EA Battlefield 3 - Part 2

[Wolvieboy17]

I think Grand Bazaar would even be improved without vehicles.

Give me some great maps like that and I'll be fine. Where BF 3 does CQ combat well is where instead of going the MW route, focusing on camping spots, tools for camping, kill streaks to reward lone wolf behaviour, they are great at setting up choke points, where one team can easily overwhelm the enemy or easily defend from attackers if the whole team pitches in and creates a strong line of defense/surge forwards. For me, those sort of moments can be just as exhilarating as any of the open field, vehicle based stuff. It's a great simulation of frontline type combat but in an urban environment. Like that alley way in Grand Bazaar that always turns into Death Alley, or the stairs in Metro station.

 

[Master Chief]

Yup, right on the money. Some of the most intense games I've had were on Grand Bazaar, holding down B and trying to prevent the other team from flanking to cap A or C.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

The problem is those points you mentioned become horribly unbalanced. Op Metro is a perfect example. Easily one of the most unbalanced mp maps iv ever played on, regardless of the game mode.

I mean this is Battlefield, not Call of Duty. Vehicle free maps have no place in this game. This first expansion pack is clearly an attempt to try and get some CoD fans to play the game, the same way the stupid TDM mode was meant to.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

I used to find that Op Metro map unbalanced but now it's probably one of my favourite maps.

A game on that map could really go either way and unless you stay focused, you can go from flawlessly winning to getting thrashed at the drop of a dime. I find that really exciting and not at all like an unbalanced COD match, where if you're getting thrashed within the first 5 minutes, that's more or less the pattern for the rest of the game.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I used to find that Op Metro map unbalanced but now it's probably one of my favourite maps.

A game on that map could really go either way and unless you stay focused, you can go from flawlessly winning to getting thrashed at the drop of a dime. I find that really exciting and not at all like an unbalanced COD match, where if you're getting thrashed within the first 5 minutes, that's more or less the pattern for the rest of the game.

Maybe you have more time spent in this game than i do, but iv got over 120 hours in this game and iv spent a lot of time in Op Metro and the defenders or the team that starts on the A side on Op Metro win FAR, FAR, FAR more often than not. I dont notice this level of pure imbalance on any of the other maps. I agree with you that a team can go from winning to getting thrashed but that RARELY happens for the defenders or the team that holds B.

I mean maybe these next 4 maps won't be as poorly designed, but i keep thinking indoor maps and immediately Op Metro pops into my head, which is just not a BF map. Its got CoD written all over it.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Lol trust me Pat, it's not COD. I rented out MW 3 for a week recently and those maps are like an N64 era FPS compared to the BF 3 maps. It was embarrassing. I think even Black Ops had better maps, in gameplay design and graphics, than MW 3.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Lol trust me Pat, it's not COD. I rented out MW 3 for a week recently and those maps are like an N64 era FPS compared to the BF 3 maps. It was embarrassing. I think even Black Ops had better maps, in gameplay design and graphics, than MW 3.

Haha, yea, i can't really speak for MW. I mean i owned MW2 but i believe i stopped playing that in March, once Bad Company 2 came out. Haven't played a CoD since.

 

[Master Chief]

Looks pretty cool.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Yuck. That is not Battlefield. Thats some ugly demon spawn of Battlefield and Call of Duty. All 4 of those maps will end up being a gigantic shotgun fest. Ah well, ill just skip this pack and get the next one. No harm, no foul.

 

[Master Chief]

lol yeah, it's not BF. I'm just appreciating the destructibility.

 

[gregtestagent]

They said the patch would be up on 3/27/2012.....where is it?

 

[ProjectPat2280]

They said the patch would be up on 3/27/2012.....where is it?

I believe its just PS3. Or is that the one you are talking about?

 

[Clu]

renting a server is greatness. friend rented one that I admin and being able to actually auto balance the server is a great thing. no longer will i have to deal with a team full of 50's going vs a team full of 1's and 15's. can move people over to make it so everyone has a chance.

i also like to move clans over so teams are not stacked badly. its rush server only, because conquest takes 40 minutes, when rush is 15-20-30 minutes tops and you can play many different maps.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Why would any clan stick around if ur just gonna break em up? Isn't the point of a clan to play with ur buddies?

 

[Clu]

not breaking them up, just moving one clan over if there is 2 on the same team.

lots of times, i notice that 2-4 clans are on one team and the other team is full of randoms and getting stomped. so its more to balance it out as if 1 team as 1-2 clans the other team will have 1-2 clans just so its not stacked. want people to remain on the server and having fun, not going on the server and very pissed off because the auto balance is in favor of placing all the clans on 1 team.

last night we had a clan on the server and it was an 8 person clan and it was 3 on one team and 5 on the other, so i just switched them all over to the same team so they all could play together(as i expect a 8 person clan would be talking via other means like skype) this is on ps3 btw and not xbox so couldnt be using the game system chat.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Ohhhh, got ya. That does seem helpful.

 

[gregtestagent]

My brother is having trouble using the bipod. It won't deploy on any surface. It is attached to the weapon, it does this to each weapon, and he did not change his settings. This may be a post patch problem.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Hmm, i haven't tried a weapon with a bipod yet. Bout to play in a min tho, so ill try it out.

 

[Master Chief]

I was able to deploy the bipod today.

I played a full match of conquest on Op Firestorm where the server admin put the tickets at 1000 lmao I got to do a lot of flying.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/40257656/2/201511139/

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Yea I didn't have any problems with the bipod. Its never worked better IMO

 

[Master Chief]

Ugh, I can't find any of the official servers.

I was in a match for 10 minutes, having fun. I killed this guy once while he was busy trying to blow up a tank, then I killed him again coz he was stupid enough to spawn on his buddy when I was right around the corner. Then I get kicked. I had to find the server again to check up on who owned it, then I checked his FL and to no surprise I find the dude I killed twice on his page. He had the decency to make up a bulls**t reason when I asked him why but damn that pissed me off.

Having players buy servers is cool, but FFS giving them the power to kick people for no reason is bulls**t.

 

[StrainedEyes]

I haven't run into any jerks running servers yet. But games with like 1000 tickets go on forever.

 

[Master Chief]

Hahah well it's made me take another break. I can't enjoy the game if I'm worried about getting kicked because I outplay an admin.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Ugh, I can't find any of the official servers.

I was in a match for 10 minutes, having fun. I killed this guy once while he was busy trying to blow up a tank, then I killed him again coz he was stupid enough to spawn on his buddy when I was right around the corner. Then I get kicked. I had to find the server again to check up on who owned it, then I checked his FL and to no surprise I find the dude I killed twice on his page. He had the decency to make up a bulls**t reason when I asked him why but damn that pissed me off.

Having players buy servers is cool, but FFS giving them the power to kick people for no reason is bulls**t.

Yea thats the exact reason i dont join any private servers. As soon as you top the admin, they'll just kick you. You just gotta look for those DICE servers man. I haven't had any problems finding them.

BTW, what was his BS excuse for kicking you?

 

[UltimateWebhead]

Yea thats the exact reason i dont join any private servers. As soon as you top the admin, they'll just kick you. You just gotta look for those DICE servers man. I haven't had any problems finding them.

BTW, what was his BS excuse for kicking you?

Sounds like his vagina got sore from being raped by Master Chief. t: