Battlefield 3 guide play at the top, play to win. Losing sucks, that simple fact has driven me to become one of the best Battlefield players in the world. You’re in luck because I’m willing to share the tricks I’ve used to get there. The tactics and tricks I use will make your opponents rage. It’s funny and satisfying to see what people say when they feel helpless against your strategy. Click Click here to see the noob rage.

Become the Player Noobs Fear

Being killed over and over isn’t fun. However, being the one doing the killing over and over is incredibly fun! You can walk around with the confidence that some one must get lucky to kill you.  All it takes is some proven Battlefield strategy.

Be Memorable

Become one of the players people remember. People don’t add average players to their friends list. When I see someone take care of business and destroy the other team I want to play with them again. Becoming a destroyer is a learned skill.

Bend Players to Your Will

Decent players get kills. Great players force people to make mistakes and get tons of kills. You need to know the common mistakes so you can avoid them. At the same time you’ll know when other people are making mistakes and be able to capitalize.

Get Stats You Can be Proud of

People who are extremely good at this game aren’t using magic. They’re using a system of tricks and strategies to their advantage. You can waste hundreds of hours trying to learn these. Alternatively you could get them right here and spend hundreds of hours destroying instead.

Be Better Then People Around You

There is a clear line between good players and bad players. To become a good player will take a long time on your own. Every thing you need to know is right here. I’ve taken years of championship knowledge and condensed it into a single guide.

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Be Smarter Than the Dummies

So many people make terrible choices in BF3. All kits are not made equally. You need to know what kits are actually good. Ontop of that you need to know what guns and attachments to use. I see so many people handicap themselves by using bad kits and terrible guns. If you want to level fast you have to use the good equipment.

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BF3 Gameplay Tips – Medic

The biggest Battlefield 3 medic mistake I see is missed revives. If you’re going to play medic you have to get revives. There are many times when team mates will use good cover and get killed. These peoples bodies usually end up in safe place for reviving. Medics need to keep an eye out for the revive symbol.

Once the revive icon is spotted it’s rez time. Keep in mind you don’t need to be right on top of someone. Shock paddles have a little bit of range. When possible use this range to stay out of fire while reviving.

Being on the move is an important part of BF3, especially when you’re getting shot at. Med kits are stationary but there’s a way to get health on the move. While sprinting look up slightly and jump. When you get to the peak of your jump throw out a med kit. This will launch it through the air and heal you along the way. At full sprint this will heal you for 20-30% health depending on how good you get at it.

BF3 Gameplay Tips – Combat

Knowing how to use weapons correctly is not something many BF3 players do. Make sure you don’t get caught in a spot where it’s impossible to pull your gun out. There are two actions that will cause you to be completely defenseless. Sprint is one, the other is Prone. Avoid these actions whenever possible.

Staying away from prone is easy. The only time I use it is in a last ditch effort to take cover behind short objects. Keeping away from sprint is much trickier. You can’t just not sprint, the maps are too big. Instead don’t sprint around on objectives. Bomb sites and flags are no sprint zones. Keep an eye on the minimap, team mates can spot enemies. Red on the map means stop sprinting.

Use your grenades. After every death you respawn with another nade. Don’t die with that grenade in your inventory. Use it as soon as possible. My favorite use for nades is cover and probing popular spots. If I’m rocking it alone I’ll throw a nade down in one area so I can focus on another. Enemies have a tendency to become screamers when a nade lands within 4-5 meters of them. Use this to your advantage!

BF3 Gameplay Tips – Prefire

Prefire means shooting someone before you see them. Getting good at prefiring takes time and practice. Map knowledge plays a large role. You need to know the common spots. Another factor is predicting your opponent. I assume that my opponent will play in the most advantageous spot. Frefiring that spot means you will either get an easy kill or get to fight an opponent in an inferior spot.

Suppression ruins many gunfights in BF3. It’s common to burn through a whole clip and not be able to get the finish. Naturally you must take cover reload, and wait for suppression to wear off. You now know exactly where your opponent is and are in perfect position to prefire.

When prefiring don’t worry about head shots too much especially when you first start out. Center mass is easier to hit which helps when you aren’t really aiming at a specific target. Even if you don’t hit the first shot or two the suppression will prevent the enemy from getting accurate shots.

BF3 Gameplay Tips – Choose Your Spawn

Choosing your spawn is a skill unto itself. Your entry point into the battle directly effects how successful you’ll be. Make sure you’re in a squad. It’s not always best to spawn on squad mates but more options won’t hurt. Provided you aren’t capped out you will have 3 choices for spawns.

Main Base
Flag
Squad Mate

Most times flag spawning is your best option. It’s close enough to the battle so you aren’t wasting time. Yet far enough away from the front line that you can enter with bearings on enemy positions. Main base spawns are good for when your team is losing ground. If your front flag is under siege it becomes a dangerous spawn. Better to spawn at the main and try to clear the contested flag with good angles.

