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Strange that it freezes so much.. Before the patch I had two freezes that I can remember... played yesterday after the patch and it froze twice, both on matches where I wasnt doing to bad either...
 
Blitz187
Strange that it freezes so much.. Before the patch I had two freezes that I can remember... played yesterday after the patch and it froze twice, both on matches where I wasnt doing to bad either...
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I guess the game is set up not to allow Blitz187 good rounds LOL

Thx guys for how to turn off tac light, I won't be flashing my teammates any more :cheers:
 
The freezing might be an issue with the new private servers, but I could just be saying that because that's where my only freeze occurred.

Was playing a few hours ago (3am EST) when PSN seemed to just stop functioning. Thought it was a bit odd when there was a sudden rush of signing out of PSN, before I realized what was happening.
 
Blitz187
Strange that it freezes so much.. Before the patch I had two freezes that I can remember... played yesterday after the patch and it froze twice, both on matches where I wasnt doing to bad either...
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It used to always freeze for me on Sharqi, always, but after about 4-5 times it never happened again.

B2K is taking way too long to download, it's about 120kb/sec. Beyond a joke, that's well under a tenth of the speed I should be getting. It better not freeze as others have had issues with.
 
I bought BF3 today, looking foward to play some multiplayer.
If anyone wants to add me my psn id is wickenex.
 
Mike Rotch
- NB: No more countdown at start of round at deploy! now its 45 secs in the ribbons/ scoreboard screen and then as soon as it goes to the game map, you're off. If you are asleep, you'll lose vital seconds whilst everybody else sprints to tanks/ flags. Sucks if you need to change equipment at round commencement as you are burning time in the live match basically.
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This really annoys me. For some reason it seems to take me about 2-5 seconds longer to load into the game than anyone else. My buddy is usually in the air by the time im at the spawn screen. I liked the little bit of staging before the rounds, I dont know why they took it away. The least they could of done was add the ability to customise classes in the round screen. Its especially annoying since all of my classes have changed now too. :ouch:

Another thing which I noticed, whenever you press square from the spawn screen to customise loadouts, you select the gun you want to use and then go into its menu to select attachments, and no matter what you do, you always seem to go back to the standard gun for that class/faction. e.g. youre playing as assault and select the AEK, and it changes it to the AK-74. The only way around it is to back out of that menu and change by pressing circle on the bottom thing, then selecting, then going into the menu, then changing your attachments... :banghead:

Anti aliasing off doesnt seem to make any difference graphics or performance wise.

I have noticed that my accuracy has really gone down the tubes. Granted I hadnt played in a few days but it seemed to be taking me forever to shoot people down, and others just plain refused to die. Other times people even looking at me killed me.

Flash suppressor is great now though.
 
Kamuifanboy
I'd actually like to know that too. Could be a real game enhancer to be able to look at terrain before you get there. A good way to plan I think.
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I agree.

Just found a thing the gadget show made for BF3. It's a sim that makes you feel in the game with thousands of pounds put into it. If only I could afford it :(

 
Few more observations (in bullet points) from 1st day of patch:

- first and foremost, crashes mainly occur when you are in Alpha Squad!! Remember to check which squad you're in at the beginning if you don't want to hard reset your PS3

- foregrip is so nerfed that it is absolutely crucial NOT to have it equipped if you want to engage in gunfights at distances longer than 5 meters

- ditto for suppressor , you won't believe the bullet spread with it

- get used to seeing loads of people using heavy barrel and flash suppressor

- flares don't disturb the lock on but if you fire heat seekers after the target deployed flares they still won't connect

- tanks are very easy to destroy even with reactive armor equipped

- choppers are absolutely beastly now if you just stay "below radar" , their unguided missiles completely dominate infantry and 1 strafe=1 dead tank (without gunner I might add)

- INRV got buffed , almost as good as after release of the game

- I wrote about it yesterday but since most people don't know about it yet you can use it to your advantage, Pistols are deadly at medium to long ranges , D E A D L Y!

- initial recoil on many guns makes them very hard to use while firing in bursts

- repair tool kills enemy vehicles in nano second

- AS VAL maybe has extended mags but because of suppressor is completely non efficient as a weapon

- some good guns after patch: AN94, G3A3, SG553 , A91, USAS+buckshot, M60 , RPK (with extended mags it has 200 bullets!!)

- grenade launcher is nerfed badly BUT hand grenades are incredibly buffed (grenade perk comes very handy!)

