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Laminator
Jan 18, 2004

You up for some serious plastic surgery?
Hey remember in battlefield 4 when people could defend against knife attacks? Boy was that a stupid mechanic

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red19fire
May 26, 2010

Lol somehow I got the Engineer service assignment unlocked, by randomly whipping limpets around every corner and just *happening* to hit 2 tanks with <30 health in a row, on the same life. It *can* be done, friends.

Is the only behemoth with destroyable parts the ship? I've been bombing the gently caress out of the trains to no avail.

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



That was great, melee kills from the front were retarded. Having to bash someone's skull a few times before getting the kill animation isn't bad aswell.

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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red19fire posted:

Lol somehow I got the Engineer service assignment unlocked, by randomly whipping limpets around every corner and just *happening* to hit 2 tanks with <30 health in a row, on the same life. It *can* be done, friends.

Is the only behemoth with destroyable parts the ship? I've been bombing the gently caress out of the trains to no avail.

huh? no, the train you can gently caress up the turrets and the airship the gondolas underneath

Lube Enthusiast
May 26, 2016

If you need the “behemoth part damaged” bonus for that one assignment, try attacking the Destroyer with torpedos from the transport boat. For some reason you can get the bonus even from just hitting the hull enough times.

winter.mute
Jan 5, 2010
what a bunch of poo poo games tonight, I had the worst luck in teams.

every round started out full but by the halfway point my team was down anywhere from 4 to 7 players every loving time. there were at least 3 rounds we were winning by several hundred tickets and suddenly we’re short almost 2 full squads for the rest of the game until we lose. I even switched servers and changed teams a couple of times and it happened in every one of them.

didn’t :dice: use to have some kind of balancing system?

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



It normally fills up the team with less players but sometimes you'll bleed players on your team faster than that so you end playing always with less players. Lots of people quit instantly when they join a game in progress, losing and with a few playes missing. I don't blame them, this game can be really unfun if the teams are too unbalanced and get steamrolled.

AutomaticPrince
Jun 14, 2013

winter.mute posted:

what a bunch of poo poo games tonight, I had the worst luck in teams.

every round started out full but by the halfway point my team was down anywhere from 4 to 7 players every loving time. there were at least 3 rounds we were winning by several hundred tickets and suddenly we’re short almost 2 full squads for the rest of the game until we lose. I even switched servers and changed teams a couple of times and it happened in every one of them.

didn’t :dice: use to have some kind of balancing system?

The exact opposite happened to me last night on PS4. First time playing in a few months, jumped in some Operations. The team I joined was pushed back to the last capture point on Verdun so I stuck it out thinking it'd be over quick and we'd start a fresh game. Somehow we rallied, never lost the point, then successfully defended the same sector the next two reinforcement rounds. One of the best experiences I've had in any Battlefield

Again I haven't played in awhile but it seems like the ticket numbers are much higher for the attackers and my beloved Ribeye isn't as good as I remember. Are there any good newer DLC weapons I should work toward?

That wide open Russian map that's basically a giant field might be my least favorite map to play.

winter.mute
Jan 5, 2010

AutomaticPrince posted:

Are there any good newer DLC weapons I should work toward?

fedorov avtomat melts faces. full auto (or single shot) good damage and pretty accurate even at range

sunday at work
Apr 6, 2011

"Man is the animal that thinks something is wrong."
They are working on a pigeon gadget that you can fly around and spot enemies with for Apocalypse, but haven't said for sure it will make it in.

Unfortunately you can't crash it into people for a kill. Super dissapointing. If I don't have a pigeon UCAV by the time this is all said and done the whole thing will have been for nothing!

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.

winter.mute posted:

fedorov avtomat melts faces. full auto (or single shot) good damage and pretty accurate even at range
You must be using a different Avtomat than me, because I can't hit poo poo with it at range. No disagreement about its close-range ability though.

I keep trying out the new medic rifles as the DLCs come out but I just keep on gravitating back to that good old Mondragon Storm.

