I finally got some practice time in a helicopter. Found a server on Caspian Border with only 10 people on it. It's amazing how much better you can be when you can fly for more than 5 second without getting shot down. -rolleyes- I think I 'm finally getting it down. Jets. Not so much.
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Battlefield 3 |OT| My Body is Advised
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R2D4 said:
Drop drop IR smoke until the eng fires the stinger. I see a lot of chopper pilots drop it when the lock hits before he re-acquires lock and fires.
The best combo though in a squad is to get 2 eng with stingers. Coordinate over voice chat helps immensely. I just hate it when people chopper whore and rack up 30/1 kd ratio so we make flying miserable for anyone who does that on our server.
slothmeister
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Don't suppose anyone's got a online pass that they're not using, just hired it from LoveFilm and it doesn't come with one.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
How do you guys spot on the PC?
F#A#Oo said:
Yea, last night it told me there were about 400 total people playing in the USA...whatever this 'bug' is, its probably the root cause of the squad issue, no visible servers, no matchmaking. There must be another 100 servers available, but its only really showing the full ones.
Dice, ask the fella who worked on this for BFBC2 how he made it work...and ask him nicely to do it again.
And the 'you can't quit a game post round or pre round' probably makes less server space available, people cannot back out easily.
Wolf Akela
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I wish DICE would just remove K/D display on the scoreboard if it's not a DM variant, and display only your own like TF2.
I always get in the top 5 and I have absolutely terrible K/D. I often end up with 0.1. I get a lot of points due to reviving, healing and capturing flags.
I always get in the top 5 and I have absolutely terrible K/D. I often end up with 0.1. I get a lot of points due to reviving, healing and capturing flags.
Spokker said:
It needs to be better about it. It shows everyone who needs a revive or ammo, even if they are a mile away. I think a better way to do it would be range limited to prevent the screen from cluttering up.
And the need ammo icon is on the minimap I think and tiny next to the names/lifebars, not prominent like the revive icon.
Nostalgia~4ever
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multiplayer is so awesome. Firestorm is among the best MP maps I ever played.
CrankyJay said:
My kingdom for some ammo. I am a missile whore, so I run out of ammo extremely fast while taking down jets/choppers. It's IMPOSSIBLE to find additional ammo, so much so that I don't even try anymore. There's just no support guys around, I guess.
One guy did give me ammo yesterday, and I cried a little inside.
fabricated backlash
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Spokker said:
I abstained for now. Gonna build myself a new PC next year and I might just get it then when most of the really troublesome problems are more or less mended. With DICE you also know that the game will never run fully stable.
I just got to play the SP campaign at my friends house, but that's not for here.
I know I'll be joining the BF3 online next year during summer. I still feel sorry for everyone who expected DICE to finish the game before releasing it this time around.
After caving and finally lowering my mouse sensitivity, I'm having a far better time with the SV98. It's just so satisfying to use. Going for headshots is not easy and most games I'm only getting 4 to 6 kills. But my KD is usually even or just slightly positive or negative. I'm getting better with it and there was once on Firestorm, I landed a headshot on some guy way across the other side of the map after accounting for bullet drop. That was a "hell yeah" moment right there.
Also, I find that learning when to use the SV98 and when to use the pistol helps my survivability a lot. The M1911 is awesome and there were a few times I've outgunned engineers and their goddamn rifles with it. Feels good man.
Overall, recon is still a shit class that really needs a buff or two but I'm beginning to feel the satisfaction from learning it. If they would just give recons the ability to score 10 or 20 points by the mere act of spotting an enemy, that would help a lot. I mean, it is RECONNAISSANCE after all. I also think if they got something slightly more offensive like the C4, it would also increase the overall usefulness of the class.
Also, I find that learning when to use the SV98 and when to use the pistol helps my survivability a lot. The M1911 is awesome and there were a few times I've outgunned engineers and their goddamn rifles with it. Feels good man.
Overall, recon is still a shit class that really needs a buff or two but I'm beginning to feel the satisfaction from learning it. If they would just give recons the ability to score 10 or 20 points by the mere act of spotting an enemy, that would help a lot. I mean, it is RECONNAISSANCE after all. I also think if they got something slightly more offensive like the C4, it would also increase the overall usefulness of the class.
AndyD said:
Yeah. Everyone always needs ammo. I'm not running around like a chicken serving ammo to people. I drop the ammoboxes everywhere i go though, but you are gonna have to chase me down and press select to inform me that you want ammo.
edit: also what derfeef said.
papersleeves
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ii Stryker said:
I've heard lots of horror regarding the servers stability on 360 but I've never encountered any problem joining a game. The only issues I've had has been the following :
-Game freezing during multiplayer (happened 2 times)
-No respawn after the timer : When I die, sometimes, after the countdown to respawn, it will stuck at limbo menu. Pressing A to deploy won't do anything at all and I am forced to quit. This happened like 3 or 4 times so far. All of this in 6-7 hours of playtime.
