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Ineffiable
Feb 16, 2008

Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...


venutolo posted:

I put this 2TB hybrid drive in my PS4. I think it provides a good mix of price, storage, and speed. I can have all the games I want installed and I still load BF4 maps before everyone else.

This is really the smart idea. Just a sshd alone means faster than 95% of players. That's all you need.

I spent my Christmas bonus on a 4tb ssd. Merry loving Christmas to me!

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e.pilot
Nov 20, 2011

sometimes maybe good
sometimes maybe shit
I love sitting back with the mortar land ship and just absolutely wrecking objectives. It's funny when the pubbies spawn on me and get mad because they think I'm just sitting there, they'll get out and start shooting at me like it does anything.

e.pilot fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Jan 9, 2017

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

You're the worst.

Robot Randy
Dec 31, 2011

by Lowtax
yeah id understandably get upset if some deadweight is wasting armor doing gently caress all to cap points

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Vladimir Putt-Putt posted:

yeah id understandably get upset if some deadweight is wasting armor doing gently caress all to cap points

lol if ur pubbin it up without the assumption you'll have to get everything done yourself.

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

Is there a bug with light AT grenades? A cavalry dude just took out my full health arty truck with one.

Also it's hilarious/depressing to see the FPS kids get stuck in their own mini COD level at B on Suez.

mellowjournalism
Jul 31, 2004

helllooo
lol so if you needed more practice in vehicles, and/or hate getting sniped, there's a new mode

Armored Kill
-Vehicles spawn twice as fast
-Medic rifles disabled
-Scouts completely disabled


and apparently Hardcore got its bullet damage bonus reduced from 200% to 125%? lame?




in other news,

http://segmentnext.com/2016/12/05/feature-removed-battlefield-1/ posted:

However, there are some features that were cut from the final version, including the shovel being used to dig trenches. With this feature, players would be able to dig trenches and cause the opposing team to rethink their strategy.

Fortunately, a DICE developer named Maars_DICELA read the post and made a somewhat shocking reveal. Turns out, DICE did include this feature but it was removed from the final game due to its weirdness.

:airquote:


Dinosaurs! posted:

Is there a bug with light AT grenades? A cavalry dude just took out my full health arty truck with one.

Also it's hilarious/depressing to see the FPS kids get stuck in their own mini COD level at B on Suez.

-idk but a horsiemans can take out an arty truck alone in just 2 grenade passes
-Suez B is so great. pop flares, poo poo mortars on em, monstertruck all the buildings with a vehicle, or go in with the cavalry saber and set up a halal butchershop :unsmigghh:

Auxiliary Treats
Jun 26, 2013

Dinosaurs! posted:

Is there a bug with light AT grenades? A cavalry dude just took out my full health arty truck with one.

Also it's hilarious/depressing to see the FPS kids get stuck in their own mini COD level at B on Suez.

Did you have any mines down? I've had the unfortunate experience of killing someone, dropping mines on my way to relocate and then a dude that must have squad-spawned tossing a grenade to kill me.

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

I've died to a frag grenade that way before, but not this time. In fact I was slowly moving and the cavalry had just arrived to a point I was contesting. Definitely no mines or other players present.

winter.mute
Jan 5, 2010

mellowjournalism posted:

Armored Kill
-Vehicles spawn twice as fast
-Medic rifles disabled
-Scouts completely disabled

that's a little different from AK in BF4, I like the no sniper option but the medic rifles is a little strange.

as far as the shovels being used to dig trenches to change strategies, that reminds me a little of MAG on the PS3 where you could cut off vehicle approaches by blowing up bridges and an engineer would have to rebuild it in the middle of a firefight if you wanted to move up

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
Digging trenches would be cool but hard as hell to program (throwback shoutout to red faction tho)

What they should have is an item, probably for support, that is a basic sandbag set up you can throw down. Couple sand bags on either side that you can go prone behind and have some cover to shoot from. Similar to the sniper's metal shield except anyone can use it and it's not a sniper item so it's relevant

TheOneAndOnlyT
Dec 18, 2005

Well well, mister fancy-pants, I hope you're wearing your matching sweater today, or you'll be cut down like the ugly tree you are.

