Battlefield 3

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Also the M1911 was bugged, I think it had a sort of delay between shots if you timed the shots slightly wrong so they might have just fixed that and otherwise left it alone. That's one gun I'd like to try again, actually, it seems to bridge the gap between the automatic pistols and revolvers so maybe I'd get on with it quite well.
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Just re-switched away from the M1911 back to the MP443 Supp, primarily as the MP has a significantly larger clip size, essentially the same fire rate and same recoil. So often I ran out of bullets with the M19 when revived in the middle of a fire fight, and running out of clip just at the wrong time.

wicken
So I just started playing multiplayer today, anyone can tell which weapons are the best for each class? please.
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Welcome aboard laddie 👍.

I'd rather say there is no "best weapon" for any of the classes and it comes down to what 'feels' right to each individual. For example, do you like high rate of fire, high recoil guns, or low recoil, steady fire weapons? The high ROF gun will own in close quarters, but the steady recoil will own over longer distances.

Since the last patch, my favourite weapons have changed up, so you just have to find what works for you. The starter weapons for assault, engineer and support are solid weapons all round, it would not hurt to stick with them for a bit to level them up. 👍
 
My setup are as follows:
Assault-AN 94.
Engineer-G36C/M4/P90-(small enclosed seine, metro type maps)
Support-M60/P90......
Recon-M98B & SKS.

if your looking for strong weapons in each class i would recommend these as they feel great to me. ofcourse its personal tastes so its not guaranteed they would suit you. ;)
 
Some more thoughts after playing the patch for a few days.

1)still no Asian rush servers. In fact, I don't know if there are any Asian servers. why Dice, why? I end up on servers with Europeans, australians, or americans. With no dedicated RUsh servers in Asia I am using the server browser to join custom Rush servers.

2)Almost no one uses the repair tool anymore as it is pretty much useless, but you see mines everywhere. I am back to mines as well.

3)tanks tend to be left alone in the deployment as they are far more fragile. I take them out occasionally and will get a few kills if lucky but have to bail early because there's no hope in trying to keep a tank alive.

4)Rush games tend to bog down in the first couple sets of Mcoms. I don't see many Rush games going the distance anymore, however,

5)No full servers. A server with 12 people on each side is a thing of the past. The average I see now is about 8. The games go by faster with fewer kills.

My M60E4 is a monster now. I run with bipod and PKS sight. I can point it in the direction of some orange triangles and get multiple suppression assist. Haven't yet tried out the other LMGs as the pig performs so well.

Claymores disappearing when you die is terrible. Who thought up that idea?

I'm going back and reusing weapons I haven't touched in a while trying to notice differences. Current assault setup is M16A4 with rifle scope, bipod, and heavy barrel. running the M412 REX as a sidearm is fun. That thing is loud.

I'm sticking with the AS VAL (mostly on my engineer class) trying to get to 200 kills to get extended mags. gun doesn't seem as rewarding as before.

One more thing: Suppression is a little too much now. It's very easy to get suppression ribbons but I don't really care for those. I was doing very well holding down a choke point by myself with my M60e4. I was caught mid reload by a guy in the distance burst firing at me with his L85A2. I managed to stay alive and finish the reload and get my gun back on the bipod and started laying into him. My crosshairs were right on his chest as he run towards me but I didn't even get hitmarkers. Of course, I died. It seems whomever pulls the trigger first now is going to win (despite being on target or not) as being suppressed is a huge disadvantage even if you hold the position and firepower advantage.
 
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I had a few great games last night when I could finally get into a rhythm without having a freeze every two rounds. The patch has definitely made this game far more unstable for me. Previously, I used to only freeze regularly on Caspian. Now I have frozen every game at Bazaar (one of my favourite maps), regular freezes on Tehran and freezes with the same frequency on Caspian.
There is nothing on my HDD other than game saves and a couple of PS1 classics, so I dont think its that. I have AA switched off and I know its not my connection.
I think Im going to have to try and do a database rebuild. Has anyone done any of these and if so, have they fixed the issue?

