Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

I get sound cutting out too. It happens moreso on my laptop than desktop though. On my laptop just using speakers. On my desktop Logitech G930 USB.

 

I understand how to dogfight. What I don't understand is how it only takes you one burst when I can literally settle in behind them and stick with them, blasting away in bursts for up to 5-10 full seconds and not disable it. And without the flares, you rarely last very long at all anyway.

It's not like I've never disabled another jet, but it's way too difficult to do well enough to unlock things.

 

Ye im on a laptop I have no other alternative lol

Dont suppose you have heard of or found anything that will stop it happening ? or even make it happen less lol.

Many thanks for your quick reply mate. +1

 

I'm looking for a solution. It's annoying. I tried several different drivers to with same result. Maybe if we report it at the BF3 forums and get it on the list, although I've heard of others complaining about it too. But more that report it the more likely it is to get fixed.

 

It's not meant to be easy. It is meant to take hours and hours of honing your skill to be able to get behind and take out another jet quickly. This has always been the way in BF air-to-air combat (with the exception of the J10 in bf2..).

If you want to be a good pilot, put in the time with the cannons. You'll get better.

On a side note, you do lead your shots right? As in if your target starts turning, shoot in front of the jet in its turning arc. This makes sure you are attacking the most damage sensitive part of the jet. In BF1942, the engines of the planes were at the front so a couple of shots to the engine would bring the plane down yet aiming for the tail would take much much more. This will help accommodate for the speed of the jets and general game lag in BF3.

 

You need only one good burst if you manage to hit the majority of the bullets. I mean if I'm flying over their base, I can destroy two jets with one full burst. Which means there's more than enough to disable one jet within one burst.

Just make sure you're leading your sights when shooting at jets that are turning.

Are you using keyboard only or KB + Mouse when flying? If not the latter, I strongly suggest you join a practice server and just practicing getting used to the mouse. While it may be boring at first, reaping the rewards of your hard practice leter will be very satisfactory (and when I say practice, I mean a hours).

Again, this is only my opinion. But if are having with problems with missiles locking on to you, you need to fly either at a higher altitude or just avoid the "center" of the map more. You can of course push the boundaries of this statement a little more with stealth.

Just keep at it pilot! Once you unlock Stealth + Extinguisher and have some flight hours under your belt, you'll start enjoying flying a lot more. It also helps to have a wingman on voice while flying

Remember that Jets are not the glass cannons they one were in BF2, more like glass pea shooters now. Which means you have to be more careful in your flight. You can't be as an ignorant pilot and just fly past 3 CP's at low altitude and be surprised you have jets after you while 20 stingers are locking on =P

Also as you get better at controlling your plane, you want to keep bombing runs shorter and more on a vertical level, since that's when you're vulnerable to enemy jets. My favorite thing is to hunt down novice pilots setting up a bombing run with minimal descent shooting straight for +10 seconds. It's like they want to die lol

 

Very true mate, will stick a topic on the forum or at least put my 2 cents in.

Btw whats your name on BF3 mind if I add you ? mines (Silbreathing) was meant to be still but taken :/

 

HTWingNut... check out the friends list I started (see my sig)

 

BAD IDEA and I'll tell you why. Right now there are TONS of Unlocks and alot of people don't have all the unlocks, if you wait 6 months the game is going to be THAT much harder for newcomers and not only because you're a newcomer but beacause you lack the weaponry, upgrades, etc. etc. I'd hate to think of flying with zero upgrades against opponents that are rank 30+ with fully loaded equipment. Granted I'm not saying you can't rank up and you can't have fun, but I am saying that it'll be that much harder and in this game you really want every edge you can possibly have. I really don't think anyone is going to disagree with me on this one.

 

I'm actually really good at shedding locks by going NOE and using the terrain to block line of sight. The problem is that I spend a lot of time doing this and not enough time on target. I guess I just need more practice.

 

Flying and flight model is still for crap in this game. It's pathetic if you ask me (but you didn't I know). And the fact that airplanes can't drop bombs is a serious brain fade on DICE's part.

 

I think they are trying to put all the air into dedicated CAS role, which is odd to do something realistic in an unrealistic game.

Or it could be they didn't implement how to handle friendly fire forgives yet, which I think is kick when hit the common limit of 5

 

Also , I hate the flashlight which working at day time during the game. Its fake and g*y.

 

I forgot how to embed Youtube vids on this forum anyways

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand Gameplay Premiere Trailer
Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand Gameplay Premiere Trailer - YouTube

7 flags

 

Nice. :3
Looking forward to it.

