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Which server regions are the best to use? I've been getting lag a lot lately. I live just west of Chicago. Also, as far as using falling debris goes, I've been doing that since day one. It's incredibly effective mostly on maps like Serine Crossing, Grand Bazaar, and most of the BTK maps. I get the most kills with this tactic on Serine since most objectives are right below buildings. Points A and B are awesome for this.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2012 19:47 |
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| # ¿ May 20, 2013 17:28 |
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Has anyone had problems with getting your tank completely destroyed by a single rocket? I've been having this happen to me quite a bit lately. I have no idea how it happens. Once I had some dude run up to my tank, C4 it, and then die. A few minutes later a single rocket slams into my tank killing me and blowing up the tank. Does C4 carry over after people die? I've been killed with one shot before by someone shooting a rocket at tank mines near my tank, but the lately this is just leaving me scratching my head. Seems to happen at least once a BF3 session.
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2012 15:32 |
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Scarf posted:Yup, C4 persists now, and will detonate with rockets, grenades, other explosions. That sucks. I know as an engineer you can pick up enemy mines, I'll have to see if you can do the same with C4 while an engineer. Hopefully you can, cause it would suck if you had to be support to remove them. Also, I might have to start playing with goons. It sounds fun, but I don't do voice chat. It just annoys me for some reason. I've denied a bunch of goon requests for that reason because I have seen other goons get called out by others for not using a mic. If not using a mic isn't a big deal feel free to add me. PSN ID - Cstang cstang fucked around with this message at Jan 30, 2012 around 17:37 |
| # ¿ Jan 30, 2012 17:33 |
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bringer posted:If you aren't playing hardcore have a friend shoot a rocket or throw a grenade at you to detonate the C4 in a 'friendly' explosion that will do no damage to your vehicle. I have yet to play hardcore or even rush for that matter. I only have two buddies I play with, and they aren't on all that often. When I do hook up with them though, that's exactly what I'll do. Thanks for the tip!
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2012 17:39 |
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MAV bowling better not get removed. Not only is it fuckin hilarious chasing people down, but it's a great way to sit out one of your least favorite maps and still help the team. I was playing Metro CQ and there was a squad of three camping the hallway with the lockers. I drove my little MAV straight down that drat hallway and got all three of them. MAV squad wipe ribbons are the best ribbons.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2012 12:10 |
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11BulletCatcher posted:It's also a kick rear end anti camper tool. I like to find snipers where they ought not to be, and slowly push them off of buildings while they're scoped I need to practice that. I've done it a few times and the "Player X - Suicide" pop up on the hud is hilarious. I'm getting drat good at mowing dudes down though. You can easily distract 4-5 guys on CQ for a decent amount of time. Whether you kill a few or not, you just stopped them from advancing, and let everyone on your team know right where they are. I tend to do it more on the COD type maps. Chasing blinking flags starts getting old when you're the only one doing it.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2012 22:43 |
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OK.....I've been trying to service star the MG36, but now anytime I spawn with it, it's above my drat head? Wtf?
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2012 23:59 |
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Stew Man Chew posted:Have you been living under a rock since karkand came out? No, I've been using it without any issues until today. Strange.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2012 00:13 |
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Stew Man Chew posted:That IS bizarre. First time I ever took it out it was over my head. Well it seemed to happen right after I unlocked the fore-grip for it. Maybe that's the issue.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2012 00:27 |
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Sibtiger posted:It's a glitch that involves the TV missile. If you're in an attack heli by yourself, you can land with a friend on the opposing side nearby, switch to the gunner seat and fire the TV missile. As long as you're controlling the missile, the game considers your player to be the missile, not the guy in the gunner seat, so the helicopter is technically considered empty, and your friend can hop in the pilot's seat. When the missile blows up the game will still return you to the gunner seat and you get the situation described above. Had no idea this could be exploited that way. I typically fly choppers rather than gun, and whenever a gunner with TV missiles jumps in I always think they bailed when they fire the missile. Hopefully this gets fixed in the next upcoming patch, but I'm not going to hold my breath. It's going to suck to have to deal with this. On a different note, this frag round poo poo is getting annoying. At first I didn't really care. People can play the game whatever way they want to if you're asking me, but the frag rounds are beyond ridiculous now. I'm constantly running into entire squads using nothing but USA12's with frag rounds. Whenever I squad up I'll jump in an empty squad slot so I get to be the squad leader. I do this because I actually call out objectives. Anyone not going after those objectives gets kicked from the squad. That and anyone rolling with frag rounds. Not playing your class gets you booted too. All of that may make me sound like an rear end, but it makes playing the game more enjoyable. One good squad vs a stacked team can really turn the tides of a CQ game.
