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Everything [Battlefield] - Rumor: BF5 Set In (Alternate Reality?) World War I

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    I love the flame tank, but it's not nearly as effective in open fields as the breakthrough tank. It kills in amiens tho. People hiding in buildings do NOT like the flames..... so much fun.

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  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    mojojoeo wrote: »
    I like the standard heavy tank. It does good work.

    It is by far the worst one
    :D

    The breakthrough tank doesn't have the nice rounds than explode on impact for splash damage.

    I like that splash for dude killin

    ....yes it does?

    One of the big tanks shoots rounds that don't splash damage. Swear it's the breakthrough...

    You may be thinking of the Tank Hunter Landship

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited November 2016
    Mulletude wrote: »
    mojojoeo wrote: »
    I like the standard heavy tank. It does good work.

    It is by far the worst one
    :D

    The breakthrough tank doesn't have the nice rounds than explode on impact for splash damage.

    I like that splash for dude killin

    ....yes it does?

    One of the big tanks shoots rounds that don't splash damage. Swear it's the breakthrough...

    You may be thinking of the

    Dammit Mulletude! Don't leave us in suspense! "The" what?????Phew, you edited in what tank you were thinking of. I would have thought the tank-hunter landship would have weapons that were designed for fighting other tanks (i.e. explosive rounds). I do know that there is a heavy tank variant that has the side-turrets equipped with just machine guns...but I'm not positive which one that is.

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  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    Mulletude wrote: »
    mojojoeo wrote: »
    I like the standard heavy tank. It does good work.

    It is by far the worst one
    :D

    The breakthrough tank doesn't have the nice rounds than explode on impact for splash damage.

    I like that splash for dude killin

    ....yes it does?

    One of the big tanks shoots rounds that don't splash damage. Swear it's the breakthrough...

    You may be thinking of the

    Dammit Mulletude! Don't leave us in suspense! "The" what?????

    Lol, stupid phone

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    Jesus man the whole dynamic of the game changes when then fog rolls in.

    I was just playing on Empire's Edge and it was gunfire and tanks and explosions and waves of guys smacking against C and D and then all of the sudden it gets fucking quiet. You occasionally hear pops of gun fire or screams and then you unload on a passing silhouette. Just intense and crazy and amazing.

    Also, apparently attack plane bombs don't damage the dreadnought?

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Mulletude wrote: »
    mojojoeo wrote: »
    I like the standard heavy tank. It does good work.

    It is by far the worst one
    :D

    The breakthrough tank doesn't have the nice rounds than explode on impact for splash damage.

    I like that splash for dude killin

    ....yes it does?

    One of the big tanks shoots rounds that don't splash damage. Swear it's the breakthrough...

    You may be thinking of the Tank Hunter Landship

    The landship is the iconic one with the 2 canons on the side. But I think you're right about the tank hunter version od something. I'm a test that shit when I get home.

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  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    Mulletude wrote: »
    mojojoeo wrote: »
    I like the standard heavy tank. It does good work.

    It is by far the worst one
    :D

    The breakthrough tank doesn't have the nice rounds than explode on impact for splash damage.

    I like that splash for dude killin

    ....yes it does?

    One of the big tanks shoots rounds that don't splash damage. Swear it's the breakthrough...

    You may be thinking of the Tank Hunter Landship

    The landship is the iconic one with the 2 canons on the side. But I think you're right about the tank hunter version od something. I'm a test that shit when I get home.

    The drivers gun should be strong AT but not much splash. The side guns not sure

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Okay, just popped into an empty server and here's what I found: default heavy tank side gunners all have machine guns that are just machine guns (not explosive round autocannons, not full-bore cannons, just regular heavy machine guns), and the rear gunner gets a snazzy twin machine gun turret.

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  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    Breakthrough tank Da Best for the auto cannons and ability to heal and resupply

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Yea. Heavy breakthrough is good against other tanks and has rounds that don't splash on impact. The basic heavy assault does.

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  • JusticeforPlutoJusticeforPluto Registered User regular
    Yea. Heavy breakthrough is good against other tanks and has rounds that don't splash on impact. The basic heavy assault does.

    Huh, I still wreck infantry easily as is with it.

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Yea. Heavy breakthrough is good against other tanks and has rounds that don't splash on impact. The basic heavy assault does.

    Huh, I still wreck infantry easily as is with it.

    I don't have any luck with it. Though I was trying the flame tank out and was having a good ol time.

