Battlefield 3 - Patch updates

' Laser Guided missiles can now be distracted by Flares '

No they never did, only ECM could prevent a javelin locking, flares did nothing.
 
Enjoyed the video, defo doesn't belong in the main thread as that's just a jumble of everything and this video would never get seen.

To be honest, ECM was useless until now. Double flares was by far the way to go with teamspeak with your gunner. Literally untouchable.
 
Any competent jet pilot was untouchable regardless. As some what of an aircraft veteran, I wouldn't say anything could touch me in the sky bar another competent jet. I hear they have nerfed the jets being able to out-turn missiles now? I sit on the fence with this one as it was done because "skilled" pilots could effectively unbalance the game. Begs the question of what the point of being skilled is though if it doesn't swing the balance of the game.

I was talking more about helicopters though. On a heli having two sets of flares makes you unstoppable if you coordinate them. With my flat mate on tv's and me firing rockets in heli battles we won almost every time against other helicopters.
 
MumboJumbo said:
I hear they have nerfed the jets being able to out-turn missiles now?
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The missiles seem worse than ever no matter what theyre launched from, from what ive seen they even easier to out-turn now and a lot of the time they seem to explode around the jet doing no damage.
 
Exploding before impact was meant to be a big fix. Humm. To be honest, I can out turn missiles in a heli so if they have made them worse then it seems that my only enemy shall be javelins. It used to be lampposts as well but seems you can now fly into the tops of them too now so that should be ok.
 
MumboJumbo said:
Enjoyed the video, defo doesn't belong in the main thread as that's just a jumble of everything and this video would never get seen.

To be honest, ECM was useless until now. Double flares was by far the way to go with teamspeak with your gunner. Literally untouchable.
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appreciate the kind words :)

from my past experience we ran ECM/Flares because lots of people use soflams and ECM was the only way to get rid of that lock. And ECM cooldown is stupid fast which kept us in the air forever
 
The patch is just another false promise from DICE. You can still MAV and get out of the map, however you cannot capture flags under the map so that's something but you can still C4 threw walls. Patch has also made BF3 run worse then it did due to the physics update.

Just another EA/DICE money making tactic. 1.04GB of what exactly? You can now buy every unlock at the cost of £32 so there you'd 1.04GB update. Cheers DICE.
 
Fhrope said:
appreciate the kind words :)

from my past experience we ran ECM/Flares because lots of people use soflams and ECM was the only way to get rid of that lock. And ECM cooldown is stupid fast which kept us in the air forever
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Generally I tend to spot the soflam before someone gets smart with a javelin. Failing that, it's not like it will have moved anywhere next time and you can be the sniper will be standing near it like a noob :P. Bump into enemy helicopters more often than soflam. I keep meaning to make a video with my flat mate and I. The video chat is hilarious with one of us scream flares as we nose dive into the trees to doge missiles and alike. Was planning on making some sort of montage/tutorial but got so fed up with the current state of bf3 that I stopped playing.
 
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