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| # ¿ Feb 5, 2012 22:00 |
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Smelly posted:Question for you tankers. Do you use the Thermal Optics often? I can't seem to take them off, even on long distance maps like Caspian, it feels like I can see forever with this thing. I use it most times. Mines and C4 happy support dudes force me to use it. Plus it helps with spotting snipers/RPG guys on roof tops.
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| # ¿ Feb 6, 2012 20:57 |
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GruntyThrst posted:Rule 2: Don't confuse the F-35 with a fighter, it's actually a fast insertion aerial taxi. Yeah, I tend to get killed a lot trying to cap flags on Wake Island with them. I either get shot out of the cockpit or rpged. Then immediately tea bagged. I don't mind the tea bagging though, cause I would drat sure do it too. Just like when I one shot the Little Birds on Canals with non guided tank shells. I'll actually get out of the tank to tea bag. I only break out the tea bag on special occasions. Taking out fully loaded vehicles being the most common of those occasions. Also, a big thanks to whoever it was that told me to RPG my own tank whenever I kill a dude that just tossed C4 onto it. It's saved my butt a few times. There's not much you can do when riding solo though. I've started to just park the tank, and wait long enough to see if the dead support dude tries to detonate on his respawn. It's kinda BS that C4 lingers after death, but it's gotten me a ton of kills in SQD Deathmatch so I can't complain too much. If you haven't tried it yet, Squad Deathmatch is a pretty good time. It's the only time I will actually use my headset. Everyone I've come across so far has been pretty cool. If any of this isn't readable my apologies. I'm going on no sleep. Sick dog, had to sit up with her all night. Just got back from the Vet's office. Hopefully she'll be ok after a few days rest. cstang fucked around with this message at Feb 9, 2012 around 16:50 |
| # ¿ Feb 9, 2012 16:41 |
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causticBeet posted:I prefer to empty a clip in to the air in celebration after a cool kill. Tea bagging is so passé. I find that whenever I do that, I tend to need that ammo soon after my spraying. In a pistol vs 3 or more dudes battle, I don't think I'll ever come out the victor. I did manage to drop two with one Suppressed G18 clip though. Which is surprising since that gun seems to just shoot a poo poo load of spit balls very quickly. Anyone else find it hard sometimes to figure out where the kill cam will center so you know where to do your post kill celebration? cstang fucked around with this message at Feb 9, 2012 around 16:57 |
| # ¿ Feb 9, 2012 16:53 |
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So apparently playing this game after a night on the town isn't that great of an idea. If you could get DUI's in jets I would be in prison right now.
