No, F and G are both quick knife and quick grenade. If you hold down F it draws your knife and it just stays out, but if you tap F it comes out, you swing it, and then it switches back to your gun
The high contrast graphics are really driving my bonkers so I did a quick photoshop: http://i.imgur.com/ScWUf.jpg
Do people honestly think the image on top looks better?
I uh... I can't see the difference
You might want to look into buying a new monitor ;-)
I've dragged it back and forth across my three monitors and they look pretty much the same to me as well. I can see slight differences but it's so slight I can't see how it could affect/bother anyone one way or the other.
It's just a quick photoshop of a screenshot, it is different but not to the extent I would actually want to see in the final game.
Look at the shadows on the boxes on the right side of the screen. They're pitch black in the top screenshot. It's like they were taking video of the moon or something and didn't add any sort of atmospheric diffusion to the light maps. This just in, shadows cast by the sun shouldn't be black holes of darkness.
Yeah I'm not.. I'm not seeing much of a difference. I mean maybe a little in the gloss on metals? But that seems negligible. Maybe my monitors are way different to yours or something
What is the best course of action if I want to:
a) Not pay through the nose
b) Not miss anything important (DLC/extra content wise)
I'm in the UK.
Have someone in India/Thailand buy the game for you.
Weapons, well I like the feel to them, not so for the LAV's mounted MG, they are even weaker than in BC2. The M104? Well a lot of people say it's shit, but I've been one shotted by it countless times from a good distance. It's COD's 1887's all over again for me.
Missing the point, it should have even less contrast than the low contrast photoshop so the details aren't completely washed out in the highlights and the shadows
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Shotguns have always been effective at ranges beyond what video games are willing to allow them.
Yes, and if they can just make spawning on the squad leader and reviving people with shock paddles more like real life, too, we'll have a sequel to ArmA on our hands!
"It works like that in real life" is a pretty bad way to justify things in Battlefield games that people have other reasons for disliking. I myself don't mind the range at which shotguns are effective, though. If it's long range for a shotgun it's normal range for an assault rifle and those are fairly damaging too.
Shotguns have always been effective at ranges beyond what video games are willing to allow them.
Yes, and if they can just make spawning on the squad leader and reviving people with shock paddles more like real life, too, we'll have a sequel to ArmA on our hands!
"It works like that in real life" is a pretty bad way to justify things in Battlefield games that people have other reasons for disliking. I myself don't mind the range at which shotguns are effective, though. If it's long range for a shotgun it's normal range for an assault rifle and those are fairly damaging too.
Just out of curiosity, did you ever play MW2? Those shotguns were perfect.
Now that you can actually aim with your shotguns, slugs would be perfect. Just give them the velocity and drop that they actually have.
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Oh, wow. Okay. You would think that because of this, I would be getting revived left and right.
ALAS
PROBABLY 5% OF MY DEATHS I RECEIVE A REVIVE.
90% of the time, my squad is three Assaults, with me being the only Support. Yet, despite humping them with my ammo box and helping them move up, they never fucking once bust out the paddles.
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mojojoeoA block off the park, living the dream.Registered Userregular
Seriously the support class is tits; im shocked they are that low. Its rough not being my beloved shot gun medic. And the bipod maneuverability is a knock.... but they are gods of death when things go your way.
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You don't even have to use the LMGs! You can use an MP-7 or the M1014 and have high mobility in addition to the anti-LAV capability and being an ammo volcano.
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TheExAmGerrymandered your districtsRegistered Userregular
Ammo volcano. I'm stealing that.
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I wonder how many people know that Assault has the revive paddles? It was on a seperate class in BC2/BF2, though the big cross should be a clue.
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TheExAmGerrymandered your districtsRegistered Userregular
It gets confusing when you notice that the icons over people's heads remain the same ones that were in BC2. Assaults are lightning bolts, and supports are crosses.
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The thing about reviving though, is that the revive window is really short. I've tried being a useful medic and I rarely get to you before I can't revive you anymore. Also if you're dead, it's mostly because some douche is camping that area too.
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KadokenGiving Ends to my Friends and it Feels StupendousRegistered Userregular
They should take out magnum ammo. It wouldn't even be noticed much in the long run.
Shotguns have always been effective at ranges beyond what video games are willing to allow them.
Yes, and if they can just make spawning on the squad leader and reviving people with shock paddles more like real life, too, we'll have a sequel to ArmA on our hands!
"It works like that in real life" is a pretty bad way to justify things in Battlefield games that people have other reasons for disliking. I myself don't mind the range at which shotguns are effective, though. If it's long range for a shotgun it's normal range for an assault rifle and those are fairly damaging too.
Just out of curiosity, did you ever play MW2? Those shotguns were perfect.
