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I'm on the Mortar now, and it's only worth taking when you have no chance to JihadJeep. Which is on a lot of maps. I took out four or five enemies with a single shell. They were on the Hill of Caspian, I was closer to the Russian spawn.
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| # ¿ Oct 25, 2011 18:16 |
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Okay, Mortar using Support buddies. What maps make it a must-have that aren't Rush clusterfucks? Bazaar, Caspian and Seine is about it for me.
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| # ¿ Oct 25, 2011 22:16 |
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lDDQD posted:Welp, I'm still getting the stupid FPS lag spikes. It starts out pretty smooth, but eventually these strart creeping in - I'll be playing at 50-60 FPS, then the game ... freezes for 4-5 seconds. Then back to 50 fps. The frequency of these freezes increases as I play longer. After 20 minutes, they happen every 30 seconds. Tried killing your OC(s) and MSI AB and retrying?
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| # ¿ Oct 25, 2011 22:47 |
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2012 posted:Haven't had a chance to try it yet, but how is the 5870 holding up on Caspian Border? It was awful in the beta. May have to lower details if it was awful in beta, I'm flabbergasted over my 5770 and how it holds up, because it was acceptable in beta Caspian, but now it's rarely ever below 60. Sure I play on lowest details in 1080p but..
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| # ¿ Oct 25, 2011 22:53 |
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Carbon Deity posted:Is it just me or is Tehran completely unplayable? Which sucks, because it's a cool map. All servers get hit bad by it in CQ, but Rush is fine.
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| # ¿ Oct 25, 2011 23:02 |
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Unlucky7 posted:Is there any reason, AT ALL, to play the single player? Like, gameplay incentive? I already heard that the campaign is poo poo, and because I had so much fun with the multi in Bad Company 2 that I am tempted not to bother at all. The campaign is not poo poo. The AI is a dickbag, the scripting breaks and glitches too easily, but otherwise it's a worthy trip through on Hard because it teaches you the importance of using cover and aiming right in critical (badly wounded) situation. Going through it helped me become a far better player in infantry combat.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 04:35 |
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davebo posted:Lets hope EA just gives up as quickly as Rockstar did and lets you just load it from battlelog, or click the .exe if you just want single player. You can with a commandline bf3.exe startup.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 06:03 |
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If you have Crossfire issues, get the latest CAP update (duh) and make sure you're on the latest 11.10 previews. The official drivers are out on the 31st and should be better, while also allowing you to run that piece of poo poo Rage. And Seine Conquest is sweet. Gimme a good spot to mortar from, watch my rear end and I'm having a good time. kri kri posted:So when is battlelog going to go down? Downtime 7-8 AM GMT so from now on
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 06:58 |
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Fishstick posted:Anyone with an IRNV scope mind posting how it looks now? I read that the dot is now actually visible. No screenshots since battlelog's down for updating but it's much better. Simple fog and smoke no longer makes your entire view green, the dot is visible compared to what used to be but can still be hard to see - but it makes some sense. 870 with Slugs feels very nerfed though, but up close = instagib time. I went through five kills in five seconds when flanking a sniper roof.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 07:33 |
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Know what little single player deal I liked from BC2? A checklist of what weapons there were to pick up in each map. Gave me a little something to look for. Know what I loved about MW1? Doing it over and over in Arcade Mode. A sick amount of replay-value and fun that went missing afterwards. I wish BF3's campaign had these two things.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 08:15 |
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M240B or M60E? Which one combined damage and firing rate to come out on top?
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 09:36 |
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Death Himself posted:They kill the poo poo out of helicopters and tanks. v "What, I can do more things than fight other jets?" - All but three pilots I've seen since Monday
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insider posted:How are you not bored to death of Caspian? I found a 24/7 Metro Rush server
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 13:37 |
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$80 for a cheap old Intel X25-V 40 gig SSD = be first in any vehicle  Fox1 posted:There are a couple of maps where the mortar is devastating! I'm loving it, although I was having a mortar war with one guy but he just wasn't showing up on the map, I have no idea how he was doing it. I too find this happens, but some people show up like they should. Feels like people are exploiting in some way I haven't figured out. Had the pleasure to Mortar as attacker and then defender on Metro Rush. Feels, quite good. It's pretty accurate, like it should be, but you to player predict your hits. Get rubberbanding? Constantly? You're not on Tehran Highway CQ? Then that's a lovely GSP most likely. MrLonghair fucked around with this message at Oct 26, 2011 around 14:26 |
| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 14:22 |
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Magic Shortbus posted:It's Marines singing cadence. It's what they do when they run in formation to keep pace as a group. It's muted so it's hard to understand but you could listen to any random cadence videos on youtube and get the point. My fave is: Left, left, left right left, I left my wife and 49 kids on the verge of starvation with only one hamburger left, left, left right left. Good lung capacity check.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 14:43 |
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I just finished the co-op and you need 1) a good person you know who has some skills in FPS gaming and 2) voice comms. That is the recipe for an amazing time. Finished all of the missions. It's faptacular. If they drop paid DLC offers for more, I'm buying. It makes MW2 Spec Ops look like a pile of dogshit, but it's the wet smeary kind of dogshit that is useless and no fun, you can't even put a firecracker in it.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 18:46 |
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tpg0007 posted:Good Sir, any advice for the sniper mission? For the bus I time my headshot to the flash bang yet they dont seem to die. I had to do shoulder double-tap on one and he went down, only advice is "aim better", but I do experience that a lot of the targets there survive headshots - too often.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 18:59 |
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Got the PWP code in the mail. How long until it starts working after being activated? edit: Okay, it's *that* long until it starts working 
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 00:27 |
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Coach Sport posted:Co-op is great fun, except you have no chat box or comm rose or in-game voice chat. And one of the missions requires you to synchronize sniper headshots to avoid getting detected and failing. That is a huge bummer for those who don't have friends to talk with over Skype or Mumble or Whatev, I wouldn't want to try a pubbie run in something like that mission :<
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 03:50 |
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Doing the last co-op mission, The QTE bugged out? Only thing seen was a red mouse icon indicating something failed. Ever. Twice over. What's the deal?
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 06:52 |
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Now it's my turn to be unable to play for more than a few minutes without losing my connection to the server  Unless the admins actually *are* playing and getting pissed that I'm killing them e: Okay turns out I actually did get kicked by an administrator on two of them 
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 13:15 |
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Coylter posted:Punkbuster is such incredible poo poo. I cant log in my own server (kicked by administrator!) and i am getting randomly banned from servers for no reason! Update it, like a few posts above says, and the battlelog news says. You Were Disconnected = not punkbuster Kicked by admin = either kicked by an actual admin or in most cases, a punkbuster issue. Turns out it doesn't even install right Randomly banned = seems to be a "you randomly tk five people and get autobanned" function going around Right now poo poo seems to be acting up royally as a whole though. Finished a whole round, got the scoreboard end screen as we won, new map loads - disconnected - stats from the finished round never saved. What the gently caress. MrLonghair fucked around with this message at Oct 27, 2011 around 13:49 |
| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 13:45 |
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Coylter posted:i cant even play more than 5 secs on a server what the gently caress? Besides that one round I managed flawlessly just now I really can't play more than a few seconds too now. "You were disconnected" time after time, and no real way to check if it's my ISP having issues or not :/ What I can say for sure is that stats aren't saving even if I finish rounds
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 13:55 |
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Joined a non-PB and then I got an outright BF3 crash I had to bring up the task manager for. Only thing changed since I last played and had the utmost stable good experience was.. that I slept and time passed. And it turns out the stats I made from that finished round saved - it's just that they were überslow in updating on battlelog, but in-game I have the laser sight and all that.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 14:05 |
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Coylter posted:I have tried everything. I went under user/yourname/localapps/punkbuster and wiped the BF3 directory and started everything punkbuster all over, reinstalling that, and I was fine afterwards. However, Battlelog doesn't seem to give a poo poo about recording progress. Still.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 14:53 |
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How do you get smoke shells for the mortar anyway? The mortar itself unlocks 40k points into Support, like battlelog and elsewhere says, but I cannot find out how to even change to the smoke shells, if I've got them. Hrm.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 15:45 |
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If you know a gameserver provider, tell them to update punkbuster. So that me and 40+ pages of other people at the time of writing who updated punkbuster, will stop loving losing the connection or getting kicked. Dangit :<
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 16:02 |
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Molnija posted:Press 2 when the mortar is deployed to use smokes, 1 to go back to explosives. The explosive and smoke shells also have seperate cooldowns so you can shoot a HE and pop a smoke somewhere else. Oh. The only visible difference is that the mortar shell, switching to it, kicks the minimap a few pixels higher up. No other way to tell you it's equipped. No change of the ammo count from G, to say S or SG, nothing like that. Hurr..
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 16:36 |
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Bring your dislikes with battlelog up on the right forums then. I just hate I have no alternate soldiers or nothing. I want to make C4 Delivery Man as a gimmick I can play on dull days when I want nothing else but to jihad people.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 20:12 |
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Powerful Wizard IRL posted:Anyone else feel like the Support class with mortars is the new Wookie for BF3? I feel like I'm seeing way too many people camped in spawn dropping mortars for entire rounds, not doing much besides padding their KD and inconveniencing other players with poorly placed/timed spam Yep, and I'm already becoming a mortar-use elitist, just like how I became a quick-scoper 50cal front-line fucker Recon in BC2. Run, stop, drop, mortar, pick up and continue running, is the only right way to do it while actually being useful. It turns out it's a piece of cake to pop enemies heads with guns after doing a danger close delivery 50m away. More points for me!
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 20:17 |
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Fat_Cow posted:How do I unlock smoke canistars and flak for my Mortar? Never heard of flak, but smoke is just press 2. No way to tell the difference :<
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 22:49 |
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..or M39 with close combat scope  Mr Crustacean posted:So coming in a someone who's fairly adept at BF (I played 2142) but didn't play the beta, what's the best (most OP Assault because who needs any other weapon when you can snipe recons and own engineers in close combat and lay down suppressing fire like mad on supports with your Assault Rifles.
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Ordering from Amazon is asking for it. I never see a game launch without complaints of the game arriving 1-2-4 weeks too late from them. And: M240B or M60E What's best now in retail? M60E needs to deal more damage than the M240 per bullet to be worth it
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 23:08 |
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Kessel posted:Is that the gun you unlock in co-op? Yes, and I wish. It feels like just an alternative to the SKS. But I sort of dig what it is and how it looks, even though enemies need a stupid amount of upper chest-head hits to die with it in multi.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 23:58 |
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Ignimbrite posted:I promised myself before the game come out that at some point over the games' life I was going to shoot down a chopper with a tanks cannon. So far I've done that 3 times Next step: Take out a jet
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 12:33 |
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Funkz posted:The important question still remains however: Will OTHER players be able to hear your frantic honking? 99% sure of it. Honk honk, kaboom.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 12:53 |
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I managed to win a CQ64 Metro as the US side. Holy shitballs.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 17:59 |
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The UMP is apparently heading for a buff next patch so maybe it could be something! Only deal with the LMGs is that they deal a tiny bit more damage than other bullets and have huge mags, while ARs beat sniper rifles & everything in close combat, even my shotguns most of the time when I'm right on target after killing two of their friends just seconds ago from the same range. People favour Assault to play for a good reason, and that is that assault rifles are the only bullet spewing weapon you need ever, they are rock to scissors, scissors to paper, paper to rock all at the same time. Unless your shotgun decides to work properly and instagib them when you poke it between their ribs and pull the trigger. Shotguns = Skillguns
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 02:26 |
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Karg Island CQ64 (or even 48) seems to cause server lag also, but to far lesser degrees than ShitFuck Highway.
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 02:34 |
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Fight jets with jets, fight mortars with mortars, fight snipers with snipers, fight tanks with any of the ten billion loving engineers on the field.
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