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This is a very friendly game. This is a game that goes out of its way to greet you and welcome you into its warm embrace: http://imgur.com/cCb7j What the fuuuuuck, maaan...
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 11:37 |
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| # ¿ May 25, 2013 04:48 |
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VarXX posted:I have the video  As a side-note - man, I miss the "Be advised"s 
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| # ¿ Nov 2, 2011 10:24 |
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Spitshine posted:Also, I'm still doing Dr Pepper codes. Holla, peeps.
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| # ¿ Nov 22, 2011 14:06 |
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Been looking and missing the obvious, probably, and it looks like there are some very good pilots in the thread, so a couple of questions regarding flying: 1 - while in a jet/heli, is there a way to to look behind you, any way? 2 - while in a jet/heli, when someone locks onto you, what do the different beeps/tones mean? Is there a way to see when someone actually lets the missile loose - does the tone change? What would be the best time to drop flares?
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| # ¿ Nov 23, 2011 11:49 |
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Cool, thanks, this really helps. I've been trying to figure the beeps out, but with no way of seeing what's going on around the plane and matching it with the beeps it's nigh impossible.
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| # ¿ Nov 23, 2011 12:02 |
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Great job  - now my BF3 sits on a black screen every time a map changes. Just sits there, after the round results go away, and does nothing. Nothing appears. I had not a single problem before the patch. I have to kill the process, and re-enter the server. WHAT THE gently caress, MAN.Also, a question, - does SOFLAM give me any points (e.g. spotting, etc.) when it designates targets autonomously?
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| # ¿ Nov 23, 2011 15:50 |
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Bachelor Numpad posted:I have the 870 shotgun and I'm having a hell of a time getting the extra four kills I need for the holosight, and I can't even imagine the difficulty I'm going to have if I ever want to get frag shells. I simply don't have time to play hundreds of hours to unlock everything (like you say - work, etc.), plus I'm all for instant gratification and quick action - and this brings back memories of de_dust. I've gotten to frag rounds on the first 2 shotties within the last 2-3 days, and also Metro 24/7 servers allow you to go up in ranks FAST. Just play support and rack up ridiculous amounts of resupply ribbons and medals, while unlocking poo poo for shotguns and PDWs. My record so far is 25 resupply ribbons in a single 400 point round. Just don't go into 1000 point Metro servers - if your team gets rolled, you get rolled hard, and getting spawn-raped for half an hour is not fun.
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| # ¿ Nov 25, 2011 13:16 |
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What's the consensus on the slugs for shotties in BF3? I remember reading that slugs were like sniper rounds for shotguns in BC2 - is it the same in BF3? As far as damage goes, is it: buckshot < flechette < frag < slug ?
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| # ¿ Nov 26, 2011 07:49 |
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Scags posted:How do people feel about the MAV? I have been using it but I am not sure I'm making an impact. Do you guys notice when there is one around? I find it a relaxing and fast way of ranking up, surveillance ribbons (and medals) keep rolling in, plus you can do it on pretty much any server no matter how high your ping is there. And it actually looks and sounds very cool, with MAV's thermal optics and War Tapes on surround headphones, it's like watching war footage.
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2011 11:52 |
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Thread's huge - looked through many, many pages, didn't quite find the answer... So I just unlocked Javeline for Engies and Guided Shells for MBTs. I also got a SOFLAM. I keep reading these "and I kept shooting everything from another end of the map beyond horizon" stories, but it doesn't seem to work that way for me. So, questions: 1 - do I need a line of sight to shoot anything with a guided shell/Javeline IF it's being lased by SOFLAM? 2 - how far do I need to be to be able to shoot the lased target? Do I have to be within normal distance, or can I be further away? 3 - do I still need to lock onto target if it's lased - or does lasing replace that, and I can basically point and shoot? 4 - does SOFLAM left in autonomous mode lase targets still? Can I do the following: a) put up a SOFLAM, point it in the general direction where tanks come from b) get in a tank, wait for SOFLAM to lase tanks, shoot tanks with guided shells?
