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Battlefield 3 Beta: Info and Meetups [Over]
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Warrior_Keoni
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I'm rather conflicted here because I notice when changing servers, some players tend to know what they are doing and end up taking the objective instead of being stuck in a fire fight. These may be the folks that have been playing battlefield for a while.
I also notice the ones that just jump in and don't know what to do and just simply engage in a rambo contest. <_<
I also notice the ones that just jump in and don't know what to do and just simply engage in a rambo contest. <_<
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
If there is one and it's released close to the launch of the game I think I'll bite, even if I'll feel like a cunt for doing so.Emily Chu said:
The unlock system in this game is horrible.
Not had any of these lag issues, I always just join the server with the best ping i.e around 25 or so. Love the map though, the amount of crazy shit I've seen in the last 24 hours is amazing.... Really gotten into the infantry combat on this map, there is barely enough room on metro for anything other than crawling... This map has set me free
iSurvivedTheOutage
Member
ok...found a bug....everytime I die after using my flightstick..the controls have me spinning when i spawn again...like nonstop in circles
I managed to land almost ontop of the antenna after a long dogfight, on the second highest platform.
You can see into both bases and every capture point from there, jets and helos mostly fly below you.
It's really calm up there, I even managed to get some kills.
Got someone with a headshot at the gas station from 523m away
You can see into both bases and every capture point from there, jets and helos mostly fly below you.
It's really calm up there, I even managed to get some kills.
Got someone with a headshot at the gas station from 523m away
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I agree.iam220 said:
Just tried the new AMD drivers and even though the Catalyst Creator tweeted there's no performance improvements for BF3 I don't know if it's just me or what but I feel the game runs better and even if there isn't a framerate gain the game doesn't feel so damn sluggish when it's on the low 30's like before, also I haven't seen any screen flickering yet.
iSurvivedTheOutage
Member
Ugh bug even happens after I get out of chopper...shit sucks...
Woo-Fu
Banned
omnomis said:
If 60 players get buttraped by a jet they suck. I don't fly jets, btw.
iam220 said:
The nose cannon is great vs. infantry. It is getting to that infantry that is a problem. If there is one engineer with a stinger between Point A and Point B you're not going to make it, even with flares because he reloads/re-locks faster than you can get out of range and faster than your flares recycle.
It could be a nuclear bomb but without a reliable delivery system it isn't much use.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
The jet pilots in BF2 were basically angry, vengeful gods. None of the anti-air solutions worked reliably and the splash on the bombs rivaled tactical nukes.Woo-Fu said:
Woo-Fu
Banned
SapientWolf said:
I played BF2. If we had a problem with an enemy jet we sent one of ours after it. If their pilots were that much better than our pilots we deserved to get bombs dropped on our heads.
What happened in BF2 is what has already happened here, the AA has been beefed up quite a bit to curb jets, yet is still mostly ineffectual vs. jets. Meanwhile it is deadly to helicopters to the point where helicopters will sit on the pad most matches once people figure it out.
I don't recall ever being able to tell jet pilots anything because all they did was play "score more than everyone on the map." Most of the time jets didn't even engage enemy jets. They all just had an agreement that they were going to carpet bomb infantry the entire game and pad their stats.Woo-Fu said:
And that is why I started playing infantry-only
Sooo much more fun in BF2 imo.Does anyone have comparison screenshots showing what an increased FOV looks like in this game?
And has anyone found any way to see an entire preview of the map? I STILL have no fucking clue what Caspian Border looks like, because I haven't bothered fighting to get into a jet or helicopter. I HATE how you can only see the surrounding areas of the map around spawn points on the deployment screen, and not the entire map like in BF2.
Combine that with the stupid dynamic minimap that has no option for static and I never know where the hell I'm going except "drive toward what LOOKS to be the closest orange icon" (since it doesn't tell me the distance of the flags by the icon anymore...).
