Battlefield 3 - Discussion Thread

antz123 said:
Thanks Aman & DD

However my local cablewala if i go to him to explain latency issues, it would be like Bouncer to him.
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Try it once! He might know more than you think he knows
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hehe Already did was skeptic but still no harm in trying. Now he is was as i feared clueless. So asked him to speak to his core network guy n see what he can do about pings n latency.

When i told him not getting decent pings his asked me back "aap download nahin kar paa rahe kya?"
 
JC i exactly was doing same just held my head. I am like please ask your network provider to call me. so still some hope.

hehe
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so guess i will have to keep fingers crossed. Only some Japanese servers "AT TIMES" i can connect too. all the rest are failure to connect in some time ..
 
Guys, has anyone else come across a bug in the battle report where your name doesn't show in the list of players? In this one, according to my score I should have been 4th in the Russian side, and I was in-game but here my name isn't there at all. Another weird thing I noticed is that I was playing on a hardcore server but in the battle report it shows up as a normal server? :confused:

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Hello All,

Need some advice on BF3
Currently I am playing Metro Conquest almost all the time, I really like it
I only played other maps in TDM mode, so only know little about other maps

Also I dont drive vehicles, at all, zero kills from them, even tanks!!!

When I recently I tried Conquest OP Firestrom, and got owned pretty badly(0-10 score), frustrated I quit the game in between

So I wanted to know, from which vehicles I can start in large maps, tanks, IFVS, Jets.I tried my hand at Heli in empty servers and have learned to fly it soundly
Any tips would be great, it would be great if someone pairs up with me on weekends to help me out in heli or tanks, I have got mic(finally) so we communicate as well

Thank you
 
On Large infantry maps where vehicle overpowers the game the first vehicle from where you should practice is Tanks only

Get your hands on them and don't try Heli ...they need a lot of practice to master them

Get the tank and try to blow others tanks by continuesly firing rockets to them before they toggle you:)
 
allrounder799 said:
Hello All,

Need some advice on BF3
Currently I am playing Metro Conquest almost all the time, I really like it
I only played other maps in TDM mode, so only know little about other maps

Also I dont drive vehicles, at all, zero kills from them, even tanks!!!

When I recently I tried Conquest OP Firestrom, and got owned pretty badly(0-10 score), frustrated I quit the game in between

So I wanted to know, from which vehicles I can start in large maps, tanks, IFVS, Jets.I tried my hand at Heli in empty servers and have learned to fly it soundly
Any tips would be great, it would be great if someone pairs up with me on weekends to help me out in heli or tanks, I have got mic(finally) so we communicate as well

Thank you
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Play with tanks as much as possible. By getting kills via tanks (or jets, choppers etc.) you unlock perks which give you an edge when equipped. eg: smoke (distracts enemy missile lock), HMG / LMG as seccondary weapon on tank. Unlocks are very deep in BF3. You just have to attain kills to unlock them.
 
allrounder799 said:
Thank you all for your advices, I will take up tanks first then, one more question does an IFV can blow up a tank?
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head-on it's difficult unless the tank guy is a poor shot or he is laser designated and the IFV has guided missile.
but when facing tank's side or rear a quick barrage of the main gun then the APFSDS-T shell/atgm/guided will disable him followed by another main gun pass will blow it up. if the tank driver has reactive armour another barrage of apfsds/atgm/guided will be needed.
guided missile will become useless if tank has smoke. atgm will become useless if he dodges around a lot, which the IFV also has to do. I find the apfsds-t shell to be deadly in most of the cases. but if your team is using soflam or heli is laser designating then guided missile is very powerful.

all the while the speed of the IFV should be used to get in and out of cover to avoid the tank shell.

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Skill level?

Hi guys

Has anyone here noticed a stat called skill level? It changes after every game and is used for match-making. I read about it on the bf3 forums and it says that whenever a player with lower skill points than you kills you, you lose skill points and whenever you kill someone with higher skill points than you, you gain points. Now that is fine but I just played a game where I had a very high K/D ratio and also got best recon, got 3 combat efficiency ribbons, got ace squad etc....basically did everything well. Which means that even though I might have been killed by some players rated lower than me, I killed way more people....meaning I should have definitely gained some skill level points. Instead I actually lost 40 skill points, which I don't get. And also, after a player attains a very high rating, there aren't many players who'd be rated higher (some, not a lot). So will those players just lose skill points because they wont find many higher rated players to kill and they will obviously be killed mostly by players rated lower than them? Here's the battle report from the match :

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I think it doesnt solely depend upon low or high level player, it also depends how much you have participated in team work, and in BF3 recon usually has no that much work

I play metro all the time, if my team, takes all the flags and pushes forward, even if I have a K/D of 3-2 for that round, I have not actually helped them in capturing, I am standing far sniping other enemies which are usually not a imminent threat to my team, AND AS RECON YOU CANNOT MOVE WITH YOUR TEAM AS AN ASSAULT OR SUPPORT does BECAUSE YOU WILL be killed easily, so the base line is, if you play recon, you get high K/D but as you dont participate in team work that much your skill decreases
 
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allrounder799 said:
Nir-V-aNa
I think it doesnt solely depend upon low or high level player, it also depends how much you have participated in team work, and in BF3 recon usually has no that much work

I play metro all the time, if my team, takes all the flags and pushes forward, even if I have a K/D of 3-2 for that round, I have not actually helped them in capturing, I am standing far sniping other enemies which are usually not a imminent threat to my team, AND AS RECON YOU CANNOT MOVE WITH YOUR TEAM AS AN ASSAULT OR SUPPORT does BECAUSE YOU WILL be killed easily, so the base line is, if you play recon, you get high K/D but as you dont participate in team work that much your skill decreases
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No, skill level has nothing to do with team work. Its based purely on your one-on-one encounter with each opponent that you trade bullets with. Its mentioned in a sticky on the bf3 forums by an official Dice representative : Counting the skill l - Forums - Battlelog / Battlefield 3

As for team-work, that's subjective. As recon, I move around the edges of the map to get close to the mcoms/enemy objectives and plant beacons there so my squad spawns as close to the them as possible. Saves a lot of time, especially in rush. Once we're at the mcom/obj I plant the TUGS so everyone can see where the enemies are attacking from. And not to mention the soflam, when enemy vehicles are dominating the map. On a personal level, me and one of my friends when playing move to each objective together. We maintain a distance and he rushes ahead while I stay back and cover him and spot for him. Once he's cleared the area I move over there and he moves on to the next one. So recons definitely have a part to play in the team. That said, skill level is used for match-making on battlelog where players with similar skill ratings are matched up. So if team-work is considered as a criteria for skill points and recons score low on that count, that would mean all the high skill point match ups would not have a single recon in the game, which is highly improbable. I don't think EA or Dice would ignore one of the four classes like that :)

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Also about the getting killed easily at close range as Recon part, I don't know if you have it already but if you don't then play the co-op missions and unlock the 93R pistol. You won't die that easily then. It's as good as the Kh2002 but for close range, best pistol in the game. One of my top 5 weapons (as per stats) :)
 
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