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TheEnd

15,370 posts

190 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Just downloading now.
That's the rest of my day planned!

I had to restart it for it to show in the store.

militantmandy

3,829 posts

188 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Well just had my first game. 0-8. Best start learning these maps else my stats wull take a tumble!

The Black Flash

13,735 posts

200 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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FloppyRaccoon said:
Jasandjules said:
Dear My Team.

When you hear a noise like a beeping/warning sound, go to the f***ng MCom and disarm it.... If I am the only person going for it, I die a lot, and we lose.....
I sympathise with you.

It's amazing how angry I get over that very thing. It's just a game, it's just a game....
Agree, highly annoying to see people just standing around watching it count down.

militantmandy

3,829 posts

188 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Hmm. Definitely going to take some getting used to this AK. Seems like a very different style of play.

youngsyr

14,742 posts

194 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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militantmandy said:
Hmm. Definitely going to take some getting used to this AK. Seems like a very different style of play.
As far as I can tell, it's all about the vehicles and if you haven't spent a lot of time in all of them (including jets and helis) until now, you may well struggle.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

190 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Just played my first full game, death valley.
There's a lot of shooting at tree stumps incase they are people. Javelins are flying about like mad, and plenty of mines on the ground too. Keep hitting the spot button!
The tank destroyers are APCs, so they have about 5 spare seats all with LMGs which makes them quite effect battle buses, C4-ing them is going to be tricky if there are other people inside.


It's easy to take out other tank destroyers, I'm probably used to the benefit of reactive armour which will be going on as soon as I get it.

I've got one kill with the mobile artillery, but it is a lot of time fireing pot shots at anything.
The closest thing you can hit it about 300m with the MLRS down as far as it can go, so keep your distances.

youngsyr

14,742 posts

194 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Have you tried the gunship yet? The cannon on it is immense! smile Thermo imaging, plus a zoom option and put a round anywhere near infantry for instant death and a direct hit on an IFV is instant disable.

neema_T

216 posts

208 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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youngsyr said:
Have you tried the gunship yet? The cannon on it is immense! smile Thermo imaging, plus a zoom option and put a round anywhere near infantry for instant death and a direct hit on an IFV is instant disable.
Sounds... Overpowered. I've heard it's a piece of, er, urine to shoot down though so I look forward to collecting some easy-ish jet kills that don't just make me feel dirty (i.e. jets vs. infantry, way, way too easy).

TheEnd

15,370 posts

190 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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I'll probably give it a while on the AC130, as it's camped out a bit.
Took one down with the LAV anti air though. It's a sitting duck for that.

youngsyr

14,742 posts

194 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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It is an absolute sitting duck (especially when the second gunner insists on shooting the guns at ground troops rather than aircraft that are attacking it mad ), but the cannon is devastating. It can take quite a bit of damage though.

You do need to lead the shot a fair way to take into account the time it takes the shot to land though, so it's not like shooting fish in a barrel.

Dixie68

3,091 posts

189 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Whiny admins are still kicking people if you kill them I notice. Spoils the game somewhat.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

190 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Well, I've got my tank destroyers all unlocked, and moved onto the mobile anti-air.
I tend to stick to conquest, so I haven't come across the AA gun too much but my god is it a beast!

It'll take the gunship down in about 10-15 seconds, maybe throw a few heatseekers at them so they've got something to do before the burst into flames.
Attacking jets and choppers don't stand a chance either.

I've had a go in the mobile artillery, and until that gets some unlocks like semi guided rockets, it's going to struggle. I did get one kill with it, but it's pretty tricky to know where you are shooting.

Jasandjules

70,015 posts

231 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Dixie68 said:
Whiny admins are still kicking people if you kill them I notice. Spoils the game somewhat.
Yup. A***oles.

youngsyr

14,742 posts

194 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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TheEnd said:
Well, I've got my tank destroyers all unlocked, and moved onto the mobile anti-air.
I tend to stick to conquest, so I haven't come across the AA gun too much but my god is it a beast!

It'll take the gunship down in about 10-15 seconds, maybe throw a few heatseekers at them so they've got something to do before the burst into flames.
Attacking jets and choppers don't stand a chance either.

I've had a go in the mobile artillery, and until that gets some unlocks like semi guided rockets, it's going to struggle. I did get one kill with it, but it's pretty tricky to know where you are shooting.
Forget conquest - the maps are too big with too few players on the consoles. Tank Supremacy is where it's at - loads of tanks flying around trying to capture and hold one extremely exposed map. It's carnage! tank

Merlin28

658 posts

150 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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Played AK quadbikes can go anywhere I even flipped and rolled without dying. Also quadbikes make great targets for guided missles as they explode instantly killing whoever is on it. Haven't had a chance to even try the artillery yet as someone always seems to be in it. Gunship is very vunerable and not easy to get kills on.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

190 months

Tuesday 11th September 2012
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youngsyr said:
Forget conquest - the maps are too big with too few players on the consoles. Tank Supremacy is where it's at - loads of tanks flying around trying to capture and hold one extremely exposed map. It's carnage! tank
I've just had my first go at that, it was a big ticket server, so pretty disheartening to have to keep running out into it.
Zoom optics is handy, I managed to snipe my way up to MVP, but still the side lost.
A few soflams and javelins would have turned the tables, they had the flag pretty much camped out. I could take out the tanks no problem, but getting to the flag was a nightmare!

TobyLaRohne

5,717 posts

208 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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I loved it last night, I had about 10 min on each level...plenty of different tac-tics to try, only criticism is the heli's are alot slower now.

molineux1980

1,204 posts

221 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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The gunships are a nightmare. Played rush last night, and was killed 5 times in a row within 10 seconds of spawning by a gunship. It's great when you're the one doing the killing though, 12 kills on my only go in one :-)

thetapeworm

11,420 posts

241 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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I bought BF3 on Monday and signed up to Premium so now have the packs, I just have no idea which are packs and which were in the base game now - lots to learn, things have changed a lot since BF2 on the PC, they have even added new steps at the hotel in Karkand smile

petrolsniffer

2,461 posts

176 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Mastodon2 said:
4. The M320 is overpowered as ever, so even if you are st at BF, you can simply get the M320 out and spam spam spam!
Doesn't matter what game it is theres always someone whinging about this or that being overpowered its a grenade launcher it's suppose to blow you to st or play in a server where it's banned or setup your own...