dear lord yes! when Im facing that sun I can't see a single thing. Sux

True that. Last time I was at Karkand I had to wear sunglasses everywhere I went..

haha but ya I see now that you do have to have a pc for the platoon. Sorry!

I'm am pissed at EA. I let my 12 yo son use his Xmas money to buy BF3. He got it home and tried playing it. He has his own account with his DOB connected to it. Well the game would let him play campaign but not online? Didnt even offer a password option for me as a parent. So we have to let him use my wife's profile to play it and on top of that each profile that wants to play the game in a household has to pay $10 for online access. This is stupid for families like mine.

I am no longer buying EA games until they fix themselves.

I too was so amazing at how EA makes you pay for online play on different profiles. Ridiculous. At EVERY corner they are trying to make another shady buck from loyal customers. We need more companies like Valve. Free DLC. Cross platform multiplayer. Gifts like buying a PS3 game and getting a free copy for the PC. Valve actually thinks about customers instead of only money.

Another example to when a company (govt. lol) gets too big, they start f'n up.

EA was the company and then Blizzard (which is still good but not as good). Actually I think Activision was good before EA...of course we could go even farther back.....

Sierra!

btw I HATE the attack choppers on Sharqi. If you get shot down by the enemy chopper, you'll most likely never be able to fly for the rest of the game as they just camp the spawn area.

Mmmmm attack choppers w/ a good pilot and gunner...

With a good and proper setup in a tank, the choppers are going to get shot down by a tank and not another chopper or plane. As with the chopper, getting the right partner in a tank is generally difficult. I was lucky enough to hook up with one the other day and we finished 1st and 2nd on the server for 8 games in a row. I would switch between the 2nd and 3rd seat and he drove. It was darn fun...finally we had to quit at 2 in the morning as we were tired and both of us had to work in the morning....

but NOTHING beats a good T.V. missile pilot :tup:

Guided Shell FTW.

I agree a good TV missile pilot is very frustrating as a tanker but a good tanker team is more important for a team win. The tanker team can take out choppers, take flags, and I'll argue kill more than a chopper. The problem on servers is there are more good choppers than good tank teams. Most want to solo in tanks which makes the choppers more powerful. Also because most want to solo tanks, they don't setup for the guided artillery which makes the third seat useless.....:mad:

:iagree:

I only use the tank if it's with a coordinated team. You can kick a lot of *** and take a lot of points.

Until last night I have really stopped playing BF3 because of all the aimbot jockeys...

I decided to try out some of the Return to Karkland maps and recalled the sense of awe I felt when it first came out. What a great game...I think I will join the Z platoon and look for some of you guys online.

I haven't been on lately since I've been down and out with the flu, but hopefully I will be back on this weekend.

You must be playing on some shitty servers or something - Ive had one, and only one instance of aim-botting.

Yeah, no doubt. It was during the day with no admins on the server, but Punkbuster was running on the server. I guess I am more turned off by the fact that anyone would want to cheat and just the general lack of teamplay that goes on with BF3. I should let it be known that I was playing BF 1942 since the first demo so it is disappointing to see people playing Conquest or Rush maps like it was MW3 deathmatch...especially when they are on my team :)

It is ridiculous how obvious a cheater sticks out and so fricking lame when they deny it...

Can't realy fault the game for that! I will be playing it at night a lot more here soon. Skyrim is starting to get a little boring.

Some people truly are really good.....but when you have some RIDICULOUS K/D ratio, yeah. I remember watching a kill-cam of the aim-botter, and it was stupid how he was aiming lol.

Yo nerds...I just applied to join the Th370z platoon. My BF3 name is HPSFCage. Am I cool enough to join? :)

Lolol. Just had a round where I was like, 41/9 or something. ABSOLUTE TUNGUSKA RAPE.

I've only had one for sure instance on the couple of servers I play on. Dude was killing people in tanks with a rifle from the other side of the map....can you be more obvious. He was 36-0 before being banned but he did get banned. The majority of the server did not respawn until he got banned.

I saw a blurb on BF3Blog where they did a big cleansing of known cheaters, banning them for life. So that's good.

is there a platoon on ps3 now? this thread is huge can't read whole thing

To me it is the "A few bad apples..." concept. If one guy is able to cheat then it makes one wonder if a skilled player is actually skilled, or cheating. The majority of them aren't. It is no fun getting killed by a cheater when you are trying to use squad tactics, which IMHO is the way BF3 is meant to be played.

Hmpf, just found Battlefield 3 Stats - All stats about BF3. Where's all those console players usernames so I can compare? :-p

I don't remember seeing a post on one.

what game types are most of you guys playing? I used to do tdm for a while to rank up quicker but recently have been doing on rush.

Im all TDM. I try to be MVP as much as possible

Eugh, TDM in BF3?

Rush or conquest only. I prefer rush though, especially on the new maps.

haha to be honest I played a bunch of Rush on Bad Company II but havent really touched it on BF3. Conquest is too long to hold my attention.

Rush and conquest. I can do both.

I typically do conquest. Rush would be great with cohesive teams, but 99% of the time I get frustrated and leave because the defenders always seem to want to attack and the attackers always seem to want to sit back and snipe... wtf???

Honestly, for me it's the other way around.

I get frustrated on conquest because people always fight on the road/forest/whatever and not the points. Likewise, two or three people often get swallowed up in a big conquest map, but in a rush map, they can carry the team pretty easily.

Conquest primarily with some Rush thrown in. I guess I'm a traditionalist (stuck in my ways) as BF was built on conquest.

agreed. conquest is very hard to carry with just a 2-3man squad.

btw, whats your ign nutin?

As an old-school BF guy I mostly do conquest. Every once in awhile I do encounter team players during a rush map, which is a beautiful thing.

Hopped on a map at lunch and immediately was killed by a Glock 18 when spawned in the train car on Metro. What the hell is wrong with people?

Commander mode from bf2 would take care of all the chaos problems in both conquest and rush..
Also, platoon battles would have been a cool feature

damnit, i still need to get this too... lol

Is there a mumble channel?

bumppppp
I'm getting back on the battlefield..