Battlefield 3 General Discussion Thread

Stinger are easy to use. Just lock on to the aircraft you want to shoot down. Wait a few seconds for them to pop their flares then fire once you reestablish lock. Every one of my stinger kills has been this way. If you are firing the moment you get lock then you are doing it wrong.
 
Khaos Kid said:
Stinger are easy to use. Just lock on to the aircraft you want to shoot down. Wait a few seconds for them to pop their flares then fire once you reestablish lock. Every one of my stinger kills has been this way. If you are firing the moment you get lock then you are doing it wrong.
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The stinger range is so short though, often the time it takes you to get a lock the jet is almost out of range.
 
any comments on the new patch?

I got tired of the (NV Surround) performance of BF3 and went back to BC2 for a while.
 
I was soooo stoked for this game. I built the most powerful rig (in comparison to current gen) that I ever had a few months before release, just for BF3. Yet it didn't really hold my attention; I haven't played at all in the past 2 months.

However I'm not sure if it is the game itself or the genre; I think I'm just tired of military/semi-realistic shooters. I've actually started scrimming pugs with some old CS buddies again; I enjoy the feel of "true" competition head to head, with clear results. If anything I seem to be drawn more to SP experiences with good stories; any MP game right now has a hard time holding my attention. Anyone else feeling the same way?
 
Eh. Some BF3 maps are just... bad. Metro for example, is a shit map.

Oman is great, so is firestorm and kharg island.
 
MavericK96 said:
I would not consider BF3 a part of the "semi-realistic military" genre.
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well it's a military shooter that's semi-realistic in the sense that it's somewhere between TF2 and ARMA. i agree with TwistedAegis' description.
 
great game, loving it so far. Graphics are great, love the ability to prone again. Missed it since 2142.. Too bad they didn't have it for bc2
 
treble318 said:
great game, loving it so far. Graphics are great, love the ability to prone again. Missed it since 2142.. Too bad they didn't have it for bc2
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unless my memory is completely out of whack, you can go prone in 2142.
 
I play caspian 90% of the time still. Firestorm and the bridge city map take up the rest.
I dont know why, but I dont like the BTK maps....they just dont feel properly to scale.
 
Droc said:
I play caspian 90% of the time still. Firestorm and the bridge city map take up the rest.
I dont know why, but I dont like the BTK maps....they just dont feel properly to scale.
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The bridge city is Seine Crossing (spelling?), probably my least favorite map. That and the tail end of Metro. The portion with all the apartments that is used to team death match. That is a shitty TDM map.
 
Does anyone use the stinger or javelin? When I use the stinger they either fly very low or use their flares; very hard to get a kill. With the javelin when I try to lock on they normally kill before I fire.

Also, is it just me or are the jets kinda useless for shooting stuff on the ground?
 
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Jets are ok at shooting ground vehicles once you get rockets or ATGMs, but I find even rockets against infantry is almost useless unless you know exactly where they are at and are able to hit them with a few rounds.
 
saedrin said:
Eh. Some BF3 maps are just... bad. Metro for example, is a shit map.

Oman is great, so is firestorm and kharg island.
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Metro is great with just pistols & knifes. I play on a P&K only server and it's the only map in rotation and I get lots of points.
 
Points are for losers. I have way more fun being tactical and moving around a map killing people from behind. Metro is just a meat grinder.
 
Azureth said:
Also, is it just me or are the jets kinda useless for shooting stuff on the ground?
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No, infantry at least have little to fear from jets. Vehicles a little, but even then it is nothing like BF2. I can't think of a single time I've been capping a flag and even looked at the sky, but in BF2 if you didn't, you'd get bombed into oblivion.
 
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Yeah, jets in BF2 were lethal as hell. In BF3, not nearly as much. I am getting close to 100 hours game time and have spent absolutely no time in jets. I just don't see the point.
 
I have no time in jets and very little in heli's. I would much rather pick off low flying aircraft with my tank and watch them flip out in chat!
 
Azureth said:
Metro is great with just pistols & knifes. I play on a P&K only server and it's the only map in rotation and I get lots of points.
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What server is this? Sounds like a nice change of pace from regular maps, and I hate playing normal 64 metro since all anyone does is nade or noob tube.
 
Khaos Kid said:
The bridge city is Seine Crossing (spelling?), probably my least favorite map. That and the tail end of Metro. The portion with all the apartments that is used to team death match. That is a shitty TDM map.
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Agreed that is the most awful TDM experience you can have.
 
Nosehair TDM is pretty damn awful too, constantly spawning in front of a player and getting shot, or having somebody spawn RIGHT behind you and getting shot.
 
