re: PS3 Battlefield 3 Patch 1.04 is Live

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Seems like tank and helicopter positioning, along with evasive maneuvers, will be paramount for success.

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This is the case now.

While some feel it's punishing skilled players, I feel it's forcing you to be more aware of what's going on. You have to make good decisions, you can't just go balls-out and force your way through the map. I like the results and think the game will be extremely balanced going forward.

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Maybe I'm old school but I still get a thrill from unlocking shite via scoring points. Gives me something to work towards, ya know?

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I'm the same way.

Some of my favorie patches:

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Fixed a problem when locking on to two nearby targets, the locking should no longer jump rapidly between multiple targets. This applies to all locking weapons and Laser Designators.

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Slightly reduced the locking time of all weapons vs Laser Designated targets.

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Flares will no longer break the lock of a vehicle that is locked on, it will only distract the missiles.

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Not so favorite:

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# Increased the power of explosions from cars and other explosive static objects. # Dying from the explosion of a car or other explosive static object should now correctly credit the player who caused the explosion.

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And that's just vehicles/gameplay. I havent even made it halfway though the weapon fixes yet

You should have found a hardcore server so I could have blown you up. I think I hit you a few times when I was in the jet. I may give them a go again.

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They should put a dollar sign icon over the dude's head for whoever buys the shortcuts.

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This is completely unrelated to what you said but it made me think of Homefront. I liked how in HF when one player was doing really well the game would put a "bounty" on him.

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Flying in empty servers is extremely boring but if you need to practice, it is nice to have a place to do that

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Hurts your stats, and it won't really help you with actual combat flying, but it helped me just get comfortable with the chopper controls.

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We all pretty much sucked when we started but we all got better.

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we all also started out on a level playing field. now damn near everyone has half the shite unlocked (and many have it all unlocked) for all vehicles.

i have just recently unlocked stealth for jets... that is like the 3rd unlock. as a noob jet pilot with limited jet skills, it is hard as frick to fly against skilled pilots especially if they have all the shite unlocked and know how to use it

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Hurts your stats

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I am not sure this is the case on consoles because the game never starts. it shows "Waiting for 'X' Players" the whole time you are playing. You can cap flags or arm/disarm mcoms but you get no points for it. you can kill players and die but you get no points and no kills or deaths show up on the scoreboard

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as a noob jet pilot with limited jet skills, it is hard as frick to fly against skilled pilots especially if they have all the shite unlocked and know how to use it

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all part of the growing pains. I'm not just talking about jets, they really fricked up the tanks.

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With PC, if you don't have enough players, you can't go anywhere.

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that is how it was before with us as well

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For about 15 or 20 seconds pre-round,

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speaking of pre-round, now as soon as the map is finished loading and you able to spawn the game starts... i wish there was like a 5-10 second waiting period