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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Warcry wrote:
    guys look at my videooooo

    cease this meaningless violence!

    I am a chopper man. Father was a chopper man prior. grand-pee-paw was a chopper man too. God willing my eventual offspring will be a chopper man.

    So that means I am jet ignorant as all hell, what is the grey-o-vision in the jet vid.

    totp lolz

    mojojoeo on
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  • DisrupterDisrupter Registered User regular
    Two things about that video. I love the military speak being used "good effect on target" I dont even know what it means, but it gives me "teamwork shivers"

    Second, I cant tell what happened. Did you roadkill an infantry with your jet?

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    So much hyperbole, so many panties in a twist.

    You seem like a pretty cool guy wakkawa, not sure why this is such a big deal.

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    Who cares carbon is back! 8->

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    mojojoeo wrote:
    Warcry wrote:
    guys look at my videooooo

    cease this meaningless violence!

    I am a chopper man. Father was a chopper man prior. grand-pee-paw was a chopper man too. God willing my eventual offspring will be a chopper man.

    So that means I am jet ignorant as all hell, what is the grey-o-vision in the jet vid.

    totp lolz
    Its the guided A2G missile that the jet gets. Warcry was too busy flying underneath highway signs to show off how it works though ;-)

    And ^5 chopper men!

    And gj with that C4 Mojo, I'm going to start calling you the mad bomber :lol:

    CarbonFire on
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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    CarbonFire wrote:
    mojojoeo wrote:
    Warcry wrote:
    guys look at my videooooo

    cease this meaningless violence!

    I am a chopper man. Father was a chopper man prior. grand-pee-paw was a chopper man too. God willing my eventual offspring will be a chopper man.

    So that means I am jet ignorant as all hell, what is the grey-o-vision in the jet vid.

    totp lolz
    Its the guided A2G missile that the jet gets. Warcry was too busy flying underneath highway signs to show off how it works though ;-)

    And ^5 chopper men!

    And gj with that C4 Mojo, I'm going to start calling you the mad bomber :lol:

    when we had the venom on that late late game I was dropping c4 onto people out of it.

    I think I have a problem.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    Last time I asked this the game was still relatively new and people were uncertain, so I thought I'd confirm: does spotting in an MAV give other players doritos on their screen for the marked targets, even if they don't have LOS to the targets themselves? This is what I've been assuming, but if so, some of my teammates the last few days have been real morons.

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  • SyrdonSyrdon Registered User regular
    Dac wrote:
    Last time I asked this the game was still relatively new and people were uncertain, so I thought I'd confirm: does spotting in an MAV give other players doritos on their screen for the marked targets, even if they don't have LOS to the targets themselves? This is what I've been assuming, but if so, some of my teammates the last few days have been real morons.
    It will at least give them minimap doritos. The on screen ones I'm not sure what logic the game uses for deciding if you get them or not.

  • GonmunGonmun He keeps kickin' me in the dickRegistered User regular
    Let me just say that anyone that I might have annoyed with my c4 last night I do apologize. I have a problem...
    I love c4 so much.

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    Gonmun wrote:
    Let me just say that anyone that I might have annoyed with my c4 last night I do apologize. I have a problem...
    I love c4 so much.

    C4 is fantastic

    Using it to kill a tank makes you feel like you just slayed a goddamn dragon. None of that pussy rocketing from long range you get the fuck up there and punch that tank in its fucking face

    Of course I usually end up blowing myself up but hell St George died as well

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  • AhiMahiAhiMahi Registered User regular
    You do not have a problem with C4, it is a solution to many things.

  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Syrdon wrote:
    Dac wrote:
    Last time I asked this the game was still relatively new and people were uncertain, so I thought I'd confirm: does spotting in an MAV give other players doritos on their screen for the marked targets, even if they don't have LOS to the targets themselves? This is what I've been assuming, but if so, some of my teammates the last few days have been real morons.
    It will at least give them minimap doritos. The on screen ones I'm not sure what logic the game uses for deciding if you get them or not.

    MAV spotting does put up 3D overlay doritos for a short time. I believe the duration of the 3D spot is based on whether your team can see the enemy player, and how long the target remains in your view. There is also a motion sensor on the MAV, which will show enemies on the minimap in circular radius around the MAV (from any height). When you drop the MAV somewhere, it continues working as a motion sensor until it gets destroyed or you die.