Overall, those are not affecting my experience a lot. the respawn bug is kind of frustrating, but it didn't happen often and it will most likely be fixed pretty quickly. If not, then it might turns into a real problem.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Lol I keep dropping ammo for engineers and they never see it and run away! They must scoped looking for tanks or jets. On bazaar it's pretty easy cause every one is always holed up in the early. Btw that map feels like black hawk down fukkkkkjorma said:
Patrick Bateman
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cametall said:
The bugged up Quick Match is even getting adressed in the game itself and you are told to use the Browers menu...
commish said:
I try to make myself useful by going for objectives as well but most times it's suicide going for hot objectives alone so I usually wait till I see backup. Other times, I just take an offbeat path and circle around the enemy to take the unguarded objectives from behind.
Unfortunately, it does appear that most recons are content to camp on roofs and not contribute to the team. Ironically, I find that camping on roofs and proning on hills is extremely predictable and results in myself taking an inordinate amount of fire and does no favours for my KD ratio. When I'm constantly on the move, attacking and defending objectives and finding different spots on the ground to snipe, that's when my kills start flowing in.
Anton Sugar
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ElyrionX said:
I don't have any problem with parachuting in. I like it--it's a good way to balance an insta-spawn.
Menelaus said:
Same.
zephervack
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The Recon definitely needs something, i played exclusively as Recon on BC2 and it was great, provided that you had good reflex and aim you were pretty much ready for every situation.
Im trying so hard to stick to recon in BF3 but im about to give up, between the scope flare, weak handgun, no options to destroy tanks (why take away C4?) and the shitty ridiculously flaky implementation of the T-UGS and Spawn beacon (cant put it down in 95% of terrain without wasting a lot of time trying and trying). Worst class in the game right now.
Dont get me started on the SOFLAM, by the time you get the missiles down the target has moved and i cant find ANYONE with a mortar that wants to work with me on bringing down Air targets, and if they do, the reward is worthless.
Im trying so hard to stick to recon in BF3 but im about to give up, between the scope flare, weak handgun, no options to destroy tanks (why take away C4?) and the shitty ridiculously flaky implementation of the T-UGS and Spawn beacon (cant put it down in 95% of terrain without wasting a lot of time trying and trying). Worst class in the game right now
. Dont get me started on the SOFLAM
, by the time you get the missiles down the target has moved and i cant find ANYONE with a mortar that wants to work with me on bringing down Air targets, and if they do, the reward is worthless. -Stranger-
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Just played this for two hours straight, so much fun
Trying to improve my K/D Ratio it's on 0.55 at the moment.
Trying to improve my K/D Ratio it's on 0.55 at the moment.
Anton Sugar
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zephervack said:Dont get me started on the SOFLAM
Yeah, I feel like the SOFLAM is useless. Either they need to increase the altitude that the Javelin missile reaches (to decrease the number of times it hits terrain) or increase it's travel speed. I have not gonna one hit off of a SOFLAM-lock with the Javelin (which I use on every vehicle-heavy map). Which is a shame, because it looks so cool.
OldJadedGamer
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Finally got my MVP achievement. Playing medic on Conquest Metro. I must have brought 30 people back from the dead it seemed like at point B. Oh, and my K/D ratio was 7/12. I love how that doesn't matter in this game.
CrankyJay said:
I spam ammo and health like it's going out of style. My Support class does really well for points, because I'll get points for giving ammo, and for C4'ing every enemy tank I see. As Assault, I try to revive when I can. I'll usually get shot in the process, but hey, it's 100 points, and the other guy might live through it.
BattleMonkey
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I often find myself scoring really high on my teams and sometimes at the top and it's not because of kills, but I make tons of points off of objective caps and doing my roles (healing, reviving, giving ammo, etc)
BattleMonkey
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Dipswitch said:
The function keys. f1, f2, f3, etc
Forsaken82
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F#A#Oo said:
Its a close_mid range ar. If you are trying to snipe people with it then yeah its pretty useless...
Digital Limit
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Recon is a pretty terrible kit (especially with the spotting bonus being so low), but I almost always start the round as a Recon.
It's just far too valuable to be able to lay down a mobile spawn point and a motion sensor, and then switch to a class better suited to the map. Having a devoted Recon (see: sniper) in my squad is usually nothing sort of frustrating when it comes to spawning back in or hoping for some sort of team work (again, outside of spotting but that doesn't afford enough points, IMHO).
The A button.
It's just far too valuable to be able to lay down a mobile spawn point and a motion sensor, and then switch to a class better suited to the map. Having a devoted Recon (see: sniper) in my squad is usually nothing sort of frustrating when it comes to spawning back in or hoping for some sort of team work (again, outside of spotting but that doesn't afford enough points, IMHO).
Dipswitch said:
The A button.
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