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TheEnd
12,107 posts
57 months
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kingstondc5 said: So what do you reckon the mystery combo is instead of flares - stealth or fire extinguishers? It has just disappeared from the gadget slot, leaving zoom optics or the thermal camera. It also looks like I'll have to start paying as an engineer now as you can't get all of the new tank destroyer unlocks without doing some achievements.
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youngsyr
6,797 posts
61 months
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PeXy said: What are the new guns? Are the tank killers any good? Can't play this till it rains... The tank destroyer is pretty good - IFV speed and manoeuvrability, with a tank gun and LMG on the coaxial. Armour isn't up to much though, somewhere between the IFV and a tank. Some perks for it are unlocked by points, others by (easy) assignments.
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Gazzas86
725 posts
40 months
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Can you use the artillery??, i had a quick go yesterday afternoon, where on one of the maps was an artillery field???
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chryslerben
495 posts
28 months
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Had a few rounds on ak last night, you do need to unlock the extras on the vehicles to get the most from them and always have the ir smoke equipped cause the new maps are a heli fanboi's wet dream. If your in a vehicle the amount of times you get lock onto is ridiculous as there such open areas, there are some good anti air assets though so you need to make the most of them. The gunship you can bring down relatively easily.
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youngsyr
6,797 posts
61 months
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Gazzas86 said: Can you use the artillery??, i had a quick go yesterday afternoon, where on one of the maps was an artillery field??? I saw one of the mobile artillery launch a shed load of missiles at the flag I was capturing in a tank killer - all in all the artillery was pretty ineffective.
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CJ1987
2,180 posts
21 months
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youngsyr said: I saw one of the mobile artillery launch a shed load of missiles at the flag I was capturing in a tank killer - all in all the artillery was pretty ineffective. as snafu will confirm i shot down a jet with the artillery and killed quite a few of them but it does take some getting used to, think i got 4 unlocks for arty and 2 for tank destroyer in one match 
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S3_Graham
10,685 posts
68 months
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CJ1987 said: as snafu will confirm i shot down a jet with the artillery and killed quite a few of them but it does take some getting used to, think i got 4 unlocks for arty and 2 for tank destroyer in one match Can we delay tonight's race?
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Gazzas86
725 posts
40 months
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I take it the Mobile Arty is a vehicle and spawns at one of the bases etc??, and you can jump in it from the spawn screen once it regenerates?
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S3_Graham
10,685 posts
68 months
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Wonder why Xbox/pc have to wait until the 11th? Microsoft?
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CJ1987
2,180 posts
21 months
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Gazzas86 said: I take it the Mobile Arty is a vehicle and spawns at one of the bases etc??, and you can jump in it from the spawn screen once it regenerates? it spawns at certain points but you have to find it and jump in also even tho there is 2 seats only one person can be inside it
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Shinobi
2,717 posts
59 months
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S3_Graham said: Wonder why Xbox/pc have to wait until the 11th? Microsoft? PS3 will have paid a bit more for exclusive rights for the week. Unfortunatly the way gaming is going.
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PeXy
1,404 posts
40 months
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Well finally got it all downloaded, nearly got divorced after instructing tbe mrs on the phone. might be able to squeeze a couple of games in late tonight .
Are tthe new maps a bit like harvest day and heavy metal? is there rush on them or just conquest.
Reading on battlelog that the stingers are now much better?
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Shinobi
2,717 posts
59 months
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PeXy said: Well finally got it all downloaded, nearly got divorced after instructing tbe mrs on the phone. might be able to squeeze a couple of games in late tonight .
Are tthe new maps a bit like harvest day and heavy metal? is there rush on them or just conquest.
Readimg on battlelog that the stingers are now much better? Rush and Conquest on them.
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youngsyr
6,797 posts
61 months
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PeXy said: Reading on battlelog that the stingers are now much better? They'll need to be - there are a lot of aircraft on the new maps, I would imagine you can have over half of your team in the air at any one time. It can make it very quiet at ground level.
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Merlin28
653 posts
17 months
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Since downloading the new patch all I keep getting is your connection to EA is lost after ten minutes of gaming it's very annoying on XBOX.
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Fabric
3,046 posts
61 months
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youngsyr said: They'll need to be - there are a lot of aircraft on the new maps, I would imagine you can have over half of your team in the air at any one time. It can make it very quiet at ground level. Out of curiosity, is there more than two jets per team per map now?
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youngsyr
6,797 posts
61 months
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Fabric said: Out of curiosity, is there more than two jets per team per map now? I counted two jets, one heli and one gunship on the dessert map. Means if you steal their heli, you can have 8 of your 12 teammates in the air - and the maps are massive!
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Merlin28
653 posts
17 months
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youngsyr said: Only played a couple of games, but I barely saw any enemy.  Feels like a lot of the maps are too big for 24 players. Fantastic maps though - they feel very different to the old ones. Anyone dropped a vehicle through the ice on the frozen lake yet? I took an IFV across and could hear the ice creak! Take some c4 and let us know if you can blow a hole in it, so when XBOX get's it I can lay some traps there's a good slave ha ha.
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Mastodon2
5,745 posts
34 months
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Played on the xbox tonight, no Armoured Kill for me yet, but had a bit of a chance to test out some of the other updates. 1. Assault rifles have taken a pretty heavy nerf - it seemed like every one I tried was bouncing around pretty badly, even on short burst fire. The AEK in particular feels like it has gone from laser pointer of death to a very hard to control gun. 2. The sniper rifle scope draw-back is cool. If you stay scoped while your chamber the next round with the quick pull bolt, the crosshair remains on the screen but the scope pulls back for half a second or so, you get a look at the whole screen, and you can see what is hidden out of view by the blackened area of the scope. Very handy, especially when engaging in crushing spawn rape of some hapless gits on Metro, as you can see everyone who is lining up to get a shot at you for a second. 3. Some funny glitches have appeared. Floating corpses, an enemy "zombie" player whose head was pointed at the floor as he stood in front of us, and he had infinite health. He ran around a while, being ripped by gunfire from 3 or 4 of my team. I think he suicided in the end. 4. The M320 is overpowered as ever, so even if you are s  t at BF, you can simply get the M320 out and spam spam spam! I hope they have increased the mobile AA damage a bit, it was absolutely pathetic previously, and if it has not been increased then I can't see it being any use. It's good for annoying chopper pilots and that is about it. Even when getting loads of hit markers over a sustained period, it seems to do nothing to the things it actually hits. It might as well have been shooting confetti for all the good it did. I hope it's been buffed, if it's to be any use on these new vehicle maps.
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youngsyr
6,797 posts
61 months
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The difference in mobile AA wasn't particularly noticeable in the games I played - still takes a shed load of hits on infantry to do damage. I think it might be slightly better against aircraft, but it still takes a good few seconds of sustained hits to down an attack heli.
I wouldn't worry about the Assault Rifle nerf, you won't be using one for a while anyway - AK is all about engineer and support, possibly with a bit of recon for SOFLAMing and even then you rarely actually shoot someone with your gun. It's mainly vehicle vs vehicle or soldier vs vehicle. I've finished as 1st MVP in a few games of conquest and had only a handful of kills.
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