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| # ¿ Dec 10, 2011 10:25 |
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Mootallica posted:On the AU servers at least, people have forgotten about them already. Either nobody runs the SOFLAM, or somebody is using it (occasionally), but nobody is using the Guided Shell, or Javelin. It was brilliant for a day or two after the patch as everybody was using either one or the other but now it's back to normal.
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| # ¿ Dec 10, 2011 13:03 |
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Ordering Back to Karkand question: I didn't get in on the Limited Edition thing for BF3 itself, so I ordered B2K a few days ago. Got a confirmation email, but the order itself is not shown either in Origin itself or on EA store website. My CC wasn't charged either. With the EA/Origin store websites being so loving half-assedly done it's not even funny, I can't even find a place to enter the order number from the confirmation email to check whether it went through at all! So, 1 - does B2K show up in the list of games in Origin once you ordered it, as a separate game? 2 - is there an activation code for it that I should've received (order confirmation email doesn't contain it. In fact it doesn't contain a few things it specifically mentions, like "click on one of the links below" with no actual links below) First time I ever try buying something available purely by download only, and this happens. This poo poo's broken 
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 04:18 |
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Grey Fox V2 posted:1: It should appear with a green check mark in Battlelog on the left hand side under "Upcoming Unlocks".
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 04:39 |
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Zahki posted:Theres a big ol' box for me right under 'Latest Servers' on the main Battlelog page that says "You own Back to Karkand, get ready to play it" with a green tick.
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 04:45 |
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Insert name here posted:Yo check my post above since I had the same thing happen and I'm willing to bet it'll show up tomorrow since it's a pre-order so it sits in "pending orders" until it's out. ... Checked - not sitting anywhere, including pending orders. Oh well, will wait until it unlocks for everyone, see what happens...
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 05:14 |
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Tommy 2.0 posted:OK, I got a service star with every Primary weapon, except the co-op ones. EDIT: man I'm slow today
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 05:31 |
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MasonF posted:Hmm. Oh. It says "STAY frosty". I've been seeing this image for days and up until now, every single time, I thought it said "Sorry frosty". I even kept thinking "What a weird thing to say, why would they call someone "frosty", that's a stupid thing to call someone". Oh, and KH2002 doesn't have full-auto - which for me personally is a huge minus. Plus it's ugly as gently caress too, which seals it. Aaand it'd designed by a terrist country. Why would I wanna use a gun designed by people who want to kill America, that's just plain wron'. DAMMIT IT'S WRON'!
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2011 09:26 |
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Paisano posted:So I am debating buying this game but I have heard a ton of Origin horror stories. Is it really that bad? Then, I got emailed back by an EA CSR just 2 hours after I've submitted a support request, they confirmed that the order went through, and the order appeared everywhere right as B2K was released/unlocked (and my Battlelog page updated itself to have it, too). Plus the CSR gave me a discount code for I think 15% off my next Origin purchase as a way of apologies. So I have to say this, to be fair, - they fixed the problem, and did it quite quickly. First time I bought anything strictly downloadable, too. Pretty happy now. At the same time I gotta say that the un-unified, disjointed way their systems are set up, with multiple parts not knowing what the gently caress, is really loving stupid, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did make many logistical/billing errors.
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2011 10:36 |
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dishwasherlove posted:Any Americans around who can gift an Aussie a copy of Return to Karkand?
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2011 10:37 |
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dishwasherlove posted:It's USD$15. motherfucker...
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2011 11:28 |
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Holy crap, Karkand rocks so freaking hard. Just had a very close massive battle, 64 people on the server, armor and APCs with infantry support rolling down the streets, RPGs flying from rooftops, poo poo explodes all over the place, motherfucking urban warfare! I forgot how good this feels. This is what Battlefield is about. Hell yeah! EDIT: with WAR TAPES! KatMan911 fucked around with this message at Dec 16, 2011 around 13:05 |
| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 13:02 |
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mad.radhu posted:Quick, if I was a game maker and wanted to force people to play a certain game mode in order to unlock a new gun, except that game mode was buggy as gently caress, who would I be?