It depends how you view it, in order to get all of the weapons you needed to put in an insane amount of time. However, unless you really played as all classes you didn't really need to unlock all of the weapons anyway (you could choose which weapons to unlock yourself) so you pretty quickly got all the weapons you wanted. It was also much better balanced because the unlocks were not really upgrades as much as "sidegrades" so you didn't really feel gimped when using the standard ones. It was also only weapons, so you didn't have to unlock the ability to use the machine gun in a tank and other such insane bullshit. I'd say unlocks were good in BF2, but ever since CoD4 all unlock systems have been complete shit.TheJerit said:
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
The jets weren't evenly matched though. China's J-10 could fly circles around everyone. Post 1942 air balance has always been shaky. I think they should err on the side of infantry, for now, because people still line up to fly the jets even when they're not much of a threat.Woo-Fu said:
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Flak, my man. Flak. It kept those fly boys in check. But it wasn't OP.Spl1nter said:
iSurvivedTheOutage
Member
they seriously have to fix this bug. Mad annoying.
There's the radar upgrade, ECM jammer which can be activated for a limited amount of time to disable or 'jam' incoming rockets and Laser guided missiles which are like JDAMs or TV missiles for tanks and other laser designated targets but that's an unlock which comes quite late.
At the moment there's 3 slots. One slot is changeable and the other two is heatseekers and flares.
At the moment there's 3 slots. One slot is changeable and the other two is heatseekers and flares.
Woo-Fu
Banned
SapientWolf said:
That is just it, though, there are only so many jets to go around, you don't need to make them weaker so everybody isn't a pilot, everybody can't be a pilot.
Jets aren't that bad off, IMHO, I have fun flying them in BF3, if only to disable enemy jets and knock helicopters out of the sky with one burst. You can kill stuff ground strafing and I expect people will get much, much better at that tactic, particularly with the Warthog in the game.
Helicopter on the other hand requires a good deal of skill AND luck at this point to be fun, at least for the non-masochists out there. I setup outside the enemy base with a supply squadmate and we could see right to the pad. I had him locked up with IGLA before he even got 10m off the pad, over, and over, and over again.
Metalmurphy
Member
scoobs said:
So Jets aren't worthless because they can serve as cannon fodder for Engineers, leaving Tanks alone.
That's some genius balancing right there.
Nostalgia~4ever
Banned
iSurvivedTheOutage said:
how about reporting it to their forums instead?
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I can't get into a single server that is lag free
iam220 said:
Well, there's the AA gun, mobile and stationary. They will rip choppers off the sky.
Jets are MUCH harder to hit if they are not so close. A good strategy is someone is on your six is to lure him near your base and get your buddy to take him out with the stationary AA.
Then the Jets will also knock the choppers out of the sky. Literally.
I can't wait to see what the A-10 will do to the choppers...
The thing is the Jets and Choppers are quite underpowered at the moment, i feel.
No way to effectively or efficiently kill ground troops. I was shooting at a moving jeep for about the whole available burst and i only get hitmarkers. Choppers die instantly. Disablement of Jets and Choppers mean, they are as good as dead, especially Choppers.
As a Jet pilot i've landed the plane quite easily on the landing strip and fixed it.
Air vs Air is fine. Good skilled pilots can escape the heatseeker lock ons easily and the autocannon. Choppers can kill jets with heatseekers if they are good enough.
scoobs said:
Maybe because it's beta though... lots of people just round around in fields, especially the Antenna area, with Stingers and shooting down jets. Also Hilltop.
throwawayname
Member
Lagless Caspian Border is so good that I want to have sex with/on/in it.
skullwolfgp
Neo Member
Woo-Fu said:
Agreed, and the only reason they nerfed the jets IMO is so that K/D whores don't freak out when a guy is able to go 50/4 because he was playing air support the whole round. It never ruined BF2 because no one really cared about K/D there.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
Get out of my head. My sentiments exactly.PNstyle said:
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
They didn't nerf jets per se. They just required you to unlock their features. What they really did is buff anti air, and after BF2 it's easy to see why.skullwolfgp said: