[MR_T3D]

Question: With voice chat, like mumble or teamspeak, you have to set it up before-hand and you can still only chat with other people on that channel, right? Is there any function so that you can chat with everyone on your team regardless of how they have it set up, like in 2142? Is that battlelog voice chat that sort of thing, or do you still have to set it up before?

Not really, best substitute I've found is using Teamspeak 3 and it's teamsync plugin, once you log on TS3 onto tacticalgamer's server, then you make your name your ingame one, and can join any of their BF3 servers, then join a squad and automatically be VOIP-ing with others.

[Achillion]

Not really, best substitute I've found is using Teamspeak 3 and it's teamsync plugin, once you log on TS3 onto tacticalgamer's server, then you make your name your ingame one, and can join any of their BF3 servers, then join a squad and automatically be VOIP-ing with others.

Now that sounds cool. Do most people actually use it, or do you end up talking to yourself? A lot of servers advertise TS and Vent servers but there are times when the server's full and there's no one on the voice.

[Al-Rik]

A lot of servers advertise TS and Vent servers but there are times when the server's full and there's no one on the voice.

Well, they are not on the TS of the Server, but they are on the TS of their own clan...

[Achillion]

You'd think that the clan the server belongs to would be around though Sometimes.

[Grimper]

Anyway. The multiplayer is completely awesome, if I haven't mentioned that yet. 64 players on Metro in a thousand-point assault game is incredible. The halls filled with smoke from the sheer amounts of explosions and gunfire (and smoke grenades). The server was aptly named, "Metro MeatGrinder".

Metro requires the least skill of all the maps because it's so small with so many people, you can randomly fire just about anywhere and you'll hit something, and rockets and grenades wreak havok.

Try some of the bigger maps and you'll see how good the multiplayer really is

[Achillion]

Yes, Metro is being called the CoD map by ... well elitist BF veterans because it's the least BF-like map.
I agree it's good fun, but only after you get a bit tired by the end of the day of playing large conquest maps and want to just shoot some people in the haed at close quarters.

Personally, the most fun I had in the game was right after I started getting good with helis (and then jets) and was beginning to unlock their weapons and gadgets. There's something so satisfying about winning a jet-on-jet dogfight.

[QuantumDelta]

now imagine how it feels to do that in freespace ;x

[Achillion]

I always wanted to get into Freespace (or X-Wing Alliance) multiplayer, but back when they were new it was technically impossible (regional bandwidth sucked).

These days, I feel it's hard to get into because the playerbase is so limited you have to set it up beforehand. There's no sense of being able to jump onto a server where there's 10 players and just play for a couple of hours. I will admit I haven't tried it though, not recently anyway, but I'm under the impression it's not the easiest thing to get a couple of players and play some missions online together (please tell me I'm wrong).

[Nemesis6]

Ammo bag on the hood, lace the jeep with C4, and then off I am to hunt tanks. I call it the Doom-Jeep because it brings doom, basically. 

[Achillion]

Ammo bag on the hood, lace the jeep with C4, and then off I am to hunt tanks. I call it the Doom-Jeep because it brings doom, basically. 

LOL, a guy I usually play with does this a lot. Calls is a Jihad jeep (yes, I'm aware it's not the most PC term ).
It's amazing how effective it is at taking down tanks though!

[QuantumDelta]

Depends on what time of the day you're around achilleas, if you're around during the european evening it's not entirely unlikely you'll get a game, although at the moment it's been a little quieter, chilling on HLPs IRC helps (#hard-light and #multi, mostly the former).
10 people is a bit unlikely(and uncomfortable for one game in all honesty), 4-8 is much more common ;x

[Achillion]

Good to know QuantumDelta.
I have "hang out" on #hard-light from time to time (maybe like 5 times total, not recently).

I would really love to just go through a mission (co-op style) with 3 more people. I would definitely suck at it, but multiplayer space combat is something I always wanted and never really got. It's really my fault I haven't been pursuing it since HLP is the perfect place to get it done right now (and FS2 is the perfect space combat sim)

Ok, enough off-topic discussion.

[Gortef]

Ammo bag on the hood, lace the jeep with C4, and then off I am to hunt tanks. I call it the Doom-Jeep because it brings doom, basically. 

It's also rewarding to blow those Yalla-Yalla-Jeeps up on a safe distance, the amount of points one gets from it is grinworthy.

[sigtau]

I know we're all tired of this game, but I just got it, and the single player is a huge disappointment.  Far too slow paced to match the incredibly fast-paced and oh-****-oh-****-oh-**** nature of the multiplayer mode.

Also, **** jets and their crazy effectiveness against me as an infantry unit.

[IceFire]

I know we're all tired of this game, but I just got it, and the single player is a huge disappointment.  Far too slow paced to match the incredibly fast-paced and oh-****-oh-****-oh-**** nature of the multiplayer mode.

Also, **** jets and their crazy effectiveness against me as an infantry unit.

I'm not in any way bored with BF3

How are the jets effective against infantry? I've managed to score maybe 5-8 infantry kills from jets and that was almost pure luck for most of those times. Helicopters, other jets, and tanks are the prey of the fast movers. Not infantry. Now gunships on the other hand... whole other story! Those are a pain when you're running around on the ground.

[QuantumDelta]

Tired of BF3? What?!


Also, Rocket pods, and ground spotting, and if you play noob mode it's quite easy to dick people in jets cuz you can see them on the radar and it's lulzy.

[General Battuta]

Anyone who thinks jets are effective against ground in this game never played Battlefield 2

[Achillion]

Where did the assumption that we are tired of BF3 come from?
I agree on the SP campaign. I haven't managed to finish it yet and I've finished far too many boring games to be crippled by the boredom of this one. I think with this game, if you're playing SP, you're always thinking "I COULD BE PLAYING YOU IN MP NOW. What am I doing here?"

[QuantumDelta]

Battuta; If you want the easy demonstration of how effective jets are against infantry, get in the F35 and use VTOL, after you realise just how hard you rape stuff with the guns on the jets, you will realise all you have to do is learn to aim and spot in the jets while flying properly.
The problem with that in hardcore mode is stuff doesn't appear on the radar.

Doesn't mean you can't rape tanks in a single pass with more or less anything though..

[IceFire]

Well yeah if you sit there in VTOL mode... that'll last all of the 5 seconds before a Su-35 nails you or a SOFLAM locks you up and you get hit by a stealth Javelin