**OFFICIAL** AT Battlefield 3 FAQ and News Thread

[Zargon]

Forgotten Hope style! If you wanted to fly and have a parachute you had to pick up a pilot kit where the only weapon available was a pistol. This had the side effect of mostly preventing pilots from just bailing to back-cap. Probably not a good solution when we have transport choppers though, unless they're going to add ropes to rappel from out of them which would be pretty awesome.

yes rappeling would be awesome!!!!!


nice flying last night, even though it resulted in lots of helorelated deaths for me... :whiste:

 

[imaheadcase]

Who is Danko? I'm not really sure this is correct. It seemed like it was Headphone was for average headphones and HiFi was for higher quality headphones, because remember there's also the Enhance Stereo checkbox. HiFi seems to give a better soundscape.

Yah that is my understanding to. HiFi sounds much better to me than the headphone option.

I been playing with that latency bar they got in game now..i don't notice any difference from far right or far left. I guess its just for people with terrible connections to start out with.

 

[QuantumPion]

Anyone wanna go on tugboat to trade repair tool vehicle kills for the engineer assignment? I've been at it for hours, that is freaking impossible to do. I don't think I've ever managed to get a full vehicle kill with the torch because they always jump out or drive away when they are damaged.

 

[Childs]

Anyone wanna go on tugboat to trade repair tool vehicle kills for the engineer assignment? I've been at it for hours, that is freaking impossible to do. I don't think I've ever managed to get a full vehicle kill with the torch because they always jump out or drive away when they are damaged.

I got mine last night on Tugboat. It was after the crash when it was like 3v4. For some reason the person didnt react...was probably gonna leave. I probably wont be around tonight, but you can get me tomorrow if you havent done it yet.

The torch kill I got was hilarious...an engineer was prone, so I put the torch to him. He jumps up, runs 10 feet, then goes prone again. I guess he thought he was getting sniped. lol Anyways, it kinda surprising that it takes a bit to kill with a torch headshot.

 

[llee]

It's really tough. I was tailing Zargon for what seemed like ages and every time I would try it he would turn around, bring up is LMG with a sinister grin, and fire away.

 

[goobernoodles]

I have yet to try the tugboat server, but from the first post it's supposed to be in Dallas. Just tried pinging 207.210.239.19 and i'm getting a consistent 210~240ms response time (I'm in Seattle).

Did Texas finally secede and then paddle away into the Gulf of Mexico or what?

 

[QuantumPion]

I got it, I just joined some random 1p start server that had 1 guy on it and asked him to help me out, lol. Just need some more RPG kills now. I hope the Chinese carbine isn't such a big disappointment as the L85 (in my opinion easily the worst gun in the game, even worse than pre-buffed AN-94).

 

[Worthington]

lol it's funny you should say that as I just finished reading pages upon pages of "ZOMG Nerf the L85" over at the EA boards.

 

[Alienwho]

Anyone wanna go on tugboat to trade repair tool vehicle kills for the engineer assignment? I've been at it for hours, that is freaking impossible to do. I don't think I've ever managed to get a full vehicle kill with the torch because they always jump out or drive away when they are damaged.

I'll be down to do this tonight. I'll be on in a couple hours.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

nice flying last night, even though it resulted in lots of helorelated deaths for me... :whiste:

Would have gone even better for me if I had flares. I've been playing so much hardcore lately with the same pilot friend in voice comm I forgot to switch back from thermal for normal mode. I'm still getting used to proper use of flares and ECM ever since the patch too. It doesn't seem like ECM makes you unlockable for as long as it says it does.

I been playing with that latency bar they got in game now..i don't notice any difference from far right or far left. I guess its just for people with terrible connections to start out with.

It makes it a lot better for me, I leave it around 40% and there are fewer weird sync issues where I die after ducking behind cover. As long as I stay on servers below 75 ping I don't see any of the weird sync/jitter/skipping side effects either.

 

[basslover1]

Wow someone needs to rethink the layout for Rush on Oman, the attacking team can get spawn trapped reallllllllllly easily. At least for the console anyway.

 

[raasco]

Anyone wanna go on tugboat to trade repair tool vehicle kills for the engineer assignment? I've been at it for hours, that is freaking impossible to do. I don't think I've ever managed to get a full vehicle kill with the torch because they always jump out or drive away when they are damaged.

Find someone using a mortar....easy torch kill. That said, I'm still trying to get mine as well, lol.

 

[DeadFred]

Got my torch kill last night, I ran into and shot a guy at close range and he immediately went prone behind a low wall and dropped a medkit for himself. I quickly rushed around his flank and laid the torch to his ass. It took only a second since he was already wounded. He was typed WTF in chat, I guess he saw me running away giggling uncontrollably with a torch in my hand in his death cam.

I fear the next challenge of killing a vehicle with it will be a tad more difficult.

 

[jackstar7]

I got lucky and found a MAV user... he never saw my torch coming.

