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DeadFred

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Mostly just pessimism over anything Dice can provide. Ive stopped playing Bf3 because it just isn't interesting anymore. In BF2 when I got bored, I would just spend every game camping enemy assets all day and pissing the hell out of the enemy team. No UAV support, No Artillery Support wrecks havok on a teams ability to function.

Can't do that in BF3 anymore.

I'm just tired of playing conquest and all it being is TDM with flags. The pacing on maps like Wake island which used to be a fairly slow-medium paced map now being a massive speed fest is just disgusting to me. Too much infinite running, non existant penalty to dying,
And nothing Dice has shown me has restored my faith in their ability to make a battlefield game.

Sounds like you just miss being a greifer, I bet youd love trolling a minecraft server. :p
 

DeadFred

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I did get a SMAW on littlebird kill last night

shoulda had 2, but the rocket hit, the helo blew up, no points no nothing

it was already on fire...so maybe it blew right before the rocket hit...
Ill help you get those if you want, message me if you see me on battlelog.
 

JTsyo

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Mostly just pessimism over anything Dice can provide. Ive stopped playing Bf3 because it just isn't interesting anymore. In BF2 when I got bored, I would just spend every game camping enemy assets all day and pissing the hell out of the enemy team. No UAV support, No Artillery Support wrecks havok on a teams ability to function.

Can't do that in BF3 anymore.

I'm just tired of playing conquest and all it being is TDM with flags. The pacing on maps like Wake island which used to be a fairly slow-medium paced map now being a massive speed fest is just disgusting to me. Too much infinite running, non existant penalty to dying,
And nothing Dice has shown me has restored my faith in their ability to make a battlefield game.

Ever consider that was the reason you were bored all day?
 

Zargon

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^^ LOL

or maybe why they removed it....



if the thing you liked, was something that merely made others game play experience worse

you might just be a jerk :p
 
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Ever consider that was the reason you were bored all day?

No.

Killing assets all day is ridiculously fun. The enemy team gets extremely angry and starts sending disproportionate amounts of guys to go after you. Sure I die, I go back to the area, just wait in a bush for about 5 minutes, and then do it all over again. Also I kill the engineers repairing assets a ton. Usually what happens is the enemy commander will end up dropping artillery on you.

I also liked putting down C4 on the runways and blow up jets just before they take off.

Nothing like this will ever happen again. Too much emphasis on killing enemy team members instead of actually working toward helping your team.
 

DeadFred

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Arrrgh, now I see have another buddy on Origin playing the Warfighter alpha. Im feeling left out in the cold. LOL
 

Canbacon

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I may be able to cheese a way in getting another key. However I would have to ask a co-worker to register for you. I don't think I can risk it.

If you can ask your friend how they got in, try through that way. You may get an invite sooner than later. That is all I can say.
 

Anubis

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No.

Killing assets all day is ridiculously fun. The enemy team gets extremely angry and starts sending disproportionate amounts of guys to go after you. Sure I die, I go back to the area, just wait in a bush for about 5 minutes, and then do it all over again. Also I kill the engineers repairing assets a ton. Usually what happens is the enemy commander will end up dropping artillery on you.

I also liked putting down C4 on the runways and blow up jets just before they take off.

Nothing like this will ever happen again. Too much emphasis on killing enemy team members instead of actually working toward helping your team.

if they brought this back i would quit, i hated it in BF2 and its the reason in BF3 i play on servers that actively kick people for spawn camping in helis/tanks/jets
 
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if they brought this back i would quit, i hated it in BF2 and its the reason in BF3 i play on servers that actively kick people for spawn camping in helis/tanks/jets

How is repeatedly destroying assets of terrible players who don't know how to do anything but shoot at other players at short ranges all on foot remotely comparable to spawn killing in a heli?
 

Zargon

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How is repeatedly destroying assets of terrible players who don't know how to do anything but shoot at other players at short ranges all on foot remotely comparable to spawn killing in a heli?

planting c4 on teh run way is spawn killing the jet FWIW
 
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planting c4 on teh run way is spawn killing the jet FWIW

So what? Come at me and find me. Its like complaining if the MEC manages to steal the US Blackhawk and land an entire squad on the carrier to start wrecking havok. It's not like I'm in a jet dive bombing the runway repeadetley. I'm 1 guy with a limited supply of ammunition manually killing you. If you try after the first time the EXACT same thing and get killed the exact same way, you're an idiot.

This is exactly what BF has lost. It doesn't have any way of forcing other players to play out of their comfort zones, because there is NOTHING you can do to throw people off their game. Its a massive deathmatch game with absolutely nothing interesting you can do because they've taken out everything interesting tactics wise.
 

