Battlefield 3: Extreme Multiplayer Awesomeness

TimJames · 2012-02-06T12:40:15.000Z

It’s total garbage: an order of magnitude worse than single player due to the bugs, fail states, excessive length, and lack of communication with random pubs. By far the worst part of the game. I’d rather play squad deathmatch.

Naturally, I was compelled to max it out anyway.

To be fair, it should be bearable if you play with a friend who has a mic and a reliable connection.

MrCoffee · 2012-02-06T12:41:09.000Z

I have found that most of my coop partners suck, and i cant complete most of the missions because they dont pay attention to the objectives.

Zuwadza · 2012-02-06T13:59:14.000Z

The co-op would be bearable if the missions had checkpoints. Getting close to the end in the chopper mission only to have a moron pilot crash into a tree is awful.

JM1 · 2012-02-06T14:13:33.000Z

wumpus:

It is wayyyy more reliable of a one shot killer than any other shotgun in the game.

We’ve noticed it occasionally just doesn’t register anything even at point blank range on a stationary enemy, and it does seem to have a weird habit of taking off 90% health then the final 10% a second later, but it is fucking lethal regardless.

And you don’t sacrifice a decent gun for it.

TimJames · 2012-02-06T14:34:37.000Z

I never tried it. Toward the end, when I played Assault it was only for Rush attack. No way I was giving up the smoke launcher. (Wait, can other classes use it too?)

I’ve always loved videogame shotguns though. That reminds me, I need to load up some canister shot in Napoleon: Total War this weekend.

Cobra · 2012-02-06T15:28:05.000Z

Alex Pirani:

At this point I’m very close to putting down the game until they rebalance the USAS and frag rounds on consoles. It’s started to run absolutely rampant, with entire squads taking advantage of it. I try to take it all in stride (one or two players I can handle), but it’s getting out of control. Some rounds feel like unreal tournament insta gib games there’s so many people using em.
Aside from that, I’m finding it really challenging to get kills in the jet. I consider myself a pretty good pilot in past battlefield games, especially 1943, but I just end up flying around in circles this time around. I’ll get behind someone and get a few good hits but never finish them off, and heat seekers seem almost useless since everyone has flares equipped. Any advice?

We had a good discussion about this a few pages back. Posts: 1770, 1783 and 1785

Alex_Pirani · 2012-02-06T23:28:12.000Z

MrCoffee:

I have found that most of my coop partners suck, and i cant complete most of the missions because they dont pay attention to the objectives.

I was forced to unlock all of the coop weapons strictly by playing the helicopter level, since it seemed the hardest to fail… as long as I was the pilot. Every time I spawned into the gunner seat I would have to open the menu, and reselect the mission, fortunately, it reloads pretty quickly when you do it like that. I would do that until I got the pilot seat, and then run through the mission quick over and over again with random people. I know doing what I did was obnoxious, but I got tired of trusting randoms to pilot and then crashing into the mountains every time.
I finally unlocked the G3 today, and am glad to say that like squad deathmatch I am thrilled to never have to play coop again now that I’ve unlocked what I needed through it. I’m also really disappointed by the G3 and Sg, sigh.

Cobra:

We had a good discussion about this a few pages back. Posts: 1770, 1783 and 1785

Thanks for that, I’ll try some of these strategies tomorrow!

Also, I’ve unlocked the CITV station, and the most use it seems to be with randoms is a taxi ride. Need to try it out with some coordination, but still, I’m a little disappointed with it.

GloriousMess · 2012-02-07T01:29:00.000Z

Being the lax player that I am I’ve just unlocked the M98B, and wow, it’s more or less a rail gun compared to the other rifles. Hitting perpendicular moving targets is substantially easier for a start, and the damage is madness.

Also the only shotgun that is worth even acknowledging is the 870MCS. You all know this. Pump or chump, gentlemen, pump or chump.

Xzan · 2012-02-07T02:19:13.000Z

JM:

We’ve noticed it occasionally just doesn’t register anything even at point blank range on a stationary enemy, and it does seem to have a weird habit of taking off 90% health then the final 10% a second later, but it is fucking lethal regardless.

And you don’t sacrifice a decent gun for it.

The hipfire spread is pretty large and it’ll miss occasionally through RNG (to my great frustration)

I usually run with the US Holo on my assault rifles but if I’m equipping the M26 I’ll switch to Kobra because the difference in initial spread while aiming down the scope is substantial, even for shotguns. I find the 1.05x scopes more practical for shotgun combat.

