Battlefield 3

[ChrisFilter]

Favourite maps are the island one.. Kharg or whatever.. Grand Bazaar and Caspian Border. I've always liked a countryside setting, hence liking Caspian.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Oh, and I've always preferred conquest to rush as well.

 

[TitanSound]

I'm a little bit unsure about it being deployable though as you obviously have to get LOS. I thought it would be a more portable affair. But possibly for balance, it's not.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Yep, conquest in the countryside is somehow quintessentialy "Battlefield" for me.

You know what I miss? Golf buggies! There's a few fork-lift trucks lying about and I was gutted they weren't driveable.

 

[Picadilly Commando]

Trying to find some geeky audio stuff about War Tapes and it seems that DICE are keeping it close to their chest. It's basically amazing sound design times a hundred 8)

I wouldn't recommend it on headphones; not unless you're a fan of migraines.

(I Don't like Caspian Border, too cramped and close together (but more likely I played it to death in Beta)- and they took out the ladder in the antenna!!! GRRR!!!)

 

[TitanSound]

Oh yeah, I forgot to say - have you got your war tapes turned on? If not, turn it on but not before you warn anyone within a mile of your vicinity. It is VERY loud. @ Chris

Yeah, wartapes setting is awesome. I connected to my amp and speakers that I use for my decks. I made sure to do it during the daytime, when everyone was at work. Fuck me it was awesome. I felt a little dizzy after half an hour though so had to switch back to headphones

 

[ChrisFilter]

I think I prefer CQ to Rush because that is what I am used to and it encourages team play. Where as in Rush it's perfectly possible to play the CoD lone wolf and win games, but BF is not about your stats and your K/D, it is about how you perform as a team and that is why it is so satisfying when you're part of a good team in a good squad - you feel like you're contributing and not not playing a JD shoot-them-up.

SOFLAM + the guided tank shell is fucking brilliant, Chris. Couple it up with an engineer on a Javelin and a squad can decimate the armour and air support of an entire team

(My jaw aches from grinding my teeth whilst playing haha)

Oh yeah, I forgot to say - have you got your war tapes turned on? If not, turn it on but not before you warn anyone within a mile of your vicinity. It is VERY loud. @ Chris

Hmm, wartapes? Don't think I do! Will checke it out tonight.

 

[Picadilly Commando]

You're missing out

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/924701-war-tapes-3-a.html

 

[mwgdrwg]

I always like Dice's sound options, and switch it to 'Headphones' or 'TV' or whatever I'm using.

One thing that is annoying me...the swearing. Silly stuff like "Do the fucking blah blah or we're all going to fucking die". In real life I fucking love swearing, but in the game it somehow seems a bit childish, and gives me the feeling that the game is trying too hard to be radical/reaslistic or whatever. Makes me cringe actually. A lot of games let you switch stuff like this off, and I'm annoyed I can't here.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I really do hope we get something like this when any dlc arrives:

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I've always preferred Conquest to Rush in Battlefield.

Me too. I only tend to play Rush mainly as a break from CQ or if the Xbox party I'm in really want to play it and I want a proper team game. At the moment I've set my server filter to CQ only.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yeah, although the new one is still pretty huffy.

Mine is whisper quiet.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yep, conquest in the countryside is somehow quintessentialy "Battlefield" for me.

You know what I miss? Golf buggies! There's a few fork-lift trucks lying about and I was gutted they weren't driveable.

Heh I miss fighting over the UAV console too to gain air cover...

Love Grand Bazaar and Operation Firestorm (think that's what it's called!).

 

[100% masahiko]

Have you guys encountered any players with invincibility cheats on the xbox?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Have you guys encountered any players with invincibility cheats on the xbox?

Nope.

 

[TitanSound]

Have you guys encountered any players with invincibility cheats on the xbox?

Yes, It's called lag.

 

[100% masahiko]

Just getting paranoid.
I shot a bastard like twice with a shotgun, close range and he ran at me and killed me with a handgun.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I really do hope we get something like this when any dlc arrives:

Pack it with C4, drive and jump out, KA-BOOM!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Wow. These people are insane.

The animal rights movement, represented by PETA, have issued a press release in Germany criticizing Battlefield 3 over “animal cruelty”. Specifically, PETA points out a singleplayer mission (mission 3) in Battlefield 3 where the player has to stab a rat, and toss it away.

PETA states that the killing of even a virtual animal could inspire young people to do such acts in real life. According to PETA, recent animal cruelty cases in Germany, where youngsters engaged in animal cruelty, were inspired by video games and movies. As PETA puts it in the press release:
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The realistic computer game “Battlefield 3″ treats animals in a sadistic manner. The game gives players the option to kill a rat with a combat knife in the back in order to then lift it by its tail, then toss it away. Killing virtual animals can have a brutalizing effect on the young male target audience. There have been repeated cases of animal cruelty in Germany, where young people kill animals. Inspiration behind these acts often came from movies and computer games.

Er, 'killing' a digital rat in a videogame has a brutalising affect on gamers?! Really?

 

[TitanSound]

Er, 'killing' a digital rat in a videogame has a brutalising affect on gamers?! Really?

Ever since I saw it, all I want to do is stab a rat

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Heh. Some nice gameplay footage of the upcoming Karkand map, really like the tank blowing chunks out of the building stuff!

 

[ChrisFilter]

Heh I miss fighting over the UAV console too to gain air cover...

Love Grand Bazaar and Operation Firestorm (think that's what it's called!).

I don't like the bigger maps like OF.. I seem to spend most of my time running to the arena only to be picked off by a sniper.

 

[mwgdrwg]

When's the map pack out?

 

[TitanSound]

December.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Nice

So when are we going to get another U75 get together. I was hopeless the other night, have impreved now and I'm not quite so hopeless

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I don't like the bigger maps like OF.. I seem to spend most of my time running to the arena only to be picked off by a sniper.

I don't really come up against that issue tbh. Normally I ride in or spawn into a squad and don't spend much time on foot.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Mortars really are the new noob tube...

 

[TitanSound]

Mortars really are the new noob tube...

The problem is, nobody really knows where those magic explosions are coming from so they don't bother hunting them down. The way I've counteracted is to set up a mortar and look out for the flash on the mortar map. Give the bugger a taste of his own medicine

 

[Picadilly Commando]

Mortars really are the new noob tube...

Mortars aren't really that bad, not compared to the artillery anyway. The only people who seem to get relentlessly killed by them are those who sit on their sandwich boxes waiting for someone to pass their cross hairs. They don't bother me - but I do need to unlock them!

 

[grit]

I don't like the bigger maps like OF.. I seem to spend most of my time running to the arena only to be picked off by a sniper.

Just spawn in closer to the action?