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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 11:19AM dennisb407 said

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Is this mainly a PC or console problem or both?

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:16PM xiLeShadow said

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@dennisb407

Both. However the PC is getting most of the media's attention because hackers found ways to use Punkbuster to their advantage.

I haven't seen many hackers on PC but I mainly play on Trusted Servers. Server admins take care of most of the problems on there.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 3:25PM Turk3y said

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@dennisb407 first thing they could would be explain in their hack / glitch thread how to report the users rather than just claiming you cant name and shame players in the thread... how do they expect community help if they don't make it obvious how to do it....
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 6:26PM Godslegion said

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@Turk3y

Usually because some weenies think skilled players are cheaters so they report them.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 9:10PM Traptz said

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@Godslegion
Well that's where Battlelog comes in. Hit %'s, ratios and other stats point out cheaters as if they had "I AM A CHEATER" written on their profile page.

Also I think we should stop calling these cheaters, HACKERS. They're not hackers, they're juvenile idiots that pay for cheats and do nothing but turn it on.

So, don't give them the benefit of calling them hackers. They're not cool enough for that :)
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 9:54PM Godslegion said

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@Traptz

True, but the weenies refuse to look up stats and tend to make excuses to how you are cheating so bad when you tell them to look up everything.

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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 11:23AM Al Capwn said

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Sign me up!

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 11:26AM (Unverified) said

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It's getting to be a pretty big PC issue.

Finally glad they are stepping up to address this. It's infuriating to be playing and then insta killed by an ammo box of all things.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:23PM SamuelK said

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@(Unverified)

I like how you claimed that the tactic was realistic, and then in the same post, mentioned how it's not actually done in reality.

Unlike in BF3, aircraft carriers are manned by hundreds or thousands of people, and have more defenses than a couple of rarely used Vulcans.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:44PM SamuelK said

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@SamuelK

Oops...sorry, that reply was meant for JasonA.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:06PM JasonA said

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Hovering around an aircraft carrier spawn point in a helicopter and killing enemies is legitimate and in fact realistic.

If in a real war, enemies were being brought in by way of an aircraft carrier and you could get your helicopter over there to kill incoming troops, you probably would do that.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:18PM Bryan T said

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@JasonA

I agree,

but if this were a real war you would think after this happened once or twice the army this is happening to would do something different and try a different approach.

Players in the game don't have that ....(advantage?)...
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:20PM 8bitartist said

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@JasonA i know when i was over in iraq, i was trying to capture flags. my one buddy got shot and died, but luckily i defibbed him back to life.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:22PM Vidikron said

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@JasonA

The fact you're talking about a "spawn point" means it's not the same situation at all.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:24PM Gronar said

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@JasonA and in a real war the aircraft carriers anti aircraft weapons system's would destroy that pesky helicopter and go about it's own business, launching it's planes with impunity.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:48PM Negatron said

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@JasonA

As Groanar said, a "real" aircraft carrier of today has more ordinance and anti everything then one could imagine. Any unauthorized aircraft would most likely be on a suicide mission to attempt an attack.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 2:23PM Doctalen said

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@JasonA why do people think BF3 is a war simulator? The only semi-realistic thing about it is the bullet drop and even that isn't right. If it was a war simulator you would not be able to walk after being shot in the knee.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 7:17PM Cletus VanDamme said

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@JasonA

I love how camping douchebags always trumpet the fact that camping is realistic. Sure, it's realistic but it's a video game. Just about everything else is UNREALISTIC. Just own the fact that you're a camping douchebag who has no respect for other players' enjoyment of the game and call it a day.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 7:19PM Cletus VanDamme said

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@8bitartist

Thank you. Really dude. THANK YOU.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:07PM arrrgh said

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Now if only they could fix the 2 clips of ammo it takes to drop someone... feels more like Gears than Battlefield sometimes.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:09PM arrrgh said

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@arrrgh

*2 magazines...
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:19PM 8bitartist said

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@arrrgh your aim sucks
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 1:02PM Negatron said

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@arrrgh

Hmm this problem happens often.

Troubleshoot: First, wipe off your glasses with lens cleaner, then open the disc tray. You may see the words Black or Modern on the disc.

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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 3:06PM arrrgh said

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@Negatron

OR

How about some hardcore servers? Even DICE knows the damage system is incredibly forgiving. Which is the reason this and BC2 before it have a hardcore mode..

Unfortunately I can't find any servers with hardcore playlists.

But yeah, go ahead and rag on me because you don't agree. That's cool too.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 3:30PM MrClickerson said

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@arrrgh

They really need to fix whatever is causing the frame rate and lag issues (on the PC). This game was golden when it first came out up until a few weeks ago (maybe December, I hadn't played it for a while until a few weeks ago). I've been having frame rate issues I never had before, and have been getting the same old BS I have in some other games that have been updated to the point of garbage. Getting killed 3 full seconds after having retreated around a corner (no way to shoot me), getting the jump on someone (ie: they run past me, back turned), and I have about 5 perfect shots on them before they even begin to turn around and then kill me in a split second before any shot is fired, then after I'm dead, on the ground their bullets are ricocheting off the ground/walls around me.

