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That must be because you're awesome :p

I meant the start menu shortcut which opens origin and goes straight to battlelog.

Anyhoo, after restarting in hope of better D/L speeds, it seems we're all good and it's working fine now. Go figure...
 
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Nope... I have origin running all the time in background and have battlelog saved as fav in chrome... never had any problems doing it that way!
 
Yeah, that makes sense.
I just generally don't like having unnecessary stuff running in the background for some weird reason and hitting the menu shortcut usually works fine.
 
I'm still struggling a little with this game :(

I am 24 hours in now and on the whole I'm really enjoying it! Snipers drive me crazy though. I always seem to get stuck in a squad with 3 other numpties who just sit at the edges of the map firing randomly at anything that moves. I then have to go on a little trek just to get anywhere near the action. Not only that its a pain in the beehind not having a medic in your squad.

My K/D (Means nothing I know) is creeping up slowly, now at 1.13 and my W/L is up to 1.4. I have had a lot of problems with my internet the past few weeks so my quit % is 33! No fault of my own though :(

Next up is trying to master the choppers and jets. I have had a quick bash but being new to Keyboard and Mouse it is very challenging! I may use my Xbox controller for the time being, just for the vehicles.
 
lee1101 said:
I'm still struggling a little with this game :(

I am 24 hours in now and on the whole I'm really enjoying it! Snipers drive me crazy though. I always seem to get stuck in a squad with 3 other numpties who just sit at the edges of the map firing randomly at anything that moves. I then have to go on a little trek just to get anywhere near the action. Not only that its a pain in the beehind not having a medic in your squad.

My K/D (Means nothing I know) is creeping up slowly, now at 1.13 and my W/L is up to 1.4. I have had a lot of problems with my internet the past few weeks so my quit % is 33! No fault of my own though :(

Next up is trying to master the choppers and jets. I have had a quick bash but being new to Keyboard and Mouse it is very challenging! I may use my Xbox controller for the time being, just for the vehicles.
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If you get a squad of recons, the noly solutions I've found are:
1) Go support, and drop ammo crates on them, so you at least get some points.
2) Switch to a different squad.

I tried a couple of new modes last night.

Scavenger is stupid amounts of fun. (It's also just stupid, but that's fine by me).

Gun Master is also possibly the best idea for a 'casual' game mode I've ever found. First round finished 18th (having come in part way through), second round finished 8th. I WILL WIN ONE DAY. Definitely hooked on that one.
 
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Next up is trying to master the choppers and jets. I have had a quick bash but being new to Keyboard and Mouse it is very challenging! I may use my Xbox controller for the time being, just for the vehicles.
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I moved from PS3 to PC and bought a 360 controller for this exact reason. Was a wasted purchase. Doesn't take long to get used to vehicles and air with a keyboard and mouse.
 
3 points. 3 ****** points. One of the closest games I've had on Kharg Island. Our team didn't want to know at the beginning then from a couple of hunderd points down we came back, into the lead and then..... the buggers got behind us!

I have to say I blame Optimus_Toaster. No reason, I just do :D
 
Orch said:
I moved from PS3 to PC and bought a 360 controller for this exact reason. Was a wasted purchase. Doesn't take long to get used to vehicles and air with a keyboard and mouse.
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There are some aspects of a controller that make air vehicles a whole lot easier to control, primarily being able to constantly pitch back.
 
The common misconception about recons is they are all snipers. I probably have more kills with the shotguns on my recon than with any bolt action rifle. Lost count of the amount of times I've slipped past enemies set up a spawn and told people to join my squad then quickly taking a flag behind the other teams back.

Sure, we could all go assault M16+HB+Grip easymode but some of us prefer to use cunning and skill :p
 
eekfek said:
The common misconception about recons is they are all snipers. I probably have more kills with the shotguns on my recon than with any bolt action rifle. Lost count of the amount of times I've slipped past enemies set up a spawn and told people to join my squad then quickly taking a flag behind the other teams back.
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This is the way Recon should be played.

As for vehicles I can't use any of them very well, so I just sit in a heli with my repair tool :D
 
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lee1101 said:
I'm still struggling a little with this game :(

I am 24 hours in now and on the whole I'm really enjoying it! Snipers drive me crazy though. I always seem to get stuck in a squad with 3 other numpties who just sit at the edges of the map firing randomly at anything that moves. I then have to go on a little trek just to get anywhere near the action. Not only that its a pain in the beehind not having a medic in your squad.

My K/D (Means nothing I know) is creeping up slowly, now at 1.13 and my W/L is up to 1.4. I have had a lot of problems with my internet the past few weeks so my quit % is 33! No fault of my own though :(

Next up is trying to master the choppers and jets. I have had a quick bash but being new to Keyboard and Mouse it is very challenging! I may use my Xbox controller for the time being, just for the vehicles.
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Just make your own squad ;) Then you can kick people out if they aren't helping :) I sometimes just tell the people in my squad to play medic (and sort their ******* perks) and if they don't I just kick them from the squad until someone who does joins.

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LOL wut, just bind pitch back to space bar like everyone else. Controllers / Joysticks helped in BF2 but are nothing but a hindrance in BF3.
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I have to disagree with that, I can't fly a chopper with a mouse and keyboard, but for Jet I agree. In a chopper I am much MUCH better with dual analoge sticks :)
 
I don't know about "should".

It's certainly a good way in most circumstances. In others, long range spotting and sniping is a useful tool for the squad/team.

I think the problem that arises is that large numbers of long-range spotters/snipers are largely redundant, whereas several guys finding their way behind the enemy with shotguns and PDWs dropping TUGS and beacons is pretty much always useful.

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P.s. Guru - if I'm ever in your squad, sorry in advance because I've only unlocked one squad perk so far (sprint).
 
Suarez7 said:
As for vehicles I can't use any of them very well, so I just sit in a heli with my repair tool :D
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I'll be on quite late tonight if you wanna go littlebird trolling again, soo much fun and yes, you do repair like a boss :D

BaDBoY_uK said:
Gay statement is gay! I use Joysticks and I... yeah, I suck! Okay

I will take your advice and use it... and then claim it as my own on other forums.
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Fair play tbh.

Oh and dayum I can't help but troll people who call cheats on obviously non cheaters. Followed a guy to a few servers last night where he calls hacks everytime he dies, safe to say he died a whole load more. Reported me to EA for hacking because I killed him with a defib o_0
 
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