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[Spektor]

Hi guys, at work so can't browse game websites. Is there a way of telling the power of guns in the game? Often unsure which gun to use as you only see range and fire rate etc.

The type of round they fire determines the damage.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

What is this latency fix/tweak i've seen people mention?

 

[Gzero]

i dont have the LE but my patch is 4GB...
Maybe free maps for me but i doubt it!

It should be a 3.9gb patch regardless of the version people have bought. This is typical Dice thinking, they did it with BC2. They will plaster B2K all over the place so those who don't have it will feel they are missing out and buy it. You can already see this stupid elitist thinking over at the forums with a little logo appearing under people's usernames when they make a post saying B2K.

TL;DR, everyone has to download B2K regardless if they access to it or not.

 

[Gzero]

What is this latency fix/tweak i've seen people mention?

It's in the settings of BF3 go look for it. It is basicly a rates/interp setting (the lower, the more packets you send apparently), we don't know much more than that.

 

[mp260767]

Question: In Co-op is there some sort of allocation of random people so a random person can join or can I play it alone?

can allocate a random or select someone off your friends list, can't run it on your own.

 

[mp260767]

It should be a 3.9gb patch regardless of the version people have bought. This is typical Dice thinking, they did it with BC2.

fair enough, my apologies for the duff info .

 

[_Jimlad_]

i just suck of late... lost my way and my gunning mojo!

 

[Gzero]

fair enough, my apologies for the duff info .

No worries, Origin can easily cause a lot of confusion, I had to download 5gb as I delete the Russian bits off my game. Might delete the single player too or just compress it. Cod4 never complained.

 

[V_R]

It's in the settings of BF3 go look for it. It is basicly a rates/interp setting (the lower, the more packets you send apparently), we don't know much more than that.

Ah right, will do. i haven't seen it, does it actually make any difference?

 

[RBL]

can allocate a random or select someone off your friends list, can't run it on your own.

Thank you, all I wanted to know

 

[~>Dg<~]

Ah right, will do. i haven't seen it, does it actually make any difference?

no placebo effect.

play on server learn how to play with latency make different excuses for playing bad

 

[liamcrane]

I see you can now view other players in game ping on the scoreboard, mine doesn't seem to show up tho do i have to enable this by any chance?

 

[Random Guy]

I see you can now view other players in game ping on the scoreboard, mine doesn't seem to show up tho do i have to enable this by any chance?

Not that I know of - which is really a moronic decision by DICE because the ping you are normally interested in is your own godammit!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I think the ping is showing relative to you, hence why yours is 0 or "-". Just like F1 when the leader's lap time is shown as "interval" and everyone else a split of that.

It's a poor implementation in an online game, but then so long as you aren't lagging out then I can't say I care tbh.

 

[MoRT489]

What is this latency fix/tweak i've seen people mention?

Ah right, will do. i haven't seen it, does it actually make any difference?

The patch notes only say this:

Added a network interpolation setting. This allows users with good bandwidth reduce latency, but might increase some stuttering. The user can find what works best for his connection by tweaking the slider.

I assume I'm allowed to post a link to reddit (couldnt see that they were selling anything) but mod please delete if it breaks the rules - some discussion of the interpolation here http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3/comments/n2oiy/we_need_someone_to_create_a_guide_for_the_new/ with what looks like response's from DICE's Demize, but i have no way to verify that.

Even after reading it tho i'm no clearer on whether I should move the slider or not. I'm in Moscow and play mostly in UK servers on a 4MB connection and dont suffer lag problems (as far as i can tell). ping is usually around 80ms-100ms on the server list to UK.

EDIT: Also interesting explanation regarding hit reg :

[–]Demize99 12 points13 points14 points 10 hours ago
"Trust" is a strong word. BF3's hit model uses a combined client server model, a Hybrid Hit Detection. The client says to the server "Hey, I shot him!" and the server does a check against the position of the two targets and determines if the player could reasonably have hit that target and then applies the damage.

Combined it means that in most instances you're going to get credit for hits that would fail in pure server hit detection, and isn't as prone to hacking and cheating (data injection) as pure client hit detection. We also have some other sanity checks in there so extremely laggy players don't get a huge advantage (lag switch hacks).

So far, I'm rather happy with the outcome. I consider it far superior to be able to hit what you see if it means occasionally you'll get shot when you thought you got to cover, though I'd love to reduce the frequency of that if we can.

 

[Tackle_Berry]

Anyone else taken down the huge Antenna tower in caspian border? I am also loving that they have reduced the distance on the IRNV it was such a advantage for people useing it.

 

[wnb]

Do you know if there is a download for the patch it has failed twice for me using the auto update and when you have 1mb adsl it taked a long time to download these large updates.

 

[[TFU] Thegoon84]

Do you know if there is a download for the patch it has failed twice for me using the auto update and when you have 1mb adsl it taked a long time to download these large updates.

Why not upgrade your interwebs then?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I downloaded HL2 on a 28.8kbps dial-up connection

 

[wnb]

Why not upgrade your interwebs then?

I would if I could, the only way to get faster adsl is to move house or wait on fibre from bt but my excahnge is not planned to be upgraded in 2012 so if I am lucky I 'might' get bt infinity in 2013.

I live 7 miles outside of Carlisle.