Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

Are you stuck at the loading screen? Go to Origin and click on "game details" (or something like that) for Bf3. I had this problem and it was because my close quarters didn't finish downloading (BF3 doesn't show up as downloading something on the main page for some reason).

 

Thanks. Shows all as "Installed" but still an issue. Original and Karkand maps load an play just fine though.

 

Hm, have you tried right clicking and selecting "repair install"?.

 

^ when i do that, it begins to install 14GB of data which is the whole game! i hope your Origin "repairs" its installs better than mine does.

 

Yeah, I'm afraid to do that, because that's what it's done the last couple times I tried it.

 

Well it beats not being able to load maps....

 

I would try the repair. It should take ask of 15 min. It is better than not being able to play. If you've slow connection speeds, maybe do it before you go to bed...should be done by the time you wake up.

I had an issue with one map not loading and the only way to fix it was to perform a repair. Fortunately I've FiOS, so it took maybe 15 minutes...I went and got a cup of coffee and a smoke while the repair was downloading, came back and the repair was done.

 

In reading the BF3's Twitter, it seems they are aware of the issue of not being able to send reports...they state to use help.ea.com in the meantime.

I noticed a LOT of people reporting cheaters/hackers in their twitter pages (or alerting EA that they are unable to submit reports). I saw a lot of people complaining about admin abuse also. On their Twitter site, they stated that the more people that report an individual, the better chance of EA looking into the issue. They were telling people to keep reporting or get others to also report, which is in direct contradiction to the fact that there is a section in EA's FAQ that states that clans that purchase dedicated accounts and have specific rules/guidelines of gameplay can kick/ban players that violate those rules. I've always wondered why people complain when they're banned for server violations on a server that is purchased by a private organization...there's really nothing they can do about it. Their main complaint, however, is that admins remove them from the server because they're winning. My clan will remove anyone even remotely suspected of cheating, but we also kick/ban on consensus of at least two members. We also remove non-members to make room for members when the server is full (we use a server message when doing this or any kick/ban).

My main worry is that if someone gets a burr in their backside because they were suspected of cheating and they decide to try to get their whole clan or friends to spam the report system against an individual or clan, that's abuse of the system right there. This game REALLY needs a spectator mode with a recording capability (no, FRAPS or 3rd party recording software isn't going to cut it). That'll make it easier to scrutinize people suspected of cheating and lessen the chance of banning someone who isn't cheating and is just good. Currently, there are no tools to assist in this, so there WILL be mistakes and even some hesitation in banning legitimate cheaters.

I'm hoping people aren't trigger-happy and are not reporting cheaters just because someone is good and is owning them. But let's face it...many very young people are playing this game (even when there's an age limit for purchasing BF3). Immaturity is rampant. No, I'm not accusing you of this, darxide.

 

I did this and it seemed to work for me. Only took a few minutes @ 15Mbps

 

CS gun game in BF3? No thanks.

 

Have you tried it? The dynamics are quite different than CS. That mode isn't really my cup of tea, but it's a definitive change from the previously-released modes, which have become rather boring. I plan to play Gun Master mode when I'm bored with the other modes and maps. And I've noticed improvement in my pistoling, which I like.

On another note, since I've been playing CQ, my skill rating is seriously dipping. It's obvious that CQ warrants more of a run-gun style of gameplay that really doesn't amount to much skill, even when having to capture points.. :/

 

What is this game better on then guys ps3 or a gaming pc?

 

BF3 should have been conquest only from the get go. Now it's turning into a COD-arcade esque crapfest. All the other game modes dilute gameplay and segregate the community.

 

PC by far, if you have a rig that can run it.

 

Yes, let's not change or add any gameplay mechanics, leave everything exactly as it was in Battlefield 2. You realize the irony of your suggestion, right?

You want Conquest only on large maps? Then play Conquest on large maps, don't buy any of the other stuff you don't want. Me, I'd rather have a choice and let other people have their choice than limit everyone to only playing the maps and modes that I happen to enjoy.

 

Agreed with Mastershroom. Also, I thought gun game worked really well in Bf3 after the few I played. It was very fun. Just something different that was actually good to get away from Conquest that we probably always play.

