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Just to add some balance, on my nigh on 4 year old PC this runs absolutely fine. No problems at all. The PC as a platform has so many variants you will never get a game launch where nobody has any issues, that is the nature of the beast I'm afraid. If this was a console release with a lot of issues then I'd see the point in whining.
 
I do enjoy the game so far but I do think it is lacking in some respects. My biggest issue has to be the general lack of direction/organisation and teamwork encouraged by the game - the squads are to small, there is no commander role and squad members can spawn in any other member. In bf2 I'm sure squads worked far more cohesively on public servers than they do on this and I think it is because of the points I have mentioned. Also I think that the assault class and recon are pretty worthless, any squad I'm in needs a support and two engies (1stinger & 1antitank) in order to be fully rounded but I would not require an assault or recon. My final gripe is unlocks, I hate them sooo much. I have been playing in an attack helicopter for a while and have only just unocked what I would consider the basics (flares,zoomed gunner, anti tank rockets). You can't even argue the unlocks are balanced, not having anything in your slots is definitely a disadvantage compared to someone who has the slots filled (with anything), I just can't fathom why flares aren't standard issue from the get go!!
 
MBennett said:
In bf2 I'm sure squads worked far more cohesively on public servers than they do on this
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I think you're wearing rose-tinted glasses! :p OK, the teamwork in BF3 isn't spectacular so far, but I remember long nights of trying to find a decent squad on BF2 as well. Sometimes I miss the direction you get from having a commander, but then I also remember the endless "vote mutiny" spamming and annoying commanders who never seem to give you the drops you want. I think elmuzzy66. is right, we need to give it a bit more time to bed in. The only serious gripe I have about it is that the capture points are often a bit too close together, and some of the maps were seriously not designed for 64 players (I'm looking at you, Metro).
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Do you have a Thomson router?
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I have two, the 8 year old one does a more reliable job seems like then the new one somehow, is there some good firmware to install?


kola said:
I did this to some poor chap this afternoon I bet he thought he was well hidden apart from his legs sticking out lol so funny
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Same as bf2 and partly why they took out prone. Doesnt happen in arma but you not exactly fluid in that game
 
Just started the TFU server, was being shot as i spawned at base, was alive for around 10 seconds in total 0 kills/3 deaths. Fun!

I think i will come back to this in a few weeks, it is not as if there are no new games to play atm.
 
The Game is slowly starting to click for me:

Assault is easy.
Engineer - loving this i tend to start on this to heal up a tank and use my rockets to kill some tanks when their are a lot about. Tried the anti air but flares annoy me.
Recon - getting used to bullet drop, not really worked out the extras like radio beacon
Support - Aint played it yet but mortars can be deadly
Flying - plugged my xbox pad in much better I can fly a chopper until i get shot down now, normally would be on my side with a dead squad in around 1 minute :P. Nowhere near good enough to kill anything yet but at least I can stay in the air.

Just glad we get an extra hour in bed!
 
Gerard said:
That stealth upgrade for jets is getting annoying, it already takes a good while to lock stingers onto them, with that it takes roughly double the time. Couple that with the stupidly fast countermeasure reload and even if you wait till they pop their flares by the time you reacquire the target and fire your stinger (which barely potters along) they already have flares ready to get rid of it.. You pretty much need a rocket equipped tunguska or rocket equipped lav to deal with jets that have stealth, the cannons on them barely qualify as laughable and are only of use when a helicopters is playing teabag the AA vehicle.
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get more people using stingers, can't use flares on all of them. tunguska and lav do have rockets, 2 of them when you unlock them and the cannons are awesome, you just need to know how far to lead the target and you can take a jet down in 1 pass.

rjkoneill said:
anyone else having random black screens?

just happens on bf3

sli enabled but CPU and GPU overclocks removed to troubleshoot. just bombs out after a while of playing. pc restarts.

gutting to say the least.
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is this when you first load? if so then i get that too, cancel the game and reload it.


great games on Multiplay with Scary Squirrel on nM-OCUK tonight, will be back for more tomorrow :D
 
spookywillow said:
get more people using stingers, can't use flares on all of them. tunguska and lav do have rockets, 2 of them when you unlock them and the cannons are awesome, you just need to know how far to lead the target and you can take a jet down in 1 pass.
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The cannons are worthless if the aircraft is at any significant height, the rounds just seem to disappear after a set height.

And on pubs it seems now that on a lot of servers the amount of people whoring stingers has converted to the runway worshipping society. Seems half the time im the only one trying to take jets down.
 
I think the game has great potential but there are numerous things that are really bugging me about it....

My major grievance is the mouse sensitivity....it seems like there are 2 separate sensitivities....1 - for 'shooting from the hip' kind of scenario and 2 - for when you right click and aim down the sights...it seems super unresponsive for me aiming down the sites yet my 'free aim' will be too fast to control....

anyone else noticed this?? :(
 
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