**OFFICIAL** AT Battlefield 3 FAQ and News Thread

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Pretty sure you can adjust numbers in the config file for the game.

yeah i was wondering about that. I remember there was a program that let you do that in bc2. I just hate having to start a new session every time I need to test a change. Any way I can re-exec the config file after I make changes?

 

[GullyFoyle]

One is for mouse the other is for joystick/gamepad.

The one on the bottom is for joystick and controllers.

If you hover over the sliders, the top one says "Sensitivity of soldier mouse movements", the bottom one says "Set the soldier look sensitivity".

 

[Zargon]

bad round for me, it was a great rush game on the hut, check the tickets at then end

sorry about the sound, fraps didnt record ANY audio and I am not sure why

 

[GullyFoyle]

If anyone's having problems with your character apparently moving to the left without you doing anything, it may be that you have a joystick plugged in. Everytime I get out of a chopper after flying with my controller, my character moves left on its own until I move the sticks on the controller (which controls the character too). Somehow that resets it so I can use the mouse again.

I guess another option is to clear out all the controller settings for the "on foot" controls. Haven't tried that yet.

Also, in terms of game controllers, I noticed that the game will not recognize them unless you have one plugged in before you start up. If I plug it in during the game, it won't register.

If I planned on using a joystick for Jet and Heli only, I would definately spend the time to unbind all the joystick settings for both On Foot, and In vehicles.

I have both an Xbox controller and Thrustmaster Fox Pro 2 joystick attached. Before now I never put the time in to get all the settings right. The Jet was working passibly, but I had to invert the up and down setting when switching to Heli's, so I pretty much just avoided them.

I spent some time on a server alone tonight (TechPowerUp server) working on my joystick settings for both Jet, and Heli. I set up the freelook with an extra joystick button and the hat. It's not bad having the extra button for freelook, because it conviently recenters your view when you let go of it, so you don't fly into a mountain after looking around.

After a few tweaks to the jet, I inverted the up/down control and jumped in the heli. I realized the reason I couldn't turn properly was that the yaw was not hooked up to the twist on my joystick. I set her down and I went through top to bottom on the Heli settings, setting them again, even if they looked OK. Then I jumped back in the heli and went to pitch forward and promptly flipped it over backwards!

It turns out that if you properly set forwards/backwards/left/right, even though it only displays X/Y axis, it also records direction. So inverting the forwards/reverse axis setting is no longer necessary if you go all the way through the bindings.

I'm giving the Thrustmaster Fox Pro 2 the seal of approval for BF3. Everything works as it should. All buttons, including the throttle are recognized by the game.

The only thing I wish I could do was map separate buttons to the primary and secondary weapons, but that looks like a BF3 design decision, just like they did to the tanks.

It's about time I go out and earn some flares so I can live past first contact with the enemy now...

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

bad round for me, it was a great rush game on the hut, check the tickets at then end

sorry about the sound, fraps didnt record ANY audio and I am not sure why

nice vid. That's the first time I saw the IRV scope. It's like the predator mode and shit. I just started using them recently. They're great for certain. I kind of preferred the way they had it in BC2 where you had to choose a perk over a scope though. But I can see why they changed it up to even things up a little.

If I disable a tank if it's within a short distance sometimes it's quicker to fire the rpg from the hip.

That robot thingy controls like shit. It's like trying to walk after 5 shots too many. I did notice that you can plant through the floor of the first mcom on the map where one team starts on a boat and they load up on amphibious vehicles.

Another thing I miss from BC2 is the ability to damage Mcoms. For BC2 if someone armed the crates you still had to be careful when throwing nades around or shooting rockets because there was a chance you'd blow up the crate and lose like 100 points.

With the mine glitch I've been going around dropping them in front of vehicle spawns so eventually at some point in the match someone will end up driving over those things lol.

 

[Childs]

bad round for me, it was a great rush game on the hut, check the tickets at then end

sorry about the sound, fraps didnt record ANY audio and I am not sure why

I put up a video response for what was going on the other mcom. Its too bad, today I just cut up all my gameplay footage for clips and deleted this game. In my defense, I was testing out other guns before I went back to my shotgun. :biggrin:

That was a good squad...I like getting an all AT squad. Also, if Fraps didnt record sound, its usually either "Windows 7 sound" was not checked, or if using a sound card the wav device was not selected.