- 1 javelin (without laser painting) = 1 disabled Tank = 1 dead jeep

Overall I'm 50/50 on the patch, I'll probably get used to it after some time but at the moment I'm bit disappointed with how easy it is to take out tanks (especially with nerf to repair tool). :)
 
mr_geez
- foregrip is so nerfed that it is absolutely crucial NOT to have it equipped if you want to engage in gunfights at distances longer than 5 meters

- ditto for suppressor , you won't believe the bullet spread with it
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That's a shame, I use both on my main weapon. What should I use instead?
 
I noticed the repair tool kill last night, it's awful. I think that's the only really bad thing I've noticed (apart from the crashes).
 
Weird you guys are having crashes, not once have I crashed or frozen since the patch and I've played a fair bit.

I played on a conquest private server last night with 1000 tickets a side :lol: I joined when both were at 800 left and ended up with nearly 20 000 points. Long long game but was a lot of fun, took a little over an hour to complete. That server also had health regeneration turned off which made for some use of the medic pack again, especially since the grenades launcher is awful now.

I really do like the patch but they really dropped the ball on tanks. Tanks are supposed to be more powerful than infantry... It's a tank. Now a guy from across the map locks on with a javelin and I'm disabled, with how long the repair tool takes he has now reloaded and my tank is gone. People are also blowing LAVs out of the water before they even have a chance to make it to shore on Kharg, I'm sure the Canals will be much the same.
 
CMvan46
Weird you guys are having crashes, not once have I crashed or frozen since the patch and I've played a fair bit.
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Same here. 👍 Knock on wood. :)

Has anyone had the chance to play the B2K maps after the patch? I haven't had a single B2K map in rotation for some odd reason. I'll probably jump into a quick match later today to make sure all is good with these maps.

I'm pleased with the patch. Some things I don't like and somethings I do, but I'm sure I'll just get used to all of it in the end.

I got my 2nd service star for the knife and 1st service star with the FAMAS, the foregrip is useless for it, especially with the heavy barrel, just doesn't suit me, but I tire of that gun, I'm going to continue forward with the M416A.
 
Smilenator
That is madness. How many tickets did each team start with?
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NO THIS IS SPARTA!! Lol. Just realised that you need to blow 2 M-coms to get the ribbon before patch it was 3.

[Edit]: How in the hell did i get Flares for Jets?! I have only 68 points for Jets
 
Maybe they've changed it so that it's already there?

Does that mean they've changed M-Com defence as well? YOu know, back to 3, which I've done about 10 times....
 
Sureboss
Does that mean they've changed M-Com defence as well? YOu know, back to 3, which I've done about 10 times....
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If i remember right they've changed it back 3 aswell.
 
What the hell? I tried installing B2K yesterday and it froze and now I tried again and it froze on 58%. And of course it has to do the stupid corrupted system thing.
 
hollidog
Can't change weapons by pressing square
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Glad I wasn't the only one struggling with this :irked:

mr_geez
- foregrip is so nerfed that it is absolutely crucial NOT to have it equipped if you want to engage in gunfights at distances longer than 5 meters

- ditto for suppressor , you won't believe the bullet spread with it

- tanks are very easy to destroy even with reactive armor equipped

- choppers are absolutely beastly now if you just stay "below radar" , their unguided missiles completely dominate infantry and 1 strafe=1 dead tank (without gunner I might add)

- I wrote about it yesterday but since most people don't know about it yet you can use it to your advantage, Pistols are deadly at medium to long ranges , D E A D L Y!

- 1 javelin (without laser painting) = 1 disabled Tank = 1 dead jeep
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Do not like the sounds of these - especially the 1 Jav disable hit to tanks AND OP helis, especially now that the repair tool takes around double the time to do its work to repair machinery.

Some guy was repairing my tank yesterday from 60% and it took FOREVER. He got bored and stopped repairing with 5% to go which means it doesn't repair the tank fully. Luckily hollidog noticed this and finished the task...
 
If you get an OP heli, just get team mate to SOFLAM whilst you Javelwin them. Did that at Canals when they kept taking the Little Birds.

It's not always a one hit to disable with the Javelin, though it can be. I don't know why they made changes to the repair torch, if it ain't broke, etc.

Anyway, infuriating game at Metro (as per usual, horrible map, the game is too clunky for close quarters) finished the night off for me, even if I was going quite well with the SKS, can't be bothered when pinned back to base when there's so much lag about.
 
I honestly can't tell if I did really bad when I tried playing because I've not been playing much or if it's because of the changes but I'm seriously getting frustrated. It seems like my bullets literally don't do **** and the recoil just seems awful with a foregrip attached.
 

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