Other General Battlefield 3 discussion thread

Be good to have you back mate not seen ya in ages

 

Doubt we'll be seeing him on any of the servers we play on as he's on oz. I might be mistaken though, as elton manages fine.

 

Nope tried that couldn't see any bloom markers

Edit............never mind forgot to zoom out

 

Just played AK....tbh I'm turd at it. Totally different to anything before! Anyone got any pointers? Tank Superiority mode just isn't for me....

 

Really? Who actually plays tank superiority? I find it pretty mundane tbh.

Pointers how? It's simple tbh, get in a tank and jump from point to point.

 

Woot, first jet kill: battle report. It only took 40 mins of jet time, and an awesome spm of 8.4.

Does anyone mind me uploading some gameplays, with the mad hatter chatter going on? I'm not really paying too much attention to the squarking, on account of the rhino testicles making me incapable of multitasking.

Top of the list to upload is the Hardcore, prone SMAW/RPG only round.

In other news:

 

yeah that's not helpful mate. I've just spent 30 mins playing this and really can't get the flow of the bigger maps. My survival rate is very low, and not managing to get any good kills.

 

It's highly team dependent like rush attack. I found just playing tank basics and using terrain to your advantage, like keeping hull down is what you need to think about 1 v 1. Defending is just like anything else - going to where everyone isn't, and attack you need a cohesive team, force multiplying (just like rush).

 

Just checked out rush, finding it a lot more managable and the clear objectives make more sense to me. Seems like the gunship is still present even on the maps with fewer players, totally unbalancing things!

 

Add me, Rotten_Necros and we can squad up later if you like

 

Pretty sure I've got you online, I'm bawnslippy

 

OK, i didn't, just added you

 

heh, you're bawnslippy? didnt see that one coming.

 

Does anyone else have a problem where they literally can't see anything on the big maps like Gulf and Caspian?

Here's what I mean: Areas are either way too overly exposed and glaring, or you have extreme lens flare in your face, or everything is obscured in dark shadows where it's almost impossible to discern any players? Add in motion blur (which I've turned off) and I literally cannot see players, even when they are standing right in front of me. I can't play on this big outdoor maps because of this.

Am I alone here?

 

Anyone up for some Armored Kill this evening on the CPC Server.

Come join us on Mumble. I will be playing in the next 30 minutes.

 

Wouldn't say no...

 

you are not alone! i am very annoyed with this "feature".

the problem is this will NEVER happen in any way or another in real life apart from through a very very cheap 6 aperture blade lens that has no lens surface treatment to it. all modern lenses have ZERO chance of flare on that degree.

 

anyone who hasn't got me already, my Battlelog ID is Fuusie!

 

I was in the gunship earlier, after flaring the screen went black. It's all for show, 'looky - purdy'. Although everyone gets over it in 5 mins. Try turning down effects quality, smoke/haze becomes easier to see through, tested this because I couldn't see who was shooting me. The only one needed to be high is mesh quality, have a play around.

The blurred screen sounds like the suppressionfield 3 feature. When you get shot at you get "suppressed" which will increase both recoil and spread of your weapon, whilst smearing Vaseline all over your screen. Move away, you need to clean off your display before trying to shoot again. Different weapons are effected by "suppression" to different degrees and manners.

 

I turned off the ambient occlusion option and increased my brightness a little bit and it helped some.

I'm not confusing suppression with motion blur btw.

BC2 had sorta the same issue only it wasn't as bad. Haze/Lens flare/HDR cranked to 11. Just makes it hard for me to discern what's going on.