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

[Zargon]

A SSD is priceless for BF3!

my main drive is a 96GB kingston SSD, and then a cav black.

I really want another 96 to raid 0...

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Ok after further testing my solution for dodging javelins work 100% of the time if you do it right.

Even in the slower rush planes they detonate behind you.

have not tested this with helicopters yet, but their slower speed may hinder then from outrunning the blast.

 

[chucky2]

I wish they'd fix the damn spire in Caspian. Allowing people to get up there and be untouchable, without a jet or copter, because of the force field like railings really pisses me off! It's totally unrealistic. Grrr...vent over...

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I wish they'd fix the damn spire in Caspian. Allowing people to get up there and be untouchable, without a jet or copter, because of the force field like railings really pisses me off! It's totally unrealistic. Grrr...vent over...

Just do like I do and ignore them. If they want to enjoy going 5-0 and not helping their team whatsoever let them. They have no real impact on the game.

 

[chucky2]

The game I was just in there were like 3 of them, all had 16 kills or more from what I remember...just rediculous. If they put up like, a steep roof, over the platforms on the spire, then maybe people couldn't parachute onto them and hence the problem would be solved. It seems like a very simple fix to me, without having to fix the railings being force fields.

Just pisses me off that I'm literally shooting these mofo's and I can see the bullets bouncing off them because of the railing bug. How hard could it be to fix???

 

[Destiny]

The game I was just in there were like 3 of them, all had 16 kills or more from what I remember...just rediculous. If they put up like, a steep roof, over the platforms on the spire, then maybe people couldn't parachute onto them and hence the problem would be solved. It seems like a very simple fix to me, without having to fix the railings being force fields.

Just pisses me off that I'm literally shooting these mofo's and I can see the bullets bouncing off them because of the railing bug. How hard could it be to fix???

I normally fly my jet or chopter to take them down... or shoot a tank shell or rocket at them....

 

[GullyFoyle]

Battlelog - Minor PC Update

Minor PC Update

By: zh1nt0 Posted: 2/13/2012

We are releasing a minor PC update that aims to improve general performance and stability and solve some reproducible crash issues. The update also includes support for the upcoming Intel "Ivy Bridge" product line and performance improvements on AMD Radeon 7xxx series graphics cards .
List of issues fixed:


Support for Intel’s new Ivy Bridge product line (as yet unreleased)

Fixes for two reproducible client crashes:
Oilfields- Conquest Large - Fixed a client crash when users spawn in certain vehicles.

Canals - Rush - Fixed a client crash at the 2nd set of mcoms if the player drives a vehicle into the vicinity of the exploding rocket battery.

AMD Radeon 7xxx series performance improvements

This minor fix is releasing on the 14th February, 8AM UT. This download will be via Origin.


We would also like to inform the community that we have several ongoing developments with regards to balance and gameplay, performance, stability and the overall feature set that will be announced in the coming weeks.

 

[dingleberrydorkbutt]

Wanted to pimp my own server real quick. I setup a conquest only server with just air maps for now. It's ip is 74.91.112.234:25200 and it's called "Atlanta's BF3 Server! All Air Maps! Noobs Welcome!".

Kinda got tired of playing on other servers with rude people. If you guys are looking for a new one add it to your favorites.

You had me at "noobs welcome". LOL

I'll check it out.

 

[dingleberrydorkbutt]

Pro tip for jet pilots. If you think a javelin is locked onto you fly as low as possible and the javelin will miss 90% of the time. They have different trajectories programmed based on the type of vehicle, so if you fly low it will think your jet is a ground vehicle and it will dive to hit you, but it won't compensate for your increased speed vs. a tank and will miss. So if you get that constant tone that lets you know you've been soflamed just hit he deck and the majority of the time the javelins will all miss.

I am going to give this a shot tonight.

 

[dingleberrydorkbutt]

Speaking of TS, it would be nice to get on a team that communicates for a change... I can't say that I've ever had that opportunity (hint hint)

Try the blackhearts server. We have teamspeak running.

http://blackheartsgaming.com/

 

[SLU Aequitas]

RE: Caspian spire camping.

Encourage the other team to do it. The only time it's beyond an annoyance is if it's an organized squad from RU, which can result in recap of A and shutdown of most of the US armor if they carry the right squad (sniper w/laz, 2 jav engies, and a support for ammo).

That's when you grab a chopper and end them, otherwise just ignore the noob sniper who bailed his team's jet for a spot that won't help his team.

 

[OptimumSlinky]

How does one connect to a specific server or IP? Couldn't find anything past quick match or server browser.

 

[SLU Aequitas]

In the server browser you can type in the server name (left hand side). Make sure you don't have any conflicting filter options (i.e. have your region set to Europe and type in an American server name ).

 

[maevinj]

RE: Caspian spire camping.

Encourage the other team to do it. The only time it's beyond an annoyance is if it's an organized squad from RU, which can result in recap of A and shutdown of most of the US armor if they carry the right squad (sniper w/laz, 2 jav engies, and a support for ammo).

That's when you grab a chopper and end them, otherwise just ignore the noob sniper who bailed his team's jet for a spot that won't help his team.

Most of the time I can Jav the chopper before it gets there. The only way I've seen to wipe a squad off of it, is to crash a jet into it.

 

[SLU Aequitas]

Most of the time I can Jav the chopper before it gets there. The only way I've seen to wipe a squad off of it, is to crash a jet into it.

