Battlefield 3 - PC Players Thread

[OMNIO]

evosticks said:

Just out of interest what controllers are you folks using? Being a cack-handed witch I'm using mouse in my left hand for aim/fire etc and moving with cursors keys with CTRL for jump, DEL for reload, RSHIFT for prone which has seen me OK through the years. Always find myself running out of buttons on that part of the keyboard however & wondered about one of the Logictech G13 and 'reprogramming' myself to use mouse in the right hand..

Standard K/B & a G500 mouse. Standard key binds as well. I've only changed hold to zoom to click to zoom. I too am a lefty witch but weirdly i play right handed lol.

I want to change 'F' to Granade and mousewheel click to knife though - as per BC2.

Im gonna splash out on a cheap joystick this weekend for use in air vehicles.

Maybe our server admin could put a password on and make it unranked for a day (or evening) so we could all have a practice without fear of Teamkills & suicides? I would certainly find it useful.

[mackie1]

I'd be up for a bit of practice (and stats padding! ;P)
I might dig my joystick out too.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

I'm like you Omnio...a lefty but using the right hand for mouse.


I've kept standard binds as well pretty much. Using a Razer Deathadder, I've binded the 4 & 5 buttons to use the Gadgets. Allows me to quickly throw a med kit or pull out the defibs without being a muppet and pressing the wrong number key.

[Digger]

Am i the only person to bind walking forward (W) to the right mouse button in an FPS? Makes much more sense to me, leaving left hand to scuttle sideways and backwards.

Also has anyone been able to bind an action to mousewheel roll up or down?

Edited by Digger on Monday 31st October 17:54

[swiftpete]

Cheers guys, I can't remember what card my mate has, it's better than mine though. I'm running at 1920x1200 on a 27 inch monitor. I was expecting it to be jerky to be honest. Maybe I just haven't played enough.

[swiftpete]

mackie1 said:

What framerate are you getting and at what res? Chances are you simply aren't getting Ultra even though you're choosing that option as that's a DX10 card. It's still MUCH faster than the minimum spec 8800GT but quite lot slower than something like a GTX 560 Ti.

It's a DX11 card actually. I'll tell my mate about capping the framerate, that could be his problem.

[OMNIO]

Just a Heads up. Due to origin being the work of idiots I have to share a soldier with my two brothers! Skill levels may vary!

[Oakey]

my joystick works, I cannot get the yaw left or right to bind to the x axis though. At the moment I'm using the twist function which works but it feels sluggish turning using that. I've mapped roll to the POV hat

[keith HF]

FUBAR	Foobes
peanutjb	peteb86
RussellG	RussellGrant
Spiritual Beggar	5piritua1_Beggar
mister v	killf3st
Zaxxon	Skunkmiester
Oakey	DannyX360
JR502	Cpt_Braindamage
Boulderpaul	Boulderpaul
Nasta	Teamsreth
Jinx	Fadingfool
evosticks	TedMaulReporting
Jazzer77	Jazzer777
joebongo	joebongo
130R	llme751
mackie1	mackie1001
robmlufc	RobGT40
Dele	XvenKruspe
Fewzz	BallisticMuppet
Omnio	0mni0
M@verick	Maverick1974UK
keith HF	sh0plifter

Thought i'd add my name look forward to somes games with you guys. Thats with a zero in my origin id btw.

[Daston]

Oakey said:

my joystick works, I cannot get the yaw left or right to bind to the x axis though. At the moment I'm using the twist function which works but it feels sluggish turning using that. I've mapped roll to the POV hat

I know the feeling their key bindings are very broken, it picks my throttle up as Trigger 1 and the the trigger as the hat!

This caused my infantry dude to unload his clip due to fire being trigger 1 lol

[Oakey]

Daston said:

I know the feeling their key bindings are very broken, it picks my throttle up as Trigger 1 and the the trigger as the hat!