FastestGunAlive posted:

Digging trenches would be cool but hard as hell to program (throwback shoutout to red faction tho)

What they should have is an item, probably for support, that is a basic sandbag set up you can throw down. Couple sand bags on either side that you can go prone behind and have some cover to shoot from. Similar to the sniper's metal shield except anyone can use it and it's not a sniper item so it's relevant
Except then you'd have to consciously choose the sandbags over ammo, limpet charges, and a goddamn grenade crossbow. So nobody would ever take it.

Trench digging sounds cool but in practice it would just be one of two things: useless in modes like Conquest where points change hands all the time, or an unfair advantage for defenders in attack/defend modes. I mean I guess it would contribute to that REAL WWI EXPERIENCE, but nobody wants to play a mode where you have to run across an open field while the defenders get to sit in hidey-holes and fire on you with near-impunity nonstop.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
Maybe. Some people in this very thread still haven't realized the power and the glory of limpet charges, rifle grenades, and our lord and savior arty truck so who's to say :gerty:

Barometer
Sep 23, 2007

You travelled a long way for
"I don't know", sonny.
:whip: :cthulhu: :shivdurf:

After getting some sweet multikills with the frag crossbow I've been using it over limpets. I miss taking down buildings but banking frag grenades around has been a whole lot of fun. I killed a few people in a bunker earlier today (Argonne) before coming into work. THUNK

Live At Five!
Feb 15, 2008
I've ditched limpets completely for the frag crossbow. Sometimes I do miss being able to damage vehicles or blow up buildings, but you can only toss limpets like 3 feet. If there was a limpet launcher I'd change back

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

How the gently caress do I git gud with the bomber, there has to be some key insight into its use that I'm missing

Pleads
Jun 9, 2005

pew pew pew


Biplane posted:

How the gently caress do I git gud with the bomber, there has to be some key insight into its use that I'm missing

Hope one of the pubbies who spawns into your tail gunner spot shoots planes on your 6 instead of parachuting out to die helplessly on the ground?

sunday at work
Apr 6, 2011

"Man is the animal that thinks something is wrong."

Biplane posted:

How the gently caress do I git gud with the bomber, there has to be some key insight into its use that I'm missing

Stay at high altitude, bring a decent tail gunner.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

The Xbone external drive thing is just that the internal SATA is slow as heck and the disk is getting smashed by the OS for some reason, so using a USB 3.0 disk of any flavor (I just have a WD portable 2TB) means you usually load in 30sec or so earlier.


That first load-in to MP BF1 though is a loooong fuckin wait.

DELETED
Nov 14, 2004
Disgruntled
:trumppop:






E:




DELETED fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Jan 10, 2017

Robot Randy
Dec 31, 2011

by Lowtax

Jedi Knight Luigi
Jul 13, 2009
If anyone wants to see how to kick rear end in the bomber take a look

shut up blegum
Dec 17, 2008


--->Plastic Lawn<---
Why didn't I use the AT rocket gun sooner? It's awesome. Hellriegel for close range and if you get pinned down, pop out your rocket rifle and blow up a sniper. It also takes out light tanks really fast.

TjyvTompa
Jun 1, 2001

im gay

Dinosaurs! posted:

Is there a bug with light AT grenades? A cavalry dude just took out my full health arty truck with one.

Also it's hilarious/depressing to see the FPS kids get stuck in their own mini COD level at B on Suez.

Did he actually destroy the truck or just kill you? It is possible to kill people inside the arty truck with regular grenades, you just have to hit the sweet spot under it.

shomakkaa
Apr 5, 2011

Just an ok round as a medic on Suez, but had to share the sentry syringe kill I got last night (8:30 if the link timestamp doesn't work for whatever reason) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5oh5YJ6ZQ&t=511s

shut up blegum
Dec 17, 2008


--->Plastic Lawn<---

shomakkaa posted:

Just an ok round as a medic on Suez, but had to share the sentry syringe kill I got last night (8:30 if the link timestamp doesn't work for whatever reason) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5oh5YJ6ZQ&t=511s

That's a really nice skin for your gun

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

TjyvTompa posted:

Did he actually destroy the truck or just kill you? It is possible to kill people inside the arty truck with regular grenades, you just have to hit the sweet spot under it.