 

[Destiny]

I put up a video response for what was going on the other mcom. Its too bad, today I just cut up all my gameplay footage for clips and deleted this game. In my defense, I was testing out other guns before I went back to my shotgun. :biggrin:

That was a good squad...I like getting an all AT squad. Also, if Fraps didnt record sound, its usually either "Windows 7 sound" was not checked, or if using a sound card the wav device was not selected.

You have some pretty funny videos on your signature... until I noticed the Killing Room video I got shotty by you at least 3 times (when I watched it in full screen the second time around)... ...

Anyhow, I look forward to more game play videos...:biggrin:

 

[Childs]

You have some pretty funny videos on your signature... until I noticed the Killing Room video I got shotty by you at least 3 times (when I watched it in full screen the second time around)... ...

Anyhow, I look forward to more game play videos...:biggrin:

Ahhh Roadkill....perennial pain in my ass! :biggrin: If you recorded you could have an epic montage of just the times you kill me.

 

[Zargon]

I put up a video response for what was going on the other mcom. Its too bad, today I just cut up all my gameplay footage for clips and deleted this game. In my defense, I was testing out other guns before I went back to my shotgun. :biggrin:

That was a good squad...I like getting an all AT squad. Also, if Fraps didnt record sound, its usually either "Windows 7 sound" was not checked, or if using a sound card the wav device was not selected.

yeah we had 2 all AT squads, and I was in VOIP with them via battlelog. they are why I went wide left at the last one, they got pinned and asked for help so I obliged.

thanks for the cover there at the last mcom

 

[imaheadcase]

Anyone else noticed the nerfed Jihad Jeep a few mini patches ago? Now if you put c4 on jeep and go to tank and jump off the c4 disappears. Used to be able to jump off and blow it up.

 

[dyndragon]

Anyone else noticed the nerfed Jihad Jeep a few mini patches ago? Now if you put c4 on jeep and go to tank and jump off the c4 disappears. Used to be able to jump off and blow it up.

Oh are you serious? I guess you have to go the teamplay route to jihad jeep now...which i guess is not a bad thing. More teamplay is always good. (I assume that a teammate can put C4 on the jeep you're driving and blow it up)

 

[imaheadcase]

Oh are you serious? I guess you have to go the teamplay route to jihad jeep now...which i guess is not a bad thing. More teamplay is always good. (I assume that a teammate can put C4 on the jeep you're driving and blow it up)

It "may" be a bug, because when you jump off and hit button to blow up it starts to spam c4 on the ground. It still is nice in a way, cause you can get closer to tank to put c4 on, but still does not give the "HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AWESOME" moment.

 

[hondaf17]

Does a tank get a perk where you can drive over mines? I saw one guy in a tank drive over all my mines and when he did, my mines disappeared.

Nope. I have all unlocks for my MBT (main battle tank) and AA and there is no perk like this. Only way we can counter AT mines is by using thermal optics and shooting them to blow them up.

Don't know how he could've simply driven over them.

On a related note, spent a majority of the weekend getting all the unlocks for the MBT and AA. Thermal optics = awesome. Then when you get the 3rd seat and the laser desginator = win. Had tons of fun with my squad, desginating targets for the guided tank shells. Boom, 1 shot helicopter kill. Boom, long distance tank hit. The desginator seems to work well, and the guided shells do a pretty good job at hitting targets, even if you don't have line of sight. Good times.

 

[dyndragon]

Nope. I have all unlocks for my MBT (main battle tank) and AA and there is no perk like this. Only way we can counter AT mines is by using thermal optics and shooting them to blow them up.

Don't know how he could've simply driven over them.

On a related note, spent a majority of the weekend getting all the unlocks for the MBT and AA. Thermal optics = awesome. Then when you get the 3rd seat and the laser desginator = win. Had tons of fun with my squad, desginating targets for the guided tank shells. Boom, 1 shot helicopter kill. Boom, long distance tank hit. The desginator seems to work well, and the guided shells do a pretty good job at hitting targets, even if you don't have line of sight. Good times.

On this note, is anyone finding that Javelins and other laser guided weaponry really don't hit laser painted targets? I was painting targets last night and it seems like javelins really have a hard time hitting their targets.

