I swear stability gets worse with each patch for me. Nearly every other day game crashes in between level changes now :/
Just as I was having a good couple games driving tanks on Caspian too. This time an attack heli decided to land just after launch, managed to line up the shot perfect from "B" cap without zoom optics. Still cant hit the fuckers when they are moving though
Got it sorted, re-installed and all is well. Noobing it around atm, this is awesome.
yes, I am Le terribad at BF3
HAI GUIZ!! HAZ DIS BIN POASTED YET? SO AWESOMEOriginally Posted by Sparith
So epic.3, now 4
it really is though.
This. I spent about 5mins trying to get co-op going with a friend earlier, crashes, EA servers disconnects, no connection to the other player is made, map wont load, FFS.
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Laser targeted ordnance is perfectly fine.No, laser guided tank shells are actually extremely OP. Super-ultra fast, heavy damage (1-hit disable tanks, 1HKO everything else), never misses, and zero way to deflect or avoid it. It will hit targets that move behind mountain ranges after launch, and try damn hard to curve around buildings as well (fairly easy given it does a top-down attack). Its not a laser guided tank shell - its an ancient weapon platform drone. There is no way anyone can argue with a straight face that laser guided tank shells w/ a CITV/SOFLAM support are anything but deeply OP.Hahah no. If you think Soflams are OP, I'd hate to think what you'd make of the tank laser stuff. Mobile, armoured laser targetter? Yes please!
Also, its teamwork thats OP, not the laser stuff.
Frankly, it really shows that the laser guided ordinance in the game are missing a step. By themselves they are pretty ok - situationaly inferior to SMAW/Stingers, or on aircraft, to rocket pods. Once painting comes into play, however, their damage and accuracy simply goes through the roof, yet there are no new additional counters available. This is a massive game design oversight.
Disclaimer: 21,000 points of my 3,600,000 is in vehicles, I maybe biased and uncaring to the whining of vehicle whores (most of that 21k is from humvee kills on Caspian/Damavand).
Just maybe.
Anyway, we were running 4 javalins off a laser tank the other day on Caspian def. We completely shut down their mech. However had they bothered to actually attack on foot or found the 3/3 tank and either counter soflamed or just rammed a jet into it, we'd have been murdered because on their own Javalins are still shit.
But yeah, I think they're thinking about making RPG hits on choppers one hit one kill as well, which is gonna be awesomesauce.
Ah so what your saying is that you have zero gameplay experience with the issue, don't particularly care to gain any experience, and claim anybody with actual experience and a well thought out argument that spans more than two sentences is a "whore" and "whining".Laser targeted ordnance is perfectly fine.No, laser guided tank shells are actually extremely OP. Super-ultra fast, heavy damage (1-hit disable tanks, 1HKO everything else), never misses, and zero way to deflect or avoid it. It will hit targets that move behind mountain ranges after launch, and try damn hard to curve around buildings as well (fairly easy given it does a top-down attack). Its not a laser guided tank shell - its an ancient weapon platform drone. There is no way anyone can argue with a straight face that laser guided tank shells w/ a CITV/SOFLAM support are anything but deeply OP.Hahah no. If you think Soflams are OP, I'd hate to think what you'd make of the tank laser stuff. Mobile, armoured laser targetter? Yes please!
Also, its teamwork thats OP, not the laser stuff.
Frankly, it really shows that the laser guided ordinance in the game are missing a step. By themselves they are pretty ok - situationaly inferior to SMAW/Stingers, or on aircraft, to rocket pods. Once painting comes into play, however, their damage and accuracy simply goes through the roof, yet there are no new additional counters available. This is a massive game design oversight.
Disclaimer: 21,000 points of my 3,600,000 is in vehicles, I maybe biased and uncaring to the whining of vehicle whores (most of that 21k is from humvee kills on Caspian/Damavand).
Just maybe.
Yea, fuck you.
Oh yes you should attack on foot on one of the largest maps in the game, into a bunch of hostile vehicles that completely encircle the base. Oh yes this is a totally reasonable position you've taken here.Anyway, we were running 4 javalins off a laser tank the other day on Caspian def. We completely shut down their mech. However had they bothered to actually attack on foot or found the 3/3 tank and either counter soflamed or just rammed a jet into it, we'd have been murdered because on their own Javalins are still shit.
Like I said, just delete attack helicopters if this is the "balancing" stance DICE Is going to take. Everyone will be happier.But yeah, I think they're thinking about making RPG hits on choppers one hit one kill as well, which is gonna be awesomesauce.
It's always so cute to see somebody who hasn't argued with D2 before.Ah so what your saying is that you have zero gameplay experience with the issue, don't particularly care to gain any experience, and claim anybody with actual experience and a well thought out argument that spans more than two sentences is a "whore" and "whining".Laser targeted ordnance is perfectly fine.No, laser guided tank shells are actually extremely OP. Super-ultra fast, heavy damage (1-hit disable tanks, 1HKO everything else), never misses, and zero way to deflect or avoid it. It will hit targets that move behind mountain ranges after launch, and try damn hard to curve around buildings as well (fairly easy given it does a top-down attack). Its not a laser guided tank shell - its an ancient weapon platform drone. There is no way anyone can argue with a straight face that laser guided tank shells w/ a CITV/SOFLAM support are anything but deeply OP.Hahah no. If you think Soflams are OP, I'd hate to think what you'd make of the tank laser stuff. Mobile, armoured laser targetter? Yes please!
Also, its teamwork thats OP, not the laser stuff.
