee-vee tells them.

The overall point is, while it's unfortunate that you do have complaints with the game and many of them are probably legitimate, coming on this thread and whining about how shit the game is and how people shouldn't play it isn't helping you or anyone else. I hope your issues get resolved but please, take that shit elsewhere.

I thought there was one already, but maybe if there isn't you should start a BF3 Technical/Gameplay Issues Thread and put all complaints in there instead of the general discussion.
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Seems like you have selective reading skills. Yet again, your first two paragraphs are referencing concepts that are so basic they do not need to be mentioned. Move on guy. At no point did I reference the poll I spoke of as some sort of incredible infallible resource. I mearly mentioned it as showing there is not an insignificant population out there having serious issues with this game. The thousands of threads/posts on the same subject are a testament to that.

Try to put words in other peoples mouths much? Where did I say people shouldn't play the game? I must have missed the memorandum appointing you the moderator of the "BF3 general discusssion" thread in which only positive items can be discussed.
 
Vega said:
lol have you even visited the official BF3 forums? There are massive amounts of people having stability issues. There are threads hundreds of pages long solely about program stability. Sure it may not be the majority, but it still is a significant population.
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yeah dude.

people dont run out to make threads about how the game runs just as expected. but they do to complain.

go find the highest rated customer satisfaction cars, then go to their forums and see if you find more complainst than anything else(hint: you will) even though they have 9-+ % rating in customer satisfaction

Im oviously not suggesting that its 90/10 good to bad, and the real # is unfindable. but its not 10/90 or the servers wouldnt be populated


you certainly cant use forum posts as a way to gauge it, if you did, and read EA UK, you would think bc2 and bf3 were both steaming piles of unplayable dogshit that are insanely unbalanced


im not suggestiong there arent issues(there are and we can make a nice long list) but its playable for MANY without crashes and dc's
 
I've been having a lot of fun with the Frag shells for the 870. They may not be the best rounds for killing pepole, but A) If I don't hit my target, they still provide some benefit rather than none, and B) When I kill someone with them their body tends to go flying, which is hilarious. Just last night I shot a guy in the face from about 50 meters and his body launched skyward at least 80 feet.
 
SPARTAN VI said:
Just dropped into a game and got auto-assigned to a squad full of snipers. My lord, I should have griefed them by dropping med packs in their proned faces...
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toiletducky said:
smoke mortar them
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SPARTAN VI said:
I like your style.
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i hate it when people are dipshits like that and try to grief recon players. i get annoyed when i join a team full of snipers, but they paid $60 for their game like everybody else so they can play however they like. it doesn't suddenly excuse you to become a dipshit griefer.
 
Porter_ said:
i hate it when people are dipshits like that and try to grief recon players. i get annoyed when i join a team full of snipers, but they paid $60 for their game like everybody else so they can play however they like. it doesn't suddenly excuse you to become a dipshit griefer.
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While I agree, if your team is losing horribly, or is on offense and everyone is just lying there sniping...sometimes people need to be smacked around a bit.
 
TwistedAegis said:
While I agree, if your team is losing horribly, or is on offense and everyone is just lying there sniping...sometimes people need to be smacked around a bit.
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i can agree with that, but a chat message asking your teammates to push forward would be better than griefing. i say that hesitantly because there's nothing more annoying than the 'MASTER OF FUCKING STRATEGY' guy that spams the chat window giving his team orders. griefing a group of snipers isn't going to solve anything. you'll just hinder the effective ones along with the ineffective ones.

i don't play recon class all that much but i remember being griefed in BC2 by a teammate with smoke grenades, while i was being very effective; constantly spotting and i had disarmed 2 of the 4 mcomms that had been armed at that point. in BC2 people see the ghillie suit and just assume that player is useless which not always the case.
 
I remember in BC2 tagging the snipers with a tracer dart so they glowed like christmas tree lights along the hillside.
 
Porter_ said:
i can agree with that, but a chat message asking your teammates to push forward would be better than griefing. i say that hesitantly because there's nothing more annoying than the 'MASTER OF FUCKING STRATEGY' guy that spams the chat window giving his team orders. griefing a group of snipers isn't going to solve anything. you'll just hinder the effective ones along with the ineffective ones.

i don't play recon class all that much but i remember being griefed in BC2 by a teammate with smoke grenades, while i was being very effective; constantly spotting and i had disarmed 2 of the 4 mcomms that had been armed at that point. in BC2 people see the ghillie suit and just assume that player is useless which not always the case.
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LOL yes, the Sun Tzu's of online gaming are annoying as hell. And you always need snipers, if for no other reason than they are hopefully countering the other team's snipers.
 
Vega said:
lol have you even visited the official BF3 forums? There are massive amounts of people having stability issues. There are threads hundreds of pages long solely about program stability. Sure it may not be the majority, but it still is a significant population.
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This happens with all games.
 
