Battlefield 3 General Discussion Thread

[Sly]

Unlocked reactive armor today. Do you guys think its worth using it over IR smoke?

Dunno, but there's four sides in a tank, that's four shells that might as well be blanks in a tank battle. And then you can repair it afterwards. How often do you come across javeline teams? Compare that to how often you come across RPG and other Tanks. I prefer proximity sensors, but choosing between the two, i'd equip the armor by default, and just switch to IR smoke if there happens to be a good javeline team.

I've put up soflams and often there aren't any engineers taking advantage of it. I'd spend the whole game in the tower in caspian, and i'd often end up seeing only half a dozen javeline kills. If there are dedicated javeline carriers, great, but often there aren't. Truth is, with only a couple of them, it's not easy to take out a target. That's not much of an incentive to carry them.

 

[castun]

He likes vehicles, what's the big deal? Play the game how you want to.

875 Combat efficiency ribbons is a tad ridiculous though, don't you think? I consider myself a bit of a vehicle whore, and I've 'only' got 111 after 102 hours (half his time.)

 

[Pringals]

Played a little of BFBC2 last night and forgot how much I miss the Tracer Dart gun.

 

[otapnam]

was on damavand peak conquest and in the tunnel towards the end of a game. Our team was pulling a fat comeback and just got a bunch of RPG kills. A tank pulls up on the opposite side of the tunnel but im out of rockets. I whip out the repair tool and torched the enemy tank, helping weaken it enough for our own tank and engies to slam the thing and blow it up. Im getting shot and jump over a barrier for the victory music.

feels good man

 

[U R DOA]

875 Combat efficiency ribbons is a tad ridiculous though, don't you think? I consider myself a bit of a vehicle whore, and I've 'only' got 111 after 102 hours (half his time.)

Thanks for taking a look, and trying to see my point.
The vehicles make this game. I can't get enough of them either.
But when guys start stacking and exploiting vehicles.
It ruins the experience for everyone else in the server, save them.

Guys on there team were leaving the server just because there was no one left to kill.
Maybe after looking at this battlelog my frustration will make more sense.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/22813568/1/299939421/

My stubborn ass no quit rule made me stay for a hour of that crap.
We had four guys mic'd up trying to fight back. We didn't have a chance.
Every anti air defense we tried they were ready for.

 

[Void]

Thanks for taking a look, and trying to see my point.
The vehicles make this game. I can't get enough of them either.
But when guys start stacking and exploiting vehicles.
It ruins the experience for everyone else in the server, save them.

Guys on there team were leaving the server just because there was no one left to kill.
Maybe after looking at this battlelog my frustration will make more sense.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/22813568/1/299939421/

My stubborn ass no quit rule made me stay for a hour of that crap.
We had four guys mic'd up trying to fight back. We didn't have a chance.
Every anti air defense we tried they were ready for.

I know how you feel, lol. I've had it happen to me quite a bit, stacked teams and what not.

Funny how we never hear from guys that are on the winning end of the team stacking complain about it, lol. I not referring to just you either, I'm talking about everyone in general.

You win some, you lose some. That's how i look at it, lol.

 

[U R DOA]

I know how you feel, lol. I've had it happen to me quite a bit, stacked teams and what not.

Funny how we never hear from guys that are on the winning end of the team stacking complain about it, lol. I not referring to just you either, I'm talking about everyone in general.

You win some, you lose some. That's how i look at it, lol.

And that's a good way to look at it.
But that is not how those guys play it.
They stack up on that server all the time.
They win some, then they win some more.

 

[Vega]

Am I the only one that thinks the AS VAL is really, really kind of too powerful? I mean the accuracy, lack of recoil, the power for being silenced and so on, are crazy.

The AS VAL also has the slowest bullets in the game and currently a very small magazine. Sound's like when they give it the extra ten rounds they compensate by making less accurate. I do like it though, coming up on 4K kills with it.

