Battlefield 3

Getting the hang of BF 3 now, I think - do very well on Conquest maps!

Me two

Finished second tonight after leading for the best part of 1 hour.........Jesus some maps go on for ages as both teams started with 900 points and at the end we had 343 left and i finished with 24,000 second place.

Kill/death ratio was rubbish........Think i killed people 10 times and died 40,mind you this is not about killing as its points make prizes aint it.

Think this particular map went on for the best part of 90 minutes i kid you not ,next time i am going to fit myself up with some of them TENA ladies panty pads as another 2 minutes and the house would have been flooded and it would not have been the rainfall we have had the last 2 months either

Edited by time2die (Sat 14-Jul-12 01:26:10)

Hahaha. Cracking up mate! Yeah, I know what you mean. I think some gamers keep a bottle or a bucket by their side just for that very reason.

Myself, I used to dash out between maps. I was so quick I could relieve myself and make a fresh cuppa tea all before the next map had gotten going too far. Just in time before auto-idle kick came in.

Yeah mate it's the longest game i have ever played online and i was bursting at the seams.

So far I've just been doing small campaign maps and a couple of deathmatches, although the former is preferable.

It does seem to have a very convoluted way of starting a game though, but thats EA for you...

I generally go for the stealth approach for capturing the different areas - take over them over whilst hiding too

Edited by deleted (Sat 14-Jul-12 14:08:15)

Could always just go to the loo once you have died and are waiting to spawn again.

In reply to a post by time2die:

Kill/death ratio was rubbish........Think i killed people 10 times and died 40,mind you this is not about killing as its points make prizes aint it.
Yea top player doesn't always have highest number of kills

I try to wait till between maps but sometimes have no choice but to go when I die
When you gotta go you gotta go

I need longer than 5 seconds matey

But you are right i could go make a cup of tea and answer call of nature providing i don't get kicked for inactivity,i can not believe how long some of these matches last.

I could watch a film and the match Conquest on a big map with 2 equal teams will still be playing

I play on a server with only a 3 map rotation. Caspian, Kraggy and Firestorm.
It's set at 300% so games are just about the right length
I've been on maps like Metro in the past with something like 1200 tickets :/

Think the most i have seen is 900 tickets and after about 80 minutes i left and got quite tired as it was getting late and the team loosing still had about 300 left .

I think when the one team has all the flags on occasions then the timer needs to count down a lot faster.

Yeah, some games are too long for sure. They'll probably much about with the ticket countdown rate come next patch then change it again the one after that.

Was it time for you bedtime cocoa and slippers then, grandpa?

Hehe.

Yeah it was really late as Coronation street had just started

Yes, that would be much better...

Originally the games only had 200 tickets, games were quite quick then, sometimes too quick. It's because people are renting servers and changing the ticket numbers that some games are too long.
I reckon about 600 tickets is about right

I do agree the crazy 2000 ticket servers and the like are madness. Some people find it fun. I know one of our platoon was playing on a 10,000 ticket Metro server the other week.
I just rapidly get bored especially in games were its just a steam roll for one side and you're sat that waiting for the tickets to countdown so you can change maps.

Getting the right ticket count is a science. I used to use 150% tickets on every map (450-600 tickets on most of the base Conquest64 maps). Worked quite well for most maps on 64 player. Now I tend to set tickets on a per map basis ranging from 75-300% depending on the number of players on the server.

You can never find the perfect balance as someone will always complain they have to few tickets or too many.

I prefer the 200 - 300 ticket games. The 600 ones are boring me to death now, I am really going off Battlefield for that reason. They go on for far too long and when it's one sided it is so boring. I was playing Tehran Highway night before last and we managed to push them back to their spawn point and the guys weren't good enough to get past us so we just had to wait an age for the tickets to run out so we could move on to a different map.

I have also noticed on the Xbox since private servers have come out a lot of the time they are half full which makes it even more boring. Hope something is done about it soon

I spend most of my time playing on a server with only 3 maps in its rotation.
Caspian boarded, Kraggy island and Firestorm all set at 300% tickets
It's always full and only with lower ranks

That sounds good, although not the lower ranks. It's good fun thrashing people, but I like a challenge as well! It's good when your squad is competing with the opposing squad for the Ace Squad pin....especially when they are a clan

Remember when I played Battlefield 2 (never had the first)...such a good game - still play it now on the PC every now and again. I used to like that Urban map that had the really tall building in the centre which I used to snipe people all over the map, cant remember what it is called now.

I never really liked Battlefield 2, and thus was rather hesitant about getting 3. However, the free online version was a good demo for it...

I know what you mean, don't want a server full of cannon fodder, nice to have a mix

I really enjoyed BF2. Used to play that on the PC
Flying around the maps in a jeep was great fun, no javelins to worry about back then

Worldwide PC game lag yesterday/today (so far). Apparently it's PunkBuster causing the problem, possibly because they are moving servers...

Doing a few Deathmatches recently - now I've got a shotgun, I'm really mucking up people kill/death ratio

I'm at level 44 in 96 hours, 58 minutes...

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Edited by deleted (Wed 08-Aug-12 00:54:39)