Apparently I'm not the only one having these issues so suddenly, and I've checked my end- its all good. Fawking pisses me off.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:14PM 8bitartist said

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just make it so the air vehicles cant be destroyed by the other air vehicles until they take off and even then they have some time of invulnerability in the air. that will stop the spawn camping instantly.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:15PM eat it said

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I've never had a problem with this. I'm always busy running around taking positions. the maps are so big that there could be 5 people engaged in a shootout/cheat fest on one end while me and 8 other guys are actually playing conquest.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:20PM Giovanni117 said

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Shoot down the helicopter?
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:20PM (Unverified) said

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Boy, that's great and all. But it doesn't do me any good since 4 out of every 5 games ends in "lost connection to the session".

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:22PM (Unverified) said

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Boy that's great and all but it does me no good since 4 of every 5 games ends with "lost connection to the session." How about fixing THAT, EA?

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 2:02PM PeterPanana said

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@(Unverified)
This happens to me all the time when playing Rush but very seldom happens when playing Conquest. It's super annoying!
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 2:38PM 8bitartist said

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@(Unverified) since you double posted, im going to say its your internet and nothing to do with their servers. ;)
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 7:23PM Cletus VanDamme said

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@8bitartist

Well played sir. Very well played.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:22PM SmokemeaKipper said

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Name a multiplayer game with out cheaters? The only confirmed cheat I've run into in BF3 was an aimbot on an EODbot of all things. The scum had 117 kills.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:35PM (Unverified) said

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The helicopter spawn camping opposing air vehicles wouldn't be an issue if more people would actually use anti-air missiles, SOFLAM, or the CITV rather than refusing to switch off the RPG/SMAW.

On maps like Kharg Island, Caspian Border, and Operation Firestorm there are just as many opposing air vehicles as tanks. Players are way too hesitant in switching to an anti-air weapon. If you can barely get out of the spawn to use the RPG on a tank or jeep, why not switch to the IGLA and take care of the camping problem?

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 1:24PM BanMeAgain said

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yeah im usually that guy. I love my IGLA.
You would think with as many snipers there are, some would be smart enough to throw down a SOFLAM once in a while?
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 1:29PM Jimmyjames said

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@(Unverified) It's still a problem if the Helicopter has the anti-missle lock perk.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 2:28PM kevin949 said

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@(Unverified)

Its aggravating when I do take soflam that there is no one to take advantage of it. Hell, half the time my team doesn't even realize I put down a t-ugs.
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Posted: Feb 1st 2012 12:25PM BanMeAgain said

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@Lucky48
yeah if you are sporting a javelin and someone has a target painted, it lights up with the red box.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:38PM The Kimchi Kid said

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The only thing I really want is for people to stop riding the stupid MAVs into unreachable locations...

Also it isn't a cheat but that USAS-12 with frag rounds needs to be nerfed. Now.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 1:45PM Joeybeast said

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@The Kimchi Kid

What you just said is like music to my ear.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 2:20PM Nobledevil Gaming Optimist said

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I actually quit games if my team started doing that garbage. I want to have fun and be challenged, win or lose, not follow my a-hole squad mates to a spawn area.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 3:54PM Marco le Polo said

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@The Kimchi Kid

It's going to be nerfed. DICE already released their change log of the upcoming patch.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 4:04PM The Kimchi Kid said

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@Nobledevil Gaming Optimist Yep...that's what me and the guys I always play with (because you can't trust random people on Battlefield to give you ammo when you actually need it no matter how many times your character screams I need ammo with an ammo sign over his head) refuse to use the USAS-12 at all. It's really nice to always beat a team of people only using those weapons too...
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:56PM Dizazter said

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LOL legal adults....riiight. There's definitely no 11-17 year olds playing BF3 and acting like total FTards. Definitely not...

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 1:07PM Negatron said

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@Dizazter

For writing sake, we can assume that the younger crowd would or could be included into the mix of legal adults. But that would be another sentence added for no reason.

Disaster has no Z's in it. :p
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 1:35PM Dizazter said

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@Negatron

How's the trolling going?

Well the statement seemed be highlighting legal adults as the source of the problem, and I'd tend to dispute that, although more so on consoles.

(Dizazter is a name, so it can be spelled any way I want, btw, try getting "Disaster" as an ID just about anywhere, and see how much luck you have)
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 7:29PM Cletus VanDamme said

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@Dizazter

Legal adults? As opposed to an illegal adult? Does this game have something against Mexicans or something? Or do you just suck with English?
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Posted: Jan 30th 2012 12:59PM roromx said

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The helicopter spawn camping is not cheating, but its really annoying, thats why I stopped playing BFBC2 and thats why I didnt buy Battlefield 3.

The game is designed like that, also happened in maps without the helicopter, one team waiting in the spawn point to kill everyone.

And they can fix it, but they wont, they think their spawning system is flawless.

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 1:25PM BanMeAgain said

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@roromx
There's a fix for that : Train harder.
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