875 Combat efficiency ribbons is a tad ridiculous though, don't you think? I consider myself a bit of a vehicle whore, and I've 'only' got 111 after 102 hours (half his time.)

875, so few?

was on damavand peak conquest and in the tunnel towards the end of a game. Our team was pulling a fat comeback and just got a bunch of RPG kills. A tank pulls up on the opposite side of the tunnel but im out of rockets. I whip out the repair tool and torched the enemy tank, helping weaken it enough for our own tank and engies to slam the thing and blow it up. Im getting shot and jump over a barrier for the victory music.

feels good man

Sounds cool. I love Damavand peak, some pretty epic battles in the tunnels if people don't camp the far entrances. If I get the tank in there, it's ownage time.

 

[wadec22]

okay, i've completely ignored the mav and now want to try and use it. i feel like a retard, but why when i hold space does it only lift a few inches off the ground? EDIT: never mind, it was my joystick being plugged in with throttle all the way down that wouldn't let it take off....

 

[Skizzy]

About 10 or so more rounds and my M98B should be unlocked. I'm pretty excited.

875 Combat efficiency ribbons is a tad ridiculous though, don't you think? I consider myself a bit of a vehicle whore, and I've 'only' got 111 after 102 hours (half his time.)

Wouldn't know, I'm actually quite new at the game. It was more of a "don't worry about things you can't fix, just take a deep breath and move on" type comment.

 

[Business6]

875 Combat efficiency ribbons is a tad ridiculous though, don't you think? I consider myself a bit of a vehicle whore, and I've 'only' got 111 after 102 hours (half his time.)

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/soldier/Business6/awards/336428376/pc/

I've got a few of those Combat Efficiency Ribbons

 

[wadec22]

just unlocked the L96. seems nice and accurate, simiar to the m40 sniper rifle i preferred in bfbc2. how do you guys like it compared to the m98 (my current weapon of choice when recon)?

 

[WiLLiSTER]

just unlocked the L96. seems nice and accurate, simiar to the m40 sniper rifle i preferred in bfbc2. how do you guys like it compared to the m98 (my current weapon of choice when recon)?

This question keeps coming up. Going by stats, the M98 is better, but I prefer the L96. I'm using the M98 now just cause I got bored with using the L96. Both are incredibly easy to use though.

 

[Sly]

Both will kill with a headshot. But what if the hit wasn't fatal? Which one will more likely be fatal with the follow up shot?

 

[Forceman]

Both will kill with a headshot. But what if the hit wasn't fatal? Which one will more likely be fatal with the follow up shot?

Don't all the bolt-actions have the same damage?

Edit: No, they don't. Looks like the M98B does more damage across the board. Significantly more at close range. M98B has much faster bullet also.
http://symthic.com/?s=bf3&sb=dmgchart

 

[00PS]

So I'm a rule abiding player, but when servers make up rules as they go, or admins get dominated by players, I find it funny/annoying that they exercise their ability to ban/kick.

Had an awesome run today in a BBB server where I was ~30:2. I was the gunner in tanks, heli's, and had some awesome kills with the AEK-971(which is a great gun btw), then next the thing I know I get a Error message "you've been kicked." So I rejoin and ask what the deal was since there was no reason. Admin gets on there saying, I don't have to give one. Then goes on this tanget how I was Jet whoring...I had not flown a jet all night . Of course he kicks and bans me again when people start calling him out on it.

For those that are going to chime-in and say "their servers, their rules" I agree, but to kick because a player has a nice score? C'mon.

Oh well, I guess at the end of the day, I'm not paying the bill for the server. Luckly, there are plenty more to choose from.

This ever happen to anyone else?

 

[RamonGTP]

I'm sure you aren't the first to receive an unjustified kick/ban and won't be the last.

 

[Skizzy]

How does the Skill stat work? I'll check my stats after a game and I'll be at 300, but the next I'll be at 700.

I got my first MVP today, was happy about that.