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Sweet Jesus this aim bug is infuriating. I never noticed it because I've been playing assault the last 38 hours of playtime. It seems random when it decides to start and stop working.

    Spawn. Aim, shoot. Revive a guy. Try to aim, can't. Can't shoot a guy 30m in front of me. Die.

    Noticed it with the model 10A Slug too. Tried to aim... Nothing. How is this not a huge issue?

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  • breton-brawlerbreton-brawler Registered User regular
    Sweet Jesus this aim bug is infuriating. I never noticed it because I've been playing assault the last 38 hours of playtime. It seems random when it decides to start and stop working.

    Spawn. Aim, shoot. Revive a guy. Try to aim, can't. Can't shoot a guy 30m in front of me. Die.

    Noticed it with the model 10A Slug too. Tried to aim... Nothing. How is this not a huge issue?

    This seems to happen with revives, a quick fix is to switch to a sidearm and then back to your primary weapon, of course you dont always have the luxury of time when a medic revives you in the middle of a really hectic combat scene

  • ObiwanShenobiObiwanShenobi Registered User regular
    I'm just still trying to learn the maps.

  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I feel like there must be something wrong with the Bodeo 1889. Enemy's body takes up entire reticle, pull trigger, WHIFFS THREE TIMES, enemy spins around and blasts me. I can have a target perfectly lined up on ADS, too, and the fucking thing just will not hit. It feels fucking RANDOM.

    I also got gunned down by an automatic pistol I had not seen before, wasn't the ASsault's Gasser. Here's hoping that's a potential multi-class unlock, because my Scout needs a close-quarters option that doesn't fucking blow.

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  • HyperionHyperion Registered User regular
    Hey folks, think I'm going to hop on and play on PC here in a little bit and would love to shoot mans with PA people. Could I have a Discord invite, or if anyone wants to add me on Origin, I'm DBrickashaw_PHB. Thanks!

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  • JusticeforPlutoJusticeforPluto Registered User regular
    Dac wrote: »
    I feel like there must be something wrong with the Bodeo 1889. Enemy's body takes up entire reticle, pull trigger, WHIFFS THREE TIMES, enemy spins around and blasts me. I can have a target perfectly lined up on ADS, too, and the fucking thing just will not hit. It feels fucking RANDOM.

    I also got gunned down by an automatic pistol I had not seen before, wasn't the ASsault's Gasser. Here's hoping that's a potential multi-class unlock, because my Scout needs a close-quarters option that doesn't fucking blow.

    The Bodeo has terrible ads, where I feel it excels is up close hip firing.

  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    what in the shit does ADS mean?

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  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    what in the shit does ADS mean?

    Aim down sights.

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    what in the shit does ADS mean?

    Aim down sights.

    It took me far longer to figure out what CQC meant than i would like to admit as well

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Damn! 27000 point round and the end of match screens failed to come up. :(

    That was the same round my medal vanished and couldnt select a new one. I needed 7 more vehicle kills to complete it and i blew up way more than 7 that round. It was stellar! Spent all but the last 50 ticks in my tank with only 2 deaths overall. Really wanted to see how many dudes i obliterated.

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    Damn! 27000 point round and the end of match screens failed to come up. :(

    That was the same round my medal vanished and couldnt select a new one. I needed 7 more vehicle kills to complete it and i blew up way more than 7 that round. It was stellar! Spent all but the last 50 ticks in my tank with only 2 deaths overall. Really wanted to see how many dudes i obliterated.

    Yea I'm definitely at the point where I have the gameplay down and love it. The menu shenanigans are getting really irritating because they're starting to really become intrusively irritating. Being stuck on the same medal for 3 weeks is really irritating. I had a new glitch today where a medic revived me just as my timer expired and I still went back to the spawn selection screen. For the rest of the round, whenever I died I got no UI on my death screen. Could t see who killed me, how long the respawn timer was, nothing. Just a nice clean cinematic view of my corpse.

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  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    Just to reinforce my earlier point that tank drivers are bad:

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Good tankers and pilots are a huge force multiplier on the battlefield.

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  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    Good tankers and pilots are a huge force multiplier on the battlefield.

    In any Battlefield, infantry have always been the peasants ground under the heel of the vehicle nobility.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    Oh to be a cannon gunner on a biplane.

    So many free kills. That gun is just so strong. I regularly annoy my pilot because I kill everything before he can carpet bomb.