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| # ¿ Feb 12, 2012 10:53 |
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yellowcar posted:My lesson tonight is bolt-action sniper rifles are still poo poo. I think I've only service starred one sniper rifle. Any tips on how to do this without getting my rear end handed to me every time? In BC2 since MAV bowling didn't exist, I would go Recon when I got stuck on crappy teams. I have to say that I did find sniping enjoyable in those situations. My spots helped teammates gain ground, and my rifle kept attackers off at least one objective. I just have a hard time having any fun with Recon in BF3. Any tips? Service starring shotguns has been a pain in the rear end for me. cstang fucked around with this message at Feb 13, 2012 around 09:30 |
| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 09:26 |
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DehatstyTopinbout posted:Ah, so one of my useless pubby squad mates decides to spend the entire round back at the spawn sniping in the general area of the tower on caspian. After a while I get bored and try to spot in that general direction to see if I can find out what he's shooting at. I don't see anything but maybe there was a dude or two perched out there. Just for the sake of being a dick I stand in front of him and shine my flashlight in his face...so he immediately suicides, respawns and then takes a tank out into the middle of a field to do the same loving thing. Persistence! I've been noticing Support dudes hanging out in that area recently. I have no idea why, but I've been running across 2 to 3 at times. That and now there's at least one tank with zoom optics and guided shells that will sit there the whole round. The terrain is so rough in that area that going after the camping tank with another tank is an easy kill. Something I've been wondering about is guided shells vs aircraft. Do flares stop the incoming round? Seems flares only work half the time if at all when I get a guided shell lobbed my way. In jets its a non-factor, but in choppers it's annoying. In the choppers you have to stay low because if you're effective at killing ground targets at all, you can bet your rear end someone you've killed is going to hop in a jet just to ram you.
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2012 22:20 |
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SporkTSI posted:How does one bring down the radio antenna on Caspian? It comes down on it's own which is pretty lame. That might be the reason I've been seeing Support dudes in that direction doing absolutely nothing. In CQ is comes down when I think the losing team has 15 tickets left. I always try to race to it so it can crush me. I don't know why I do this, but I do!
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2012 22:31 |
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I hit 5,000 destroyed vehicles last night. I owe it all to my kamikaze style tank tactics. Anytime I'm alone in a tank and get into a shoot out with another tank I'll hit the speed boost and go right at the enemy tank. This usually makes the other tank miss every drat shot. Also takes less shots to kill the enemy tank since I end up shooting them in the rear end. Karhg Island is awesome for this.
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| # ¿ Feb 19, 2012 16:45 |
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tehinternet posted:I enjoy doing drive bys and then jack knifing right behind them and putting it in their butt. Circling them is also fun. That's fun too! I'll keep an eye on their main gun the entire time I'm attacking, helps to survive longer. Every once and a while an enemy will out maneuver me and hit my rear for a quick disable, but I'll hit them once in the rear, hop out fire a rpg, and start to repair enough to take a hit. Then I hop back in the tank for the kill shot if the other driver didn't bail yet.
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| # ¿ Feb 19, 2012 18:15 |
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bruno jarbridge posted:I haven't been playing this game for very long (haven't unlocked the USAS yet) and I was wondering what the general consensus on the DAO with frags is? I've been having a lot of fun with it but I can't tell if it is also overpowered but just less used because more people have the USAS unlocked? Not that I'm gonna stop but it will certainly diminish the fun if it is a bit cheatyish. Use it. I used them to service star all of the shotguns except the one you unlock doing the assignments. For some reason I lost most 1 vs 1 battles while I was trying to service star them. Probably started shooting before I was in any kind of effective range. Once I unlocked frag rounds for each I was able to service star them all within two maps. It's cheap, but you might as well take advantage of it now. Never know how lovely shotguns will be after the next patch.
