Battlefield 3: Armoured Kill

422nd · 11-09-2012 10:29am

danniemcq wrote: »

yeah thats what i was thinking i think the patch and CQ came out together or maybe i'm just really confused!

trying to think if i have ORIGIN open or if she searches for it will she find porn...

And if she finds your porn, she'll delete it all.

And even if she doesn't find your porn she could end up wiping system 32 or something crazy like that. I personally wouldn't risk it. I understand living with a technophobic girlfriend. :rolleyes:

I don't know how to feel about the release of armored kill today. Especially seeing as I'm an xbox player. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. But something tells me I should have updated my PC and got Battlefield on it.

ktulu123 · 11-09-2012 10:35am

Downloading it atm. It's 3.7 gigs so will take a bit on my ****e net

Joeface · 11-09-2012 10:41am

422nd wrote: »

I don't know how to feel about the release of armored kill today. Especially seeing as I'm an xbox player. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. But something tells me I should have updated my PC and got Battlefield on it.

yes yes you should have .. too late now , you would have to rebuy the game and premium again and the upgrade cost..............could you mortgage your PC maybe

422nd · 11-09-2012 11:20am

Joeface wrote: »

yes yes you should have .. too late now , you would have to rebuy the game and premium again and the upgrade cost..............could you mortgage your PC maybe

I've been known to waste vast amounts of money before...

Nuri Sahin · 11-09-2012 12:12pm

grizzly wrote: »

They're bring out server side tweeks to rebalance this;

http://www.examiner.com/article/battlefield-3-armored-kill-tweaks-rolling-out-soon

Not enough facepalm pics could convey my feelings reading that. 90 seconds is nowt, let alone the original 60 seconds which goes without saying.

Brian_Zeluz · 11-09-2012 1:13pm

A whole 30 seconds, wow that's going to make a massive difference!
NOT.

Soby · 11-09-2012 1:22pm

Should be once for each m-com base

Blazer · 11-09-2012 2:09pm

422nd wrote: »

I've been known to waste vast amounts of money before...

do it..you won't regret it on PC

B.A._Baracus · 11-09-2012 2:24pm

ktulu123 wrote: »

Downloading it atm. It's 3.7 gigs so will take a bit on my ****e net

3.7!??!?
Ah crap.
No way I have 3.7gb on my xbox hard drive.

Question lads,
If I was to buy a bigger xbox hard drive how would I transfer my profile over to start downloading the new dlc?

... or would I just be better of buying a 8gb usb stick?

ktulu123 · 11-09-2012 2:31pm

It wont be that size on the xbox, dont know what it is on that

5uspect · 11-09-2012 2:34pm

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

3.7!??!?
Ah crap.
No way I have 3.7gb on my xbox hard drive.

Question lads,
If I was to buy a bigger xbox hard drive how would I transfer my profile over to start downloading the new dlc?

... or would I just be better of buying a 8gb usb stick?

It comes with a special cable and instructions on how to copy everything over. It's pretty simple.

spitfireIRL · 11-09-2012 3:24pm

yeah its like 1.7gb on xbox.

422nd · 11-09-2012 3:31pm

spitfireIRL wrote: »

yeah its like 1.7gb on xbox.

I'm going to have to get a bigger hard drive before the next DLC. :rolleyes:

Local-womanizer · 11-09-2012 3:45pm

422nd wrote: »

spitfireIRL wrote: »

yeah its like 1.7gb on xbox.

I'm going to have to get a bigger hard drive before the next DLC. :rolleyes:

It's 1.54 on xbox, have it downloading, should be done when I'm home

Joeface · 11-09-2012 4:21pm

started it a one today so it would be down when I got home from work

Still bloody downloading 81% ...stupid ea. 7gb inside a week from them.

Better be good :mad::mad:

BlitzKrieg · 11-09-2012 6:47pm

Had a few games on conquest.

So far loving the tank destroyers.

The AC-130 finally gives jets a much tighter purpose then in prior bf3 maps as they have the best chance at shooting it down or defending it.

Still a bit unsure about it as a whole, I had some kick ass moments, but I also had a few frustrating walks from the middle of nowhere, especially on alborez mountains where you can easily get stuck in places where its a bitch to climb out of.

