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This game now has become almost unplayable. Teams are so badly balanced it borders on the ridiculous. Almost every time I join, 10-15 players of rank 100 are on one side while out side has at max 3-4 of rank 100 and the rest low levels in the range of 10-20.

Every game is either total domination or getting totally owned. Yesterday I played a game that had 3 players using aim bots and each got around 120 kills in a round, yet they lost the game by 430 points. Even though the 3 cheating players worked together to cap the flags, they still got their asses handed to them.

When people using cheats and get their asses kicked, then you know the game is broken.

Is it so hard for the game to balance players via their rank each time a new round starts? DICE are well and truly become below average developer.

Definitely no CrapField4 for me. Lesson learned.
 
so you play on one badly stacked server and the game is broken ??

You just need to find better servers. And if you're in a squad with friends, who wants to be split up just so it can balance the teams ? By solving one problem you create another that your squad gets constantly broken up and people complain they can't play with their friends.
 
I have not had any major problems with bf3 and only the odd cheater now and again but most of the time its good fun. The fact I'm still pretty crap at it after all this time I'm putting down to age. :)
 
MrLOL said:
so you play on one badly stacked server and the game is broken ??

You just need to find better servers. And if you're in a squad with friends, who wants to be split up just so it can balance the teams ? By solving one problem you create another that your squad gets constantly broken up and people complain they can't play with their friends.
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Read my post again. I said almost every time, of a number of different servers. Tonight I played on 8 different server, only on 1 have I had a game that was balanced and it went down to the wire.

The rest were either total domination or total loss. Most servers in my experience are crap, badly balanced.

As for the squad issue, that would effect low % of people. Most people are playing with strangers and I would rather have an exiting competitive game than playing in a boring game where one team totally dominates, even if I am playing with friends in a squad.

And even if your friends are in the other team, you can still play together and compete against each other.

There is nothing worse in a competitive multiplayer when the game is not balanced. Might just as well be playing with dumb bots.
 
It's not the game's fault though really? The team mix up at the end of the round is a plug in. There's no guarantee that high level=highly skilled either. Take this game purely as a random game I played tonight. No level 100's, some lowish level players getting good scores as well.

The problem is that one team starts to dominate, either through actually PTFO or with more active players instead of 6 people waiting for the Viper and then one of them refusing to move because he wants to fly with his friend. Then people start to leave. That's why if you join a server you're more liekly to end up on the losing side or, more usually, be balanced as you've just joined the side your mate is on and then get balanced. Sucks and I hate it when it happens but there's no real way you can fix it.

I do absolutely hate it when I get balanced when I'm not even dead and lone wolfs or one person squads should get balanced first, NOT the person that just joined.
 
I joined a server on Sunday that was a 64 player Conquest on Metro, and the Russians had all the flags so it was pretty much a standstill with people hurling grenades everywhere, Support and Recon classes in prone waiting for someone to appear and high level players on the Russian side.

I still had fun, as i kept trying to advance to C and managed to take down 3-4 people whenever i tried to advance.
 
I have to agree - the balance has shifted dramatically in the last few weeks. Most games are routs, instead of hard-fought wins. I can't say wtf is going on, but the number of bunny-hopping Level 100 noobs is too damn high!
 
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the number of bunny-hopping Level 100 noobs is too damn high!
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That ****es me of so much, game is awful for that, as soon as you start firing at someone, they bunny hop like mad :mad: Heck people just do it all the god damn time i.e. anderzel, youtube gamer, had to stop watching his videos as that is all he does when playing.....


And yup, Gux, I completely agree, except for me, it happened months ago, fed up with it and is one of the main reasons why I haven't played this game as much, game is broke regarding balance.


My wish list for BF 4:

- no suppression
- DICE/EA to actually deal with the cheaters
- better vehicle balance
- better designed maps
- take away that stupid dull depressing filter and bring some colour/life to the game
- no stupid premium package (this was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for me, split the community in two and as a result non-premium members got shafted with a low amount of crappy servers)
- bring back BC 2 or better destruction
- change the classes back to the way they were in BC 2
- better team balance, I am tired of land slide wins
- remove the stupid 3D spotting
- weather and time of day dynamic system i.e. like planetside II
- reduce sun glare/brightness
- less complicated unlock system and less choices, somewhere in between BC 2 and BF 3 unlock/customisation system


And lastly get rid of battlelog


All unlikely to happen.


Oh and you bought premium package neil79!?!? :o Shame on you! :p
 
I don't want to go back to the classes in BC2.

I'd rather go back to BF2 where the medic was a completely separate class altogether and didn't have all the best assault rifles.

I quite like the way support plays now. he has C4, an LMG to supress and can give out ammo. It works. Whats unbalanced is the medic / assault class that is always the go to class in any infantry based game because he has the best of everything.

Likewise i don't want to see 3D spotting remove. It stops idiots camping in corners and means if they do they don't last long. Want to play Campfield 3, play hardcore. That way you can play with or without 3D spotting depending upon what you prefer. What i do think they need to do is revisit what settings you can change on a ranked server. They need to remove the ability to put instant vehicle respawn on ranked servers, likewise 500 % tickets. Make it 150 % maximum to stop all these stupidly long 2 hour + games.
 
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MrLOL said:
I don't want to go back to the classes in BC2.

I'd rather go back to BF2 where the medic was a completely separate class altogether and didn't have all the best assault rifles.

I quite like the way support plays now. he has C4, an LMG to supress and can give out ammo. It works. Whats unbalanced is the medic / assault class that is always the go to class in any infantry based game because he has the best of everything.
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I agree the assault is OP.

Playing an inf only server, why play as anything else?
 
100 points per revive, plus healing points, and the ability to heal yourself at will, combined with the best guns in the game. People will chose to play support or recon on infantry only. But the assault class guys will always outscore them on SPM.
 
I personally thought the classes in BC 2 worked really well, each had their strengths and all had good weapons, the way their equipment was allocated was much better imo, unlike BF 3 as you said pretty much, assault class owns all, best weapons, medic pack etc. and that is what the majority play as, in BC 2 you had a very good mix of assault, medic, eng, although often had too many recons (more so in HC due to the 1 shot = one kill no matter where shot or where from)

My biggest gripe with BF 3 was the recon class, so stupid giving them the spawn beacon and MAV as hardly any of them use it properly, majority of them just use it to plant at the very far edge of the map where they camp or/and to get to the top of buildings etc. Support should have had those two things and the recon should have got C4.

They need to remove the ability to put instant vehicle respawn on ranked servers, likewise 500 % tickets. Make it 150 % maximum to stop all these stupidly long 2 hour + games.
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Absolutely!

That was another main reason why I stopped playing BF 3, spent 10 minutes looking for a good server that suited me, not just what you mentioned but also:

- most servers only run like 2-3 maps or only 1 map i.e. metro.....
- stupid rules

And being a non premium member, it meant I had even less choice...
 
Oh sorry I forgot, we can't be negative (even if it is in a constructive way) about the almighty BF 3 game and DICE :rolleyes:

And for the record, about 3-4 times, tried to get into it rather than just giving up on it but I just can't as the game is simply crap, uninstalled it months ago and it won't be put back on my PC again, if I could I would have sold it ages ago.
 
Nexus18 said:
My biggest gripe with BF 3 was the recon class, so stupid giving them the spawn beacon and MAV as hardly any of them use it properly, majority of them just use it to plant at the very far edge of the map where they camp or/and to get to the top of buildings etc. Support should have had those two things and the recon should have got C4.
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Why give them C4? They'll only sit their asses on it. I reckon more importance should be given to team interaction, healing, reviving, spotting etc, with kills much, much lower down the list. But people will still nurse their KDR :rolleyes:
 
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