Battlefield 3

[Tisky]

I can't figure out how you're supposed to accomplish anything in a jet worth points enough to get the upgrades that the other people flying jets use to swat you from the sky without effort. I don't even have flares...

Kamikazee! :santahurg:

[Thrik]

I've only used jets a few times and find them no fun at all, however I got the first upgrade with almost no effort whatsoever — I just flew around like a moron and got right up behind the odd enemy jet/chopper and filled them with bullets. You have to wait until shooting though because if you fire too soon they'll turn away and you won't be able to do enough damage at that distance.

I think it'd be about a million times more fun if I had missiles or bombs, but I'm too busy having a great time in tanks.

[Jetsetlemming]

I love being in jeeps and running people over, it's my favorite vehicle. Tanks are supposedly powerful but teammates tend to go "Oh that tank right in the middle of our front at the point closest to the enemy can handle itself, best stay far away from it and assume it can kill everything", and then when I need to get out to repair damage I get ganked. I don't ever bother to repair jeeps, though, so

[deceiver]

No excuse not to get it now!

EA:

Here's our last big Black Friday tease: Battlefield 3 will be $30 off tonight at 9PM PST/12 AM EST: http://bit.ly/sG7BC1 NA only.

GET IT!!!!

[Jetsetlemming]

urgh that sale, that's IT NO MORE $60 PURCHASES

I feel god laughing at my expense

[Skjalg]

I repair tanks as often as I can (I always play engineer), but its a real pain in the ass when you dont get support from the aux gun (he's usually wasting his bullets on the tank opposite to me, not caring about the infantry moving up from behind).

Also, every time im standing with a tank in my facing holding the e key and watching what looks like a load bar I always gets reminded of a Hacker News post that read something like "dont make your users do shit work". The article described how google plus was doomed to fail because the first think you had to do was shit work (arranging your friends), whereas on facebook it automatically just made relevant groups for you that was good enough. And I cant help but think that having a huge green blob in my face (that eventually just leaves me, not caring if i helped it or not) and watching a load bar that I myself can only fill up by just holding e is kind of... shit work... not game play at all.

But then there's the thrill and suspense when me and a friend are holding a street with our tank and i hop out to repair while he covers me and I run around the tank and shoot an anti tank missile just to get ahead (because the other tank also gets repaired) and we end up winning that battle because I multitask so much.

[Jetsetlemming]

Also, every time im standing with a tank in my facing holding the e key and watching what looks like a load bar I always gets reminded of a Hacker News post that read something like "dont make your users do shit work". The article described how google plus was doomed to fail because the first think you had to do was shit work (arranging your friends), whereas on facebook it automatically just made relevant groups for you that was good enough. And I cant help but think that having a huge green blob in my face (that eventually just leaves me, not caring if i helped it or not) and watching a load bar that I myself can only fill up by just holding e is kind of... shit work... not game play at all.

This is why repairing a helicopter while riding in the back feels so good, it almost seems naughty, like you're breaking the rules instead of doing a task you've obviously been explicitly allowed. I get all the benefits from being in a helicopter, while still giving back, unlike repairing ground vehicles, where you're all give, and no receive. Most of the time the drivers don't even realize you're there, their tank health regens on its own (this is somehow even more ridiculous than dude regen, and I can't quite articulate why, except to feel like a sperg for even trying), so their health bar going up is a pretty standard, ignorable thing. DICE should allow you to at least sit on the outside of the tanks and ride around on them, like in Halo. That'd give squad members a place to spawn on tank driving teammates that already have a gunner, too, instead of denying them that spawn point entirely (which strikes me as a very lazy decision).

Trying to snipe is funny. I'm serving a legit purpose for my team purely by spotting, which gets me almost nothing as far as points go, but as far as trying to actually kill people I can land maybe two or three kills a match, since everyone's always moving, which doesn't really combine well with bullet drop and travel time and how much of an anti-sniper I am, skill-wise. I just played a long Seinne game hidden on the third floor of a ruined building in the dark, where I could see the RU spawn, spamming Q on newly spawned russians and occasionally taking pot shots which just mostly got me killed, and then respawning at my beacon sitting next to me. Tons and tons of spot assists, though. Spot assists like nobody's business. Spot assists out the ass.

[knj]

Question: where DA FAK is hardcore mode ?

[Thrik]

So I was watching TV earlier and an advert for Need for Speed: The Run popped up, claiming the Frostbite 2 engine is used for that game. Nice to see DICE finally starting to make an entry into the engine market considering their stuff has basically looked incredible and ahead of its time for the past decade.

Did anyone try Medal of Honor's Frostbite 1.5-based multiplayer? Did it actually feel like the same game as the SP which used a completely different engine? That seemed really weird to me.

[Puddy]

Well, NFS Hot Pursuit used Frostbite 1 I believe, so it's pretty reasonable that they upgraded it for the next entry (Hot Pursuit was actually quite fun but The Run looks like a steaming turd).

I did try Medal of Honor's MP (beta), and while I can't compare it with the feel of SP, it was shit regardless

EDIT: Whoops, they didn't use Frostbite, they got support from DICE in handling the large scale of the environments tech-wise.

knj: wot? in the server browser?

[Synthesizer]

NFS Hot Pursuit was made with Criterion's "Chameleon" engine. As far as I know that engine was only used on that game (the internet tells me it's based on what they used for Burnout).

[ElectroSheep]

I heard that the next Dead space will be on FB2 too

[ElectroSheep]

Well. another try on SP, I want to play it because all levels are beautifull but I fucking dislike it. Maybe I will finish it next year...

[Mazy]

FAPFAPFAP

[Zyn]

YES!