Battlefield 3 General Discussion Thread

Only had some random disconnects during map changes during last nights session. Hope the maintenance did something to fix it for those that had more problems.
 
Hell yea...

I finally upgraded after getting my tax return back. Previous rig with AMD Phenom X4 and HD4850 had become unplayable after the back to Karkand expansion for whatever reason. It was barely playable (20-30fps) before that on the lowest settings anyways. I'm betting the increased destruction and map size is what did it in on the 64 player maps.

Now I've got an i7 2600k and a GTX560ti 2GB... time to get back to whoopin ass! Its been almost 3 months since I played.:eek:
 
Dethred said:
Here's an example of what is no longer possible in BF games because DICE have abandoned any notion of teamwork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Huu8moEYg (skip the dude talking in the intro),
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That guy nailed it.
- Squad VOIP, needed
- 6 person squad, would be cool
- Commander, yes!
- Customize squad, would be cool.
- Squad commands/etc.
- Repair/Heal aura, would rather have this then the regen. Maybe as a specialization?

I had forgot that BF2 had all this stuff.

He also talks about how spectator mode is needed.
 
00PS said:
Dice and their Battlelog disconnecting/going down is starting to get frustrating.
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NickN said:
My squadmates and I have been experiencing a lot more connection problems lately too. According to the Battlelog news feed, they're going down for server maintenance later tonight (or early in the morning, depending on time zone). Hopefully that'll fix it.
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Vega said:
I can't even play this game anymore, constantly kicked while playing "disconnected from EA". Quality product.
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caddys83 said:
been happening to me all day Sunday :mad:
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cageymaru said:
Yea I was really enjoying the game when I got the disconnected screen. Nothing like getting d/c'd when there are only 5 tickets left. Grr!
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Kenworth said:
I just cruised here because that JUST happened to me. I guess I am not the only one.
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randomhero58 said:
Count me in too. Would just be every once in a while, now it's practically every time.
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WTF happened to BF3? Has become an unplayable POS in the last 2 days?!??!?!!?!?!
 
My friend was having issues with that. I noticed a slight increase, but nothing as bad as everyone else seemed to have. My disconnects were only happening 3-4 times throughout the day. Haven't had problems all day today though so maybe last nights maintenance was a good thing.
 
So I just got the AFPSFPAFASF-whatever shell for the LAVs. Is it worth using at all?
 
Vega said:
I can't even play this game anymore, constantly kicked while playing "disconnected from EA". Quality product.
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I've tried to play twice since mid-december and each time I got 10+ "Cannot connect to server (1)" errors in a row and deleted it off my SSD.
 
Was just at bf3stats.com and seen this in the sidebar...

BF3 Global stats:
PC 25,629
PS3 52,677
360 65,060

How depressing! BF3 is suppose to be a PC game! Damn you PS3! Damn you XBOX! haha
 
Makes sense. I'd imagine a majority of PC players just use battlelog for a lot of that info. I personally don't see any point in using bf3stats.
 
Spidey329 said:
That guy nailed it.
- Squad VOIP, needed
- 6 person squad, would be cool
- Commander, yes!
- Customize squad, would be cool.
- Squad commands/etc.
- Repair/Heal aura, would rather have this then the regen. Maybe as a specialization?

I had forgot that BF2 had all this stuff.

He also talks about how spectator mode is needed.
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+1, you would think these were standard by now.
 
What really pissed me off is what they called a "commorose." What's the point in having it as a feature if it's pretty much useless. They need to patch the fuck out of the game if they want people to keep playing.
 
WiLLiSTER said:
Makes sense. I'd imagine a majority of PC players just use battlelog for a lot of that info. I personally don't see any point in using bf3stats.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe BF3stats pulls their info from the battlelog servers. So what're seeing is exactly what would have been displayed on the battlelog side. It's not like that was only the amount of PC players on BF3stats :)

It wasn't too long ago that we saw 80k PC players (right?). It seems a lot of people are leaving until a patch comes. I know I've played once (and many of the people I play with) in the past month.
 