 

[Forceman]

How does the Skill stat work? I'll check my stats after a game and I'll be at 300, but the next I'll be at 700.

I got my first MVP today, was happy about that.

It is supposed to show how well you did against the competition - so if you have a good game against good (high skill?) players your skill goes up, and if you have a bad game against bad players it'll go down. It changes a lot, sometimes quickly, and is pretty pointless as a metric.

 

[Business6]

Skill is based off a scale system. If you kill someone higher ranked than you, even if you just walk up behind them and do 3 damage to them after they took out a whole squad, they will likely lose "skill" points while you gain some. The greater the difference in rank, the more points one way or the other.

And having admined multiple servers I've had the wonderful joy of having to point out rules and enforce them. People accused me of making them up as I went, too, despite server messages saying "type @rules to see our simple set of rules" or something along those lines.

Not saying that was the case for you, 00ps, because that definitely does happen, but there isn't an admin-related complaint that shouldn't be taken with a grain of salt. Those Battlelog forums are chock effin full of threads like that.

 

[Sly]

It's a good try at quantifying player abilities tho. I'm browsing my game history and in games where the teams are stacked, the team that lost were gaining skill points (sometimes in the hundreds) while the winning teams skill points plummeted (some also in the hundreds).

Now if only that translated into something that's actually useful for compensation.

 

[FadedSpark]

First time playing in months (Thanks, TOR. )

Got kicked manually for "Using a banned weapon"

The weapon? a SMAW in metro -_- Fucking really? Your team is claymore whoring every opening but clearing out some campers with a smaw is bad news?

God the community sucks sometimes.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I've seen some maps will be Metro only and ban ALL explosives, including grenades.

 

[Sly]

I've seen some maps will be Metro only and ban ALL explosives, including grenades.

Aim at the roof. Autokicks only work if the weapon shows up. But i've used them to blow away hiding places and lower healths without getting kicked

 

[Droc]

First time playing in months (Thanks, TOR. )

Got kicked manually for "Using a banned weapon"

The weapon? a SMAW in metro -_- Fucking really? Your team is claymore whoring every opening but clearing out some campers with a smaw is bad news?

God the community sucks sometimes.

Lots of metro servers dont allow explosives.



Anyone know if your stats get wiped if you crash from a server and rejoin before the end?

I was playing caspian with my friend, I just hid on the antenna and SOFLAMed for him using the tank with guided shell. He went 64-4 and 4 other guys had similar scores, but I had close to 17k in points...I assume its from using the soflam. Not a single vehicle could leave the RU base past the base of the hill without getting soflamed and having half a dozen guided shells/missiles/rockets on them. Was epic. I crashed with 30 tickets left and stupid me, I rejoined and my battle report was just for the last few min. Sometimes if I crash, my battlereport will show an hour later....but i think if you rejoin, it wipes and only send you one?

 

[WhyYouLoveMe]

Anyone know if your stats get wiped if you crash from a server and rejoin before the end?

I'm pretty sure you do lose those points. I could be wrong.

 

[haunter]

that sucks

 

[Caelum Atra]

Lots of metro servers dont allow explosives.



Anyone know if your stats get wiped if you crash from a server and rejoin before the end?

I was playing caspian with my friend, I just hid on the antenna and SOFLAMed for him using the tank with guided shell. He went 64-4 and 4 other guys had similar scores, but I had close to 17k in points...I assume its from using the soflam. Not a single vehicle could leave the RU base past the base of the hill without getting soflamed and having half a dozen guided shells/missiles/rockets on them. Was epic. I crashed with 30 tickets left and stupid me, I rejoined and my battle report was just for the last few min. Sometimes if I crash, my battlereport will show an hour later....but i think if you rejoin, it wipes and only send you one?

