LibertyForAll

Does spotting from vehicles even work? I have tried so many times without success that I assumed spotting from within vehicles was broken or not allowed. Maybe it's just hard to get the turret in the right place.

I like the thermal imaging perk quite a bit. It will really pop out any nearby mines and infantry. And guided missle will be your best friend if people are soflamming. Espcially against aircraft which tend to be one of the major threats to your existence. You can switch seats very quickly with f1 and f2, hop into the gunner seat if you're by yourself and infantry are threatening or to try to scare off a heli...

don't backup and run over your own engineer repairing you on harcore lol

yeah I need jet tips too. I unlocked all the tanks stuff pretty quickly, but only have 18 jet points because I got a kill assist once....

I usually play games to have fun rather than win. Wins are just gravy. If it's all about winning (which to me seems to be more a problem with the community like you are complaining about) then switch to the dominant team like all the other stat whores. I have no qualms about being near the top of the leaderboard of the losing team. I think that shows more integrity and skill than the "I'm good therefore I should be winning attitude" or getting a bunch points by being on a stacked team against a bunch of noobs. Overcoming hard odds just makes the wins all that much more sweeter and I think you learn a lot more devious tricks (as you die to them of course) that way. If you're not having fun then play something else.

I think back and forth nature probably has more to do with the pub players. It seems like everyone is running around trying to capture flags and almost no-one defends. The difficult strategic concepts of "own the flag nearest your spawn first" or "own a contiguous stretch of flags so you're not fighting a 360 degree battle" seem lost on a lot of people.

This sounds similar to some of the balance threads. I think there is always going to be a narcistic a-hole element to FPS. There are also a lot of COD deathmatch spawn rapers that come to battlefield not understanding there can be a lot more to FPS games. It may be more the case of the more mature people just shutting up and playing, I dunno. I pretty much stopped complaining about balance because nothing is going to happen until they do create some kind of autobalance. Nowadays as long as I'm making it out of spawn without being shot or confronted by a vehicle then I consider it a balanced server and concentrate on incremental improvements in my own performance. People who always have to switch to the winning team so they can have a positive match record will be losers skillwise in the end.

Was on the receiving team end of someone going 70-2 in it on that map in that area ..before the "nerf"
I think they changed it from .2 sec death to .3 sec death ....so 50% nerf I guess!!!
I can understand AA being devasting to infantry, but then what I don't understand is why do the tank machine guns seem take the same or more hits to kill an infantry than the regular infantry machine guns do.

"Its not that many matches." I played 15 matches last night without a single win. It was painful. First of all it's hard to even get in squad/team that even has a fair (=) number of players, nevermind with some other people that are decent. I wasn't even doing bad (kdr>1) It's just that there is always some other squad slaying people way faster. I went to an empty server to try to learn the maps a little better and thinking maybe I had a better chance on a server with just a few people, then all of a sudden there's 3 clans battling on the server and again I'm in a squad by myself... Then I realized that I think you have to get all the first five assignments before doing that so it was all moot anyway. My fear is that I'll eventually get them and then they'll change the requirement like what happened with the co-op unlocks.

I always feel like I don't know what to do strategy-wise in deathmatch modes (if there even is any strategy involved). I have minimal incentive to move because the other team is either going to be camping or spawning behind me. I get enough of that in regular modes... Mostly just have to treat it as twitch practice I guess.

I like the maps, but not loving the conquest assault game mode yet. Maybe I just need to more time to learn it...

In my battlelog server browser (PC) I have checkbox for bf3 and another one for back to karkand game types... It may show somewhere else too, but not sure.

In the patch before the most recent one, I noticed that the turret left/right key binds when you are in a tank were changed to move to turret extremely slowly. The speed when moving the turret with your mouse did not change. Previously, the turret left/right keys moved at close to your mouse speed, now it just CRAWLS around. In the past I used these two keys to quickly move the turret about 90 degrees as I scan the area and only used the mouse for finer tuned aiming. Now I find myself doing these big exaggerated mouse movements and picking up my mouse sometimes just to get the turret moved any kind of distance. A quick web search shows at least someone else noticed this, but maybe someone here knows a fix?