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DarkHorizon472 · 8 Sep 2017 at 19:03

Gerard said:
Got to love using the flame thrower elite and dying because a bayonet charge can propel them through the flames to stab you, get the kill and survive.

Anyone brave enough to bayonet charge a flame thrower deserves the kill

I didn't realise that worked but will try it next time I see a flamer

Gerard · 8 Sep 2017 at 19:06

DarkHorizon472 said:
Anyone brave enough to bayonet charge a flame thrower deserves the kill

I didn't realise that worked but will try it next time I see a flamer

That type of thing brings my **** to a boil, just dice putting a gimmicky mechanic in the game that works essentially as a damage sponge when its activated.

Undesirable · 8 Sep 2017 at 19:37

Gerard said:
Got to love using the flame thrower elite and dying because a bayonet charge can propel them through the flames to stab you, get the kill and survive.

Yeah, they should nerf bayonet killzone + make them take more damage whilst charging but also reduce armour of Tank Hunter and Pyro because at the moment it feels pointless to do anything else against elite classes but bayonet..

opethdisciple · 8 Sep 2017 at 19:42

Undesirable said:
Yeah, they should nerf bayonet killzone + make them take more damage whilst charging but also reduce armour of Tank Hunter and Pyro because at the moment it feels pointless to do anything else against elite classes but bayonet..

Creep up on them and knife em.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 8 Sep 2017 at 19:55

And still a laggy pile of garbage.

Gerard · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:24

Undesirable said:
Yeah, they should nerf bayonet killzone + make them take more damage whilst charging but also reduce armour of Tank Hunter and Pyro because at the moment it feels pointless to do anything else against elite classes but bayonet..

Elites have been nerfed quite a lot, flamethrower range was reduced a good amount last time and the sentry elite over range seems to have lost quite a bit of accuracy, their overall armour was reduced a while back as well. Can't say much for the trench raider or the smg elites as i rarely get them

Fire_fly · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:27

Nexus18 said:
performance issues, bad stuttering and fps drops

You still using that old i5? If keep an eye on your CPU usage as if it is anything like mine was it will be fully tapped out at 100% and causing the frame drops.

Gerard said:
Got to love using the flame thrower elite and dying because a bayonet charge can propel them through the flames to stab you, get the kill and survive.

The Bayonet charge is stupid, it needs a parry counter where you are able to doge it and stick a hatchet in their back, like the counter knife function in bf4.

Gerard · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:29

Fire_fly said:
The Bayonet charge is stupid, it needs a parry counter where you are able to doge it and stick a hatchet in their back, like the counter knife function in bf4.

Been saying that for ages now, plus the in close melee attacks where you essentially get "sucked" into a death because someone pressed melee at a specific range is equally as lame. No clue why theres no counter to these at all.

Undesirable · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:34

I agree with a dodge quick action button but not countering with your own attack automatically, you should have to follow it up manually.

Gerard · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:36

Undesirable said:
I agree with a dodge quick action button but not countering with your own attack automatically, you should have to follow it up manually.

The question that needs answered is what was wrong with regular melee kills? Dice just had to dress them up with fancy animations turning them into a single hit kill. Form over function, as usual.

opethdisciple · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:36

Undesirable said:
I agree with a dodge quick action button but not countering with your own attack automatically, you should have to follow it up manually.

Agree. I often find my self spamming F when they are in the animation. Only one of us registered.

Also do you have to long press to do the stab or just a quick press. Because it doesn't always work. Sometime you just do the small jabs and then maybe you get the animation.

Undesirable · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:39

Gerard said:
The question that needs answered is what was wrong with regular melee kills? Dice just had to dress them up with fancy animations turning them into a single hit kill. Form over function, as usual.

Well I think it's fair enough to have bayonet charges, as they were a prominent feature of WWI.

Gerard · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:42

Undesirable said:
Well I think it's fair enough to have bayonet charges, as they were a prominent feature of WWI.

True but they need to not make the player doing it turn into a damage sponge, its like they teleport through most shots fired at them when doing it.

Nexus18 · 8 Sep 2017 at 20:49

Fire_fly said:
You still using that old i5? If keep an eye on your CPU usage as if it is anything like mine was it will be fully tapped out at 100% and causing the frame drops.

Yup the potato masher is still going strong

At first I thought that too but one round, it can be buttery smooth and locked to 80 fps, next round, I get fps drops to 40's. Noticed that CPU being maxed at 100% some time too although it doesn't seem to make too much of a difference i.e. in division, all 4 cpu cores are constantly at 100% but the game is so smooth (in dx 12 mode)

What helped massively with the cpu/stutter issues was capping the FPS via a user.cfg file or rivatuner, the in game one is crap.

This is with dx 11 too, it is odd as dx 12 is terrible in MP but for SP, dx 12 is better than dx 11.

AndyT · 8 Sep 2017 at 21:01

Absolute joke. Stuttering mess today with a perfoverlay.drawgraph plot all over the place. There is something seriously wrong with this game and it needs sorting. How can 24 hours on the same rig, same maps make so much difference?

AndyT · 8 Sep 2017 at 21:24

AndyT said:
Absolute joke. Stuttering mess today with a perfoverlay.drawgraph plot all over the place. There is something seriously wrong with this game and it needs sorting. How can 24 hours on the same rig, same maps make so much difference?

... 20 mins later and it's all OK?!

All I did was remove AdobeCC from startup, reset and come back 20mins later. The perfoverlay.drawgraph is flat and not a frame dropped or any stutter.

This is annoying now.

Although now I can't find a server that isn't throwing up the "server fubar" warning every few minutes with horrendous lag. Can't believe they are still charging 40 euros for premium here.

Gerard · 8 Sep 2017 at 21:42

Lagging like **** at the minute, scoring hits with tank shells, you see the hit but they don't register, plus zooming in seems to randomly zoom out as well.

andy_mk3 · 8 Sep 2017 at 22:11

I've just played 5 games and honestly didn't notice any lag or stuttering at all. All the new maps were playing really smooth too, my rig holding 100fps+ the whole time.

Westie · 8 Sep 2017 at 22:32

ya same for me not noticed any lag at all since the new DLC..

pgi947 · 8 Sep 2017 at 22:43

Had one massive drop. Went nuts on one of the new maps, frames dropped to 1-3 fps for a good 15 seconds, then back up to normal and nothing since.

One other gripe....horses, early 20th century horses weren't immune to gun shot wounds, like these ones are. I shouldn't be able to empty an entire clip from a BAR into a horses face and still get ran over/stabbed.

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