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DeadFred

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same here, i'm loving the IGLA. not hard to keep the crosshair on the vehicle to maintain the lock. might take a few rockets to burn off their flares, but you'll get some kills.
"Maintaining the lock"

I think that is most people's problem. BF4's IGLA seems to require you hold the lock while BF3's were fire and forget.
 

Childs

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Nice though that's different, I was talking about the on foot/ground vehicles scenario. Riding in a chopper keeps you closer to targets that would be out of range if you were on foot. A chopper with 2 engineers on board doing different things (1 repairing, the other engaging air targets) is almost as difficult to take down as a jet, even in mobile AA.

I have some old clips on the ground as well, but I have some pre holiday errands to run and dont have time to edit some edits and upload. Its not that hard, especially on paracel and golmund. The helis come to you, so just make sure you wait for them to pop their flares. Its not even so much as destroying, its just getting them out of your area. Its very rare that a pilot will pop flares and stay in the area. And sometimes when I am out of ammo I lock on anyways, just so they know someone in the area is targeting them.
 
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Spike

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Anyone know if you can play as commander on a PC without having origin installed, sorta like the tablet version? I'm at my folks place for the holidays and only have my work laptop with me. Their connection is far to slow to download the game and the pings in the low 100's, but that should be more than enough to play as commander. Given that I'm trying to figure out a way to play. I do have a tablet with me but it's a non rooted kindle fire HD.

Thoughts?
 

VulgarDisplay

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Anyone know if you can play as commander on a PC without having origin installed, sorta like the tablet version? I'm at my folks place for the holidays and only have my work laptop with me. Their connection is far to slow to download the game and the pings in the low 100's, but that should be more than enough to play as commander. Given that I'm trying to figure out a way to play. I do have a tablet with me but it's a non rooted kindle fire HD.

Thoughts?

I tried on my laptop and it seemed to want me to have the game installed to do it.
 

satsau

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Completed first 3 missions on single player with gold.


NO FUCKING UNLOCKS even though it shows I have gold in single player.
 

Spike

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Completed first 3 missions on single player with gold.


NO FUCKING UNLOCKS even though it shows I have gold in single player.

What unlocks do you get? Either way, with the end mission unlocks I had to wait an hour or so before my unlocked weapons showed up.
 

VulgarDisplay

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Completed first 3 missions on single player with gold.


NO FUCKING UNLOCKS even though it shows I have gold in single player.

There are only two multiplayer unlocks from single player. The m249 saw and P90. They are only avaible after you complete the game. You can only get one each time you complete the final mission depending on a decision you make.

You can unlock weapons for SP, but they stay in SP. These are unlocked by picking them up off the ground.
 

satsau

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There are only two multiplayer unlocks from single player. The m249 saw and P90. They are only avaible after you complete the game. You can only get one each time you complete the final mission depending on a decision you make.

You can unlock weapons for SP, but they stay in SP. These are unlocked by picking them up off the ground.



There are 6 unlocks for multiplayer...

M412 Rex, Shank, Machete, QBZ-95-1, P90, M249
 
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Spike

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There are 6 unlocks for multiplayer...

I see, you were talking about the rex and the knives. Well I have all 6 and in the case of the last three, the only ones I paid attention to, took a good hour before they showed up.
 

satsau

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I see, you were talking about the rex and the knives. Well I have all 6 and in the case of the last three, the only ones I paid attention to, took a good hour before they showed up.

oh, I don't actually get the guns until I complete the campaign?

makes sense then why I don't have it yet.
 

Spike

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oh, I don't actually get the guns until I complete the campaign?

makes sense then why I don't have it yet.

Correct, the three guns are for the three different endings based on the choice you make. You have to complete the last mission 3 times doing each of those options (Hannah, Irish, or nothing). I also let it go through the credits each time just to make sure I got the unlocks, but I don't know if that was necessary or not.
 

Fire&Blood

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I have some old clips on the ground as well, but I have some pre holiday errands to run and dont have time to edit some edits and upload. Its not that hard, especially on paracel and golmund. The helis come to you, so just make sure you wait for them to pop their flares. Its not even so much as destroying, its just getting them out of your area. Its very rare that a pilot will pop flares and stay in the area. And sometimes when I am out of ammo I lock on anyways, just so they know someone in the area is targeting them.

Oh I believe you without clips. In my experience, locking on can deter air targets, choppers can be hit, sometimes even brought down but jets, while on foot are very hard to shoot down.

As for unlocks, single player will get you the Rex too. Try logging back in to refresh inventory.
 

