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The USAS was my favourite weapon in BC2, now it seems somehow sullied by everyone using it due to being overpowered. Well, that plus the fact that you have to grind for countless hours to even get it.
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| # ¿ Nov 21, 2011 15:16 |
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Internet posted:Jesus Christ. I woke up with this in my inbox this morning. Thankfully I got some sane person in customer support to reverse it. Seriously though, a full account ban for an inappropriate name? That should be nothing more than a slap on the wrist with a forced name change. Jihadswag? They went for a permaban for that name? I'm sure "they" is the wrong word as regards that, it probably hit some kind of sore point with the individual concerned. They should do a double confirmation thing like they do for SA bans, if they don't already (and if they do, what went wrong this time?)
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| # ¿ Nov 22, 2011 18:43 |
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Affi posted:I'm sorry but you should always manually join squads. When playing with pubbies just find whichever squad has the most bonuses/best score with an open slot (they are often more fun to play with) (also switch if they are snipers) My initial thought with the squad changes was "great, now no one will be in squads because most pubbies are idiots". Hopefully most non retarded pubbies will actually join squads. Another possible advantage is when grinding unlocks on metro, it means I potentially have a greater chance of being a squad leader so I can get the nice passive points income from putting an attack/defend order on B.
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| # ¿ Nov 22, 2011 19:06 |
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Just went 22K points before awards on a metro meatgrinder server - call me broken if you like but it's kinda fun in a switch-off-brain-call-of-duty kind of way. It was also the final round needed to unlock my beloved Saiga (that and the usas were my favourites from BC2 for shotgun recon setup). Although I've actually become kinda fond of the M104 now. Coleman posted:It never was! AEK or bust! Yeah people still care, that's top quality stuff. Hopefully it can get added to the thread OP.
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| # ¿ Nov 22, 2011 23:09 |
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:I ended up writing EA support regarding my veteran status for BF2142. Now I have every single veteran status for every BF game showing up on Battlelog. Thanks... I guess? Yeah they throw that poo poo around like confetti. I went to them to merge two accounts but they couldn't do it because I couldn't remember the made up birthdates I used, so since my bc2 and bf3 were on the same account they just applied "veteran status" to them both. I was going to ask what level of vet status that meant, but then I saw I had everything except Play4Free and that takes like sixty seconds to get. Utterly pointless of course.
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| # ¿ Nov 29, 2011 17:16 |
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So you can get the act of valor dogtag by watching the trailer... but only if you're in the US? How bizarre. Yeah I could proxy it probably, but a bunch of  for a tag so can't be arsed.Edit: ok changing country to US on my EA profile did the trick, that was easy. Also I didn't realise it was a film rather than a game trailer. Azzip fucked around with this message at Nov 29, 2011 around 18:35 |
| # ¿ Nov 29, 2011 18:23 |
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Kessel posted:My greatest regret about the maps is that the BASE jump on Damavand rush owns and I don't see it often enough because I enjoy conquest more Thankyou... THAT explains why I have never done the base jump, I thought there was a map that was never in rotation wide stance posted:2. What do doctor pepper codes do and why do so many people want them? You can get unique dogtags and a multiplayer skin (which looks like the same as all the others) http://www.drpepper.com/promotions/ea/ edit: I proudly wear the 6 wolf moon tag Azzip fucked around with this message at Nov 29, 2011 around 18:36 |
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commish posted:Guided shells are so great - the double tap means I win most 1 on 1 tank battles. Woah, so you just fire your main gun, hit 2 and instantly fire again? Do guided shells without any guidance (i.e. there's no one else locking anything) fly with the exact same trajectory as regular shells?
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| # ¿ Nov 30, 2011 02:01 |
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Vertigus posted:Guided shell / Main gun is the double tap. You can immediately fire the main gun after the guided shell, but not the guided shell after the main gun. Ah sweet thanks. It's knowing the little tricks like that which make the difference. Twlight posted:lock with guided shell (helps with a CITV station because he'll have it already lit up So assuming you have no soflam or CITV assistance, you can still lock targets with the guided shell? This might seem like a dumb question but I haven't seen that work for me yet, but not having realised that was possible I haven't really tried. I just assumed guided shells were only used when you have someone else to do the locking.
