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Battlefield 3 |OT| My Body is Advised
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Broder Salsa
Banned
I am joining. More people!
ThyMusicMan
Member
I seen a YouTube video of people Riding the MAV's and getting on top of stuff like that
EleventhDoctor
Banned
I agree-the sniping in BC2 was a perfect science. Why didn't they just keep it the same?
It's awesome on Caspian. I got 13 surveillance ribbons in one game on that map a couple of hours ago (more tickets than default tho). And then my team wasn't even that good.
Me and Yaska just had a pretty awesome moment on the Euro GAF server. I roll the IFV up onto C (Market) and kill him while he's trying to RPG me. A couple of seconds later he gets me with the knife while I'm trying to repair the IFV and steals it! So I respawn with AT mines down at E (Highway) and watch him slowly roll over them and blow up. God I love this game sometimes.
Yaska
Member
It's awesome on Caspian. I got 13 surveillance ribbons in one game on that map a couple of hours ago (more tickets than default tho). And then my team wasn't even that good.
Me and Yaska just had a pretty awesome moment on the Euro GAF server. I roll the IFV up onto C (Market) and kill him while he's trying to RPG me. A couple of seconds later he gets me with the knife while I'm trying to repair the IFV and steals it! So I respawn with AT mines down at E (Highway) and watch him slowly roll over them and blow up. God I love this game sometimes.
I was testing my new thermal vision T_T I didn't notice the mines >.<
Last whiny post I make in here.
Does anyone else have a really hard time just seeing people? I understand Battlefield's scale is pretty large, but in BC2 I could actually see what Im fighting. This game, not so much.
I feel like I'm fighting the games lighting more than I am the enemy team.
Does anyone else have a really hard time just seeing people? I understand Battlefield's scale is pretty large, but in BC2 I could actually see what Im fighting. This game, not so much.
I feel like I'm fighting the games lighting more than I am the enemy team.
You get used to it eventually.
Yes it's hard as shit to see people which is why the IRNV was so OP. When I run without IRNV, I'm esentially checking areas, hitting spot, and shooting under triangles or stars rather than aiming at people.
SUBZERO-08
Member
I see people just fine. Only time I don't is if they're standing directly in front of a light source like the sun or something, which I certainly can't say has happened more than once or twice in all my time playing.
Fighting with the sun glaring all over your supposed dirty visor is better I think.
I LOVE that. Being blind in a shooter, <3
You play the Xbox version, I bet. If so, then yeah you can't see shit, and the problem is 10x worse if you have a standard-def TV.
Why is it worse? Just the way they have it set up on the consoles? Luckily I'm playing on an HD-TV.
I wouldn't be able to give you an answer on that.
While it is a huge "duh", it's just really frustrating for me going from perfect clarity on the PC on any settings to having to squint my eyes on the 360 version with a 42" TV. I begin to feel nauseous as well.
I can't even pinpoint the reason why, really.
Why are you playing the 360 version, Pennybags? WHY?! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I got the 360 version to occasionally play with friends, mostly IRL, but they end up only playing MW3 :/
Strummerjones
Member
Flying back to the spawn after taking some ground fire on Kharg Island. Jet gets behind me, strips off the last of my health and I just barely land with about 10% left. I repair but know he is coming back round for another pass. This strafing run still doesn't kill us, but leaves us at 8%. I repair again and know it's do or die. I manage to repair and get off the ground just as he comes in for his run. I lock missiles on him and preemptively dump my flares before he gets a lock to prevent what I am about to do to him happening to us. He gets both missiles full in the face at point blank range, and my screen is filled with a huge red fireball.
Yeehaw. Jester is dead.
Yeehaw. Jester is dead.
eternaLightness
Member
Man, watching the B2k trailer again, I think those may be the only maps I play from now on. Probably gonna jump on wake Island first!
ColonialRaptor
Member
Fantastic Update.
I've decided to have a break from BF3 until B2K comes out and I'm hammering on in Skyrim until then.
The updates that you just posted Bruiserk were put up about 3 pages back I think
I've decided to have a break from BF3 until B2K comes out and I'm hammering on in Skyrim until then.
The updates that you just posted Bruiserk were put up about 3 pages back I think
Ballistics
Member
Can anyone confirm that health in Hardcore is actually still 60%, but is now 100% of the normal 60%? Or is it just 100%? Which would be dumb!
Cuban Legend
Member
Good News Everyone! Application went through faster than usual!
The GAF BF3 Community Server is now certified to Stream to PBBans, which is a community driven amalgam of different community banlists derived from screenshots and proof of hackers in all Punkbuster enable games, which is separate from Evenbalance and their public/popular Punkbuster Ban-List.
What does this mean for you? Short Version: No Hackers
Long Version: You won't be seeing any hackers (past or present) who have been caught by the wide net of the Internal PBBans Bans-Lists and multiple External Ban-Lists. All at no cost to server performance.
With that said, come join us on the PC-BF3 Server available to you guys! We try just about every night to populate them but we can only do so much without the rest of you!
Current list of PC-GAF BF3 Servers (Linked to battlelog):
The GAF BF3 Community Server is now certified to Stream to PBBans, which is a community driven amalgam of different community banlists derived from screenshots and proof of hackers in all Punkbuster enable games, which is separate from Evenbalance and their public/popular Punkbuster Ban-List.
- -Link to our PC-GAF BF3 Community Thread.
- Link to the thread accepting our application to Stream PBBans on our PC-GAF BF3 Community Server.
- Link to a list with descriptions of all the flags(abilities) our Streaming Server(s) have available to use now.
- Hub Flags enable anything from enforcing External Ban-lists or methods to announce bans and this includes welcome messages for players.
- We have all Hub flags turned on (except for Allow PAT Reloads & Enable MD5 AutoUpdates)
- If you have a GAF Server which you would like to add to PBBans (EuroGAF/Chapel's BF3 Server) and would like to join the GAF PBBans tag just PM me or post in the BF3 Community thread.
- PBBans Signature for our community-donation supported NA-Chicago Server with a link to our Server's page on the Master Streaming Index @ PBBans:
What does this mean for you? Short Version: No Hackers
Long Version: You won't be seeing any hackers (past or present) who have been caught by the wide net of the Internal PBBans Bans-Lists and multiple External Ban-Lists. All at no cost to server performance.
With that said, come join us on the PC-BF3 Server available to you guys! We try just about every night to populate them but we can only do so much without the rest of you!
Current list of PC-GAF BF3 Servers (Linked to battlelog):
Anton Sugar
Member
Again--why are you not playing with GAF?
Because it changes fuck all about the millions of flaws in this game. This game just doesn't work as a competitive shooter because everything is broken as shit, constant little niggles, stupid fucking design decisions and especially the client side hit detection just destroys this game. If I want a proper teamplay experience with planes, helicoptersm infantry and large scale combat there are much better games.
At least I've finally uninstalled the game, then I can get rid of Origin.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Time to test out the new GAF server I think!
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
So was there ever a decision made on if we were going to have a Rush server?
I've been playing BF3 for a little over 60 hours now and 58 of those hours are probably on Conquest. It would be cool to switch it up a bit with a GAF filled Rush server.
edit: Plus I'm sure GAF teamwork would steamroll the competition.
I've been playing BF3 for a little over 60 hours now and 58 of those hours are probably on Conquest. It would be cool to switch it up a bit with a GAF filled Rush server.
edit: Plus I'm sure GAF teamwork would steamroll the competition.
Okay, I'll admit it, I was wrong about rocket pods. They're not shit. They're an alternative to guided rockets but that's all I'll give it. I like the fire-and-forget nature of guided rockets, but when I really want do some destruction to a vehicle in one pass, rocket pods are the way to go.
BattleMonkey
Member
And what game would this be pray tell?
I've been trolling around with the MAV on Caspain for a couple of hours and have probably racked up 100 surveillance ribbons or so. But god damn some people are fucking retarded. Have some people never noticed the little map down in the left corner? Last game I more or less had the whole US team spotted for the whole round and my team still couldn't cap a single flag. A decent chopper crew would have racked up so many kills at gas station that it probably would have broken the server.
Would you rather not be able to hit a dude that's lagging than get the kill when you think you got the kill?
Would you rather not be able to hit a dude that's lagging than get the kill when you think you got the kill?
Patrick Bateman
Member
Please tell me about these other games.
Personally I'd rather be able to not hit the dude that's lagging and for the game to show that he's lagging instead of trying to do this universal shit where it seems like everyone has the same ping and you cant tell the difference between a person with a 30ms and 300ms ping.
I want to be able to see the guy jerking around and lagging everywhere so everybody can call im out and get him kicked so he can go join a server where he doesnt lag. Then on top of that, we need to be able to see the ping in the scoreboard and allow server admins to set ping limits and if anyone goes over that limit then they get kicked for lagging. I dont want to see a guy who's movements are just like everyone else's but I cant tell that he's lagging and I'm left there wondering why I cant hit him for shit. Server-side has always been the way to go
I'll only play on GAF servers regularly when there's a hardcore server.
Server side has been used for years and it has worked well. You got the occasional lagger but that didn't give him an advantage, quite the opposite actually. You could see him lagging but they would never really get the upper hand on you. Plus laggers tend to leave because it effects them a lot more.
With this client detection crap, it's based on what the client reports to the server, means the shit where you can shot 1-2 seconds after you hit cover, the weird burst deaths and shit like that is commonplace and it's awful.
Yes, it may be nice for people on shitty connections or those who decide to play on servers far, far away but people on decent connections who play locally gets shafted, big-time.
I don't know, I think it's pretty cool that you can play games decently with people across the Atlantic and that's pretty much impossible without tricks like this. But yeah, I guess it would be kind of cool if some of my favourite servers could set a 5-10 ms limit to keep some of the trash out.
BattleMonkey
Member
I'm glad I never get 1-2 second deaths after going into cover. At best I've gotten a quarter/half second death after getting behind cover on random occasion, but it's not something to cry about. My 13gb internet must be crap!
Whats most important is that I kill what I shoot at in this game, and not fill people full of lead and they don't fall because of lag bullshit I get in many other shooters. Quite satisfied with the performance and huge step up from the shit pile of netcode that was in BC2.
Strummerjones
Member
Yeah, this is the problem. BF3 does so much so staggeringly badly wrong, but despite all this the core idea is so strong (huge semi realistic battles with shittons of modern vehicles!) it's still a blast. The only game comparable I can think of off hand is Arma, and I've personally always found that series too clumsy to really be fun.
BatiGOOOOOOL
Member
Question for PS3 players.
I'm relatively new to these kind of FPS war games and I'm having lots of problems with the controls. In summary, I suck beyond comprehension. Are there any recommendations when using the dual shock? Tweak certain settings or any other kind of tip?
I'm relatively new to these kind of FPS war games and I'm having lots of problems with the controls. In summary, I suck beyond comprehension. Are there any recommendations when using the dual shock? Tweak certain settings or any other kind of tip?
The Faceless Master
Member
what kind of problems? moving around and shooting?
you just have to keep playing until you get used to it. try playing some single player and/or co-op instead of jumping into multiplayer.
Everything is a huge step up from that.
endlessflood
Member
Some people are getting really bad input lag in the PS3 version of BF3, so if you're suffering from that then you're not at fault in terms of the suckiness. But in terms of using a controller for FPS in general, it's just a matter of gradually getting used to it, there's no magic bullet unfortunately. It doesn't take too long though.
ever since the patch i've noticed two things:
1. I'm getting mutual kills for the first time (IE: I kill a guy and he kills me at the same time).
2. I try to spawn on a jet or some air vehicle, but if someone barely gets it before me I somehow spawn right on top of the vehicle.
1. I'm getting mutual kills for the first time (IE: I kill a guy and he kills me at the same time).
2. I try to spawn on a jet or some air vehicle, but if someone barely gets it before me I somehow spawn right on top of the vehicle.
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