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ShineDog posted:Don't just turn horizontally. I usually find an immelman or split S immediately followed by a hard turn will throw most people off. Is there a place where I can read about all of this stuff conveniently and dumbed-down? I feel like just knowing standard flight patterns would be enough to graduate from "immediate explosion" to "short-lived distraction" when idiot teammates aren't taking advantage of our air assets.
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Cosmo Clock 21 posted:There's supposed to be some sort of unlock at 145. Not even going to bother figuring that one out. Commander mode.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 01:01 |
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Hey, who wants to play some co-op on easy or medium (I'm not terrible really, I just don't have the patience for dying and trying a section again) like right this minute? add me on battle log (pharmaskittle) and we'll figure this microphone poo poo out in fact just in case someone doesn't respond: someone explain to me step by step, as if I were a child, how to do voice chat with people Pharmaskittle fucked around with this message at Oct 26, 2011 around 01:32 |
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Can you hurt the Little Bird with regular guns?
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 03:02 |
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Okay, I guess I'll quit wasting my ammo shooting at the Little Bird frame itself.Speed Handle posted:There's absolutely zero armor on the Z-11 or the little bird so you can easily kill everyone inside with accurate MG/Rifle fire Or slugs 
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Tokubetsu posted:What audio settings are goons using? War Tapes all day, son
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 06:46 |
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2012 posted:So annoyed. My game keeps sitting at a black screen after the between map countdown. I CAN move my mouse and alt tab and, when I try to tab back, it's just a white screen and battlelog says I'm not in the server. I have to ctrl+alt+del to quit. Anyone else have this? This happens to me too maybe once every 5 or so map countdowns. I'm pretty sure it's been saving my progress though.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 07:16 |
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I guess choppers fill the role, but I'm surprised there's no troop transport airplane. Just having it would be good for people to learn to fly or do stupid poo poo like crash into tanks without taking up a more important asset like an offensive jet.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 23:07 |
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Amrosorma posted:Quick-knife is just tapping the knife key right? 1. yes 2. yes, which you do either by hitting the number key (6?) or by holding down the knife key for a second 3. yes
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 23:35 |
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-Dethstryk- posted:As a Russian assault soldier reviving people with the defibs, I keep yelling "DIE YOU MOTHERFUCKER" and "FRY FUCKER!" Speaking of the Russians, are we just not going to get native Russian voices? That was basically the only authentic thing about BC2 and it ruled.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 02:37 |
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washow posted:I have fairly old computer and I load up like 10 seconds after the game starts. What's your comp spec? I'm on q6600 560ti and 4gigs of ram it's weirdly variable with me, and my specs are less than stellar. like sometimes I'll load almost instantly and sometimes it'll take maybe a minute and change.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 03:12 |
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SpeedyCow posted:Your post made me check what I've taken, and I have one too! Doesn't mean we knifed a developer. It might mean we knifed a guy who knifed a guy who knifed a developer I checked the dude's "Taken" category under his soldier's dog tags and he doesn't have the dev one. So I'm thinking he's legit, although what you're saying might also hold true. edit: and it doesn't look like it just doesn't show up, because I just checked your Taken category and I see the one you got. So I think we probably knifed developers 
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Umberger posted:Assault also unlocks the M16A4 midway through, which is separate from the M16A3 that functions as the base Assault class gun for the US side. I love M16 variants so I'm glad that they make up like half the guns in the game 
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MetalMan posted:Someone come give me some Hooahs. I will totally Hooah you back bro. No problem 
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lordblytzkrieg posted:Do mines persist through death like in Bfbc2 ? Yes, they stick around for a long time, maybe forever. MetalMan posted:Thanks broski, totes hooah'd you back. Battlelog is now completely justified to me.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 06:20 |
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Speaking of points, a lot of times at the end of a round I'll get 200 "Extra" or "Bonus" points or something. There's no symbol, it just gives them to me along with the ribbons. Anybody know what these are?
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 06:31 |
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law abiding rapist posted:Just realized what the best BF3 feature is: tanks are no longer stopped by chest-high chain link fences. Holy gently caress it feels good to smash those little walls down. I smashed straight through a motherfucking warehouse wall and ran over a dude on the other side in that one murdermobile APC with the grenade launcher.
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Rycalawre posted:They're all good, just at different things. Except for Recon, don't ever use recon unless you're using a shotgun or SMG. The starting Recon faction rifles are actually pretty good if you use them naked or with RDS or ACOG.
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Streyr posted:Has anyone been able to actually redeem the Dr. Pepper codes? Just got back from the store and snagged myself a 20oz for a code but anytime I try to redeem a prize it just says "An unexpected error has occurred. Please verify your selection(s) or try back in a few minutes." uhh, if you've already used it, go ahead and post it here so we can see if they're reusable. nobody else has for some reason.
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AceSnyp3r posted:What's this "War Tapes" option in the audio settings? Headphones, Home Cinema, etc. are pretty self-explanatory, but what the hell does War Tapes mean? Is that some kind of new fancy rear end brand-name surround sound system I've never heard of? You know when people talk about how amazing the sound is in Battlefield 3? They're talking about War Tapes. Partial Octopus posted:I think Carl might be returning. In anticipation, I guess I'll have to clear up a few plots in Carlington National Cemetery.
