BF3 Patch Inbound

[H2O Yogurt]

Cross post from the members only section:
Found this (http://blogs.battlefield.com/2012/03/game-update-will-drop-on-the-27th-of-march-for-playstation-3-xbox-360-and-pc-will-come-soon/) in Battlefield's official blog and I thought the rest of the division would be interested. PC and Xbox seem to be getting theirs first (probably because the Xbox and PC have very similar coding environments) but no hard date established. PS3 hard date set for March 27th. Also, tons of notes to go through, so go crazy and read through them all. I definitely will be later. If I find more information I'll post it, but this is all I have for now. Thanks for reading and remember, stay on the Battlefield.

[Nova Rift]

FINALLY!!! I have been waiting for the actual patching for a while now. Bought time to see it being handled.

[H2O Yogurt]

It is sort of bitter sweet, on the one hand they fixing a lot of things, but I have to give up my favorite weapon.

[Nova Rift]

Frag rounds on the USAS-12? Or the MAV? :P

[H2O Yogurt]

*Looks at signature* take a guess. :P

[Nova Rift]

You can still get the kills, at the loss of your MAV haha

[H2O Yogurt]

We shall see if it is worth the sacrifice, FOR THE HORDE!

[Nova Rift]

Good call, I would have to teamkill you if you said Alliance :P

[H2O Gilly]

This update has gone live now for us xbox folk so guess we get to see how much its different (gotta admit I only skimmed the update list, it was sooooooooooooo long :P)


Its 1.02Gb btw

[H2O Spartan]

Well I read the whole list, and it is a lot....in a way yogurt you wont have to give your mav....when you destroy it by killing someone all you need is an ammo pack still and boom you have another mav....any way teh patch has some very good points, so we shall see what weapon becomes the new top dog, because with the weapon changes, the FAMAS and F2000 wont be the top guns any more....so tonite will be pretty cool

[H2O Steve]

It would be even cooler if you joined my practice Spartan. The thing I'm the most excited about is the rent-a-server thingy. This way we can have little chats and practice say flying for example without being bothered.

[H2O Gilly]

Just had a quick go on it, cant say much about the weapon changed as most of those I use have been changed very little (if at all) except for the MG36, which has more recoil (quite noticable) and has had extended mags inexplicably disappear :S The bipod seems a lot better though for deploying in the right place and not just pointing into a wall and it also deploys quicker
Suppression seems a lot more noticable on your accuracy now though

Oh, and a quick warning, after you update it'll reset your primary/secondary weapons for each class so you'll have to go back through and customize them again (equipment/specializations are fine though)

Didnt use any vehicles either so cant comment on them but they seems to be getting destroyed slightly easier, probably due to the inceased damage from javelins at different angles

The rent a server thing is done through MS points:
120 for a day
560 for a week
2000 for a month
5200 for 3 months
I think those were the prices anyway, cant quite remember, not sure on what that equates to in actual money (dunno how many points = a pound)

Sorry its a fairly brief review, not played much yet

[H2O WeegieBurd]

1000+ tickets on a metro server is just madness now especially on consoles. It's like its never gonna end.

[H2O Yogurt]

I'm going to rent a server and make it a 1000 ticket Operation Metro this weekend...

[H2O GummiBear]

I like the idea of 1000 ticket games. That means 1 game = 1 practice because it would take about 2 hours to finish a 1000 ticket game. :)

[H2O Spartan]

Ok here i go...I got about 4 hours in yesteday with the new patch:

Assault class:
All mainstream weapons have been rendered almost useless...the inital recoil has become so great that one you pull the trigger, you lose almost all target identity and you lose the gun battle, that seems not to matter for the M416 and the L85A2.

Engy's:
Most carbines are still good, teh M4A1 and G36 are still dead on and drop targets, inital recoil has increased but it is manageable... just yank down on the right thumb stick when you pull the trigger. Rockets are now pretty much useless on infantry, you have to hit them in the face just to get hit points now.

