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s44 said:
After the crash left Tugboat empty, four of us tested out the party functionality. It's... a work in progress: finding a server that doesn't fill up in the time you wait for everyone to approve the party join is a pain. Also, one person couldn't join through the invite system at all.

Fun when you get it working, though. Until a sudden Battlelog downtime (only a couple of minutes) knocked everybody offline, including the game in progress.

Also, the browser needs a personal server blacklist as well as favorites.
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I was the lame duck that couldn't join hardly any of the servers we tried.

So far I've:
manually updated punkbuster
graphics drivers
enabled upnp and ports
added firewall and antivirus exceptions (windows firewall and avira)

And I still couldn't join 80% of the servers I tried. Now I've uninstalled everything except for origin and am re-downloading. If that doesn't work, then I'll be pretty much out of ideas. At least the tugboat hut was one of the two servers that worked. :awe:

edit: also chrome seems to be the best browser for battlelog by far. I was getting a bunch of weird errors in firefox and ie9.
 
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novasatori said:
Played on a server which has instant vehicle respawn all day, makes you wonder why all servers don't have it. It is way more fun, especially with high player counts. Sucks having to run everywhere when the vehicles are all out, but with them respawning instantly makes it much better.
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Because they want you to play infantry. I like it that way.
 
Questions:

How do you queue for a server that is full?
How are squad leaders determined? I was racking up some extra points playing SL, think it was helping my squad too with extra points.
 
imaheadcase said:
Because they want you to play infantry. I like it that way.
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I don't mind playing infantry and like infantry only maps, what I have a problem with is spawning at someplace that has only enough vehicles to carry half the team and the other 16 or 32 players has to hoof it for 3 minutes to get to a control point.

I am talking like transport choppers, jeeps and apcs
 
QuantumPion said:
Ah ha, finally found a fix for the constant crashing. I had to underclock my GTX 580 by about 25%. Less might do the trick next time I try.

No, my card was not overheating, nor was it overclocked to begin with. There are lots of other people on the BF3 forum saying the same thing, and it affects AMD cards as well. Weird.
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i think it is mobo overheating for a lot of people.

I have 2 580 lightnings running at 890/2400 with stock voltage but no problems playing the game. Definitely not underclocking. What temp is your card running at and have you used some hardware monitoring to check the temperature of the motherboard. GTX 580 puts a lot of heat into the case, it is important to get it out. By using all four cores and as much ram as BF3 uses the bus is very stressed, so mobo is running hot to begin with. Extra heat from video card is putting it over the edge I think.
 
KaOTiK said:
My complaints about spawning are, I wish it didn't take so long with that black screen fading away (granted it is like a half a second, but too damn long still when you spawn at a point and it happens to be right next to an enemy gg). I wish you could click on the actual points on the map to select a spawn point instead of just the names on the left, I end up having to click half of them to find the one I want sometimes.
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agreed, a number of times i died before the black screen went away so i spawn dead. BC2 was much quicker at getting you in plus i think you had a second of invulnerability so you had a fighting chance if you spawn directly in front of an enemy by accident
KaOTiK said:
Splash damage from a tanks cannon is way to low. I shot in a room and hit the wall midway up in the corner, a dude prone on the ground 3 feet away from the way didn't die? I'm pretty sure the entire tiny room should of been gone, yet this dude is just chilling rubbing one out on the ground.
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word. my buds and i were tank whoring last night on caspian and i cant tell you the number if guys i would miss killing because i fired a shell at their feet and they just ran away. you pretty much have to hit the guy directly with the shell to get a kill. i dont want it increased too much where its overpowered, but i think a shell within a few feet of a person should kill them.
 
Homer Simpson said:
agreed, a number of times i died before the black screen went away so i spawn dead. BC2 was much quicker at getting you in plus i think you had a second of invulnerability so you had a fighting chance if you spawn directly in front of an enemy by accident
word. my buds and i were tank whoring last night on caspian and i cant tell you the number if guys i would miss killing because i fired a shell at their feet and they just ran away. you pretty much have to hit the guy directly with the shell to get a kill. i dont want it increased too much where its overpowered, but i think a shell within a few feet of a person should kill them.
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Noticed for the tank, they are firing armor penetrating rounds. Might be KE rods so no splash. Don't think there's a way to change your ammo.
 
also, i can fire rockets through a chainlink fence and the fence stays in tact and rocket hits target. but i cant fire bullets through a chainlink fence because its impenetrable. any one else see a problem there? lol
 
KaOTiK said:
My complaints about spawning are... I wish you could click on the actual points on the map to select a spawn point instead of just the names on the left, I end up having to click half of them to find the one I want sometimes.
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this times a million...idk why that got changed from bc2, but it sucks big time.
 
