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Battlefield 3 |OT| My Body is Advised
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goldsoundz said:
If they screw up Back to Karkand with only 5 Capture points....going to be so pissed
What is with this fixation on only 5 points. BF2 HAD 9 CAP POINTS ON CERTAIN MAPS. WHY IS DICE UTTERLY IDIOTIC WITH MAP DESIGN EVERY FUCKING TIME
If someone could get through to one of the guys on twitter and ask them why they chose to do this, but instead they get asked questions like ARE JETS IN THIS GAME LOLOLOLOL
BoobPhysics101
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Nabs said:
It takes over a full minute to start a new round if you also count the time it takes for the pre-deployment countdown.
Maybe DICE is appreciating those of us who like to piss and eat for 1.5 minutes between rounds?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
I hope they let you add Karkand to the map rotation. That way, we can eliminate some of the maps that are too unbalanced and stick to Karkand maps.
kingschiebi
Member
Is the campaign difficulty supposed to be so fucked up?
I wouldn't consider myself bad at playing a shooter, but this is jst ridiculous on hard difficulty.
Enemies keep respawn, consistently hit me through walls and kill me in 3 shots, even when trying to be prone all the time.
I must have died almost a hundred times now and always on those stupid "run to the checkpoint while infinite respawning enemies shoot at you and only you". No cover, no tactics, nothing - just frustrating exercises in luck.
Am I missing something here or should Dice scrap the whole SP part alltogether next time and get rid of the people who think that infinite respawning enemies are "good gameplay"?
As it seems, I can't even change the difficulty without restarting the campaign.
Fucking A
This pisses me much more off than it is even worth getting angry about, but still...
I wouldn't consider myself bad at playing a shooter, but this is jst ridiculous on hard difficulty.
Enemies keep respawn, consistently hit me through walls and kill me in 3 shots, even when trying to be prone all the time.
I must have died almost a hundred times now and always on those stupid "run to the checkpoint while infinite respawning enemies shoot at you and only you". No cover, no tactics, nothing - just frustrating exercises in luck.
Am I missing something here or should Dice scrap the whole SP part alltogether next time and get rid of the people who think that infinite respawning enemies are "good gameplay"?
As it seems, I can't even change the difficulty without restarting the campaign.
Fucking A
This pisses me much more off than it is even worth getting angry about, but still...
Strummerjones
Member
Just ran through all of the co-op mode with a friend. Fairly fun if pointlessly geared towards apeing COD infantry levels (why were there no tank etc levels?). The helicopter mission is a near perfect introduction to choppers for beginners, which makes it a shame that you can't play it alone to get the hang of things without endlessly killing your gunner (as happened when I let my friend fly). For anyone who is anywhere proficient with helicopters it's pretty yawn inducing with only about 3 enemies that can even harm you.
This is the problem with most of the levels; they're generally pretty simple and lacking in thrills, yet clearly you are expected to play through them multiple times if you want to get the unlocks. A complete run of all six levels on normal (with a couple of mis-steps) only netted us just over 100,000 points, yet the highest unlock requires 440,000. Unless you get significantly more for playing on hard, I can see this being excrutiatingly dull.
This is the problem with most of the levels; they're generally pretty simple and lacking in thrills, yet clearly you are expected to play through them multiple times if you want to get the unlocks. A complete run of all six levels on normal (with a couple of mis-steps) only netted us just over 100,000 points, yet the highest unlock requires 440,000. Unless you get significantly more for playing on hard, I can see this being excrutiatingly dull.
It gets better for a while after the third mission. The first few missions are terrible. The end is also pretty disappointing but it had some cool moments and some good firefights in the middle stretch. It was probably the best that DICE has done. I liked it more than the BC campaigns.Enco said:
Relaxed Muscle
Member
kingschiebi said:
Where are you stuck?
I remember first mission (when you have to grab the M249) that it was really annoying, you basically had like dozens of enemies with incredible aiming skills shooting at you, even RPG's with ridiculous splash damage.
Except a few points, hard isn't that bad. Sometime is a good idea let you squad go ahead of you, sometimes they act as meat shields, since they are useless in any other way.
Jack Scofield
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Haven't finished it yet, but SP is a surprisingly fun COD-styled beast. Just finished the mission where you play as Dima. I always love those types of missions, both in this game and in Call of Duty.
