You can get shot with a rifle in battle whereas you'll only get shot with a HiPoint playing the videas

>>10952913
>most obvious and laughable

Jet's flying at 50km/h

>Russians versus US
>Russians have a chance to win.

I didn't realise Battlefield 3 was supposed to be a combat simulator. It's just a game, bro.

Well, vidya cannot into being cold as fuck/baking in armor, wet, hungry, and tired, 4 aspects that are constant factors of being a combat infantryman.

BF3 doesn't simulate thirst very well, either. Or chafing, jock itch, and blisters.

Otherwise, totally realistic in every way.

>implying bf3 is supposed to be some kind of milsim
this aint arma 2

>omg its not vidya gaem its almost real!

This game has fucking amazing sound

>>10952913

5 x 7.62 or 2 x 50 calibre hits to stop a guy moving.

Also defibrillator god machine heals everything even if you've been zipped with 20-30mm taken a rocket fallen 800ft no parachute and would in reality be scorched with jet fuel. ALRIGHT YOUR GOOD TO GO. THANKS DOC.

BE ADVISED.

>>10952988

BC2 did sound better. Eargasm.

Gen 5 fighters going 30 miles per hour?

>>10952988

I agree! Fucking eargasm every time I play a match.

But c'mon guys, I'd like some thought put into these replies. Like... what about the radio chatter? What's up with all the "Be advised" and 'How copy?"'s

>>10952995
Oh fuck dude, I know. Was just talking with some buddies about how we wished they did sound the same way.

>headphones
>options
>war tapes
>what the fuck kind of setting is war tapes
OH JESUS FUCK MY EARS FUCKING HURT THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME

>>10953001
>Superbug
>Gen 5
EL OH EL


I just play it because it's fun, no reason to think it's realistic in any way shape or form.
PR was more realistic, and it's a damn mod from BF2.

And to the "HURR CANCER" faggots, STALKER is /k/ as /k/ can get. Why not an authentic FPS that uses modern weaponry with semi-advanced ballistics with a bit of tweaks for balance?

>>10952988
>>10952995
>>10953010
bc2's sound was great too, but it was too busy and noisy. overall the sound in bf3 is much easier to "understand" and it is crisper and cleaner. it's more authentic/documentary rather than FUCK YEAH LOUD AS SHIT NIGGA WE EXPLOSION BLAP BRAT BRUP BRUP BLAM (which was awesome anyway)

>>10952995
Everything about BC2 was better.

I want to buy my best friend a BF game (on Xbox, all he has) cuz he did me such a great solid recently. One of his co-workers plays with us on XBL and agrees BC2 > BF3, but I think it might be dead at this point. I'd hate to give a gift that barely accomplishes the goal (for all of us to stay in touch by playing it together).

Oh well, even BF3 has to be better than the only game we all have now- Reach.

Loopzooks

>>10952976
>f35 and sukhoi flanker
>f35 is a slow turning un-manuverable piece of shit that gets swatted out to the air by the sukhois

seems like the most realistic game ever made to me

>>10952945
You must play on the console version.
>>10952953
Every US vehicle is superior in maneuverability and speed in comparison to the russian counterparts in BF3. Even the jeeps. It kinda sucks.

I don't get what all the typical bashing is about. I think that BF3 is nice balance between fun and reality, something the doody tried to do, but crashed and burned as soon as modern warfare came out.

In a way though, BF3 is almost like the embodiment of /k/. it's a very magical place

>>10953031
Played BC2 yesterday, full rooms. Eargasm, eyegasm, orgasm.

>>10953056
I kick ass in the T-90 but I suck in the Abrams.

WHY?

>>10953056
>You must play on the console version.
Infact i do not. If you think the jets are fast there must be something wrong with you. Also why should the console versions jets have different speed?

>Every US vehicle is superior in maneuverability and speed
Is this really true? I get the feeling that the T90 is far better than the M1. It's definitly true for air vehicles (except jets).

>>10953077
Because while the abrams is faster, ITS ASS IS SO FUCKING BIG YOU CAN HARDLY SHOOT BEHIND YOU. I'm better with the T-90 too.

>>10953080
All of the aircraft in the console version are slower than the PC version, due to the inherent slowness of the controller setup it was necessary to balance the jets because console peasants had too much difficulty locking jets and choppers with AA weapons.
>>10953080
It is, but the T-90 does seem to be the exception. I think it is because it is smaller than the Abrams.