 

actually, switching back to Cs:Go from cod and bf3 was so boring and lame. I hate the fact that i can't use iron sights again. I tried CsGo for one round and didn't even last half of it before i went back to bf3. And there are more hackers in cs than in bf3/cod.

 

It's still there and popular in the first place. Sometimes people will feel like playing conquest, sometimes they just want to shoot the sh*t out of someone online. Dice is just trying to keep all types of players happy (run & gun, tactical, squad teamplay, lone wolf).

The only thing BF3 is missing is the original counter strike's "search and destroy mode" where its like rush but no respawning for the whole round.

 

Conquest is probably my least played mode. To each their own.

 

ugh, close quarters sucks. And hit detection still sucks. three guys with their backs to me, throw a grenade, no damage, full magazine into the back of someones head, 50% damage... really?

 

well, of the two i want to report, the first was a sniper camping in the ship in the ocean in Noshahr Canals and sniping people all over the map. people were furious, and once i called him out and asked him to stop his hack or i will report him, he immediately left the match. the second was a support class with one-shot-one-kill hack, hiding away somewhere in Caspian Border with a score-per-minute of 650. i'm not among "very young people" anymore, and i only play this game to have some fun, not to ruin other people's fun. i don't like it when others ruin a perfectly good match with their immature and childish "hacks" that they have paid for. my K/D is not very good (because i'm playing with a controller and a mouse), but i'm not awful either. i can hold my own in the game, but not against cheap hackers. that really pisses me off.

 

Things like this have pushed me away from Battlefield 3 lately. I find fewer and fewer servers where things like this are not going on. Often when I do its a clan server where the "clan" is on one team owning everyone on the other team and the minute your team starts doing well people start getting "kicked".

BF3 has just turned into ego trips for too many people. Now I am playing Diablo 3 and being subjected to greedy publishers who have ruined one of the best gaming franchises in history in hopes of a continuous revenue flow.

 

This isn't really specific to BF3...all game genres with dedicated servers usually have stuff like that going on. Stuff like that was going on 10+ years ago, maybe even longer than that...last I noticed such an issue was back in 2003.

My clan isn't like that (which is probably why we tend to get visits from lots of clans...I think they know we're loosely organized and use us to up their kill stats), and I highly doubt a majority of servers are run in such a manner. We WILL ban if someone is very argumentive (we use our forum and TeamSpeak to resolve disputes) and is so disruptive that gameplay is affected. Sometimes people interpret that as them being booted because "I was owning them, they got mad and banned me." We usually reference the server logs so that any visiting forum members can know the full story. There's usually another side of the story that a complainer isn't sharing. Or, we remove one person from a visiting clan group (usually for suspect play) and their clan gets in an uproar and disrupts gameplay, usually resulting in a majority of that clan being removed (or, one is removed and the rest quit).

But I have seen some hokey server admins banning for ridiculous reasons (or no reason at all). That's when I go into Battlelog and comment on a particular server, especially if I can find the actual match that was played. I've never reported such things to EA/DICE since a privately run server is beyond their control...wasted effort there. Now what Battlelog needs is to enable a user to blacklist a server so that the server won't show in the user's queries again. I've visited a server in the past, had a bad experience, and promised myself that I won't visit that server again, only to inadvertently visit the server again and experience the same BS.

 

I can has join your clan server? name?

 

This game is making absolutely no sense now. 6 shots point blank with shotgun and does like 60% damage but one or two shots with P90 from 20 yards I'm dead.

 

how do you know the sniper was hacking? did he have over 100 kills? some people are that good. i sometimes snipe from the end of the map and get 40-50 kills from 800m and farther.

 

Yeah the hit detection got awful with the patch. I shoot someone in the face and I get a suppression assist.

 

That's actually good. Shotguns are just too overpowered with one shoot kills everytime. If you took 6 shots and only did 60% damage, it must've been all arms and legs. and one-two shots with a p-90 must be either headshot and chest shot, which is about right.

 

have you port forewarded all of your ports on your router, maybe you should look into doing that, it could help you a bunch if you havent done it already.

take a look here, just find your router brand and model and then select battlefield 3 under the list of programs and follow the instructions on the page.

i hope this really helps you out .