Local-womanizer · 11-09-2012 7:17pm

Played a bit of it there before other things popped up, albornz mountain and death valley.

Both on conquest, and enjoyed them. The ac-130 is not too bad, since the maps are so spaced out and big it's not like it's hitting you constantly, plus I enjoy taking the flag that controls it

iColdFusion · 11-09-2012 8:51pm

Played a few games on 360, enjoying conquest so far, can get pretty hectic at times even on such big maps!

Tank superiority is pretty poor and borders on boring at times but might liven up once people get used to the maps and get more tank destroyer unlocks.
It needs more tanks and less destroyers though as they don't have a proper second seat though just a crappy pee shooter.

Iancar29 · 11-09-2012 9:37pm

iColdFusion wrote: »

Played a few games on 360, enjoying conquest so far, can get pretty hectic at times even on such big maps!

Tank superiority is pretty poor and borders on boring at times but might liven up once people get used to the maps and get more tank destroyer unlocks.
It needs more tanks and less destroyers though as they don't have a proper second seat though just a crappy pee shooter.

Was very close to getting premium for the xbox today just to get started on playing it. But then i was like... crap ... my live is up too... so that would be another 20 euro at least...

...

I have the game on pc but it needs a new graphics card as my bro burnt it out with his college work. So probably just gonna wait it out till we get one for that. 64 player mayhem.... WANT!!! haha

B.A._Baracus · 11-09-2012 9:40pm

spitfireIRL wrote: »

yeah its like 1.7gb on xbox.

Yeah its its 1.56gb. just as well. Only have 200mb of space left now.
The real kicker is the updates and not the DLC. There was a 1+ gig update last week as well.

Was reading another forum and accordingly you cant delete previous patches

.... Which is crazy.

hightower1 · 11-09-2012 10:41pm

Logged into BF3 on xbox when I got in, checked the server lists and was reminded to download the new DLC. Did that in a few mins but when I started the game again its now deciding to take 5 mins litterally to go from the "press start" screen to the main page, once there it wont contact EA online at all so no access to the store, no battlefield and wont allow access into anything basically.

Fantastic. Removed AK from the hard drive and no joy, giving up at this stage and will try again tomorrow. If I end up having to remove all BF3 content from my hard drive to re install the game, patches and expansions does anyone know will I have to pay again / loose all my completed assignments? If so... FCUK that noise! bye bye BF3.

dinnybyrne · 11-09-2012 11:04pm

hightower1 wrote: »

Logged into BF3 on xbox when I got in, checked the server lists and was reminded to download the new DLC. Did that in a few mins but when I started the game again its now deciding to take 5 mins litterally to go from the "press start" screen to the main page, once there it wont contact EA online at all so no access to the store, no battlefield and wont allow access into anything basically.

Fantastic. Removed AK from the hard drive and no joy, giving up at this stage and will try again tomorrow. If I end up having to remove all BF3 content from my hard drive to re install the game, patches and expansions does anyone know will I have to pay again / loose all my completed assignments? If so... FCUK that noise! bye bye BF3.

im having the same issues thank god im not alone but in fairness paying 50 quid for this service is a load of cock

hightower1 · 11-09-2012 11:28pm

dinnybyrne wrote: »

im having the same issues thank god im not alone but in fairness paying 50 quid for this service is a load of cock

TBH I kinda think its a server issue considering the game will boot up and the main slow down with moving from the press start screen to the main screen has always been connecting to EA online, the fact that its taking ages to get through to the main screen now indicates the contact to EA online is failing.

Prob due to server load but TBH considering they knew the time, the amount of users, amount of premium downloads that was going to take place and approx peak times it just shows they had all of the prime service effecting factors ahead of time and still couldnt budget overheads correctly only shows incompetence on EA / Dices behalf.

Id give them slack if it was a new game being launched where one wouldnt know the amount of demand needed but its an expansion limited to only premium users and they knew exactly how many premium users were registered before hand so there is no excuse. Im sure we'll be fine in the morning once they get the stick out , increase the overheads and user demand tails off but when you pay for a self proclaimed PREMIUM service and get faced with the exact opposite in terms of company prep it doesnt leave much affection for the companies involved.