>>10953077
>>10953077
Super light green-colored cross hairs+bright as fuck background=missing a shit load of shots

FYI next patch the T-90's cross hair is getting fixed so it's not so out of line with the main gun. Gonna be rapeee. Although it did add a bit of authenticity because we all know slavshit isn't known for it's accuracy at range...

Shit like radio beacons, defibs, ammo/med kits that have entire hospitals/armories in them, motion sensors and the retarded non designated javelin flightpath. Oh and humvees that need more than one 120mm HEAT hit or RPG. And in flight repairs for helis.
It would be much better if it had the far cry2 type of heal/repair mechanics. So you do something that would make some difference at least. Not electro shocking a guy that was just shot with 5, 12 gauge FRAG rounds (lol)

>>10953097
the camera on the t90 is also mounted ABOVE the barrel of its gun, where on the abrams it's mounted next to it -- the barrel on the abrams blocks all your vision to your right

>>10953102
>so it's not so out of line with the main gun.

Really? I never had trouble aiming with it, infact i think it's far better than the M1 crosshair. Especially at range.

>>10952967
I was thinking of the body aches.
The constant knee and back pain from moving and moving tactically with all the heavy ass crap.
Tripping and falling on your face with an additional 80 - 120 pounds strapped to on you is unpleasant.

>>10953107
The only thing in that list that pisses me off is the fact that it takes more than 5 frag rounds to kill a guy. Fucking whiners had to nerf the most fun aspect of shotguns in BF3. I love being able to have 2 engineers hanging out of my little bird repairing me while I strafe run tanks and shit.

Did anyone else here who played BC2 make an effort at the start of each game to reduce every building to rubble and clear trees / bush before pressing on?

>Using tanks to do this
>Nigga's with AT weapons especially haven't got any cover
>flatten everything like a baws
>Pop smoke and roll out like a smooth criminal
>Pop more smoke, smoke, smoke everywhere, you can't handle my smoke, bitches don't know bout lockin onto me with my smoke

>>10953120
Fucking nigga jew bitch whore faggot faggot frag user pussy bitch.

No one should have the power of an LAV in their fucking shuotgun, I hope you get nerfed to hell.

My biggest gripes all come from the small arms and health set up. I always end up taking the damned support class as you need to him an enemy groundpounder with five 7.62x54r to bring him down, when in real life, one chest shot, even if non-fatal would seriously realign his personal priorities

>>10953127

Yeah i do it. It still drives me nuts that there are walls AND buildings you can't destroy in bf3. Good god in BC2 you could destroy almost everything.

>What are some of the most obvious and laughable discrepancies between Battlefield 3's depiction of combat and military and *actual* combat and military?

Dunno OP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx2hpuuVEd8#t=6s

Reported.

go to >>>/vg/ or >>>/v/

I think one of the things that gets me the most is the hit detection. Whether it is getting hit while behind cover. Or how it always sound like they took you down in 3 shots every time you die.


You have not time to response, so it just kinda becomes a luck thing.

i fucking LOVE jets in bf3
on pc they don't seem overly slow, if anything they're pretty fast.
Also, if you don't play HC you're a chump. 3rd person view is for faggots.

>>10953144
SVT is that you?

>>10953144
Thanks bruh.

I was enjoying myself.

Discrepancies include: full mag to kill anyone, hit by tank shell - defibrillator res works, magical welders, i could go on.

Fun game though

Everything about launching and recovering on the carrier was so fucked to all hell I couldn't finish the single player after that

shit like this is why I play this game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaGhE_sejI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrOIgxQ--Tc&feature=channel

this and the trolling. can't forget the trolling

>>10953167

only played campaign once. don't recall

>>10953056
>Every US vehicle is superior in maneuverability and speed in comparison to the russian counterparts in BF3
i don't think this is true, jets seem to have the exact same handling characteristics.
Dogfights would be so uneven, and i rape everyone no matter what team i'm on

>>10953178
That's.... that's actually pretty awesome. I now forgive the lack of realism.

Battlefield 3 doesnt have you going on stag (sentry for yanks) at 3 am
Battlefield 3 doesnt let you jizz into the eyepiece of the CWS to leave for the next person

The damage system on the tank is hard to predict. I think it was smart because a disable of some kind is more likely than an outright explosion. I thought shaped charge warheads were first shot effective barring reactive armor though, while in the game RPGs and the like can sometimes take 4+ solid hits to the rear armor.

Jets flying slow to the point of being as effective as helicopters at strafing. They should be in an unrecoverable stall many times over.