This caused my infantry dude to unload his clip due to fire being trigger 1 lol

my throttle up and down are seen as trigger 1 and 2. The trigger and the other buttons show up as d-pad up, down, left and right. I found it helps if you unbind all the joystick buttons for on foot.

you can't even easily edit any config files to rectify it.

eta: the pathetic thing is if you look at ea forums these exact same problems existed in bfbc2. Why hasn't this been fixed? I never had these problems in bf1942. Why, all these years later, is it now broke? It's a bit of a step backwards for something not to work that did originally.

also eta: okay, just found something on ea forums that might help. For vehicle and on foot unbind all the joystick controls, for helis and jets unbind all keyboard and mouse controls. Should now be able to map joystick properly. Yet to try this though.

Edited by Oakey on Monday 31st October 20:43

[jr502]

Oakey said:

my throttle up and down are seen as trigger 1 and 2. The trigger and the other buttons show up as d-pad up, down, left and right. I found it helps if you unbind all the joystick buttons for on foot.

you can't even easily edit any config files to rectify it.

eta: the pathetic thing is if you look at ea forums these exact same problems existed in bfbc2. Why hasn't this been fixed? I never had these problems in bf1942. Why, all these years later, is it now broke? It's a bit of a step backwards for something not to work that did originally.

also eta: okay, just found something on ea forums that might help. For vehicle and on foot unbind all the joystick controls, for helis and jets unbind all keyboard and mouse controls. Should now be able to map joystick properly. Yet to try this though.

Edited by Oakey on Monday 31st October 20:43

I've unbound keyboard and mouse for jet/heli, and vice versa, but I still can't get it to recognise my logitech extreme 3d pro. Really annoying as I bought it today, just for this game.

[Oakey]

have you tried unbinding them all, saving, exiting, then restarting and trying to bind them?

[130R]

I can't hit a barn door in a jet

[jr502]

Oakey said:

have you tried unbinding them all, saving, exiting, then restarting and trying to bind them?

yeah, tried that, but still no joy.

[Jazzer77]

Saw my first cheater today. 78 kills to 9 ratio. Never crouched or lay prone to increase accuracy, just fired from the hip on the run. Shot me through the windscreen from a long way off....Lots of people on the server complaining.
Hopefully PB will be updated.

[dele]

Jazzer77 said:

Saw my first cheater today. 78 kills to 9 ratio. Never crouched or lay prone to increase accuracy, just fired from the hip on the run. Shot me through the windscreen from a long way off....Lots of people on the server complaining.
Hopefully PB will be updated.

On the Pistonheads server?

Also sorry about earlier gents, it crashed during mapchange again, sadly all servers are prone to this so we just have to sit and wait for it to become stable

[swiftpete]

Hmm my system keeps crashing. Forget what I wrote earlier about it working alright at ultra on a hd5770! I'm going to try it at on high as the system recommends.

[Vieste]

keith HF said:

FUBAR||Foobes||

peanutjb	peteb86
RussellG	RussellGrant
Spiritual Beggar	5piritua1_Beggar
mister v	killf3st
Zaxxon	Skunkmiester
Oakey	DannyX360
JR502	Cpt_Braindamage
Boulderpaul	Boulderpaul
Nasta	Teamsreth
Jinx	Fadingfool
evosticks	TedMaulReporting
Jazzer77	Jazzer777
joebongo	joebongo
130R	llme751
mackie1	mackie1001
robmlufc	RobGT40
Dele	XvenKruspe
Fewzz	BallisticMuppet
Omnio	0mni0
M@verick	Maverick1974UK
keith HF	sh0plifter

Thought i'd add my name look forward to somes games with you guys. Thats with a zero in my origin id btw.

Keep a space for me i will get the game this week.

[Speedy11]

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peanutjb	peteb86
RussellG	RussellGrant
Spiritual Beggar	5piritua1_Beggar
mister v	killf3st
Zaxxon	Skunkmiester
Oakey	DannyX360
JR502	Cpt_Braindamage
Boulderpaul	Boulderpaul
Nasta	Teamsreth
Jinx	Fadingfool
evosticks	TedMaulReporting
Jazzer77	Jazzer777
joebongo	joebongo
130R	llme751
mackie1	mackie1001
robmlufc	RobGT40
Dele	XvenKruspe
Fewzz	BallisticMuppet
Omnio	0mni0
M@verick	Maverick1974UK
keith HF	sh0plifter
Speedy11	Lotus11