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  • HerothHeroth Registered User regular
    I'm having fun with this game... but man, the bugs... some bugs that have been around (and fixed!) Since BF3... they are really chipping away at my fun... Random UI bugs, revive bugs ect... so so many...

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Heroth wrote: »
    I'm having fun with this game... but man, the bugs... some bugs that have been around (and fixed!) Since BF3... they are really chipping away at my fun... Random UI bugs, revive bugs ect... so so many...

    i can live with most of em. but that damn aiming bug. shit.

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Ugh. Only 9500 points till level 10 Assault. The Automatico is wayyyyy better than the shotgun.

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    Ugh. Only 9500 points till level 10 Assault. The Automatico is wayyyyy better than the shotgun.

    That thing pours bullets out so fast it's rediculous!

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  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    ToyD wrote: »
    Ugh. Only 9500 points till level 10 Assault. The Automatico is wayyyyy better than the shotgun.

    That thing pours bullets out so fast it's rediculous!

    Im not an accurate shooter. So with the shotgun, a lot of times ill wiff my first two shoys while frantically trying to hit the guy right in front of me. If i happen to live long enough to land the 3rd or 4th shot, ill get him. But the automatico lets me just spray and prey. Ill usually kill the person, but nimble opponets will still live past all 25 rounds and either escape or take me down.

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    ToyD wrote: »
    Ugh. Only 9500 points till level 10 Assault. The Automatico is wayyyyy better than the shotgun.

    That thing pours bullets out so fast it's rediculous!

    Im not an accurate shooter. So with the shotgun, a lot of times ill wiff my first two shoys while frantically trying to hit the guy right in front of me. If i happen to live long enough to land the 3rd or 4th shot, ill get him. But the automatico lets me just spray and prey. Ill usually kill the person, but nimble opponets will still live past all 25 rounds and either escape or take me down.

    I'm totally the same way except for me the automatico empties its clip so fast I sometimes haven't lined up the target quite right. I've settled on the mp18 optical for now with the shotgun for close maps like Argonne. I also find myself getting more kills with the AT grenades against infantry than against tanks. The AT mines are gold against tanks.

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    ToyD wrote: »
    Ugh. Only 9500 points till level 10 Assault. The Automatico is wayyyyy better than the shotgun.

    That thing pours bullets out so fast it's rediculous!

    Im not an accurate shooter. So with the shotgun, a lot of times ill wiff my first two shoys while frantically trying to hit the guy right in front of me. If i happen to live long enough to land the 3rd or 4th shot, ill get him. But the automatico lets me just spray and prey. Ill usually kill the person, but nimble opponets will still live past all 25 rounds and either escape or take me down.

    Even if you are an accurate shooter, the random pellet spread with the shotguns will mean that you'll miss the first one or two shots even while lined up to the guy right in front of you. I've had targets fill the reticle circle when I pull the trigger...and I only do something like 40-60 damage (sometimes, it's gone as low as 20).

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  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    I don't know what you're all on about but the shotgun is a fine instrument of warfare. Its really easy to go on an absurd murder spree with it, especially on favorable maps, but even on ones that aren't. The lethal range on it is quite large. The only way I could see missing someone while you're dead on is ADS. It gets weird with ADS. Hipfire, though? You'll be laying those scrubs down in a flurry of buckshot.

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Konphujun wrote: »
    I don't know what you're all on about but the shotgun is a fine instrument of warfare. Its really easy to go on an absurd murder spree with it, especially on favorable maps, but even on ones that aren't. The lethal range on it is quite large. The only way I could see missing someone while you're dead on is ADS. It gets weird with ADS. Hipfire, though? You'll be laying those scrubs down in a flurry of buckshot.

    Reticle circle doesn't show up when ADSing. So yeah...pellet spread can result in weird results even when you're lined up on somebody in close-quarters (as I was saying). I start questioning the effectiveness of the weapon when I put two blasts into a guy in CQ-combat and I'm the one who ends up dead whereas the guy who killed me (the guy I was putting two shotgun shells into) has 60% health. After that happened multiple times, I switched back to SMGs and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

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  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    Konphujun wrote: »
    I don't know what you're all on about but the shotgun is a fine instrument of warfare. Its really easy to go on an absurd murder spree with it, especially on favorable maps, but even on ones that aren't. The lethal range on it is quite large. The only way I could see missing someone while you're dead on is ADS. It gets weird with ADS. Hipfire, though? You'll be laying those scrubs down in a flurry of buckshot.

