Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

Look at the bribe well spent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWE_EZjHIEc

 

Lol well I finally changed my name, its now "Bulletdropped"

 

HighRollerz is recruiting, US Based Clan. 25+ sane players. Use TeamSpeak 3 and have a 32 Person Hardcore BF3 Server. Admins are strict on no spawn camping and no harassing.

Fun fact: There are at least 3 G73JH users who play regularly on this server

Server: Battlelog / Sign in

Teamspeak: ts3.hrgamers.com port 9987

Homepage: http://www.hrgamers.com/

Clan also has a COD and MOH server I believe. Most of them are BF2 veterans and had a BC2 server previously.

 

Nice new username.
Sounds much more mature than babypeepee. xD

The beauty of the Platoon system. :3
You can join more than one.

 

I still think this game suck. Bought it on release, and still on level 4. I hate the fact that the match only last 20 minute? How is that battlefield?

Also where the peeking feature not to mention all the other missing feature from BF2?

In game name is Chri2Kng fyi

 

Join a 1000 points server then.
300 points with 64 players is just too little for me as the matches dont last long enough.

 

cute anime chick!

Back on Topic, I didn't even know the points server thing. Why do they have to make everything complicated now. Just give us our own server and let us choose how long the matches go, how many vehicles, what kind of vehicles, what guns are allow, what assortment are allow, how big the map expanded, etc...

Let us MOD it, let the community MOD it.

 

Vote there. Game of the Year should be determined by the players, not by some biased editor at some random blog. Because let's face it, these people are not reviewers, they are just bloggers.
- Almost none of them do any analysis of the games with any competence other than a list of personal biased opinions or paid for opinions.
PC Game of the Year - Gamer Edition (VOTE at top right of this page) | T-MAK World

 

If that's how they have fun, they should keep doing it

 

Hey it's a valid tactic, a jihad jeep was the only thing that stopped one of my tank killing sprees with shob... we were 21-0/23-0 until he got us
This guy proves it works too!
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Gotta get a game going in the server

 

I'm totally bored with this game now. It's gotten so ridiculous it's not even fun.

 

Why are you bored? What is ridiculous? I see you playing a lot in the battlelog.

 

hilarious. It's still my best killstreak too.

 

I'm getting really annoyed now. People are equipping the IRNV more often now. If this keeps up, I'll just go back to playing RPG games again. Something that was once a bannable offense (using 3rd party for IRNV view) is now part of the game?

 

I doubt EA will do anything about it because once you hit lv 41 you unlock camo outfits that really negate the scopes. They're not very common right now because a lot of players aren't l41, but eventually the ir scopes will feel more balanced. It's the same story with people who were quick to unlock the mortar... because nobody else had unlocked the mortar they were gods on small maps and had nothing to fear (other mortars).

 

I am having an issue right now.
Sometimes, in the middle of the game, when I respawn, I don't have any weapons, med packs or anything and can run only. After this issue when I am in the weapon selection page, I can only see names but not the picture of the gears.

Any idea what's going on?

 

Happened to me too, plenty of times.
And when i alt+tab out of it or even alt+enter (same result) my Windows freezes and i gotta do a hard reboot.

But *careface* i got Skyrim now so hopefully Dice had a client patch when i return.

 

Just lots of issues with the game. Taking forever to load, bad hit detection, cheaters (although more are getting banned), strange glitches in-game (couldn't even cap a point because it showed it 138m DIRECTLY BELOW ME), getting stuck on objects, guns not firing, spawning directly in front of enemies, etc. Not to mention gameplay is getting a bit stale.

Like DEagleson, I'll probably get involved with Skyrim for a bit and hope a client side patch gets released in the meantime that addresses a lot of the issues.

 

How is this for hit detection?

I see a guy coming through tunnel. I got the jump on him first. I was expecting a tank at the end of the tunnel so I had the RPG out. He was far enough away, figured why not. Fired on him. Then I see him shoot me dead. I'm wondering how he survived. Killcam shows he has 100% health.

 

Yeah, that's the kind of crap I'm talking about. It gets frustrating. It's ok if it happens time and again, but it happens very frequently. Hell, I had a tank, four guys were huddling in a building, I blasted the building with two shells right on their position, none of them died, broke out the tank machine gun right on them, still no kills, two more tank shells, still nothing... I got lots of "X"'s to indicate hits. All this time of course they were nailing me with RPG's, but had an engineer out healing me. Finally they took out my tank. Very frustrating.

Although I did have one fun moment yesterday, I bailed out of a jet because the enemy pilot was really good, I just used the jet as transport. I ejected, and took out a tank from above, and two enemies while I parachuted in, lol. The tank had no clue where I was at.

