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

[JTsyo]

Just found a +250 LOH +socket +60 Vit +7% life ring...win.

So With some switcherooing..I have +500 LOH (Down from 900 ish)

800 Resist,
47k HP
12k unbuffed dmg
6k armor.

Now facerolling things...aside from the horde jailer waller molten minions....ugh

These new Premium weapons are broken. :whiste:

 

[DeadFred]

Only multiplayer shooter I play right now. I really enjoyed BC2, but I think BF3 is way better. People don't even give the game a chance because it's "not like BF2" are just a bunch of no-balls whiners.

Most of this^, except I wasnt a big fan of BC2. IMO BC2 was ok but nothing special and I never put a lot of time into it. BF3 on the other hand....I have put over 400 hours into since its release.

 

[Zargon]

one of things bc2 had that was missing is coming with armored kill, atvs!

other than that I wish mortars worked the same with recon.....recon got so nerfed into oblivion unless you have a real good squad to work with......or are named canbacon...

 

[Markbnj]

one of things bc2 had that was missing is coming with armored kill, atvs!

other than that I wish mortars worked the same with recon.....recon got so nerfed into oblivion unless you have a real good squad to work with......or are named canbacon...

I miss jumping in to the enemy's base and taking out arty, radar, and command structures. Does nobody do that anymore? Arty isn't in the game anymore, right? But can you still blow their radar? Does it make a difference?

 

[Childs]

I miss jumping in to the enemy's base and taking out arty, radar, and command structures. Does nobody do that anymore? Arty isn't in the game anymore, right? But can you still blow their radar? Does it make a difference?

That was one of the best parts of BF2. Its what I initially didnt like about BC2 because you couldnt do it, and bitched about it when BF3 didnt have it either. Now I am resigned to the fact that those days are long gone.

 

[Destiny]

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/user/shuShuster/

This guy above was with me on a vi metro server,he would be on the enemy team but exploited the teambalance system somehow and he would spawn in our base appearing to be friendly,but clearly from the red tag above his head was enemy.

I killed this guy twice and one round still went 20-0 somehow despite no one reviving him so what you guys think?

About 30% of the time at the very beginning of a Metro map I would go 10-0 sometimes 20-0 or better before someone kills me (depends which side I play on)... but I can only do this at the beginning of the map... mainly because I get to a spot first to camp and shoot passer byers... 😛


The recent patch has a glitch... playing as the Russion side you can put recon spawn beacons in the USA spawn... I know this because one of my squadmates put a spawn beacon in the USA spawn... very effective when the USA is pressing Flag B hard! Our squad was flanking and raping the USA team - sadly we lost because the rest of the team was too busy nade festing... I started doing it too when I can get pass enemy lines... I would usually kill 20+ people before they discover the "hidden" recon spawn beacon in their base...

If you are on the USA side you can put a recon spawn beacon in one of the rooms of the building over Flag A... it would be hidden and you cannot see it, but you can hear it...😛

 

[Zargon]

That was one of the best parts of BF2. Its what I initially didnt like about BC2 because you couldnt do it, and bitched about it when BF3 didnt have it either. Now I am resigned to the fact that those days are long gone.

yeah its weak.

was very fun to annoy the other team and commander

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I miss jumping in to the enemy's base and taking out arty, radar, and command structures. Does nobody do that anymore? Arty isn't in the game anymore, right? But can you still blow their radar? Does it make a difference?

Those days are gone. Those days of infiltrating with squads and using teamwork to wreck havok on enemy assets is over.

BF3 simply sucks compared to BF2.

 

[JTsyo]

Those days are gone. Those days of infiltrating with squads and using teamwork to wreck havok on enemy assets is over.

BF3 simply sucks compared to BF2.

Planetside encourages this so we'll have to see how it is in PS2.

 

[skipsneeky2]

About 30% of the time at the very beginning of a Metro map I would go 10-0 sometimes 20-0 or better before someone kills me (depends which side I play on)... but I can only do this at the beginning of the map... mainly because I get to a spot first to camp and shoot passer byers... 😛


The recent patch has a glitch... playing as the Russion side you can put recon spawn beacons in the USA spawn... I know this because one of my squadmates put a spawn beacon in the USA spawn... very effective when the USA is pressing Flag B hard! Our squad was flanking and raping the USA team - sadly we lost because the rest of the team was too busy nade festing... I started doing it too when I can get pass enemy lines... I would usually kill 20+ people before they discover the "hidden" recon spawn beacon in their base...