    Reticle circle doesn't show up when ADSing. So yeah...pellet spread can result in weird results even when you're lined up on somebody in close-quarters (as I was saying). I start questioning the effectiveness of the weapon when I put two blasts into a guy in CQ-combat and I'm the one who ends up dead whereas the guy who killed me (the guy I was putting two shotgun shells into) has 60% health. After that happened multiple times, I switched back to SMGs and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

    That sounds more like lag or packet loss than a fault with the weapon. Not saying you're wrong, but in my 488 shotgun kills, I've never seen that happen.

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Konphujun wrote: »
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    Konphujun wrote: »
    I don't know what you're all on about but the shotgun is a fine instrument of warfare. Its really easy to go on an absurd murder spree with it, especially on favorable maps, but even on ones that aren't. The lethal range on it is quite large. The only way I could see missing someone while you're dead on is ADS. It gets weird with ADS. Hipfire, though? You'll be laying those scrubs down in a flurry of buckshot.

    Reticle circle doesn't show up when ADSing. So yeah...pellet spread can result in weird results even when you're lined up on somebody in close-quarters (as I was saying). I start questioning the effectiveness of the weapon when I put two blasts into a guy in CQ-combat and I'm the one who ends up dead whereas the guy who killed me (the guy I was putting two shotgun shells into) has 60% health. After that happened multiple times, I switched back to SMGs and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

    That sounds more like lag or packet loss than a fault with the weapon. Not saying you're wrong, but in my 488 shotgun kills, I've never seen that happen.

    Or, I'm going to call on another game where we've both seen something similar, it's like MWO where projectiles look like they'll hit, they do hit, but they don't do damage (lookin' right at you Mr. AC20). I mean, I have the hit marker, there was damage done...but not all of the damage was dealt (which means some or most of the pellets didn't register their hits).

    And I'm not sure if lag would be the culprit here...I mean, this has happened when the relative lateral motion between me and target is zero (I'm directly behind the guy, and surprise him with a shotgun to the spine). Packet loss...I'm not too sure on that one, but I haven't had an issue with packet loss in BF1 so far (excepting for when I join in on PA folks or join whatever server the Neebs Gaming Twitch stream is on, I'm always just hitting the Quickplay button and let matchmaker decide the best server for me).

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  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    Konphujun wrote: »
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    Konphujun wrote: »
    I don't know what you're all on about but the shotgun is a fine instrument of warfare. Its really easy to go on an absurd murder spree with it, especially on favorable maps, but even on ones that aren't. The lethal range on it is quite large. The only way I could see missing someone while you're dead on is ADS. It gets weird with ADS. Hipfire, though? You'll be laying those scrubs down in a flurry of buckshot.

    Reticle circle doesn't show up when ADSing. So yeah...pellet spread can result in weird results even when you're lined up on somebody in close-quarters (as I was saying). I start questioning the effectiveness of the weapon when I put two blasts into a guy in CQ-combat and I'm the one who ends up dead whereas the guy who killed me (the guy I was putting two shotgun shells into) has 60% health. After that happened multiple times, I switched back to SMGs and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

    That sounds more like lag or packet loss than a fault with the weapon. Not saying you're wrong, but in my 488 shotgun kills, I've never seen that happen.

    Or, I'm going to call on another game where we've both seen something similar, it's like MWO where projectiles look like they'll hit, they do hit, but they don't do damage (lookin' right at you Mr. AC20). I mean, I have the hit marker, there was damage done...but not all of the damage was dealt (which means some or most of the pellets didn't register their hits).

    And I'm not sure if lag would be the culprit here...I mean, this has happened when the relative lateral motion between me and target is zero (I'm directly behind the guy, and surprise him with a shotgun to the spine). Packet loss...I'm not too sure on that one, but I haven't had an issue with packet loss in BF1 so far (excepting for when I join in on PA folks or join whatever server the Neebs Gaming Twitch stream is on, I'm always just hitting the Quickplay button and let matchmaker decide the best server for me).

    This is interesting. If it's behaving similar to the AC/20s in MWO it's not something I'd notice without looking for it. I'll keep a better eye out next time and see if I notice it.

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    I've had the pellet spread go right around a target also. I saw, literally saw, them miss. The guy was dead center to the reticle under a bridge in Amiens and when I pulled the trigger I SAW the dust from the background behind him where all the pellets went. That was infuriating. On the other hand, I've 1 shot guys 10m+ away. So there's that too.

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