    CarbonFire on
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  • Lt Muffin360Lt Muffin360 Registered User regular
    Adjusting a quote from Homer Simpson:

    "C4, the cause of, and solution to, all of BF3's problems"

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    CarbonFire wrote:
    Syrdon wrote:
    Dac wrote:
    Last time I asked this the game was still relatively new and people were uncertain, so I thought I'd confirm: does spotting in an MAV give other players doritos on their screen for the marked targets, even if they don't have LOS to the targets themselves? This is what I've been assuming, but if so, some of my teammates the last few days have been real morons.
    It will at least give them minimap doritos. The on screen ones I'm not sure what logic the game uses for deciding if you get them or not.

    MAV spotting does put up 3D overlay doritos for a short time. I believe the duration of the 3D spot is based on whether your team can see the enemy player, and how long the target remains in your view. There is also a motion sensor on the MAV, which will show enemies on the minimap in circular radius around the MAV (from any height). When you drop the MAV somewhere, it continues working as a motion sensor until it gets destroyed or you die.

    Pretty sure this is it.

    If you can get in mumble you can use the mav to guide your squaddies into encounters. Its very easy for three to overtake larger numbers if they know exactly where the enemy is and when they are reloading/ looking away.

    Does this get you a high score? No.
    Glory is its own reward.

    mojojoeo on
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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I'm only really concerned if it gives your team wallhacks on your marked targets as long as you keep LOS to said targets. I'll still MAV if not, but I assumed this was how it worked, since you can see spotted tanks through walls/hillsides and stuff.

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  • acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    For the record wakkawa, I thought you were a random pub when I asked Shiashi to /kill you.

    In an effort to make amends and put this all behind us I'm willing to forgive you calling us cliquey assholes and implying that we're homosexuals (in a negative way) if you're willing to forgive us for having you slain twice for being goosey regardless of whether or not you were also exploiting.

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    we are so close to a happy ending its palpable...

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  • GonmunGonmun He keeps kickin' me in the dickRegistered User regular
    mojojoeo wrote:
    we are so close to a happy ending its palpable...

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    Phrasing! d'oh

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  • AF-IXAF-IX (LGKAOS) Whiteman AFBRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    "mojojoeo wrote:
    So that means I am jet ignorant as all hell, what is the grey-o-vision in the jet vid.

    I know it was already answered, but damn I dislike the air-to-ground guided missile.
    In the time you're finding, locking onto enemy tanks, you either inadvertantly:

    a) crash & burn
    b) remain an easy target to get gunned down
    c) fly over & pass whatever you were trying to destroy

    AF-IX on
  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    Ahah Ron Paul Liberty Server, what?

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  • Lt Muffin360Lt Muffin360 Registered User regular
    AF-IX wrote:
    "mojojoeo wrote:
    So that means I am jet ignorant as all hell, what is the grey-o-vision in the jet vid.

    I know it was already answered, but damn I dislike the air-to-ground guided missile.
    In the time you're finding, locking onto enemy tanks, you either inadvertantly:

    a) crash & burn
    b) remain an easy target to get gunned down
    c) fly over & pass whatever you were trying to destroy

    I hate that view SO much. When I unlocked the guided missile for the jet, I put it on to give it a try.

    After going into that view twice and only twice, I promptly switched back to my rocket pods.

    I prefer 14 smaller 'splodey rockets than one big missile with a view that will get you killed.

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  • AF-IXAF-IX (LGKAOS) Whiteman AFBRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    BigDes wrote:
    Ahah Ron Paul Liberty Server, what?

    No rules or socialist mods to govern, every mans for himself (?)
    Newsletters announcing no black peoples...therefore, no Assault class allowed (?)

    AF-IX on
  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    AhiMahi wrote:
    Yeah good luck with Mink's tag. Been trying for it since release. That murdering *!@#&$%!
    8->

    That bunny (rabbit? something) guy were were playing with got them the first kill on the first game we played. Couldn't find the guy.

    I write you a story
    But it loses its thread
  • AF-IXAF-IX (LGKAOS) Whiteman AFBRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    JebusUD wrote:
    AhiMahi wrote:
    Yeah good luck with Mink's tag. Been trying for it since release. That murdering *!@#&$%!
    8->

    That bunny (rabbit? something) guy were were playing with got them the first kill on the first game we played. Couldn't find the guy.

    RabbitDuck; you got it for viewing the Act of Valor film trailer online.

    AF-IX on
  • Flippy_DFlippy_D Digital Conquistador LondonRegistered User regular
    I like to kill @mojojoeo

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    AF-IX wrote:
    JebusUD wrote:
    AhiMahi wrote:
    Yeah good luck with Mink's tag. Been trying for it since release. That murdering *!@#&$%!
    8->

    That bunny (rabbit? something) guy were were playing with got them the first kill on the first game we played. Couldn't find the guy.

    RabbitDuck; you got it for viewing the Act of Valor film trailer online.

    I'm talking about a pa player we were playing with. You know drinking in the afternoon is bad right?

    I write you a story
    But it loses its thread
  • NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Who, me? What?

    NailbunnyPD on
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  • AF-IXAF-IX (LGKAOS) Whiteman AFBRegistered User regular
    JebusUD wrote:
    AF-IX wrote:
    JebusUD wrote:
    AhiMahi wrote:
    Yeah good luck with Mink's tag. Been trying for it since release. That murdering *!@#&$%!
    8->

    That bunny (rabbit? something) guy were were playing with got them the first kill on the first game we played. Couldn't find the guy.

    RabbitDuck; you got it for viewing the Act of Valor film trailer online.

    I'm talking about a pa player we were playing with. You know drinking in the afternoon is bad right?

    Oh, since you qouted the qoute about dog tags & Mink, I assumed you were talking about the RabbitDuck tag itself.
    My bad, but drinks ANY time is good...
    makes the voices go away.

  • DanWeinoDanWeino Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    BF is being shitty tonight. keep being kicked from servers. God knows why, i only get a kill or two then I get kicked. 3 different servers now. It's not like they are even full and im being kicked for members.

    DanWeino on

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    AF-IX wrote:
    JebusUD wrote:
    AF-IX wrote:
    JebusUD wrote:
    AhiMahi wrote:
    Yeah good luck with Mink's tag. Been trying for it since release. That murdering *!@#&$%!
    8->

    That bunny (rabbit? something) guy were were playing with got them the first kill on the first game we played. Couldn't find the guy.

    RabbitDuck; you got it for viewing the Act of Valor film trailer online.

    I'm talking about a pa player we were playing with. You know drinking in the afternoon is bad right?

    Oh, since you qouted the qoute about dog tags & Mink, I assumed you were talking about the RabbitDuck tag itself.
    My bad, but drinks ANY time is good...
    makes the voices go away.

    Yeah Mink is me. :P

    I dunno if it was you nail bunny. Do you play with US on xbox? I think it was that austrailian guy.

    I write you a story
    But it loses its thread
  • DarkMechaDarkMecha The Outer SpaceRegistered User regular
    Hey I decided to put bf3 on my laptop for the hell of it. Surprisingly it runs decently enough on lower settings! However, the resolution I need to run it at (1360x768) is not my native resolution on this laptop (which is 1600x900) and the game basically makes it a smaller box in the middle of the screen. Is there any config file edit or something that can force it to stretch to full screen at that resolution?

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  • TorgaironTorgairon Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    You were in the wrong channel. I saw you when I signed out, in the US channel instead of the BF3 one.

    The VAL is hard to beat 1v1, but I don't see it as overpowered. Tiny magazine with a ridiculous RoF makes it tough to use against groups.

    The P90 and P19 overpowered? Lolwutno.

    And the L85 is only OP if you're terrible at not spraying at anyone you see instead of bursting.

    I specifically mentioned that the list was what I consider the cream of the crop to be gun-wise, not that they're overpowered. I desperately want to say that the val is OP because its only weakness is clip size, it has a built-in silencer and about as much recoil as the gripped+silenced famas with the same RPM, but I'm not going to dig myself in on the opinion. I guess the best thing to do would be to pick it up myself and figure out its weaknesses myself.
    mojojoeo wrote:
    Torgairon wrote:
    sigh, there's no point in playing on the dome if you're not with the PA group. shiashi is one thing, but a full squad of people using the as val, owning the skies (and by extension everything else) and aiming soflams at vehicle spawns is honestly too much for my weak constitution. can't team switch, team scramble did nothing...I'm not trying to call people out for being good, because you guys are and that's not something I can criticize, but the enjoyment just ceases when the teams are that out of balance.