If you are on the USA side you can put a recon spawn beacon in one of the rooms of the building over Flag A... it would be hidden and you cannot see it, but you can hear it...😛

Well this situation was that the guy would appear to be on my team,but he would kill you and checking the stats during the round,his username was clearly on the other team,but somehow he would spawn for example as a usa guy but according to the leaderboard was russian,i even killed him spawning as a us support,then he spawned again with the dao and camped in our base as usa support again.....i killed him twice and all the while the chat is filled with him apparently teamswitching cause of the balancing,but stat wise,he didn't move a muscle from the other team.

Killing him twice in a row still doesn't answer why his stats still stayed 20-0 for the whole round,as when i killed him,no buddies or nothing came about to revive him but of course spawning in our base looking friendly,its kinda hard to come back from the dead with a 20-0 still.

 

[DeadFred]

well this situation was that the guy would appear to be on my team,but he would kill you and checking the stats during the round,his username was clearly on the other team,but somehow he would spawn for example as a usa guy but according to the leaderboard was russian,i even killed him spawning as a us support,then he spawned again with the dao and camped in our base as usa support again.....i killed him twice and all the while the chat is filled with him apparently teamswitching cause of the balancing,but stat wise,he didn't move a muscle from the other team.

Killing him twice in a row still doesn't answer why his stats still stayed 20-0 for the whole round,as when i killed him,no buddies or nothing came about to revive him but of course spawning in our base looking friendly,its kinda hard to come back from the dead with a 20-0 still.

sorcery!

 

[Destiny]

Well this situation was that the guy would appear to be on my team,but he would kill you and checking the stats during the round,his username was clearly on the other team,but somehow he would spawn for example as a usa guy but according to the leaderboard was russian,i even killed him spawning as a us support,then he spawned again with the dao and camped in our base as usa support again.....i killed him twice and all the while the chat is filled with him apparently teamswitching cause of the balancing,but stat wise,he didn't move a muscle from the other team.

Killing him twice in a row still doesn't answer why his stats still stayed 20-0 for the whole round,as when i killed him,no buddies or nothing came about to revive him but of course spawning in our base looking friendly,its kinda hard to come back from the dead with a 20-0 still.

Hmmm... that is strange... only thing I've experienced similar was when I was on a server with a hacker during the first Double XP weekend... The first hacker had on just auto/accurate aiming... then a few regular players suddenly "Turned ON" their hacks (they were NOT hacking in earlier rounds), every few minutes they "increased their cheats magnitude" basically to one up each other on who had better "hacks" to the point that when i spawn i instantly die - even when I was hiding behind a huge rock or out gun fire sights so I was assuming they had shooting through wall hacks... the hackers eventually kept jumping back and forth between teams killing everyone to prolong the tickets to maximize double XP points... I never got to actually seen if those hackers were doing the same thing as the player you described above - I just kept dying every time I spawn so I couldn't see from where I was getting killed...but I saw them switching teams back and forth from the chat log - which was odd because the game don't let you switch teams too many times in a round...

 

[skipsneeky2]

Hmmm... that is strange... only thing I've experienced similar was when I was on a server with a hacker during the first Double XP weekend... The first hacker had on just auto/accurate aiming... then a few regular players suddenly "Turned ON" their hacks (they were NOT hacking in earlier rounds), every few minutes they "increased their cheats magnitude" basically to one up each other on who had better "hacks" to the point that when i spawn i instantly die - even when I was hiding behind a huge rock or out gun fire sights so I was assuming they had shooting through wall hacks... the hackers eventually kept jumping back and forth between teams killing everyone to prolong the tickets to maximize double XP points... I never got to actually seen if those hackers were doing the same thing as the player you described above - I just kept dying every time I spawn so I couldn't see from where I was getting killed...but I saw them switching teams back and forth from the chat log - which was odd because the game don't let you switch teams too many times in a round...

