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Gerard said:
I think a lot of of this could be resolved by removing the beeping sound that tells the pilots the missile has been fired, it should just be a lock on sound as it was in bf2, currently they know exactly when to deploy flares, with that fast beeping sound removed it would be mroe guesswork.
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In BF2 you can check your 6 for incoming missiles in BF3 you can't so that idea is a no go. You will have every stinger noob getting lock then wait for flares, mobile AA and stingers are enough to make aircraft run for cover and stop them dominating.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
In BF2 you can check your 6 for incoming missiles in BF3 you can't so that idea is a no go. You will have every stinger noob getting lock then wait for flares, mobile AA and stingers are enough to make aircraft run for cover and stop them dominating.
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No mobile AA on normal conquest, so that just leaves the now defunct stinger.
Hardly use the stinger anyway but i guess i will never use it now.
 
Gerard said:
Ive been saying this since about the second day of the game, when a pilot has stealth coupled with flares hes virtually untouchable from the ground. The flares reload far too fast and the lockon for the stinger takes ages when a pilot has stealth, also factor in the the missile travel time trying to catch up to the jet. All this just adds up to the jet getting time to pop flares whenever needed.
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I don't use stealth any more, Beam Scanning is far too awesome


hedgey said:
flares need to be nerfed.
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No they don't.
If you're flying they don't seem to recharge quick enough!

Everyone and their mate seems to be trying to acquire a lock on me all the time, I spend half the time trying to avoid the lock-on.

Jets in CQ are only really effective against other aircraft, the ground attack options really aren't reliable or powerful enough to really worry ground troops. So more of the time you really don't have to worry about taking them down with stingers. The mobile AA rapes jets enough as it is.
 
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Art said:
Surely the primary method of downing jets should be the jets on your team. Stingers aren't the main way of downing things.
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No but now they really are pointless, people were moaning about them being crap before they got nerfed, what do these same people think now?
 
Spyke_UK said:
Does anyone know if the patch fixes the "brrrrrr" hard lock crash?
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That is a Realtek on-board sound/Punkbuster issue that has been around since Bad Company 2:(

So I doubt it very much.

I have just ordered a sound card as I'm getting sick of the constant hardlocks.
 
cyclonus10 said:
No but now they really are pointless, people were moaning about them being crap before they got nerfed, what do these same people think now?
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Like I said, I downed a chopper with it yesterday. Sure, it was a scout chopper, but if it takes one player two shots to down a scout it'll only take a second player to give gunships some serious problems.

As for being pointless against jets, a couple of stingers were giving me serious hassle on Firestorm yesterday. It usually ended up in aborted attack runs because they were smart and got one person to force me to flare and then the other one locked on right afterwards.

You can't expect to take a jet down all by yourself. If you can't get your team mates to work with you that's not a stinger fail, that's a team fail.
 
Can someone please enlighten those who in the dark, how this bloody patch installs?
Mine doesn't seem to be doing anything useful.
Game Manager says' "installing Game"....has been for 20 mins now. (20mbit connection)
What gives? This is some kind of wnak!
 
Just had a few good games on TFU conquest, seems smother for me, less laggy and less tearing

Will no doubt find more bugs as i play more though
 
Banzai_Joe said:
Can someone please enlighten those who in the dark, how this bloody patch installs?
Mine doesn't seem to be doing anything useful.
Game Manager says' "installing Game"....has been for 20 mins now. (20mbit connection)
What gives? This is some kind of wnak!
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I logged into Origin and it did it by itself in a few minutes. Maybe try logging out and in again?
 
If we had in game VOIP we could easily coordinate each other so that one engineer shoots his stinger to make the chopper send out flares then the other engineer locks on straight away, but we don't have VOIP because Dice are retarded.
 
ThundyCat said:
That is a Realtek on-board sound/Punkbuster issue that has been around since Bad Company 2:(

So I doubt it very much.

I have just ordered a sound card as I'm getting sick of the constant hardlocks.
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I resorted to an old SoundBlaster PCI card to fix this. Still can't run MSI AB or anything like that though, it's ridiculous.
 
ThundyCat said:
That is a Realtek on-board sound/Punkbuster issue that has been around since Bad Company 2:(

So I doubt it very much.

I have just ordered a sound card as I'm getting sick of the constant hardlocks.
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no issues here with realtek hd onboard audio my driver version is 6.0.1.6167
 
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