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Sep 14, 2008

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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

You must be using a different Avtomat than me, because I can't hit poo poo with it at range. No disagreement about its close-range ability though.

I keep trying out the new medic rifles as the DLCs come out but I just keep on gravitating back to that good old Mondragon Storm.

lets be clear to a your average BUTT (who's not baconfeet) "at range" is "not huggable".

Parkingtigers
Feb 23, 2008
TARGET CONSUMER
LOVES EVERY FUCKING GAME EVER MADE. EVER.

sunday at work posted:

They are working on a pigeon gadget that you can fly around and spot enemies with for Apocalypse, but haven't said for sure it will make it in.

Unfortunately you can't crash it into people for a kill. Super dissapointing. If I don't have a pigeon UCAV by the time this is all said and done the whole thing will have been for nothing!

I'd settle for a poop button that obscures vision for a few seconds.

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Sep 14, 2008

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Guys I played this game for the first time in months tonight and holy poo poo the fedorov is the new hellriegel, just Gettin mowed down from across the map at all times

Rest in piss rocket gun, splash damage and that new explosives perk have neutered my efficacy

red19fire
May 26, 2010

:lol: I just got a voicemail from a level 130/50 pilot skylord who was extremely mad that I shot his attack plane down with the arty truck. from across the map, while my lovely pub team was getting steamrolled. :lol:

Laminator
Jan 18, 2004

You up for some serious plastic surgery?

Ol Standard Retard posted:

Guys I played this game for the first time in months tonight and holy poo poo the fedorov is the new hellriegel, just Gettin mowed down from across the map at all times

Rest in piss rocket gun, splash damage and that new explosives perk have neutered my efficacy

Yeah, and it's gonna get buffed in the new TTK patch. How wonderful!

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

Has anyone experienced this issue before?

When I join a party, my headset/microphone works fine. I can hear people in the party and they can hear me.
However... after about a minute or two, something happens, and I can no longer hear anyone in the party. They can hear me fine though.
Unplugging the mic and plugging it back in do nothing. The only way to fix the issue is to turn the controller off, then back on again.
This gives me another minute or two of my headset working, then it stops again.

The headset is fairly new, as well as the controller. Does anyone know what the hell is causing this?

winter.mute
Jan 5, 2010

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

You must be using a different Avtomat than me, because I can't hit poo poo with it at range. No disagreement about its close-range ability though.

try single shot with the slightest pause between shots for the aim to settle, you're not going to get really long range shots but I've made a few from B to D on St. Quentin Scar

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Sep 14, 2008

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Laminator posted:

Yeah, and it's gonna get buffed in the new TTK patch. How wonderful!

seriously it's like playing golden gun on anything more than like a 50ms server. if I'm connected with west coast goons for matches the Fedorovs make the game wayyyyy too fast

Live At Five!
Feb 15, 2008

Ol Standard Retard posted:

lets be clear to a your average BUTT (who's not baconfeet) "at range" is "not huggable".

It's not too hard to cap dudes 200m+ with iron sights if you believe. Though this post makes me want to play again, it's been a few months.

Parkingtigers
Feb 23, 2008
TARGET CONSUMER
LOVES EVERY FUCKING GAME EVER MADE. EVER.

Parkingtigers posted:

----Air Supremacy mode. Doesn't even need specific maps, just designate a bombing target at each end of an existing map (behemoths would be excellent for this) and have a bunch of fighters and attack planes escort them in while also fending off the other team doing the same. 5 bombers, 5 attack planes, and a dozen fighters per side. Or give one side a behemoth and defensive fighter cover, while the other side has bombers/attack planes and fighter escort. I am turgid at the thought of 20 fighters dogfighting around a zeppelin, or waves of torpedo bombers desperately trying to make it through to a dreadnought steaming around. gently caress it, just take chapters 2 and 4 of the Friends in High Places war story and make it a fully multiplayer battle. [masturbates furiously]

A while back I said I wanted this. The Apocalypse DLC basically includes it. They are taking two maps from Friends in High Places, and there will be dogfighting and an enemy airship to shoot down. Yes mate, gimme that poo poo.