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| # ¿ Feb 21, 2012 07:37 |
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CrackerCrucifix posted:Actually, I saw you coming down the road about 15-20 yards and had accepted my fate. It was either you or find out if there was tank still active on the other side. More impressive is that you missed a bunch of pubbie mines before you ran me over. Jets suck. I never have any fun flying them. I keep trying to like them, but it's just not fun. As soon as you get on anyone's rear end it turns into a turning war. Most times the jet you're going after will just start turning in circles until you break off out of boredom. Wish Dice would fix the whole jets ramming choppers thing. I've been shot down by jets before, but most times if I die by a jet while flying a chopper it's because the bastard rammed me cause his little heat seekers couldn't get me. Pretty stupid that the chopper blows up and the jet continues on.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 13:25 |
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Love every change I've read so far! The C4 and MAV stuff especially, and the unguided tank shells being a one hit kill for air vehicles. I really hope this ends the USAS bullshit too. From what I've read so far, there isn't one change in this patch that I don't like. Hope it's released soon.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 16:41 |
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The thing about the Havok is that in order to turn at a decent rate you need speed + room room to bank into the turn. That's about the only way to kill a Viper with it. Sort of reminds me of the difference in the Huey in Vietnam and the Apache in BC2. Although the Huey had no trouble turning, at least in my experience. I loved that bullet magnet.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 20:08 |
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DehatstyTopinbout posted:Oh Caspian. When flying a jet I always seem to cruise in a big loop forever looking for an enemy jet to shoot down. On the rare occasion that I do find one then they're usually coming right at me as I'm coming out of a turn and I don't manage to loop back fast enough to catch em for a lock on or cannon burst. So I just get a passing glimpse of them and then they're gone for another 5 minutes. It gets lonely up there if I'm not constantly getting shot down by ace pilot poop sockers. Air radar. Until you unlock it, looking for enemy jets suck. It's a little easier to see them in third person though. Do yourself a favor and hit the spot button as soon as you see em. Next time you're on a jet level just pick an area someplace on the map to practice getting on and off the throttle in turns. Speed makes all the difference in turns. Also learn to use both sticks. You'll be surprised how much quicker the plane does anything once you get used to using both while turning/flipping direction. I suck in jets though so you might not want to listen to me. Good games to the PS3 goons I played with earlier. SpekEd, SpecEddie, and all others. (I'm Cstang)My PS3 ended up locking up on me, so I took a break and had dinner. It was my first real time on a goon stacked team. I gotta say it was noting compared to playing with pubbies. Absolute domination. They only bad thing is that the other team mostly stays out numbered because of all the rage quits.
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| # ¿ Feb 27, 2012 03:41 |
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Manatee Cannon posted:That's why you should have been joining in on us in BC2. It seemed you guys were all about having mics. I had one, but wasn't really into using it. It wasn't until I got a couple of friends into the game when I really started using it. Since then I've been using it more. Looking forward to crushing more pubbies with you fellas.
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| # ¿ Feb 27, 2012 03:50 |
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I can remember finding you in games by complete random on Vietnam and you not joining us. Gotta stick together to combat the pubby menace!
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Masochism posted:PS3 crew, any of you going to be checking out Dust 512? It's a free-2-play FPS/EVE online game. I've never really played a game like that, so I'll check it out at least. I'm guessing this is what all the maintenance was about yesterday. If that's the case, I can't really be too annoyed at the downtime. Free game and all. (for now anyway) Also, winter is on it's way out now! Looking forward to spending more time outdoors in very near future. Love living in the Midwest, but winter sucks. In my one horse town there's absolutely nothing to do unless you like the bar scene. cstang fucked around with this message at Mar 5, 2012 around 16:45 |
| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 16:41 |
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DanimalJenkins posted:Once you get a real sight for it, it's a drat head-locking laser beam. I didn't like the first scope unlock for it. I usually use the red dot sights. For some reason I can't hit poo poo with that scope. Not sure if it's a 3.4 or a 4.0, but whatever it is, I suck with it.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 22:57 |
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Kuhmondo posted:I thought I just hardlocked, BUT NO! THE PATCH IS OUT RIGHT NOW! for ps3krew. Just got booted too. Downloading now! (PS3)
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| # ¿ Mar 27, 2012 07:13 |
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After you install the patch you have to re-download and install BTK for some reason.
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| # ¿ Mar 27, 2012 07:33 |
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Kuhmondo posted:Yeah, I guess the game servers aren't updated yet so the regions that actually have the patch can't even play. Betting that it'll go up once the patch is live everywhere. I'm playing. Just join a game via quick match. It'll take a few tries.
