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[FordGT90Concept]

"Pushed" the server? It changed maps if that's what you mean.

I'm thinking I should maybe experiment in an unranked server. Do unranked servers have the 4 player minimum?

Edit: I checked an unranked TDM server and it required 8 players minimum.

 

[digibucc]

changed maps AND allowed you to play, right?

all servers by default will have an 8 player min. it's in the settings to change but the software ignores it
so whenever it resets, someone has to log into the cp and change the minimum players, and "push" the map so that it then allows the new minimum to take affect, allowing less than 8 people to start a server.

yeah those deaths add up, but idk of any good unranked servers, and chances of an empty one allowing you to practice are slim. i just took the deaths as incentive to learn faster

 

[kid41212003]

Wow, the rank 0 weapons suck. Is that a G3? M4 is okay but bad at range and poor on stoping power. Give me a BB gun and I'll pester someone to death with it though so it's all good.


Anywho, sitting in the TPU server and discovering four players are needed to do anything. This makes me sad.


Edit: Oh, is it just me, or are the supressors in the game cartoonishly small? It takes more than 3 inches to silence a .45 pistol...


Edit: That's fantastic! I'm sitting here looking at an Apache, with no way to go to it. I know I'm going to need flight lessons (or at least prove to myself flying is a bad idea unless I'm in the gunner seat).

Actually most of the "starter" weapons will end up above average or the best.

The M4 imo is the best engineer weapon. You only need to add the grip and it's good to go.

 

[FierceRed]

Wow, the rank 0 weapons suck. Is that a G3? M4 is okay but bad at range and poor on stoping power. Give me a BB gun and I'll pester someone to death with it though so it's all good.

Actually most of the "starter" weapons will end up above average or the best.

The M4 imo is the best engineer weapon. You only need to add the grip and it's good to go.

Yeah, wth are you smoking FordGT? The M4 is one of the more accurate carbines, especially at range with a quick scoping sight. I have over 1000 kills with the thing! (Though it keeps putting them under the profile for the M4A1... NOT the gun I'm using...)

Balance Tweaks
Fixed so AT mines only live for 20 seconds after a player dies to prevent infinite mines.

Is it just me or is this the most horrendous blemish on an otherwise decent and desirable patch??

I'm all for not having infinite mines, but couldn't the 20 seconds be increased to say, 2 minutes? Or even better (and my original thought), just have the mines Live Time count down from a set duration of say 5 minutes, completely seperate from the Mine layers life and death.

I don't use AT mines at all really, but if the way this wording implies it to be, this will be horrible for every mine using Engineer in the game because they'll essentially be held hostage by their mine field. They get to a prime spot, drop 6 or so, and suddenly they're Mr. Cowardly Cat, proning through the bushes everywhere, lest they get picked off by an errant sniper and have to set their minefield up again.

It seems like such a dumb move to have entire minefields disappear just cause some hostile soldier got lucky.

 

[kid41212003]

They should just put a limit on how many mines u can plant.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

changed maps AND allowed you to play, right?

all servers by default will have an 8 player min. it's in the settings to change but the software ignores it
so whenever it resets, someone has to log into the cp and change the minimum players, and "push" the map so that it then allows the new minimum to take affect, allowing less than 8 people to start a server.

yeah those deaths add up, but idk of any good unranked servers, and chances of an empty one allowing you to practice are slim. i just took the deaths as incentive to learn faster

Sorry, I got distracted by co-op. XD

No, it didn't allow me to play. It still said "waiting for players... 3."

Actually most of the "starter" weapons will end up above average or the best.

The M4 imo is the best engineer weapon. You only need to add the grip and it's good to go.

Does it have sights better than iron sights? I hate iron sights (gun blocks out too much of hte view). If it doesn't have any enhanced sights, it needs that too. XD


I did Easy co-op fearing I'd get a n00blet, which I did. It became very apparent on the sniper mission when most of his hits weren't headshots and he always jumped the gun (took a shot either too soon so I couldn't get a fix on the other guy or shot a guy leaving me to the kill the guy I can't even see). In the helicopter mission, he kept trying to attack with the pilots rockets instead of proving a stable platform for me to shoot. Then again, I can't really complain because when I was the pilot the first time, I basically flew us into the ground. XD I got my key bindings sorted and it was all good then. Bless his heart for waiting for me.