I played a round once where a hacker came on and kept switching as well,but then all of a sudden a second hacker came on,so each team had one and i guess so few people decided to spawn still cause of the instant death,so they decided to hack each other,eventually they are in the chat telling each other off LOL.

 

[DeadFred]

I played a round once where a hacker came on and kept switching as well,but then all of a sudden a second hacker came on,so each team had one and i guess so few people decided to spawn still cause of the instant death,so they decided to hack each other,eventually they are in the chat telling each other off LOL.

Cheat #1: my hax are better than your hax!
Cheat #2: LIES! my hax rulz ur hax droolz!

😛

Finally got to play a few rounds with SLUAequitas today. Its a shame we never were on the same team, we would have pwnd. 😉

Got a funny double torch kill during one of the games. A bunch were camped in the middle containers on Nashar, a few engineers a support and 2 assaults, and they were holding it pretty good killing me every time I tried to run in there. That is until I tossed in a nade then went in MTAR blazing, when I ran out of ammo I went prone among all of the dead bodies to try and reload but the assault guys started reviving everyone so I ran my pistol dry killing a couple then switched to the repair torch and killed the last two. They were like "WTF, where was he???". :biggrin:

 

[CrystalBay]

MTAR rocks huh !😎

 

[Destiny]

Cheat #1: my hax are better than your hax!
Cheat #2: LIES! my hax rulz ur hax droolz!

😛

Finally got to play a few rounds with SLUAequitas today. Its a shame we never were on the same team, we would have pwnd. 😉

Got a funny double torch kill during one of the games. A bunch were camped in the middle containers on Nashar, a few engineers a support and 2 assaults, and they were holding it pretty good killing me every time I tried to run in there. That is until I tossed in a nade then went in MTAR blazing, when I ran out of ammo I went prone among all of the dead bodies to try and reload but the assault guys started reviving everyone so I ran my pistol dry killing a couple then switched to the repair torch and killed the last two. They were like "WTF, where was he???". :biggrin:

LOL... that would've been fun to watch to...

I played a few rounds with SLUAequitas... He's one of the few pilots I can't shake off my six and he has really good aiming as a jet pilot - after awhile when he's in the air I don't jump in a jet no more... instead I try to jump in an AA vehicle... one incident I disabled his jet over our spawn with the fixed AA - he bailed his jet and were about to steal my team's jet, but right when he was about to jump into our jet a team mate spawned into it and ran him over with the jet...LOL...:biggrin:

 

[SLU Aequitas]

LOL... that would've been fun to watch to...

I played a few rounds with SLUAequitas... He's one of the few pilots I can't shake off my six and he has really good aiming as a jet pilot - after awhile when he's in the air I don't jump in a jet no more... instead I try to jump in an AA vehicle... one incident I disabled his jet over our spawn with the fixed AA - he bailed his jet and were about to steal my team's jet, but right when he was about to jump into our jet a team mate spawned into it and ran him over with the jet...LOL...:biggrin:

That was YOU!?!?!? Hatez.

I didn't even notice you were on man, I had my jetface™ on 😛 I was so close to picking up that jet...the irony of being run over :'(


Also, I now know that DD = Deadfred. As soon as you left I started picking up, had three 50+ kills matches in a row, including this beauty :awe:

 

[DeadFred]

Also, I now know that DD = Deadfred. As soon as you left I started picking up, had three 50+ kills matches in a row, including this beauty :awe:

Of course! Because your team's biggest threat left. 😛 :biggrin:

Nice score BTW.

 

[DeadFred]

Im so sick of idiot teamates............

Was playing HC TDM just now and after I was killed by a random nade, the dark screen before re-deployment allowed me to see my dead body perfectly from above. And get this...I saw not 1, not 2, not 3, BUT 4!, 4 freaking assault team mates stroll past my lifeless mangled body and not a single one of em even offered a revive. And I could plainly see they were under no fire or distress whatsoever...... 😵 😡

I should have hunted them down and TK'd them for being such doofuses.

 

[Destiny]

Im so sick of idiot teamates............