Its so nice to have javelin shooters when soflamming. Its such a pain in the ass to setup a good place and then sit there spamming these lame 10 points over and over and have no one shooting at your painted targets

 

[quadnad]

Its so nice to have javelin shooters when soflamming. Its such a pain in the ass to setup a good place and then sit there spamming these lame 10 points over and over and have no one shooting at your painted targets

QFT

All too often I'm flamming like my life depended on it and fucking nobody is using javelins. Drives me nuts, because when someone actually DOES use a javelin you start mopping up. I notice in rush mode on Caspian the flam can do serious damage..

 

[Blue_Scholar]

nvm

 

[Xonim]

Played Saturday for the first time in a while.....had a couple nice games, and then a few not so great ones. Missed my first MVP by like 70 points ... I was at 4970 or something, 2nd place guy was at 5010, 1st place guy was ~5040. Never been so close before, was kinda hoping I could pull it off, almost got a revive off before the last kill but body disappeared just before I got to it =(

Had one of the most frustrating matches I've ever played also.....you ever get on a server where there's just too many good people on the other team? I mean, it wasn't aim-bot good, but I've never seen a team be completely lit up like we were. It was op metro, and they had 3 recon guys covering the whole length of the map fromt he one end, with 2 assault guys just kinda hanging out in case we got close. I think the final score of that game was something like 200-60 or something stupid. We couldn't do anything!

 

[Forceman]

Anyone know if your stats get wiped if you crash from a server and rejoin before the end?

They do. Best thing to do if you crash is not re-join. I had hoped it would remember my team and score and just drop me back in, but it doesn't. Exiting after crashing should let you keep the points you accumulated.

That's assuming a local crash of course, if the server drops you then results may vary.

 

[Blue_Scholar]

They do. Best thing to do if you crash is not re-join. I had hoped it would remember my team and score and just drop me back in, but it doesn't. Exiting after crashing should let you keep the points you accumulated.

That's assuming a local crash of course, if the server drops you then results may vary.

This is interesting, I didn't realize this. Cheers for the info.

 

[Bigbacon]

They do. Best thing to do if you crash is not re-join. I had hoped it would remember my team and score and just drop me back in, but it doesn't. Exiting after crashing should let you keep the points you accumulated.

That's assuming a local crash of course, if the server drops you then results may vary.

even BF2142 did this. If you got dropped from the game, you would get your points when the round ended. I think you just didn't get any awards.

Though, 2142 did retain your score and awards if you rejoined after being dropped.

 

[otapnam]

It's a good try at quantifying player abilities tho. I'm browsing my game history and in games where the teams are stacked, the team that lost were gaining skill points (sometimes in the hundreds) while the winning teams skill points plummeted (some also in the hundreds).

Now if only that translated into something that's actually useful for compensation.

Its just like sports, baseball, basketball, football etc. - theyre always trying to figure out the perfect stat, we need some gaming maniacs to figure out one for BF3.

 

[Droc]

just a FYI
1000 TICKETS HC CASPIAN:: NEW YORK :: [XtG] XTREMEGAMERS.CA

I run into bad admins all the time, I just dont always take note of the server.
This admin was banning anyone who killed him. He was spouting off that he was banning people using GCG streams as hackers so they would be banned from all GCG servers.
just a heads up.

 

[castun]

I would have taken a screenshot of him bragging about it and sent it in to the GCG staff, they may actually be able to do something about it. Speaking of which, maybe I should make it a habit to have FRAPS running just for cases like this. I’m fortunate enough to not have run into that kind of bad admin yet.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

just a FYI
1000 TICKETS HC CASPIAN:: NEW YORK :: [XtG] XTREMEGAMERS.CA

I run into bad admins all the time, I just dont always take note of the server.
This admin was banning anyone who killed him. He was spouting off that he was banning people using GCG streams as hackers so they would be banned from all GCG servers.
just a heads up.

I wonder if you can report his ass for abusing power and such.

 

[castun]

I just tried out guided rockets for the first time, and already had people crying that I was aimbotting lol.

 

[castun]

Has anyone noticed how the times as each team don't add up correctly? Like, I have about 110 hours played, but it says my time as the US & Russian is only about 30 hours each. What gives?