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| # ¿ Dec 18, 2011 15:04 |
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ray2k posted:Metro 64: come for the easy points, stay for the relaxing chaos. (Seriously, that's why I play so much of it as well.) What I find very cool are these 5-second-long moments of silence - once in a while there are these tiny pockets of calm between the attacks, when there is suddenly no shooting, and the only sounds you can hear are sounds of everybody reloading their weapons. And then it begins again...
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| # ¿ Dec 19, 2011 10:20 |
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A BIG loving BLUNT posted:A good way to grind unlocks for jets is to hit up the practice servers. They're usually not as heavily populated so you won't get blasted into oblivion by ground units, and most of the pilots are usually just as bad as you are (you'll be bad at first) At one point I just realized there's no way I'm even going to reach any good unlocks the regular way, flying against people who spend most of their in-game time in a jet. I don't normally fly jets anyway, and I don't pretend that I'm ever going to get as good, but at least if I do get in a jet, I don't have to keep flying super-gimped.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2011 04:54 |
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Gonkish posted:Given the amount of time I've had gunners who are quite literally incapable of shooting at anything at all (least of all the loving tank or chopper that I'm giving them a clear loving shot at because it's RIGHT GODDAMNED THERE YOU STUPID gently caress), very. People just love to shoot at loving nothing. "Oh this gun makes explosions I BETTER SHOOT AT THAT SNIPER 900 MILES AWAY, COMPLETELY IGNORING THE TANK/CHOPPER THAT IS RAPING OUR TEAM AND THAT THE PILOT HAS REPEATEDLY PUT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME." I can why it was done that way - you don't want to throw off gunner's aim by every small movement of the chopper, but at the same time this implementation backfires in such a stupid way.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2011 23:28 |
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Question - does laser painter on helis/jets paint stuff for you to use your own guided missiles on? For example, if I'm in a Little Bird, and I got the laser painter and the guided missile selected, does having the laser painter have any sort of a beneficial effect on: 1 - how quickly my own guided missile locks on, and 2 - how far it locks on from?
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| # ¿ Dec 23, 2011 08:13 |
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Node posted:Naw they should make Coral Sea 2. Two carriers, and 64 littlebirds. It would be glorious.
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| # ¿ Jan 10, 2012 08:09 |
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Hadlock posted:They keep metrics on total time spent in each vehicle, kills, assists etc, if not this update, then in the next one I imagine they'll finally take notice to the abnormally low numbers for the F35.
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| # ¿ Jan 10, 2012 08:37 |
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"Could not join this server: It's not there anymore" (it was)
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| # ¿ Jan 16, 2012 10:59 |
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Francostein posted:I was going through some clips that I had saved from jihad jeeping and getting vehicles stuck, you know the usual battlefield stuff, and found some clips of my persistence in hunting down vehicles to c4 them. I liked this one the best so I decided to share it. You really, REALLY, wanted that tank, huh.