Support:
no info at this time

Recon:
No info at this time

General Kits:
PDWs: The ump and pdwr are still about the same, the p90 got an accuracy and slight power boost as long as you feather the trigger.
Pistols: G18 is no completely useless dont use it at all....al revolves had a max power increase and rate of fire increase...almost like teh 357 in black ops
Silencers: No longer steady out the weapon platforms, and can cause recoil problems now, maximum damage at distance has reduced even more

Graphics seems to have gotten a boost in general, and matchmaking has improved slightly. Ill get back to everyone on the support and recon classes...any requests fro me to check out let me know and ill get on it

[Nova Rift]

Beep Beep I am a jeep. Probably the best thing to happen to this game.

As for weapons, looks like Assaults are going to have to use the L85 just to be useful, claymores are worthless. People keep getting hit by my claymores and not dying. The RPG is supposed to be weaker but I keep getting kills on splash damage with the RPG. Equipment not persisting through death is going to make the game a little more challenging. I have bad memory and forget to replace C4 when I get killed, probably won't use that as much. Buckshot it seems have been boosted on the USAS-12 making it still the most overpowered gun, just no frag rounds. Latency issues on rentable servers. The more people in there equals more likely to stutter step. I jumped on some EU servers and NA servers from EA to see what it was like, then I jumped on the same region servers from rent-a-server and the lag was just incredible. Naturally the EU servers were worse than the NA servers but it was still basically unbearable in a full server.

That is my 2 cents on the subject.

[Grizz H2O]

I'm going to rent a server and make it a 1000 ticket Operation Metro this weekend...

You must invite me to this. I demand it!

[H2O Gilly]

Ok here i go...I got about 4 hours in yesteday with the new patch:

Assault class:
All mainstream weapons have been rendered almost useless...the inital recoil has become so great that one you pull the trigger, you lose almost all target identity and you lose the gun battle, that seems not to matter for the M416 and the L85A2.


Yeah the m416 (gun I use) got no change so its still pretty similar after the patch, if you are using it though you'll probably still notice a bit of change in it due to the attachment updates, mine has a suppressor and forgrip on and at medium range it seems noticably weaker/more inaccuare.

Not tried many of the support guns but those I have seem to have a lot of initial recoil now, it manageable in HC where you only need a few hits, but in normal mode I find that by the time Ive got someone to about half health im pretty much shooting into the sky, although I suppose I could just be terribl at aiming :P, MG36 has been destroyed imo (goodbye sweet prince) :(

Being able to quit match on the mid-game stats/unlock screen is a feature thats been long overdue though

Not tried many of the rent a servers as the first one I tried I was having a good game and then got kicked by an admin so I lost all my progress (I think). So for now I've been sticking to the DICE ones where possible

[H2O Avocade]

Well i have to say the new patch is kind of a kick to the... well.. nuts... I've played 6 games so far and the Famas is destroyed by recoil in fact almost all the weapons are that way way over exaggerated recoil I have fired the real versions of some of these guns and there is no way. Sniping is almost impossible even with a bipod my screen is all over the place and i cant seem to even hit anything... I had my shotgun directly on someone who was probably less than 4 feet away from me and fired into his back didnt even get a hit marker needless to say her turned around and killed me with a pistol before i could even get another shot off. I'm dissapointed.

I won't ***** cause a lot of these things were asked for but I'm just not personally too excited over what the game has become.

[H2O WeegieBurd]

Not tried many of the rent a servers as the first one I tried I was having a good game and then got kicked by an admin so I lost all my progress (I think). So for now I've been sticking to the DICE ones where possible

you still keep the stats, i was kicked from one last night and battlelog shows the score up to when i was booted

[H2O Gilly]

Ah right, I didnt show up on battlelog is all, I guess you only get a battle report if you finish

Also, just played a 2000 ticket conquest on metro. epic.

[H2O Spartan]

yeah how long did that last...lol

[H2O Gilly]

well I joined when the teams were down to 1400 vs 1600 tickets
And about an hour and a half or so? :P

[H2O Spartan]

good god...dude like ultimate freekin battle....dude wheres my smaw challenge now...dangit haha

[H2O WeegieBurd]

One thing I've seen with the bigger ticketed maps is bigger campers

[H2O Radar]

good god...dude like ultimate freekin battle....dude wheres my smaw challenge now...dangit haha

Yeah, seems like some of those medals/ribbons should be easier to get now

[H2O Avocade]

Officially been kicked for being too good... Admin didnt like that i kept destroying their helicopter legitimately not camping it and Killed me and then booted me