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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 11:31 |
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Yep exactly, I felt bad the other night on Caspian on our server. We had a bunch of clan people squaring off against public players who obviously didn't have the basic unlocks, the whole map was like one long strafing run after another and they could barely get out of their base.
They need to up the cooldown on flares too and I say that as someone who flies all the time. The cooldown is way too low yet they're talking about nerfing the Stinger, it makes no sense at all. I think I've been shot down by a missile all of two times and its usually from a chopper. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 09:31 |
Bhruic |
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Just like BC2 there are a bunch of glaring balance problems, some of them subtle and others that practically beat you over the head.
Yup. I'm semi-hopeful they'll balance things out as they go, but for now, certain things are just a massive advantage if you have them.
What's worse, is just how important some of the upgrades are. The higher level people gain a huge advantage over newer players. I was playing Operation Firestorm, and none of the jets/choppers on the other team had unlocked flares, so I was having a field day in the AA. Really hilights the annoyance of the unlock system. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 08:43 |
Verno |
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Helis are straight up overpowered right now, they are lethal to everything on the battlefield including jets. If you get a semi-competent gunner and pilot on voicecomms together then they can basically stay up the entire map long raining death on everyone else. They are totally immune to stingers and heat seekers because both the pilot and gunner get access to their own flares with separate cooldowns. It's absurd but hilarious seeing helis chase jets all over the map.
IRNV is another what the fuck were they thinking unlock, it's straight up OP. Why do taclights blind people in daylight from 50+ yards away? Why can the mobile AA straight up murder tanks? Just like BC2 there are a bunch of glaring balance problems, some of them subtle and others that practically beat you over the head.
The lack of public voice comms is really damning in a teamwork based game, Dice needs to do something about that. It makes public play totally miserable, I feel bad for people who don't host their own server. I like Battlelog for the most part, Origin is worthless but thankfully doesn't really factor into the equation. The game itself has some annoying issues that need to be addressed though. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 08:31 |
eRe4s3r |
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Theres already servers like that, no conquest server i know has metro in rotation - and Metro can be balanced by the use of smoke grenades, sadly too few people use them (or have them)
Bazar normal conquest is FAR crappier, that alley is a pure slaughterhouse, yeah theres 5 ways in, but you can camp at either side of the alley and shoot all the way over, it lends itself to missile and mortar spam... thats really badly balanced if a team commits to the slaughter (though the map is otherwise fine)
Mortars should have ammo and missiles an unlockable deployable defense that offers protection against missiles in an area. Sadly i doubt Dice would do that. If all fails, smoke grenades always work |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 08:28 |
eRe4s3r |
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Only if the heli pilot is daft  and the other 2 enemy jets sleeping. In a balanced game no jet has time to hunt for helicopters, they'll be busy just trying to prevent the enemy from gaining total air ownership (and thus, partial domination of the enemy main-base)
More importantly, if you can fly, then rocket pods are a massive advantage and give you easy clean kills of tanks and everything else ;p |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 08:25 |
Bhruic |
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Chokepoint maps. As good as Operation Firestorm and a few other maps are, some of the ridiculous chokepoint maps (Operation Metro, that tunnel one with a few vehicles) are just laughable. I halfway think these are in the game just to grind for unlocks.
It's not just that they are bad, but they also lend themselves to weapon spam. Rockets and mortars are insanely OP in these scenarios (especially mortars), assuming the map allows them. They really didn't balance them out well.
The other annoyance is how unbalanced some of the maps are. Operation Metro, for example, it's insane. Basically, the Russians have a shorter time/distance to point B, which means 90% of the time, they cap it first, and then the fact they can spawn there ensures they hold onto it. Which means that ticket bleed gives them the win.
What I'm hoping is that once the game has been out for awhile longer, some "big maps only" servers will start popping up, and the small choke-point maps will fall out of favor. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 08:11 |
Aero |
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Biggest weakness is definitely poor squad support. Minus a few technical things, that was something they got right in BF2, and didn't need to be made more complicated and broken.
Other than that, though, good times so far. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 06:31 |
qsto |
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MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 02:38:
I gave in and bought BF3, and indeed, it is very good.
Minor dislikes:
- Coop, while very interesting, has NO BUILT IN TEXT/VOICE CHAT. This seems like a shoddy port of a console feature. Not even text chat? Really? Multiplayer has it... Also, coop seems inordinately slow compared to multiplayer, regardless of comps involved. Obviously some of this is from AI routines, but still. How about the fact that the entire party system is fucked? Creating a party is tedious, getting on the same squad with that party is a chore. The fact that there's no real voip outside the horrible battlelog system, removes any chance for real teamwork outside small groups of people who use mumble and manage to squad up. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 05:25 |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 04:47:
You do know though that jets can equip rocket pods right? That means jets are actively engaging ground targets (which often is countered by a good heli-pilot, because those jets ain't got sams
Jets get air-to-air missiles long before they get rockets. Not that they need them to take out a heli, the gun works just fine. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 05:01 |
Mostly_Harmless |
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The game is incredible, it runs really well on my four year old system (with a new graphics card though).
I hope by fixing quick match functionality they will stop it dropping me into Rush games on mixed mode servers when I have the filter set to Conquest only, they really need an option to filter out mixed servers if possible. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 04:47 |
eRe4s3r |
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| You do know though that jets can equip rocket pods right? That means jets are actively engaging ground targets (which often is countered by a good heli-pilot, because those jets ain't got sams |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 02:38 |
MoreLuckThanSkill |
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I gave in and bought BF3, and indeed, it is very good.
