Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Dream, I added my CQ/CQA map rotation to the server
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Battlefield 3 | Console Community Thread | Pleasant Entertainment
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The Faceless Master
Member
i played on a 500 ticket metro server last night .. RUSH!
3rd set and we had them down to like 60 tickets and then i get dropped.
try to rejoin, game is full.
The Antitype
Banned
What are the best single-player and co-op missions to learn how to fly the damn choppers and planes.
I've been playing this game for months and have never even stepped near one, cause I don't want to be the asshole that crashes the thing, kills his teammates, and loses an important vehicle till the next respawn.
I've basically become a ground vehicle, assault specialist.
But I WOULD like to learn how to control them.
I've been playing this game for months and have never even stepped near one, cause I don't want to be the asshole that crashes the thing, kills his teammates, and loses an important vehicle till the next respawn.
I've basically become a ground vehicle, assault specialist.
But I WOULD like to learn how to control them.
What are the best single-player and co-op missions to learn how to fly the damn choppers and planes.
I've been playing this game for months and have never even stepped near one, cause I don't want to be the asshole that crashes the thing, kills his teammates, and loses an important vehicle till the next respawn.
I've basically become a ground vehicle, assault specialist.
But I WOULD like to learn how to control them.
Yes, completely agree with you there. Every time I try to fly a helicopter it ends up with me crashing almost instantly and killing my entire squad. So I just stay clear but I really would like to know.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
What are the best single-player and co-op missions to learn how to fly the damn choppers and planes.
I've been playing this game for months and have never even stepped near one, cause I don't want to be the asshole that crashes the thing, kills his teammates, and loses an important vehicle till the next respawn.
I've basically become a ground vehicle, assault specialist.
But I WOULD like to learn how to control them.
Rent a server for a day and set it to private/password protected. Fly until you get bored.
Although, even once you learn to fly, there's still the problem of not having any unlocks all the ace pilots have. You don't even have stealth. They can lock you from halfway across the map.
Unlocks are so awesome.
Pretty much this.
But anyone getting into flying now is going to be an easy target for other planes.
I would seriously suggest paying for the unlocks otherwise you won't progress as other pilots are too damm good now. And the time it takes to rank the planes up is tedious.
olimpia84
Member
Yeah, I joined Seks the other day on that same server and thought it was retarded to have such high ticket count on Metro RUSH. We had them down to like 39 tickets on the 3rd set and they finally get the MCOMs. It's pretty clear that those servers are set for stat boosting because I don't see the point of having such high ticket count.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Dream, If you can't renew the server I have a theory.. It has to be renewed on the console the server was bought on.
Miggytronz
Member
im on Hehe.
Miggytronz
Member
and Hehe server is dead.
add me GAF if you wanna play, Miguelangelos (XBOX)
add me GAF if you wanna play, Miguelangelos (XBOX)
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
Pay for the server and pay for the unlocks! Win/win situation right there!
for EA's balance sheet that is
you needed more tickets!
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/38621909/4/27750092/
Boom!
OdysseusVA
Banned
Yeah :/
The custom settings doesn't get thrown into Quick Match. I've switched to 24/7 Wake Island CQA with higher ticket count. It's been pretty busy since
I've added you
sounds like pure fucking torture.
JESUS....
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
After the first 6 hours I'm having a ton of fun now, even if I get destroyed I can always go for objectives and that is more fun to me than raising my k/d ratio (which will always stay awful no matter what, I also suck with dual analog controls :/) which I think it's 0.47, lol.
JJD and tn2007 gave me tips which were very helpful to get decent enough to at least have fun. I've still haven't joined them on GAF matches 'cause those look too intimidating to me still; I was playing Caspian conquest today on the DICE server for a bit and I was clueless since I don't know how to fucking fly a chopper or the jet without crashing/spinning/going too fast (hey I'm good at Ace Combat, ahah) and I don't know how to train/learn. So GAF is still out of my reach atm, plus I'm in EU and I get lag sometimes when playing on US servers.
