UAV’s should be ilegal, that was too fun. Only problem with them is that the hellfire is underpowered. It should be able to go through a brad the long way. Playing a conquest match with a random match up, I was able to fly over head and watch enemy snipers get into position and then paint them with the laser and watch em go flying 50 feet.
I’m seriously missing my landmines though, nothing is transferable from BC 1, so I have to earn them again, along with that rediculusly over powered shotgun
I just wish I could play the damned game. I have only been able to log around 2 hours since last week what with random crashes, servers down, etc. I am seriously pissed at EA.
Odd. I’ve had zero issues, and spent… umm… way too many hours playing the last 2 weeks. Aside from the absurdly bad lobby(sigh… and I thought they couldn’t do worse than battlefield 2), i’ve not had any issues playing, nor any issues with my gear not showing up. Well, the master servers were down once for two hours, but that wasn’t technically a fault with the game.
He’s on the PC so there’s no “lobby” in the sense that console games have them where you’re waiting with other people. He’s referring to the server browser in a strange way
And of all the games I’ve played so far, the ONE game I actually scored a decent amount of points is the game after which the server decided it didn’t want to bother remembering my points.
Depends on the game, but for most, you go to the server browser. It refreshes all of the servers out there (usually takes maybe 15-30 seconds), pings them all, gets map/player/mods/etc info, and displays them. You then filter them to look for what you want - maybe you want a certain range of players, or hardcore mode, or unmodded, or a certain map. Sometimes you get an idea of what the server is like from the name and/or message of the day. Maybe it’s an adult/mature oriented server, or a realism-oriented server (where they’ll kick you for bunny hopping, etc.) Then you can look at all the specific server settings that server carries, and choose one (usually the lowest ping one that matches what you’re looking for). Usually you end up finding servers that have the right settings and type of community you like and you add it to a favorites list, and eventually you may just sort through a list of 5-20 favorite servers.
It also has a “quickplay” button, so if all this sort of thing is too complicated it just picks a random (edit: maybe there’s more criteria, don’t know) server you have a good connection to and drops you in.
I’ve futzed around with Starcraft and Age of Empires and such. How does it work for Battlefield, and what’s so wrong with it? It sounds pretty easy, either way. That sounds hard to mung up.
It doesn’t pre-filter the server list so you need to query every server (1000s) in order to do anything. So everything takes forever and the master server keeps going down under the load.
I don’t know, I don’t own the game (yet). I’m just basing my general experience on how previous games tend to work.
Palooka did hit on one issue - most games are designed so that when you send a query to the master server, it can pre-filter out the stuff you have no interest in (maybe empty servers, or locked servers), and therefore gives you fewer results that you have to contact for information. If, say he says, you get a raw list and then your client filters it, the listing process would take longer. There are slight advantages to that system - you could look at the entire list and then change your filtering criteria without having to get a new list.
I don’t know enough about how their systems are setup to comment on the first one.
I don’t think they’re going to patch in a more efficient server browser. They’ll probably do a faster solution like adding more servers to accommodate the load and then reduce them as the player base falls off. DICE is probably the full swing on Battlefield 3 and they no longer have DICE Canada to be their (incompetent) patch division.
Do any of the other console cretins out there know of any way we can load a practice map?
PC players can always join an empty server, but since I had my brain surgically removed when I bought an XBox 360, I’m apparently too retarded to understand advanced concepts like server lists, or “millie seconds.”
I would like to practice with some of the vehicles, since a well piloted attack chopper is a God of the battlefield, but the only chance I have to ever work on flying is the one in a thousand chance where I happen to be near the helipad when it spawns. I absolutely refuse to camp the helipad waiting for my chance to compete with the other 6 kids who want to crash the chopper immediately.
There is a “squad private match” option, but you can’t actually use that unless you have eight players.
For this game, I believe you’ve already figured it out. You need to utilize the “squad private match option”, and another one of those “little things” that DICE screwed up with their multiplayer lobby, apparently.
