Battlefield 3 Title Update Rolls In

Battlefield 3 Title Update Rolls In

Who needs a mini-map anyway?

Written by KeithBGray on 11 October 12 at 19:10 | Credit to Hustlinonradio

A new title update has arrived today for Battlefield 3. Highlights among the fixes include changes to make gunships in the "Armored Kill" DLC more balanced and the option to disable the mini-map in Hardcore mode. The full list of updates is detailed below:

Gunship balance tweak in Rush mode
The Armored Kill gunship received major tweaks already in the last server update. We are now further tweaking it based on community feedback. It now only respawns after the attackers have destroyed an M-COM in Rush.

Rationale: The gunship has been a bit overpowered and spawning too fast in Rush, especially on servers running modified vehicle spawn times. This tweak makes the gunship only spawn for the attackers after each crate, except the initial spawn on round start. In effect, this means that after the gunship is destroyed, a new M-COM needs to be destroyed before the gunship can respawn at all.

Gunship balance tweak in Conquest mode
The gunship will always have a 60 second spawn delay in Conquest no matter the server spawn delay setting.

Rationale: The gunship has been spawning too fast on servers running modified vehicle spawn times, making it hard to regain control of the flag controlling the gunship. This tweak will make the gunship spawn every 60 seconds independent of server settings.

Option to remove minimap in Hardcore mode
We now allow disabling the minimap in Hardcore mode.

Rationale: It’s been a requested feature from the community to be able to remove the minimap in hardcore mode. We are now adding a new preset on consoles for server admins to use called “Hardcore no map” which disables the minimap and keeps the rest of the Hardcore settings intact. On PC, you disable the minimap with the server command “vars.minimap false” that is now permitted on Hardcore servers. Enjoy!

Improved server stability
Improved connectivity between game servers and the back end, significantly reducing the number of times a server times out and kicks players.

Knife takedown fix
Fixed so that there can be multiple knife kills at the same time on a server.

Rationale: We had a bug where only one knife takedown could take place at any one time on one server. If you attempted a knife takedown at the exact same time as someone else on the server, the takedown animation wouldn’t play, and your opponent wouldn’t take any damage. This has now been fixed.

MVP Premium member score fix
Fixed so that MVP and best team is calculated using normalized score (removing the advantage Premium members sometimes received in obtaining these ribbons)

Rationale: Earlier, Premium members would get an inflated chance of becoming MVP/best team during Premium exclusive double XP events, since these ribbons were calculated based on total score. Using base values all across the board now removes this artificial advantage.

Kill list fix
Fixed the bug where a kill was listed as a vehicle kill when the player actually killed someone with a mine or similar weapon. Another example where this would occur was if you fired a Javelin, then entered a vehicle before the Javelin hit its target.

Radio beacon exploit fix
Fixed the radio beacon exploit where you could place it above the roof and then spawn on it to access areas that are not meant to be accessible. This glitch was reported on Operation Métro and has been removed.

Ladder/vehicle entry fix
Fixed so that players can no longer enter vehicles while climbing a ladder.

Crash fix
Fixed a rare potential crash issue when loading a new map
You can try out the aforementioned gunship balancing fix for yourself, by downloading the "Armored Kill" expansion, which was made available to everyone a couple of weeks ago.
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AHGreg
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:13
Ah yes I was experiencing some of there problems. Good to see they noticed others were too.
LeggatMeow
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:18
"Fixed the bug where a kill was listed as a vehicle kill when the player actually killed someone with a mine or similar weapon. Another example where this would occur was if you fired a Javelin, then entered a vehicle before the Javelin hit its target"

That was the easiest way to get a kill for the Skid loader cheevo and a couple of others.
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:19
Not sure why they needed a "rationale" to fix that knife takedown bug; I mean, it clearly wasn't intentional laugh
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Tank Force UK
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Nooooooooo I can't take another 2G update ! With everything installed I've got over 20G on this game D:
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:21
God, another fuckin' update? I'm already 2 updates behind which basically means they're going to suck up another 3GB with all their damn updates.
BkLiveWire
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:34
You don't download this update since its a server update.
Co0L PitBull
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:35
an auto-update when you start the game or can it be found on the marketplace addons section? because nothing is in there :P probably rolls in tomorrow ..
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:41
I love how many updates they do, they do really care about their customers. Aside from it being EA, its great to see how much time and effort they still put in.
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:42
Why don't you fix your god damn lock on weapons and give flares back to heli gunner? The last update completely ruined air combat, fuckin iglas and stingers are gods weapon now, being able to lock on across the map so no talent CoD players can take down air vehicles. This wouldn't be as bad if the fuckin counter measures actually worked every time, but that doesn't happen, more like 30% of the time they work. It's a fuckin joke, when a god damn ground soldier is more powerful thank a tank or heli team, there's something wrong. One man can take a heli down with igla, and that's a huge load of shit. When did this game turn into CoD? I used to play this because it wasn't. Now EA and DICE have ruined that, making the game so it takes no skill to play, just to make the CoD bitchs happy.
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:44
LESS VEHICLES ON MAPS!
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 19:48
Great fixes. Especially the knife one!!
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Beachem said:Great fixes. Especially the knife one!!So that's why all my attempts were failing.

No hang on. I'm crap at it.
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"Take it apart, make it better"
^ this
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 20:39
Anything to fix the hosts of the servers acting like little children making lists of things people cant use them using it themselves?
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I still want to know why my server keeps randomly going to 16 max players when it's a 24 player server... I don't use any 16 player maps and it happens when I log for the night.
imaidiot19
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 21:05
Now if they could only Nerf the Jets...something they have never done (as they still can ram helos, have too many flares, and are too powerful in the hands of an experienced pilot)...while the helicopter gets constant nerfing...
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 21:09, Edited on 11 October 12 at 21:10 by sirbradenwalker
lmsd944 said:Anything to fix the hosts of the servers acting like little children making lists of things people cant use them using it themselves?Find a couple servers you like and stick with them.


OT: Another update? I had to stop playing this because it's taking up too much hard drive space. facepalm

Have to buy another 250gb hard drive if I ever want to finish it. laugh
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 21:20
Knifing fixed finally!
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Posted on 11 October 12 at 21:27
Good to see they're still fixing things, I've stopped playing BF3 after I completed the game and the first DLC pack. Online was so much fun, however there were other games demanding my attention. I can't wait to pick up premium and sink my teeth into the online content again! Keep rolling on with the improvements!