Now that you can actually aim with your shotguns, slugs would be perfect. Just give them the velocity and drop that they actually have.
Sometimes I think back on the days of the Church of SPAS and a tear comes to my eye for the briefest moment. Then I rage at MW2 again.
That, and less-than-lethal rounds, is in fact the answer. That's pretty much the only reason you see modern soldiers carrying shotguns.
Edit: Sure we carried halligans, and bolt cutters, but halligans have limited utility against iron gates/doors (and the padlocks on said doors), and bolt cutters dull and break easily. Though the max effective range on a shotgun is greater in real life than in video games, it still can't compare to that of an M4 and wouldn't ever serve as a more effective primary weapon system.
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Oh, wow. Okay. You would think that because of this, I would be getting revived left and right.
ALAS
PROBABLY 5% OF MY DEATHS I RECEIVE A REVIVE.
90% of the time, my squad is three Assaults, with me being the only Support. Yet, despite humping them with my ammo box and helping them move up, they never fucking once bust out the paddles.
Honestly? I quite like that class mix. Knock a couple % off sniper and give it to support and it's even better.
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TheExAmGerrymandered your districtsRegistered Userregular
I have filmed something which caused me great mirth
The thing about reviving though, is that the revive window is really short. I've tried being a useful medic and I rarely get to you before I can't revive you anymore. Also if you're dead, it's mostly because some douche is camping that area too.
This seems to be mostly because the spawn timer is shortened a great deal from what you'd usually see in the classical BF games. I used to wait 15-20 seconds to respawn.
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Look at the shadows on the boxes on the right side of the screen. They're pitch black in the top screenshot. It's like they were taking video of the moon or something and didn't add any sort of atmospheric diffusion to the light maps. This just in, shadows cast by the sun shouldn't be black holes of darkness.
However, it is very minimal, I don't know if it's my monitor, or your settings, but the high contrast setting doesn't have pitch black shadows for me.
I used this site to calibrate my display. http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
a) Not pay through the nose
b) Not miss anything important (DLC/extra content wise)
I'm in the UK.
Over here (Sweden) it costs as much as the regular edition but you get the unique skins and the map pack
Have someone in India/Thailand buy the game for you.
Weapons, well I like the feel to them, not so for the LAV's mounted MG, they are even weaker than in BC2. The M104? Well a lot of people say it's shit, but I've been one shotted by it countless times from a good distance. It's COD's 1887's all over again for me.
Hidden details in Alpha:
http://www.battlefield3online.com/battlefield-3-alpha-beta-discussion/1436-battlefield-3-alpha-hidden-details.html
This is of course, only what's in the Alpha and could change in the final version. But you know what I don't see there? Magnum ammo. Aw yes.
Missing the point, it should have even less contrast than the low contrast photoshop so the details aren't completely washed out in the highlights and the shadows
The shottys are perfect. There are no slugs currently so the sniper stuff is non existent. at short to medium range they hurt alot.
It doesn't matter what year the shotgun came from. What matters are the choke, the length of the barrel, and the type of shell.
Buckshot can have very tight groupings out to over 30 yards.
The Benelli is not that powerful.
"It works like that in real life" is a pretty bad way to justify things in Battlefield games that people have other reasons for disliking. I myself don't mind the range at which shotguns are effective, though. If it's long range for a shotgun it's normal range for an assault rifle and those are fairly damaging too.
This is the best news.
Just out of curiosity, did you ever play MW2? Those shotguns were perfect.
Now that you can actually aim with your shotguns, slugs would be perfect. Just give them the velocity and drop that they actually have.
ALAS
PROBABLY 5% OF MY DEATHS I RECEIVE A REVIVE.
90% of the time, my squad is three Assaults, with me being the only Support. Yet, despite humping them with my ammo box and helping them move up, they never fucking once bust out the paddles.
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where is the BC2 thread I cannot find it and the new search function sucks ass
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Sometimes I think back on the days of the Church of SPAS and a tear comes to my eye for the briefest moment. Then I rage at MW2 again.
"hurf durf door breaching" isn't an answer.
That, and less-than-lethal rounds, is in fact the answer. That's pretty much the only reason you see modern soldiers carrying shotguns.
Edit: Sure we carried halligans, and bolt cutters, but halligans have limited utility against iron gates/doors (and the padlocks on said doors), and bolt cutters dull and break easily. Though the max effective range on a shotgun is greater in real life than in video games, it still can't compare to that of an M4 and wouldn't ever serve as a more effective primary weapon system.
ARs are boring.
Honestly? I quite like that class mix. Knock a couple % off sniper and give it to support and it's even better.
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Battlemans: DiscoCabbage | Elite: Dangerous: Aleksandr Khabaj
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He's doing that, but on an entirely new level.
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