BF3 PC Patch 1.04 Available Now - Thoughts?

mchoghlin, whats yer soldier name? you were irish right? so we ought to be able to play together... what is this with the L82A2 no recoil i hear? :D

shyco

Yep i'm Irish ;)

My name is "jack-septic-eye". I should be on later

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mchoghlin, whats yer soldier name? you were irish right? so we ought to be able to play together... what is this with the L82A2 no recoil i hear? :D

seanmcloughlin

Yep i'm Irish ;)

My name is "jack-septic-eye". I should be on later

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[QUOTE="shyco"]

mchoghlin, whats yer soldier name? you were irish right? so we ought to be able to play together... what is this with the L82A2 no recoil i hear? :D

trastamad03

Yep i'm Irish ;)

My name is "jack-septic-eye". I should be on later

good keep it that way :P

[QUOTE="trastamad03"][QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

They just want like you said, weapons that require no skill to use for cheap kills because most can't get them any other way in head to head infantry combat. They rely on hanging back with mortars, using AT mines or planting cheap claymores

seanmcloughlin

Happens to me all the time. A squad of medics. I revive and heal EVERYONE on my team but when I'm in need they are nowhere to be seen. Standing next to me shooting and healing themselves. But never reviving me or healing me unless it's a by-product of healing themselves.

Pisses me off

mcoughlin friend!

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[QUOTE="trastamad03"] Not dropping Medkits/Ammoboxes/Not repair... Yesterday at night my friend and I were working on unlocking the L85Awhatever it is (the 5 SQDM win one) and I was driving the APC killing everything, right? Right. SO squads were messed up so we had 8 people in our squad, 5 of them were engi, 3 of those were using my APC as cover.. NOT A SINGLE ONE repaired me. None of them, Pissed me off royally. They just kept running back, using their RPG/SMAWs to kill infantry. Zubinen

Happens to me all the time. A squad of medics. I revive and heal EVERYONE on my team but when I'm in need they are nowhere to be seen. Standing next to me shooting and healing themselves. But never reviving me or healing me unless it's a by-product of healing themselves.

Pisses me off

Yeah that happens to me sometimes but only when my hands are cold and clumsy :lol:

But yeah that was fun yesterday but it took me a while to figure out the new "Mark and go" system isntead of just pressing Q on a flag. You now have to aim at it hold Q and go down the "Give order" in the commo rose. We should play again though soon cos you guys actually helped me and didn't just run all over the place. I take it you knew the other 2 guys then?

mcoughlin friend!

shyco

Done ;)

I suck with Jets now :( Wish they never changed anything!

I suck with Jets now :( Wish they never changed anything!

gameofthering

Really? I got better in them lol

[QUOTE="Zubinen"][QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

Happens to me all the time. A squad of medics. I revive and heal EVERYONE on my team but when I'm in need they are nowhere to be seen. Standing next to me shooting and healing themselves. But never reviving me or healing me unless it's a by-product of healing themselves.

Pisses me off

seanmcloughlin

Yeah that happens to me sometimes but only when my hands are cold and clumsy :lol:

But yeah that was fun yesterday but it took me a while to figure out the new "Mark and go" system isntead of just pressing Q on a flag. You now have to aim at it hold Q and go down the "Give order" in the commo rose. We should play again though soon cos you guys actually helped me and didn't just run all over the place. I take it you knew the other 2 guys then?

Wasn't too impressed, especially for a 4 month patch. It's a step in the right direction and most of the improvements were good, but if all they do is take a step every 4 months this game will never be up to par with previous titles. The patch, to me, was the typical DICE patch, break stuff that people never complained about (nor needed fixing) and fix minor issues while ignoring the bigger issues. Amazing that DICE wants to sell DLC to BF3 players when all they can deliver after 4 months is this...A few things that were listed as fixed, were not even fixed (burst weapon jamming, MAV elevator, heat seekers not dealing damage).

I guess I must be the only one of this forum that hates the new suppression effect. It was bearable before, but now a single pistol shot suppresses and entire squad as if it was a tank shell. I had one instance where me and my friends rounded a corner, an engineer with the .44 scoped (obviously a weapon designed for suppression...) and it takes 4-5 seconds for 5 people to drop this one guy just because he got the first shot off. BF3 has never really been a skilled based in the shooter aspects, but I was hoping that DICE would remedy that and bring BF3 more inline with previous BF titles (gun/fire control was extremely important, even in BC2)... not cater even more to idiots who shoot every moving thing and expect to win just because they got the first shot off. On top of that, the blur effect is painful after playing for more than 20minutes.

I also don't like what I'm reading about the vehicle changes. It would appear that choppers are even more powerful and that tanks are even weaker...

I don't like the new suppresion. It was just right before. It didn't make it impossible to shoot back, it just made it much more difficult. Now it's just pointless, and it's kind of a pain in the ass.

[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

[QUOTE="trastamad03"] Not dropping Medkits/Ammoboxes/Not repair... Yesterday at night my friend and I were working on unlocking the L85Awhatever it is (the 5 SQDM win one) and I was driving the APC killing everything, right? Right. SO squads were messed up so we had 8 people in our squad, 5 of them were engi, 3 of those were using my APC as cover.. NOT A SINGLE ONE repaired me. None of them, Pissed me off royally. They just kept running back, using their RPG/SMAWs to kill infantry. Zubinen

Happens to me all the time. A squad of medics. I revive and heal EVERYONE on my team but when I'm in need they are nowhere to be seen. Standing next to me shooting and healing themselves. But never reviving me or healing me unless it's a by-product of healing themselves.

