Battlefield 3 Controller Tips, Tricks, and Issues

[JTsyo]

Great idea except I WANT to use the joystick when I am flying. I might give up on it though because it's very difficult to master.

That's what I mean. Keep it for flying and erase it from everything else.

 

[Homer Simpson]

anyone else have problems mapping gadget 1 to a mouse button? i mapped one of my thumb buttons to gadget 1. if im assualt or support, pressing it correctly switches to the medi/ammo pack and deploys it (and autoswitches back to my weapon which is nice). however, engineer's gadget 1 (rpg) will not select. also noticed that for assault, if i switch to grenage launcher from medipak for gadget 1, it also quits working. highly annoying.

 

[HunterDT]

Wow, check out what I found in my closet this morning!!

http://i.imgur.com/CMqOh.jpg

I set it all up and then looked at the clock and it was time for work! Gahhhhhhhhh

 

[Bigginz]

I'm having a problem using a mounted machine gun. The gun wants to keep pointing at the ground. I move my mouse up to shoot and then it just points to the ground again. This also happens when sitting in the back seat of the F-18 in level 3 of the single player campaign.

I think it has something to do with the game thinking I'm using a gamepad and trying to move the crosshairs back to center. Except I don't want it to move if I don't move my mouse. It might be caused by "inverse acceleration" but I don't know if that can be turned off.

Does anyone else have this problem? I don't have a gamepad plugged in. I'm using a CH Flightstick and I've cleared most of the joystick bindings. Maybe I'll clear all of them.

 

[rgallant]

You have to unlock the scope on the main gun.

If you already unlocked it, make sure you have it in your load out (tab called "land" on the loadout screen). It took me a while to figure out vehicles have load outs in addition to classes.

thank's for the tip.
even after reading your post ,it took awhile to find that land tab ,when I did see[after googling for pic's] -how could I not see it da
-but to use the zoom option you have to give up smoke ,so many toys but choosing which ones to load are a crap shoot per round,
-also found my hmg ,wondering why after unlocking it I could not bring down a helo.

 

[sygyzy]

That's what I mean. Keep it for flying and erase it from everything else.

Hmm that's a really good idea except now that I have my 360 controller working and sometimes for kicks, I'll grab it and play as the solider with the controller. Surprisingly, my best performance for a round was when I was largely using the 360 controller.

anyone else have problems mapping gadget 1 to a mouse button? i mapped one of my thumb buttons to gadget 1. if im assualt or support, pressing it correctly switches to the medi/ammo pack and deploys it (and autoswitches back to my weapon which is nice). however, engineer's gadget 1 (rpg) will not select. also noticed that for assault, if i switch to grenage launcher from medipak for gadget 1, it also quits working. highly annoying.

Are you having problems with gadget 1 in general or only the engineer? I am confused what BF calls weapons and gadgets. If you look in the key mappings you'll see references to Weapon 1-4, Gadget 1-2, Undersling Weapon, Primary vs Secondary, etc. So a rocket launcher is considered both Gadget 1 and Weapon 3? When you bind to the mouse, make sure you don't move it at all on the pad. You you have to be very careful. I've had it things map to Mouse Y-Axis before.

I'm having a problem using a mounted machine gun. The gun wants to keep pointing at the ground. I move my mouse up to shoot and then it just points to the ground again. This also happens when sitting in the back seat of the F-18 in level 3 of the single player campaign.

I think it has something to do with the game thinking I'm using a gamepad and trying to move the crosshairs back to center. Except I don't want it to move if I don't move my mouse. It might be caused by "inverse acceleration" but I don't know if that can be turned off.

Does anyone else have this problem? I don't have a gamepad plugged in. I'm using a CH Flightstick and I've cleared most of the joystick bindings. Maybe I'll clear all of them.

I experienced this before but the answer is a lot easier than you think. I could be wrong but I think the reason is that the game is trying to be realistic. In an attack helicopter, the guns have a vertical travel limit. Can you guess why? It's not to keep you from shooting other aircraft. It's so you can't accidentally shoot the rotors of the helicopter. I know it feels like you are "fighting" against a force when you try to go vertical or even side to side but I think that's on purpose.

 

[leeland]

I ran into an issue where I couldn't map seat positions in vehicles to my (forward and back buttons) on my mouse...

Also the sensitivity of the mouse speed doesn't seem to change even after modifying the setting...


Lastly...does anyone else have an issue that after the map ends and it goes through all your stats (counting down to the next round)...

I get it (probably about 25% of the time) where the screen goes black and stays until I kill BF3...IDK what the F that is about but it is SUPER annoying...

 

[mingsoup]

I'm gonna hook up my 360 pad for jets and copter and try in chase cam. Seems kinda painful to switch from keyboard/mouse to pad, but I saw someone fly a chopper so well and he said he was using a 360 pad.

Flying the jets with keyboard/mouse is useless. I might be doing something wrong, but I can't turn at all.

 

[Bigginz]

I experienced this before but the answer is a lot easier than you think. I could be wrong but I think the reason is that the game is trying to be realistic. In an attack helicopter, the guns have a vertical travel limit. Can you guess why? It's not to keep you from shooting other aircraft. It's so you can't accidentally shoot the rotors of the helicopter. I know it feels like you are "fighting" against a force when you try to go vertical or even side to side but I think that's on purpose.

I'm talking about a mounted machine gun on a Hummer or a tripod. IRL, there are no motors pulling the gun down so that shouldn't happen in the game.

In the F-18 Hornet, the problem is similar but the character's head keeps looking down at the instrument panel. When I try to move his head up to look around, it just snaps back to the instrument panel (low and center). I think it's a problem of cosolitis. Some parts were designed to work with a gamepad, but when you use a keyboard and mouse it behaves erratically. I'll mess with the settings tonight to see if I can figure it out.

Also, I think it's called "negative acceleration" not "inverse acceleration." There were some problems with this in BF: Bad Company 2.

 

[JamesV]

Arrow key user here.

RShift - Jump
Rctrl - Crouch
Num0 - Sprint
Numpad keys - direct weapon/gadget selection
Grenade - End
Prone - Del

Mouse - Fire, melee, aim, reload, spot
Joystick - jets/heli's

I dislike Prone on Del, because it's right next to grenade, and sometimes I throw a grenade by mistake when proning == bad, but I can't find a good spot for it. I like the grenade on the keyboard because I can tweak my aim without hitting a button on it to fire (like the way you hold 1/2 a breath to fire a real weapon, because pulling the trigger and breathing can knock off your aim).

If you are having problems setting up a joystick, find a server that starts with 1 player, and then you can fly around or simply run around all you want.

Another tip if your mouse seems to be acting strange; turn off 'use raw mouse input'. Before I did this, a slow left to right movement would turn me 90 degrees, but if I did it fast, I'd turn 140 degrees+. Made it really hard to aim when the sensitivity was different depending on how fast you moved the mouse.

 

[pauldun170]

Who? What's so special about it?

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Its a very well made stick and there hasn't been an alternative to it on the market place for years.
Certain segments of the flight sim community love those sticks.
I have one myself.

 

[Homer Simpson]

anyone else have problems mapping gadget 1 to a mouse button? i mapped one of my thumb buttons to gadget 1. if im assualt or support, pressing it correctly switches to the medi/ammo pack and deploys it (and autoswitches back to my weapon which is nice). however, engineer's gadget 1 (rpg) will not select. also noticed that for assault, if i switch to grenage launcher from medipak for gadget 1, it also quits working. highly annoying.

if anyone else has this problem, i figured out the issue. while the medi/ammo packs and rpg and smaw are all "gadget 1" items, they have separate bindings. i noticed that the keyboard key "3" was bound to both gadget 1 and underslung item (er something like that. i dont have the game open now). by mapping my mouse's thumb button to both those functions and ignoring the warning about the key already being mapped, i can now successfully use all the gadget 1 items, be it a supply pack or weapon, with the single mouse button.

 

[SocalMark]

For the life of me I can't get my wired xbox controller to work with BF3 installed the drivers from Microsoft can see it in Device settings, I would just like to use it for flying...Help!

 

[TXHokie]

Can anyone recommend a decent small joystick to play with BF3? I've been getting by on BC2 with keyboard flying but with the jets in BF3, it's not gonna cut it. I got on a jet finally last night and that was the shortest sightseeing trip ever (at least I got shot down and didn't crash). I'm just looking for something that's not so full size and take up too much space for the few times I may want to fly. Haven't bought a joystick in years.

 

[SocalMark]

Yes TXHokie that's what I'm thinking but want one that's going to last.

 

[Capt Caveman]

if anyone else has this problem, i figured out the issue. while the medi/ammo packs and rpg and smaw are all "gadget 1" items, they have separate bindings. i noticed that the keyboard key "3" was bound to both gadget 1 and underslung item (er something like that. i dont have the game open now). by mapping my mouse's thumb button to both those functions and ignoring the warning about the key already being mapped, i can now successfully use all the gadget 1 items, be it a supply pack or weapon, with the single mouse button.

I map Gadget 1 and Gadget 2 to the Left/Right tilt buttons of the middle mouse button(wheel). No issues.

 

[SocalMark]

Just bought from best buy the Cyborg X Flight Stick had some rewards to cash-in.

 

[Mant]

I just noticed that over 10 years, I have yet to crack 60 posts. Now that is how you shut up and listen.

When the forum switched over, everyone lost their post history unless you PMed the mods and explicitly asked for it to be restored.

 

[HeXen]

Need Assistance:

so i bought it today from Target. it installed Origin but not the game. So i tried to make an Origin account and all looks well, after i clicked submit it goes to the login screen where it won't let me log in, says invalid.
So i make up the account again...still shows my username as available. I did this 3 fucking times.

After the third time it says i already have this email registered but still wont let me log in. WTF? check email and nothing.
So now i can't even create an account with my email, but it also wont let me log in with it either.

edit: i just tried the forgot password thing just in case i mistyped, but no go. i even made it super simple and looked at the kb as i typed. never had trouble before. it just flat out will not let me log in. though apparentely they have my email registered after the 3rd effing try. getting pretty PO at the moment

 

[mingsoup]

Does anyone know how to make support class deployed machine gun not so finicky? I have a hard time aiming.

 

[HeXen]

i'm on 8th time trying to log in/ create account. so far i've tried various usernames that said were not in use and another email address i had to make onother one. i even tried leaving all the checkboxes for them to invade my privacy and still wont let me log in.

guess i'm done trying for the night.

 

[sandorski]

When the forum switched over, everyone lost their post history unless you PMed the mods and explicitly asked for it to be restored.

No, only some did.

 

[sandorski]

i'm on 8th time trying to log in/ create account. so far i've tried various usernames that said were not in use and another email address i had to make onother one. i even tried leaving all the checkboxes for them to invade my privacy and still wont let me log in.

guess i'm done trying for the night.

Go back to your first created USername and stick with it. Quit making new ones until you figure out what's wrong.

 

[TXHokie]

Using IE browser? I had issues login using IE and even went thru changing account password. Turn out it was a browser issue since it works fine using Chrome browser.

 

[HeXen]

Go back to your first created USername and stick with it. Quit making new ones until you figure out what's wrong.

But i can retype the any of the user names i tried to create with and redoing it again still shows them available. So their not even existing.

thats the problem. go back and re read. its just an endless loop.
and no i'm using Chrome, but i also tried IE.