TwistedAegis said:
LOL yes, the Sun Tzu's of online gaming are annoying as hell. And you always need snipers, if for no other reason than they are hopefully countering the other team's snipers.
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haha Sun Tzu...that's great i'm going to have to use that next time i across one.
 
Rattle said:
How does the proximity sensor work on the tanks?

I have it enabled in my land customizations but I dont see anything..
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If you look at the minimap, you'll see little waves coming from your tank to show it is equipped, then nearby enemies will show up on the minimap. They don't have the orange tag over their heads though, unless you manually spot them, so you have to be watching the minimap (which is hard to interpret since it's just a blue mess). The range is pretty limited though.
 
Biggrich76 said:
Is this listed on Battelog as an unlock? I can't seem to find it.
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No, for some reason when you drill down into the grenade launcher on Battlelog it says there are no unlocks for it, but you can unlock shotgun rounds and smoke rounds for it (they are mentioned in the item description). Looks like shotgun rounds came first because after I unlocked smoke I went to enable it and shotty was already there.

The unlock showed up in the end-of-round results before the next map, but that's it.
 
AA tank and turret can friendly fire its own helicopters with no repercussions. This game is broken and shitty. I'm done. Seriously that is incredibly game-breaking.
 
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flegg said:
AA tank and turret can friendly fire its own helicopters with no repercussions. This game is broken and shitty. I'm done. Seriously that is incredibly game-breaking.
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Because FF is off. You can also unload a full M249 magazine into your buddy with no repercussions - but that's not because the game is broken. Play on a server with FF on if you don't like it.
 
flegg said:
AA tank and turret can friendly fire its own helicopters with no repercussions. This game is broken and shitty. I'm done. Seriously that is incredibly game-breaking.
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flegg said:
You obviously haven't played BF3.

AA turret can tip over friendly helicopters as they are taking off; EFFECTIVELY KILLING THEM. NO SHIT I CAN'T KILL MY TEAMMATES WITH A FUCKING RIFLE WITH FF-OFF DERP DERP YOU THINK THIS IS THE FIRST VIDEO GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED?

Again, game = broken
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man some of you have an extremely low tolerance when it comes to glitches. i understand some of the other complaints in this thread...but this = game broken? how often does this little bug affect you? i've spent a decent amount of time in choppers and have yet to see this happen.
 
I think a lot of issues that seem game breaking or game impairing is brought on by griefers, such as friendly firing on your own heli to knock it over and destroy it, or smoke nading teammates so they can't see. Come on guys, seriously? I know I'm taking a break from the game, but it's probably more over dumbshit griefers than game mechanics.
 
flegg said:
AA tank and turret can friendly fire its own helicopters with no repercussions. This game is broken and shitty. I'm done. Seriously that is incredibly game-breaking.
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Hardcore mode has FF enabled and I've never seen intentional TK of a friendly vehicle. Stop playing on shit servers with no admins. Or just uninstall and go back to COD, that way we don't have to deal with your inane babble in this thread.
 
Being able to kill your own helicopters is not just greifing, it's fucking game breaking. Quite the world of difference from smoking your teammates. How you can say otherwise is hilarious.

Oh don't play on shit servers? I'm sorry I didn't realize there was such a grand selection of servers that play the maps/modes I want to play that have no lag and don't crash restart 10 times a day.
 
Just hit level 19 last night, haven't seen AA taking out our own helo's yet. And I usually play in FF on / hardcore servers anyway so...yes, TK'ers fuck things up. That is what admins are for, not sure how that equals the game being broken.
 
flegg said:
Being able to kill your own helicopters is not just greifing, it's fucking game breaking. Quite the world of difference from smoking your teammates. How you can say otherwise is hilarious.
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soooo dramatic.
even so, the game-universe is balanced out by this awesome glitch: every time i revive a teammate with the defib my guy screams "die you motherfucker!" :D
 
TwistedAegis said:
Just hit level 19 last night, haven't seen AA taking out our own helo's yet. And I usually play in FF on / hardcore servers anyway so...yes, TK'ers fuck things up. That is what admins are for, not sure how that equals the game being broken.
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1st of all you have to identify who did it. They can be sneaky about it. Like say they want to get in the helicopter but you haven't died yet and the map is half-way over; they can tip you over as you run towards your base to avoid a heat-seeker. It's not so simple as "play with admins."

And as more people realize you can do this when you take the helicopter they wanted to get in many of them will now start rage firing at you with AA instead of doing their job and covering you.

I've also had multiple instances of my own jet running into me on "accident." You have to be a pretty shitty pilot to do that. That's not game-breaking though. It's partially avoidable and not completely simple to do. This AA turret bullshit, is bullshit.
 