 

Its strange to read about your hit detection problems in this game. I've played nearly 40 hours and at most all i have experienced was rubberbanding, and that was only on the first day, since then nothing but smooth play.

 

Same thing with BFBC2. People thought I was just a bad player. I'm not great, but not that bad. When I line up the shot on an enemy and get the jump I should get the kill.

I actually didn't have too many issues the first week or so except rubber banding, then when that was more or less fixed, I had a good run for a week, now it's like I can't kill squat despite having the advantage.

 

I think I'm experiencing this too. I'll have games where I can unload a whole clip at someone and not seem to hit them once. Sometimes my reticule shakes around like a meth head in withdrawal. Rubberbanding like whoa.

I guess I'll give Leatrix's fix a shot, it worked wonders in World of Warcraft.

 

I've had the occasional time where I swear that I headshot a guy more than once, and he's still standing and usually killing me. When that happens I'm finding it is about 50/50 cheaters/bad netcode... the hit registration is def better than in BC2 for me. It happens more often when I'm prone and someone is in very close range, and I'm forced to look up to shoot them. As far as cheaters goes, PB is slow to catch them but it does seem to be (eventually) catching most of them, or at least the idiots using 'last week's hacks'.

My problem with the game right now is exactly the same as BC2... when I'm pubbing alone I'm extremely streaky. One game I go 2-9, not even making 2000 pts, and the next I will go 20-2, getting mvp with 8k pts

 

+1

I've been playing every day since release and I've had zero problems. I think people just like to complain and use "glitches" as an excuse when in all actuality they are just not very good.

 

ACtually the splash damage on the tank is hard to understand generally speaking people are scared of the tank and run and hide or shoot rockets at it. In either case they generally become stationary and a direct hit comes sooner or later, especially if you're a good tank driver/shooter. With that being said the Splash Damage is IMPOSSIBLE to explain for this game. The environment is destructive yes, but there are time in open space (Via land rocks etc.) where the splash damage should be enough for a insta death and you get nothing. I've seen this happen to myself and to my driver (I'm gunner) way too often and have discussed this with my mates on vent. I don't even Fully understand head-shots with the SV98 I guess and make adjustments constantly, and I have nearly 500 kills with it with around 65% of them being all head-shots.

 

Why do some people have to be such dinks about this stuff? Yeah, my lack of skill is causing my mouse to jump all over the screen like a crackhead on a sugar rush. That must be it.

 

The support class is kinda retarded in this game. Why would they give this guy who already has mortar, HMG, and unlimited Ammo, both C4 and Claymores. Why do they switch the class to which they give c4 to a new different class with every new installment of battlefield? FFS.... I mean is the medic/asault going to have c4 next in battlefield 4? Battlefield 2=Special Forces Unit, Battlefield Bad Company= Sniper, Battlefield 3= Support, The Support unit is the slowest moving unit perhaps because he's carrying a HMG and Ammo, c4 and claymores.... but this guy who supposedly is carrying tons of ammo, chests of it, and belts strapped onto his person, along with his HMG is suppose to run up to tanks and lay c4 and run away? Cause that makes alot of sense is really how it works... Now I realize this game isn't suppose to be realistic however the logic for who has c4 gets worst and worst with every installment of battlefield, and it's now added with claymore.... I also love how the Mini-Map appears to get worst and worst with every installment of Battlefield....

 

Games are all about money now man. It suck especially for PC gamer like us.

 

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Except the support has to pick one of them , claymore, c4 or mortar.

I say the engineer is the best overpowered all around unit. Just equip javalin/shaw, rex revolver, high capacity shotgun with frag shells with acog 4x. Already you are a antitank or antiair/ anti building, decent close combat, sniper and a sniper with a shotgun that you can snipe with.

 

"I don't have any problems, so everyone else must suck"

Great closed minded thinking.

 

Actually loki brings up a point I forgot about, it really seems like you are forced into playing engineer or support on vehicle maps. Recon has no option to deal with armor at all, and assault is really not much better, all it has is the grenade launcher option. Go figure that I'm closing in on my support and engi class service stars (90%+), but I'm only at about 15% completion for recon and assault.

You get really crappy points/SPM as recon too, and the glare off the scope thing makes it so you can't hide at all anymore, meaning even your k/d ratio suffers now too. I don't even see the point in playing recon as it is now, it's pretty much the 'well I give up we can't win this game, might as well turtle' class.

 

Yeah I agree the classes are a bit screwed up. It all gets back to being a team oriented game, though. Each class has its strengths. However, DICE did nothing to make this a team game, so in most cases you're left to go solo, so recon and support roles get largely unused.

