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Looking for some opinions to apply to how I am going to set my server once B2K comes out.

Currently we run only conquest 64 player on normal with 600 tickets. The only maps we run are firestorm, caspian, kharg and bazaar (for the mayhem fix) It has been working well and the server is always full and in the top 30 worldwide.

Once B2K comes out we are going to run only B2K maps for a while and may stay with that or add in a few of the original maps. I'm thinking Sharqi will quickly lose its appeal and we will wind up running karkand, oman, wake, caspian and firestorm.

Trying to decide if we should run conquest assault or stick to conquest. I'm thinking for the start we will do 2 rounds of conquest assault back to back on Karkand, the straight conquest with 1 round each for the other 3 new maps.

Also has anyone seen if we are going to be able to run conquest assault on the original BF3 maps, or are they just for the xpac ?
 
Grooveriding said:
Looking for some opinions to apply to how I am going to set my server once B2K comes out.

Currently we run only conquest 64 player on normal with 600 tickets. The only maps we run are firestorm, caspian, kharg and bazaar (for the mayhem fix) It has been working well and the server is always full and in the top 30 worldwide.

Once B2K comes out we are going to run only B2K maps for a while and may stay with that or add in a few of the original maps. I'm thinking Sharqi will quickly lose its appeal and we will wind up running karkand, oman, wake, caspian and firestorm.

Trying to decide if we should run conquest assault or stick to conquest. I'm thinking for the start we will do 2 rounds of conquest assault back to back on Karkand, the straight conquest with 1 round each for the other 3 new maps.

Also has anyone seen if we are going to be able to run conquest assault on the original BF3 maps, or are they just for the xpac ?
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no Kharg? I <3 Kharg
 
DanTMWTMP said:
Hmm, I donno about changing it. BF3 is the most pilot-unfriendly BF out of all the BF's. A good pilot in BF2 can mean the difference in having your team win or not. In BF2, I used to do 30, 40... and one time, 70 kills per round w/ no death. They never really changed it. In BF3, it's a lot more difficult to get kills, and that has limited me to runs like 10-20 kills per round with minimal death (the difference? I have yet to have a round where I wasn't shot down). It's also A LOT easier to get killed from AA in BF3, compared to BF2/1942/2142.
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Thank god

In BF2, jets were EXTREMELY overpowered. Now you don't have jets just raping everyone and everything which is a good thing.
 
The updates are not automatically applied???????? I eat my dinner, watch some tv, see everyone playing and tugboat, go to launch the game and....a frickin 4GB update?!?!?!?!?!?! :thumbsdown:
 
Childs said:
The updates are not automatically applied???????? I eat my dinner, watch some tv, see everyone playing and tugboat, go to launch the game and....a frickin 4GB update?!?!?!?!?!?! :thumbsdown:
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Another wonderful 'feature' of Origin! You want to play the game right after hearing there was a patch, but you're greeted with the info that you need to download/install the patch! That's so you have the convenience of installing it at your leisure!
 
zerocool84 said:
Thank god

In BF2, jets were EXTREMELY overpowered. Now you don't have jets just raping everyone and everything which is a good thing.
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Agreed. It was fun for a little while until d-bags figured out they could go 50+ kills without dying and make the game utterly pointless for everyone else. I'm still so pissed about it that whenever I see an enemy pilot doing well in BF3 that I dedicate my entire existence to ruining his life until he leaves the server. I've succeeded about 5 times in that so far, taking someone who is like 20-4 and taking them to like 22-25 over the course of a round. Nothing but spamming AA, jumping out, firing my stingers, having my squadmates spawn with stingers with my squad explosives perk so we all have five stingers. It's not so much the jets that are a PITA in this, it's the helis, but nothing in this game is near as bad as it got in BF2.
 
Overall I like the patch. Especially the option for colorblind people. I had my highest rounds today now that I can actually distinguish people!
 
Loving this patch so far, played some infantry maps and nobody was using the IRNV or USAS-12 frag rounds. The IRNV is really bad now, damn near worthless in fact. They probably went a little too far... which is typical DICE. I'll never forgive them for making the Blackhawk a toothless, flying coffin in BF2 all because of ONE MAP where it was imbalanced (Mashtuur City).

But, I never used the IRNV anyway so this is definitely better than the way it was pre-patch. It was basically cheating before...
 
I don't understand the hate for Sharqi. Easily my favorite of those four BF2 maps. Just the right mix of vehicles vs. infantry (and no jets). Battles for the TV station were epic.
 
