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Lord Yod posted:It feels like the way things are now, the stinger is meant to just sort of annoy choppers enough to make them go away. If you make a concerted effort between a recon and a couple engineers you can definitely take out any pilots dumb enough to stick around though. Oh yeah. The goon crew was making GBS threads on all skylords, one recon is all it takes for the air to light up with RPG trails... 
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Tarranon posted:I dunno if it's just because rockets are faster or tank drivers are dumber at the moment but goddamn I've been having so much fun playing engineer, and it was my least favorite class in BF3. so many baller moments Its because rockets kick like a mule now. Even if you don't kill them you can temporary disable tanks by hitting them in the right spots
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Tarranon posted:I dunno if it's just because rockets are faster or tank drivers are dumber at the moment but goddamn I've been having so much fun playing engineer, and it was my least favorite class in BF3. so many baller moments Seconding this. The RPGs actually seem to put the hurt on tanks now-and with mobility kills being a thing now, it's even more fun. The AK5C being a ridiculous murderbeast doesn't hurt things, either.
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Batham posted:You're right, invincible autist chariots are much better for everyone. Everyone who wants air vehicles to be balanced apparently wants them to be invincible! I was kind of responding to a person who literally said that any change that makes pilots mad is good for the game. I'm pretty sure there's a way to make air vehicles something in between invincible and poo poo. Since right now choppers are pretty meh with two infantry AA weapons. I assume maps will eventually have jets/mobile AA/multiple lock on weapons and not have a LOS break every three feet. In any event the SOFLAM/RPG being as powerful as it is makes all other launchers planned pointless. How in the world is that a good thing?
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Me playing engineer is basically my sweaty face muttering "yeah show me that big fat tank butt" and then knocking most of their health out. I LOVE that you can tell how much damage you actually did instantly when you hit a vehicle. I already know the best place to hit tanks, but seeing that 55 damage from a single rocket feels so good. ed: also choppers feel alright, I was gunning for an alright pilot and we stayed up for awhile while playing aggressively and flying between buildings. I'm not a pilot though, so Pharmaskittle fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 06:29
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So I am assuming the longer you charge a defib the more health the person you revive starts with? I'm also having so much trouble with games where you are just dying no matter where you spawn and lose every team engagement. Same problem in BF3 though.
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Someone was saying earlier that flares don't break the designator lock. That's not true, the designator starts to lock onto random flares until the helicopter flies far enough away from them or they burn out. At least if you're below the thing. No idea what the RPG projectile does at that point, but my buddy said he missed a couple shots because of it. And after 4 rounds of swapping back and forth with a friend on Recon/Engineer designating/blowing poo poo up, not really sure why the stinger is in the game. It's pretty much the same stinger from BF3 (worthless). The projectile is much faster though so at least there's that! Almost all the games I've played have been pretty evenly matched, finishing up within 100 tickets of each other usually, we'll see what happens during the open beta.
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Its annoying how despite having engie as my default class in Battlelog, I always spawn as a medic. Also the one time I set up all my classes in Battlelog, every class unequipped it's attachments. And finally, I can accept revives for anything. I can move and shoot, but that's it. Hitting the accept button (set to "y" key) does nothing. Left click does nothing.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Its annoying how despite having engie as my default class in Battlelog, I always spawn as a medic. Also the one time I set up all my classes in Battlelog, every class unequipped it's attachments. And finally, I can accept revives for anything. I can move and shoot, but that's it. Hitting the accept button (set to "y" key) does nothing. Left click does nothing. You choose your class before you spawn in the bar near the top of the spawn menu.
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Oct 3, 2013 07:02
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Was having a lot of fun and now I seem to be randomly crashing yaaaay. Ugh, I'm so close to pulling the trigger on a preorder and then this happens.
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Tarranon posted:Was having a lot of fun and now I seem to be randomly crashing yaaaay. Ugh, I'm so close to pulling the trigger on a preorder and then this happens. It's a beta dude. It is to test server load don't judge game performance or stability with it. See: BF3 beta/release
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Not to be the guy to complain about server performance in a beta, but did everything just die for everyone else?
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^^^^yes As someone who maxed out attack choppers piloting in bf3 I can say that they feel good enough in this game. They've been modified a bit, I feel like it's more responsive but with less engine power. With decent gunner you can still tear poo poo up, if you don't have a skilled pilot/gunner pair tough it's very difficult to stay up. Which seems OK to me.
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When the skies get crowded, it's fun to take a jetski into the middle of the bay with Stingers. Pop pop pop and the choppers either disappear into buildings forever or get shot down. edit: Also, note that the skyscraper can't be taken down by aircraft. You have to plant demolition charges. The truth is out there!  
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Oct 3, 2013 07:09
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Lord Yod posted:^^^^yes Yeah, the thing that weirds me out the most about the new flight model is that the choppers don't seem to be able to power out of dives quite as aggressively. They've got a lot more sink to them at the end of a run, it's killed me a few times.
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keyframe posted:It's a beta dude. It is to test server load don't judge game performance or stability with it. See: BF3 beta/release I've heard horror stories of the BF3 beta, was it pretty stable on release? Maybe DICE does things differently now but generally speaking I've never seen a marked improvement from one of these open betas come release day. If anything they just get crazier because of how many more people are playing. edit Kibayasu posted:Not to be the guy to complain about server performance in a beta, but did everything just die for everyone else? Oh cool, maybe it wasn't just random then. Tarranon fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 07:11
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While I wait for the servers to calm down, if they do, I'm wondering if I'm wrong in remembering that the BF3 beta had a fair number more weapons available than the BF4 beta? It's really hard to tell how good BF4 is going to be on release with such a limited selection of options. I know its a beta but I remember thinking during the BF3 beta "Well, this map may be absolute poo poo, but at least the guns are pretty fun and somewhat varied." The BF4 beta seems to be the opposite; not bad map with a terrible selection of weapons and attachments.