I toss up taking buck or fletchette ammo. Higher damage inside 8m vs greater range and material penetration. But at ranges greater 10m I should probably be using the assault rifle anyway.
I can’t remember if fletchette goes through people though. I guess I’ll be hitting google.

Xzan · 2012-02-07T02:33:42.000Z

Alex Pirani:

Also, I’ve unlocked the CITV station, and the most use it seems to be with randoms is a taxi ride. Need to try it out with some coordination, but still, I’m a little disappointed with it.

I got to enjoy manning the CITV station on Caspian Border CQ the other day.
The 3 of us were camped out in the field near A, dominating any US tank, jeep or attack helicopter that came in range of a lock-on.

We ended up losing the map despite that. A bit sad since the opposing team had no armour and little helicopter support for 90% of the match.

Still, its pretty rare for people not in a platoon to use it since most people don’t seem to take the guided missile. But I find the opportunities too shot down aircraft with it too delicious to not take it. :)

Alex_Pirani · 2012-02-07T11:15:18.000Z

Xzan:

I got to enjoy manning the CITV station on Caspian Border CQ the other day.
The 3 of us were camped out in the field near A, dominating any US tank, jeep or attack helicopter that came in range of a lock-on.

We ended up losing the map despite that. A bit sad since the opposing team had no armour and little helicopter support for 90% of the match.

Still, its pretty rare for people not in a platoon to use it since most people don’t seem to take the guided missile. But I find the opportunities too shot down aircraft with it too delicious to not take it. :)

Well, that’s my biggest problem, finding people to utilize it with. I play on PS3 (just bought a PC version to see how my pc handles it, 60 bucks more or less wasted for the time being…). I play with 2 other friends, but neither of them have it unlocked so we can’t take advantage of that, and well the rest is playing with randoms, where you rarely get the level or coordination to use something like this it seems.

As shotguns go, the MCS is my favorite, but I’m planning on giving the MASS a fair trial in the next few days. Glad to see there’s plans to rebalance the USAS, I played metro last night in CQ and it was like there were 20 LAVS firing in B. Seriously, there were that many people using it.

Rory_Stewart · 2012-02-09T11:28:20.000Z

Ok so I just put the suppression specilisation thing on…oh my god now I can actually respond to being shot without turning as if I have pulled a muscle in my neck and am also having a stroke!

I should pay more attention to this shit.

TurinTur · 2012-02-23T08:48:01.000Z

Update incoming

Battlelog

Confirmed Fixes and tweaks so far

Hello everyone! We would like to share some of the confirmed fixes and tweaks that we have been working on to the community. Note that this is still not a full update list and there will be more information on this as we go forward. Also please...

Zuwadza · 2012-02-23T10:45:44.000Z

I guess they aren’t going to do anything about being able to repair helicopters in-flight? I consider that a bit of a game breaker. Still, there are some welcome changes there. Nice to see the F2000 get a bump; it was my favorite AR in BC2.

I still think the flash suppressor isn’t going to be used. Muzzle flash just isn’t a huge factor in this game. Personally I found muzzle flash to be a bigger factor in BC2; it was a lot easier to spot someone by it, especially snipers. Unless they make muzzle flash more noticeable, the flash suppressor will continue to be useless.

Zuwadza · 2012-02-23T10:47:27.000Z

double post

MrCoffee · 2012-02-23T11:07:17.000Z

Zuwadza:

I guess they aren’t going to do anything about being able to repair helicopters in-flight? I consider that a bit of a game breaker. Still, there are some welcome changes there. Nice to see the F2000 get a bump; it was my favorite AR in BC2.

I still think the flash suppressor isn’t going to be used. Muzzle flash just isn’t a huge factor in this game. Personally I found muzzle flash to be a bigger factor in BC2; it was a lot easier to spot someone by it, especially snipers. Unless they make muzzle flash more noticeable, the flash suppressor will continue to be useless.

They never fixed the helicopter repairs from BC2 doubt they will do it now!

-Laser Guided missiles can now be distracted by Flares.

Noooooo!

TurinTur · 2012-02-23T12:17:07.000Z

So realistic! :P

instant0 · 2012-02-23T14:07:38.000Z

Haha.

Maybe the flares are made of lasers!

Shellfishguy · 2012-03-07T06:52:56.000Z

Three Battlefield expansions announced at GDC

First will be out in June and be infantry close quarters maps, second will be armor focused and the last will be announced later on. Supposed to be lots of destructibility with the close quarters maps. Interior spaces with more vertical movement.

TimJames · 2012-03-07T07:00:41.000Z

I’m in for the tank maps. I actually liked close quarters deathmatch in this game so I may play the infantry expansion, but only if the maps are decent.