 

Ok great, well seeing as how over 50% of the Support Class Population prefer to play a campy style they'll either pick Claymore or Mortar, face it those who don't have mortar haven't unlocked it yet, thus leaving c4 removed from the game. No matter how you wanna explain it or look at it, C4 has slowly vanished form the game. I'm willing to wager that of my hundreds of games I've played only 25% if not less have any c4 kills in them. Some people are probably saying great, or they don't care. But from a Battlefield 2 user who almost always played Special Forces this is sad to see. It was already sad to see Sniper get c4, but because they removed claymores and gave snipers AT I learned to like it, and have even accepted it. But this new adjustment has me ticked, I don't think any Support user from previous battlefield game ever foresaw c4 being given to that class.

 

Every business is all about money. I don't understand how that affects which class gets the C4, lol.

 

I'm not having fun with BF3 at all, the magic of BF2 just doesn't exist in BF3. It feels like Bad Company 3 not like traditional Battlefield games. Map design is horrible, 64-player servers are a mess and there is ZERO teamwork whatsoever.

 

Ha! Post that over at the battlelog forums. All those DICE fanbois will jump down your throat. I agree with you 110%. There's been some fun moments, it's just it is NOT Battlefield. It's Bad Company 3, period. They did an excellent job on preying on the PC and BF2 crowd by saying it's a PC first game, then it was a successor to BF2. When in reality it just ended up being a console port with no true BF2 feel.

I've had some fun, but it just isn't the same. Unless they change things drastically I can't see playing this for 600+ hours like I did BF2.

Maybe we will be convinced a bit depending on what the Karkand map pack offers. Although I doubt it will be a whole lot different from BF3, just more of the same. The game mechanics will probably remain the same too. They need to do more than just add a few maps and weapons.

Also I notice on some maps (Firestorm) there are artillery guns in a couple spots. And I thought I read that artillery would still exist to some extent and could be blown up like in BF2. But seems that isn't the case. Please rebuild the damn game if you have to and offer it as Battlefield 2.5.

Although I'd much rather they make an SDK and open it up for modding so the talented fans can make it a true sequel.

 

It just makes me wonder about the 'Back to Karkand' expansion having either the same effect as the BF3 maps or revitalizing the feel of BF2.

 

Why I keep playing this game I dunno. I'm just going in to play stupid now and having fun. It's stupid though because there's really no point. But I just got done with damavand peak conquest. A bunch of guys huddling in the narrow tunnels kept killing us, I got an RPG down there and killed four at once, then ran in with guns blazing and killed three more, lol. 7 kills in all of five seconds. One more guy that I tried to knife but he shot me lol.

 

Arrrgh, I'm getting annoyed by the disconnects during a match! It only happens when I'm doing good too. I wish it would disconnect when I'm sucking royally.

 

This game has too many problems. I guess this is the end of the road for all future EA releases. I'm done with EA games, BFME II was their last good game.

 

They need to come up with a good patch asap..
When I am doing really good, the next time I spawn, my weapons just disappear and there is no way to get it back and I can't even pick up the weapons. I am just like a decoy..

 

I've had that. Let's see other problems:

Another time I spawned with ZERO HUD elements. Just me moving around, can't even see my arms, nothing, no status indicators, or anything. I could shoot but couldn't aim or anything.

Another time I died and then respawned but could only see my killer from an overhead third person perspective. Really weird.

Another time, capture point was 138m directly below me.

Another time, I was the capture point. It followed me everywhere, lol.

 

I have had the no weapons happen to me once. Was playing HC TDM (tis all i really play atm), spawned with no weapons, then ran around till I got an enemy to tk his friend, and then my weapons magically appeared.

Spawning has issues in TDM if you have more people than the map can really support. It tries to find a safe place to spawn you and will not let you deploy until then, but it is also doing the same for other teammates/the other team, so you all usually end up spawning at once, and there is a chance you spawn immediately in front of or behind an enemy. It only really is a problem when no team holds an area, since if that was the case there would be save spawn points.

 

Just for giggles I put BF3 on my netbook: AMD E-350 (dual core) with Radeon HD 6310 GPU (IGP).

Results, surprisingly it ran at all. 800x480 (lulz) it ran an admirable 14-20fps on an empty server. Not about ready to go into a crazy 64 man battle with it yet, but just nice to see it even works.

If they allowed DX9, I could probably actually get it to run 20+ fps.

 

I posted my problem in EA UK forum and some other people have similar problem.
Today, the problem is worse. It happens to me each and every time when the conquest has around 30 spawn points left.

 

Maybe the game will be better once we get a BIG patch, but right now it's very unpolished and buggy and the gameplay just isn't where it needs to be...

 

TV missles, go through Choppers, can't tell you how thrilled I was to unlock that and find out they right through enemy choppers