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Even spotting them doesnt enable you to accurately engage targets as a gunner.

The icon appears above them.

If your from a distance, or up high, you just have to guess and aim in their general direction. its so much easier with zoom optics / thermal as it picks them out against all the terrain.
 
decto said:
Dice so need to fix this ... aircraft are too hard to take down. Needs to be close aircraft = easy ... make the pilots work at a distance. Also bombing the spawn point equipment should be instant death
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Are you joking? It's already easy to shoot down aircraft, all it takes if a few bullets from the AA or another jet and they're down. It actually annoys me as I'm a keen jet pilot.
 
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Had 3 game crashes tonight, all 3 while I was flying a jet.
Games never crashed before tonight. :confused:
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Only time the game has ever crashed for me, 5 or 6 times now not sure, crash mid game that is.

Dont mind if i am having a mare in the jet but it always seems to crash when i am having a decent run in one. Sods law im afraid ;)
 
I agree that good chopper crew is almost unbeatable. The only thing that seems to work is AA tank (like Tunguska) with few good unlocks and good driver/gunner. Few rockets, lots of minigun hits and a bit of driving around (being stationary against chopper is suicide) works. Not always, but 60% of times.
 
The best way I've found to shoot down choppers (when in a jet), is to fly to an altitude that their chopper won't reach, and then from above, start to fire in short bursts down on them. Once you're closer to them, just hold the trigger down and go crazy with that machine gun :D

Works 9 times out of 10 for me.
 
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Had no issues with this game pre patch.

Now in two days, I'v had freezing up of origin and firefox upon exit of the game.

Also seems to take longer to start up then it did pre patch.
 
Not sure you all want to hear this, but other than TS3 related oddities (having to force close installhook.exe in Task manager before the game will launch and TS muting the sound but then not returning it to the previous level, then reduces the sound again the next time someone talks meaning it's at zero volume) I've had very few problems. I occasionally get a 'BF3 has stopped responding' error on launch but I played for a solid 3 hours tonight, took a break then played this game (BF3 name is Tesslacoil) and didn't have a stutter or lag at all all evening AND I play wirelessly! I use onboard sound (some Realtek chip, whatever's in my motherboard) and the latest Nvidia driver. I haven't even disabled uPNP on my Router and my video card has a slight overclock but still runs stock volts. I think I have had a freeze during play once or twice throughout the whole time since I started playing but other than that, both pre and post patch it's been great for me. I really can't get my head around the problems loads of people seem to have.
 
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I'm the same as you, realtek enabled, no stutter with UPnP and the only issue I get is the 3 attempts to launch. After that it's perfect.
 
Ash2097 said:
It is stable...I play around 20hrs a week, no crashes lag or any other issues.
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I think a lot of people who crash overclock & believe its not there overclock as its Stable everywhere else. Yes BF3 has issues stability in some cases yes (like realtek issue), but I think a lot of people that overclock blame the game when do not need to.

I only crash BF3 if I alt+tab a lot like 20 times a round (talking with people on steam I guess I should run origin it through steam :D) other than that its fine. 120 hours no issues.

the game is very hard on CPU/RAM/GPU & its not uncommon that it pushes it to 100%

had a few friends moan about stability. They reinstalled windows And there BF3 issues just disappeared. :confused: but :D
 
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Embarrassing moment of the day yesterday was :

Jumped into tank on Seine Crossing, went racing to East Bridge (C?) as normal, with my squad leader....only to find I was out of bounds and there was no flag there....
My lad had been playing Conquest and I only do Conquest Large, and I hadn't reset the filters...oops !

Then while on this same server I got "You have been banned from this server" message. Did I read that this is a possible glitch with the game ? As all that was happening at the time was two guys were holed up in one of those half shutterd garages, constantly healing each other, so I chuck both my nades in (squad ammo) then Rambo'd my way in with USAS and buckshot, while my squad mate laid down suppressing fire......not sure if the guys were admin or not and threw their rattles out the pram.

PAH !
 
RBL said:
I agree that good chopper crew is almost unbeatable.
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In exactly the same way that a good [anything] crew is almost unbeatable. Yesterday I had to make 6 or 7 passes on a Tunguska in a jet before the bloody thing was destroyed because the driver had a team mate who kept repairing it and then running away, and those were pretty damn hairy passes bearing in mind how easily those cannon chew up jets.

Good tank crews will work together to take out targets and repair each other, making them near invincible.

Good jet pilots cover each other, making enemy jets almost useless.

Good squads hop into a Huey, and two of them chew the ground up with the miniguns while the guy who isn't piloting sits in the back with the repair tool. It gets even worse if you get a 5th member repairing it as well.

It's not really fair to claim that X/Y/Z is overpowered when in fact it's just good team work.
 
Art said:
It's not really fair to claim that X/Y/Z is overpowered when in fact it's just good team work.
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This!

I think some of those complaining need to brush up on their aim and skills rather than whining.

I don''t have any problem taking down choppers/jets with AA, stingers or other vehicles when you're paired up with a fairly capable team mate.

Managed to get some choppers with the RPG/SPAW too, one was whilst parachuting from a choopper onto the roof of a big warhouse with the little bird hiding at warehouse roof level :D
 
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If they were going to gimp in that much they should have just removed it IMO, also the co-op thing is because they reduced the points requirements for unlocks.
 
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