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Battlefield 3 |OT| My Body is Advised
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Foliorum Viridum
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I thought it shouldn't be right I could just keep planting them.Rad- said:
Until it's fixed, watch out tanks!
Nostalgia~4ever
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some back to karkand screens
Anyone know if Reserved slots are actually working for anyone? Mine don't seem to do anything.
Also, Hurray!
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/116535
Also, Hurray!
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/116535
sparky2112
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I'm not the world's greatest player, so I have to cherish what few epic moments I get:
Driving a tank last night, spot an enemy on top of a 1-story building off in the distance-ish. Blow the building with the tank's main gun, enemy ragdolls what must have been at LEAST 100 feet in the air, spinning towards me, where he lands with the plop in the stream right in front of my tank.
Yep, probably the best moment in gaming I've ever had (and I go back to the Atari 2600)...
Driving a tank last night, spot an enemy on top of a 1-story building off in the distance-ish. Blow the building with the tank's main gun, enemy ragdolls what must have been at LEAST 100 feet in the air, spinning towards me, where he lands with the plop in the stream right in front of my tank.
Yep, probably the best moment in gaming I've ever had (and I go back to the Atari 2600)...
Subterranean
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Oh my, those screens of Karkand! I really hope they get the map pack out in November.
I agree with the sentiments about the sniper. There just isn't much value in the class overall compared to the others. In BC2 the tools it had early on for anti tank were great, and having multiple recon balls let you scout positions before you approached them. They had great utility, but now with being weaker in gun play AND to team dynamics it's "meh."
Don't get me wrong the respawn ability is a fantastic addition, but it's so easy to find them when they make such a loud noise for enemies to destroy. I also find teammates do not spawn on them often in my squad, and instead opt to just pop on my body instead.
What do snipers have to look forward to later on? Is it just an issue with their early game tools and weapons being shit, and then they get really scary later on, or were they too scared of making them deadly now that they put prone back in?
You can get more "sniping" done with AR/LMGs with scopes on them in prone I feel.
This again goes back to a lot of the maps being better suited for mid range and close encounters.
I'll try to stick with it, but I find myself more and more playing Engineer to stay alive, get kills, and I just use RPGs as my "sniper" rifle. Toss on the +explosions, and I'm rocking 9 rockets. Come at me bro.
Don't get me wrong the respawn ability is a fantastic addition, but it's so easy to find them when they make such a loud noise for enemies to destroy. I also find teammates do not spawn on them often in my squad, and instead opt to just pop on my body instead.
What do snipers have to look forward to later on? Is it just an issue with their early game tools and weapons being shit, and then they get really scary later on, or were they too scared of making them deadly now that they put prone back in?
You can get more "sniping" done with AR/LMGs with scopes on them in prone I feel.
This again goes back to a lot of the maps being better suited for mid range and close encounters.I'll try to stick with it, but I find myself more and more playing Engineer to stay alive, get kills, and I just use RPGs as my "sniper" rifle. Toss on the +explosions, and I'm rocking 9 rockets. Come at me bro.
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Can't wait for Infantry only Karkand.
Rad- said:
I'd settle with 24/7 Karkand and Wake. All I need.
U2NUMB said:
Uh... yeah? They've been available for YEARS now since the EA promotion started in ~2009, dude.
Just find one with "EVERY BOTTLE WINS"/EA logo. It doesn't matter what type of game is promoted on the bottle. It's just the code that is needed.
Metalmurphy
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Omg, they even redid the BF2 outfits.
Patrick Bateman
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Why am I throwing little glowing balls??kitch9 said:
Anton Sugar
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Finished co-op last night. Last mission was good times, but I think my favorite, by far, is the sniper protection mission. Felt like some Rainbow Six shit.
Operation Firestorm is reaching "Best of" levels for me in regards to Battlefield. Need to play Kharg a bit more, but really like it, and Canals is growing on me. Caspian is, as always, a blast.
There is an element missing from most maps that I sorely miss from Battlefield 2, and that's verticality. The Rush maps are full of them--moving up and down hills/mountainsides. CQ is pretty much a flat affair, however. Other than Caspian, certain parts of Noshahr Canals, and Tehran (which no one has played much of since it's laggy), it's just not there.
An EASY way to make Damavand go from "meh" to potentially "omg" would be opening the mountain up for travel. As long as spawn camping/sniping could be prevented, I think it would be glorious.
I'm going through changes. All my online names are Anton Sugar, so figured this would make it easier, since we have such a big PC GAF gaming group
And don't get me wrong--I think the mortar is fucking great. I just wish there was a better way to balance it in the smaller, urban maps where it's so easy to spam. In Mumble last night, we talked about how a Recon with the MAV + Support with Mortar = point and click kills.
God dammit.
Operation Firestorm is reaching "Best of" levels for me in regards to Battlefield. Need to play Kharg a bit more, but really like it, and Canals is growing on me. Caspian is, as always, a blast.
There is an element missing from most maps that I sorely miss from Battlefield 2, and that's verticality. The Rush maps are full of them--moving up and down hills/mountainsides. CQ is pretty much a flat affair, however. Other than Caspian, certain parts of Noshahr Canals, and Tehran (which no one has played much of since it's laggy), it's just not there.