Bob151 said:
I've hung around on a couple of servers already, played a number of maps, some I've seen multiple times. Maybe I keep selecting the servers with operators who are fans of big maps that focus on piloting and tanks.

I would like a smaller urban/city map, somewhere where I don't have to don't have to run half a mile to find someone else to shoot at. In BC2, I liked oasis/arica and that heavy snow map (forget its name). In BF2 I liked Karkand.

Can someone tell me the names of the smaller urban maps (and hopefully EA lets 64 people on those, just to intensify the chaos?)

Thanks.
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Sienne Crossing, Operation Metro, Grand Bazaar
 
GullyFoyle said:
This thread has multiple things you can try for your issue.
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Thanks Gully. I've tried all of that now among other things and nothing. Still unable to join any servers without getting kicked within a minute. Frustrating. But they acknowledged the problem but there's no ETA for the fix. What a letdown. I'm just jelly of all of you. I'll be a rank 0 forever!

^^ Sweet. I've done the manual update already but I'll try again after servers get patched. Thanks for the update.
 
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they are rolling out a server update today(already on R5!!) that has seemingly alot to do with PB. seems some servers arent updating their PB automatically which could be then incorrectly kicking alot of players
 
Has anyone experienced an issue during map changes where the game freezes/crashes? I have to ctrl+alt+delete to shut it down then rejoin about 50% of the time. It's really odd, my system handles this game on all high settings no problem.

i7 920
4gb of ram
ati 5850 1gb
 
novasatori said:
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I don't mind playing infantry and like infantry only maps, what I have a problem with is spawning at someplace that has only enough vehicles to carry half the team and the other 16 or 32 players has to hoof it for 3 minutes to get to a control point.

I am talking like transport choppers, jeeps and apcs
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Because its a balance issue, you really want the whole team running around in tanks/coppters/jihad jeeps? That would be boring.

Anyone know how to zoom in with machine gun when prone WITHOUT using bipod? It always goes to bipod for me..
 
redrider4life4 said:
Has anyone experienced an issue during map changes where the game freezes/crashes? I have to ctrl+alt+delete to shut it down then rejoin about 50% of the time. It's really odd, my system handles this game on all high settings no problem.

i7 920
4gb of ram
ati 5850 1gb
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Yes, this has happened to me on occasion. However it is too rare for me to diagnose. I played for several hours last night and didn't experience it till the end, when I was about to leave anyway.
 
Anyone know why we kept getting dropped between matches on tugboat last night? Think it happened a couple times to me
 
I have a really stupid question and I hope I didn't miss something along the way. Is there a way to change the name of your character? My character name is the same as my Origin login name and I'd like to change it.
 
I played BF3 for the first time yesterday and didn't experience any problems other than one server being a little laggy.

But I can say this: EA has, to borrow a phrase from my son, opened up a can of awesome with this game.
 
The-Noid said:
i think it is mobo overheating for a lot of people.

I have 2 580 lightnings running at 890/2400 with stock voltage but no problems playing the game. Definitely not underclocking. What temp is your card running at and have you used some hardware monitoring to check the temperature of the motherboard. GTX 580 puts a lot of heat into the case, it is important to get it out. By using all four cores and as much ram as BF3 uses the bus is very stressed, so mobo is running hot to begin with. Extra heat from video card is putting it over the edge I think.
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No. My rig is watercooled, vid card peak temp is 40 deg, and my case is well ventilated.

My guess is the problem is GPU voltage is too low, which would explain why underclocking fixes it.
 
Does anyone know why the M4 is the 5th unlock for the engineer, but apparently shares stats & upgrades with the M4A1? Is the only difference that you can use it as Russian and it has burst instead of full auto?
 
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