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KemP

492 posts

206 months

Sunday 22nd April 2012
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Found this excellent series of videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxESJafe-U&fea...

Sway

26,070 posts

193 months

Sunday 22nd April 2012
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youngsyr said:
Could an admin on the PS3 PH server please drop the minimum number of players to 1? It's currently set at 4 and there were 3 of us on it last night not being able to play a game (score any points, lose tickets etc) until someone else joined.

As no-one else joined for 10 minutes or so the player count dropped until it was just me left. If you actually play a game with just 1 or 2 people, it would encourage people to hang around longer waiting for others to join. smile
I think it's already at the lowest setting.

Sorry bud, assume it's to try and stop stat boosting.

crocodile tears

755 posts

145 months

Sunday 22nd April 2012
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KemP said:
Found this excellent series of videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxESJafe-U&fea...
hehe the tank one is very good too but it doesnt appear to be on that list

youngsyr

14,742 posts

191 months

Sunday 22nd April 2012
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Sway said:
I think it's already at the lowest setting.

Sorry bud, assume it's to try and stop stat boosting.
Oh, ok. Didn't realise. Thanks anyway. I'm pretty sure I've been on a game that reduced down to just two players and the game continued as normal? Maybe I'm mistaken though.

Just post up if you're going to set up a fund for the server though, I'll happily chuck in a few beer tokens.

Allaloneatron

3,123 posts

239 months

Sunday 22nd April 2012
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youngsyr said:
Could an admin on the PS3 PH server please drop the minimum number of players to 1? It's currently set at 4 and there were 3 of us on it last night not being able to play a game (score any points, lose tickets etc) until someone else joined.

As no-one else joined for 10 minutes or so the player count dropped until it was just me left. If you actually play a game with just 1 or 2 people, it would encourage people to hang around longer waiting for others to join. smile
Im quite glad it wasnt running as a normal game, as me trying to down you two in the Heli with my LMG wasnt really working was it. It would have been toast for my KD*.

*Which doesn't matter one tiny bit in BF games

Antimus

468 posts

189 months

Sunday 22nd April 2012
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WhiteBaron said:
Ps sorry spetz for the TK obviously a little 'too' excited.

Steve

Baron blanc
Following on from your apology, Sorry I TK'd you smile

youngsyr

14,742 posts

191 months

Sunday 22nd April 2012
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Allaloneatron said:
youngsyr said:
Could an admin on the PS3 PH server please drop the minimum number of players to 1? It's currently set at 4 and there were 3 of us on it last night not being able to play a game (score any points, lose tickets etc) until someone else joined.

As no-one else joined for 10 minutes or so the player count dropped until it was just me left. If you actually play a game with just 1 or 2 people, it would encourage people to hang around longer waiting for others to join. smile
Im quite glad it wasnt running as a normal game, as me trying to down you two in the Heli with my LMG wasnt really working was it. It would have been toast for my KD*.

*Which doesn't matter one tiny bit in BF games
I was surprised you kept trying!

Why didn't you get in the AA, use the tanks or try a stinger?!

Jimmy No Hands

5,007 posts

155 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Servers down for anyone else? Just keep getting the EA message about not being able to connect. Wanted some morning BF action on my last day off!

Timsta

2,779 posts

245 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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crocodile tears said:
hehe the tank one is very good too but it doesnt appear to be on that list
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID5OhZtxaIQ&fea...

recalluk

810 posts

235 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Jimmy No Hands said:
Servers down for anyone else? Just keep getting the EA message about not being able to connect. Wanted some morning BF action on my last day off!
According to twitter another 45 mins. But yes down for all.

Jimmy No Hands

5,007 posts

155 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Oh okay, thanks a lot. I checked the server status page but it just said up. smile

Otispunkmeyer

12,557 posts

154 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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DanB7290 said:
Dixie68 said:
Shortcut bundles - whose crappy idea was that? I'm getting stuffed by people of low rank with awesome weapons because they've tapped up mummy for the shortcut.
I used the shortcut for the engineer pack only, being a newcomer I was getting a bit bored of being raped by the people who've done nothing but play this, drink Mountain Dew and masturbate since it came out, it unlocks the weapons and gadgets but not the attachments, spent ages just trying to get an ACOG sight for the G36C
I thought of buying a bundle as well...

But I refrained. I May do it for the recon kit, I do like to play with sniper rifles in games but in BF3 i just dont have the dexterity on the dual shock to play recon properly, so after a 3 minute go as recon I haven't been back. I'll never be good enough on the pad to get the unlocks. I wouldnt mind having the option of unlocking the best rifles, but I guess it would be curiosity only as I like playing Engineer or Support far too much.

Thankfully I have started unlock gadgets and guns for the Engineer now... but I do agree, if you just play occaisionally its going to take you a long time to get the unlocks and thats a lot of time spent with the base guns getting royally served by people who play 24/7. One game I was in I think my mean alive time was about 10 seconds. Would of had a bit more chance if I'd had a better weapon maybe.

