You guys noticed the magnifier bug? Reload and just spam T and the sights will invert, as in, if the magnifier is not used you zoom in, and when it is used you're not zoomed in.
Have they realized the error of their ways and buffed heavy barrel yet
I've been playing BF3 since I know that my glorious heavy barrel M16A4 will still kill those VFG heretics from a kilometer away
[QUOTE=Raidyr;43459697]Speculation time
RGO: No clue, these seem really well balanced; less damage for more reliability. Maybe only carry one?
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If they limit you to only one RGO there will be literally no reason to use them. Right now Mini's are the most popular because they do more damage than RGO's and you get more.
RGO is a one hit kill on Hardcore (and I hope it stays that way, an A+ weapon against campers and you always carry it with you)
They better make it so you can't use repair tools in helicopters. Because as of now, the only way to destroy one is to get three engineers to shoot it with a rocket at the same time. And you know how cooperative battlefield players are...
[QUOTE=Clavus;43459467]The core gameplay developer is back from holiday, so they're finally starting on proper balance patches:
[url]https://twitter.com/Demize99/status/420819970562752512[/url][/QUOTE]
nerfing of the flares. Please. Shit flares in real life dont even burn that bright
Flares are awesome; 9/10 times I throw one it's to be a dickwad, and 1/10 I toss them behind teammates when advancing/entering a room so enemies can't see my team clearly.
[QUOTE=KillerTele;43460435]You guys noticed the magnifier bug? Reload and just spam T and the sights will invert, as in, if the magnifier is not used you zoom in, and when it is used you're not zoomed in.[/QUOTE]
This annoys me to no end because I use magnifiers very often on my guns. Sometimes I can exploit it to get free magnification on my red dot sights but it's still a pain in the ass to turn on and off, and it happens accidentally all the time.
[editline]8th January 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Raidyr;43459697]Speculation time
DMRs: Slight accuracy/recoil buff and/or damage buff. Both are needed, though until the latter AR's will just remain better
V40: Almost definitely a nerf, betting the explosion radius is larger than intended
RGO: No clue, these seem really well balanced; less damage for more reliability. Maybe only carry one?
FB: Definite buff, these things are more or less useless right now
MAA: Definite nerf, seemingly everyone realizes how powerful they are
Heli: Hopefully nerfing the insanity of scout helicopters with two mechanics riding on the side, possible attack helicopter buff
Hand Flares: Intriguing.[/QUOTE]
Attack helicopters are in a good place right now, it's the MAA, Scout helicopters, and [I]maybe[/I] Stinger rate of fire, that need nerfing. All these weapons are hugely over-compensatingly powerful in order to deal with the OP scout helicopters. I think everything should be brought down with the attack helicopter being used as a reference point.
At this point I have guys in scout helos getting within 5m of me sniping me with the cannons. I even watched one land on a friend. Why the hell doesn't small arms fire do anything to them? I barely have 4 unlocks on all my classes except engy, which is maxed out due to the fact I'm the only guy who brings Stingers into a fight. Seriously a good chunk of my engy points are stinger kills. It's fucking nuts.
[QUOTE=Why485;43464581]
Attack helicopters are in a good place right now, it's the MAA, Scout helicopters, and [I]maybe[/I] Stinger rate of fire, that need nerfing. All these weapons are hugely over-compensatingly powerful in order to deal with the OP scout helicopters. I think everything should be brought down with the attack helicopter being used as a reference point.[/QUOTE]
I'd like a attack heli buff more than nerfing of everything else. I hate when dogfights are a who-does-more-DPS yawnfest.
[QUOTE=damnatus;43465855]I'd like a attack heli buff more than nerfing of everything else. I hate when dogfights are a who-does-more-DPS yawnfest.[/QUOTE]
What would you do to buff the attack helicopter right now?
The attack helicopter isn't bad because it's a weak vehicle. It's bad because all the alternatives and counters are so much better. Its problem is that the scout helicopter is practically invulnerable and thus better at everything by virtue of never dying. The attack helicopter is already a fantastic anti-armor/anti-infantry vehicle, better than it was in Battlefield 3, and the only way it could get better at air to air is if its rockets had proximity detonation, it carried twice as many missiles, or something crazy like that.
There is only one map where the attack helicopter can fly around without either scout helicopters or MAA, and it works very well when those two powerhouses aren't around.
The attack helicopters sole problem is that it gets completely [I]massacred[/I] by MAA, and to a lesser extent, Stingers. A MAA should kill a helicopter, that's its job of course, but the MAA can disable an attack helicopter in seconds from nearly any range. At this point the helicopter either dies or is forced to retreat and slowly repair. A scout helicopter fares significantly better because the repair monkeys keep it alive for significantly longer. Allowing it to last longer in a fight and give it more options when it comes to retreating.
The balance between MAA and scout helicopters feels better, but it also seems to assume that you have engineers repairing it. Engineers repairing scouts is so effective that the MAA has to do insane amounts of damage, with extreme accuracy and range, in order to effectively counter the scout helicopter. This is why I always say that the scout helicopter is the root of all the helo/MAA balance issues. It's the reference point for balance, and it's far too good to be one.
Bloody TV missile buff. MAA takes attack helis down in seconds? Then make the TV missile fuck it up for good.
Unpopular opinion time: I'm happy with relatively weak TVGM's because the BF3 strategy of TVGM dueling other helicopters was fucking stupid.