Free Help Forwarding Ports - PortForward.com

 

Didn't the shotgun got nerfed pretty hard since the April patch?

They don't always 1 shot at point blank anymore
I remember most of the time requires like 6 hits close range or sometimes it randomly 1 shot people.

You have a much better chance of hitting + killing quickly with flet, slugs and frag rounds than you do with buckshot.

There are times, I wished that Dice didn't listen to the community. Tis a shame that most of the bf3 active members are basically whiners.

 

I've tried port forwarding, setting my machine as a dmz, adjusting the in game latency slider, even play with wired connection. Still same crap. My ping is usually 25-35 too. Not sure that port forwarding will do much anyhow, it really only allows for data packets to traverse the firewall. Some games it's decent but others it's horrible. I'd say it's about 40% good, 60% bad.

edit: Just saw Falco152's post - If shotgun is nerfed that bad that point blank one or two shots don't kill, then someone needs to be fired. I don't like using frag rounds because half the time I suicide by using it even though the enemy only takes 50% damage.

I felt that with the previous patch it was actually playing well for me. It had its issues and times, but I feel like it's back to beta day hit detection.

 

The 870 got nerfed pretty bad. I gave up on buckshots and now use slugs and try to go for headshots. It works sometimes...

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I'm gonna put BF3 on the backburner for a while and maybe re-install BF2 or BF2142 and see what's up with those games. Hopefully there'll be some servers still alive.

 

Some weapons do need nerfs but when Dice listens to the community they tend to nerf it too much.
Basically BF3 is too buggy in its current state for me to enjoy it so im going back to Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.

I got royally boned with my premium BF3 purchase and the added branding is making me upset.

 

It's the buckshot that got nerfed really hard when not using the sights.

Also, with premium ... you lose out of gaining the knife related service stars and their dogtags if you haven't got them yet.

 

omg f2000 + laser sight is so good in cq.

 

LOL. This is what happens when you play late at night with not so good people...

Battle Report - Battlelog / Battlefield 3

I was 25-2 until that Kyokun240 came in and he's a hacker with aimbot. Spawn killed me several times across the map in our deployment.

 

add me ht, my tag is bulletdropped, odd i definantly played a game with you, it must have been during the beta

 

Add me too, JMDeathrage.

 

there is a list of every one on the first post just ad every one

 

Installing BF3 now on my new AW M17x w/ AMD 7970M... can't wait to try it out!

 

here is a link to the bf3 list
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...-cards/619906-battlefield-3-friends-list.html

 

Guys, feel free to add me to your friends list: Prasad1337
Prasad1337 - Battlelog / Battlefield 3
Progression - Prasad1337 - Battlelog / Battlefield 3

 

hey m8 just take the list i just put up and add every one its quiker

 

Done..

 

I hope that you used up a jet to blow him away.

 

Well that probably would not have worked. I was also sniped while in a tank, so lol. It was in the last few minutes of the round though. After several times I realized it was autoaim, and then happened a couple more times I alt tabbed out and fired up FRAPs, but by the time I got back in the game, and started recording the round ended.

First time it happened it didn't "feel" right, because he was so far away, but thought, ok, good aim. Then I spawned in our deployment twice and got insta killed by him with him prone in the same spot across the map. Then I hopped in a tank and was killed, that's when I realized it was aimbot/hack.

 

i joined that game right after you left, just to see and the guy sniped me out of a moving jet first and then the tank, which is impossible, and when i tried to report him it kept saying that i couldnt do it.

 

has anyone noticed the slight barely noticeable stutter that occurs in the game while running and looking around? even at 60+fps? Ever since the update i noticed this and sometimes it gets irritating. limiting my fps in the game to 59.95 used to fix this but now it does it no matter what. I played with all settings, triple buffering, renderaheadlimit, everything and it wont go away. And its only bf3, all other games with vsync on run butter smooth.

 

I've never had that issue, Halo. But I have an unsolvable issue atm: I'm pretty much useless at BF3

 

Ah yeah glad you were there to witness it too . I tried to report him too and it said I couldn't, so I googled and they have a way to do it through the Origin support, some convoluted eight step process.