Ironchef Chris Wok said:
Nosehair TDM is pretty damn awful too, constantly spawning in front of a player and getting shot, or having somebody spawn RIGHT behind you and getting shot.
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Then sit in a corner and let the other poor saps run past you and get shot. That's TDM - plant your ass and rack up the kills.
 
Anyone have 1-second freezes randomly after the last patch? if I enable the graph thing in BF3, gpu/cpu spikes up all the way up my screen for about half a second (game freezes) then returns to normal.

I've never had this happen before, wtf?
 
Forceman said:
No, infantry at least have little to fear from jets. Vehicles a little, but even then it is nothing like BF2. I can't think of a single time I've been capping a flag and even looked at the sky, but in BF2 if you didn't, you'd get bombed into oblivion.
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if its a helo map you need to be wary of the attack helos......

lobski2 said:
Anyone have 1-second freezes randomly after the last patch? if I enable the graph thing in BF3, gpu/cpu spikes up all the way up my screen for about half a second (game freezes) then returns to normal.

I've never had this happen before, wtf?
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yes. I thought it was xfire studders...
 
Hamish Campbell said:
Am I a jerk-off for grabbing an attack chopper, parking it behind a cliff out of sight, then switching to the gunners seat and raining TV missiles all over the map? Because my new favorite thing is to peg the opposing teams choppers in mid flight repeatedly from across the map.

At first I thought it might be a little selfish to keep the chopper tied up like that, but then I realized I'm killing more enemy vehicles and infantry that way than a lot of people would be able to flying it normally.
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No I do this also. :eek: Definitely beats taking the random clueless gunner. It's extremely frustrating when you have the enemy chopper directly in front of you, and the elevation advantage for a good 15-20 seconds and your gunner can't hit it for shit or is targeting something random off to the side instead of paying attention to where your nose is pointed, only to have the enemy take a short climb and kill you within seconds. Best maps to do this on are Caspian and Firestorm. It's actually more helpful to your team because you can pretty much disable most vehicles from the safety of your own base.
 
Azureth said:
Does anyone use the stinger or javelin? When I use the stinger they either fly very low or use their flares; very hard to get a kill. With the javelin when I try to lock on they normally kill before I fire.

Also, is it just me or are the jets kinda useless for shooting stuff on the ground?
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I usually am top 5 on the team and all I do is fly jets. Rocket pods can do plenty of damage when aimed correctly. But if you compare them to the dumb bombs in BF1942/BF2 then yeah in comparison they are fairly weak.
 
was playing seine 64 conquest last night on the US team.

of course our team loses the tank early and we get stuck holding A+B. was playing recon (MK11 + 7x silenced + squad supression) and tried to assist clearing the streets with the mav as well as corner cover but our team wasnt getting shit done.

I decided to sneak across the water from A to D so i parked my mav above the canal wall on the enemy side - swam across and killed the spotted enemies (luckily only one)

Told my squad to spawn on me and we then tried to take over D. Kept moving from spot to spot and racked up some kills, but we were just too little too late. It was fun as hell to get behind their lines and pick em off leaving them running scared :D

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/21387739/1/334231479/
 
chinesepiratefood said:
I usually am top 5 on the team and all I do is fly jets. Rocket pods can do plenty of damage when aimed correctly. But if you compare them to the dumb bombs in BF1942/BF2 then yeah in comparison they are fairly weak.
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yes if you are pretty accurate one strafe with gun and rocket pod will kill a vehicle
 
Anyone else notice a huge performance increase with the latest patch? The game runs quite a bit smoother on my crossfired 6970s. I no longer get those real annoying frame rate drops when theres lots of smoke/debris flying around.
 
haunter said:
I still get some stutter with my CF 6970/50
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Have you tried putting in renderdevice.forcerenderahreadlimit 1 in the console? Im using the 12.2 preview driver with no caps. Triple buffering and vsync disabled in bf3 @ 2560x1600.
 
Whats this GGC SPM banning I keep seeing in the chat box during gameplay? I flying gunner with a guy level 66 for an hour on caspian and in mid flight he was gone and it said his SPM was too high? I checked his profile and he had +200 hours...It bans players for being too good? And whats GGC? I thought PB was the anti-cheat for BF3?
 
Droc said:
Whats this GGC SPM banning I keep seeing in the chat box during gameplay? I flying gunner with a guy level 66 for an hour on caspian and in mid flight he was gone and it said his SPM was too high? I checked his profile and he had +200 hours...It bans players for being too good? And whats GGC? I thought PB was the anti-cheat for BF3?
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Some servers run plugins that will kick/ban for high KDR, SPM, etc. Pretty stupid imo.
 
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