Game: Battlefield 3

[Animeniax]

I've killed tanks solo with a rocket launcher. It takes 3 to 4 rockets to destroy one. I look for an engineer to jump out to repair the tank so I can kill him too, two birds with one rocket. You do have to have cover but it's easy otherwise. And like you said, two AT soldiers means a tank is fucked.

About the commercial, a humvee is toast against an AT soldier. And that howitzer doesn't have a coaxial gun to kill up close, and its cannon is only good for long range.

[Buffalobiian]

I've killed tanks solo with a rocket launcher. It takes 3 to 4 rockets to destroy one. I look for an engineer to jump out to repair the tank so I can kill him too, two birds with one rocket. You do have to have cover but it's easy otherwise. And like you said, two AT soldiers means a tank is fucked.

I've had better luck with C4s than with rockets.

[Animeniax]

I've had better luck with C4s than with rockets.

You have to get in too close to plant C4.

Back to the point though, the commercial gets it all wrong and is another reason I don't like to buy from Gamestop. I think their pre-order bonuses are bs, particularly for mp games.

[KrayZ33]

they even added the amount of damage you dealt to the tank on your screen as points,

you need 5 rockets from the front, 4 from the side and 2 fom behind to destroy a tank
you might need 3 from behind, I can't remember whether its 45 dmg or 55
however 2 rockets will result in critical damage for sure

and shooting down attack choppers in bf4 is as easy as it can get, just get a recon to mark it and lock on with your normal RPG. 1 rocket is enough and the chopper pilot didn't even know that a rocket was fired on him, because there will be no beeping sound (except from the mark itself)

so far infantry is "overpowered", but I like it! might be the map though, so much room to hide and sneak up on tanks

[Animeniax]

I think it's a little too easy to shoot down helos in BF4, though I'm not an avid helo pilot so I don't mind. RPGs don't have guidance systems, they are point and shoot. They shouldn't be able to home in or lock on to targets. I'd be surprised if they didn't remove that from the final game. And the tank damage points are useful too, but I'd think most servers would turn that off, or at least the hardcore ones.

[KrayZ33]

its okay on the beta map, since you need a line of sight to the target and there are plenty of buildings to hide and to dodge.

but on open maps, yeh it would be far to easy

[oyabun]

Not much time to play for BF4 . But I will still buy it!

[Animeniax]

I don't know that it's such a different game from BF4 that it's worth it buying right away, as long as BF3 servers remain up, which I'm sure they will. I don't want to miss out on the double XP weekends or the free MP maps, so I'm still thinking of pre-ordering.

[Buffalobiian]

Not much time to play for BF4 . But I will still buy it!

Geez, I thought you meant it was out! >_>

[KrayZ33]

Is anyone interested in buying my extra-copy of Battlefield 4 + China Rising for 35€?
its bought from Intkeys.com

the key came very late and I already bought it somewhere else, but since its to much work to get your money back if you spent it on digital goods, I decided to resell it (with a loss)

[Buffalobiian]

I'm interested. Sending PM now.

[EpyonNext]

I present to you all my BF4 Emblem
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[KrayZ33]

This one is mine






peace through power, brothers and sisters

[Xelbair]

KANE LIVES!
... now i have to replay Tiberian Sun.. again.


i don't have BF4... yet.. compared to BF3 is it way better or just more of the same?

[Buffalobiian]

It seems to crash my brother's PC, that's for sure. He was also experiencing mouse lag, but we got that fixed. Turned out that he had vsync and triple buffering on at the graphics driver level, so we got rid of that.

[KrayZ33]

there are serious server issues atm, I don't know if today's update fixed anything but literally every *server* would crash after a while
disconnecting every player on the server
and sometimes the client disconnects too.

the game itself however, is better than bf3 if you ask me

[Buffalobiian]

I'm crashing pretty hard and really expect no more than 2 games without a crash. There's also the sound cutting issue. I heard there was a 1GB patch, but I guess either I'm now a minority, or this didn't fix it. I'm quite tempted to upgrade to the beta catalyst driver actually. The only thing holding me back is that downgrading from it is a bitch.

[Buffalobiian]

Stability seems to have improved over the past 2 days, so that's good. I'm doing some data migration which uses around 50% of my CPU so I've had to play the game on Low settings while I do that (even then I will suffer from bouts of CPU-induced lag. The CPU used by the file copy is proportional to the speed. The speed in turn is limited by the file fragmentation and physical location on the HDDs).

The ACW-R TEARS things apart. I managed to kill so many guys with it even when they clearly had the jump on me. Also, in BF3 Holo sights had a longer ADS time than RDS. That.. doesn't seem to be the case in BF4, does it? Symthic hasn't got their sight guide up yet, but that's the feel I get at the moment. The zoom's also the same. Both the RDS and Holo sights enlarge your surroundings a bit when you aim. I didn't compare to ironsight ADS, so maybe happens regardless. :S.

The in-game descriptions seem true enough though. I can track targets more easily with the RDS since it only puts a dot on screen, while the ballistic reticle of the Holo steals my focus for a bit when I aim, even if it grants greater clarity for better medium engagement.

There's also much greater variation now regarding class/weapon matchups. Assault + ACW-R (Carbine) in TDM is just godly. The med packs seem lame at first, but once you realise that you can heal while moving and play accordingly they're pretty damn good. Just kill, heal+move, repeat.

The standard pistol is really good as well. It reminds me of the 1911 from BF3 in feel and damage (maybe it takes 1 more bullet to kill), but fires as fast as you can press the trigger and also has a nice magazine size. The only real problem I find is that my fingers get confused sometimes. When I want to finish a guy off by switching to my sidearm (keyboard: 2), I may accidentally throw him a med pack instead (keyboard: 3).

Reviving got nerfed for better or worse. Full revives take more work now, and I've got to balance out between quick-revive and moving on, or being more vulnerable while making the revive count more.

[Animeniax]

That's good that they made revives take longer. It's ridiculous that guys get killed and insta-revived. I earned so many medic points from mass series of revives when my teammates got shot all around me, but it was pretty ridiculous.

[Buffalobiian]

I've been trying to use the SCAR-H but it's not very successful so far. I'm not sure what it is that's affecting me.. low ROF leading to lack of suppression? Just the vertical kick that I'm not controlling? I tried the compensator and that seemed to help a little, so perhaps it's horizontal recoil?

The time to kill is supposed to be the fastest with this gun as far as assault rifles go, but I have the best practical results with the ACE 23. AK-12 is good too if I feel less aggressive.

The game rapes my CPU, but it's playable.