 

It looks OK, but DICE do have a way of screwing everything up. I have a feeling they will really only be 32 player sized maps...

 

Awesome video... what do they mean by "extended persistence" though?

And Wake Island damn well better not be smaller than BF2 Wake... what's the point then?

 

It's a very, very common problem, much like the green/yellow screen flashes. It probably has little to do with your setup and lots to do with the game sound engine. It happens all the time in tanks for me, and I'm using just a standard stereo 2+1 setup.

Karkand... I think extended persistence is a new gameplay mode. I feel like karkand just should have been included in the base game, they are releasing it so soon after the game launch, it's a really scummy way of handling DLC but I guess it's EA so no surprise there. Also I totally called it a few days ago, that it'd be out before xmas

 

WOW very nice can't wait

 

Oh my bad... "extended persistence" supposedly refers to an increased level cap and/or further unlockables/acheievements/tags of some kind. It's a little silly that they put it in the trailer because new guns pretty obviously means new unlocks for said guns...

from battlelog:

 

The assignments sort of sound like they could be like the Contracts from Black Ops.

 

Hmm more unlockables Can't wait. Only con that I had with BFBC2 was that once you were done with unlocking your weapons, you had nothing to strive for. Maybe BF3 will fix that.

 

naaaaw they're turning into an MMO!

 

MMO? Lol I can't imagine grinding on BF3

 

Well then imagine it; that is exactly what you have to do to unlock coop weapons.

 

It's pretty ridiculous. Beat all the co-op missions on the hardest difficulty.

What do you unlock? Nothing! (or at least very little, maybe the first unlock or two...)

You'll have to beat each level many times over if you want to unlock the majority of the co-op guns. No specific achievements to meet (pull off X requirement to unlock Y weapon) X could be a certain amount of time, using a certain weapon (pistol!), taking no more than a certain amount of damage, getting a certain number of headshots in a round, having a certain accuracy (100%!) - all sorts of things. In theory, you could unlock things quickly, but some may be difficult to pull off. This would be fun.

As it stands, you just have to go through co-op again and again and again until you unlock everything. It's pretty dumb. MMORPG grind dumb.

 

It seems queue is broken again... not getting it on any servers.

 

Lol just realized that is to true..

Lol... I was being sarcastic when I said grinding in BF3 but I guess i was wrong.

Works fine here. :3

 

So this latest patch (the plugin and whatever they did to the servers) made the game playable.

 

Lol were you really not able to play until now?

 

Wanted to share some thoughts, feel free to pitch in whatever you like:

So I've finally unlocked the TV Guided missile and here is what I've found out so far:

- 1 hit kills tanks from the read
- Disables from the sides
- Sometimes disables from the front (although sometimes I get 1 hit kills in the front too).

Now I don't know if this is intentional or not (I hope not), but I can't seem to hit other helicopters with it. Sometimes they either just fly straight through them or they "bounce" off, bumping the helicopter away. I've also noticed that sometimes, when I fire off the TVGM, our helicopter gets a huge "recoil" knockback from it (once I got a suicide from it).

I'm also not quite sure what the Radar guided rockets (helicopter pilot) are doing, they seem bad (only tested for about 10 mins).

The radar guided missile on the jet seems weird too. About half the time, it doesn't hit the the tank I've locked onto. It hits about a few inches away from it. I've heard some people say you can avoid getting hit by a RGM if you just exit the tank and then re enter after the missile has missed. I'm pretty sure this was not the way DICE intended the mechanic to function. While I know there are far more pressing issues to fix than this, it kind of is a big turn off, getting sweet unlocks only to see them not function as one might have expected.

Am I the only one experiencing these issues?

Also the SOFLAM + Javelin is just plain BS. Misses 95% vs air targets and about 50% of the time against tanks.

 

don't know if this has been posted already. But here is how to get the commands in game load automatically everytime you enter the game: go to where bf3.exe is located, create a text file, rename and change the extension to user.cfg, type any commands you want, here are mine for optimized game:

WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapResolution 256
RenderDevice.TrippleBufferingEnable 0
RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1
Render.DrawFps 1
WorldRender.FxaaEnable 0
WorldRender.DxDeferredCsPathEnable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0
Render.PerfOverlayEnable 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOEnable 0

enjoy the game

 

A Ha! Great for the user.cfg, thanks. Was trying to figure out how to have it automatically load the settings I wanted.