An EASY way to make Damavand go from "meh" to potentially "omg" would be opening the mountain up for travel. As long as spawn camping/sniping could be prevented, I think it would be glorious.
TheSeks said:
I'm going through changes. All my online names are Anton Sugar, so figured this would make it easier, since we have such a big PC GAF gaming group
which you should join.
And don't get me wrong--I think the mortar is fucking great. I just wish there was a better way to balance it in the smaller, urban maps where it's so easy to spam. In Mumble last night, we talked about how a Recon with the MAV + Support with Mortar = point and click kills.
blahness said:
God dammit.
Metalmurphy
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I love how there's knife kill animations for standing, crouching and prone, AND all sides.
Just knifed someone that was lying down, turned him around and bam
Just knifed someone that was lying down, turned him around and bam
Aeonin said:
I'm drawing comparison to utility from Bad Company 2. I was able to do a lot more work with the amount of kills I could get, vehicles I could destroy, and heck I could even drop that air strike thing in areas where people were hold up tight.
That's why I'm wondering if the class gets more deadly later on here in BF3, because it's a bit of a struggle for myself to contribute as one if I'm not getting headshots 24/7.(Sorry bro it isn't going to happen...)
Yeah_its_Bob
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I don't like doctor pepper but those dog tag look freaking awesome.
Anton Sugar
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Nabs said:
I must have thrown mine away in a drunken fit of rage.
JimmyBoy said:
No, not working yet, simply because we haven't had decent tools to use. Don't worry, I think BF3CC is releasing today, so we may be able to start playing with the server options soon and hopefully get the reserved slots working.
Darklord said:Aw man. Would be nice if this shit wasn't always US only. I can't even buy Dr. Pepper here.
Like I said earlier, I just unlocked the camo and I'm in Canada. I bought a pack of 5 codes on Ebay for 2.50US! I had one leftover code from the Shift 2 promo so I got the camo right away and I am waiting on my new batch of 5 codes to get the tags.
Speaking of the camo, anybody tried it yet? Is it for all classes or just for the assault (they only show assault screenshot on the webpage).
MustacheBandit_
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anybody have an extra dr pepper code? i used mine and accidently put in my email address not affiliated with my EA account so it was a code wasted. didn't notice it said put in email of EA account. le sigh.
Megasoum said:
I've got a separate question about camo in this game and loadouts in general. Mine don't save. Camo never saves, but my weapon loadouts usually I have to reset and do over if I join a different server.
Anyone know if there is a workaround to this or if DICE is working on it ?
MustacheBandit_
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6 wolf moon lol i like it
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Hopefully they are adding something to battlelog so you can also tweak classes outside of the game and save presets. Maybe then it would remember shit.zlatko said:
Anton Sugar
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zlatko said:I agree with the sentiments about the sniper. There just isn't much value in the class overall compared to the others. In BC2 the tools it had early on for anti tank were great, and having multiple recon balls let you scout positions before you approached them. They had great utility, but now with being weaker in gun play AND to team dynamics it's "meh."
Don't get me wrong the respawn ability is a fantastic addition, but it's so easy to find them when they make such a loud noise for enemies to destroy. I also find teammates do not spawn on them often in my squad, and instead opt to just pop on my body instead.
What do snipers have to look forward to later on? Is it just an issue with their early game tools and weapons being shit, and then they get really scary later on, or were they too scared of making them deadly now that they put prone back in?
You can get more "sniping" done with AR/LMGs with scopes on them in prone I feel.
I'll try to stick with it, but I find myself more and more playing Engineer to stay alive, get kills, and I just use RPGs as my "sniper" rifle. Toss on the +explosions, and I'm rocking 9 rockets. Come at me bro.
Recon can be very useful. In fact, now that I have the Javelin, I usually ask any Recon on the team to set up a SOFLAM in a busy area of the map, so I can lock on to targets. I'm sure that will be an infinitely valuable tool once a lot of people get their air-to-ground missiles unlocked for aircraft.
The Radio Beacon can be infinitely valuable, it's just that people need to start using them in inventive ways. Most people just put them in a decent spot near the front lines and that's it. In Rush, as a defender, put them as close up to the attacker's front as possible OR hidden near an MCOM so you can easily spawn and disarm. As an attacker, just do the opposite tactics--put them near an MCOM to let you easily spawn and arm or deep in defender territory.
I honestly haven't played much of the Recon or Support class at all so far (used Recon a bit in the beta)--been enjoying Engineer too much. How is the MAV? Is there enough points-incentive to use it?
MustacheBandit_
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never in a game have i had such trouble figuring out which gun i like best, i can only imagine how much harder it will be once all of them are unlocked. i guess this is a good problem to have though.
Patrick Bateman
Member
I miss my airstrikes in the Sniper-class.
I want my binoculars back!
I want my binoculars back!
AndyMoogle
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I don't know about PS3, but it was released on 360 and PC last week.CozMick said:
Cuban Legend
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I will trade 1 multiplatform Dr. Pepper Code for 1 PC European Preorder Promo/Best Buy Promo Specact Skin Origin Code.
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