ECM gives enough time for the gunner to take out the laz if timed right. Haven't had an issue doing this so far


Edit: Oh, and sidenote, I generally fly low and unlike surfing with the jet, it won't evade javs. Flying under bridges will though

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Battlelog - Minor PC Update

I find it interesting that DICE is rolling out performance improvements for 7900 series cards and not AMD through drivers?

Intentional performance gimping a la TWIMTBP?

 

[Zargon]

doubt it.

who knows what iut could be

 

[skipsneeky2]

Battlelog - Minor PC Update

Perhaps this update will improve 7950 performance enough to outperform the gtx580 without question.

Seems 50/50 of the reviews claimed the 7950 outperformed the gtx580 but on paper spec wise the gtx580 should be smacked around like a ragdoll.

 

[chucky2]

I normally fly my jet or chopter to take them down... or shoot a tank shell or rocket at them....

RE: Caspian spire camping.

Encourage the other team to do it. The only time it's beyond an annoyance is if it's an organized squad from RU, which can result in recap of A and shutdown of most of the US armor if they carry the right squad (sniper w/laz, 2 jav engies, and a support for ammo).

That's when you grab a chopper and end them, otherwise just ignore the noob sniper who bailed his team's jet for a spot that won't help his team.

Thanks for the tips...sounds like I'm going to have to learn to fly then, because I just can't F'ing stand when people are doing that.

The other thing I can't stand is watching guys get on the MAV, and boost themselves up onto the spire. How F'ing unrealistic is that???

 

[dougp]

I just got BF3 last week for my new rig, and I'm really enjoying how well it plays. One thing I find incredibly frustrating though is shooting down helis with the Stinger - it's freakin ridiculous that they'll take one missile or evade it with chaff/flares, and land before I can get another lock in order to reset their countermeasures. Makes it a bitch for it to be a fair game. Hell, destroying tanks with those paltry launchers is ridiculous also because engi's hop out an repair.

But I finally unlocked the C4 on my support class, and I was killed by a T90 as he went to capture one of our points. I respawned down the road, and coincidentally right next to a jeep. Oh the sweet justice of watching that jeep ram into him as I popped the trigger on the C4 killing him, the guy standing behind his tank and demolishing the building they were next to just felt good ... and running around the corner to kill 2-3 guys Rambo-style was great.

 

[Zargon]

Thanks for the tips...sounds like I'm going to have to learn to fly then, because I just can't F'ing stand when people are doing that.

The other thing I can't stand is watching guys get on the MAV, and boost themselves up onto the spire. How F'ing unrealistic is that???

that is supposed to be addressed in the next patch, whenver that is

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I just got BF3 last week for my new rig, and I'm really enjoying how well it plays. One thing I find incredibly frustrating though is shooting down helis with the Stinger - it's freakin ridiculous that they'll take one missile or evade it with chaff/flares, and land before I can get another lock in order to reset their countermeasures. Makes it a bitch for it to be a fair game. Hell, destroying tanks with those paltry launchers is ridiculous also because engi's hop out an repair.

But I finally unlocked the C4 on my support class, and I was killed by a T90 as he went to capture one of our points. I respawned down the road, and coincidentally right next to a jeep. Oh the sweet justice of watching that jeep ram into him as I popped the trigger on the C4 killing him, the guy standing behind his tank and demolishing the building they were next to just felt good ... and running around the corner to kill 2-3 guys Rambo-style was great.

In most places on the internet, people won't even read your post about stingers properly, their answer will be "1 person shouldn't be able to shoot down a 10 million dollar aircraft". Thing is, though, flares will break the locks of all stingers(no matter how many are firing at you), and when both the gunner and pilot of the chopper have flares/ECM, there is no meaningful window of opportunity between them, and even if you did get lucky and get a hit, vehicle regen will fix them right up.

As a result, and you know, I kind of agree that 1 guy with a stinger shouldn't be able to dominate aircraft, but 4 guys can't really knock down a chopper either. I was basically thinking that DICE should make it so that flares will break a maximum of 3 stinger locks at once(including both fired stingers and locked launchers). That way, if a raping chopper angers a team into respawning as a significant number of stingers(sacrificing AT ability), they won't be useless.

Notice I was talking about choppers. I find that stingers vs jets are quite capable of, maybe not killing them, but causing the jet to fly away for a few seconds since jets only have 1 set of flares.

 

[Zargon]

ha just ended up in a SQDM with tonythetuba

 

[Destiny]

Most of the time I can Jav the chopper before it gets there. The only way I've seen to wipe a squad off of it, is to crash a jet into it.

Thanks for the tips...sounds like I'm going to have to learn to fly then, because I just can't F'ing stand when people are doing that.

The other thing I can't stand is watching guys get on the MAV, and boost themselves up onto the spire. How F'ing unrealistic is that???

Yep... that is what I do... I fly a Jet full speed straight at them shooting rockes/bullets and if that doesn't kill them all - I just crash the jet/chopter into them... do that a few times and I can gurantee they won't go to that spire again...

 

[GullyFoyle]

Lots of people having punkBuster issues after last nights small PC patch:

twitter.com/Battlefield: "We are aware of the issues caused by "Corrupted File/Memory [9808096]” and are working on it. More announcements during the day."

They need to add PunkBuster testing to their test plans...