Battlefield 3

By Crisp
in Gamers' Hangout

 Share

Recommended Posts

Grand Master

Alladaskill17

Posted
Posted

Still having 560ti graphic problems.

Which guns recommended for assualt aek or 2000 or is there something better ?

I know people will laugh and there most certainly are better choices but my preference (especially since Assault is not my main class) I really enjoy the M16A3+RDS. Normally I hate RDS, but that is the only gun in BF3 I use it with. I'd recommend trying the FAMAS if you like fast guns, I hate the default iron site though. Also there is the VAL, which is as fast as the FAMAS but I prefer that over the FAMAS.

Mentor

StealMySoda

Posted
Posted

Still having 560ti graphic problems.

Which guns recommended for assualt aek or 2000 or is there something better ?

The best gun assault rifle is the M16, whether you prefer burst or not you can use M16A3 or the M16A4. If you are good at handling recoil the Red Dot Sight, Foregrip and Heavy barrel makes it even more accurate at distance as well. If your not so great with recoil use it without the heavy barrel.

If your after something stealthy the AEK, foregrip and silencer can also be very handy for flanking and not popping up on the enemy minimap.

I see less and less people using the FAMAS as they begin to realize how bad it is.

Grand Master

trag3dy

Posted
Posted

Still having 560ti graphic problems.

Which guns recommended for assualt aek or 2000 or is there something better ?

What sort of graphic problems?

As for assault weapons I prefer the m416 and m16a3. They both handle relatively similar (in my opinion). Both with holo or red dot sight, hand grip (a must for all assault rifles) and silencer or heavy barrel. Heavy barrel if you don't care about staying off the minimap. Silencer helps reduce recoil a little bit.

Grand Master

trag3dy

Posted
Posted

I always go back to the AEK+Holo for Assault.

For some reason, hit detection is really bad with M406B (Engineer gun) at medium to long range. I can be shooting directly at the enemy and the shots don't register. Weird.

Are you sure that you aren't just straight missing? Because engineer weapons have a very large spread at 50m+.

To make longer range shots switch to single fire mode on your gun and aim high.

Grand Master

trag3dy

Posted
Posted

Supposedly these are the upcoming balance tweaks -http://symthic.com/f...c.php?f=3&t=471

Personally I'll take them with a grain of salt until the actual release of the February patch (that won't come out in February, gg DICE)

Not entirely sure how I feel about them changing the grip and silencer. Seems like they are doing that just for the hell of it.

They said it would be 3 or 4 weeks before the big patch would be out when they released that small maintenance patch a few days ago. I'm not even sure where people came to the conclusion there would be a big patch in February?

Veteran

philcruicks

Posted
Posted

I barely know the maps in the Back to Karkand DLC when playing Team Deathmatch. They all play in very similar ways, since height is dominant. If you're on a bigger building on those maps you have a better chance than the people on the ground. Shotguns are surprisingly effective for these maps, since most enemies will be looking out windows on second and third storeys of buildings. Claymores are a problem, though.

Wake Island offers the most TDM variety of the Karkand maps. One very helpful technique is to move through the foundations of the buildings and use those to your advantage. Most people rush in and don't check the darkest corners so you can often use those if a group of enemies are coming. You can just send a stream of bullets across them and it'll take a second or two for them to work out where they're being hit from, which is all you really need.

I've managed to slowly shuffle my most used weapons around, too. The AK-74M is now third, with just over 500 kills, and the PKP is fourth. Somehow I have two stars with the .44 Magnum, but I've also grown to love the 93R. I stole a Recon kit last night with it equipped and killed about three people who tried to come running into the building I was in (Caspian Border; TDM), as well as people coming to the building. I'm not such a fan of the G18, but the 93R is a lot of fun to use. I didn't like it in Bad Company 2 because it was basically useless but it seems a lot more effective in Battlefield 3. I still can't work out what possessed me to use the PKP either, since the recoil is still enough to take you right off target and the damage output doesn't seem to balance that. I'm finding a lot of success with the M240B and the M60E4, assuming you use it like a semi-automatic rifle.

Oh, and I finally got the L96. It's my go-to sniper rifle now, replacing the SV-98. I still like the SV-98 but the way you work the bolt on the L96 looks pretty cool. I'm pretty sure it's not really better than the SV-98 but for some reason I have difficulty with the M40A5, so they're my two main sniper rifles. I haven't posted in this thread in a long while so my post is a little drawn out. :p

L96 is better, far less drop, and more range and I think slightly higher damage.