DeadFred

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I may be able to cheese a way in getting another key. However I would have to ask a co-worker to register for you. I don't think I can risk it.

If you can ask your friend how they got in, try through that way. You may get an invite sooner than later. That is all I can say.
NO! Dont put yourself out there for a silly alpha key. Ill get to play the game eventually. Im just jealous thats all. I will ask how they got in, no harm in that. ;)
 

DeadFred

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He hates the game, I dunno why he continues to post in here. I hate MMO's, RPG's, and any game that game that tries to combine those two types with a FPS, but I dont go into those threads and take a crap.
 

Destiny

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LOL come at me bro?


LOLOL


just pointing out thats its spawn killing, and overall kinda lame. if you makes you happy, great, go for it


I'm going to back up Nikolae on this one... if I work my butt off and in the process my K/D suffers - and I get to your spawn I would spawn kill all day if I can... its the only way I can make up my K/D ratio or set back the opposing team if my own team sucks donkey balls...
 

Zargon

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I'm going to back up Nikolae on this one... if I work my butt off and in the process my K/D suffers - and I get to your spawn I would spawn kill all day if I can... its the only way I can make up my K/D ratio or set back the opposing team if my own team sucks donkey balls...

hes the one that asked how it compared to spawn killing in bf3, I was just pointing out that it IS spawn killing.

never said how I felt about it :p
 
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Yep, asshats like him would get banned on all of our servers in the BF2 days.

Would never have wanted to play on your server. People who arbitrarily enforce rules on servers are ridiculous.

I'm not sure how attacking assets so you have no ability to support your team counts as griefing. Seems like griefing is anything that makes it harder for you to run around like an idiot without support. Is it unfair that a SINGLE person who knows what they're doing can affect the fighting ability of the entire team?

I mained servers with no rules other than no teamkilling. Always the best fun because people did crazy shit all the time. No one ever camped jets because if you did, you got dive bombed all the time, and it was hilarious seeing all the people lining up for jets fly into the air. It made the game better because it balances itself out.
 
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Destiny

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hes the one that asked how it compared to spawn killing in bf3, I was just pointing out that it IS spawn killing.

never said how I felt about it :p


My mistake... but if anyone is wondering, I spawn kill every chance I get... I'm one of those players that I would kill someone but not their medic... Medic keeps reviving him and I keep killing him - if he complains I tell him just don't accept the revive from your medic...:p
 

Zargon

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My mistake... but if anyone is wondering, I spawn kill every chance I get... I'm one of those players that I would kill someone but not their medic... Medic keeps reviving him and I keep killing him - if he complains I tell him just don't accept the revive from your medic...:p

that fine

but if you join a server to go spawn kill no matter what, you have issues IMO
 

Capt Caveman

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Would never have wanted to play on your server. People who arbitrarily enforce rules on servers are ridiculous.

I'm not sure how attacking assets so you have no ability to support your team counts as griefing. Seems like griefing is anything that makes it harder for you to run around like an idiot without support. Is it unfair that a SINGLE person who knows what they're doing can affect the fighting ability of the entire team?

I mained servers with no rules other than no teamkilling. Always the best fun because people did crazy shit all the time. No one ever camped jets because if you did, you got dive bombed all the time, and it was hilarious seeing all the people lining up for jets fly into the air. It made the game better because it balances itself out.

If you pay and maintain five popular servers like we did in the BF2 days, when teams get stacked getting baseraped just makes people to want to rage quit. And having an empty server isn't very fun. So, we enforced no baseraping of uncaps. Having asshat free servers is what made us popular.
 

sigurros81

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Honestly, I don't even know why people cry about "baseraping". The reason why base raping exists in the first place is because the team getting anally fucked are too shitty to even do anything, so they lose everything and have to spawn at base so they get raped. And then they start crying about it. Say in a game of conquest and your team managed to overpower the other team and completely dominate them, you deserve to do some base raping, at least it'll make the map end quicker so hopefully when the next map starts, game will shuffle.

If you don't want to get base raped, how about not suck? Me personally, I don't base rape but if I'm running around and some dumbasses are shooting at me from his spawn base, hell yeah I'm going to shoot back.
 

DeadFred

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I hate games where one team is getting rolled/raped with their only spawn being their base, its boring as hell even being on the winning team. Some times I will switch teams just for the challenge of breaking out and capping a flag for the losers.

Baserape is one of the biggest reasons I prefer TDM or Conquest Domination, I can make a heck of lot more difference on a shitty team there.