Spidey329 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe BF3stats pulls their info from the battlelog servers. So what're seeing is exactly what would have been displayed on the battlelog side. It's not like that was only the amount of PC players on BF3stats :)

It wasn't too long ago that we saw 80k PC players (right?). It seems a lot of people are leaving until a patch comes. I know I've played once (and many of the people I play with) in the past month.
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If you and I are thinking of the same website, they only start tracking your stats once you go to the site and request that they do so by inputting your player ID number.

And count me among those people who have quit BF3 until the patch comes. EA sure knows how to take a perfectly good franchise and run it straight into the ground.
 
Check this out:

http://battlefield.gigabyte.us/

Any decent players want to put a team together?

I figure to have any sort of chance, every player on the team should meet these minimum requirements:

SPM 500+
K/D 2.0+
Skill level 500+

PM me if interested.
 
Spidey329 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe BF3stats pulls their info from the battlelog servers. So what're seeing is exactly what would have been displayed on the battlelog side. It's not like that was only the amount of PC players on BF3stats :)

It wasn't too long ago that we saw 80k PC players (right?). It seems a lot of people are leaving until a patch comes. I know I've played once (and many of the people I play with) in the past month.
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You are correct sir! The figures on that website in terms of population numbers are meant to accurately reflect online users.
 
Dethred said:
Here's an example of what is no longer possible in BF games because DICE have abandoned any notion of teamwork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Huu8moEYg (skip the dude talking in the intro),
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That video succinctly highlights all the strategic complexities and nuances which have been stripped out of battlefield in favor of a streamlined BF light game.

No wonder I have come to find BF3 so mundane, and in hindsight you can just tell that these compromises have been made because EA so desperately wants its version of the CoD cash cow, which of course requires mainstream appeal.

Previous BF games I continued to play for years after release, but yet with BF3 I cannot stand to touch the game anymore after a mere 5 months. Friends and family recount the same experience, including one brother who was one of the top 25 BF2 players in Australia at one stage, had an aggregated play time of 1528 hours (with 104 hours alone spent as the commander!) but has stopped playing BF3 after a mere 100 hours.

Maybe DICE can address some of the major issues in a patch, but I am not holding my breath. I'm just going to play Skyrim in the mean time until either that happens or planet side 2 is released (fingers crossed that it actually delivers).
 
Vega said:
Check this out:

http://battlefield.gigabyte.us/

Any decent players want to put a team together?

I figure to have any sort of chance, every player on the team should meet these minimum requirements:

SPM 500+
K/D 2.0+
Skill level 500+

PM me if interested.
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I don't meet the mins

that SPM is hard to come by when you fly jets and don't play 24/7 infantry servers, yes thats my excuse, and I am sticking to it
 
those stats dont tell much, everyone who only plays metro and spams nades/320's/usas frags probably has those scores, but it doesn't mean they are a good player...
 
Vega said:
I figure to have any sort of chance, every player on the team should meet these minimum requirements:

SPM 500+
K/D 2.0+
Skill level 500+
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Hmm, let's see here.

SPM 500+ (Nope, I don't play Metro.)
K/D 2.0+ (Nope, I PTFO)
Skill level 500+ (I'm nearly 700 skill atm, but I could play 1 mediocre round and end up at 200. It's a useless stat for the most part.)

Got about 110 hours in and rank 46, guess I don't qualify ;)
 
castun said:
Hmm, let's see here.

SPM 500+ (Nope, I don't play Metro.)
K/D 2.0+ (Nope, I PTFO)
Skill level 500+ (I'm nearly 700 skill atm, but I could play 1 mediocre round and end up at 200. It's a useless stat for the most part.)

Got about 110 hours in and rank 46, guess I don't qualify ;)
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Well said.
I play conquest large maybe 95%(330 hours, level 72)of the time.
Making those stats nearly impossible to get.
 
Stu55 said:
those stats dont tell much, everyone who only plays metro and spams nades/320's/usas frags probably has those scores, but it doesn't mean they are a good player...
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castun said:
Hmm, let's see here.

