Battlefield 3: Extreme Multiplayer Awesomeness

Alex_Pirani · 2012-03-21T23:35:22.000Z

Can’t wait to rake in points spamming medkits and ammo boxes!

Cobra · 2012-03-22T01:55:06.000Z

Try shotguns. The USAS will be king of the battlefield once those maps get released.

TurinTur · 2012-03-22T02:24:15.000Z

Zuwadza:

Official trailer for the CQ expansion is out.

I really hope there’s more to the expansion that CQ maps and if not I hope the new maps are more like Seine Crossing and Grand Bazaar, and less like Métro.

They are going to be smaller than Metro, not bigger.

Rory_Stewart · 2012-03-22T05:15:02.000Z

I won’t be getting the CQ maps as I find that CoD style of play distressing but you can’t blame them for releasing them considering how popular that style of play is.

TimJames · 2012-03-22T05:43:05.000Z

The closest you come to this type of tight combat scenario in Battlefield 3 is on Operation Métro. We know this is one of our most popular maps, which tells us that our gameplay has what it takes to perform in such unique and frantic conditions.
It’s popular because it’s easy to grind points. No one actually plays Metro.

Shellfishguy · 2012-03-22T05:45:40.000Z

^ That, its my map of choice when I want to grind out some points or try to get that next unlock. But I will say that Metro on Rush is still a fun map.

Zuwadza · 2012-03-22T09:17:20.000Z

TurinTur:

They are going to be smaller than Metro, not bigger.

Boo. Oh well, I don’t think I’m the target audience for these maps anyway.

Alex_Pirani · 2012-03-23T00:52:20.000Z

TurinTur:

They are going to be smaller than Metro, not bigger.

I mean metro isn’t that small, its just one long bottleneck. Most of my games on metro are almost entirely played in one area of the map because it’s so difficult for either side to push forward.
These maps are going to be claustrophobic shit shows, but hell they might still be fun. A major problem will be the USAS which pretty much turns any infantry only map into shotgun deatmatch mode
I’m just looking forward to new stuff to unlock at this point though

Rory_Stewart · 2012-03-23T06:17:09.000Z

I would be a bit worried about shitty random spawn points as they seem to place you in front of a moving bullet even when you play a big map.

TurinTur · 2012-03-24T14:32:18.000Z

Very very long changelog here
http://blogs.battlefield.com/2012/03/game-update-will-drop-on-the-27th-of-march-for-playstation-3-xbox-360-and-pc-will-come-soon/

Island_Dog · 2012-03-27T08:02:13.000Z

Aye, that’s gonna take some time to read through.

TimJames · 2012-03-27T08:24:03.000Z

To save you some time: a lot of it looks similar to the last changelog we saw. They may not have released that patch yet.

TurinTur · 2012-03-27T08:36:20.000Z

New DLC!

Mmm somewhat.

Telefrog · 2012-03-27T08:42:00.000Z

Hilarious.

Bill · 2012-03-27T11:38:06.000Z

Has anyone else been having problems finding well populated servers over the past few days or so? I don’t know if everyone abandoned the game suddenly but I’m having trouble getting into games that are more than 8 v 8 (I’m on 360). Or maybe the matching system broke; I seem to remember that happening with one of the BCs for a time.

LMN8R · 2012-03-27T11:52:42.000Z

The population certainly hasn’t dropped much in the last few months. The concurrent numbers reported here are just as high as they’ve been since a few weeks after the game’s release:

http://bf3stats.com/

MrCoffee · 2012-03-27T12:31:43.000Z

Hah Argentina dissapeared from the region filter list.

Zuwadza · 2012-03-27T12:45:04.000Z

The improvements to the bipod are nice. Depending on the undeployed recoil reduction bonus, I might be tempted to take it for ARs.

Edit: I’m also interested in the heavy barrel improvements. The vertical recoil it adds really doesn’t make up for the minimal aimed accuracy improvement.

MrCoffee · 2012-03-27T12:59:06.000Z

Damm Turin, how do you make so much SPM.

MrCoffee · 2012-03-27T13:44:23.000Z

What is this matches thingie on my battlelog?