Three things a gun must have for me to even consider it:
1. Some kind of non-ironsights, preferably thermal (exception to this rule being shotguns).
2. Single shot fire.
3. At least a 30 round clip (exception to this rule being shotguns and snipers).


I think I only died 5 times throughout the whole thing--three of which was those knifers, two of which I didn't even see. The other 2 times was because I was using risky cover in order to get better shots. I think I'm good to go for hard if I can find someone to voice com with.

302 kills, 107 head shots, 37 assists, 7 vehicles destroyed, 9 savior kills, 3 revives, 0 avenger kills. Co-op doesn't keep track of accuracy.


Oh that's BS. I see some unlocks (like M4A1's "Ballistic (12x)" sight) that are only available to DICE employees.

 

[Fhrope]

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[brandonwh64]

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[erocker]

Sorry, I got distracted by co-op. XD

No, it didn't allow me to play. It still said "waiting for players... 3."



Does it have sights better than iron sights? I hate iron sights (gun blocks out too much of hte view). If it doesn't have any enhanced sights, it needs that too. XD


I did Easy co-op fearing I'd get a n00blet, which I did. It became very apparent on the sniper mission when most of his hits weren't headshots and he always jumped the gun (took a shot either too soon so I couldn't get a fix on the other guy or shot a guy leaving me to the kill the guy I can't even see). In the helicopter mission, he kept trying to attack with the pilots rockets instead of proving a stable platform for me to shoot. Then again, I can't really complain because when I was the pilot the first time, I basically flew us into the ground. XD I got my key bindings sorted and it was all good then. Bless his heart for waiting for me.

Three things a gun must have for me to even consider it:
1. Some kind of non-ironsights, preferably thermal (exception to this rule being shotguns).
2. Single shot fire.
3. At least a 30 round clip (exception to this rule being shotguns and snipers).


I think I only died 5 times throughout the whole thing--three of which was those knifers, two of which I didn't even see. The other 2 times was because I was using risky cover in order to get better shots. I think I'm good to go for hard if I can find someone to voice com with.

302 kills, 107 head shots, 37 assists, 7 vehicles destroyed, 9 savior kills, 3 revives, 0 avenger kills. Co-op doesn't keep track of accuracy.


Oh that's BS. I see some unlocks (like M4A1's "Ballistic (12x)" sight) that are only available to DICE employees.

To me any gun with an IR scope and a foregrip is a good gun in this game.

 

[3volvedcombat]

To me any gun with an IR scope and a foregrip is a good gun in this game.

Anybody throwing bullets @ your chest and face in BF3 is deadly.

Every gun can be mastered and used to demolish someone in BF3

anything full automatic or even 3-2 round burst can shoot enough bullets at you and get a kill in 2-1 seconds flat. Even the pistols (revolvers massive damage).

Guns start to show their weakness at more intensive range, that is why there are huge amounts of scope unlocks for everything automatic. Even shotguns slugs/frag rounds.

That where a snipe shines, but I have been known to disprove that very easily with snipers.

Give me a SV98/M40A5/M98B(L96 coming) with a Strait bolt/Silencer/Reflex sight on any medium/short range maps and I will get the job done seriously.
I have gotten 300-400 marksmen bonus, with Silencer and Reflex site already, insane jackpot shots. (Both @ Operation Firestorm).

Its a bit slower to rank up on console with Bf3 because of less manned servers.

Already at my second Recon class star, grabbed the game 10-5 days ago but it was worth it.

 

[erocker]

I agree with you, except the fact that sniping is boring and in many cases useless for squad based combat. I prefer taking the fight to the enemy, capturing their bases, etc., not sitting/laying behind a rock.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

I agree with you, except the fact that sniping is boring and in many cases useless for squad based combat. I prefer taking the fight to the enemy, capturing their bases, etc., not sitting/laying behind a rock.

yeah i would have had to agree with you the first few weeks when the game came out, I would always run in and and take it to them. However now once i figured out sniping its much more fun. However, if you look at the my stats still shows that i am more of an engineer and support type. Good thing about snipers though is that from far away they can spot things and take the UAV up and do the spotting as well

 

[3volvedcombat]

I agree with you, except the fact that sniping is boring and in many cases useless for squad based combat. I prefer taking the fight to the enemy, capturing their bases, etc., not sitting/laying behind a rock.

Yeh I snipe but I am never the one behind the rock, Pisses me off sometimes

On metro station with a sv98, I decimate anybody in my sights (reddot Reflex)

 

[erocker]

On metro station with a sv98, I decimate anybody in my sights (reddot Reflex)

Ah yeah, I've done that a few times. Not so bad. In Metro I prefer assault. You need to heal and res. to keep your tickets up in that bottlenecked death map.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

Ah yeah, I've done that a few times. Not so bad. In Metro I prefer assault. You need to heal and res. to keep your tickets up in that bottlenecked death map.

that or you can reverse it take a M249 or a M60 and take down their tickets!!!

Oh and erocker, chaoticG8R, cadaveca, ufgy, MT Alex and Gunny I have finally ordered the adapter to be able to use my Xbox mic so you will finally not have to worry about my text messages in TS/or In Game.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Guns start to show their weakness at more intensive range, that is why there are huge amounts of scope unlocks for everything automatic. Even shotguns slugs/frag rounds.

That's why I'm odd. Full auto and burst fire modes drive me insane because I don't want to send more rounds than necessary to do the job. Additionally, I want every round to be aimed, not just the first. By being so used to the single round mindset of firing, it really doesn't matter how near or far the target is--nothing changes except the amount I lead the target.

Because of this, my ideal weapon is a 600 yard assault rifle with a 4x scope. Good for engaging pretty much everything except the most distant targets. A gun for 90% of situations is better than a gun for 20% of situations. High-zoom optics are a hinderance most of the time.

I don't like bolts though. I need a bullet chambered when I need it, not when the gun is ready to give it to me. It vastly increases my combat effectiveness.

 

[erocker]

that or you can reverse it take a M249 or a M60 and take down their tickets!!!

I do use those, but only if it's a stalemate at B on Metro and if there are enough assault medics already. Camping with the M249 equipped with an IR scope and a bipod is almost unfair.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

I do use those, but only if it's a stalemate at B on Metro and if there are enough assault medics already. Camping with the M249 equipped with an IR scope and a bipod is almost unfair.

oh i dont use the IR scope. I do use a bi pod, but i dont sit and camp i move around to certain areas and face where there are a lot of people coming through. Hot zones

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I love campers. They make nice, stationary targets for clean headshots.

 

[DOM]

Anyone using a 580 1.5gb that runs this 1980x1680 ultra settings ? Do you run out of vmem I do on my 570

 

[GullyFoyle]

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[boise49ers]

Man they nerfed the stingers and made it worthless. Now choppers just flying circles around flags and cause all kinds of annoyance.
Caspain Border and Operation Firestorm were my favorite maps. Not with this new patch they aren't.

 

[mastrdrver]

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Can you explain what happened with the 2x flares on the helo? It looks like only 1 flare happened.

 

[ufgy20]

so i was having an issue with logging into Origin.. kept getting stuck at the Validation Screen.. could never log in would never work.. i tried everything from port forwarding to reformatting and the solution came after all these steps were taken.. turns out i needed to update my bios to read my cpu correctly (which i upgraded from a athlon II 435 to a 1100T just recently) and since i did the new change i never could log in.. but updating my bios worked and fixed my problem.. i will now get backo on schedule and start playing a lot more.. see you guys online and in TS. thanks again for those who helped me fix this problem and trouble shooting.

 

[Jetster]

Thanks