SPM 500+ (Nope, I don't play Metro.)
K/D 2.0+ (Nope, I PTFO)
Skill level 500+ (I'm nearly 700 skill atm, but I could play 1 mediocre round and end up at 200. It's a useless stat for the most part.)

Got about 110 hours in and rank 46, guess I don't qualify ;)
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Brules said:
All the hackers can play it then.......

Waaaa waaa waaahhhhhhh.
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You can be a good player and easily have those minimum stats and not play Metro all the time. Obviously we would check profiles to filter out cheaters and 100% Metro players. I thought something that basic didn't need to be said, but I guess it did.

Keep the PM's coming!
 
That map looks like a total fuck fest for shotty whores like me......USAS 12 will pwn hard. Toss is nades, 320's, RPGs, you wont be able to walk 2 feet from spawn lol.
 
Vega said:
You can be a good player and easily have those minimum stats and not play Metro all the time. Obviously we would check profiles to filter out cheaters and 100% Metro players. I thought something that basic didn't need to be said, but I guess it did.

Keep the PM's coming!
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Rush wrecks KDR pretty fast too, and recon soflam utterly ruins SPM, 3000 pts in a 20 min round is not good for SPM

here are my mediocre stats
 
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Haha my stats are close to that on PS3 but on PC I am terrible still...I play the shit out of this game though.

great game.
 
castun said:
Hmm, let's see here.

SPM 500+ (Nope, I don't play Metro.)
K/D 2.0+ (Nope, I PTFO)
Skill level 500+ (I'm nearly 700 skill atm, but I could play 1 mediocre round and end up at 200. It's a useless stat for the most part.)

Got about 110 hours in and rank 46, guess I don't qualify ;)
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How about you people stop coming up with excuses to justify your stats and play harder to boost them up as far as you can? You don't need to be a Metro/Seine whore to reach a high SPM nor do you need to be a camping pussy to have a high KDR. If anything PTFO nets you very high KDR and SPM if you're an intelligent player because you're almost always where the enemy doesn't expect you to be. Player harder man and set aside those sorry excuses, don't let them keep you down.
 
fochkoph said:
How about you people stop coming up with excuses to justify your stats and play harder to boost them up as far as you can? You don't need to be a Metro/Seine whore to reach a high SPM nor do you need to be a camping pussy to have a high KDR. If anything PTFO nets you very high KDR and SPM if you're an intelligent player because you're almost always where the enemy doesn't expect you to be. Player harder man and set aside those sorry excuses, don't let them keep you down.
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fochkoph said:
How about you people stop coming up with excuses to justify your stats and play harder to boost them up as far as you can? You don't need to be a Metro/Seine whore to reach a high SPM nor do you need to be a camping pussy to have a high KDR. If anything PTFO nets you very high KDR and SPM if you're an intelligent player because you're almost always where the enemy doesn't expect you to be. Player harder man and set aside those sorry excuses, don't let them keep you down.
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high SPM requires a few different variables, and doing certain things just doesnt get you there

running supply for your squad of engineers vs lots of armor doesnt, neither does SOFLAMing.

I'm not super great, statistically I'm above average
 
fochkoph said:
How about you people stop coming up with excuses to justify your stats and play harder to boost them up as far as you can? You don't need to be a Metro/Seine whore to reach a high SPM nor do you need to be a camping pussy to have a high KDR. If anything PTFO nets you very high KDR and SPM if you're an intelligent player because you're almost always where the enemy doesn't expect you to be. Player harder man and set aside those sorry excuses, don't let them keep you down.
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Your play style is what is going to dictate your stats to a certain extent.
Say I play all air maps only. All those points you get from med kits, and resupplies are not as available as on the city maps.
The same guy who lives on the flags there will have a harder time getting his SPM up versus the all city map guy.

If you play all rush and have a 2.0 kdr, your doing it wrong.
There not excuses. I could care if your stats are better than mine.
I know I go HAM on all objectives, and that's enough for me.
 
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