Jedi Knight Luigi
Jul 13, 2009

Parkingtigers posted:

A while back I said I wanted this. The Apocalypse DLC basically includes it. They are taking two maps from Friends in High Places, and there will be dogfighting and an enemy airship to shoot down. Yes mate, gimme that poo poo.

This would definitely bring me back to this game on a regular basis. After the Turkish maps dropped I played each of ‘em maybe once and went back to SW:BFII (the fourth battlefront)

Laminator
Jan 18, 2004

You up for some serious plastic surgery?


Ran into this lovely creature tonight. 17 loving days with the 10A Hunter.

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Sep 14, 2008

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Laminator posted:



Ran into this lovely creature tonight. 17 loving days with the 10A Hunter.

So I have like 1/30th of the kills he does and the hunter is my most used gun lmao these people, get something else to do!

Got killed by a dude who had like 7000 kills with one particular pistol (can't recall which) the other night and just kinda sat and contemplated a true Gamer Existence

Ineffiable
Feb 16, 2008

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


One of the things you quickly learn about online games is there's always someone that's better than you and has played more hours than you.

red19fire
May 26, 2010

100% accuracy? Does he never miss? Get enough multis to make up for missed shots? Aimhacking?

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Sep 14, 2008

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red19fire posted:

100% accuracy? Does he never miss? Get enough multis to make up for missed shots? Aimhacking?

With shotguns there's always been a bug with hit stats because of the multiple pellets each being rendered as individual projectiles but the trigger pull being the only "shot" or something

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



Ol Standard Retard posted:

With shotguns there's always been a bug with hit stats because of the multiple pellets each being rendered as individual projectiles but the trigger pull being the only "shot" or something

This is true for Battlefield 3 and 4 aswell. Hell, you could have over 200% accuracy on BF3 when lots of people only played Metro 24/7 with a shotgun and frag rounds.

winter.mute
Jan 5, 2010
been playing two new (not the naval ones about to drop) maps on the CTE that are pretty cool.

a couple of highlights that made me happy:
there's a new AA rocket gun that fires flack rounds instead of AT rounds
there's a new emplacement weapon, a fixed mortar fire system that hits a flag with gas

Laminator
Jan 18, 2004

You up for some serious plastic surgery?
Servers are down, looks like TTK 2.0 is about to drop. See y'all on the other side. Goodbye by sweet machinepistol.

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

So how many new maps are we getting with this patch? Two?

Laminator
Jan 18, 2004

You up for some serious plastic surgery?
wait nevermind apparently EA servers are just down again looooool

And yeah, two more maps with turning tides along with the new time to kill update. I'm hoping for an update to the sun glaring effect where whenever your soldier goes outside you just go permanently blind

Laminator fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jan 29, 2018

sunday at work
Apr 6, 2011

"Man is the animal that thinks something is wrong."
Update goes live tomorrow 2 am PST for PS4, 4 am for Bone. Base game update for all, new maps are premium/DLC owners.

sunday at work fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jan 29, 2018

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

Laminator posted:

I'm hoping for an update to the sun glaring effect where whenever your soldier goes outside you just go permanently blind

Yea that is incredibly frustrating.

Laminator
Jan 18, 2004

You up for some serious plastic surgery?
Update installed, EA servers down

:dice:

I finally unlocked the parabellum (just suppressive) and hold poo poo that thing is a monster. I had 70-kill games of frontlines with that and then the machinepistol as a final hurrah before they both were nerfed in the patch. Because obviously the Hellrigel and Automatico need to be buffed up.

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

I just played one of the 2 new maps and woah baby was it terrible. Just an island with some points on it and a ton of boats. I haven’t had a problem with a single map in this game yet, but this one is pure garbage.

lambskin
Dec 27, 2009

I THINK I AM THE PINNACLE OF HUMOR. WAIT HANG ON I HAVE TO GO POUR MILK INTO MY GAPING ASSHOLE!

