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I was thinking the same thing. They could also be looking at it from the complete opposite side too. I know I used the Scar-h a bunch when the game first came out and then it got nerfed in the first patch, and I quit using it. The same with the f-2000, except this got nerfed in a later patch. So maybe for these guns, they were highly popular before dice messed with them, now they want people to re-visit these guns.

The pkp has always been a beast from my experience with it, as long as you burst fire unless they are right on top of you.

Never used bolt actions much, so can't comment on the L96. I just know it was frustrating using it on the last assignment (playing regular not hardcore). But there are some folks on here that do very well with that gun.

Oh well, maybe dice will let us know how they choose the guns sometime. We may find out that they use a tank of manatees that select ping pong balls that have the gun types on them (ala south park episode)

Alright, just finished Shawshank.

The L96 is a huge PoS. Why is DICE in love with that junk? Oh yeah, judging by their No C4, Play With Developers day, they think it's "manly" to camp it up on Brokeback with their buddies in their little Hello Kitty tents and shoot from a thousand yards away at guys that are already engaged with someone that actually knows what PTFO means and has a nutsack with a set of balls inside.

My longest headshot is 540 yards...with the tank. F#@k snipers and the "manly" guns they use.

Got hatemail for driving over 3 tank mines. It hurt my LAV badly but was good enough to bail from. Guy proceeded to ram us on the next map and I banned him. Said he was reporting me for cheating...gotta luv aholes. Probably wasn't worth getting on tonight to ptfo.

^^ Besides that, it was a really good match. It was me, Nexus, and MPH on cq bazaar. Before they joined, I was on the losing end almost down 100 tickets. When they joined we were getting closer and closer to tie the round. It was a nail bitter, both sides were down to 4 tickets each. When the round ended, I said, "did we win?" Then the screen came up as a win! Awesome game.

Yeah I wish they chose different guns this time around for assignments and I don't care the camos but I'm obsessed with the achievements/assignments so will enjoy going for them anyway

And these guns are definitely not the most used it seems almost they did the assignments on these guns because they are (were) most underused.

Im loving the ACW-R with holo, grip and heavy barrel. With this combo, this gun has little to no recoil and extremely accurate.

Well as mentioned I signed on last night and played. And now having wrapped my head around what they are wanting me to do to get three measly gun Camos and one uniform camo, I am pretty much let down. This is part of Premium? Kind of insulting a little isn't? I just think it is ridiculous of them to throw this out there and to make it as difficult as it is for one. And for two it just seems very lacking...lazy. Like I said, I'm think I should feel insulted, and I do feel that way somewhat.

The matches option is live on battlelog.

Pretty interesting as you can select to not allow certain attachments and equipment.

Heck of a review.

Was a good movie, I've seen bits and pieces on regular tv but never all the way through. The entire section with the guy with sideburns in the 60's I hadn't ever saw. Maybe where he gets shot and on but not the earlier parts. The wife was grieving me about not seeing it before now. You would have thought id have watched it by now as much movies as I see.

Bolt action rifles and knife only Squad Rush, whos with me?

A few days ago there was a few of us that got bored and did bolt action rifles only TDM, I thought it was pretty fun for a little while.

Yea, I joined up on that match. Bolt action on operation 925. Pretty fun and funny at the same time.

This set of assignments is ridiculous. 100 kills with the L96? Again? REALLY???

I'm sure someone out there is thinking, "Oh, there's Spyder...complaining again!"

100 kills with the L96 means camping on some hillside like a scared little bitch, cowardly popping enemies that are already face-to-face with someone else or actively trying to get an objective. It's not like the L96 gets you one-shot kills; perhaps if it's a headshot, but even at close range, the L96 does 80% damage for everything else, plus why limit it to just one gun? This is fun? This is what being a "Premium" player is all about? Seriously?

Maybe these assignments aren't that difficult for some of you, but for me, it's damn near impossible and certainly tedious and boring in every way. By comparison, I wonder how people would feel if Armored Kill has assignments that are equally as challenging, yet vehicle-based? Something like 100 jet kills with nothing but guns, 250 tank kills of nothing but snipers, 50 air vehicle kills with regular tank shells, etc. I could do all of these in about a day or two, but for many it would seem equally impossible. Sadly, I doubt DICE will ever go this route, since it seems like they're more interested in changing the game to a camptastic CoD experience than making challenges or DLC based for the BF vets that sets them apart from the other trash out there.

100 kills with the L96 doesn't have to involve camping. Just play metro with a red dot and play an aggressive recon. Most people on a map like this are running around with less than 100% health so headshots are not necessarily needed. Granted not everyone likes to play a bolt action, but it is possible this way. I struggle mightily with assault rifles for some reason, everybody has their weaknesses. Haven't been on much lately but hopefully can put some time in soon.

L96 is my second favorite recon gun, about 1500 kills with it. I think most of you know I play a fairly aggresive recon. Sometimes I'll sit back and go for the distance bonuses, but mostly I play fairly close to the action. My savior kills attest to the effectiveness of this tactic. I keep people alive, unless you one of those that thinks I'm "stealing" your kills. But whatev. I've gotten an MVP several times on Kharg Rush playing strictly from the carrier if we don't take the first set of mcoms. I know I know, I should have been going for the objective, but hey I paid for this game and can play the way I want to just like everyone else can!
Edited by atlienzz - 7/10/12 at 1:13pm

Spyder complaining? Never seen that before...

These assignments do seem pretty dumb especially for camos for guns that I don't plan on using much anymore. I was so relieved when I could ditch the L96 and now I have to pick it up again.

The L96 should be a one-shot kill from the "upper-chest" and higher, but what exactly is "upper-chest"? I could've sworn on a few occasions that I shot the enemy in the "upper-chest" from less than 10m away, lost the gunfight, and seen the enemy at 20% health in the kill cam. I am not a big fan of the gun, but there are worse. You can't take much I am saying during my swearing-rants at death too seriously - I get so pissed when I die that I'd say the M16 is a piece of crap gun. I had around 200 kills with the L96 before the assignments came up so I have used it a lot. With that said, that headshot distance requirement is GARBAGE!

I will agree with Atlienzz, you don't have to camp to get rifle kills, but it is not easy to run around and get kills with the bolt-actions. Equip a RDS/KOBRA/HOLO sight, straight-pull bolt, and a laser-sight and you can be still be aggressive, just don't run out onto the front lines and you'll be able to be effective. You still need to maintain some distance to keep your advantage and not die constantly, but you don't have to sit on a hill miles away taking pot-shots for headshots.

In defense of the other guns: the F2000 is a beast on Close Quarters maps (KOBRA, foregrip, laser sight), I like the SCAR-H (got the master dog tag), and I'm currently using the PKP when I run support.
Edited by jsacevedo - 7/10/12 at 2:13pm

have you ever *not* been able to kill an opfor soldier due to his weapon camo?
me neither.

L96 is pretty sweet with an 8x or 12x (depending on the map) and a bipod...


just sayin'

No one HAS to unlock the new camos. What's kind of odd/amusing is that these seem more of a chore than the last round of gun unlocks.

Spyder, if it makes you feel any better, I don't even have the L96 unlocked yet! I just finished my level 1 sniper assignment!

lol what a noob!

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match is 1 vs 1. lets rock.

can we do a defib/repair tool only one too?

My problem with the L96 is this: I'd venture that 95% of persons that use that PoS don't use it like atlienzz does. Why? Because it only does 80% damage for anything but a headshot! That's absurd. If I hit you in the neck with the damn thing, your entire head should pop completely off your body. A shot in the chest at 10 feet should drop you to your knees like a whore on cowboy payday. To me, any bolt-action sniper should kill a guy with one shot if you hit him anywhere but his pinky toe.

In BC2, I could counter-snipe with a bolt-action like nobody's business. I'd clear a whole building or mountainside of 4-6 camptastic snipers in 20-30 seconds, then switch to my pistol and grab objectives. (I have more kills with pistols in BC2 than nearly all other guns combined! ) BF3 sniping just doesn't do anything at all for me...maybe I don't know all of the good hidey holes or maybe I don't have the patience anymore. Either way, this assignment set is pretty damn uninspired, considering it's just more of the same ol' crap from the last set.

The sad part is reading other forums where guys were whining about how getting 25 MAV assists would be too hard. Really? 25 MAV assists takes about 3 minutes, tops. There were also lots of campers crying about the 25 C4 kill requirement. No wonder I always feel like it's just me fighting a brigade of tanks alone in pub matches!

I agree 100%. It's kind of a joke...

Fun games tonight w/the crew. Fortunately, most of us were able to take care of the L96 headshot.

MPH, brxtactics has 36,162 jet kills.

Well it's official. I think I have received my Jet license. Just barely though. I have been slowly, but steadily, working on getting better at them. I am by no means good, but I think I comprehend what I need to be doing now, for the most part. The last part of the test was getting banned from a server for getting a kill on another jet near the admins spawn. Apparently the guys son recorded the whole banning process with their cell phone camera, lolz, or so he told me when he invited spyder to chat and I joined off of spyder. I just a little shocked by the ban so I was curious what I did wrong, and when I joined the chat the guy would not talk to me and just kept talking over me to spyder. He never really warmed up to me as the banning was apparently still under review. Though spyder received an invitation to become an admin because he owned them in the sky. Basically what I took out of it was that I think I have finally broke through some barrier on this jet business, and now I think I'll will get better at it more quickly.

Speaking of Jets, here's a couple guys talking about that Dino mode I mentioned earlier. I didn't watch the whole video, so I don't know what all else they talked about. They did mention they think the sweet spot for Conquest is a 32 player game, and that possibly Conquest is broken for Console players as it is only a 24 player max.

I would imagine the video on the first part is a mirror image of Zath playing Rush.

Congrats, MPH! Was that the same server we were playing last night?

One issue with kicking/banning in conquest is it's impossible to really know who did the dirty deed. As an example, enemy spawns in jet. Teammate immediately goes for the spawnkill. Jet takes off, banks right, then gets killed by me at long range. From that guy's perspective, am I the one who was spawnkilling?

Yeah it was the same server.

Well I've already started those stupid assignments. It started with the L96 thing and spread from there. Can't believe I got duped into this. I may still not finish it all, but it would be hard not to probably.

BTW, the L96 is the most stubborn sniper rifle of them all. It just will not do what I want it to do. And you know what, it's doing it deliberately. It must have something against me. Even when it does do what I want it to do, it misses the damn headshot, or the shot altogether so it still wins. I've done a lot of sniping lately, and hands down this bolt action is giving me the most trouble. It just doesn't seem good at tracking the enemy. Though I may be having trouble understanding the bullet speed and lead lengths of this particular gun. They're all different, and it doesn't help that I have been using them all lately except the SV98.
Edited by mphfrom77 - 7/11/12 at 8:36am

Theres your problem =P. SV is most reliable bolt action IMO. Its probably my 2nd fav gun in the game

lol, 1v1 would be a little rough, plus I dont want to get smoked I think we could get some good games going though with some creativity

Good games last night with zath, mph, and atliens. Man i looked at those stats for that match on Firestorm and WE were the entire team. It doesnt look like we had any other help at all. Messed around in the jet for a while in that match got a couple kills. Thanks Zath for saving me multiple times from the beam scanner dude. And thanks for the tank repairs atl and mph.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/#!/bf3/battlereport/show/54419103/2/352659661/