93R is a fantastic pistol, that or the 1911

Which guns recommended for assualt aek or 2000 or is there something better ?

Out of those two AEK is better on stats...the M416 and M16 are both even better (all with HOLO sight), I also really like the FAMAS at mid to long range with the 3.4x scope.

Grand Master

Muhammad Farrukh

Posted
Posted

Well, its agood thing in a sense that they are increasing the damage abilities of Assault Riffles.

But they shouldn't nerf the damage of M98B :cry: :cry:

My Beloved

I mean, yeah it has too much damage and all but its a niper rifle and that is how its meant to be. As for L96 and M40A5, its good that they are finally getting more damage. (Y)

By doing this they are making all of the Bolt-Actions literally the same

post-407818-0-18777100-1329553323.jpg

Also what is with all the weapons' accuracy changes? Are they being made more accurate or less?

Proficient

gkl

Posted
Posted

Not entirely sure how I feel about them changing the grip and silencer. Seems like they are doing that just for the hell of it.

They said it would be 3 or 4 weeks before the big patch would be out when they released that small maintenance patch a few days ago. I'm not even sure where people came to the conclusion there would be a big patch in February?

Probably because Tomas Danko said that they will patch in a better comrose in February and then DICE stated that the new comrose will be part of a larger update. Either way, a decent patch is waaaaay overdue as the game still feels a bit like a beta, after over 3 months its release.

Proficient

gkl

Posted
Posted

I guess it also partially depends on personal tastes. I want a complete UI redesign (not gonna happen...) as it looks like **** but many seem to enjoy it. Nevertheless, comrose is actually useless and needs fixing/improving, just as squads in SQDM and SQR, fall damage, fade-in after spawning, rebinding of Q/spotting, 3D spotting through smoke etc.

Also, buggy vaulting, mysterious Bad Luck deaths, invincibility when in vaulting animation, teleporting when vaulting...

Grand Master

Dotdot

Posted
Posted

Probably because Tomas Danko said that they will patch in a better comrose in February and then DICE stated that the new comrose will be part of a larger update. Either way, a decent patch is waaaaay overdue as the game still feels a bit like a beta, after over 3 months its release.

I guess it also partially depends on personal tastes. I want a complete UI redesign (not gonna happen...) as it looks like **** but many seem to enjoy it. Nevertheless, comrose is actually useless and needs fixing/improving, just as squads in SQDM and SQR, fall damage, fade-in after spawning, rebinding of Q/spotting, 3D spotting through smoke etc.

Also, buggy vaulting, mysterious Bad Luck deaths, invincibility when in vaulting animation, teleporting when vaulting...

Wasnt aware you were filing daily bug reports and feedback. Seems to be missing from my game. UI needs re-design how?

Think you expect a bit much tbh. Still valid points, but as with games these will likely be patched in later or just not at all. Fade in after spawn aint gonna happen thats for sure.

Grand Master

trag3dy

Posted
Posted

Well, its agood thing in a sense that they are increasing the damage abilities of Assault Riffles.

But they shouldn't nerf the damage of M98B :cry: :cry:

My Beloved

I mean, yeah it has too much damage and all but its a niper rifle and that is how its meant to be. As for L96 and M40A5, its good that they are finally getting more damage. (Y)

By doing this they are making all of the Bolt-Actions literally the same

post-407818-0-18777100-1329553323.jpg

Also what is with all the weapons' accuracy changes? Are they being made more accurate or less?

That's Demize for you. He did the exact same thing in BC2 with all the sniper rifles and the .50 cal sniper rifle.

I guess it also partially depends on personal tastes. I want a complete UI redesign (not gonna happen...) as it looks like **** but many seem to enjoy it. Nevertheless, comrose is actually useless and needs fixing/improving, just as squads in SQDM and SQR, fall damage, fade-in after spawning, rebinding of Q/spotting, 3D spotting through smoke etc.

Also, buggy vaulting, mysterious Bad Luck deaths, invincibility when in vaulting animation, teleporting when vaulting...

I agree with all of that pretty much. Specifically the UI, it's pretty bad. Also the minimap is fairly useless.