Frankly, it really shows that the laser guided ordinance in the game are missing a step. By themselves they are pretty ok - situationaly inferior to SMAW/Stingers, or on aircraft, to rocket pods. Once painting comes into play, however, their damage and accuracy simply goes through the roof, yet there are no new additional counters available. This is a massive game design oversight.
Disclaimer: 21,000 points of my 3,600,000 is in vehicles, I maybe biased and uncaring to the whining of vehicle whores (most of that 21k is from humvee kills on Caspian/Damavand).
Just maybe.
Yea, fuck you.
Oh yes you should attack on foot on one of the largest maps in the game, into a bunch of hostile vehicles that completely encircle the base. Oh yes this is a totally reasonable position you've taken here.Anyway, we were running 4 javalins off a laser tank the other day on Caspian def. We completely shut down their mech. However had they bothered to actually attack on foot or found the 3/3 tank and either counter soflamed or just rammed a jet into it, we'd have been murdered because on their own Javalins are still shit.
Like I said, just delete attack helicopters if this is the "balancing" stance DICE Is going to take. Everyone will be happier.But yeah, I think they're thinking about making RPG hits on choppers one hit one kill as well, which is gonna be awesomesauce.
You do realize that 1) you need someone to actually be bothered to lased designate. 2) Isn't hard to destroy the designator and 3) that IR smoke breaks the lock? The "can't be assed to attack on foot" argument is also kind of weak. With half the necessary teamwork, engineer pairs regularly make mincemeat of armor with SMAW/RPG's when they have no infantry support while still being viable as an anti-personnel weapon which is why you see so few Javs. on any map at any time. And on big maps it's hard not to step on an engineer mixed in with the support guys (surprisingly few assault/medic in comparison).
Now the thing with vehicles on the other hand is a decent argument against jets. But against helicopters it's kind of weak considering that they were designed to be ground to air capable and have some pretty kick ass turning ability already in real life. They're capable of deflection shots on UH-1's going 110mph. But they should in no way be able to take down a jet unless they're noobs flying super slowly to attack ground targets.
Also, I've seen very very few successful RPG hit's on helos before. Unless they're going low and slow (usually for a landing) the chances are pretty slim.
I wish it was that easy. The designation area is about half of the view from the SOFLAM. You can place it near popular vehicle spots or highways but it's always easy to spot, destroy (hmg rocks), and/or avoid. Way too many areas have obstructions in the way and really limit its usefulness as a "place and forget" designator. It's also pretty useless against helicopters unless someone is actively controlling the thing and pointing it at them. A coordinated team can make good use by alpha striking with multiple Javs but that is too rare on public servers. On private and team servers the infantry will usually screen and clear these groups if they're halfway decent.
Last edited by Keorythe; December 12 2011 at 04:03:30 AM.
CoD style claymores. fucking. seriously.
they really are in no way the same league as the cod ones.. ive run over hundreds and barely taken a scratch.. only been killed by a couple i think.
Played with 3 buddies this weekend, enabling us to form a proper squad and had a great time and was much less bad then I had been. Being a lone wolf is hard in this game and I probably don't have the patience for it. Easier to team up with friends and charge around stomping on tanks and providing them with healing support.
im finding that more and more smuggo.. playing solo just makes me fucking angry all the time.
mainly cos you end up in situations where its you.. vs a group of 3 all on voices comms. and you aint winning vs that most of the time.. even if they are terrible.
still need answers from our pro jet pilots on throttle control.. are you using joystick analoge throttle controls? cos i cant for the life of me slow my jet down as much as everyone i fight seems to be able to...
maybe its cos im using uparrow and downarrow for throttle rather than W S.. might be thats theres some weird hardcoded issue - like with the fact you couldnt spot if you didnt use the Q key when the game first came out..
edit: issue resolved... can now make my jets go slower than 340knots thx to this thread (even though my stick is an old cyborg evo the config change worked like a charm).
Last edited by Sandzibar; December 12 2011 at 11:20:10 AM.
Agreed on the playing with non-randoms point. Was with on a couple of servers with Baarhyn last night and the difference it makes is massive, used to best effect with him in a jet and me with stingers, if they're pursuing a friendly nothing encourages them to stop it than a lock tone as they have to pop flares and evade or die and the tight circling dogfights often produce is fantastic for ground forces trying to shoot one down, staying in the same part of the sky at low speed etc. Going to start idling in the BF3 channel on teamspeak more tbh.
The only real downside is having to actually apologise when you herp the derp.
Yeah, accidentally grenaded my friends last night. Went to press for the defib to revive a teammate that had gone down next to us. accidentally pressed grenade and threw it straight at the ground :/ Oops.
repair tool and rpg also too close together keybind wise
Switch from assault -> engineerrepair tool and rpg also too close together keybind wise
press 3, look at your feet, left click for health -> press 3, look at your feet, left click for RPG
exit tank > press 3 to repair > press K > "so so so sorry please !forgive"
being able to rebind mwheelup / mwheeldown from the utterly useless inventory item scroll is awesome
c/d
i play with total defaults.
what have you bound to mwheel?
edit: acutally i started rebinding the controls for jets and helicopters to work with my ps3 controler but after "accidentally" exiting the vehicle in mid air for the umteenth time i just gave up.
so fucking annoying.
just stuff like light on for up and handgun for down. mainly cos in all other fps games my sidearm has been on mwheeldown, so playing bf3 before the rebind option had got me killed loads due to me switching to a fucking ammo pack or uav rather than desired sidearm.
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