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Hey, speaking of audio, is there any way to crank BF3's volume up? I've been having to put my sound up to like 90%, which is deafening in any other program but just right for BF3. ed: also, is there a way to up the sensitivity just for jets? I've got evasive flying down to an acceptable level with just WASD+arrows, but once it's time to shoot someone that's too clunky and the mouse is too slow. Pharmaskittle fucked around with this message at Oct 28, 2011 around 19:25 |
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Mister Bung posted:So, uh, game-breaking bugs in SP are common place in this game then? I dunno man, go to chapter select and pick that one; you're near the beginning of it. Bugs happen in campaigns this heavily scripted; who knows what you did unexpectedly.
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WALLGOD posted:In my game, the bad guy didn't render during the last level so Blackburn was fighting an invisible ghost. hahaha I totally forgot that this happened to me too
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I seriously need customizable dog tags.
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Someone may have asked this, but have we figured out if there's a console command to shut off the HUD entirely? I'd love to get my immersion on some night, just for fun. \/\/\/dude took the week off. I'd do the same thing if I weren't too broke to take off work and too terrible of a student to miss courses Pharmaskittle fucked around with this message at Oct 28, 2011 around 23:08 |
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Sputty posted:Do you get any additional points for doing higher difficulties in co-op? Didn't seem to make a difference whether we beat it on easy or normal or whatever Nope, no difference.
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Tunga posted:Well, certainly seems like the game was created my morons. After restarting my computer three times, the DVD eventually lets me install. And by install, I mean that it is downloading the entire game from the internet. If other people who are silly and bought a physical copy are to be believed, it's actually "downloading" from the DVD.
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GreatKesh posted:Prone, use the sights on your gun (unless you have a shotty) does everyone go prone? I PRETTY rarely go prone unless I'm pinned down or MGing and have no convenient bipod perch, and I'm wondering if it's sort of screwing me. but then again, I depend on being alert and hyper-aggressive to make up for my mediocre shooting ability.
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Slappy Moose posted:What's wrong with shotguns? I'm considering buying this game but any game that has unrealistic shotguns makes me super pissed. They're way better than shotguns in most other games I've played, don't worry about it.
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I'm so happy that pistols are getting a buff. I instinctively pull them out at low ammo or use them for long-range suppressive fire when I'm toting a buckshot pump, but with the way they are now it's often not even worth it.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:So, uh... maybe this is a stupid question but how do you tell what gun is better than another gun? Are there stats somewhere that I'm missing? Just use whatever feels right, mang. They actually all seem pretty balanced to me, aside from a few exceptions like the SAW being superior to every other LMG. One of my favorite things about BF3 is how grooving with a particular gun is more important than choosing the "best" one.
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Death Himself posted:Yeah the biggest tip I can think of for a recon is to get that goddamn giant scope off the gun. If you're going to put a scope on it do the 4x or the fast sighting 3.4x that I am personally fond of. Yeah, in the rare instances that I play Recon with a sniper rifle, I find that an ACOG is more than good enough for helping my squad with threats outside their range. That and using the spawn beacons whenever you all stop to heal/restock in cover or get bogged down in a protracted firefight.
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Keshik posted:Oh my god nobody will play Coop with me except hyperhopper the redditor. Someone add me as a friend and let's do some Coop like, right now. I haven't unlocked a loving thing, so we'd be starting fresh. let's roll, homey. I can't fly a helicopter very well, though. like, there's no way I'm worse than you.
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Umberger posted:3) Don't be afraid to take a vehicle (unless it's a jet). They're good for getting points and on most of the larger maps are a necessity for advancing to certain capture points/MCOMs. this is something I wish all pubs would figure out. I get that driving a tank full speed into a capture point firing shells at every standing structure isn't the best tactic, but even the mere shock value of that and blind hope that it'll accidentally coincide with an infantry push is a better use of resources than letting it sit in your base.
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Vatek posted:Sorry, but it's not more than enough. Your Core 2 Duo is killing your performance because dual cores just cannot handle the load. I get perfectly playable speeds on mine at med/high as long as I keep AA off. I'm planning to upgrade by the end of the year because of course I want it to be better, but you don't have to have more than a dual core and a mid-range video card to run this game. note: my definition of "perfectly playable" is "rarely below 30FPS" so ymmv
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Alkydere posted:The standard M320 frag rounds are the "Anti-Vehicle" ones. They do decent damage against light vehicles (Growler, VDV buggy, Humvee, Vodnik) but you're not going to do more than annoy a tank or IFV. Speaking of "anti-vehicle," do the shotgun frag rounds do anything to vehicles at all? Please?
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| # ¿ Oct 30, 2011 02:16 |
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I'm using Chrome (downloaded it JUST to use Battlelog on) on a not-awesome Vista32 computer, and I've had the game fail to join maybe 2-3 times and haven't crashed out of the game itself since Beta (where, admittedly, it did crash maybe every hour or so).
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| # ¿ Oct 30, 2011 06:44 |
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Do you lose stuff you earn in a round if you get kicked? I usually only knife when it's a sure thing so I didn't have the melee ribbon yet, but last night I got bored on Metro and flanked then knifed like half the enemy team in one life. Problem is, my "disconnect" came immediately after so I think it was a kick and now I don't have that ribbon or even a record that I played that round 
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kri kri posted:Don't think so. Oh, it was Rush. I honestly just leave the server if it goes to Metro Conquest, that poo poo is not fun and I don't care about points if I'm not having fun.
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