Battlefield 3 thread - Server details in opening post -

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Yes the MAV can get you a few points, but you will be way behind those on the ground doing useful things such as capping and killing. Never seen a useful recon player, it's usually me remoting that MAV when struggling to find those elusive (or usually wallhackers) players around a flag, but of course it's useless against armour, and it's not hard to spot those. But the MAV becomes useless when you have proximity unlocked for armour, as now you have firepower and the ability to find people hidden away waiting for you to leave.

When I unlock the m98b I'll let you know my final verdict.


I personally think the SV98 is more then suitable for sniper, everything after is over powered.

I think if the class is played properly / full potential it is over powered.

I don't mean this in a big headed way, come and play with me and some of my friends at some point and we can give you an idea of how - Nickname on origin is BBeettaa , we use mumble so install that also :)

That said, we have a lot of history with competitive FPS gaming so we probably have a slight advantage over others.

Give me a shout if you fancy it, again not meant as a big headed comment / troll / whatever :)
 
See i dont know if BF3 doesnt have the staying power like the older games.

Im addicted and i dont get hooked on too many games tbh. I think that people just dont see the maps as being capable of taking 64 men without becoming a RPGIMPFEST - especially like metro etc which is why i prefer to wait to get on smogsy rather than broke these days.

Also playing with the same people helps - with or against them i dont mind which - as its a good barometer of how you are progressing yourself which helps.
 
See i dont know if BF3 doesnt have the staying power like the older games.

Im addicted and i dont get hooked on too many games tbh. I think that people just dont see the maps as being capable of taking 64 men without becoming a RPGIMPFEST - especially like metro etc which is why i prefer to wait to get on smogsy rather than broke these days.

Also playing with the same people helps - with or against them i dont mind which - as its a good barometer of how you are progressing yourself which helps.

64 Player Karky Infantry only maps on BF2 were no different except with unlimited nades and clays .

Serious BF2 players that squaded up only played 32 man servers anyway and as time goes on BF3 wil be the same , that beiing said its great to get in behind a whole squad and wipe them out with C4 on a 64 player Metro.

EA/DICE ,,,please please please let Karky be the same as BF2
 
Every single one of the servers listed on the first post are completely empty - what the heck is going on? We've struggled to populate our 64 for a few days - all the regulars seem to have dissapeared.

A week ago, all four of our servers were choked full of players, so much so that our admins sometimes struggled to get on! Now its a barren wasteland of a game.

the community will find there favs and stick to them

this is where you need to pimp them hard and offer something others dont ;)

anyone can put up a server within minutes keeping it busy is a different art altogether.

i suggest you think about doing smaller amount of people for a start a lot of people dont rank fast on conquest or big servers and while starting the game they want points !

so tdm with good scoring almost guarenteed is where a lot are at or rush.

good luck with the servers guys but this is normal youll probably get a few server owners dropping there servers after this month just stick at it and pimp away :D
 
cod, skyrim being the main killers, but I think blaming it on a game is half the story.
BF3 just isnt the good to warrant long term attention and thats why people have left, its pretty sad to be honest that a studio that delivered BF2 have been reduced to releasing utter cack.

I also think the whole console/pc has nothing to do with it - just look at Skyrim made as 360 lead but still runs and looks great on PC bc the gameplay remains untouched....DICE in their decision to go console somehow felt the need to **** around with things far too much.

and for those saying karkand will bring people back. Have you seen the videos - **** a duck it looks awful.

still they got their money , i doubt they care what the server population is like.

Dice listen to EA that is the issue.
the UI simply sucks as a player colorcoding done wrong.
bugs that basically shouldnt been there due to a early release.
bugs that make people unable to play the game unless theya re a tech internet type, turn off unpn? check the system and such, its just not userfriendly.
then dice gonna buff planes?
nerf stingers?
when Karkand hits, I am likely to move to inf only servers, as a plane or a chopper should be as easy as a tank to take down. If not, then dice just do the Bf1942/BF2 all over again.

BF3 is a frustrating game, its anoying as hell, and I completly understand people playing MW3, skyrim, and upcoming TOR or any other game.
BF3 is so early released as a beta which is going to hurt dice.

It is likely that unless the patches improves things it might be my last game I buy from dice.
They didnt stick to their guns and sold out to EA.
I read that the developer looks at the animation and how cool it looks, and I go, dude fix the jumping over the stuff in the game first before you enhance the cool factor of animations due to I play the game not look at boobs and stuff as I game.
 
To the person that mentioned not being able to get co-op to launch earlier in the thread (sorry can't remember who it was or find the post), try disabling your anti-virus. I had the same problem, turns out my av was preventing it from launching.
 
Also can i just ask, when using the scar i often nip out from round a corner - spot mein foe - hold shift - this seems to steady my breath and help focus my aim.

is that right or psychological? hold breath works with more than just sniper rifles right? this isn't all happening in my imagination?
 
FFS...was playing CQ large, took until 15 minutes into the game to get the mobile AA tank, another guy running for it at the same time, I got there first. He RPG's me so I kill him with the main AA guns, obvious team kill I admit. 30 seconds later I get a "game got disconnected" message through origin and crashed, is this a sign of being booted from the server?
 
Found a couple of UK based 64 man servers with increased tickets running mixed mode.

1,000 tickets gives great 20 to 30 min battles which feel more strategic as there's time to try and put a plan together and make it work.

Also good for levelling up as you can rack up some serious points.
 
came across my first hacker last night, couldnt even get out of my own base on Kharg island without being missle attacked by a helicopter across the map. Surely no-one can be that good.
 
stupid question time............

how does spot work ? I have the default bindings that the game ships with and when I press q all that happens is a bunch of comms options come up. How does spot work and can you rebind it to say middle mouse button in the options window ?
 
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