    /imad

    Last night we had many non Pa colonels. Did you not notice that? There was at least a full PA squad on each side with a few others as well.
    Scrambling just moved like parts.

    Owning the skies? thats most good servers these days... SOFLAMs and ace pilots.... and hate...

    It was a weird night and I got the losing team most goes... but there were some damn good non PA types running around last night, a few of the clan'ed together up and all.
    I believe at one point it was positied by the winning-er team that all the pa guys stack up and the idea was declined by the majority. So we could have stacked and by majority did not. Just an odd night for the balance is all. I would not fret man.

    Looking at battle reports, when either team lost it was never too close... which is a bummer. But I won way more than I thought like 5-6 when a majority of PA was on.

    the dome is like 75% great nights, 25% 'teamstacking'.

    *spoiler alert* 'team stacking'-> sarcastic term for nights where auto balance doesn't shake out well; sometimes even when an ADMIN is hand picking the scramble for fairness.

    the two games that prompted the rant were insanely stacked and absurd blowouts, the rest of the night went fine. I'm also not trying to imply that most nights on the dome are like that - most are great and this one was for the majority of the time, but when the PA group slims down to this solid core of really good people and all ends up on one team, shit starts to get ugly, intentional stacking or no. I believe the breaking point was when the admin declared an auto-scramble and at the end of that maybe 2 people had switched and the teams looked essentially the same.

    edit: I realize that this looks partly ridiculous because this shit happens all the time on other servers, but I'm so used to balanced games on this server in particular that not being able to leave the spawn with vehicles/meeting a VAL at every conquest point caught me off guard and awoke the raaaaaaaage.

    Torgairon on
  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    In regards to the AS VAL, it IS arguably the best PDW, but I'm hard-pressed to call it truly overpowered. It is very ineffective beyond 75-100m, still loses routinely to LMGs and ARs at medium range, and is absolutely rubbish on the move. Add in the small magazine, and you have what is admittedly a very good weapon, but not without it's downsides.

    That said, I <3 the VAL sooooo much. It has been my go-to weapon in pretty much every game that offers it (or the VSS).

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  • emp123emp123 Registered User regular
    mojojoeo wrote:
    CarbonFire wrote:
    mojojoeo wrote:
    Warcry wrote:
    guys look at my videooooo

    cease this meaningless violence!

    I am a chopper man. Father was a chopper man prior. grand-pee-paw was a chopper man too. God willing my eventual offspring will be a chopper man.

    So that means I am jet ignorant as all hell, what is the grey-o-vision in the jet vid.

    totp lolz
    Its the guided A2G missile that the jet gets. Warcry was too busy flying underneath highway signs to show off how it works though ;-)

    And ^5 chopper men!

    And gj with that C4 Mojo, I'm going to start calling you the mad bomber :lol:

    when we had the venom on that late late game I was dropping c4 onto people out of it.

    I think I have a problem.

    No, you have a gift.

  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    why is no one ever on the server :(

  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    Shade wrote:
    why is no one ever on the server :(

    Server was full last night. Sounds like we need to kick start it again. And by we, I mean you, because I'm still at work :P

    Steam: CarbonFire MWO, PSN, Origin: Carb0nFire
  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Well the FREEDOM server is 8 players only at the mo, so I'ma hop

    Come, join me.

    God that was creepy

    BigDes on
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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    Warcry I watched your video thrice and I don't know what happens in it, is it the belly slap?

    Also Wakka is an avid SC2 player. To play SC2 you must complain, whine about OP stuff and take advantage of every single exploit there is. He is not a bad guy, it's just the game he plays has shaped him to be like that :(

  • 0Replace4Displace0Replace4Displace The best girls are ships and guns. Registered User regular
    Hopping on. Y'all should hop on Mumble and we can try to get the Dome started when we've got about 10.

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