NoSoup4You said:
Loving this patch so far, played some infantry maps and nobody was using the IRNV or USAS-12 frag rounds. The IRNV is really bad now, damn near worthless in fact. They probably went a little too far... which is typical DICE. I'll never forgive them for making the Blackhawk a toothless, flying coffin in BF2 all because of ONE MAP where it was imbalanced (Mashtuur City).

But, I never used the IRNV anyway so this is definitely better than the way it was pre-patch. It was basically cheating before...
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Had a few hours of game time after patch tonight, I will say that the INRV is nurfed a bit much but still usable, you just have to change your game up a bit and it still kicks ass.
 
Childs said:
The updates are not automatically applied???????? I eat my dinner, watch some tv, see everyone playing and tugboat, go to launch the game and....a frickin 4GB update?!?!?!?!?!?! :thumbsdown:
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I dunno why but update is SOOO SLOW! Same thing with me! I missed the Tugboat party!!!:colbert::'(
 
sigurros81 said:
Had a few hours of game time after patch tonight, I will say that the INRV is nurfed a bit much but still usable, you just have to change your game up a bit and it still kicks ass.
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The biggest effect was that they made smoke and dust reduce visibility and range when looking through the IRNV scope. That's why it's perceived to have a really short range. In my opinion, anyway.....as you said, it's still very usable and is appropriate for certain situations.
 
Had no problems before the patch, but now whenever I try to join voice chat, I get "Could not find party" error. I cannot seem to create a party either. Seems only a few people have this issue. I am using Chrome and tried repair install of BF3. Also removed and reinstalled the Browser plugin. Flash got and update this morning, and reinstalled Java as well (not sure if Battlelog uses them).

Playing tugboat without mic last night was LAME!
 
zerocool84 said:
Thank god

In BF2, jets were EXTREMELY overpowered. Now you don't have jets just raping everyone and everything which is a good thing.
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Yup. I played BF2 for about 2 months until the pilots got good, at which point the game was just completely pointless. BF3 is the first BF game I've played since. I like how they made the jets fun to fly and good (but not OP) at taking out choppers and other jets but kind of worthless at ground attack. One of the best design decisions.

Anubis said:
im done playing this game till they fix it so the mav cant kill people
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I got shot by a guy last night that had a MAV master dogtag saying "900 MAV kills" 😵

sigurros81 said:
Had a few hours of game time after patch tonight, I will say that the INRV is nurfed a bit much but still usable, you just have to change your game up a bit and it still kicks ass.
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What? How do you call it usable? It is 100% useless. There is no more IR effect, only NV effect, and it is so cloudy and blurry and delays aiming so much while fades in, I can see no possible point of using it whatsoever.


On a side note, I did try out the improved AN-94 and am still disappointed with it. It still only fires 2 shots at ~600-800 RPM, although it has less recoil now. The rifle is quite accurate compared to other assault rifles but at long range the 2nd shot never hits, it still has recoil. The gun is not terrible but it still does not reflect the real AN-94 which is supposed to have a 2000 RPM 2 round burst with no recoil. If you want long range accuracy just use the G3, you'll do more damage with 1 shot than 2 from the AN-94.
 
I used the AN-94 for the first time last night, hadn't bothered with it prior to the patch. I got a bunch of kills so I'd say it is decent, but there definitely is some kick and I think overall I'd prefer to just use the M16A4 when it comes to burst firing. Also, in full auto the AN-94 seemed to have an almost LMG-like muzzle climb.

Just initial impressions... I'll stick with it until I unlock the supressor and see if it gets a little better with that + foregrip.
 
QuantumPion said:
I got shot by a guy last night that had a MAV master dogtag saying "900 MAV kills" 😵
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We were dominating a metro last night untill 2 mav dudes joined in and totally turned the game against us, went from a 2 cap to win to a 3 cap with us being spawn trapped, both dudes had 1500+ mav kills, and would run you over even if you were running around like a chicken with no head on crack, and if you actually managed to dodge the damn thing someone would just shoot you.. made defending impossiable. its the most broken thing ive seen in a long time, IMO its worse then auto shotties with expl shells ever thought of being

the FAMAS is a really fun gun however it starts with a 12x scope :/ which is usless and its irons suck, but once you unlock the reddot its nice
 
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I joined a Metro 1000 ticket conquest match a couple weeks ago where one person had a MAV dog tag with over 3900 kills. He ended the match with 80-something kills and 1 death.
 
Huh... I've yet to be killed by a MAV, and I play mostly Metro/Bazaar/Damavand/Seine. I've been killed countless times by USAS-12 frag rounds...
 
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