Also, how come sometimes I get the straight kill animation when knifing someone and sometimes I don't?
I also wish the in-game manual had a friggin' tiny section on all the different weapons, what they do and what are their pro/cons, shit's intimidating to say the least for a newbie (corporal 2 stars lev7, lol).
I like playing Engineer, Assault and Support in this particular order. Hate/suck at sniping so Scout is a no-go.
Support is growing in me tho, the more I unlock decent stuff it might replace Assault as my second fav.
JJD and tn2007 gave me tips which were very helpful to get decent enough to at least have fun. I've still haven't joined them on GAF matches 'cause those look too intimidating to me still; I was playing Caspian conquest today on the DICE server for a bit and I was clueless since I don't know how to fucking fly a chopper or the jet without crashing/spinning/going too fast (hey I'm good at Ace Combat, ahah) and I don't know how to train/learn. So GAF is still out of my reach atm, plus I'm in EU and I get lag sometimes when playing on US servers.
Also, how come sometimes I get the straight kill animation when knifing someone and sometimes I don't?
I also wish the in-game manual had a friggin' tiny section on all the different weapons, what they do and what are their pro/cons, shit's intimidating to say the least for a newbie (corporal 2 stars lev7, lol).
I like playing Engineer, Assault and Support in this particular order. Hate/suck at sniping so Scout is a no-go.
Support is growing in me tho, the more I unlock decent stuff it might replace Assault as my second fav.
The Faceless Master
Member
Yeah :/
The custom settings doesn't get thrown into Quick Match. I've switched to 24/7 Wake Island CQA with higher ticket count. It's been pretty busy since
I've added you
yeah, it was busy even early in the AM.
people love 5 flag wake.
HollovVpo1nt
Banned
Warning, these pics are huge =p
[brag]I stopped taking pictures couse it became common rather than unique.[/brag]
Miggytronz
Member
1 thing i noticed right off the bat was how much better the entire engine was running with this patch. Minimal pop in on textures, textures fully rendered correctly. It felt like a whole new fucking game, like i was amazed last night.
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
ii Stryker
Banned
Yeah for the most part everything looked and played much smoother. Before the patch it looked like there was this odd shimmer to the visuals and now it looks much cleaner and crisper.
The spotting and audio are still a tad buggy but much improved none the less.
The new gun and vehicle adjustments are going to take some getting used to but there doesn't seem to be any super combo at this point.
The attack choppers initially felt too weak and respawn timers a tad too long however they may be more balanced for pilot/co-pilot combos then flying solo or with randoms. Havoc is improved.
Didn't notice the USAS/Frag and it was nice to see everyone playing the objectives instead of MAV riding/griefing
Overall its much improved but still in need of some minor tweaking.
Does anyone know if Siene Crossing still have the lag hiccups or was that fixed in the patch?
Goddamn 5 flag wake is good. Still not as good as it was n 1942 back in the day, but thats just because 24 players is a bit too low for that map.
I also think 2 airplanes and 1 attack heli is too much for team. This takes 4 people out of the 12 player team in the air. I think 1 plane and 1 heli is best for 24 player consoles.
Also how the hell are carrier choppers meant to avoid planes? they get killed by planes, and most of the players are so shit with the gunner. The gun is such a beast but for some reason all these randoms dont know how to use it...
I also think 2 airplanes and 1 attack heli is too much for team. This takes 4 people out of the 12 player team in the air. I think 1 plane and 1 heli is best for 24 player consoles.
Also how the hell are carrier choppers meant to avoid planes? they get killed by planes, and most of the players are so shit with the gunner. The gun is such a beast but for some reason all these randoms dont know how to use it...
Yup. And that's not even considering the idiots who camp spawns waiting for them.
I think I'm kind of done with this game. There is a lot to do and some of it is very good but it hasn't grabbed me like BC2 did. Last night I was getting really annoyed with how much crab there is on the screen. Your HUD is so busy that look at the actual game seems secondary sometimes. Any way to turn off a bunch of your HUD on a PS3?
HIGH DEF JEFF
Banned
Play Hardcore.
