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Arkaign

Arkaign

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QuantumPion said:
I had a couple good long rounds of AK conquest tonight...but only because I changed my strategy. Instead of joining a server with empty slots (guaranteeing I get put into the losing side of a domination), I queued on a server with 5 people waiting. Managed to get in on the winning team, and even after auto balancing between rounds our team dominated the other for two 1000 ticket rounds. So AK seems to only be fun when you're on the stacked team dominating the other.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/43616945/1/354197300/
(first place woot)

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/43615152/1/354197300/
(look at Slaughter-SA on my team...40 kills with SPRUT and only 4 deaths...seems legit lol...)
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Yeah it's complete and utter shit. Played on a ridiculously losing team and went 37-5 or something, then the next round went 0-6 (US side on the Arborz mountain or whatever). The US side on that map is so disadvantaged that it's insane. I won't be playing AK again.
 
QuantumPion

QuantumPion

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skipsneeky2 said:
Is Armor Kill the Metro of tank battle maps?
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The only thing wrong with Metro is conquest mode US spawn raping - there is literally no way the US side can get out of their spawn unless the other team is taking a nap. Otherwise it's a good map all around for conquest, rush, and TDM. As long as you aren't playing 64 players. That's the equivalent of playing instant vehicle respawn AK lol.
 
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Since its 2XP weekend for premium Ive given up AK and have been playing CQ conquest domination for the easy points and have to say Im having way more fun.
 
Arkaign

Arkaign

Lifer
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DeadFred said:
Since its 2XP weekend for premium Ive given up AK and have been playing CQ conquest domination for the easy points and have to say Im having way more fun.
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Yep, I never thought I'd say this because I was looking forward to AK so much, but vanilla and CQ are just more fun. Ah well.
 
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VulgarDisplay

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Arkaign said:
Yep, I never thought I'd say this because I was looking forward to AK so much, but vanilla and CQ are just more fun. Ah well.
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I actually had a lot more fun playing rush on AK. Except when the AC130 is dominating your team.

Alborz mountain is an amazing rush map. It takes you on a journy through the whole map. It's just too bad that bridge across the bay isn't used. I really want to go down to that part of the map and see the sights. lol.

Anyways, 2x XP means I play Metro Conquest this weekend. I'm at Colonel 52 after 250 some hours. I hope to reach Colonel 100 in record time.
 
moonbogg

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I love the way Arborz looks and the freedom you have to explore the super high mountain ridges etc. Its cool to get lost in the map and it fees like it goes forever, but as far as being a fun BF map, either I just suck or its not well made.
 
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moonbogg said:
I love the way Arborz looks and the freedom you have to explore the super high mountain ridges etc. Its cool to get lost in the map and it fees like it goes forever, but as far as being a fun BF map, either I just suck or its not well made.
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Yeah I like getting up into the mountain crevices. You have to do this jumpy thing to get up in them, but it's worth it for the prime sniping spots.
 
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DeadFred

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moonbogg said:
I love the way Arborz looks and the freedom you have to explore the super high mountain ridges etc. Its cool to get lost in the map and it fees like it goes forever, but as far as being a fun BF map, either I just suck or its not well made.
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Pretty, yes.

Fun, no.

Its one of the most aggravating maps to get around on Ive ever seen.
 
WiseUp216

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moonbogg said:
That low? -19.33? How is that even possible? That was a monster friggin score BTW.
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It means his overall Skill Level stat went down by 19.33 points. If he was at 450 before the round then he starts the next round at 430.67.

Pretty meaningless and arbitrary stat, as shown by him losing skill level with a massive round.
 
QuantumPion

QuantumPion

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WiseUp216 said:
It means his overall Skill Level stat went down by 19.33 points. If he was at 450 before the round then he starts the next round at 430.67.

Pretty meaningless and arbitrary stat, as shown by him losing skill level with a massive round.
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Uh, wrong. It is a very meaningful stat, it is not arbitrary at all. The fact that he lost skill means he was mostly just murdering noobs - he never gained skill for his kills and lost skill when he died.
 
moonbogg

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QuantumPion said:
Oh yeah FYI since the last patch they fixed the IRNV scope. It's now correctly balanced and reasonably useful - that impenetrable green wall at 10 yards is gone, but enemies only light up to about ~50-100 yards. It's tricky to use but can be fun, I had some good luck with it on TDM last night hehe: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/43762012/1/354197300/
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I personally find all night vision related stuff to be absolute garbage. Rant over.
 
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VulgarDisplay

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QuantumPion said:
Uh, wrong. It is a very meaningful stat, it is not arbitrary at all. The fact that he lost skill means he was mostly just murdering noobs - he never gained skill for his kills and lost skill when he died.
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I find that it actually is useless because it's mainly just tied to killing skilled jet pilots. That's the best way to make it get really high.
 
QuantumPion

QuantumPion

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VulgarDisplay said:
I find that it actually is useless because it's mainly just tied to killing skilled jet pilots. That's the best way to make it get really high.
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You would have to kill the same pilot over and over again, and not get killed by anyone else, in order to inflate your skill in that way. And if you are able to repeatedly take down an ace pilot without getting killed yourself, you deserve the high skill rating. But as soon as you revert to normal gameplay your skill will go back down to where it belongs.

There are certainly ways to pad skill rating but it is an accurate indicator of general skill level for most players. Just because some cheaters use an aimbot to get 100% accuracy doesn't mean the accuracy rating is meaningless for everyone not using an aimbot.
 
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QuantumPion

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moonbogg said:
I personally find all night vision related stuff to be absolute garbage. Rant over.
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Obviously you've never used it pre-nerf or post-fix. Pre-nerf it was so good, you were handicapping yourself by not using it. Post-fix it works great for close and medium range.
 
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VulgarDisplay

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Destiny said:
Holy crap - that is an EPIC Kill score!!! What were the rest of your team doing? Taking a nap?! o_O
I think max Kills I ever got was 130...
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Lol...

The rest of my team were busy being berated by me for being terrible.

I remember at one point I was complaining about how I had not been revived a single time and went on to say. "I'm glad we have 15 support players on our team and I haven't been revived once, but could you at least drop ammo if you're going to be useless?"

This game makes me rage so hard, most of the time I rant in the chat just to pass time while I'm dead and try to anger the dude bros.

Hackusations were flying the whole round. One guy asked why was asking me how I always knew where he was, and my reply was that he and every other idiot with a LMG on a bipod sits there all day.
 
QuantumPion

QuantumPion

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Destiny said:
Holy crap - that is an EPIC Kill score!!! What were the rest of your team doing? Taking a nap?! o_O
I think max Kills I ever got was 130...
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It was a 55 minute long super high ticket round. He probably played the whole thing, while most of the other players on the battlelog played only a portion. Seriously, it's not hard at all to get ~3 kills per minute in TDM.
 
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