Psychoward
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I still don't get how flares work
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Battlefield 1 |OT| Make War Great Again
- Thread starter iRAWRasaurus
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They produce a circle or radar wherever they land so all enemies show up on the radar within that circle. If you hit someone directly with it, it can also catch them on fire for some damage.
Yup. They are fantastic for clearing out capture points.
seriosbrad
Member
Or when you're an idiot like me, you just walk over top of them and catch on fire. Unfortunately has happened more than once.
Nizz
Member
Alright, DICE seriously needs to fix the footsteps in this game. The actual sound design is fantastic as always: the guns, explosions, planes, tanks. War Tapes is where it's at. But I can't count how many times I actually jumped because I suddenly got stabbed/melee because I didn't even hear the enemy's footsteps behind me.
Frustrating as hell that this happens. Also, I hope they eventually tweak the controls (playing on og PS4) so they feel like BF4's controls. I'll go on record and say I feel BF4 has the best FPS controls on console. They were perfect.
In BF1 though, there's a funky acceleration/deadzone that I don't like. The game is playable definitely, just doesn't feel as good as BF4.
Frustrating as hell that this happens. Also, I hope they eventually tweak the controls (playing on og PS4) so they feel like BF4's controls. I'll go on record and say I feel BF4 has the best FPS controls on console. They were perfect.
In BF1 though, there's a funky acceleration/deadzone that I don't like. The game is playable definitely, just doesn't feel as good as BF4.
Stillmatic
Member
Just got to Lvl 3 Assault and tried out the 10-A after reading impressions in here.
Holy Shit! Enemies already weakened, but still, it's hitting at that range.
So broken, but so much fun, haha. Squad wipes are beautiful with this thing. But yeah, it's only really useful on some maps.
Holy Shit! Enemies already weakened, but still, it's hitting at that range.
So broken, but so much fun, haha. Squad wipes are beautiful with this thing. But yeah, it's only really useful on some maps.
This doesn't seem broken at all...you hit the guy for 1 health and in the other one for 11, now if you were taking them down by more than 30 at that range I would agree with you on it being broken.
edit: And thanks to those gifs, I finally understand how a kill score works. 20 pts + however much damage you did to the other player.
Don't neglect those smoke and gas grenades. It can certainly cover your movements so those damn snipers can't take you out.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
Holy Shit! Enemies already weakened, but still, it's hitting at that range.
So broken, but so much fun, haha. Squad wipes are beautiful with this thing. But yeah, it's only really useful on some maps.
I mean, I think any of the shotguns would do at least 1 damage at that range.
Dragoshi1
Member
It's hard to enjoy the game when I get put on the Defending side of Rush where more than half my team are scouts, and the 4-8 of us who aren't are scrambling to disarm bombs.
Seriously, they don't even move up or move from their spots, and the enemy basically made it one-sided at that point. They had two heavy tanks and horses out, and they just took point after point.
Never mind the random crashes I get. On Xbox One, btw.
Seriously, they don't even move up or move from their spots, and the enemy basically made it one-sided at that point. They had two heavy tanks and horses out, and they just took point after point.
Never mind the random crashes I get. On Xbox One, btw.
Gas nades serve as smoke too. I often use them in the front and back of me when capping to shield from snipers.
Stillmatic
Member
Really? Damn. It's the first shotty I've bought, I didn't expect a shotgun to hit anybody from that range for any damage.
I am trying to level up the Scout class and am always in the thick of it. Spot Flares are the bees knees, sucks that so many Scouts just want to sit in the hills.
Good luck in finding a ammo guy.
Pfft...I am well past dead before I need ammo for my Scout.
Pankratous
Member
WhiskerFrisker
Member
People are so fucking stupid it's insane. As a sniper I spam flares to help the team. I literally stood in front of a support player and pressed the "need ammo" option and they ignored me. I get so pissed at this because they're are not helping the team win. So from now on I will do whatever I can to get in the way of support player who refuses to drop ammo.
I just tell myself that those people are just dumb 8 year old kids. That helps calm me a down a bit because hey, I can't really get mad at a kid, right? Right... Ugh.
I always pick up support kits when I kill support players so I can drop ammo for myself. You'd be shocked how many support players run without ammo. Useless lol.
I wish they would be more aggressive about limiting squad spawns if there's enemies nearby. It would make fighting over bunkers less of an infinitely reinforced meat grinder and in general improve the flow of the game if battle lines more regularly got redrawn with squads getting wiped and having to regroup.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Yep that's why everyone dislike scouts.
I also never shoot a flare directly below me when parachuting from above (usually as a pilot that had to bail)... It always sets me on fire.
Shadynasty
Member
I feel the same way about non healing medics.
jediyoshi
Member
Pretend they're using crates instead of pouches.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
Goddammmit living in the Philippines blows donkey dick. All the servers are 170+ms.
Where the hell are the SEA/korean servers.
Anyway, game is fucking amazing. I didn't think I'd have so much fun when I found a server that had 80ms on it. Anyone wanna play? I've played all battlefield games and literally never got past level 20 in all of em
edit: is the game playable at 170ms? Hows the hit detection? quickmatch game I get thtat seems to be my ping.
Where the hell are the SEA/korean servers.
Anyway, game is fucking amazing. I didn't think I'd have so much fun when I found a server that had 80ms on it. Anyone wanna play? I've played all battlefield games and literally never got past level 20 in all of em
edit: is the game playable at 170ms? Hows the hit detection? quickmatch game I get thtat seems to be my ping.
seriosbrad
Member
Speaking of flares, just used it to assist me in getting into the tower on F here
... and then I camped there for like 10 minutes
... and then I camped there for like 10 minutes
Speaking of flares, just used it to assist me in getting into the tower on F here
... and then I camped there for like 10 minutes
Thats a nice trick!
I'm having a hard time playing operations on iron wall - everyone is just too busy camping on the hill instead of capturing. Frustrating
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Are the geforce drivers safe yet?
I uninstalled when it asked me to update from 373.06.
I uninstalled when it asked me to update from 373.06.
PeskyToaster
Member
What's the best bolt action for dropping fools, iron sights style?
Spat_triate
Member
Dirtini
Martini Henry (lvl10 Scout unlock)
My friend gifted me a copy of the PS4 version and wow the player base seems so 'dim'. Practically no one drops medkits, ammo, uses flares, revives - it's crazy! I've been playing the PC version for a couple weeks and the difference really is astounding. Any squad with a decent level of communication and movement would be near untouchable.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Could be the influx of new players from Black Friday?
I just played a match of Conquest and I saw a lot of sub lvl 10 players on PS4.
Yeah, I've seen so many Level 0-5 players in Operations this weekend. It's been fantastic for leveling up my pilot rank as no one is competent enough to take down the attack plane. I've had so many bombing runs getting 3+ enemies on cap points along with racking up the spotting points. My pilot rank has gone from 2-7 in the last day. I've started playing 64 player Operations just to have more enemies to bomb.
I don't think I've seen an attacking team win yet in 64 player operations because of so many new players. I'm curious what the Holiday rush of noobs will bring in a month.
DICE needs to do something about armor balance.
There is little to no reason to pick anything but the heavy tank. The small tank is pretty much useless unless you (ironically) focus on infantry and infantry alone. The small tank has no chance against even a bad heavy driver if he focus on you.
The Landship can be viable if you have a coordinated squad. Good luck with that if you're not playing with friends.
Nothing can beat the Heavy flexibility. You can do well by yourself and if you got a coordinated squad you can easily dominate. Not only that but the heavy is a mobile spawn point.
I see almost no small tanks anymore. People who use then probably just don't know better. Landships are rare but you see one every now and then. Heavy's are EVERYWHERE.
I think the emergency repair should be exclusive to the small tank. It is too powerful if used well, the heavy and even the Landship are already well armored enough.
I hope they see into this, because until they do I'm never touching anything else besides a heavy tank from now on.
There is little to no reason to pick anything but the heavy tank. The small tank is pretty much useless unless you (ironically) focus on infantry and infantry alone. The small tank has no chance against even a bad heavy driver if he focus on you.
The Landship can be viable if you have a coordinated squad. Good luck with that if you're not playing with friends.
Nothing can beat the Heavy flexibility. You can do well by yourself and if you got a coordinated squad you can easily dominate. Not only that but the heavy is a mobile spawn point.
I see almost no small tanks anymore. People who use then probably just don't know better. Landships are rare but you see one every now and then. Heavy's are EVERYWHERE.
I think the emergency repair should be exclusive to the small tank. It is too powerful if used well, the heavy and even the Landship are already well armored enough.
I hope they see into this, because until they do I'm never touching anything else besides a heavy tank from now on.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Damn just played a match, low level snipers on the attacking team makes it an extremely easy win defending. I even got kills in an attack plane! And I am terrible with planes
Also hit rank 10 on all the classes expect for support.
Also hit rank 10 on all the classes expect for support.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
Ironically? That's exactly what the light tank is designed for, to wipe out infantry, and the Flanker variant is very damned good at it. Yeah, you probably won't be able to force cap points with it, but that's why the other two tanks exist.
If anything, it's the artillery truck that needs looking at. I don't think there's any reason to spawn into one unless you've unlocked the AA variant.
It's ironic because they nerfed it after complains that it was too powerful against infantry in the beta and in doing so they just made sure that the only way to effectively use it now is to completely focus on the same infantry and forget or run from the other tanks.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Anyone?
I remember that post about them causing issues I just don't want to make my system unstable or have memory issues.
I miss playing the game
Anyone?
I remember that post about them causing issues I just don't want to make my system unstable or have memory issues.
I miss playing the game
No issues here.
Bought the game a couple days ago. I like it a lot, but there's one thing that bugs me. I can't go back to the main menu in the post-game screen, it just gets stuck in the loading screen and I have to close the game if I want to go back to the main menu. Is this a common issue?
Pop On Arrival
Banned
im getting it, running on windows 10. happened twice already. Just got the game yesterday.
Chubzdoomer
Banned
Yeah, it worked at launch but they broke it with the update that came out a couple weeks ago. I usually just Alt-F4 out and restart the game.
NormandyVII
Member
Same thing happen to me and my friends playing the game. Think it's a common issue.