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| # ¿ Jan 17, 2012 05:32 |
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Mr Beens posted:Sorry, I should have been clearer - I only have 7 suppression assist ribbons. I get suppression assists all the time Easy step-by-step guide: 1 - combine the following: - suppression perk - any LMG, using a bipod preferred, extended mags help a lot - Metro 24/7 server, playing as defenders 2 - set up with a bipod behind a nice piece of cover overlooking a chokepoint - side stairs on the right at B are perfect. I usually set up on a corner by the pillar above the 2nd set of escalators, 3 meters away from the actual B flag. That way you don't have to lie down, and you can still watch over the 2nd escalators. 3 - unload towards enemy coming up the side stairs, until you run dry. Doesn't matter if you can't see them - they are there, right around the corners and/or below your line of sight. Keep reloading and repeating. Drop an ammo pack after each reload. You won't get that many kills - unless attackers somehow manage to kill the crowd of defenders congregating right next to the stairs, that's when they walk right into your wall of bullets. Your teammates will kill all the attackers while you're suppressing the absolute gently caress out of them, - and you'll get your assists and thus ribbons. You get a ribbon every 7 assists done in the same round, so Metro is perfect for this.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 06:53 |
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keyframe posted:There is not a single thing bf2 does better than bf3 except map design. :burrrrrrn: Other than that, I do love me some BF3 and enjoy the gently caress out of it.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2012 12:52 |
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Party Plane Jones posted:I find it funny that on KFS some people place mines on the B point of Metro since enemies will detonate them if they grenade that area and kill themselves. Durendal posted:From my experience here are the best all round guns per class. KatMan911 fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2012 around 00:35 |
| # ¿ Jan 31, 2012 00:31 |
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gently caress TOG, and gently caress their retarded swearing policy, the loving cocksuckers. Oh no, KatMan911 said "where's our AA - we're getting raped at the Antenna!" on Caspian, let's kick him, that naughty word user. Goddamn bunch of sissies. It's like they all play without sound, considering what soldiers yell out in the game itself.
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| # ¿ Feb 8, 2012 13:08 |
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Bohemian Nights posted:If everyone got kicked and/or banned for using language like "surprise sex", be it like your example or commonplace stuff like "baserape", BF3 would have a much nicer community, and it would be a lot less embarrassing and/or traumatic in regards to actual surprise sex victims. But I'm sorry you went through the horrible experience of being kicked from a server. I'm sure that'll haunt you for life. EDIT: haha, holy crap, you brought out the homophobic card, too! I was just going to add a mention of an equally idiotic article where the author called BF3 homophobic because there is a soundbite going "We're getting our poo poo pushed in here!", but I guess there's no need now. Good job. KatMan911 fucked around with this message at Feb 8, 2012 around 13:30 |
| # ¿ Feb 8, 2012 13:27 |
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Hotbod Handsomeface posted:Are the updates making this game run worse for anyone else? Over the last month or two I have been having more and more issues with playing. Crashing in between every map change some nights, crashing mid game, horrible lag, randomly losing sound, 5 minute load times. It all started shortly after B2K was released too. Before and just after that things were surprisingly okay for a battlefield release. Better than early BC2 for sure. Is Dice actively making this game lovely or what? And then the 1st patch came out, and it had begun - horrendous load times, random disconnects, BSODs, the black screen of Forever Loading... on map changes, CTDs, gradually increasing stutter the longer you keep playing until the point where computer just stops responding (is there a major memory leak or something?), etc. etc. etc.. I love this game, but with patches the performance has been getting a lot worse, and it's been taking more and more time just simply connecting to a server.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 08:33 |
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tekz posted:Anyone else being repeatedly booted by punkbuster since the patch? What the gently caress do I do here EDIT: reconnected - lasted 30 seconds, then the same thing. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player 'KatMan911' (for 0 minutes)... 
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2012 10:26 |
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I finally managed to connect to a non-PB server, somewhere in Germany, and had the best 2 rounds of Wake Island and Strike at Karkand. LONG, drawn out battles, tide of war ebbing back and forth. And, shockingly, no one was hacking. Love this game. gently caress PB.
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2012 13:20 |
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Phanatic posted:That's similar to what I've been getting, although mine's sound-related two, with stuttering or looping. And it lasts longer than a second or so, sometimes. Only since the last patch, no idea what they did. I have to think that there is a memory leak of some sort, because normally once I close BF3, everything works fine on my PC - but once this stutter starts happening, I have to wait for a minute after closing the game before things in Windows 7 start responding.
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2012 22:04 |
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| # ¿ May 25, 2013 04:48 |
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Moistly posted:Are you guys using sound cards? I had to get custom firmware for my Xonar D2X on win7 because for me it caused this problem in a few different games. I'd check your audio drivers.
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2012 08:22 |
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