Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

As long you don't touch the movement keys WASD / Jump or press the fire button as you spawn (this include the black loading screen), you get the spawn protection.
You can look around during those few seconds.

I abuse this very often in TDM.

Oh the reason, I noted the black loading screen, cause you can do anything during that time. Which is a way to stand up immediately when revived instead of the prone position.

 

When I changed my name on Origin it took a couple of hours for the change to actually propagate over to Battlelog.

 

Depends on the server, and where you spawn

EDIT: Okay, going to play BF3 until MoH: Warfighter gets released and bye bye BF3, getting tired of hacks now

 

Ah, that's okay then /:

Btw, I tried adding your BF3 ID and I can't seem to click the "add as friend" button?

 

My personal favorite is putting enough lead in someone to where they *should* be dead, only to stop firing and have them kill me. The vast majority of the time their health will be less than 10% which is complete crap.

It's like a higher ping in any other game means you're going to do bad, but a higher ping in BF3 means you're going to do well. The fu...

 

Maybe you're getting leg/arm shots instead of body/head shots?

 

I've done tests with a friend on how many shots should kill from a certain weapon and then applied that to an actual multiplayer game. Completely different because of this "client side hit detection" garbage. There was an article someone posted explaining all of this stuff...

Maybe I'll just play on servers with really high pings and ruin it for everyone -__-

 

My BF3 ID name didn't change in Battlelog :v

 

Ah jeez, I know the feeling. Usually this happens to me *right* before I capture the flag. I've also had high ping players standing close to me and then killing me from a completely different angle, it's ridiculous.

 

I love the "My squad/team sucks" guy. There is always one in every match and they're usually < 1 k/d for the round.

 

I'm assuming that they can't change anything about this "client side hit detection" (I'm guessing it's part of the very core of the game itself) which means I'm stuck with it until BF3 bores me

BF3? A team game? Laughable.

But I don't discriminate against those folk in particular (I'm one of them, on occasion, no matter how good/bad I may be doing). Sometimes my team just plain sucks and doesn't listen. The only issue I can think of that's squad related is them all having the same perk thinking three Ammo specializations will triple our ammo counter. Or the moron using a Frag specialization in a "No Explosives" server.

People confuse the living hell out of me sometimes

 

I'm not going to lie, I usually set my specialization to ammo and then forget about it. People come and go so much in a round I don't see the point of constantly changing it.

 

I try to be a team player, well at least squad player and distribute the perks, but it sucks when you play thinking you have a perk but that person has left or switched squads 5 minutes into the round.

 

Anyone else been getting server timeouts today? Even after resetting my router, switches, and modem, and trying wi-fi and ethernet, I keep getting dumped to desktop sometimes with a "your connection to the server has timed out" or nothing at all.

 

Yeah, I had a game exit on me too. I think there's some problem with battlelog or something.

 

Just tried my cousin's internet with BF3, the PB kicks I'm experiencing is DEFINITELY caused by my crappy internet

 

I dunno. Maybe I feel like the specializations give me just enough edge (and some really do) on the battlefield. Two grenades? More ammunition/rockets/anti-tank mines/C4/claymores? Those I can live with.

Squad suppression, cover, and flak? You're dead anyway. There's no need, whatsoever. Just give me something tangible that's blatant enough to see (i.e. that extra grenade).

 

alright so the BF3 premium Edition drops on September 11th (which seems a little inconsiderate, but whatever) and so does armored kill. I already own premium on my 360 with everything unlocked and whatnot, but i wanted to get BF3 for my computer and then Borderlands 2 drops the 18th (IM SO EXCITED) and if its not worth the money im not going to get it. My specs are in my sig, and i wanted to know via recommended settings if i could WITHOUT ocing my GPU. reason why im asking, is because some websites say i cant, but i see videos that claim to be without OC and are running on everything Ultra. HELP?

 

I had my game completely drop out on me last night. I assume for the same reason yours did.

I called it a night after that though, so I'm not sure if it continued or not.

 

Thanks. It happened a few times to me. Weird lag, like one second or more. I'd be running towards a big rock and then make a turn around it, than bam, I'd be 50 feet just before the rock again running towards it. Just a little disorienting. Then later I'd be like falling under the ground for a few seconds then BAM, timeout. So strange.

 

I don't use suppression or flak much, but cover is VERY useful if you don't get the jump on your opponent or you see each other at the same time, especially on the CQ maps with multiple guys shooting at you at once.

 

So is premium worth it?

 

I only bought it because it gave me a discount on all the expansions, and I just instantly get it when released.

 

Premium users get Armored Kill on a Tuesday? Boo :/

Also, I only got Premium because it came with Dead Space for free, lol.

 

Actually, only the PS3 premium players gets it on Sept 4. The other premiums gets it on Sept 11.
The reset get it on Sept 25.

I got premium cause I had a coupon and referrals that drop it to 10 ^^.

 

When BF4 is right around the corner, I'd doubt it.

 

BF4 is a year away. There's like 4 more expansions for BF3 to come. It's a pretty good deal if you plan on getting all the DLC.

 

Agreed. But whether it's worth it or not is a different matter entirely.

 

I was happy with the wait between BF2 and BF3. The franchise had whatever other dinky games in between to keep people interested, yadda yadda yadda. To jump from BF3 to BF4 this quickly seems pretty lame.

Makes me wonder what will be the next Battlefield franchise if EA either can't get their sh*t straight or if they make a complete mess of the next game.

 

I agree. It seems they now want to ship out BF games like it were the FIFA series !!

 

Premium ain't worth it. Same goes to when I bought BC2 Vietnam expansion.. didn't play it enough, and BF3 released 6 month afterwards, so yeah

 

I really don't understand games that release every year. You can only change so much in a sports game unless you're going to try something radically different (which rarely happens) and it's just the same old, same old. Heck, the last sports game I owned was NCAA Football 2005. If I had bought an Xbox 360 I would have just bought 2007, then 2009, 2011, etc, etc. No point in wasting $60 every year like that, imo. I tried to refrain from mentioning it, but the Lawl of Duty franchise needs Black Ops 2 to be different, as well. It will probably have the same graphics as the last 5 games, but something has to change.

But is EA really pushing BF4 right now? I've seen the "super exclusive Beta-via-Medal-of-Honor-purchase," but will they be doing some console game in between (I think those are the Bad Company games)?

 

EA supposedly "combined" Battlefield and Bad Company 2 into a single "Battlefield" franchise encompassing both.

 

I would like to know if any one using amd mobility card for BF3 like the owners of dv6z and K53t, which catalyst driver you people are using for BF3 ?
I am still on 11.12 which is most stable for me but may not be well optimised for bf3. I tried 12.8 but weired graphics glitch, fuel service crash and sticky dgpu clock breaks it for me.

 

Yeah its now Medal of Honor -> Battlefield -> Medal of Honor so yeah im guessing we might as well get used to yearly rehashes.
At least this years MoH game got rid of the stupid blue tint and some lens flare but still not worth a day 1 purchase.

 

i'm using a Radehon HD 6630m to play Battlefield 3. i'm using Catalyst 11.9 drivers because i need the overvolt feature that has been removed from 11.10 and newer drivers.

 

New Sept 4 Patch notes
New game patch goes - Blog - Battlelog / Battlefield 3

Concerm ....

No more Gunner Flares
Igla/Stingers have a lower min range (Ignores Below Radar perk?)

 

No more gunner flares!? Ack! I've just started to fly dual seat and that is a life saver. They need to reduce flare reload time then by a little bit. I do agree with a cooperating gunner/co-pilot, they were invulnerable. Unless you got very close to them with another chopper and were able to get the missiles off before they flared.

Thank goodness for the AA damage to infantry. It was stupid to sit there and peg them in the head for ten rounds only to do 60% damage.

Did they ever implement a command to hide the OSD info temporarily like in BF2? Sometimes there's so many icons on the screen it's hard to make out what's going on.

They need to introduce some more randomness to things like heat seeking missiles. Flares shouldn't ALWAYS confuse a missile. Also, sometimes someone will flare while you're locked on, re-lock, and then the missiles will still follow the old flares. Just stupid.

 

No more gunner flares makes me a sad panda. I do like the shortened reload on the f2000 though.

 

• FIM92 and IGLA now lock on to air vehicles at both lower altitudes and longer distances.
This def needed to be fixed.
• Removed flares from gunner position in helicopters.
They were right to do this, now it should be more balanced.
• Increased the damage helicopter and jet rockets do to helicopters, jets and infantry.
• Increased the damage helicopter gunners and IFVs do to helicopters and jets.
The main guns on air vechiles was to nerfed, this should make it better
• Changed reload behavior on Tank / Tank Destroyer cannon weapons to prevent being able to fire 2 shots from different weapons quickly one right after another.
This might suck
• AA: Slightly increased the damage of the AA against infantry, the AA was simply over nerfed in a previous update. The AA guns now also properly do damage to MBTs again
Finally

Overall this patch is for the better so I welcome it.

 

That was the byproduct of the random launch tone during the launch version of the game, which was patched out after too many people complained. So they introduced the ECM-like effectiveness on the flares later on.

I totally missed that, it was a interesting element of gameplay when flying.

Oh by the way, you have to wait 3 secs after they flare.

 

Good:

- Increased UMP close-range damage
- Increased M1911 minimum damage
- AA guns do more damage against infantry (what about scout/transport choppers? They felt the same way)
- G36C and SG553 are finally getting some lovin' (felt like the G36C fired randomly up until this patch, hopefully)
- Fixed up the shoulder-launched AA (I'll wait and see if that's a good thing)
- Air Radar shows friendly vehicles
- Chopper splash damage can now destroy equipment
- Increased rocket damage against infantry (tears of joy)

Bad:

- Removing flares for chopper gunners (jets are gonna have a field day as are infantry units with the IGLA/Stinger buff)

- No mention of VOIP, separate mouse sensitivities, less glare from the sun (tactical lights during the day or scope glint, as well), ability to change knives, consolidating all the pistols into one weapon in Battlelog (includes getting rid of DICE-only weapons)

 

Battlefield 3 is currently $20 on all platforms via Origin. Sale ends September 5th.

 

Cue all the idiots crying about "hurf durf blurf i paid 60 bucks a year ago for this game and now it's only 20, i demand a refund!"

 

I'd like to see a discount on the expansion packs

 

^ the only one i've ever seen was when B2K was discounted by 50% some months ago (both on Origin and on Amazon). that's when i bought it for $7.50.

 

I paid $79, GG.

 

Should I buy premium? :/

 

No. Simply not worth it unless you are a hardcore BF3 gamer.

Better off using that money on a new game or on MoH: Warfighter

 

agreed. this is horrible. Now if your gunning with a low rank pilot, you have no countermeasures at all.