I really love Squad Rush. Had about 5 epic games on it last night, four of us in a squad all on skype. Was so intense. One round on Canals the enemy got the LAV stuck in that place by the truck where B is, in that little fenced off area, so one of us got in it and soon every other squad was there trying to take it out. There were dudes coming from all angles and it all got pretty hairy pretty quickly. Was great fun though and super close.
The first map we joined only three of us were together and we were down by about 20 points, came back to win 50-46-43-17. Such a good mode if you can get everyone co-ordinated, and with constant revives you get very few deaths.

Really want to be able to have the same fun with SQRush, but I can never find any servers. We played a couple of rounds on a clan server yesterday, but its a bit hard to compete against guys who obviously have much more organisation than us. One map we did get really close though and had the bomb armed with 0 tickets left on the last base. But we got wiped and we lost. Its a very tactical game mode.
 
Patrick
I'm really loving the new sounds. The guns sound so much better.
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Agree with this 👍.
Had a chance to turn my system up louder today. Sounds fantastic, not that it was bad before but a nice improvement.

Cheers Shaun.
 
Patrick
Assault- M16A3 (starting weapon)
Engineer- M4A1 (starting weapon)
Support- PKP Pecheng
Recon- I think it's the M98B, but they're all pretty similar.
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I disagree.
Assault-L85A2 (not sure about the name)
Engineer-M4
Support-M249
Recon-M40something or SV98
 
Thanks for the games hollidog and Patrick 👍 I do like seeing it when GTP peeps pop up when I am playing.

So I switched to IRNV sights with the PKP as it's apparently been buffed, and yea, not too bad. I find it easier to get more hit markers with that then the PKS 3.4. Just have to remember you have no peripheral vision and its not a distance sight at all, which is probably a good reminder for me to play the class, not be Rambo. P90 is a great weapon now for engi - recoil, what's that guv?

Dragonistic - excellent call on the SKS as an assault rifle. Does a very good job, even with lousy aim and iron sights. 👍

I've decided a new tactic with tanks. I'll give em a go but keep a stinger at hand. Even if I get 3 kills or a flag before it gets blown up, its a net win. I have been enjoying success with it at Caspian and Canals. Firestorm is a no-no due to the huge open spaces jets can pick you off in.

Disabled another 6 choppers today, at this rate, nobody will want to buy the Armoured Fight DLC!
 
New sounds? I should really pop this game in sometime.

Since happycorey is gone, who will I play with? i
 
Mike Rotch
Thanks for the games hollidog and Patrick 👍 I do like seeing it when GTP peeps pop up when I am playing.Disabled another 6 choppers today, at this rate, nobody will want to buy the Armoured Fight DLC!
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It was a great game! 👍 I'm loving the Javelwin.

Cale
New sounds? I should really pop this game in sometime.

Since happycorey is gone, who will I play with? i
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Mike, Dragonistic, Holli, Gundi, myself, and a few others. :)
 
Mike Rotch
Just re-switched away from the M1911 back to the MP443 Supp, primarily as the MP has a significantly larger clip size, essentially the same fire rate and same recoil. So often I ran out of bullets with the M19 when revived in the middle of a fire fight, and running out of clip just at the wrong time.


Welcome aboard laddie 👍.

I'd rather say there is no "best weapon" for any of the classes and it comes down to what 'feels' right to each individual. For example, do you like high rate of fire, high recoil guns, or low recoil, steady fire weapons? The high ROF gun will own in close quarters, but the steady recoil will own over longer distances.
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I like weapons that have high rate of fire and steady recoil, for example now I am using MP7 with the assault class. I like that weapon but sometimes when I start shooting I lose control.
 
Anyone able to get a custom server rotation going, if anyone has a rented server or has admin capabilities on one?

When I set mine to random start, it just goes in order that the map rotation was picked.
 
I don't really sense a difference in noise. Are there only certain things that changed? Although this is my first time playing in a month.
 
