Battlefield 3

[Salodin]

Okay, well; I'm trying my best to enjoy this game and as such I have a few questions:

1. How much does your bullet drop over range and is it a static amount? Finding it very hard to snipe when I can sometimes shoot someone and miss and then shoot the exact same spot a moment thereafter and it suddenly hits them.
2. Can anyone link me to a video of someone playing a match where they are a good player but don't steamroll the enemy team? Preferably involving as little vehicles as possible. I figure watching will help a lot...
3. The recoil in this game seems ridiculous, even with burstfire. Any way I can change this?
4. Whenever my team is pushing through a chokepoint and the fight is just raging on there, my instincts tell me it's time to flank or otherwise outmanoeuvre the defenders. It never ends well. Is this not a legitimate strategy?
5. Any general tips and hints?

Bullet drop depends on weapon yes, nothing you can do but practice and figure it out. Recoil can be affected by a few things like suppression, type of barrel, position, etc etc. You need people you can talk to and work as a team with otherwise you won't have much success, this is nothing like CoD where you can lone gun and have a lot of success.

[Cheerios]

I sure do love having a 20% quit rate due to random crashes and Tehran Highway!

[djzombie]

Haven't had time to play online and do many unlocks yet, is everything working in the live game, more specifically things that were broken in beta, like the sniper equipment - the motion sensor didn't work in beta, and the straight pull bolt also didn't work.

3. The recoil in this game seems ridiculous, even with burstfire. Any way I can change this?

If you're trying to fire an automatic weapon over long distances it works a ton better by switching the weapon into single fire mode and popping each subsequent shot off as soon as the recoil drops your sight back onto the target. I never had much luck with full auto, even with burst fire, at long distances.

[Seanr]

I dunno if it's just me, but every time i try to do live chat, its intercepted and its a different domain or some shit, like they're phishing for shit. now im getting "Buy BF3 to get access to Battlelog. Check the FAQ"... wtf is up EA?

[kuronosan]

Hmm, is that a BG party I see?

[Dmitry]

I dunno if it's just me, but every time i try to do live chat, its intercepted and its a different domain or some shit, like they're phishing for shit. now im getting "Buy BF3 to get access to Battlelog. Check the FAQ"... wtf is up EA?

It's a 3rd party chat service I believe. I don't know about it getting intercept but I'm pretty sure the website was not EA.com

Does anyone have an issue when playing multiplayer where the game just eats up memory? I feel like I should be having any issues, but my computer freaks out and asks me to turn off Aero. When I had Aero on, it was using like 5.1GB and would have a hard time displaying the game. I would look around and it would freeze for a moment where everything would be a blur except my rifle, almost as if there's really bad lag. When I turned Aero off, I don't think I had the problem, but the memory usage only dropped to 4.9 or so, so I'm not sure what's going on. Both my video cards are being used, is it possible one of them is an issue? I also had trouble with my RAM before but Windows still detects all 6GB so I'm not sure. =/

[Kyo]

Brobox servers down again.

[Palin]

Also:

[Eliseos]

Definitely got shot out of the air in an f-18 by a tank last night. I wasn't even close to the ground, somehow he sniped and got lucky.

[Misterjingles]

ffffffffff, laser guided missiles are so weak! D:

[Ezek]

I really wish there was a way to switch seats in the Fire from the Sky co-op mission. Pretty frustrating when we have to restart the game 2-3 times before getting the spots we want.

[Drunkenmonk]

i'll just put this here

[supercoco]

How do some engis to one-shoot tanks ? i aim for the treads but nada.

@BF2142 vehicles had weak points

[Mathematics]

i'll just put this here

that was way more annoying than funny

[Uzor]

I love those small mini-missile launchers spread out all over maps with vehicles. They make one-shotting tanks really easy And is also the only way to kill tanks if you don't have a rocket launcher

[Misterjingles]

The rear of the tank is also weakly armored, they may be hitting there... or a volley from a bunch of engineers.

[Boyiee]

There are only two ways to instant kill a tank: C4 and AT mines.

The weak spots for RPG's are behind it, underneath, and the tracks. Underneath/wheels will only disable a vehicle from moving though, and it can still fire. It takes at least 2-3 RPG's without upgrades to explosives to kill a tank.

[Uzor]

There are only two ways to instant kill a tank: C4 and AT mines.

The weak spots for RPG's are behind it, underneath, and the tracks. Underneath/wheels will only disable a vehicle from moving though, and it can still fire. It takes at least 2-3 RPG's without upgrades to explosives to kill a tank.

Not true; on maps with vehicles there's stationary missile launchers that everyone can use. These, too, kill tanks in a single hit. The downside is that they are few, and can't be moved.

[Ohemgee]

I really hope this nvidia shit is cleared up. I dont want to alternate graphic card drivers every day.

First week problems make this game unplayable.

[Azull]

So anyone have any good battle storys yet?

So far my best is on Seine (i think?). The other team had a group of 6 in one building , 2 on the 2nd floor with 4 on the 3rd pretty much killing anything that came by.

I snuck around the long way and go into the building with my trusty shotgun..got the 2 on the 2nd floor then the 4 on the 3rd floor before they even knew what hit them.

Shotgun really helps close quarters with my general inability to aim.