 

[Exterous]

As for ammo drops, I do it all the time. I have the extended mag on my M249 and, honestly, I just spam. Set it up on a ledge, throw an ammo box next to me, and just mow down. I get tons of kill assists and suppression assists

It seems to be that I am either in a server where no one at all drops ammo or revives or I am in one where there are 47 thousand ammo packs on the ground and everyone is getting revived. In some cases I have actually resorted to following support classes around with my tac light on and pointing it in their faces until the resupply me (Asking in game for ammo or the chat, shooting them with my remaining bullets doesn't seem to work)

Anyone else notice that there seems to be a limit to how many 'resupply' awards you get? I haven't figured out if it is per person being supplied, per spawn or has a cool down time but there have been instances where I have stopped getting them.

I've seen this happen a couple of times on the Seine River crossing rush mode for that first MCOM inside the court yard. I'll throw out ammo packs at the cluster of friendlies in the area. Eventually i will stop getting the resupply bonuses even though I see them throwing grenades, rockets and my ammo pack is the only one on the ground. It has stayed that way until I died

 

[Worthington]

The CITV station is just full of win!

 

[Exterous]

Thermal optics = awesome

Very very true. I love the IRV scope too (and at least there seems to be a range limit with it)

As much as it pains me to say it - they need to limit the damage the AA does to tanks. AA vehicles just seem too over powered to me

 

[jackstar7]

I'm thinking the game will eventually be IRV-only (except for some snipers, I imagine). The more I see who kills me, it's almost always IRV scoped folks who can spot me. Eventually I get frustrated and I switch to one of my IRV'd weaps and do it all right back at them... and I'm not sure that's a good thing.

I can see this being a huge detriment to lower-level players who just get outgunned by anyone rank ~13+ or so (about where I typically see the lowest IRV using folks).

Just a weird concern. I do think day-time areas should white out the IRV though. It needs some kind of balance.

 

[sigurros81]

It seems to be that I am either in a server where no one at all drops ammo or revives or I am in one where there are 47 thousand ammo packs on the ground and everyone is getting revived. In some cases I have actually resorted to following support classes around with my tac light on and pointing it in their faces until the resupply me (Asking in game for ammo or the chat, shooting them with my remaining bullets doesn't seem to work)

Same here, I also notice that on the servers where everyone's playing their roles and the support actually drop ammo and soldiers dropping health, we tend to win those matches. There have been several occasions where I'm on a killstreak but I ran out of ammo and I died after running around begging for more ammo.

On another note, the cooperative missions are really fun, I finally had a chance to play through all 6 and they are quite enjoyable, I hope that DICE will release more coop missions with each DLC map packs they release.

 

[QuantumPion]

Anyone else getting this error?

I did google it. Triked to run it in "compatability mode". No luck.

Been running fine since launch on 285.62 driver.

Only thing I noticed today is that Origin had forgotten my login details and the PING function was actually workikng on the server list (first time ever). Then this error everytime it goes into 3D render mode.

To fix these sorts of errors either underclock your GPU core or increase the core voltage by 5-10%.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Video Battlefield 3 SOFLAM guide and it's companion video, the Javelin and SOFLAM.

 

[Canbacon]

On another note, the cooperative missions are really fun, I finally had a chance to play through all 6 and they are quite enjoyable, I hope that DICE will release more coop missions with each DLC map packs they release.

I agree, the co-op missions are a bit underrated and the bonus is that the weapons are quite good that you earn. The SG, KH, and G3 are awesome. SG handles like the 36C and the KH is a headshot machine. The G3 is like the SCAR but for the assault class and more manageable off the bat.

I would love to see more missions like "Drop them like Liquid", it is awesome coordinating shots and the panic when they miss.

 

[maevinj]

so anybody else hate the animation that happens when you knife somebody from behind?
It seems like it takes forever and I always get killed after I knife somebody...

 

[dyndragon]

so anybody else hate the animation that happens when you knife somebody from behind?
It seems like it takes forever and I always get killed after I knife somebody...

Risk vs reward Just don't do a stealth kill if his buddies are around. Instead, shoot him!

 

[Childs]

so anybody else hate the animation that happens when you knife somebody from behind?
It seems like it takes forever and I always get killed after I knife somebody...

I kinda wish they kept the BC2 knife animation. It was savage and quick. They should have made the dog tag grab an alt fire on the knife. I do like the animation, but there are times when I've had 3-4 people backs, and only got 1 or 2 because of the long animation.