Cowboys965
I don't really sense a difference in noise. Are there only certain things that changed? Although this is my first time playing in a month.
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"Turn it up man!!!!"

What do you run for sound? I noticed a big difference even on crappy TV (viore) speakers at work.
Wife's going out tonight so Ill be able to give it a go on the 65" with surround sound using my racing seat with rear satellites mounted to it. Glad I made my racing cockpit a modular unit. The chair is awesome for everything, but having company over ;)
 
Caz
"Turn it up man!!!!"

What do you run for sound? I noticed a big difference even on crappy TV (viore) speakers at work.
Wife's going out tonight so Ill be able to give it a go on the 65" with surround sound using my racing seat with rear satellites mounted to it. Glad I made my racing cockpit a modular unit. The chair is awesome for everything, but having company over ;)
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An HDTV.
 
Trust me, now that I've used a few more guns I can sense small differences in the way they sound. Like the M4A1 now has more of a low *bang* to it. Like the bass notes in it were amplified.
 
BLITZ_69
Trust me, now that I've used a few more guns I can sense small differences in the way they sound. Like the M4A1 now has more of a low *bang* to it. Like the bass notes in it were amplified.
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Yep agreed. I've got a soundbar with a sub and the bass is amazing! I've also got a headset and a lot of little sounds seem to have been amplified a bit too. It's two very different experiences going from the headset to soundbar.
 
I was playing on Seine once and was standing at the base of the staircase between the B and D flags. I looked over and was a guy in the window of the corner building opposite the street (the far one, not the close one). Feeling troll~ish, I whipped out my smoke launcher with the intent to smoke out the camper. What I got was a shot through the window resulting in a headshot kill. I busted up with laughter over the mic.
 
Cowboys965
An HDTV.
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You should invest in a soundbar or nice headphones. This game has phenominal sounds which just got better.
I use sound cues alot to detect enemy fire, find helicopters a little faster.
A decent sound setup will change the game for you.
 
Cowboys965
I sniped a Little Bird pilot :D
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So sattisfying.!


Thursday night I was attacking a on kkargh island. An enemy jumped in the buggy and headed straight forward going for a road kill. Killed him and hit O at the same time and stole it. Kill can must've been funny as I didn't realize at first and thought I was watching a kill can myself.

I try it often but this was the first success. I loved it in BC 2 with the quads
 
Use the M40A5. The M24 and the M40 are both based off of the Remington 700. The M24 is the U.S. Army's version and the M40 is the Marines version.
 
Cowboys965
Sniping was much better (and more fun) in BC2. <3 M24
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Agreed, really its the only class I used. Loved the vSS.

I hated conquest on BC and played exclusively rush. Bf is just the opposite and I barely snipe. I was an aggressive sniper tho and was always arming/disarming.

One of my highlights was a 27-0 as defender game on VAL pariso. ( attackers start uphill, big lighthouse).
The attackers didn't get past first set of mcoms.

27 of 75 kills. Not sure what the other 11 guys were doing ;) as those 27 kills were still working down the hill and never made it out of the woods. Lol.
 
Caz
Agreed, really its the only class I used. Loved the vSS.

I hated conquest on BC and played exclusively rush. Bf is just the opposite and I barely snipe. I was an aggressive sniper tho and was always arming/disarming.

One of my highlights was a 27-0 as defender game on VAL pariso. ( attackers start uphill, big lighthouse).
The attackers didn't get past first set of mcoms.

27 of 75 kills. Not sure what the other 11 guys were doing ;) as those 27 kills were still working down the hill and never made it out of the woods. Lol.
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I remember the VSS Special with a 12x scope on SQ DM. Good times. Actually worked well.

I had 400-500+ Kills with the M24. I haven't unlocked the M40 yet, it's my next unlock.
 
Nice thing about the vss was full auto. You could run it.as an assault rifle if you were careful about picking battles. As long as you got the drop you'd win.

I miss the old uavs as well.
 
Battlefield 3 is like Medal of Honor.

I hope BC3 isn't like this. I want it like BC2 was. Perfect. Old maps too.
 

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