Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

Ok, here how I did it.

On the RU side, make sure RU holds B.

Run to the B flag ... aim at the pillar down the stairs.

Wait till US try to push up. Fire into the pillar, fire into the corner wall. (You get like 6 kills or more when you watch the minimap)

If US tries to push up the escalator, shoot the roof. Make sure the blast spread across 3 of the 4 ramps.


This method also applies if you want to get AT kills.


For the US side, only the M320 works cause you can get it to arc down.
Best aim up the escalator towards the left from the bottom..
Not as effective as the RU side though.

 

Here's what I'm talking about. Just something I grabbed real quick after jumping in a game. One shot near the dude, second shot right on him, plus he was shot at after I shot the M320 at him and still had 29% when I died:

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Quite possible that he has (squad) flak spec on him.

But after looking at the vid, it was because you were too close.
You cannot shoot that close, it going to do a much lower dmg.

At that range, I would purposely shoot him directly into the chest instead of the feet.

 

oooh thts mean,i guess they purposly under-powered them so people wouldnt spam but man tht really sucks .(mabe you should try throwing sticks at him )

 

I find that the m320 usually goes higher than the crosshair at close range. You have to aim a little below the person to get a hit or it might just go sailing past them. Dunno what happened in your video though.

 

That's what always happens. The other strange thing is I've let them go in close quarters, like hallway in Metro, trigger finger reaction to them appearing out of nowhere, I have 100% health, and it suicides me but only 10-20% damage to the enemy two feet from me.

 

That long hall on the right side of the map (or left, depending on if you're RUS/US) near B is where I got most of my m320 kills. But yeah, aiming it is weird. It's like, almost too powerful without enough of a lobbing effect.

Another thing to watch out for (in Metro for example) is when you know some guy is around a corner and squatting there, take out the m320 and quickly peak around the corner and fire a nade off. It should instant-kill him, even at such a close range. Much more reliable than if your enemy isn't walled in.

 

Assignments - Sh0bster - Battlelog / Battlefield 3

Been too lazy to finish this one. simple. task.

 

The best part about this game. When you're bored, plant C4s on planes. Wait for them to hop in it, they fly away then blow it up.

 

Love doing that

Anyways does anyone know if the Guided Rockets on the viper track vehicles using the predictive marker.

I'm not able to really test it and still not sure.

 

LOL. I still have a long way to go. I hate playing anything but engineer or support, and don't play Rush a whole lot and never SqDM. So it may be a while before I get everything: Assignments - HTWingNut - Battlelog / Battlefield 3

 

If you have a long way to go, then I am gonna be working at it for years!

Assignments - LiqaMadiq - Battlelog / Battlefield 3

 

We can try on my server if you'd like? How many people would we need for that? Three? One for viper, one in vehicle, and one with soflam or some form of laser? If you have SOFLAM unlocked you can place it, hop in the viper, and I"ll be the bait in a vehicle. My server is unranked so no biggie for deaths, etc. Plus I have everything unlocked.

 

At min, need 2 people.

Just 1 to be in the vehicle, feedback how close the rocket gets.

For soflam, fire without tone, I need 4-5 people. I wonder how people managed to fire their jav without any tone at all.

I remember getting hit by javs without launch tones.

 

ha well if im online just send me a message and ill help if i can .tho i dont have soflam i have discovered im a GREAT target

 

I managed to finish my final task of killing 1 person with the american buggy. I ended up driving through a base full of enemies (it was their only cap) and I did a 360 degree turn and I just got on the gun and started mowing them down before they got to me.

 

I don't think I'll ever get my 5 SqDM wins. I am on Scarred Veteran now, and all should be fairly easy to accomplish, but the American Buggy as you noted. Otherwise 5 SqDM is going to be a thorn in my side.

 

Feels good when you complete them. Even though they gave objectives to do for getting the guns, the fun starts to wear off. "Feel like playing some Conquest? If so, remember you are very close to getting that gun!".

 

Yeah, I'm only starting to play assault, mainly for the assignment. But once I unlock those, I guess I can play recon a little bit. But even though I've put in 140 hours Still a far cry from the 650+ I ended up putting in BF2. I can't see myself playing this game much after these assignments are done.

The one thing I really liked with BF2 is ability to choose your weapon unlock. I like that there's attachments and such with BF3, but it just feels more like a grind now just to get stuff like a foregrip and Holo scope.