Looks like a known issue:

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2832654348221970857/1/

Congrats EA /Dice, premium indeed.

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the_syco · 11-09-2012 11:54pm

Not bad. That one map everyone hates is super sh|te, but can't see it making an appearance on any PC server after the first few days. Liking the "king of the hill" maps, and can see the lake map being fun on the 64 player 3000 ticket servers :P

BlitzKrieg · 12-09-2012 3:47am

Ok took a big stint at it there now

love Bandar Desert, had the most fun with tank destroyers on this map

alborz mountain gets better when you get use to it

Death Valley I only got on once and it was in hardcore mode which makes getting use to a map much harder, but it seems very tight

Armoured shield should suck, by all accounts its the most boring map layout wise but for some reason most conquest games I've had on this map have been a blast, especially when I get in a helicopter.

the ac 130 is fine in conquest on pc, not an issue at all, in fact it really helps to focus some aspects of the maps with infantry and jets.

I dont know what it is about the tank destroyers I love, maybe its the fact they are simply glass cannons, fast as hell, pack a wallop but go down very quickly, but I'm already well on my way to unlocking all their stuff and on bandor desert where you can flank easily they are a lot of fun.

Even though it's an armour map pack I feel in these maps the helicopters get a serious boost as the number of armour targets jump so much that you are almost spoilt for choice on targets that stick out.

The Artillery I only got to use once, it's fine, the game actually feels closer to bf1942 then any previous bf game due to the two armour classes and the return of artillery.

All we need now is the ability to control the aircraft carrier and add nuclear subs and we are back where we started

Though I am not sure if the claim that Bandor desert is their biggest ever holds up. Could have sworn there were bigger maps in 1942...

-EDIT-

I dont know if I hate alborz mountain or love it, it's probably will become the map of choice for stunts and messing around as bombing down the side of the hill is mental, so much so that I am able to do it in tanks and actually ramp into the air. I lost control of my tank so many times in this map it's ridiculous.

sebastianlieken · 12-09-2012 9:21am

had a whack at the armored kill mpas there last night myself,

Bandar Dessert (tank superiority) is great craic! sprinting around the place in those tank destroyers is savage! I do think you attain the unlocks rather too soon though. I unlocked everything in a single 500 ticket game.

Albortz mountains was very meh. it's a good concept but it's not a vehical map. I'd have prefered to see that map as a sniper focused map. just a little bird each and a few quads and it would be perfect.

Death Valley is really nice. the nighttime lighting is great (although i wish buildings were darker inside). I'd have liked to see an armored personel carrier in this one just to focus the fighting a bit more.

Armored kill. holy fcuk you better be good if you want to fly the helicopters. got raped the first few times I hopped into the heli until I really sat up straight and paid attention. It's a nice map actually. I like this one - you can play any class or vehical and do well on it. well rounded.

the AC130, oh boy! well - it's a death machine and a death trap. Everybody is still hovering in the menus to have a go, so I didnt get too much of a chance in it. The AA guns seem underpowered in my opinion, near impossible to down an enemy jet with it, let alone two. Conversely, they are so so so easy to take down with jets . I've taken down every single one that i've tried to thus far, a single slow strafe will let you get two fully sustained cannon assaults on it. Although, I like this because it's about time jet pilots get a few more kills/points for their efforts, and especially as it's at the expence of menu sitters

I still want a big ass anti-material rifle that does damage to vehicals though...

422nd · 12-09-2012 9:28am

After finally getting it downloaded last night I managed to squeeze in two games before going to bed. Both conquest on Armored Shield and Bandar Desert. I'll admit I was worried about downloading AK after all the bitching that's been going on the past week from the PS3 players. I hadn't heard one good report to date. Honestly, I don't know what all the fuss was about. Both maps functioned perfectly fine as far as I could tell. I thoroughly enjoyed both games and didn't see any game breaking problems. I suppose the true test will come tonight with Rush.

the_syco · 12-09-2012 9:52am

422nd wrote: »

I suppose the true test will come tonight with Rush.

