Posts by dux

  • Battlefield 3

    Quote from Dark

    Whatever, take your hate elseware, like the cod forums. They really need some hatin because that is diluted shit.

    It isn't hate. I've voiced legitimate reasons in my posts earlier.

  • Battlefield 3

    Quote from Zyndrome

    Operation Metro Conquest with 64 players is so fun!

    What. Please tell me this is sarcasm. This is the worst map designed by anyone in the history of gaming.

  • Battlefield 3

    Quote from deceiver

    You saw my post, why do you have to go and tell me they are good? I am in a disagreement with this.

    Were you whining about 6 man squads in BF2 as well?

    How about you make a constructive post to my comments instead of saying I'm whining? Got nothing to add? Then don't.

  • Battlefield 3

    Quote from Puddy

    Dux, 4 man squads are good, 8 man squads would be too large (too big a chunk of your team).

    You saw my post, why do you have to go and tell me they are good? I am in a disagreement with this.

    Quote from Puddy

    Spawning only on SL would be zzZzZzZzZzz. Much better flow with all-spawn (granted that your squad only has 4 people, with any more it would be OP).

    Again I made a long post about why SL is better in my opinion. You guys just play this casually. The more serious players aren't finding much depth to this new spawn system.

    Quote from Puddy

    Rush is fun on good maps.

    No. In the urban streets it feels like CoD.

    Quote from Puddy

    Try to enjoy the game dammit, it's awesome.

    I am trying but it is proving difficult.

  • Battlefield 3

    Quote from Rick_D

    I can understand 4 player squad cap annoyance, luckily I have been playing with 3 other friends so no problems at all for us, guess we were lucky. We have had no problems joining same team with 4 people, party system worked flawlessly.

    There are 8 of us. Sure, splitting into two groups of 4 is a choice but being in one large group where we can all be together and operate as a full fledged unit is what we miss from BF2. As an example, we'd all jump into a black hawk and parachute and or land onto the capture point, secure it with our huge penis's then jump back into the helicopter and fly to the next point. It's difficult to do that now with smaller squads as you can get separated or lost. Combine that with the difficulty we have all been experiencing with actually trying to get into a squad together has been a severe hindrance to our enjoyment.

    Quote from Rick_D

    I cannot comment. But choppers are pretty hard to fly, so it balances out I guess. Plus the purpose of the game is teamplay, you need to rely on your Stinger-equipped buddies, and unlocks for tanks help you survive.

    I disagree here. They are by far the easiest incarnation of choppers in the bf series. Anyhow my point is why can't the tank crew be rewarded for their skill in a direct shot into the sky with the tank cannon? Me and one of my friends in the group are total tank whores and we got no less than 6 direct tank hits with the main gun on choppers during a game with no effect on the chopper other than some smoke appearing from it. That thing should have fallen out of the sky in flames.

    Quote from Rick_D

    I am running everything at ultra, 70fps, no crashes. the guys I am playing with have a mixed range of pc's, there's been 1 crash on the lowest end pc in 6 hours of playing. Make sure you all update to the latest drivers, and don't run it too high if you can't handle it, the game is deceptively demanding.

    Indeed, it is bit of a hit and miss thing with PC's. It was just unfortunate for this to be happening on top of the frustration from the squad issues we were having as it all boiled over and everyone got pretty angry. By this I mean no one really expects a game to crash for adjusting mouse sense or something. But that's how it is sometimes in PC land.

    Quote from Rick_D

    There's been a fair bit of that in certain servers, however I've been playing 64 player servers, been through all maps, the laggiest was caspian border, and even that was completely playable. I won't say it doesn't exist but I have yet to consider any server unplayably laggy.

    The 64 man servers we experienced the lag on was with a map called... uh... fuck what was it, something highway or underpass - fuck I can't remember. But you have big highways above you and stuff and it's at night but any map that had no vehicles in it though was fine. I guess it's just with the larger conquest maps stuff starts to get a bit strained with. Again, rather frustrating to rubber band back out from cover when a dude is shooting you only for him to get the kill on you when before you were perfectly well hidden behind something.

    Quote from Rick_D

    All maps have all game modes, you don't have to play them, you know what you're getting. Legitimate complaint, but I imagine people would complain if there were gamemode-specific maps, don't you think?

    This is personal opinion of course but I have been a strong sayer in that the Rush mods needs to gtfo of BF3, not all would agree with me though of course but that's how I feel. I dislike how it is in bf3 and changing server is a pretty labour intensive task when there are 8 of us to change to somewhere new after it took us all so long to get onto the same team, then the same squad only to have to go and change server thanks to a lack lustre game mode and map. So really when a rush oriented conquest map comes on we just have to grin and bare it. There was a lot of raging when metro conquest came on. Oh well.

    Quote from Rick_D

    Agree and disagree with this, all a SL is good for now is locking the squad. But it was actually more annoying having to spawn on only 1 guy in yoru squad, now you don't have to rely on just him, you can get back into battle faster, and you can play as a team much easier, you don;t have 1 guy elft alone in battle while the other 3 try to catch up to him, you all spawn together. I would rather see the SL get some other kind of bonus, like points for all team members if they attack a target designated by the SL, but that might already happen I don't know.

    Again personal preference, but being only able to spawn on the SL in BF2 was magnificent for me and my bum buddies. It made him really important and only our smartest player in the group was given the job of being him so you really needed to know what you were doing so you didn't gimp the squad and was also incredibly rewarding as you really felt the tension when it was only him left, under constant fire from the opposite team, waiting anxiously for the re-spawn timer to count down. Now it's just "Oh there's a dude! I'll spawn on him!" Where's the strategy? Of course, this is not to everyone's taste with what I just mentioned but I feel the more tactically minded of us who enjoyed those aspects in BF2 have been short changed with some of the features in BF3.

    With some patches and I hope to god improvements to the squad system I can come to enjoy this more. But for the mean time it feels like Bad Company 2.5. Which isn't a bad thing, BC2 was good in its own right - but I wanted a true sequel to BF2 and this just doesn't feel like it.

  • Battlefield 3

    All right let's do this.

    Fixed number of squads, 8, you can't make any more. It is a real pain in the ass as they fill up immediately, or squad leaders lock them. Plus only being a max of 4 just adds to my group and I's annoyance.

    Joining as a group to a server does not guarantee being placed on the same team. What's the point?

    Choppers are ludicrous. They take direct tank shots and still survive. On top of being able to kill a tank in a single salvo. I wouldn't mind the salvo so much if they weren't tank shell resistant.

    Very unstable, granted it happens with a PC game but half my friends crashed while trying to change their mouse sensitivity, settings, etc every time they tried. Don't use the "Buy better pc" line here.

    Lag tastic at the moment. Rubber banding everywhere.

    The maps that have been made conquest and rush compatible I.E metro are just awful, this is not conquest. This is run at a straight line to each other and see who can spam the most until someone wins.

    What is the point of squad leaders now? You can spawn on anyone, the reason for leaders was to spawn on them.

  • RAGE

    If you're not enjoying it now then I wouldn't recommend you force yourself through it for the end as it's really bad. Just savour the good moments you've had with it.