 

I hate farming guns.

Battlelog

As of now i got 104 hours into Battlefield 3, and thats nearly at Skyrim levels for me. xD
Hopefully with the short attention span of n00bs they will leave Battlefield 3 once the next big "thing" arrives.

Damn Squad Deathmatch on Karkand maps suck so hard. D;
Usually end with teams hold up on rooftops or something, and since Mortars are nerfed beyond usefulness its impossible to kill them.

 

Luckily, you don't have to play b2k maps to complete them except for the very bottom 2 assignments.

 

Does anyone else feel the nostalgia I feel when playing the Back to Karkland expansion pack? I can almost feel and remember exactly what went down when I played those maps so long ago.

Speaking of which...I'm going to go play those maps after work. I love BF3. =D. Is there a BF 3 profile name thread already or should one be created here so we can all get a friends group going in this community so we can play together?

 

Here check this out http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...ial-nbr-battlefield-3-clan-server-thread.html

 

Whew, only one assignment left. Have to get another hour in Sharqi which won't be a problem, but 5 kills in the DPV Jeep. Ack. That will be difficult.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/soldier/HTWingNut/assignments/185814515/cem_ea_id/

Now I can kinda see how people can get addicted to WoW. Grind grind grind, ooh, a pretty star sticker! Oh, I can get another sticker if I complete this? Ooh. It's really kinda stupid, lol.

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In other news, check this post out: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2832654624833592548/1/

" Hi all

I wrote a letter to the CEO and chiefs of EA recently complaining about the overwhelming amount of cheats and hacks, destroying the game and the "decent" community as well as asking for any solutions.

Surprisingly, somebody from the chiefs department came back to me and asked for a chat within the next days, shich I will certainly do!

Something IS moving...but not as fast as the majority may does like it to happen!

Keep u all posted...

Hurray! "

 

does anybody know what exactly does the console command WorldRender.DxDeferredCsPathEnable do? it's related to the Compute Shader in DirectX 11. i have found this post in NVIDIA forums that talks about it and these screenshots comparing its two values. it is also present in danoc1's newest FXAA injector optimized for better performance. apparently it increases the fps by 5 to 10 frames. that's all i could find by searching about it; no word from DICE as to what exactly it enables/disables.

i put that command in my user.cfg, but then it seems i could not enable it again in-game to check the difference between it being on versus off.

 

Why is DICE taking so long to patch and why are there so many hackers? I haven't played BF3 in weeks...

 

Interesting. I'd think the fps improvement would be readily apparent though. May give it a whirl to see if it will let me play at 1080p actually. It's borderline now, 25-30 fps in the big maps sometimes dipping to 20. Otherwise have to stick with 720p.

Yes it is taking so long. Did you see my link to post above though? I know it's just a user at the battlelog forum but if there's any truth to it, it would be good to see them do something.

In any case, every time I play now, at least 2 or 3 users get banned through PBbans for hacks. But there's usually at least 1 other goon that's hacking without getting banned. I was knife killed across the map 3 times in a row in Gulf of Oman. Then I started recording with FRAPS, unfortunately it didn't happen to me again. I still reported the idiot who won two rounds with like 175 kills and no deaths or just a few deaths. This was a week ago and only just got a confirmation email from EA that they're "looking into the matter".

 

It be nice they did something to the number even if it would only last a week.

Heck I don't care if they manage to sacrifice game performance if they manage to make blatant type of hacks unreliable.

 

One of the reasons I stopped playing were the obvious and apparent hackers on 80% of the servers I joined. I'm not going to deal with people who ruin the game for everyone else so I just end up leaving. There are few actively admined servers as of right now.

 

Had one of my most memorable Battlefield moments yesterday during a large conquest game on Caspian Border.

I was atop the rocky outcrop close to the antenna in the prone position, when an enemy helicopter approached from the direction of the U.S. deployment zone. I managed to kill the pilot with a head shot using the MK11. The chopper was flying low, so the impact didn't destroy it. The gunner bailed out and attempted to repair the helicopter in vain, and I proceeded to pick him off with my trusty 1911.

The pilot remarked: "Now that's what we in the business refer to as a lucky shot!"

Granted, it was pretty lucky, but cool nonetheless. It's a shame I wasn't using FRAPS at the time. Typical.