Proficient

gkl

Posted
Posted

Wasnt aware you were filing daily bug reports and feedback. Seems to be missing from my game. UI needs re-design how?

Think you expect a bit much tbh. Still valid points, but as with games these will likely be patched in later or just not at all. Fade in after spawn aint gonna happen thats for sure.

All of the aforementioned bugs have been posted by many people, many times, in many places. DICE are aware of them. I experience them every time I play. And I'm expecting a bit much? Like a game without super annoying, easily reproducible and obvious bugs, and substantial regressions compared to previous releases? Are you serious?

BTW Demize99 said that the black, extremely long fade in when spawning on a squadmate will be fixed.

Grand Master

trag3dy

Posted
Posted

And who is this Demize huy? Some developer I guess?

Well, seriously this sucks. Now all of the Bolt-Actions will be same, except for magazine capacities and such.

And they shouldn't even touch AEK-971 and M416

He is the guy who was in charge of balance for Battlefield 2142, Bad Company 2, and now for Battlefield 3. I'll just say that he has a good record of making terrible balance changes and leave it at that.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Posts

    • Microsoft Paint used to be my favorite Windows app as a kid, and it's still pretty good

      By Usama Jawad96 · Posted

      Microsoft Paint used to be my favorite Windows app as a kid, and it's still pretty good by Usama Jawad I have been using Windows since the early 2000s, when I was around 10 years old or so. I vaguely remember playing around with Windows 98 and Windows 2000, but that may have been on school PCs which had old operating systems installed. My main OS on the home PC, and the one I recall spending most time with, was Windows XP. At that time, I used the home PC to create Word and PowerPoint documents for school, but a lot of the time, I simply used it to play games. My dad would bring game discs which we would try and install on the PC, sometimes unsuccessfully, and sometimes, we would rely on flash games in the browser, like Bubble Trouble on Miniclip. However, the problem with the latter approach was the internet speed. On a good day, our dial-up internet would offer us speeds of 56 kbps, but on most days, it was closer to 33 kbps. This did not facilitate online gaming as I would often have to wait minutes for a game to load or "draw" on the screen, and trying to download pirated games wasn't simple either. I remember getting tired of waiting for online games to load and just downloading simulator games from the Big Fish Games website instead, only to be disappointed after finding out that I was just being given access to trial versions of the title, and I needed to fork out money to pay for the full version. All of this is to say that it wasn't very easy to find entertainment options on the home PC when I was a kid, due to a number of reasons, mostly outside of my control. This situation pushed me towards a rather unconventional ally: Microsoft Paint. Whenever the internet wasn't working as good as I expected, I would simply spin up Paint and draw complete rubbish on the canvas. Of course, that wasn't always the intention, but it usually happened when I messed up drawing a straight line or something, and then I would give up on that particular piece and simply draw a random collection of objects. Microsoft Paint was extremely accessible and easy to use. Even if you weren't an artist, you could quickly understand the tools at your disposal and how to leverage them on a canvas. The absolute breadth on offer ensured that each painting was truly unique, as you could utilize various combinations of tools like the pencil, paint, spray paint, and more to truly personalize your creation. Since I wasn't particularly good at drawing both on digital screen or a physical screen, I remember that my main style of art would be to insert a bunch of randomly intersecting lines and then fill them with random colors through the paint can. I have trying to replicate that art style in the latest version of Paint below, and as you can see, it's truly Pablo Picasso-esque. The human imagination truly knows no bounds Microsoft Paint kept me occupied for hours and was my best friend when video games on the home PC were inaccessible for one reason or the other. There was no academic or professional reason for which I would need to use Paint, but I still loved using it in my personal time, even if what I created wasn't worth being shown to anyone. It was simply fun. Fast-forward to today, and the situation is mostly the same. Now that I am almost 29 years old, and I still have no reason to use Microsoft Paint in a professional capacity. In fact, I don't even use it in a personal capacity, except to dabble with it from time to time, just to see if core functionalities are still intact. And I'm happy to say that I think Microsoft Paint still offers the same accessibility and inviting experience that it did to me a couple of decades ago, even though its UX has been refreshed and it's been integrated with Copilot features. Interestingly, things could have been a lot different, had Microsoft had its way. Microsoft Paint was marked for deprecation with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update in 2017, and even began displaying a product retirement alert, urging customers to shift to Paint 3D instead. Fortunately, after consumer backlash, Microsoft reversed course on this decision, and Paint continues to be a native app inside Windows installations that can also be updated quite frequently through the Microsoft Store. Instead, Paint 3D ended up on the chopping block, which is for the better, I think. I have intermittently played around with Microsoft's refreshed Paint experience in the past few years, and I do think it has received worthwhile upgrades. the UI and the UX has been modernized while retaining core functionality, and the app is still fairly easy to use. It doesn't meet any of my use-cases, but I've never really had any use-cases ever, as described previously. Of course, the elephant in the room is the Copilot integration. Personally, I believe that this is one place where Copilot does make sense, environmental concerns aside. I know that a lot of creatives use AI to generate images, and while some may be using professional alternatives, Paint still offers a decent casual experience, with the power of Copilot. Of course, you do need to have a valid Microsoft 365 Copilot license and available credits to use it, but even if you don't, you still get the big Copilot button in the toolbar, unfortunately. All in all, I am glad that Microsoft Paint continues to be a native feature in Windows 11, and a piece of software that has evolved to meet modern needs without cutting off its own roots. It's just an iconic piece of Windows history that was an essential part of my childhood, and while I don't use it anymore, I'm just glad it is still there.
    • 2TB WD_Black SN7100 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD drops to its lowest price in over three months