 

No problems, if you know any good commands, post it up, might be good for some people.
btw I don't understand this commadn RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit , you can set the value to even 3. But i really don't know what it does

 

Doesn't seem to be working for me. I put user.cfg into the BF3.exe folder with render.drawfps 1 but it's not showing the fps.

 

that's strange.. try mine, put it where you install the game

 

thank 4 share~~

 

Ah, I found the problem. I renamed the text file into user.cfg.txt. Oops!

 

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I've also had some trouble with the audio cutting out. For me it cuts out about two seconds at the most. I can't say it's not bothering me, so I hope they will fix this soon.

I think we will see alot of patches/updates in the following weeks. Hopefully they will all be for the better

 

Everything they've done so far has been server side no client side patches yet, so hopefully first one will be a doozy and fix a lot of problems / add features.

 

Well, I agree that its a bad idea for one reason... that EA don't deserve your money at all... I'm still having issues with the game crashing, other people who bought the game at launch have been having issues for over 2 weeks now and theres no patches. That, and they're going to launch some DLC you need to buy only 2 months after the game has launched, to pump more money out of you.

I personally think you should skip the game entirely. Theres nothing overly special about the game, its just a normal FPS with a lot of hype and somewhat better graphics than most, although with that you also get a lot of bugs.

 

So for anyone having trouble leveling up jets (face it, they suck without ir flares, and you can't level up jets without being locked on now) here is a tip for you. Spawn like normal on the ground as an engi and equip AT mines and a stinger. Place the AT mines somewhere smart where enemy tanks tend to roam, but not too close to their base/cap points (you need a bit of time to get back to base). Now sit back at base, move your jet a little bit off the runway so people don't take it but still keep it on the ground. Stand outside the jet with your stinger ready, and when an enemy flies by lock onto him, pop a shot off and quickly get into the jet. You get credited for any AT kills or stinger kills, but they go towards the jet XP.

You can also try being a cheap jerk and killing the enemy jets on their runway, this has mixed results with aa's up though.

 

thats it, im done with B3
bloody server time out in every game in last 2 days.
plays for about 10-15 minutes then bang. the amount of kills and flags ive lost is unreal.
so thats it. MW3 all the way for me.

 

Yes, the game is buggy. At least they're working on it. They just released a significant battlelog patch that made the server browser much better (still not perfect, but it's getting better).

Anyone who bought the game at any point basically should have been prepared to deal with bugs. The fact that the game works and is playable and looks amazing and runs well is better than the track record for BF and for CoD.

I'm thinking of the MW2 launch and the Black Ops launch. I'm also thinking about the Bad Company 2 launch. All were pretty terrible and way worse than this. You can wait out MW3, but I don't see any reason to except that it would be better than previous CoD game launches, especially since most of the production staff was fired right after MW2 and moved on.

edit: unless it doesn't work (above). it's been finicky for me, but ultimately works. a lot of the time it crashes on the first load but I can rejoin the server properly on a second attempt and it work indefinitely from that point.

 

it always seems to be around when you or the other team has 10-15 tickets left and then it times out. not had any problems with the games at all except this.

 

As a matter of fact, I have had this happen to me exactly as described one time so far since launch. I haven't experienced the issue again. It did suck because it was like a 400 ticket game or something.

I've also had one blue screen of death during single player.

Other than that, my only issues have been the game crashing on the first attempt to join a server.

It's picky and I wish it was more stable, but I'm able to tolerate it being finicky for now. In game performance is pretty stable and seems to work well. I'm not sure what to do about disconnects when the round is almost done.

 

ive had about 7 games today and 4 or 5 yesterday and out of that ive managed to finish 2 games and get points.
it got so frustrating earlier i almost deleted the game lol but at the end of the day its only me that looses out then.
i could understand if it happened earlier on in the game but always round about 5 minutes from the end get so frustrating.

 

Lol ,that's remind me at last stage , I was though the game ended , because of the "action scene" started & I didn't press the "space bar" so the mission failed....got knocked down by Mohammad whatever

 

read this crap and tell me IGN is not being paid by activation - 5 Reasons Modern Warfare 3 Won't Disappoint - Xbox 360 Feature at IGN
I mean seriously they actually berate BF3s graphics and say how awesome Call of Duty Elite is gonna be for it offers so many features and is so cheap( all this was free in the earlier games and you say it is better now that we are paying for it). They actually say how great it is going to look since they are not changing the engine