Laminator posted:

Update installed, EA servers down

:dice:

I finally unlocked the parabellum (just suppressive) and hold poo poo that thing is a monster. I had 70-kill games of frontlines with that and then the machinepistol as a final hurrah before they both were nerfed in the patch. Because obviously the Hellrigel and Automatico need to be buffed up.

The hellregiel and automatico have been nerfed. Remember, almost every gun in the game has been buffed, the automatico and the hellregiel have been buffed less than the other guns.

So far I'm liking what I've seen. The RSC and the chauchat got a much needed buff and they both feel so good to use now. I've taken a liking to the new medic rifle as well, since I felt it had too much spread before.

Laminator
Jan 18, 2004

You up for some serious plastic surgery?
Yeah, not impressed with the two new maps. The island one is pretty, but it's like there's nothing to do on it? The bridge one is real bad too, like literally just a straight line. I think that both of them are conquest assault, which is a kinda lame game mode doesn't help either.

Machinepistol is a recoil machine, it's previous function of engagements outside of <10 m is pretty much useless because you have to burst fire it to get any semblance of control (or aim at the enemies feet), and because its only major pro was its high rate of fire, I don't really understand its purpose.

New bipod system is going to take a lot of getting used to. I guess on one hand it's good that you can't turn a 900-RPM machinegun into a laser cannon. But given that the suppression mechanic doesn't actually seem to do all that much, you lose a big advantage of running the LMG and are at a much higher risk of getting plinked in the head by a sniper.

I honestly didn't feel much of a difference with the SMGs, but only really ran the Ribeyrolles and MP18. I refuse to use the Hellriegel on principle.

SLRs don't feel different at all. The RSC, which everyone was glowing about because of the 2-hit kill range increase and increased ROF isn't that different. It still shoots slow enough that you die in any close range encounter. The Autoloading .35 and Sleb1906 feel the same.

Honestly the biggest difference I saw was that LMGs just mow the poo poo out of people more than before, even low-level players would win moderate and long range encounters because they can just hold down the trigger in your general direction and manage to land 5 shots, and you're dead.

Oh, and the new tripwire bomb mechanic is just god drat stupid, how does sprinting through a bomb make it do more damage? And WHY is it enough damage to kill you instantly? Expect every hallway and ladder to be HE tripwired, and expect to die from it a lot more.

Overall not the end of the world, but I still STILL don't understand why this was done really, I felt the classes were relatively balanced except for the Hellriegel and 10A. The netcode still has major issues, I'm still getting killed around corners and under cover at least once per game. Calvary is still weak and dies too easily.

Anyway that's a lot of words about a video game!

lambskin posted:

The hellregiel and automatico have been nerfed. Remember, almost every gun in the game has been buffed, the automatico and the hellregiel have been buffed less than the other guns.

Right, but the Hellriegel is now a 4-hit-kill, in a gun with a 600 rate of fire and a 60-round mag, with 120 extra bullets. The Automatico and machinepistol had, to me, a pretty niche function, of close range engagements only, and they have small magazines (I get that they are a lot worse on PC because of better recoil compensation). To my understanding, the dev wanted to buff all the SMGs to be on level with the Automatico... which doesn't make sense to me. The Hellriegel accounts for the majority of kills in the entire game, with the Automatico variants coming in second and third. Why not just bring them down, fix a lot of the other problems with the weapons? Why does it have to be that all the other weapons match them?

Laminator fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Jan 31, 2018

sunday at work
Apr 6, 2011

"Man is the animal that thinks something is wrong."
New maps are kind of lame unless you get a good vehicle spawn, and conquest assault suuuuuuuuuucks, but:

Increased the 2-hit kill range of the Russian 1895 Trench from 47 to 70 meters.

Increased one hit kill headshot range of the Russian 1895 Trench from 41 to 64 meters.

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Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



Is there one of these long posts with all patchnotes? I want to see exact numbers.

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