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Battlefield 3 |OT| My Body is Advised
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AlmostMilk
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Two things that need to be in the next patch... fix the light of god (flashlight), since it didn't make it into this one, and the recharge time for flares because flares+stealth+semi decent pilot=never shot down. By the time the second shot is fired, the flares have already recharged. It's a serious problem and I don't understand why more people aren't complaining about it (probably because of the flashlight problem distracting them.)
Anton Sugar
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Really though, he was just naming a few things that DICE knows the community wants. He wasnt alluding to what would be in the next patch (or the patch after).
Anton Sugar
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True. But if we get half of those, it shall be a DICE milestone.
I've heard good things about frag rounds, but when I tried em on my 870, they seemed weaker than the regular buckshot.
Is it different for the other shotguns?
Yes, particularly with the USAS since it's a semi-auto shotgun, so they are spammable.
BattleMonkey
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The semi auto shotguns make them awesome
I don't know if they're weaker but they are definitely not stronger. The only thing they do is add suppression at the cost of reduced accuracy. It's pretty useful if you get a flank on a group of enemies, they won't be able to see a god-damn thing.
Yup. The defib is pretty much broken. It doesn't matter if the game show the skull icon or the EKG icon, sometimes you can revive, sometimes you cannot. And sometimes all it takes is one try, other times it takes 4 or 5. Maybe there's something to that mechanic that I don't understand but I find it rather odd that something that relatively simple doesn't work flawlessly.
The other thing they do is add some massive range and splash damage compared to buckshots. Just shoot in the general direction of an enemy or at the ground near him and it's an easy +100.
And especially with the Squad Suppression perk it's pretty much like being shot at by an LAV.
Frag rounds are all around the best, even on the 870.
Damage comes in two parts, the projectile and the explosion. The projectile does max 60 damage up to 10m tapering to 34 from 10m to 50m (the longest diminished range of any shotgun round). The explosion happens at the impact point and does 40 damage at impact to 0.5m from impact, tapering to 0 damage at 3m.
So basically if you hit someone with the round at 10m or less it's a one hit kill - same as slugs and buckshot. The advantage to frag rounds is that they perform ridiculously superior to other rounds at range in terms of damage. Regardless of the range you are at it will take a maximum of two hits to kill someone with frag. The biggest disadvantage is that the projectile speed is much slower than slug/buckshot - but that can be compensated for by the player. Also they cause a fuckload of suppression.
Also usas frag abuse is hamosaxuel.
Well, the description doesn't say anything about increased range so I don't know about that. I thought slugs was what you used for that?
What the fuck..? I don't think I've ever experienced a one hit kill with a shotgun that far away. And I've been playing quite a lot with the DAO-12 and USAS-12. That sounds insane.
Toss on a scope and see how far the projectile flies. I regularly kill dudes that are 15-25 feet away from me all the time with the frag rounds.
BattleMonkey
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Slugs are much longer range with less burst effect. Frag rounds are not as long range as slugs, more like extreme buckshot with a little less damage
Not so much that they increase the range of the projectile (but the frag projectile damage does diminish the slowest of all shotgun rounds).
The reason that frag is the best at range is that the explosion damage is carried to the point of impact undiminished, so regardless of the range you're gonna get that 40 explosion damage where it hits + projectile damage.
Slugs are actually pretty shit overall. A one hit kill inside of 10m, but the damage still diminishes to the same 34 of the frag projectile, and at 40m instead of 50m. I'd take buckshot before I'd take slugs. But frag is far and away the best.
I guess it's technically possible to survive a hit from a frag round inside of 10m if you have the flak perk up.
But I kill people with frag rounds out of the 870 in one hit all the time, even on normal servers.
This is the most important thing
This is the proposed fan-designed UI if you missed it.
All I want is the Tactical Light nerf, Battlerecorder and fixes for the stupid as shit tandem alert shots in co-op for my disabled ass. :| Anything else is extra.
Wolf Akela
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BattleMonkey
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The UI worked fine in BC2, they really should have just kept that
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
I actually ended up shooting at the sun on Caspian Border as it rose out from behind some rocks up the hill towards Hilltop because I mistook it for the Tactical Light.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Stantron
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Anyone know if it's possible to bind walk/look to the analogs of a 360 controller? For whatever reason, it won't allow me, but if it's possible, I'd like to try it out.
edit: Never mind. Apparently I needed to reset settings to get it to work. The key bindings menu is so buggy.
GasProblem
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Is there a way to make ammo boxes and health packs not show up on the map? When I zoom out the map it's way too cluttered.
Yeah, they totally need to make the sun brighter so people don't make that mistake.
I love this game dearly but DICE fucked up on a few things.
Mute doesn't work on 360.
Can't customize classes between matches.
Between match screen doesn't show next map.
There are a lot of windows that are too short to jump through... it takes a couple tries.
Jets can't do shit against infantry.
Chopper Miniguns are terrible. No accuracy and no damage against infantry.
An entire helicopter full of infantry can explode 2 feet above the ground and everyone on board survives.
Tehran Highway's graphics look like a joke. Especially when scoping long distances.
AA Vehicle on Kharg is a BEAST! It treats helicopters like a damn pinata.
This is first grade stuff. Why did you miss so many things DICE?!
EDIT: Xbox 360 version.
Mute doesn't work on 360.
Can't customize classes between matches.
Between match screen doesn't show next map.
There are a lot of windows that are too short to jump through... it takes a couple tries.
Jets can't do shit against infantry.
Chopper Miniguns are terrible. No accuracy and no damage against infantry.
An entire helicopter full of infantry can explode 2 feet above the ground and everyone on board survives.
Tehran Highway's graphics look like a joke. Especially when scoping long distances.
AA Vehicle on Kharg is a BEAST! It treats helicopters like a damn pinata.
This is first grade stuff. Why did you miss so many things DICE?!
EDIT: Xbox 360 version.
SirButterstick
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Actually, jets are great against infantry with the patch. Spent one round picking off snipers on the Caspian tower. They were pretty pissed
It's about 3 hits to kill with the jet, and they spit out a lot of bullets.
It's about 3 hits to kill with the jet, and they spit out a lot of bullets.
Yeah it is and I wish there was a fading effect when you look at something that's spotted cause all I see Is a big 2d red tank. I want to see the actual tank so I can hit it dice thanks.
The Faceless Master
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Rahxephon91
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So perhaps this is the thread to ask this random question. As far as the console version is concerned, how are the maps? Are they smaller with the conquest points less spread out and thus comparable to Bad Company 2? Or are they bigger with more spread out conquest points?
Spaulding
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Maybe this is worthy of its own thread?
PS3 users will get Battlefield 1943 for free:
http://1943redemption.battlefield.com/
November 26th, 2011
for Battlefield 3 players on PlayStation®Network Sony Europe
December 10th, 2011
for Battlefield 3 players on PlayStation®Network Sony America
December 17th, 2011
for Battlefield 3 players on PlayStation®Network Sony Asia and Sony Japan
PS3 users will get Battlefield 1943 for free:
http://1943redemption.battlefield.com/
November 26th, 2011
for Battlefield 3 players on PlayStation®Network Sony Europe
December 10th, 2011
for Battlefield 3 players on PlayStation®Network Sony America
December 17th, 2011
for Battlefield 3 players on PlayStation®Network Sony Asia and Sony Japan
a microsoft battlefield 3 patch.... hmm odd, i wonder if they're patching to allow for the game to use increased bandwidth for 32 player servers.
ConstructMe
Banned
Thats fairly unlikely tbh.
How many people can three C4 explosives kill? I managed to sneak by B objective on metro conquest, lace C objective with C4 (American side), and waited for everyone to backtrack. There were five guys in the blast radius, but I only got three kills.
I unleashed on the remaining two with the USAS, made quick work of them. Definitely one of my finer moments.
I unleashed on the remaining two with the USAS, made quick work of them. Definitely one of my finer moments.
Facism
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Did the patch break the fix not to use Origin? I'm trying to play and Origin is suddenly launching.
there was a fix that avoided origin!!?
I shot at an annoying/good chopper on Firrstorm from my tank, just to get him away from the capture point and my team. He ducked away below and behind one of the warehouses, I fire a last shell at him to basically tell him "Yeah, run you lil coward". Boom, vehicle destroyed.
The shell arced over the building and hit and desroyed a chopper I could't even see anymore.
I'll play with frag rounds some more today, but so far I had more success with buckshot.
Stephen_drewz
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God they really need to come up with some kind of fix for when you join a server and when you get in it instantly goes to the "Your Team Has Lost" page.
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