Pisses me off

[QUOTE="trastamad03"][QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

They just want like you said, weapons that require no skill to use for cheap kills because most can't get them any other way in head to head infantry combat. They rely on hanging back with mortars, using AT mines or planting cheap claymores

seanmcloughlin

Happens to me all the time. A squad of medics. I revive and heal EVERYONE on my team but when I'm in need they are nowhere to be seen. Standing next to me shooting and healing themselves. But never reviving me or healing me unless it's a by-product of healing themselves.

Pisses me off

Wow, the patch made this game incredible. Headshots are actually headshots now. Everything feels so much more responsive. Did they take out MAV ramming? Haven't been able to kill anyone with it yet since patch hit.

Wow, the patch made this game incredible. Headshots are actually headshots now. Everything feels so much more responsive. Did they take out MAV ramming? Haven't been able to kill anyone with it yet since patch hit.

ChubbyGuy40

maybe we will see people running around with specializations other than extra explosives, 4 engies with that perk, sigh!

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

bonafidetk

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

bonafidetk

[QUOTE="bonafidetk"]

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

biggest_loser

In regards to suppression,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxsbTjPe2fs

Probably the only good metro video I've seen too.

In regards to suppression,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxsbTjPe2fs

Probably the only good metro video I've seen too.

Swiftstrike5

Bahahaha, suppression. SO REAL

Until they fix hit detection, I'm not playing it again.

maybe we will see people running around with specializations other than extra explosives, 4 engies with that perk, sigh!

shyco

Until they fix hit detection, I'm not playing it again.

sailor232

Until they fix hit detection, I'm not playing it again.

sailor232

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Until they fix hit detection, I'm not playing it again.

mitu123

So that makes it alright here? Its a problem, a reocccurring one that they should had figured out in Bf2. Just sick of dying in cover thats all.

The main thing I dislike about the update is that it has made me suck with Jets, yet made me better with helis :( I really need to learn how to control the Jets again.

The main thing I dislike about the update is that it has made me suck with Jets, yet made me better with helis :( I really need to learn how to control the Jets again.

gameofthering

[QUOTE="bonafidetk"]

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

trastamad03

yeah.

everyone needs to change their playstyle to something like this.

#sofun.

a decrease in drones would be much better than a decrease in whiners.

[QUOTE="trastamad03"][QUOTE="bonafidetk"]

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

HavocV3

yeah.

everyone needs to change their playstyle to something like this.

#sofun.

a decrease in drones would be much better than a decrease in whiners.

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="bonafidetk"]

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

ferret-gamer

[QUOTE="trastamad03"][QUOTE="bonafidetk"]

BF3 is absolutely crap now IMO. Its impossible to have a medium to long range gun battle. The bullets go any where but the crosshair. All this unwanted suppression redesign has created is terrible game play. It promotes spray and pray, it promotes camping. Why should people be rewarded so handsomely for having terrible aim and missing their target?!!? I'm done with BF3.

HavocV3

yeah.

everyone needs to change their playstyle to something like this.

#sofun.

a decrease in drones would be much better than a decrease in whiners.

[QUOTE="HavocV3"]

[QUOTE="trastamad03"] Ok, Bye :D Less whiny people, that can't change their play-style a bit or can't adapt to changes, the better :)Elann2008

yeah.

everyone needs to change their playstyle to something like this.

#sofun.

a decrease in drones would be much better than a decrease in whiners.

[QUOTE="gameofthering"]

The main thing I dislike about the update is that it has made me suck with Jets, yet made me better with helis :( I really need to learn how to control the Jets again.

Zubinen

any idea when this will be on sale again for 30 bucks?

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="sailor232"]

Until they fix hit detection, I'm not playing it again.

sailor232

So that makes it alright here? Its a problem, a reocccurring one that they should had figured out in Bf2. Just sick of dying in cover thats all.

Well, I feel good uninstalling BF3. Since the patch, I've just about had it with the game. Suppression is RIDICULOUS. One bullet. And I mean, one bullet at any range suppresses (blurs your screen). Hit detection has gotten worse. I don't know how that happened but I'm not surprised considering DICE's track record. Pre-patch, everything was fine. Tanks are weak now.. and can be disposed of in a couple of RPG/Javelin hits. As a player that uses the Stinger, I can easily take down helicopters in two shots, as long as I'm in range they don't stand a chance. I feel sorry for you heli-players. Operation Metro - which use to be fun and my stress-reliever map is atrocious. It was fun before, but with suppression and hit detection being **** now, you are basically playing a map with blur on all the time. I have put over 100 hours into this game and that takes a lot for someone like to me to invest such amount of hours into a game. But I'm done. The game at this moment is a headache to play when it was suppose to be fun. /rantElann2008

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[QUOTE="mitu123"] They never got it right in a BF game...

mitu123

So that makes it alright here? Its a problem, a reocccurring one that they should had figured out in Bf2. Just sick of dying in cover thats all.

I didn't think that was possible...

mitu123

It didn't get worse. It just changed. I pumped a ton of rounds from a jeep into another guy in a jeep just sitting there, and he walks out, turns around, and kills me on foot. Although, most shots feel a hell of a lot more responsive. Headshots from short-mid range with snipers actually feels like you got him. They always fall down now before you gotta pull the bolt back, instead of after.

Supression is the worst change though. It just feels horrible.

hit detection is annoying, many times ive lost a duel cus ive tried going for headshot, and seemingly doing so, but not dealing the bonus damage

This new patch makes the Battlefield 3 more stable, fairer, and more balanced... its size is 1.5 GB and its too much.. :D

This new patch makes the Battlefield 3 more stable, fairer, and more balanced... its size is 1.5 GB and its too much.. :D

alishathomaz