Armoured Shield on Rush is unbalanced poop!

sebastianlieken · 12-09-2012 12:41pm

the_syco wrote: »

Armoured Shield on Rush is unbalanced poop!

is this on PC or xbox? Just wondering if it's unbalanced as a result of having loads of players on PC. (i'm xbox)

i havn't tried rush on it yet. is it too easy to defend or to attack?

the_syco · 12-09-2012 1:26pm

sebastianlieken wrote: »

is this on PC or xbox? Just wondering if it's unbalanced as a result of having loads of players on PC. (i'm xbox)

i havn't tried rush on it yet. is it too easy to defend or to attack?

PC. PS3 people also think the same. Atackers have AC130, tanks, etc, defence has no tanks. Maybe one chopper/plane.

MajesticDonkey · 12-09-2012 1:30pm

the_syco wrote: »

PC. PS3 people also think the same. Atackers have AC130, tanks, etc, defence has no tanks. Maybe one chopper/plane.

TBH I think a lot of the problems in rush are the player's own fault. Most players on the defensive side in rush insist on moving out towards the attacking base as far as possible. Why would you do that? The idea is to defend the base - let the attackers come to you. If every player on the defensive team held a solid line there would be no need for any vehicles.

ktulu123 · 12-09-2012 1:38pm

Yeah I think its gonna take a couple weeks to calm down and then things will be back to normal in rush. The C130 can be taken down straight away if you have a couple guys with iglas shooting at it. Maybe more team work is needed to win, which is a good thing

Soby · 12-09-2012 1:49pm

the_syco wrote: »

Armoured Shield on Rush is unbalanced poop!

No its not cause the ac130 spawns every 90 seconds not 60 seconds now :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: and more rolleyes till they roll outta me head

(In case your confused im agreeing with ya :P )

5uspect · 12-09-2012 2:09pm

The AC-130 flares sure are pretty tho!

ShadowHearth · 12-09-2012 2:42pm

played 2 matches. its even worse for me then fecking close quarters... i liked how BF3 managed always to have a nice balance between armor and foot soldier. you really felt like in the middle of conflict and now we got one dlc which is cod whanabe and other some tank camping simulator.

All the ****tards with joysticks are just taking a complete piss from everything.

is there even a point in assault and support clases now? ( if we take out every second idiot going for c4+jeep retardness out of it )

B.A._Baracus · 12-09-2012 3:12pm

Have to say, i'm enjoying this

I like to play Rush, so new rush maps are win win.

Shiminay · 12-09-2012 3:19pm

Had a brief foray into the world of AK last night, the download took forever, head was wrecked waiting for it.

Seems like I'm having Crossfire issues again, had major frame rate drop whilst playing, but for the few games I did get on Craggy with the rest of ye, it was pretty enjoyable.

The Mountain map I think is fantastic, would love an extended tickets game on that.

Played one game of King of the Hill (whatever it's called), that wasn't bad.

Tank Destroyers are fun. AC-130, I didn't get to properly use, but am looking forward to giving it a proper go.

danniemcq · 12-09-2012 3:28pm

Shiminay wrote: »

Tank Destroyers are fun.

...to flip!

iColdFusion · 12-09-2012 4:03pm

EDIT: Never mind its 15 kills with the gunship to unlock AA missiles, worth it though!

5uspect · 12-09-2012 4:04pm

I'm yet to even use one.

Nuri Sahin · 12-09-2012 4:25pm

the_syco wrote: »

PC. PS3 people also think the same. Atackers have AC130, tanks, etc, defence has no tanks. Maybe one chopper/plane.

It's a real shame as it could have been, and still can obviously, be thoroughly enjoyable to play.

Dice need to either...

A) Remove the AC130 from Rush completely, or at least from official Dice/EA servers or Just the 1 AC130 per a pair of MCOMS is available and reduce the attacking teams amount of vehicles.

The airdrop feature is also hugely problematic too, and something I wished wasn't available when playing Rush.

mise · 12-09-2012 5:21pm

Played 4 or 5 games of CQ and 1 game of TS last night on the Xbox, and have to say I really enjoyed it. I was worried after all the talk on here, but I don't really play Rush, so I haven't experienced the worst of it.