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^^ bf3 beta had basically all of the guns, or at least enough that I didn't notice a lack I never had any stability issues with BF3 after release, aside from some infrequent punkbuster issues that are more or less inevitable. canyoneer posted:When the skies get crowded, it's fun to take a jetski into the middle of the bay with Stingers. Pop pop pop and the choppers either disappear into buildings forever or get shot down. poo poo, I never thought of doing this. Second seat can use a gun!
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Tarranon posted:I've heard horror stories of the BF3 beta, was it pretty stable on release? Maybe DICE does things differently now but generally speaking I've never seen a marked improvement from one of these open betas come release day. If anything they just get crazier because of how many more people are playing. Yea it was night and day between beta and release performance and stability wise. I haven't had any crashes up until 40 minutes ago where the game started crashing constantly. Wonder if they changed something serverside.
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Sedisp posted:Everyone who wants air vehicles to be balanced apparently wants them to be invincible!  we're talking about here. They don't exactly have a great track-record of balancing things.That aside, balancing ground-vehicles vs air-vehicles vs infantry isn't an easy task, but hopefully they won't take a page out of BF3 and will instead give some thought to things. I'm having a shitload of fun running around with an 870MCS with duckbill muzzle, C4, Motion Sensor and offensive squad benefits, though. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Pharmaskittle posted:poo poo, I never thought of doing this. Second seat can use a gun! You can also place C4 on your own jetski from the second seat.
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canyoneer posted:edit: Also, note that the skyscraper can't be taken down by aircraft. You have to plant demolition charges. The truth is out there! I've shot out the supports with a tank, so you definitely do not need risk getting that close to the building. I kinda wish that wasn't the case, because I see the skyscraper going down within minutes of any match, and while the effect is cool, I don't always want to play Shanghai Graylands. That and I wish you could tip it over onto one side of the level or the other. Say you want to gently caress with the Chinese side of the city hardcore? Take out the supports on that side of the building, watch it flatten one of the control points, kill a mess of campers on top of other structures with debris. That makes that side of the city harder to see in, which could make attacking and defending difficult. It'd also make getting on the "clean" side of the map more desirable. You could also turn it into a race of sorts, you're seeing a team close to tipping the building over on one side? better collapse other supports to make sure it just folds in on itself or falls more towards the sea.
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The RFB is great. Unlocked all the attachments in two rounds, laughing the whole time I was sprinting around unloading this massively oversized pistol into people.
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Any word about when the open beta can be downloaded? Didn't know if there was pre-loading going on with it like with the exclusive beta and can't find any mention anywhere.
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KM Scorchio posted:Any word about when the open beta can be downloaded? Didn't know if there was pre-loading going on with it like with the exclusive beta and can't find any mention anywhere. Did you try the official forums? http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2955065209636056251/
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Jippa posted:Did you try the official forums? Yep took a quick wade through the ocean of pubbie beta angst going on over there... Couldn't see any mention of pre-loading however hence my enquiry.
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i'm really enjoying the fragile choppers, as a chopper pilot. I don't mind getting killed in one shot, but it's alot more fun to be disabled and sink through the skies like a rock than to be one shotted out of nowhere instantly.
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Nothing spectacular here but I thought I'd post this vid for any lurkers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyJBrB4AY88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7pXRFT1fc Jippa fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Target Practice posted:Yeah I don't know if the attack chopper gets shoved around more than the transport chopper, but I found in the transport if I was near a building or the ground when we got hit it was more a matter of luck than skill that kept me from crashing. I can only imagine what the poor Little Bird is gonna feel like.
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I'm randomly not getting unlock points for the scout choppers, it's really annoying. Also, swipes with the knife doesn't seem to do damage at all, at least against prone targets. Has anyone unlocked shotgun slugs yet? Are they one hit kill like the sniper rifles are now?
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fivegears4reverse posted:I've shot out the supports with a tank, so you definitely do not need risk getting that close to the building. That would be very cool. On an empty server, I was a little disappointed how easy it was for the attack chopper to bring down the building.
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I was flying a heli, had full health and was taking no threats and then the heli just felt like it took a weight of bricks and slowly sunk down into the water no matter how much I tried to fight it. What's up with that?
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Huh, I just received a ton of master dog tags at the end of a round, some for weapons that aren't even in the beta yet. Hooray, I guess? Question: I have set the window mode for BF4 to "Borderless", yet when I click outside the window (dual screen setup), it goes from full screen to windowed mode. Is there a way to prevent that? mcbexx fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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mcbexx posted:Question: I have set the window mode for BF4 to "Borderless", yet when I click outside the window (dual screen setup), it goes from full screen to windowed mode. Is there a way to prevent that? The borderless mode seems to be completely broken, which is a shame since it's nice to be able to use battlelog while playing.
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I only figured out last night that the browser is totally borked and I should actually be un checking the map box? For some reason I could only find domination servers? So I finally got to play the large version of conquest and it's awesome. Feels like you can have small scale battles on each part of the map while in the distance crazy poo poo is going down. Kind of how how ps2 was supposed to be.
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BF4 + Premium for £55? Has anyone used this site before? http://www.simplycdkeys.com/origin/battlefield-4-battlefield-4-premium-service-dlc-bundle
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