 

As much as I hate hackers, I love this to prove a point:

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Boy, they really need to ban the use of overlays.

 

That video represent everything i hate about Battlefield 3 right now.
Thanks for not patching the game. >.>

 

I just think it's funny how he's getting all the DICE guys using a hack. /shakes head/ Yet they still do nothing about it.

 

It kinda sux, they didn't go blatant on that video.

They could of gone opk at them at the last 30 secs.

 

i'd appreciate it if you could let us know about the results.

 

I tried one of the previous versions and I found that it lowered performance by a lot (~20%-30%). I wonder if the newer version is better?

 

^ are you talking about the FXAA injectors? their FXAA algorithm (based on Timothy Lottes' FXAA 3.11) in general has some performance impact, and that's why you should turn off both in-game AA methods, the deferred AA (MSAA) and post AA (FXAA, version?), and use only the injectors' built-in FXAA. or you could use one of the modified injectors that have their AA algorithm turned off and only alter the colors along with one of the in-game AA methods.

about danoc1's newest modification of the FXAA injector (v1.25 performance), i suggest you read his original thread (translated from german by Google). he has turned some in-game options off to increase the performance, thus negating the performance hit of the injector's AA. there are screenshots and performance comparison charts in the first post in that thread.

 

Tried WorldRender.DxDeferredCsPathEnable 0 , it gave me 6-8 more fps. Nice!

 

did you notice any difference in the image quality/shadows/smoke?

 

Nope, but I had everything on low before so I doubt it could look any worse. Now I can do 1080p with 30+ fps, sweet!

 

wow that totally made a difference with my 540m.

I can able to play 35+ on 1080 on high-ultra on canals.

 

finally, some good news from DICE: Battlefield Blog

 

Hey guys. Does anyone play BF3 using Killer Wireless 1103? I use it exclusively to play BF3 on my laptop but I'm not sure if my settings are right. 2 quick questions:

Is "TCP No Delay" supposed to be checked or unchecked? Currently I have it unchecked which is disabled. Should it be enabled for better performance in game?

Is "TCP Ack Frequency" supposed to be 1 or 2?

I've tried to find both of these answers as they pertain to BF3 but only find scarce references in sites that talk about everything but. Maybe this is simple to find, but it eludes me. Does anyone know?

 

So which FXAA Injector one did you download? There's "regular" and "performance"

edit: Chose performance because it turns off HBAO. I just extracted into the Battlefield 3 directory, so assuming that's all I gotta do. I did type WorldRender.DxDeferredCsPathEnable 1 and fps dropped a good 3-4 fps. Set it back to 0 and fps improved again. It depends on the map. Karkand was still like 25 fps average @ 1080p, but without it's like 20fps average. I'm running CPU @ 2.7GHz (stock 1.8GHz) and GPU at 800/900 (stock 650/800). So maxed out as best I can. Need another 3-5 fps to make things "good". Also I noticed any time there's a lot of sound my fps drops. Maybe my integrated sound just sucks. Will try it with a USB sound adapter and see if that improves.

 

i downloaded the danoc1 v1.25performance one. i also tried this one which has its built-in FXAA engine turned off and only modifies the colors. they both add some color to the game, making it look more "alive". but i had this feeling that the picture tend to look either too blue-ish or too red-ish at times in different places of the maps. (it was more apparent at the end of the game when the awards and the rankings were shown; the whole thing looked purple!) it seems to me the white balance in both of these injectors are way off (or maybe DICE has totally messed up the white balance in the first place, and these injectors only make it more apparent). also, the contrast is too high if you ask me, so i think i saw black crush in darker regions. idk, it was too late at night when i tried them, so maybe my eyes were too tired!

i'm trying to tweak the injector's settings to make a more balanced one. i hope my patience does not run out...

 

try v5 from this post. there are reports on page 32 of that thread about danoc1's injector causing a big fps drop. you can always use danoc1's user.cfg file with any injector anyway.

 

Did you try disabling the fxaa injector? Just press pause (fn+shift on the dv6z) while in game and it will disable/enable fxaa.

You would probably have even more FPS if you didn't use the injector.

 

How to uninstall injector? Just delete the files? It didn't ask to overwrite anything when I installed it, so assuming that's safe.

 

Yeah just delete the files.