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

[Zargon]

Of course i have birthing class tonight

Tapatalking on my pos thunderbolt. Sorry for teh typos!

 

[Destiny]

Of course i have birthing class tonight

Tapatalking on my pos thunderbolt. Sorry for teh typos!

Congrats! :awe::thumbsup:

 

[moonbogg]

Of course i have birthing class tonight

Tapatalking on my pos thunderbolt. Sorry for teh typos!

Yeah I hear ya. I have to go somewhere tonight also, so i'm screwed until really late tonight. Birthing class is fun. Congrats!

 

[Durvelle27]

finally got my new card so i can start back playing

 

[QuantumPion]

Anyone else think AK is, well, complete shit so far? First two games I joined it was just spawn rape like fucking crazy. My team everyone was 0-10 or so until they quit, other team had top 5-10 people going 20-0. Both teams had plenty of 100's. It's like the first team to get to the first flag auto wins, due to there being so very few spawn points (only 1 per flag as far as I can tell) and it's just spawn rape from flag to flag.

 

[WiseUp216]

Half a round on Bandar Desert and a full round in Death Valley.

So far I like it a lot.

We really, really need squad voice chat, though. Otherwise, it feels good. Feels like a legit Battlefield game.

 

[orbster556]

Anyone else think AK is, well, complete shit so far? First two games I joined it was just spawn rape like fucking crazy. My team everyone was 0-10 or so until they quit, other team had top 5-10 people going 20-0. Both teams had plenty of 100's. It's like the first team to get to the first flag auto wins, due to there being so very few spawn points (only 1 per flag as far as I can tell) and it's just spawn rape from flag to flag.

Yeah, I have played 6 or 7 games and all have ended with lopsided scores. To be fair, however, I am not so sure whether this a problem with the AK map design or a problem endemic to BF3 generally. Specifically, the matches in which I have played haven't really differed from the Caspian pug matches I would play when BF3 was first released. One team will clearly control the air, will probably have superior vehicle players and thus dominate the various caps.

I like the *idea* of BF3, viz. of having 64 players in a massive setting with vehicles and the like, but I find it really difficult to have an enjoyable experience on the conquest maps. In all honesty, maybe 1/10 of my matches are close contests where the game is genuinely tense, tactical and enjoyable; the rest are rote exercises of either dominating or being dominated.

Like I said in my earlier post, I'll try to jump on with some of the AT people here and see if the game experience improves. Otherwise, I think I'll just stick to playing TDM.

 

[yours truly]

AC-130 on rush is such a bad idea. How it slipped through is crazy.

Some servers have a countdown before you can move... While you and your team just stand there, the opposition are already in the AC130 targeting your fucking spawn and cream you as the game starts.

I'm not playing rush on AK again. Dice you twats.

 

[sygyzy]

Is it possible to set some sort of AFK feature? I have been in games recently where it's 15 v 15 and 4 people in my team have 0 kills, 0 deaths the entire game. Is this some elaborate cheat I am not familiar with? As you can imagine, being on the smaller side of a 11 v 15 game really hurts.

 

[DeadFred]

Is it possible to set some sort of AFK feature? I have been in games recently where it's 15 v 15 and 4 people in my team have 0 kills, 0 deaths the entire game. Is this some elaborate cheat I am not familiar with? As you can imagine, being on the smaller side of a 11 v 15 game really hurts.

Got in few minutes of conquest on Alborz Mts. and a full round on Death Valley earlier today and I loved both those maps.

Played a little tank superiority on Armored Shield early this morning, it was pretty fun until my teammates left me to fend for myself.

Ive yet to see Bandar Desert, going to look for a server running it now.

 

[DeadFred]

Of course i have birthing class tonight

Tapatalking on my pos thunderbolt. Sorry for teh typos!

Congrats on parenthood..... but boo to the class on AK release day.

 

[moonbogg]

finally got my new card so i can start back playing

Sweet! Looking forward to seeing you on there. I won't be on till way late tonight though, but tomorrow will be better.

 

[Zargon]

Congrats on parenthood..... but boo to the class on AK release day.

Yeah I hear ya. I have to go somewhere tonight also, so i'm screwed until really late tonight. Birthing class is fun. Congrats!

Congrats! :awe::thumbsup:

Thanks guys! Class wasn't offered again till after the due date and we signed up well before dices awesome 3 days before ps3 release schedule announcement


Also misssing USA v Jamaica wc qualifier

Tapatalking on my pos thunderbolt. Sorry for teh typos!

 

[QuantumPion]

Ah ok my problem was first two games were instant vehicle respawn. That makes the game unplayable shit. Regular servers are GTG. Having fun so far.

 

[DeadFred]

Just finished taking beating on Bandar Desert, the map is freakin huge. I was a bit overwhelmed as I joined a losing team about half way through a round. I was just running around like a lost rabbit trying to explore a little and dodging fire from every direction. All the while trying to find a decent squad to join, alas there were none to be found. I assumed everyone was just like me and trying to find their bearings, either that or they just plain sucked. LOL

I still had fun and the map is niether flat nor boring as Nik described. IMO, all the AK maps are way better that any of the B2K maps.

 

[WiseUp216]

I had great game of Conquest on Armored Shield.

Tank Superiority wasn't fun at all on the snow map. Everyone was hanging back and launching long shots at each other.

 

[Durvelle27]

Sweet! Looking forward to seeing you on there. I won't be on till way late tonight though, but tomorrow will be better.

Cool i just got on

 

[destrekor]

holy hell I've got some map learnin' to do.

I can't even offer opinions yet - I was doing terrible because I'm running around blind. It'll take me awhile before I can feel like I know what I'm doing.

Getting really comfortable with CQ also hurts things - moving from pure chaos to a truly squad and team-oriented affair definitely does not help.
Going to have to really work on my boots on ground game first and foremost. That'll let me learn the terrain, points, any advantages and see vehicle strategy from the foot soldier perspective. Until then it's going to probably be pretty ugly from my individual stats perspective.

 

[Childs]

Man...they need to work on their download mechanism. Before I left for work I checked for updates so I wouldnt have to wait when I got home. Game was up to date. So I get home and fire up the game, and then it starts downloading AK! FUUUUUUUUUU EA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DeadFred]

Man...they need to work on their download mechanism. Before I left for work I checked for updates so I wouldnt have to wait when I got home. Game was up to date. So I get home and fire up the game, and then it starts downloading AK! FUUUUUUUUUU EA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ouch!

Got to spend a little quality time in the AC130 cannon seat flying over the snowy map, me likey. Me likey alot!!! Racked up 10 kills and several vehicle disable/destroys in my one go around before being blasted out of the sky by jets. Took me a few shots to get the feel of how much to lead a target as we barreled through the sky but man was it fun once I got the hang of it. The closer targets were easy pickings.

Havent got a chance to be the gunner yet. Either my gunner sucked or you dont get kill assist points while in the AC130. :hmm:

Got to play a couple of rounds on a decent team and it was awesome. Im enjoying AK far better than I did close quarters.

 

[QuantumPion]

While I've had 1.5 good rounds so far, the other 7-8 have been utter trash. Just the slightest imbalance - one team having one good pilot, means spawn rape for the next 30 minutes. The problem is the huge maps with zero cover make it easy for a single jet or chopper pilot to utterly dominate the entire map single-handedly. So far it's just as I feared.

Once your team loses a single vehicle at the start of the map, it's basically game over even on a 1000 ticket server. That slight imbalance at the beginning snowballs into baserape every time so far.

 

[Capt Caveman]

While I've had 1.5 good rounds so far, the other 7-8 have been utter trash. Just the slightest imbalance - one team having one good pilot, means spawn rape for the next 30 minutes. The problem is the huge maps with zero cover make it easy for a single jet or chopper pilot to utterly dominate the entire map single-handedly. So far it's just as I feared.

Once your team loses a single vehicle at the start of the map, it's basically game over even on a 1000 ticket server. That slight imbalance at the beginning snowballs into baserape every time so far.

Played six rounds tonight, all even but we also have randomizing after every round. Search for The Candy Van. 64 player conquest.

 

[felang]

So I haven't played for months, realize armored kill is out so fire up origin and download the patch. Now I start battlelog and it's not working, can't change any filters/settings in server browser. It felt weird that it didn't ask to update the web plugin so I uninstall but now it doesn't ask me to install the stupid plugin so I can't play.

 

[Childs]

That tank superiority mode gets old quick. Can spawn on squad, no one uses jav, or if you use it, no one runs support so you cant refill. I've seen more teamwork in TDM.

 

[Arkaign]

So I haven't played for months, realize armored kill is out so fire up origin and download the patch. Now I start battlelog and it's not working, can't change any filters/settings in server browser. It felt weird that it didn't ask to update the web plugin so I uninstall but now it doesn't ask me to install the stupid plugin so I can't play.

Download the newest Chrome, IE, or Firefox (whichever one you don't use). Make it default. Launch BF3 and the Origin game browser will open that new browser, detect that the web plugin needs to be installed, and it will install. Bingo.