Having said that, on the US team I really like the base assualt rifle (M4A1? or something) I think its quite good, better than the SCAR-H and the PP2000. But I am so awful at aiming I rarely kill anyone anyway. Better to get in a heli or tank with a good pilot and repair for your life!!!... was on a good game with someone in the little bird, fixing them up while people were trying to shoot them out the sky.


Jimmy No Hands

5,007 posts

155 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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I undertook a slightly unorthodox but unquestionably effective method of dealing with a fantastic heli/gunner combo just now. He was devastatingly good, and I knew I couldn't out fly him so I opted for the Jihad way. After a third successful kamikazee he inboxed me and called me a noob. cool

Yes you could argue it was a waste of a plane, but they weren't being used. I did the team more of a favor that way, plus its funny.

cal216610

7,839 posts

169 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Just got PS3 and i bought BF3 and the Karkland maps, currently spent 2.25hrs and seriously suffering due to lack of weapons and the PS controller.
I have no intention of buying any of the packs as it won't make much difference to my gaming.
I'm st with a st gun and st with a good gun.
But it's still fun and enjoy every bit.
Not found graphic, gameplay or anything else different from the XBOX it just allows me to play upstairs or downstairs whenever i want. thumbup

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youngsyr

14,742 posts

191 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Jimmy No Hands said:
I undertook a slightly unorthodox but unquestionably effective method of dealing with a fantastic heli/gunner combo just now. He was devastatingly good, and I knew I couldn't out fly him so I opted for the Jihad way. After a third successful kamikazee he inboxed me and called me a noob. cool

Yes you could argue it was a waste of a plane, but they weren't being used. I did the team more of a favor that way, plus its funny.
That's one of my pet peeves and not exactly unorthodox, for every 20 minutes I spend in a heli, I would expect to be "jet Kamikazee killed" at least once and I'm a distinctly average pilot. The problem is that the more people you kill in the heli, the more people will try to take you out by crashing a jet into you.

It's not just against helis either - check out the Javelin Squad's Caspian Borders video on youtube. People try to take out infantry by crashing jets into them! By the end of the round they're running around with bits of undercarriage and airplane surrounding them! laugh

It's totally unrealistic. but I can see why people do it. It is annoying when you're happily racking up a streak and someone does it to you though.

Jimmy No Hands

5,007 posts

155 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Yeah admittedly I felt a bit nooby. But nobody else was making an effort to take him out, so I thought fk it.

Muska

1,125 posts

181 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Yep, definitely a noob tactic. There are many other ways to dispose of a chopper, especially now an unguided RPG/tank shell is now an instant kill.

A.J.M

7,893 posts

185 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Muska said:
Yep, definitely a noob tactic. There are many other ways to dispose of a chopper, especially now an unguided RPG/tank shell is now an instant kill.
If they are a decent pilot then hitting them with unguided stuff is good going.

I still go for the 6 c4 strapped onto the jihad jet approach, noobish it may be but a sure fire way of getting rid of them instead of firing and hoping for the best. smile

Anyway, RPK with bipod and ext mags is my favourite gun yet. So good to deploy and hose bullets at people.
Went 23-0 on rush on bazaar with it.

youngsyr

14,742 posts

191 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Muska said:
Yep, definitely a noob tactic. There are many other ways to dispose of a chopper, especially now an unguided RPG/tank shell is now an instant kill.
Even equipping a stinger as an engineer, staying in cover away from an objective and continually locking on and firing missiles at them is enough to severely curtail most chopper pilot's dominance.

Even if they keep breaking/dodging the lock, they'll soon get fed up of spending their time dodging missiles rather than killing stuff and go and bother someone else on the other side of the map instead.

I find a lot of the time people (including me) are so set on playing a particular set up, whether to unlock kit, ribbons or medals, or purely through preference, that they aren't prepared to change a set up to counter an enemy's dominant play.

One of the aspects of BF3 that I really like is how balanced it is - there's a natural counter to pretty much any style of play (except perhaps high level teamwork), but I'm constantly surprised at how few people, including very experienced players, have mastered the different classes and kits.

I like to think that I'm proficient, if not exactly great, in pretty much any role from counter-sniper to meat grinding assault to anti-tank heli pilot. I haven't got the hang of jets yet, but it's rare that they pose much of a threat to winning a game and I can deal with them effectively enough in an attack heli. Nonetheless, after I've got a bit more time in helis I'll be donning the aviators and trying to work out how to kill infantry at 300mph+!

Joyrider1

2,900 posts

170 months

Monday 23rd April 2012
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Can someone tell me how to use that third gun (if that's what it is) on a tank? Every now and then I jump in a tank that already has 2 people in it and I get different crosshairs to normal and all I can do is switch infrared on/off. I don't seem to be able to shoot with it.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick here and it's not actually a gun?