Was playing HC TDM just now and after I was killed by a random nade, the dark screen before re-deployment allowed me to see my dead body perfectly from above. And get this...I saw not 1, not 2, not 3, BUT 4!, 4 freaking assault team mates stroll past my lifeless mangled body and not a single one of em even offered a revive. And I could plainly see they were under no fire or distress whatsoever...... 😵 😡

I should have hunted them down and TK'd them for being such doofuses.

When I see that happen, I normally switch teams and give them hell until they rage quit... I would ignore everyone else even though they are shooting at me - just to go after those 4! 😛

 

[hondaf17]

These assignments are very annoying. Finally just finished them all last night. Most annoying was trying to get the squad repairs. When I'm on with my buddies and we're on ventrilo it's no issue. Last night was just in a public server and it was brutally painful. Kept hopping in the battlebus, thinking repairs mid-flight won't take long at all. Whoever piloted I'd join their squad. Only the pilots would fly it and land on top of B (firestorm) and immediately jump out and leave me as a sitting duck. TWICE the pilot bailed out of a full battlebus to get on top of the crane. And once the pilot flew back to the spawn and bailed out to parachute into the attack chopper that just spawned. Good God, the idiocy that occurs on these public servers is amazing.

Also, I read in a patch log that they improved the directional audio so we can better hear people behind us. I have a good soundcard and just got new headphones and still can't hear footsteps behind me. Get stealth-knifed when I should easily be able to hear the person. In BC2 I could almost always hear them coming and spin around to defend myself. Not so in BF3 and it's really infuriating. Anyone else think this still sucks?

 

[skipsneeky2]

Also, I read in a patch log that they improved the directional audio so we can better hear people behind us. I have a good soundcard and just got new headphones and still can't hear footsteps behind me. Get stealth-knifed when I should easily be able to hear the person. In BC2 I could almost always hear them coming and spin around to defend myself. Not so in BF3 and it's really infuriating. Anyone else think this still sucks?

About the footsteps,sometimes i hear them myself but not often,i can mostly locate enemies directly below me and ahead and behind me very well with the soundblaster xfi titanium,and yup BC2 was great for soundcards.

Still benefits a gamer greatly to have such a card as i swear BF3 has even more campers then COD and hearing them before seeing them just simply gives you the edge you could use.:thumbsup:

 

[DeadFred]

Still benefits a gamer greatly to have such a card as i swear BF3 has even more campers then COD and hearing them before seeing them just simply gives you the edge you could use.:thumbsup:

You wont hear a true camper, they never move. 😀

 

[Exterous]

These assignments are very annoying. Finally just finished them all last night. Most annoying was trying to get the squad repairs.

Agreed. I was trying to chase down my squad mates smoking tank last night yelling at my computer screen "Come back here - I just need 3 more!" he kept going 🙁

I also didn't notice that the 25 shotgun kills needed to be done with the engineer at first. I got several as a medic with an auto shotty - saw no increase and figured it was for 'shotguns' not 'automatic shotguns'. Another round later and I found out thats not the case. Took a bit before I figured it out 😛

I am still trying to get that damn EOD kill

 

[Exterous]

Im so sick of idiot teamates............

Was playing HC TDM just now and after I was killed by a random nade, the dark screen before re-deployment allowed me to see my dead body perfectly from above. And get this...I saw not 1, not 2, not 3, BUT 4!, 4 freaking assault team mates stroll past my lifeless mangled body and not a single one of em even offered a revive. And I could plainly see they were under no fire or distress whatsoever...... 😵 😡

I should have hunted them down and TK'd them for being such doofuses.

Sadly - I see it happen a lot. I will admit that I could be better about it but I am so gun shy of getting killed while reviving and having the revivee get killed instantly again I am sometimes overly cautious.

I will say that Saturday night I got to play with perhaps the best squad I have ever played with. It was three guys from the 507 clan and me. First it was understood that everyone should go with a different perk (Oh so many people ignore this). Then we had two medics, a support and a sniper. The sniper was there for spawn beacon and didn't camp with his shotgun. The play style was similar so it was easy to keep together and the ammo and revives were fast without ever needing to be requested. We took spots 1-4 on a 64 person metro server. They were nice too!