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| # ¿ Nov 30, 2011 02:26 |
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Delacroix posted:I'm fairly sure it's just the same stuff the PC got but some PS3 specific bug fixes and stuff. Dunno if it's been mentioned already, but there's one particular change that will hopefully make it onto PC when BtK comes out: "You should no longer spawn in home base if your selected spawn point is disabled while waiting to spawn (e.g. if your teammate dies right before you are about to spawn)" Although I love their optimism, "should"...
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| # ¿ Nov 30, 2011 11:10 |
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JimmyCaladro posted:I know, it's kind of stupid running 32 bit. I just got this thing and the 32 bit version was all I could get my hands on. While I know I need to fix that, I don't think it's making me lag like crazy. Am I wrong for thinking so? The fact you're only running 4GB of ram is likely to be a contributing factor edit: And I think any individual app can only address 2GB if I remember rightly?
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| # ¿ Nov 30, 2011 14:42 |
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Captain Beans posted:Are the changes live on PC yet? Origin doesn't appear to have downloaded anything. Those are POSSIBLE changes for a patch which MIGHT get released at some point. So no, and no point F5'ing anything right now. It's more just an RFC.
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| # ¿ Nov 30, 2011 17:59 |
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The Gunslinger posted:Also it would be nice if the commo rose was even slightly useful instead of a tickbox they checked off. The commo rose has all the hallmarks of being a WIP placeholder which lost out to another feature when it came to prioritising features as the deadline loomed. Although they could never admit it, I bet dice devs look at that and think "Yeah, and it'd be nice to finally finish implementing that too".
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| # ¿ Dec 1, 2011 20:10 |
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:I don't think I'll ever unlock any cool stuff for the tanks. Just came here to post how much I love the canister shell and why the gently caress did no one tell me about it before. It's a tank mounted shotgun, that's what it is. Put on thermal vision and proximity sensor and you can kill dudes like you have never done before. You can fire the main shell too immediately after your canister shell, so it's like a mini burst mode against infantry. I got so addicted to it I pretty much jumped straight from canister shell to CITV from using tanks so much now. CITV lets you sit in a third seat in any tank - you don't need to activate CITV, it's always there. I unlocked it while I was driving a tank and the third slot just appeared in the HUD right there and then. The driver doesn't need it, just you. You then get a thermal vision cam, and you lock on to whatever vehicle you've got in the crosshairs - though their stealth upgrades will of course affect the lock time. Then all other people with guided weapons such as guided shells, javlins etc see the lock and can make use of it. You get a small amount of points for designating, and more if people damage and then kill the target. You get no weapon to use in the CITV seat. The soflam is a lovely thing, you can set it up and use it in the same way as CITV, but it is static and has a very very slow movement. It supposedly auto targets too, but someone will have probably blown it up before that happens. Another thing to make the lovely recon class into simply the sniper class. Keep on blasting away with those tanks, once you start to get the cool upgrades you won't look back. edit: beaten, but at least we seemed to say the same thing
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2011 00:12 |
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Insert name here posted:Yup laser guided weapons (guided shell, javelin, guided missile for the jet and helicopter) all ignore flares. Makes sense... targeted by laser, not heat. drat, they got it right for a change.
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2011 00:40 |
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Contingency posted:I do CITV Good summary there, I have only been using it a few days but have come to many of the same conclusions. My buddy just unlocked it too, so we will alternate driving/lasing so we both get a feel on the best way to make it work. Also it evens out the CITV-guy-gets-dicked-out-of-his-points factor. When you do take out an enemy gunship (or fully laden transport/littlebird) it's like angels are singing. Though every time we do, it seems they take exception and come after us. Sometimes that results in more comedy kills, though several times we have been unlucky enough to come across extremely competent pilot/gunner combos who were blatently on voice comms and able to efficiently take us out. With practice, hopefully that will happen less often.
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2011 23:14 |
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Oh man... I had the most awesome couple of rounds today. I am usually on the ground, but ended up spawning in the gunner seat for a random chopper pilot with low expectations as usual. The guy left me speechless weaving around the map, logically selecting targets, responding to threats, attacking and withdrawing as necessary. He could hug the terrain like you are in a land vehicle, turn in ways I didn't realise were possible and still maintain amazing situational awareness. I did my part too, q-spotting the gently caress out of everything to give him and my team as much information as possible, fragging soft targets of opportunity and following his lead on the hard targets so we could take them out almost always in one pass. We did lose the chopper one time through very bad luck - he was killed while we were out repairing and I didn't notice, and I was killed like one pixel away from the repair being complete and the guy stole it. Luckily it was only a couple of minutes before he died of natural causes and we were back in the air again. I would have really hated to be on the other team, infantry, jeeps, anti-air, tanks and choppers were all swept aside like they were nothing. Got three chopper unlocks in one 30 minute round. Got a ton of good fraps footage, might render if together if I get around to it.
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 03:07 |
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Incredulous Dylan posted:I have no problem with frags doing less damage - I think they should be used to either pressure people who are in a corner or finish off a very weak opponent who is hiding. Why should people be easily killed with frags? Shoot them with your gun Referring to frag rounds, not frag grenades. There is no mention of any changes to grenades that I saw (unless I missed it in the big patch notes or it was added after).
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 19:33 |
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Foehammer posted:Welp I found my new dogtag: Dolphin Diving Haha, that rocks - never noticed that on feature lists before...
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 20:16 |
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GreatKesh posted:Is there any way to get battelog to not show empty servers? Use the free slots filter, don't tick empty and take your pick with the others. That's always been there.
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 23:43 |
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Oh, and the auto-deploy was killed as part of the spawn at base "fix". Why they just didn't change it to abort the automatic deployment if the spawnpoint became unavailable, I don't know.
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 23:48 |
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Trizelda posted:I am starting to become hopeful that their Commorose 2.0 will actually be useful. Hey, we got borders around the rose choices so you can see which is highlighted. Tick the box, that poo poo is fixed.
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| # ¿ Dec 8, 2011 11:19 |
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:Holy poo poo, the tower on Caspian fell down just now, when did it start to do that? Last patch. 15 tickets triggers it
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| # ¿ Dec 8, 2011 17:23 |
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The jet flyby posted by the BF facebook page inspired me to render a capture I made earlier today. It's not like I actually do anything, but the sight of not one but two jets making strafing runs on me, then getting so close to hitting that chopper with my SMAW and finally one of the jets coming back for another pass and not quite pulling up in time to win us the round... priceless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB__jXonp38
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| # ¿ Dec 9, 2011 00:42 |
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maniacripper posted:Wake me when they bring back wizard balls. Life was so, so much better then. My wizballs and my saiga/usas. The perfect partners... 
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| # ¿ Dec 9, 2011 19:11 |
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Balance tweaks should be separate from patches. Changes that come down to simply changing a number should be able to bypass QA and be streamed to clients on a daily basis if need be (though a more suitable gap would be several days). This would allow tweaks to be applied on a very gradual basis rather than massive bumps which although seemed ok in theory actually turn out to be game breaking. Ain't gonna happen though.
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| # ¿ Dec 9, 2011 19:38 |
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Tommy 2.0 posted:How the poo poo do you do the stupid hostage mission for co-op? They throw the flashbang and the mission ends. One of you q-spots the bad dudes in the left bus, the other does the same to the right bus. I tend to shoot just as they are throwing the flashbangs, but it might work afterwards. At least I assume this is the bit you're referring to.
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| # ¿ Dec 9, 2011 21:28 |
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Dietrich posted:Does anyone else run a bandwidth monitor? It seems like BF3 uses an entire Mb/s up while playing, which is about all my pipe has. My wife uploading pictures to flickr while I'm playing BF3 is enough to cause me to completely spaz out. Maybe Origin has detected that you have decent upstream and decided people should download from you rather than their servers and save some traffic costs... (starting baseless rumours is fun)
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2011 15:03 |
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I rebound my mouse scrollup to primary weapon, and scrolldown to secondary weapon. I'm really liking it, I never used the scrollwheel for anything else anyway and this means I can switch much quicker and without having to release a finger from another key. So does anyone know what time the B2K is unlocked? I will be away from my computer from tomorrow evening onwards for a few days, so would be nice to get in a couple of hours at least.
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2011 16:45 |
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Den of Lies posted:https://help.ea.com/article/back-to...e?showhome=true Awesome, thanks. As an aside, this is probably the most helpful article in EA's knowledgebase.
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2011 18:13 |
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radintorov posted:It stays active, acting like T-UGS. Just remember that the MAV is a tad bit larger than the T-UGS, so park it somewhere hard to spot. Does anyone know if the MAV has a cone area of effect like the wizballs, so it can be parked on top of a tall tower like the antenna on caspian and pick up movement around it on the ground?
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2011 20:01 |
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Kachunkachunk posted:I thought that specifically was patched out of the December 5/6 (whatever) update. Nah, but it was added to the "proposed" patch notes for the next patch, which kinda gave the game away about that one 
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2011 21:00 |
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I like the new dog tags, might have to rotate away from 6 wolf moon for a while to dolphin diving or subtitles. Had to go back and watch Mine again for old times sake. Anyone know what the one man army tag refers to? I assume it's not MW2 but I can't see the tooltip on my tablet browser. What really sucks is that I'm away from my computer for about a week, starting yesterday. Had a chance to play a few rounds on the new maps which somehow made it worse because they are great. Except wake island. gently caress wake island forever. It just seems to be geared towards a play style that is the antithesis of mine. ace_beef posted:Stood infront of a friend and shined a flashlight in his face while he was sniping. Am totally going to do this next time I am on a team full of worthless snipers. Why do I never think of this stuff?
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2011 12:59 |
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I still can't fathom why they didn't put the flag letter identifiers into the flag markers above the minimap, especially with the new maps having many more flags. Judging by the lack of bitching about it in this thread it doesn't seem to bother many people. But I like to be able to call out when a flag starts flashing and when it's towards the right hand side it takes that little bit longer to match it to a letter.
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2011 20:05 |
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Grey Fox V2 posted:Also in a testament to how dorky Canada is Skyrim the #2 fastest rising search term ahead of the Canada Post Strike. And outnumbered by people who type a url into a search engine 
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| # ¿ Dec 15, 2011 22:42 |
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Insert name here posted:I don't think I've ever actually gained altitude while using hover mode except for the very first time I'm taking off. Trying to switch to hover while flying always ends up with me slowly drifting towards the ground. The great thing is, like with BF2 you don't even need it to take off. Even if you're on the pad that faces to the side of the carrier, just hit full thrust and afterburners and you will achieve flight velocity before you hit the water and are free to gain altitude at full speed. Zahki posted:Also I think I read in this thread that the game doesn't inform you of every bullet that connects with you so the sound of a single bullet hitting could actually be more like 2 or 3? Not sure about that. Although I have no evidence, it feels like this is the case. Although that's small comfort when someone I get the jump on because he was facing in another direction STILL manages to kill me first. Not often, but enough to be annoyed every time. Azzip fucked around with this message at Dec 16, 2011 around 12:05 |
| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 12:02 |
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Yup, on the couple of occasions I had that happen before the last patch it was always worth putting a quick heh in allchat, now it seems to happen so much more often I don't bother.
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 13:41 |
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Not that its a bad thing in my opinion. I think managing to "take them with you" when otherwise you'd have just died makes up for the times when the same thing happens for them.
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 13:51 |
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Revitalized posted:I thought they fixed the bugged guns a while back? Or maybe they didn't? Yup I remember this was mentioned in one of the recent patch notes. Haven't done anything as crass as actually testing it though.
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| # ¿ Dec 17, 2011 10:37 |
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Hadlock posted:I've decided that you either failed 2nd grade statistics, or you're a career ATi apologist. The guy you quoted wasn't defending ati cards? Unless you meant that to the guy he was quoting, although I don't know if he was either...
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