In reference to my speculation post, I actually think RGO's and attack helos are fine. It was more a list of what I think they will do based on popular feedback.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;43466406]Unpopular opinion time: I'm happy with relatively weak TVGM's because the BF3 strategy of TVGM dueling other helicopters was fucking stupid.
In reference to my speculation post, I actually think RGO's and attack helos are fine. It was more a list of what I think they will do based on popular feedback.[/QUOTE]
I agree about TV missiles quite a bit honestly. As a player who doesn't have 200 hours to put in to the game every month unlocking things like that takes forever, being on the receiving end of them is atrocious when they basically one hit kill anything they hit, and having no countermeasure other than noticing it early enough and moving (I don't remember being able to distract them with flares or anything in helis) just isn't fun.
If the player can steer it, it should do more than fire and forget things, however if there are less ways to avoid it, it shouldn't one hit kill.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;43466591]I agree about TV missiles quite a bit honestly. As a player who doesn't have 200 hours to put in to the game every month unlocking things like that takes forever, being on the receiving end of them is atrocious when they basically one hit kill anything they hit, and having no countermeasure other than noticing it early enough and moving (I don't remember being able to distract them with flares or anything in helis) just isn't fun.
If the player can steer it, it should do more than fire and forget things, however if there are less ways to avoid it, it shouldn't one hit kill.[/QUOTE]
Just sit on boosting servers in the vehicle you want to unlock things in.
[QUOTE=avincent;43466615]Just sit on boosting servers in the vehicle you want to unlock things in.[/QUOTE]
That's even more boring. Fuck that. Wasting the potential time I have sitting in boosting servers doesn't seem like a great idea :v: I can deal with no having a few things here and there. Less not being able to fight them.
I got every single unlock for attack boats pretty quickly (not even 10 matches of Paracel Storm, which is the TITS for unlocking watercraft things).
TV Missiles are okay, but it's more or less relying on your target being (rather) still. Maybe it's easier with a mouse, though
I got every unlock for attack boats in one life during double xp.
Been doing pretty good at recon especially since I suck at it. Averaging around 50% accuracy for all the rifles I use
[QUOTE=hexpunK;43466591]being on the receiving end of them is atrocious when they basically one hit kill anything they hit, and having no countermeasure other than noticing it early enough and moving (I don't remember being able to distract them with flares or anything in helis) just isn't fun.[/QUOTE]
The only thing they killed in one shot was only other attack helis though? And it was just as annoying to be killed by them in BF3 until I, you know, unlocked it myself.
They're fine against ground targets, but hitting shit in the air takes [I]skill[/I], and skill should be [I]rewarded[/I]. Not with the target turning around and sending active rockets to fuck my day up.
[QUOTE=damnatus;43466982]The only thing they killed in one shot was only other attack helis though? And it was just as annoying to be killed by them in BF3 until I, you know, unlocked it myself.
They're fine against ground targets, but hitting shit in the air takes [I]skill[/I], and skill should be [I]rewarded[/I]. Not with the target turning around and sending active rockets to fuck my day up.[/QUOTE]
Total, instant destruction just isn't fun though. Considering how quickly the damn things move, the only things you should struggle to hit are moving targets. And while that might take skill, it's utter shit for the opponent. You can't tell it's a TV missile coming at you, if you don't see it at the least.
I could get it if there was a minuscule time between being hit and the heli exploding for you to bail out. Like, you needing a near instant reactions to being hit. After all, your goal shouldn't be getting the kill, it should be removing the enemy helipooper so it doesn't fuck you guys up more.
Well I don't know about you but the moment I spot attack heli looking at me but not firing it's gunner cannon nor locking the heatseekers, I know something is up.
Nope, game still randomly freezes and locks up. Plays fine but freezes every 5 seconds, can't put my finger on what's wrong.. Really wish I waited and bought this for PS4 now
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;43467382]Nope, game still randomly freezes and locks up. Plays fine but freezes every 5 seconds, can't put my finger on what's wrong.. Really wish I waited and bought this for PS4 now[/QUOTE]
Happens to me too. I also get the occasional engine crash.
Had an odd bug earlier
[video=youtube;Jnxq_hF6Bwg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnxq_hF6Bwg[/video]
Must have been the ladder or something, has anybody else had this happen before?
sniper rifles should not be allowed to use reddots, especially in hardcore.
[QUOTE=gothiclampshade;43468441]Had an odd bug earlier
[video=youtube;Jnxq_hF6Bwg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnxq_hF6Bwg[/video]
Must have been the ladder or something, has anybody else had this happen before?[/QUOTE]
I've never had that issue although ladders are buggy as fuck.
Sometimes I'll climb up them and the animation frames will be super laggy so it feels like I'm suddenly playing in 10fps even though the rest of the game is running fine. Other times there'll be no animation at all, I'll be at the bottom of the ladder holding up and then suddenly teleport to the top.
Don't even mention when I kill someone using a ladder, they will catapult in whatever direction they happened to be traversing the ladder. I've seen a fair few ladder launched space men in my time.
[QUOTE=arvarkdb;43469453]sniper rifles should not be allowed to use reddots, especially in hardcore.[/QUOTE]
why? and what's stopping people to use ironsights then?
Has anyone come across this?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCDgIiCLWU[/media]
These things are fun to have happen
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