Other General Battlefield 3 discussion thread

Cheers, I appreciate the opinion but I'd like to try it. Any idea why I can't see it?

 

Ah ok.

For reasons known only to DICE, the M16 A3/4 track stats and unlocks together (so does the M4/a1), on Battlelog only the A3 shows up and any kills with the A4 add to that total.

To equip it in game you have to be on the Assault loadout screen and keep going through the assault rifles until it comes up (it appears in the pop up quick-loadout box in the spawn screen too). It looks the same as the A3 so you just have to look at the description until it appears.

You need 89'000 Assault points to unlock it, specifically Assault points rather than general Infy points, butif you have the F2000 you should be past that. There may be a bug where it doesn't appear until you have Assault SS1 as well, in which case you can only use it as US until you unlock the AK/A3 with Service Star 1.

 

Ah, I see. So the A4 is visible in the Loadout section but as far as displaying weapon stats (and progression unlocks) in Battlelog, the A3 and A4's stats are thrown together and displayed under the A3? That is a bit quirky, I wonder why they decided to do that.

(I can't give you any more rep until I "spread it around" but thanks, appreciated.)

 

It just gets better and better!

Just had my first real tactical success. A no-explosives 64 player Metro Conquest Large round, playing on the US side, advancing past B towards the passageway to the right and behind the ticket office. Progress had stalled with about 8 of us stuck round the first corner (in full view of the left door). Enemy were by the right door and covering pretty well. I decided to try and break the stalemate and charge.

I managed to jump out of cover and drop 3 of them who were tightly grouped by the right door in two short bursts before advancing, hopping back into cover up onto the long ledge in no-man's land and dropping myself a medipack. A few seconds later I jumped back down, dropped another 1 or 2 by the right door again before sprinting forward and then left to surprise 3 others around the corner. The rest of the squad followed and we soon broke outside and held r/h street corner.

*Rambo face*

It felt every bit as good as CS used to, if not better - it's so much more fun without people spamming grenades everywhere.

 

Last day to download it for free from origin
https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/battlefield-3/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition

 

So, right now there are 92'000 people playing BF3 on the PC.

There are about 19'000 on BF4 pc and 52'000 people on BF4, across all five versions combined.

I wonder how much EA are making from expansion sales for BF3 and whether it outstrips BF4's income at the moment, making Battlepacks paid for items seems somewhat extreme.

 

I've noticed there a lot more servers online since the free-to-download period, and most of them seem to be full/heavily populated. It's great... BUT... last night I had my first experience of a round being ruined by several very obvious cheaters. A few were persistent too - before being votebanned/kicked they spammed the chat saying they had a million other accounts and true enough, once banned/kicked they returned with slightly differently numbered player names, and the voteban cycle continued.

People often say "but they're just better than you" and I agree to a point - people often cry "hacker" when they've been owned pure & simple. I haven't been playing BF3 for very long but I have played online FPS long enough to know the signs: these guys were racking up a kill every 2 or 3 seconds and I was killed several times in a row by the same guy, with a single hit from his pistol when he was 50+ yards away. I joined the same squad as one of them that was on my team and just sat out for a while watching his play from the follow-cam. No tactical awareness at all, he was just walking into open spaces, rotating on the spot and firing with no adjustment - each time he fired, he got a kill.

I hope they soon get bored/banned.

 

fired this up and went hunting with SMC,

felt good, felt REALLY good.

 

alright i know you lot have all moved on to other things but ive only just started getting back into BF in a big way, until lastnight.

for some reason every 6-8 seconds the game just freezes for a fraction of a second and locks whatever input was being made at the time. naturally this is getting me ganked on more then one occasion. this only appears to be happening in MP, SP is fine. so far I've done a fresh BF install, fresh plug in, shitbuster and new gpu drivers.

i dont have hyperthreading on the cpu so its not that and im running out of ideas.

suggestions?

*edit*

it appears the last origin update caused it, disabling the ingame overlay has resolved the issue.

 

Glad you got it working, and thanks for telling us what it was. Will be on the lookout for it when I next play a BF game.

 

Been playing on bf3 for weeks now. Just a far better game than bf4.

Living it tbh.

 

Is anyone from bit-tech still playing this? I've been putting in a few rounds over the past couple of days, still trying to find good servers which promote "fair play" and ban idiots like cheaters, vehicle campers, base rapers etc. I had a ridiculously good game yesterday with the attack helo on Kharg Island CQL. All it takes is an awesome squaddie for a gunner/pilot.

 

I'll take that as a "no" then...

 

Not playing anymore on BF3 as i am trying to get back into BF4, however i could download and try again if your wanting someone to play with? i did enjoy BF3

 

I'm also only on BF4

 

I just unistalled both off of my system, kind of got bored with Battlefield tbh.

 

Pretty much, my favourite servers (BUMS and BiA) both closed and the communities fragmented onto other stuff when BF4 turned out to be arse and now I don't have a gaming computer at all.

I keep meaning to build a new one and there's money to do it sitting in the bank, but the effort...

 

Fair enough, I appreciate the replies nonetheless. BF3 is still pretty annoying for me at times as well. It seems to be impossible to find a "fair" server on a regular basis. I like playing conquest large on air maps, so that's what I've been focusing on mostly, but most of the time I'm either on the winning team, winning by a mile, racking up 3-5 KDRs whilst the rest of my team keep the enemy pinned in their base or one flag, or I'm on the other end of it, being hammered by jets, TV missiles from attack helos and being base raped into oblivion. I have had a few close games where the score could have gone both ways which have been a lot of fun, but those are few and far between.

It's still buggy in minor, annoying ways as well. The repair tool progress bar sometimes appears when you're repairing a vehicle, but mostly doesn't. The MBT still gets stopped dead by things it should blow through with ease, whilst it rolls through stuff you'd expect it to struggle to move.

Also, despite a lot of practice, I still can't dogfight with the jets. My attack and scout helo flying and fighting has come a long way, but I can't win dogfights against experienced jet pilots, which is super annoying for me because I was very good at it in BF2 and 2142.