Last night I turned off vertical sync and HBAO and the game went from stuttering unplayable mess to good. It was not a matter of FPS but something else. I'm not sure what did it. Turning in the game was noticeably not smooth almost like rubberbanding. It made it very difficult to do anything and I was having zero fun with the game. Just thought I would let you all know. I'm having fun now.
 
kuhla said:
Last night I turned off vertical sync and HBAO and the game went from stuttering unplayable mess to good. It was not a matter of FPS but something else. I'm not sure what did it. Turning in the game was noticeably not smooth almost like rubberbanding. It made it very difficult to do anything and I was having zero fun with the game. Just thought I would let you all know. I'm having fun now.
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Well that is game breaking too, cancell your next pre-order!
 
Should be apparent from the replies that too many shitty little kids play this game. So saying "go back to COD" where all the shitty little kids can only just bitch about how bad they are actually sounds pretty smart. Shitty little kids already banned me from most of the good TF2 servers "for hacking" (on a 5 digit with 300 games rofl) so I guess I really do have to go back to COD if I want to play an FPS.

This shit happens more than you guys think, only takes a moment of "hey I'm bored I'll just shoot my own chopper for a second lol there it goes!." So it's easy to not notice.

Shitty little kids should be limited to doing stuff like this: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/banflegg
 
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Vega said:
Seems like you have selective reading skills. Yet again, your first two paragraphs are referencing concepts that are so basic they do not need to be mentioned. Move on guy. At no point did I reference the poll I spoke of as some sort of incredible infallible resource. I mearly mentioned it as showing there is not an insignificant population out there having serious issues with this game. The thousands of threads/posts on the same subject are a testament to that.

Try to put words in other peoples mouths much? Where did I say people shouldn't play the game? I must have missed the memorandum appointing you the moderator of the "BF3 general discusssion" thread in which only positive items can be discussed.
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Vega, mad props for your PC building skills, but I found the thread you were looking to post in: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1648066
 
I must be playing on the wrong servers (or right ones in this case) but I've encountered very little griefing type behavior (and I knew about the AA before, there is some other ones as well related to pushing), and most of that was me trying out the destruction physics in base or how far I can get launched by standing on a vehicle.

Of course there is the time long Battlefield tradition of someone jumping into your vehicle as you hop out to repair or running off with your transport while you are using it as a support gun platform.

Griefing also exists in almost any multiplayer game, arguably any group/communal activity period.

v6maro said:
Ok, I have some questions about jets...in the single player, they LOOK so much better! wtf? Also, they have two person planes in single player, and bf2, but NOT multiplayer? Why the heck not? And what happened to the A-10 supposed to be in the game? Where did that go??

A-10 here: http://bf3blog.com/battlefield-3-jets/


edit: ok, just did some research, aparently the A-10 is only available in Rush mode?? WTF is that crap?
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Caspian Rush
Firestorm Rush
Kharg Rush

Not available in any conquest mode (normal or large)
 
l88bastard said:
Well that is game breaking too, cancell your next pre-order!
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My sarcasm meter is a bit broken today.... I'm so confused.... I guess the only thing I will comment about that is I definitely don't think I'll pre-order from Best Buy again. The pre-order SPECACT bonus code fiasco is a nightmare.
 
kuhla said:
My sarcasm meter is a bit broken today.... I'm so confused.... I guess the only thing I will comment about that is I definitely don't think I'll pre-order from Best Buy again. The pre-order SPECACT bonus code fiasco is a nightmare.
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"pre-order canceled" is a mini meme regarding BF3 on these forums (mainly this thread) which people started to the perception of people complaining about seemingly mundane issues related to BF3 before its release.
 
limitedaccess said:
I must be playing on the wrong servers (or right ones in this case) but I've encountered very little griefing type behavior (and I knew about the AA before, there is some other ones as well related to pushing), and most of that was me trying out the destruction physics in base or how far I can get launched by standing on a vehicle.

Of course there is the time long Battlefield tradition of someone jumping into your vehicle as you hop out to repair or running off with your transport while you are using it as a support gun platform.

Griefing also exists in almost any multiplayer game, arguably any group/communal activity period.
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This will happen more and more as more people realize they can do it. Not all griefing is equal. This is game-breaking griefing. Telling me that greifing exists everywhere, wow thanks I didn't know. Dumping sewage into a restaurant is greifing and completely shuts down their business but hey greifing is everywhere the restaurant owners just should understand that and just relocate. Thanks man, thanks for the protip.
 
flegg said:
Shitty little kids should be limited to doing stuff like this: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/banflegg
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so there's a steam group devoted to calling you a douchebag/troll and wanting you banned? and with 26 members? i agree that's a pretty fucking childish thing to do...but part of me wonders how much of a douchebag you must have been to warrant such a thing :p

FWIW flegg, it was possible to grief the same way in BC2. if a teammate placed a stick of C4 on your tail rotor and detonated once you were in the air...down you went. same thing with a well-placed RPG to the tail rotor. it didn't 'break' that game, it just happens every now and then and you move on (with a few choice words to the dipshit that did it).
 
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