There were a lot of lies in that trailer. The UAV sequence in the trailer had the player spot the base but in the game you just press one button to spot which might as well be "Press the button to continue to the next sequence." It was more pointless than Black Ops' Blackbird sequence.Darklord said:
vidal said:
The campaign was interesting but needed to give the player WAY more control. Sometimes it just felt like I was running with the script and that's it. Oh, I need to go into this room ok. Now what? I just stand here until they get in and find out what's going on. It kinda reminds me of a FMV game where all you really do is point and shoot and the rest of the time you watch the "actors" play out stuff on a green screen.
kingschiebi
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Relaxed Muscle said:
I was stuck in front of the bank, but got lucky after covering everything in grenades so that i only got hit twice, instead of three times and die.
the first mission "get the lmg" part pretty much sums up the campaign for me so far.
You will die a lt just to get up there and then find out that
- your new position is essentially a neverending killzone
- enemies are only at war with you
- enemies always know where you are
- it was pointless going to that spot in the first place
I noticed that squadmates are useful sometimes, but then it feels like cheating if you hit the ground, crawling through cover while the npc's do all the work.
Just to be clear, i got this game for mp, but one has to ask how much more time they could have put into mp instead of wasting effort on an uninspired and frustrating sp.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Earlier today I joined a server that was dedicated to "Flight School" I tried to get the hang of the jet and choppa's for well over an hour. I just can't do it. I tried with a controller, tried with the Keyboard controls, tried with keyboard and mouse. I spend at most a minute in the air before I start crapping my pants and meeting the ground very quickly.
Eh, I guess I'm a land guy.
Eh, I guess I'm a land guy.
Red Blaster
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Smokey said:
Inverted mouse controls, biatch.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
AndyD said:
I'm getting the same. I turned off cloud storage in hopes that it might fix it but nope. I also have an issue where the first time I go to connect to a server I get "BF3 has quit responding" or something. I'm talking every single first time. I close it out launch the same server again and it works.
These issues aren't curbing my enjoyment of the game but it is a pain in the rear to have to keep connecting to the server I want to play. Especially with the hella long load times.
Red Blaster
Member
derFeef said:
Yeah inverted inverted lulz, so I guess normal. I believe that's how it was in BF2 and 2142, strange DICE flipped it around.
Foliorum Viridum
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Just done the first half of co-op with Orgun. It's not bad, but it's not exactly good either. It's just fairly bland scenarios without any of the excitement you had in Spec Ops.
Dunno if it has been posted, but you can generate your stats for sigs here: http://www.enjin.com/bf3-signature-generator
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Get a joystick. You really want to have a throttle in this game. Also, can you post a link to that server?RbBrdMan said:
Stahsky
A passionate embrace, a beautiful memory lingers.
desu said:Dunno if it has been posted, but you can generate your stats for sigs here: http://www.enjin.com/bf3-signature-generator
32? Damn.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Oh man I wish there was a battle recorder already. Just parachuted down and killed 2 guys with a rocket while still parachuting and then shot the last guy when I landed on the roof that was confused to where the hell it was all coming from, was coming from a long way up (bailed on jet) and somehow no one noticed, was a real battlefield moment.
Wow, after the match i just played i have changed my mind on the whole flare deal.. cool down needs to be longer or something for the jets. The only thing that you can take out a really good pilot with is rockets launchers. lol spent like 5mins or so just going back and forth with a jet in my chopper.. neither of us killed each other. He would just fly away out of range or i would just duck under him to avoid his lock.
I'm amazed btw how different the perception about Origin's EULA is. Here in Germany, almost everybody is going apeshit about it. See Amazon.de's 1.5 Star ranking of the game.
Meanwhile, I don't have the impression GAF doesn't care much about this, or am I wrong?
I probably won't care much either when I finally get to play the game but I think it's kind of amazing.
Meanwhile, I don't have the impression GAF doesn't care much about this, or am I wrong?
I probably won't care much either when I finally get to play the game but I think it's kind of amazing.
Foliorum Viridum
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FRAPSWoodenLung said:
If you record at half resolution you shouldn't get a FPS hit. My framerate stays at 60 when I record in the game.
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