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| # ¿ Mar 27, 2012 08:24 |
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Loving the new fixes, although I've hardlocked three times now. (PS3)
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| # ¿ Mar 27, 2012 11:26 |
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I don't know if it has, but I do know that I ran into tank battles post patch where I had to bail out and run for it. Before the patch taking out 2 to 3 tanks wasn't a problem, but now two tanks is a handful. Also, I'm not sure, but I don't think you get a lock tone in the attack choppers when a guided shell locks onto you. I blew up half a dozen times in attack choppers yesterday only to see that it was a guided shell that took me down. I never heard a lock tone.
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| # ¿ Mar 28, 2012 13:41 |
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Is there some new glitch for attack choppers? I've been coming up against some indestructible choppers. The first time I chalked it up to lag, or the other chopper shooting me down before I fired. After about the third time chasing down the chopper and putting about six heat seekers into it I started to get a little suspicious. I could see the missiles hit the rear of the chopper and explode, but it never took any damage. This has happened a few times now on different servers. Seems to happen to jets as well. Seen both missiles impact and do no damage.
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| # ¿ Mar 30, 2012 02:04 |
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Someguy posted:I get an obscene amount of hatemail, and I don't even want it. If I could I would just get it forwarded to one of you guys that do, especially since 90% of it is the same unoriginal poo poo. I get some every few rounds. I don't know how long it takes to send a message on the 360, but on the PS3 it's kind of a pain in the rear end. It makes receiving hatemail the length of a couple paragraphs that much more hilarious. The most common one seems to be "gently caress YOU!!!". That and messages from folks that don't really know the English language too well. I tend to like those the best since they rarely make any sense.
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| # ¿ Mar 30, 2012 22:44 |
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This server rental poo poo is starting to suck. I can find normal servers anymore. Not only that, but most of the rented servers have a lovely ping. The best games I've been able to join have only had 1 to 2 bars.
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| # ¿ Apr 6, 2012 22:45 |
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Are there any goon PS3 servers? I searched for GoonTown, but didn't see it in the server list.
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| # ¿ Apr 7, 2012 00:40 |
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Chemmy posted:Playing on Pope's server, not sure I've been killed by anything other than the DART. For as much poo poo goons talk about overpowered guns or glitches, they sure seem to like using them. To each their own I suppose.
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| # ¿ Apr 20, 2012 04:51 |
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Green Puddin posted:Hey assholes, ever since I renamed the server pubes join in from time to time. Some stick and I assume others leave since Metro isn't in rotation. But there you go. You are your stupid Darts and animes. I joined the server when I noticed one other guy in there. He and I went at it for half a map and then three more joined. For a few maps it was me vs four and I kept winning. It wasn't until the rush maps when I started losing. More folks joined up though. I think it got to about 10 or 12 players. I checked the server before I logged off for the night and there was still three players there. I like the rotation, but the server never filled up.
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2012 08:10 |
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Golgozor posted:Need a game that doesn't have naptime maps. I'll agree with you on Caspian and Firestorm, but I like Nosehair. Mainly when Russian. Shooting Little Birds out of the sky with RPGs and non guided tanks shells never gets old. Just park behind a cargo container or underneath something so their guided missiles don't hit you. If the US side gets all bases and roll up the LAV and Amtrack near the Russian spawn just quit. Caspain and Firestorm are only good for getting flag attacker medals and ribbons. Also, hot dogs suck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4vTn9xp08M cstang fucked around with this message at Apr 22, 2012 around 21:59 |
| # ¿ Apr 22, 2012 21:53 |
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| # ¿ May 20, 2013 17:28 |
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SporkTSI posted:You guys really missed out on cowboy mode. Glad I don't play on the 360. Seems like revenge kicks/bans is how you all roll. He didn't even hit you and you send him hate mail and then ban him? Awesome! 
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| # ¿ Apr 23, 2012 06:32 |
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" and then he sent that.
