As I mentioned at the end of the last post, I recently went shopping and bought Battlefield 3. This post will be recounting how badly I suck at FPSes.
Over this past weekend, My family got a brand new TV. The new 46" Screen is something that we have needed for a long time. The TV this is replacing is a good 20 or so years old. Anyways, after we set it up (by which I mean I set it up and everyone else looked like idiots) I decided that I was going to hook my computer up to it, once I had installed BF3, which I had also gotten that day. This did not happen over the weekend, because it took 2 hours for the game to install, 2 hours for it to download and install updates, and then about 4 hours for it to download and install the expansion packs. In short, bye-bye weekend.
The first day that I could play, I spent a long time looking at all the available weapons, wondering where the medic kit went, and being awed by the leveling system. I did not spend much time playing, but a good summary would be that I sucked at it. I might have gotten one or two kills. Probably around 20-30 deaths. And its not entirely my fault! I was trying to use a rocket launcher on somebody's tanks, but later realized that it was and anti-air one. So basically I stood scoped near a tank trying to fire until it ran me over. Then, after rage quitting, I hooked it up to the TV. It looks amazing, and I rally want to take the new TV and the rest of the family can use the crappy old one...
Next day was only vehicles, by accident. I have no idea how to fly in BF3, so that accounts for some of my deaths. Who was the idiot that put a building at the end of the runway anyways? I pulled off a few kills from tank wars and about two from shooting tanks with the RPG. I get a couple that are my favorite kind, where I drive around in a go-cart really fast and run into people. I got about one kill-assist from infantry combat, and thats it.
And two days ago, I actually started doing... only badly. I found a only-infantry server, and actually managed to get a few kills. In the process I discovered some useful things, such as the scope, and the melee key (which I can't do anything with, cause I'm generally too surprised: HEY! Whas this guys doin behind this crate! OW! I should knife him. OW! wheres the knife key? OW! right, its f, right next to g for grenade. OW! damn! death number 147.682). I also stopped trying to use a shotgun all the time, instead converting my engineer to use a scar-something carbine-I-think. I managed to actually do well, but then for some reason the server was changed and some ass got a tank. Game over, never got another kill. Had some fun with shooting up a building tho.
Yesterday I found another inf server, and finally got to start practicing with the SCAR. As it turns out, you unlock weapon accessories as you get more kills with a single gun. So now my SCAR has a red-dot sight (the worst sight that is actually a sight) and a laser pointer duct-taped to the bottom. However, these must have a huge benefit, because I got my first 2-kill streak ever! I think I actually got two or three double kills in total. Now I just need to unlock a weapon that is actually somewhat accurate, and I can start racking up them point thingys. I am disappointed in the grenades, because they don't do anything, and I have never gotten a single kill with one. They are apparently for suppression purposes only.
Suppression is a new thing in BF3, and I think it might not be in any other games. It is very annoying if you are bad, and useful if you are good. Which means I hate it. Basically it is supposed to simulate the effects of being scared shitless by bullets whizzing around your head. It means that the screen goes all fuzzy when you are charging down a hill towards a group of enemies in a foolish suicide rush. Fuzzy screen= can't tell what you are shooting at, so the other guys blast you to smithereens while you murder a bush. I got a really good taste of this while laying on a roof. The roof has little walls all around it, and I was hiding under one. Then a sniper starts blasting over my head. I don't get hit, but I cannot see anything at all. Then someone else pulls out a rpg and my hiding spot is not amongst rubble on the street. In conclusion, don't hide on rooftops with no ammo.
Yesterday I found another inf server, and finally got to start practicing with the SCAR. As it turns out, you unlock weapon accessories as you get more kills with a single gun. So now my SCAR has a red-dot sight (the worst sight that is actually a sight) and a laser pointer duct-taped to the bottom. However, these must have a huge benefit, because I got my first 2-kill streak ever! I think I actually got two or three double kills in total. Now I just need to unlock a weapon that is actually somewhat accurate, and I can start racking up them point thingys. I am disappointed in the grenades, because they don't do anything, and I have never gotten a single kill with one. They are apparently for suppression purposes only.
Suppression is a new thing in BF3, and I think it might not be in any other games. It is very annoying if you are bad, and useful if you are good. Which means I hate it. Basically it is supposed to simulate the effects of being scared shitless by bullets whizzing around your head. It means that the screen goes all fuzzy when you are charging down a hill towards a group of enemies in a foolish suicide rush. Fuzzy screen= can't tell what you are shooting at, so the other guys blast you to smithereens while you murder a bush. I got a really good taste of this while laying on a roof. The roof has little walls all around it, and I was hiding under one. Then a sniper starts blasting over my head. I don't get hit, but I cannot see anything at all. Then someone else pulls out a rpg and my hiding spot is not amongst rubble on the street. In conclusion, don't hide on rooftops with no ammo.
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