Childs

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Oh I believe you without clips. In my experience, locking on can deter air targets, choppers can be hit, sometimes even brought down but jets, while on foot are very hard to shoot down.

It's usually when the pilot is preoccupied with another jet. I always fire at jets to get them to use their flares, as it gives my teams pilots and advantage. I have taken down jets while in foot. I know for sure on parcel and dam, as they tend to fly directly over cap points.
 

Fire&Blood

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I manage to hit them, especially on open maps without buildings for them to hide behind but I brought down only very few on foot, though a different story when I ride in a chopper. I'm sure I killed more choppers with tank's main gun than jets with AA rockets while on foot. Even nailed a jet with the main gun once.
 

DeadFred

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It's usually when the pilot is preoccupied with another jet. I always fire at jets to get them to use their flares, as it gives my teams pilots and advantage. I have taken down jets while in foot. I know for sure on parcel and dam, as they tend to fly directly over cap points.
We have to because the airspace is so narrow, unlike BF3 where you could fly way out of bounds for foot soldiers. Even on the larger maps like Rogue transmission the airspace is very limited, Golmud Railway is the only one that gives you room to breathe. Dawnbreaker barely gives you enough room to even turn a jet. LOL

Speaking of jets, I finally got all their unlocks today but all that flying has absolutely killed my stats because Im such a sucky pilot.
 

DeadFred

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And speaking of stats, is there any way to create a second soldier in BF4? My kid is wanting to play some multi player, he's tired of the test range but I know he is gonna really wreck my already pathetic stats. LOL

I would get him his own copy but I dont think his PC could run it very well (if at all) with a Q6600 and GTX 285.
 

raasco

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*Ahem*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnM3uCXQfRY

I dont even normally record this stuff anymore because its so common. I would have had a Little Bird, Attack Heli and Jet in one minute if Raasco didnt finish off the attack heli. I usually get 4-5 aircraft a round when I use the stingers.

That's fun flying when you have a nice Engineer with stinger/repair for backup. I started the round off with 5 scout chopper kills thanks to you. Amazing, considering how under powered I feel they are compared to BF3.
 

pieguy

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Man, it seems like it takes me forever to unlock guns. I want to play assault more but I don't really love the AK-12, so I keep going back to engineer. I do like the AK 5C but I'm hoping one of the other carbines is better, it would be nice to actually use one of the guns I unlock.
 

Phoenix86

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game has crashed on me a ton today

just got screwed out of a monster round
If the game crashes you don't get screwed out of the stats. Only if the server crashes, and they fixed most of that in the last big server patch. You have to wait until the server finishes it's round for the stats to show up.
 

QuantumPion

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Man, it seems like it takes me forever to unlock guns. I want to play assault more but I don't really love the AK-12, so I keep going back to engineer. I do like the AK 5C but I'm hoping one of the other carbines is better, it would be nice to actually use one of the guns I unlock.

The ACW-R is the best gun in the game IMO. In this uber-hardcore game, ROF is life. ACW-R, AEK-9000, and CZ-3A1 are the best guns (haven't tried the FAMAS yet though).
 

Anubis

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If the game crashes you don't get screwed out of the stats. Only if the server crashes, and they fixed most of that in the last big server patch. You have to wait until the server finishes it's round for the stats to show up.

well it was like 30 min ago and it has not shown up yet
 

Childs

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The ACW-R is the best gun in the game IMO. In this uber-hardcore game, ROF is life. ACW-R, AEK-9000, and CZ-3A1 are the best guns (haven't tried the FAMAS yet though).

IMO MTAR-21 is the best.

Also looks like you can see the current score for servers in battlelog now.
 
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Fire&Blood

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Yes, scoreboard started working with the latest battlelog update. Definitely sucked joining matches moments before they end especially since if it's a one sided match, you spawn very often on the losing side. I could be biased because my W/L ratio is terrible but I feel that in BF4, one has to play exclusively with squad/clan to even stand a chance of impacting the outcome, especially on 64 player servers.

I had the same issue as Anubis a few times. Matches never showed up in battlelog. Had one yesterday, very good run for me, was certain to level up to 44 yet I had to play another game to level up.

I've been trying to find a pattern to my crashes but no luck other that they happen mostly when I'm doing really well lol. Crashing on every map, in and out of vehicles, crashing even before deployment. I thought I noticed a pattern since on some maps there are minor visual corruptions on "irrelevant" part of the map but nope, crashes appear totally random.
 
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