Also my workaround for the BSODs is just to quit after each round and rejoin a server, or switch to another. It's tedious, but does allow for more consistent play for me.

I have plans to try unplugging two monitors or disabling xfire or both... but at this point I'm using this inconvenient means to my ends.

Now I just need more Karkland time and a mortar kill... I have to say these little goals are really a great idea. Entertains me in games I might otherwise get bored (blowouts).

 

[basslover1]

Got my torch kill last night, I ran into and shot a guy at close range and he immediately went prone behind a low wall and dropped a medkit for himself. I quickly rushed around his flank and laid the torch to his ass. It took only a second since he was already wounded. He was typed WTF in chat, I guess he saw me running away giggling uncontrollably with a torch in my hand in his death cam.

I fear the next challenge of killing a vehicle with it will be a tad more difficult.

I managed to get two earlier today. Playing rush on Firestorm, I was defending the second set of M-coms. Two attackers were taking cover behind the rocks dividing the m-com stages, I flanked around 'em and torched em both. Though, somehow the second guy's javelin went off and killed me.

Also unlocked the L96, similar to the SV98 but I feel that there's less drop over long range, could just be making that up though.

 

[goobernoodles]

The hell did they do with Sharqi? It's like they wanted it to look like it was still the BF2 engine. lol

 

[NoSoup4You]

Love the old school BF2 MEC theme that's playing in the TV Station on Sharqi. Win.

Finding most of these BTK servers brutal though, endlessly long matches and instant vehicle respawns are just of no interest to me...

 

[Anubis]

getting the torch kill of a person was cake, i got a sniper who had no idea i was there, ive gotten a few more (people repairing. or just bads) since then, ive tried many times to kill a vehicle with it but its impossible, dude always jumps out before it goes boom

i thought i got a jeep with it when someone was in the gun not paying attention but nope


the MG36 LMG also seems OP as all hell, it has it fires just as fast and has less kick then the M240B and does NOT seem weak at all. drops people fast and reloads about as fast an as AR

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Love the old school BF2 MEC theme that's playing in the TV Station on Sharqi. Win.

Finding most of these BTK servers brutal though, endlessly long matches and instant vehicle respawns are just of no interest to me...

Seriously!!! Who are all these dummy server operators that run 1000 tickets and instant vehicle respawn???? It's just helicopter meat grinder for an hour. Do people understand if the vehicles are always up then the better pilots/drivers never get rewarded for their kills because they can never get any forward momentum? Helicopter kills other heli - must instantly focus on killing heli again instead of ground assault. HOW FUCKING INSANELY FUN. And really wtf is the point of 1000 tickets?

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Also admins who kick for swearing in a game where the soldier characters drop F bombs every other minute are a bunch of prissy bags of pussy lips.

 

[Zargon]

Love the old school BF2 MEC theme that's playing in the TV Station on Sharqi. Win.

Finding most of these BTK servers brutal though, endlessly long matches and instant vehicle respawns are just of no interest to me...

its all over and its great. most command points on karkand...you can hear it, lots of the 'store fronts' too

Seriously!!! Who are all these dummy server operators that run 1000 tickets and instant vehicle respawn???? It's just helicopter meat grinder for an hour. Do people understand if the vehicles are always up then the better pilots/drivers never get rewarded for their kills because they can never get any forward momentum? Helicopter kills other heli - must instantly focus on killing heli again instead of ground assault. HOW FUCKING INSANELY FUN. And really wtf is the point of 1000 tickets?

yeah not so awesome. I can understand turning the timer down some, but geez, instant was nice when it was new and we needed to learn.....but its a grindfest and no fun

Also admins who kick for swearing in a game where the soldier characters drop F bombs every other minute are a bunch of prissy bags of pussy lips.

hahaha good point


as always, all hail expandas driver of the battlebus
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf...!/bf3/battlereport/show/10306555/1/228549105/

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Derptown has been switched to hardcore by the way. Will leave on all B2K for another week and a half or so. Then I think we'll drop Wake and add back Firestorm, Kharg and Nosehair.

 

[goobernoodles]

Also admins who kick for swearing in a game where the soldier characters drop F bombs every other minute are a bunch of prissy bags of pussy lips.

Clearly, you have not played the game Darkest Hour.

 

[goobernoodles]

Also admins who kick for swearing in a game ******************************************* are a bunch of insufferable faggots.

Fixed.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Clearly, you have not played the game Darkest Hour.

Hahaha... a Red Orchestra mod. Why am I not surprised? Maybe admins are like vampires and killing the head insufferable faggots, aka Red Orchestra admins, would make the rest of the insufferable lovely human admins disappear.

In team based games like this sometimes it's just plain necessary to make people realize how bad they are. It's for their, and the rest of my team's, benefit. This isn't COD--I'm not chain screaming obscenities at people just because i'm 12 and have tourettes.