Battlefield 3 - Page 356

you must be bored. For anyone that notices their stats are wrong you need to update your stats on the site so the leaderboards will have the accurate info. It only updates when you go to the player.

So the BF4 Beta can only be had, right now, by preordering some MOH game. If this is the only case, what would be the cheapest way to get the game just for the BF4 beta and then reselling the MOH game. And how much do you think it would come out costing me? And when would I have to do this by and who would I have to preorder through? This is not my area of expertise. Thx

Chances are you'll have to have the MOH disc in to get the beta. By the time the beta hits, the game will be selling new for $20 anyway. The point is to prevent resale, exactly what you are trying to do. There will be other ways in to the beta. Worry about it when it gets closer.

Yea unless you really want MOH don't buy it. Dice did say there were other ways to get in the beta. Let's hope it's not a drawing for a couple slots. I do plan on getting MOH and am mulling over where I want my preorder at. Probably just be Gamefly since its easy and I am no longer a Gamestopper. Preorder bonuses look like da sux to me.

How do you guys find the extras with the premium? Any of the vids or strategy stuff worthwhile?

Also, did they ever confirm that all the content is going to be MP content? Really don't want to waste my money if there's any SP.

4,507 kills: T-90

3,424 kills: Abrams

2,124 kills: USAS (NO frag, just got me suicides)

1,447 kills: MAV

1,191 kills: Hornet

973 kills: C4

932 kills: Flanker

693 kills: Mortar

685 kills: LAV-25

660 kills: M249

As you can see, only TWO actual guns made it into my Top 10!

Add up my tank, jet, and LAV kills and it's 50% of my total. I barely have any jet kills at just over 2,000, but have tons of points off disables since guys always bail on me at the last second. Unlike Nexus, I mostly just throw C4 on vehicles and don't set up traps, so my measly 973 pales to his millions. Never used Frag with USAS, since I kept commiting suicide with it. Haven't used mortar for a long time now. Love my MAV, not for the kills, but for taking half an enemy team out of the game and getting comeback victories.

Where other guys have hundreds of kills with multiple guns, I have over 50 with LESS THAN 30 each! Even the ones with 20 or more, I only used to complete the stupid assignments.

You can see why I hate, hate, hate walking. Battlefield 3 is ALL about the vehicles and equipment to me.

Oh I thought the only way to get into the bf4 beta was to "preorder" MOH. I looked at a MOH trailer and I don't seem interested.

They could just say this for you to preorder the game or they could have some code that you only get from preordering it. Like Dark said you will most likely need the disc to play. For the Ghost Recon one of the ways was through the Splinter cell game, I held on to that game for all that time just waiting. I might pick it up for the campaign then leave it on the shelf for a year for the beta

Just realized for Scar-H camo you need to destroy air vehicles with AT launchers, not the Igla or Stinger. So don't do anything stupid like me and get all excited about shooting down aircraft while NOT using the AT launcher

I was also loading up buggies with AT mines but I ended up suiciding if I jumped out of the buggy without getting the tank kill. I did this again without jumping out of the jeep and and got a suicide again with the tank kill. Is this something dice did to prevent you from ghosting tanks with AT mines and buggies (you can still do this with C4)? Havent got a chance to experiment more yet.

Edit: don't jump out of the buggy. You have to try and drive under the tank or get the tank to drive over you to trip the mines. Kinda difficult to do consistently, you may be better off just placing mines in good spots.
Edited by hsv - 7/28/12 at 5:00pm

Not ashamed to say it, I got 1 legit/lucky AT kill. The rest was me and a buddy in a game alone.

Javelins work as well. It doesn't have to be just the SMAW or RPG.

I actually didnt know that. Much easier that way, as long as you have someone to help you out.

I havent bothered to look at any of the extra vids or strategies that come with premium, so not really sure how helpful they may be. As far as I know nothing has been confirmed for the last two map packs, whether they are MP, co-op, or SP. There was a write-up about the map pack after Armored Kill but it read ambiguously to me that it could be MP or co-op, so nothing definite on that one. The article is linked a couple of pages back I believe.

Top 5 is F2000, AEK, AS VAL, M60, M16A3, all "bc2 platinum". Out of those my favorite was AS VAL pre-patch unfortunately it now sucks since people were whining that it didn't have extended mags instead of learning to use it properly (it was a super accurate stealthy weapon).

Trail -- for the AT launcher one, easiest way is to use Javelin / laser-designated combo it counts. For the mines you can either passively put down 6 mines in clusters of two at the start of the round and 'set it and forget it' and change kits or if you want to proactively do it with a jeep you can load them and make sure you're driving really fast when you 'ghost' the vehicle into a moving tank early enough for you get out and you won't suicide. It is much harder than doing it with C4, just dont miss lol


Oh yeah for anyone going for the new assignments -- focus on getting ONE of them done asap, it will then unlock "Only for the dedicated" and start counting kills towards it. Learned this the hard way after getting almost all 4 new assignments done at the same time, so will take a bit longer to get the final one.

Also question for anyone who noticed, does Only for the dedicated assignment count any kills when using a kit, or do you need to use the kit specific weapons? i.e. if I use PDW with support, will it count towards "400 support kills"?

You can use any gun with the class. Most of the recon were with the MP7.

Yes unlock one of the easy assignments firsts. I did the assault one first then when it came to the L96 those 100 kills would count towards the recon class. I learned that with the premium assignments. I worked on the sniper first only to do the sniper one again. If I remember correctly you had to use the L96 for all the kills.

I need to try the jeep with the mines. Didnt they patch the mines staying after you died?

Yes -- so if you put down up to 6 in the beginning of the round, then change kits later they will remain until some one blows them up.

So if I die and change kits they stay? I thought once you died they disappeared. I'll have to start dropping more now.

I miss the days when you could put an unlimited number of mines down... I used to whore the mine kills.

Nice tip Lowgn... always put mines down in pairs.

I'm the exact opposite. 6 mines is waaaaaaayyyyyyy too many per person. I also think it's assinine that they now allow mines to stay but not C4. It should either be both or none, preferably neither. You die, your kit should go with you, imo.

I was under the impression that it took 3 mines to destroy a tank. Is it only 2?

No argument that unlimited mines was ridiculous, but I still miss 'em. Super lame that C4, claymores magically disappear when you die.

Yeah mph, 2 mines = instant death to vehicles.

Yep, 2 mines. One strategy I use that works incredibly well is...forget it. I'm not letting any of you destroy my tank!








j/k. Instead of placing mines all over the place, put ONLY 2 right on the exact same spot. When you put out a bunch, they get spotted. 2 directly atop one another appear as a single one and are difficult to see.

I drop three about 6 feet wide... Always destroy them, rarely do I only get disables.

I have been dropping three for a while. Maybe I went that route after not getting destroys, idk exactly. I like spyder's tactic, I think I am going to try that.

Ended up getting the premium after all. The guides are about as useful as strategy guides ever are....which is to say not very.

It's all about the content though. As long as they keep it flowing, particularly the assignments, I'll be happy with it. But man, they really need to cut it out with the silly requirements on some of them. Get a kill with an EOD bot? Seriously? I'm hoping none of the armored kill ones involve getting a kill by ramming your jet into things.

EOD bot wouldnt be bad if a roadkill counted. You can try driving it around and get the kill or look for a sniper camping and drop it behind him and zap his ass.

I'll probably just end up boosting it with a friend. Trying to legitimately get repair torch and jeep kills was so frustrating. The assignments are pretty fun when they're not encouraging you to play like an idiot.

lol the torch is one of my favs. **** sometimes its more reliable than the knife.

Believe me, tank drivers all around the world rejoiced when they patched C4 remaining on the tank after the support guy was defeated. All he had to do once he was back in the game is squeeze the detonator and your tank was destroyed.

I don't see why they decided that claymores should disappear though. They should be like mines where the only way they disappear is if you replace them with new ones.

I ate one of your torches yesterday.

Top 5 guns...M16A4, M240B, M4A1, F2000, M249. Sometimes I wonder how I have so many M240B kills that thing has terrible recoil.


Wish I knew before that If you completed one assignment it would open the last. I have each class about 90% complete. I'm just finishing up the slow parts now...M26 kills, mine kills, claymore kills and MAV spotting.