Most of the infantry combat has been pretty acceptable to me even considering this isn't ARMA or PR.

>>10953230
Its there, there are specsheets to back it up if you care to look, it isn't a lot, and I might be mistaken about jets, but I know for damned sure the choppers aren't balanced equally.

>>10953279
>thought shaped charge warheads were first shot effective barring reactive armor though.

You would be wrong.

>while in the game RPGs and the like can sometimes take 4+ solid hits to the rear armor.

An abrams can pretty much take way more than that, and not blow up, from rpg's.

>>10953281
Jets are copy's of eatch other, the only difference is gemoatry (RU jet is easyer to hit, but the US a10 is easyer to hit than the frogfoot, due to shape and size). Scout helicopters are pretty much the same too.

Other than that, they are different, but not game breakingly so.

God dammit, now i have to play. Fuck you all.

>drop a high explosive 60mm mortar round directly on a snipers head
>need to repeat this 3 or 4 times to actually kill someone.
so when did they swap out my explosive shells with wiffle balls

>>10953328
Well, for one, your not playing on hard core. Two, think about it bro. If morters=irl, they would rule the fucking game.

>>10953338
>>10953338
this right here.

>>10953338
it is balanced out by the fact that mortarmen have this magical little map where all the enemies in there killzone show up as vectored blips allowing you to be able to drop a round precisely onto a sniper's head to begin with, with hyper accuracy, and no need to coordinate whatsoever

>>10953338
And they did before the nerf.

You could hit anywhere on the map, only showed where you were for the THUMP, and you could THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP

I know it's HUGELY less maneuverable than the cobra, but is the havoc faster as far as just running in a straight line goes?

>>10953392
No, irl morters kill everything within 50 yards.

think about it

I stopped playing that shit ever since they raped frag shells.

That was fucking fun as hell, and they took it away from me because of stupid whiny assclowns.

Who cares? Its just a game.

>>10953418
yeah, but it's part of the trade of. think about it. It only takes one person to crew a tank in bf3, and the third person option gives much greater view than you'd have in a real tank, obviosly.

but the tanks are weaker, too. I'm sure everyone's heard the stories of challie and abrams shrugging off RPG-7's like they were nothing, even the one's that were turned into completely useless hunks of metal by rpgs were able to protect their crew.
But here, you take 3 rpgs, and as soon as your vehicle health is less than 50%, your tanks bursts into flames.

at the very least, they got the armor right. the difference between where you land your rpgs or sheels (front, sides, or rear) is HUGE

>>10953422
This, although I didn't stop playing, I just use it for trolling now.

>Load up C4 onto a jeep
>place 1 C4 on the back
>fly into a tank
>hop out and pop the c4 on the back with a frag round
>xXMETALxGEARXx was killed by Anon with Frag rounds

>xXMETALxGEARXx: WTF HOW U KILL TANK WIT FRAG ROUND

>>10953453
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9DM5QYLhyc

>>10953453
I'm going to have to try this.

>>10953453

remember snake & vulkan raven

With BF3 they copy/pasted everything from BFBC2 except for the fun.

Never again EA, never again.

>>10953460
Still one of the best games of all time.

>>10953453
o god I have to try that.

far as carbombing goes, my favorite thing to do is not place c4, but claymores to the hood of my car, facing out to the sides. I then drive through the urban areas, looking for splatter kills. if my aim is off and I don't hit them, the claymores on my car do.

One time my brother and I were fucking around on some of the larger maps. I got in the dune buggy, and he got in the passenger seat as an engineer, blow torch equipped. we would drive all over the battle field looking for friendly tanks engaging enemy ones, and pull our dunebuggy up to the side and repair them. he didn't even have to get out.

Next thing we want to try is like the the above, but throwing c4 onto enemy tanks instead

>>10953466
strange... that's not how you spell Perfect Dark

>>10953477
I said, "one of", meaning plural.

>>10953477

That's a funny way of spelling deus ex.

I noticed that on operation firestorm, the RU runway is like 94 or something, even though the highest number a runway number can go up to is 36...

>>10953489
that's a strange way of spelling Ghost in the Shell

>>10953491
you doofus, you need a K and an R to spell "snake eater"

>>10953491
That's an odd way of spelling day of the tentacle

>>10953490
It's Russia, Fuck the police.

>>10953120

ohrly? I play bf3 at least once a day, shortly of course, and using the USAS 12, it only takes 2 frag rounds to kill someone with a dead hit.