Yeah, it's supposed to be released sometime in early December, and it would be nice to have more destruction. It seems to be a bit on the non-existent side compared to BC2's destruction.

"Chip away enemy cover" *Crossover to bullets flying at a guy behind cover*
"Destroy walls" *Crossover to a guy with an RPG and take out a wall to reveal enemies hiding behind it*
"Or just bring the whole building down " *Crossover to a tank shooting rounds at a building, but nothing happens, cricket*

^This.

It makes me look back at BC2's campaign level "Heavy Metal" and wish I could do the same in BF3. You know, how people should be reflecting back on games: with fond memories. That is, have fun while playing the campaign and doing what I want, or just watching stuff blow up and collapse in the multiplayer.

DICE, how could you get it so wrong?

its white pass for me. bringing down houses on people. then all we are left with is burning piles of rubble. loved me some destruction kills.

There should be a loadout thing called "Demolitions". Imagine the possibilities!! :')

Assault: "There's too many in that building!!"
Demolition: "Relax, I got this"
Assault: "Give this man a medal, and some covering fire"
Demolition: "AAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW YYYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAA"

*Boom*

are they going to retroactively put more destruction in the launch maps? or just have enhanced for karkand maps?

SKYRIM has a hold on me something fierce....

Skyrim has just crashed on me so...

Dmick024 wrote:

are they going to retroactively put more destruction in the launch maps? or just have enhanced for karkand maps?

I think they're just adding the Karkand maps and I don't think we'll be seeing any visible tweaks to the existing maps.

Once again, killer of dreams.

It's not like I don't want to see changes to the maps. I'd love to see more destructibility in the maps but from my experience in BC2 they'll change things like spawning and boundaries but nothing in the map physically. Do I want to see parts of buildings slumping down in the Operation Metro map? Absolutely. Do I see it happening? No.

I'm not sure if I should get excited about the Karkand maps. The same team also made up the Vietnam pack for BC2 apparently and I can't say I was a fan of those maps at all. What worries me is that there won't be many games playing the new maps and/or people will go to the original playlist. There were a couple of occasions in Vietnam where I left a game at the end of the round, searched for the same game mode and ended up in the same game I just left. Another time I didn't have a squad on the scoreboard yet I was getting squad points from four other people, almost as if to say the servers can handle more than 24 players if there are so few players.

I'm hoping that the Karkand maps aren't the Vietnam maps, but I guess I didn't pay more for them this time around so I shouldn't complain too much.

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azira: i believe they are going to be updated versions from battlefield 2, and from what ive read they were really popular. but we will see. so help me if this turns into the 3 killzone map packs i payed for and could never get games in i will huddle up in the corner and cry.

also for the problem of getting stuck in the same server, you can use the server browser and see how many games are up and on which server. thats how i usually find games, i rarely trust the quick match anymore.

edit: i believe most of the copies sold of this game were limited edition and higher, so there should be a large population who will just need to click on the download button. BUT splitting playlists is going to suck. especially if the karkand weapons are locked for that playlist only.

but i digress. its time to sleep.

So I unlocked the mortar yesterday, and started feeling dirty and cowardly using it. It was on Seine Crossing when I unlocked it so I set myself up on the other side of the bridge and made sure no one could see my head over the walls. It was like getting free kills and no one could get at me to fight back. I eventually decided to go after a flag several kills later and managed to scare a tank off with the mortar but it just seems like something that can be abused so easily.

Dmick024 wrote:

azira: i believe they are going to be updated versions from battlefield 2, and from what ive read they were really popular. but we will see. so help me if this turns into the 3 killzone map packs i payed for and could never get games in i will huddle up in the corner and cry.

The fact that they're old maps which were played a lot is encouraging, and I hope that will help them from going down the Vietnam road.

mortar is ungodly powerful in rush. if the mcom station is somewhat outdoors you can spam mortar fire onto it and deny them the option of defusing. i used to be against it at first, but going against 3 mortar users while defending the first station in metro made me respect the fact that 3 people were being useless to thier team for our benefit.

Dmick024 wrote:

mortar is ungodly powerful in rush. if the mcom station is somewhat outdoors you can spam mortar fire onto it and deny them the option of defusing. i used to be against it at first, but going against 3 mortar users while defending the first station in metro made me respect the fact that 3 people were being useless to thier team for our benefit.

when support i always carry the morter but i only use it to kill the OPFOR mortars. after i kill them 3 times with it from 3 different locations with 3 shots they stop trying to mortar the mcoms

You might see me more often now on the PSN as I'm pissed at Skyrim at the moment. Definitely a Bethesda game.

Skyrim doesn't have tanks, so it can't be anywhere near as good as BF3 anyway.

OT but... are you having the framerate issues too? sometimes it feels like im watching a flipbook movie...

im down for games this weekend.

I crash to the desktop sometimes when I fast travel, and if I try again it crashes too. I have to do something else for a while before I can go to where I want to go. Or walk. It wasn't too bad today, as if to say sorry for yesterday. It'll misbehave again though, it's about the only sure thing when playing a Bethesda game.

BoT I guess.

My clanmates are trying for Friday but I'd imagine I'll be on at other times. Need some helicopter practice but I can't ever seem to stay in the air for very long before someone starts locking on and I can't seem to get any kills lately.

massive stinger nerf incoming, so says the word on teh street. when i am playing bf3 i will usually have to mow through the mediocre rounds until the stars align just right. and in that moment i black out and come to at the score screen.

i really really really want to play wake island map again. last time i played it was 1943, and it was just nuts the whole time.

Just unlocked the MASS and holy poop that thing carves up!!!

BF3 players are going to get BF1943 like they said back at E3. I think we'll get the downloading info next month (for NA players).

hurray ! i guess that class action lawsuit worked, lol!! somebodies lawyer had a high speechcraft!

ninja: that thing is a beast when you are in tight quarters.

Ulocked the frag and flechette for it too... Holy poop on a stick Frag rounds

i-like-ninjas wrote:

Just unlocked the MASS and holy poop that thing carves up!!!

Yea that thing is fun. wait till you get the USAS-12 .. or as i like to call it the "noob cannon".

I hade the SAIGA(Russian equivalent) in BC2 and absolutely destroyed all humans... Seems they only improved it in BF3 I want the shotgun shell for tanks...

good couple rounds Bit!