Dreamgazer
Member
1)If anything, GAF matches tends to be less intimidating than playing with randoms, since you can expect your buddies to back you up.
2)There's no specific requirement to fly helo/jets in GAF. Just do what you feel you're best at. The official server is prety much empty most of the time too, so feel free to practice your flying there.
3)Knifing is only a straight kill when done from behind.
4)My most played class is recon. I don't have a single sniper kill, and I can't snipe for the life of me. Don't ignore the class as if it's sniping only.
IMO, BC2> BF3.
Anyway, turning off HUD is a custom server option. So maybe you can find a server with no HUD that's not hardcore?
ii Stryker
Banned
Where is the horn button?
LB on 360 and it was only on the jeep.
ii Stryker
Banned
after the patch the HUD looks considerably toned down to me.
The only way (AFAIK) to customize the HUD is to play in a custom server that has the elements you like.
adamsappel
Member
I can accept a missile being unable to lock-on to a close heli that is flying/hovering low to the ground. But, they need to then make such a heli vulnerable to farther-away lock-ons. I admire those pilots who can fly really well, that doesn't mean they should be invulnerable.
ii Stryker
Banned
I suspect the co pilot/gunner is running the below radar perk. It was annoying but its extremely high risk because they can easily run into shit plus you have an easier opportunity to hit them with an RPG/SMAW which is now a one hit kill.
Dreamgazer
Member
Many people would disagree with you:
http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3/comments/rg2zc/the_stinger_prepatch_and_post_patch/
Personally, I'm perfectly happy with the way the stingers are right now. I had no problem taking out 2-3 helos in one game after the patch.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Yeah, I'm not reading all that. A helo has to be not too close and not too far, but the window is terrible. I can be locking on and the helo seems to move 5 feet further away and it stops locking, yet it's not that far from me to begin with. There's already countermeasures for the helo, so why is there now such a small window for even getting the lock on signal? It literally stops and starts when the helo isn't even increasing/decreasing its distance from me by that much. I'm just standing there like a retard praying it's finally the right distance.
Really like the game after the update.
There are a couple of things annoying me though. The first thing is rather cosmetic: the RPK extended mag. It goes from 46 to 200(!) bullets per magazine, but it looks like normal 46 magazine. Looks stupid imo.
And why didn't M27 get an extended mag? Yes, both sides have three machie guns with extended mags, but the RPK is the standard russian machinegun. Noobs on the russian side who have unlocked the extended mag will always have an advantage. Kind of stupid. They should have simply added another russian machine gun. (And yes, I only play with russian/chinese weapons when I'm on the russian side and only american/european weapons when on the american side.)
There are a couple of things annoying me though. The first thing is rather cosmetic: the RPK extended mag. It goes from 46 to 200(!) bullets per magazine, but it looks like normal 46 magazine. Looks stupid imo.
And why didn't M27 get an extended mag? Yes, both sides have three machie guns with extended mags, but the RPK is the standard russian machinegun. Noobs on the russian side who have unlocked the extended mag will always have an advantage. Kind of stupid. They should have simply added another russian machine gun. (And yes, I only play with russian/chinese weapons when I'm on the russian side and only american/european weapons when on the american side.)
Are you serious? That damn thing can take out a helicopter in one shot, if the pilot has no idea how to land it. I tried using it to see how effective it was; you're pretty much guaranteed a kill on it now.
They also fucked up the MG36 by bugging the Extended Mag and made it unachievable.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Apart from things like having a very obnoxious unlock system, and some of the attachments like flashlightz... I don't really have too much to complain about.
The epic maps server was a huge help. Now I'm not forced to play shit I don't like.
I just want a no jet server... just let us turn off the damn jets and I have little left to complain about. The patch did a lot of good things.
The epic maps server was a huge help. Now I'm not forced to play shit I don't like.
I just want a no jet server... just let us turn off the damn jets and I have little left to complain about. The patch did a lot of good things.
sneakypete
Member
How often do they add servers? I want to rent an East US one but none are available :E