Minor dislikes:
- 'Dirt' on my cameras inside tanks/AA vehicles... I get their attempt at gritty realism, but it is just annoying. I want to see a crystal clear view as I shoot enemy infantry in the face with a gatling gun/HMG, or turn enemy tanks into flaming roadblocks! (bloodthirsty smiley here)
- Chokepoint maps. As good as Operation Firestorm and a few other maps are, some of the ridiculous chokepoint maps (Operation Metro, that tunnel one with a few vehicles) are just laughable. I halfway think these are in the game just to grind for unlocks.
- Coop, while very interesting, has NO BUILT IN TEXT/VOICE CHAT. This seems like a shoddy port of a console feature. Not even text chat? Really? Multiplayer has it... Also, coop seems inordinately slow compared to multiplayer, regardless of comps involved. Obviously some of this is from AI routines, but still.
- Maybe it's just placement, but C4/explosives in general seem WAY stronger than in BFBC2, for example. 1 C4 destroying a full health tank? Lame. Still, tanks are beastly, so it was probably a balance decision.
The single player is of course a bad CoD ripoff, but the jet sequence is gorgeous enough that I almost forgive DICE. Eyegasm territory, and you don't even get to free fly. I can't wait for the single player tank sequence, when I eventually go back and finish up the singleplayer portion.
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Nov 1, 2011, 02:35 |
Krovven |
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As I've said in other threads, BF3 is great. It really is their best Battlefield game to date. I quite like Battlelog, but hate Origin.
There are tons of problems to be worked out. Things like sound cutting out, game failing to load, crashing on load, crashing on map change, etc. The game is in dire need of voice comms in-game, at the very least for squad (that aren't friends you joined with). Somebody didn't do the math on the number of squads needed for 64 players. Change Q from being hard coded to Spot, can join coop games with some people but not others. The list is very long.
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Oct 31, 2011, 23:50 |
Sepharo |
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ColoradoHoudini wrote on Oct 31, 2011, 23:30:
I do really like it too, and I was ready to not like it. I admit, I was looking for issues to hate on the game.
Well, here I stand corrected, the game is a blast.
I do have one issue though.
the god damn lights/sun!! The flashlights in your face during the middle of the day, the laser sight that is always in my eye, the sun and the godawful amount of lensflares/blinding light, and just the other lighting in general.. they really jacked it up to a 10, and across the board, they need to globally knock it down to a 4.
Or.. does anyone know how to legally fix this, outside of adjusting the overall brightness?
These are game mechanics, you shouldn't be able to turn them down. |
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| [I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Oct 31, 2011, 23:44 |
LittleMe |
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ColoradoHoudini wrote on Oct 31, 2011, 23:30:
the god damn lights/sun!! The flashlights in your face during the middle of the day, the laser sight that is always in my eye, the sun and the godawful amount of lensflares/blinding light, and just the other lighting in general.. they really jacked it up to a 10, and across the board, they need to globally knock it down to a 4.
Or.. does anyone know how to legally fix this, outside of adjusting the overall brightness?
Don't look into the sun and when aiming into it, keep the sun just off screen. Otherwise, try lowering some of the graphics settings related to it? I'm used to it and now I like it.
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| Political freedom can only be preceded by economic freedom which is preceded by monetary freedom. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Oct 31, 2011, 23:30 |
ColoradoHoudini |
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I do really like it too, and I was ready to not like it. I admit, I was looking for issues to hate on the game.
Well, here I stand corrected, the game is a blast.
I do have one issue though.
the god damn lights/sun!! The flashlights in your face during the middle of the day, the laser sight that is always in my eye, the sun and the godawful amount of lensflares/blinding light, and just the other lighting in general.. they really jacked it up to a 10, and across the board, they need to globally knock it down to a 4.
Or.. does anyone know how to legally fix this, outside of adjusting the overall brightness?
This comment was edited on Oct 31, 2011, 23:37. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Oct 31, 2011, 23:04 |
space captain |
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Cutter wrote on Oct 31, 2011, 21:34:
These sorts of games are the soap opera/reality tv of gaming. Popular does not always mean good.
and people like you are the soap opera/reality tv of life
overdramatic, yet tedious and boring, meaningless drivel
keep those tissues handy, big guy |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Oct 31, 2011, 23:03 |
LittleMe |
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| IMO, this is the best best Battlefield game to date. No, it's not perfect. But damn, BF3 is sooo good. DICE did give it a genuine PC treatment. Yes, it certainly needs some bigger maps, better spawns, and lots more stuff. I hope that EA execs continue to allow DICE to focus on PC for future BF games as they did with BF3. I think they will considering how this game is selling! Back to playing. lol |
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| Political freedom can only be preceded by economic freedom which is preceded by monetary freedom. |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Status Report |
Oct 31, 2011, 22:39 |
Sepharo |
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Can't lie, I'm going to echo the other opinions here (exception Cutter), this game is fucking great.
The destruction, the amazing graphics, the vehicles, and yes shamefully the weapon upgrade/customization system as well.
Love the no flashbangs and love the lasers, flashlights, and scope glints. The infrared scope is practically hax but you do lose a lot of distance with it. Love RPGs, love that I can take on snipers with them with ridiculously well placed, inches above target, shots. I guess when they are looking through the scope they might not see the arcing of the rocket because they will just sit there for the 5 seconds it takes to reach them.
Prone is back and I feel like the maps are very well made for it. Though it can be annoying getting killed because you didn't look down, it's something you learn to deal with quickly. The jumping/climbing system is surprisingly fluid. Misjumps can happen but I think that a lot of that might be canceling the animation by pushing another direction midjump. Dolphin diving is gone, standing up from prone takes (half) a sec, and I think the sprint is infinite. Tanks, apcs, and most vehicles have turbo and tons of people forget to use this.
Wish Origin and Battlelog were just one and the same, but if I had to take one over the other it would be Battlelog. |
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| [I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr |
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