A couple of people equipped with IGLA pretty much negates the AC130 on CQ Had so much fun Javelining quads!

ShadowHearth · 12-09-2012 5:26pm

Lads, how's the public in general for ya? 2 games I played I have seen only one soflan up. I was expecting people get on the ball with that **** in maps where armour is dominant force.
Am I just unlucky or people still go headless chicken style, just this time with tanks?

Scram · 12-09-2012 7:07pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Lads, how's the public in general for ya? 2 games I played I have seen only one soflan up. I was expecting people get on the ball with that **** in maps where armour is dominant force.
Am I just unlucky or people still go headless chicken style, just this time with tanks?

yeah was on a server earlier and our team had 0 to 1 soflam and tanks with no guided rocket! wtf?

The other side had 4 soflams, it seems a mix really i guess it was bad server just my experience so far.

hightower1 · 12-09-2012 10:41pm

What an absolute steaming pile.

This content is completely unsuited and unbalanced to console play.
I cant see how any developer of any quality level actually played this and thought that it was good enough to release. I'd be ashamed to green light this to paying customers.

Thats me done, downloading minecraft now to get me through to borderlands 2 release and will play that for a few hundred hours. AK has totally turned me away from bf3. There is no excitement to the game because if your the attackers victory is guaranteed and if your defending defeat is guaranteed so there is no motivation, no tension and in nearly all cases 2 or less people running to an mcom and arming them will win the match for you.

The people sitting on the menus waiting to use the ac130 are ridiculous , every single game tonight one of the attackers KD was ALWAYS like 5:1 or higher. Dice really have shown that once they have your cash locked in that THIS is the level of effort they are willing to put in.

dinnybyrne · 12-09-2012 11:18pm

still cant get a propper game in even with a 50mb connection.its jumping around like a march hare, really boils my blood!dice u ungrateful twats

klose · 13-09-2012 12:40am

Armoured shield cq on xbox is pointless, so boring, the rest are however surprisingly fine. Still haven't played rush on any so far.
The gunship is also fine I thought it would be op but is easily taken out but can also stand up for itself with the 2 AA seats in it, not too far of unlocking the heat seakers for it even though the AA gun is grand.
Love the mobile artilary though its slow and hard to get kills with it but its just so cool and badass, feel like a trucker when.driving it

can't wait to unlock the different middle types/unlocks.

Oh yeah quad bikes are brilliant fun too.

johnny_adidas · 13-09-2012 12:52am

hightower1 wrote: »

The people sitting on the menus waiting to use the ac130 are ridiculous , every single game tonight one of the attackers KD was ALWAYS like 5:1 or higher.

Actually happened into a game and managed to lose a round of rush with randomers for this exact reason tonight. Between that and guys waiting for own use vehicles to spawn, no one was attacking the objective

dreamers75 · 13-09-2012 9:55am

Good fun on PC, 1st few rounds i have played noone is sure which flag to cap 1st and hold so we all head to the plane one. But the other team has the same idea.

Played around 15 rounds between 300 and 600 tickets, 300 isnt enough round was over very quickly. 600 seemed to be fine but it ended out with 3 flags each and then everyone pile on plane flag.

The design of the maps is quite good for out and out tank whoring, even the flags are making it interesting.

I like it so far.

Nuri Sahin · 13-09-2012 1:31pm

whippedcream wrote: »

Armoured shield cq on xbox is pointless, so boring, the rest are however surprisingly fine. Still haven't played rush on any so far.
The gunship is also fine I thought it would be op but is easily taken out but can also stand up for itself with the 2 AA seats in it, not too far of unlocking the heat seakers for it even though the AA gun is grand.
Love the mobile artilary though its slow and hard to get kills with it but its just so cool and badass, feel like a trucker when.driving it can't wait to unlock the different middle types/unlocks.

Oh yeah quad bikes are brilliant fun too.

Don't think I've seen anyone here or elsewhere complain about the AC130 on CQ to be fair.

Quad bikes are great craic. Wished there were more available in a game. Could get some crazy races going given the layouts of the AK maps.

Battlefield 3: Armoured Kill

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