Yeah the whole truck blew up - flames and all. Was the strangest thing.

Beastie
Nov 3, 2006

They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.


Crosspost from the Xbone Thread:

TheScott2K posted:

New price tags being printed at GameStop for the following titles:

Battlefield Bad Company 2, the best Battlefield game
-Battlefield 3, wrong people's favorite Battlefield
-Dragon Age Origins, a game that makes people nostalgic for when Bioware was good
-Ghostbusters, a game that people remember fondly now because it's cheap and because a worse new movie came out. Bill Murray recorded all his lines into a talkboy tape recorder on the golf course, so that's fun. Decent ghost trap mechanic.

Also these XBLA titles work on your Xbox One and take up very little space so you might as well install them and pin their rad tiles to your home screen:

-Strania, a vertical shooter you don't own and don't need to own
-The Splatters, a physics puzzle thing that's a half decent time waster
-Scrap Metal, a top-downish shootycars game

TheOneAndOnlyT
Dec 18, 2005

Well well, mister fancy-pants, I hope you're wearing your matching sweater today, or you'll be cut down like the ugly tree you are.
Maybe it's just me but I can't get into using the Hellrigel as Assault. It feels like I'm spraying all over the place and running out of ammo constantly.

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

That's weird because it's super accurate and has a large magazine.

TheOneAndOnlyT
Dec 18, 2005

Well well, mister fancy-pants, I hope you're wearing your matching sweater today, or you'll be cut down like the ugly tree you are.

RCarr posted:

That's weird because it's super accurate and has a large magazine.
What I meant is that it feels like I'm always running out of reserve ammo because of all the spraying. I know that 60/60 is the same number of total rounds as other SMGs, but seeing that I have less than one full mag in reserve always makes me twitchy.

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Clapping Larry

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

What I meant is that it feels like I'm always running out of reserve ammo because of all the spraying. I know that 60/60 is the same number of total rounds as other SMGs, but seeing that I have less than one full mag in reserve always makes me twitchy.

It's also funny because the game doesn't force you to carry discrete magazines like more hardcore shooters. although... does hardcore mode make that switch?

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.

Beastie posted:

Crosspost from the Xbone Thread:

I'm not gonna say bf3 is better than bad company but lol if you don't want to escort the amtrack through nose hair and rack up hella kills

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Clapping Larry
I just miss systematically destroying every building on Arica Harbor or Nelson Bay

pskrew assemble? I got a couple games in me

Gunshow Poophole fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jan 10, 2017

mellowjournalism
Jul 31, 2004

helllooo
jumping on for some shenans

Ol Standard Retard posted:

It's also funny because the game doesn't force you to carry discrete magazines like more hardcore shooters. although... does hardcore mode make that switch?

i don't think so :[

hardcore needs more love, it's so good, but technically pretty bad

Finger Prince
Jan 5, 2007


mellowjournalism posted:

jumping on for some shenans


i don't think so :[

hardcore needs more love, it's so good, but technically pretty bad

Back when I used to play COD games, I only played hardcore and loved it. In Battlefield for some reason it just doesn't work as well - I find it more annoying than anything. I think it's because it's more sniper friendly but I haven't been able to say for sure that's what it is.

Beastie
Nov 3, 2006

They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.


I was pretty much in the same boat. Loved COD hardcore for MW and MW2. Battlefield is just too chaotic for insta-deaths.

Also snipers.

Snak
Oct 10, 2005

I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.
Grimey Drawer
I would like to try Hardcore, but I don't know how. I looked at all the filters on the server browser and couldn't find any reference to it. Anywhere, for that matter.

Where do I find hardcore matches?

Jedi Knight Luigi
Jul 13, 2009
Custom Games under Multiplayer.

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sunday at work
Apr 6, 2011

"Man is the animal that thinks something is wrong."
Hardcore is nothing but people prone on the edge of the map with marksman variant (no scope glint) scout guns. It's not good.

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