Battlefield 3: Extreme Multiplayer Awesomeness

Woolen_Horde · 2012-03-29T23:25:35.000Z

Cobra:

Which is bullshit considering how hard it is to keep a helicopter in the air. Jets can easily avoid a lock-on in the first place now that the Below Radar perk works on Stingers and IGLA’s too.

I just played for the first time since December. Wake Island. God, the helicopter guys are frickin’ nap-of-the-earth at about neck level, mowing guys down. Total nightmare.

wumpus · 2012-03-30T02:35:30.000Z

A few thoughts:

a) bipods are WAY better. The zoomed out view is practical and it deploys so much faster with less fuss.

b) suppression is a big deal now. If anyone is firing at you, at any time, with any caliber weapon, you’ll get suppression. And the suppression effect on your aim is stronger.

c) revive interval is longer, finally, so you can get to dead people a lot more often as assault.

d) nice that they made each weapon gadget have pros and cons so there’s more variety in loadouts, not one “perfect” loadout of suppressor + foregrip.

e) definitely runs a bit faster for me, maybe 10-20%?

So many changes it’s hard to process them all, but finally you won’t get outshot by someone prone when you have the bipod. Looks like the focus (beyond obvious balance tweaks) was to take items nobody was using and make them actually USEFUL, finally.

Jazar · 2012-03-30T05:23:33.000Z

I’m still kind of a noob but I’m digging the new patch. This game is now my favorite FPS game of all time. The scope of the battlefield, the vehicles, the endless weapons and gadgets, the teamwork, the glorious graphics and sound… so awesome.

Zuwadza · 2012-03-30T13:23:11.000Z

The bipod is actually viable for ARs now. I played around with it a little last night on a couple (F2000, M16 and variants). Bipod and heavy barrel turn ARs into laser beams of death even at a good distance. Great combo for some of the more open maps, like Caspian and Karkand.

Still feel a little ambivalent about the heavy barrel though. With the bipod deployed it’s great, but without it I find the vertical recoil to be too annoying.

wumpus · 2012-03-30T15:50:20.000Z

Yeah the vertical recoil is CRAZY with the damn heavy barrel now.

Flash suppressor seems like the better non-bipod choice.

wumpus · 2012-03-31T00:28:52.000Z

wow the SKS is beyond awesome now.

I’m a super shitty sniper so I loved to spam the SKS (it’s basically a fancy click-to-fire assault rifle with longer range). It was so-so before, now it’s kind of monstrously accurate almost as fast as you can click similar to the handguns.

Witness me going 18-0 with it (granted the teams were a little stacked, but that’s probably a record for me in 100 hours of gameplay)

Gutsball · 2012-03-31T00:39:41.000Z

I noticed the same thing. I was a few kills from an unlock so I started using it and I was dropping guys in one shot all over the map. Maybe that’s why they’ve brought everything down at 1 am on a Friday for some kind of fix.

TurinTur · 2012-03-31T00:48:07.000Z

I have the feeling I will have now to relearn several weapons and accessories.

wumpus · 2012-03-31T01:59:10.000Z

I just realized this patch is perfect for me:

suppression is much more common
suppression is stronger (big effect on aim)
bipods are way more effective on all guns

I’m a bullet spammer, man. It’s what I do. This patch IS THE BOMB!

I can out SKS other snipers because I suppress the hell out of them (preventing them from targetting me) while peppering them with vaguely accurate shots and spotting them with the Q key.

Unfortunately the machine guns got tweaked a bit, too: the PKP RIP.

Woolen_Horde · 2012-03-31T08:06:30.000Z

wumpus:

Yeah the vertical recoil is CRAZY with the damn heavy barrel now.

Flash suppressor seems like the better non-bipod choice.

Is that what’s causing my bursts to go everywhere??? Jeezus, gonna have to play with that.

TurinTur · 2012-03-31T10:52:44.000Z

Hah ha hah, I was in Caspian Border, driving a jeep flanking an enemy tank, and bam! I am dead. And I see some weird red thing on the death cam… it was the frigging antenna, the tip of the antenna fell just on top of my jeep.

MrCoffee · 2012-03-31T11:17:23.000Z

I killed you twice!

TurinTur · 2012-03-31T11:21:44.000Z

Or even more! But Senna is too cramped for that number of players. I switched servers.

Cobra · 2012-03-31T13:55:48.000Z

Never thought I’d say this but jets are really overpowered now. The Below Radar perk makes skilled pilots nearly invisible. I was able to completely suppress the entire team in the last match with just one jet. Granted they didn’t have a skilled pilot that could challenge me but still. Their mobile AA and helicopters didn’t stand a chance.

They’ve buffed the cannon and I think they’ve also buffed Guided Rockets. I’m now constantly hitting my targets whereas before the patch I’d only hit 1 out of 5 rockets.

TurinTur · 2012-03-31T14:03:19.000Z

Also, the new AA missiles have a lower range. :(

MrCoffee · 2012-03-31T14:26:59.000Z

TurinTur:

Or even more! But Senna is too cramped for that number of players. I switched servers.

Yeah and it was a really one sided match, couldnt leave the alleys on my side, so i left too.

MrCoffee · 2012-03-31T14:27:53.000Z

How do you pick Below Radar? I unlocked it the other day but i cant select it as a perk.

TurinTur · 2012-03-31T14:43:08.000Z

It’s a passive aways-on effect.

TurinTur · 2012-03-31T15:19:56.000Z

Ahh I just got beat by a level 100 guy. I didn’t even know there was level 100 people!

MrCoffee · 2012-03-31T16:25:17.000Z

TurinTur:

It’s a passive aways-on effect.

But you don’t have to select it from the 3 perks?