      By Fiza Ali · Posted

      2TB WD_Black SN7100 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD drops to its lowest price in over three months by Fiza Ali Amazon is currently offering the 2TB WD_Black SN7100 internal solid-state drive at its lowest price in over three months, so you may want to check it out, if you have been considering a storage upgrade, before the deal dries up (purchase link is toward the end of the article). Featuring a PCIe Gen 4.0 interface and M.2 2280 form factor, the SN7100 promises to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 7,250MB/s and sequential write speeds reaching 6,900MB/s, offering as much as a 35% improvement in performance compared with the previous generation. It also achieves random read speeds of 1,000,000 IOPS and random write speeds of 1,400,000 IOPS. The drive uses Western Digital’s TLC 3D NAND technology for reliable performance and is further supported by a five-year limited warranty. It also offers strong endurance, rated at up to 1,200TBW, making it suitable for demanding workloads such as gaming, content creation, and high-speed recording. Moreover, its DRAM-less architecture claims to improve power efficiency (the SSD relies on system memory for caching via HMB), while the WD_Black Dashboard software enables users to monitor drive health, install firmware updates, and activate Game Mode for potentially better performance. Finally, it operates within an operating temperature range of 0°C to 85°C, and can withstand storage temperatures from -40°C to 85°C. 2TB WD_Black SN7100 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD: $242.96 (Amazon US) Check this deal out if you want a 4TB option. Good to know This Amazon deal is U.S. specific, and not available in other regions unless specified. We only use first-party seller links (at the time of article publishing); ensure that you purchase from a first-party seller link only. Check out Today's Deals on Amazon | or our recent tech deals. Become a Prime member (for Students or SNAP) via Neowin Get Prime Access - Prime for half price (for qualifying Medicaid, EBT, SNAP) Subscribe to Prime Video, Audible Plus, Music Unlimited or Kindle Unlimited via Neowin As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
    • Windows 11 gets new audio improvements in the latest builds

      By cork1958 · Posted

      Hopefully this will fix the issue of no sound I have since last months stupid, and non-removable, Microsoft Corporation AudioProcessingObject Driver Update (1.0.3.56670)
    • Windows 11 version 26H2 is now available for testing in the latest preview build

      By Captain_Eric · Posted

      It IS confusing! What channel are you in on each device? I'm guessing your 16GB device is on Experimental (formerly known as Dev) and your 128GB is on Beta.
    • Poll: Grand Theft Auto VI price predictions, cast your vote

      By cyberhash · Posted

      100 for the base game , 120 for pre release with bonus unlocked content (a pair of boil washed underpants for Trevor)

  • Recent Achievements

    • Week One Done
      Supreme Spray LV earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      Genuinetonerink- Dubai earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Genuinetonerink- Dubai earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Year In
      hhgygy earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Week One Done
      AMV earned a badge
      Week One Done

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      514
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      163
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      86
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      74
    5. 5
      Michael Scrip
      73
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!