My biggest problem with spawning on squad mates is being dropped in the middle of a fight with very little information. Spawning in on a buddy just to die instantly is a waste of time and tickets. However if one of your squad mates can make it through enemy lines during a stalemate spawning on them becomes a much better prospect. Use squad spawns sparingly.

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BF3 Minimap

Information is everything, and nothing yields more than your minimap. If an enemy fires with no suppressor they show up as a red arrow. When guarding flags keep an eye out for a flashing square on your map. The flashing is caused by enemies entering the flag radius. Knowing they are somewhere in radius will give you a slight reaction time advantage. One of the most overlooked uses for the minimap is keeping track of team mates. Getting too grouped up makes you a prime target for mortar strikes and grenades. If there are too many people in one area try to flank.

BF3 vehicles

Clearly vehicles have a large role in bf3. As infantry many of your decisions will be made based on how to best deal with them. The best way to safely get information on enemy vehicles is through spotting. Find an area with good cover, quickly peek out and hit your spot key then fall back. This highlights the tank your minimap. For 15 seconds you will be able to keep track of the tanks movement without being in its line of fire. Usually your best bet is to evade. If you play engineer its a different story. When hunting tanks take them from behind. Not only is it an area most don’t pay attention too, but it’s also the tanks weak point. One well placed rocket from behind disables a tank.

BF3 Map Knowledge

One of the best BF3 tips I can give you is to become familiar with its maps. The fastest route to an objective will always be the most traveled. Typically it will also have the most resistance. The best way to avoid a stalemate is to flank. Take an alternate route around the main action and either kill them from behind or go for the back flag. This is a great way to break down enemy defense and only takes 1 or 2 guys. Whenever you spawn at a flag or bombsite make a mental note of exactly the spot you come in on. You will need to keep an eye on these spots when graying out those flags later.

BF3 Ticket Bleed

Battlefield conquest mode is all about ticket bleed. Holding more flags than your opponents will cause their tickets to decrease. Because of this gambling with your tickets by throwing yourself at a flag can be worth it. Burning off 10-20 tickets is completely worth it if you can take the flag and hold it. You will be able to make up for those tickets with bleed in minutes. Anything to secure ticket bleed is worth it.

Health/Ammo

Dealing with health and ammo can suck. You rely on teammates with little to no higher brain function for both. Health isn’t too bad, since you slowly regenerate after 15 seconds. Ammo on the other hand is complete crap. The only way to get ammo is through support assholes who are ALWAYS blind as shit. If you aim at a support player and press your spot button it requests ammo, of course they will never see or hear it. To show them the light I suggest using sidearm equipped with a flashlight that’s so bright it probably causes skin cancer.

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Gaming Communities
Clans
Teams

Most people playing Battlefield 3 have no affiliations. Playing by yourself can be frustrating. Battlefield 3 is a team oriented game. Playing with an organized group of people adds a whole new layer to the game. It’s a lot of fun even if your just rolling noobs on public servers.

Gaming Communities

Over the last few years gaming communities have become popular. The difference between a BF3 community and a battlefield 3 clan is size and attitude. Communities tend to be large usually 20-100 people, sometimes even more. They tend to be very lax when it comes to recruiting. If you want to get into competitive BF3 this would be an easy entry point.

They tend not to be super serious when it comes to competition. More than anything they like to play in a semi organized manner and use voice communication. I see communities on leagues and ladders all the time. They normally do okay and tend to have good attitudes when they lose. If you’re a casual player that enjoys teamwork and organization this is where I would look.

Battlefield 3 Clan

Clans are a step up from communities. they tend to be smaller and more organized with rosters of 5-20 people. I started out in a clan many years ago. Like most other clans ours started out with a small group of 5 friends. We recruited players from public servers to fill out an 8vs8 roster. Clans are slightly more selective than communities when it comes to recruiting.

Communities will let just about anyone in who’s mature and isn’t cheating. Clans want to be more competitive. They typically require players to pass a try out. Individual skill isn’t a big sticking point for clans, they just want players who are active. If you do moderately well but show up every night that will get you in. Many talented players start out in clans then move to top level competitive teams.

Battlefield 3 Teams

Teams are groups of players who combine skill and preparation to win matches. Like clans they want players who are very active. They put more emphasis on skill and teamwork. Most top teams are invite only. Meaning you have to catch someones eye with impressive play just to earn a try out. Most players who make it onto teams are recruited out of clans.

When a clan breaks up teams normally come in and cherry pick the best players. Many top players ended up on good teams from this process. If you want to get into competitive gaming clans are where you should start. Starting off with a team can be frustrating even if you pass the try out. Good teams like to play against other good teams and improve. If you don’t have experience it’s hard to keep up. It’s better to start off with a clan to get some organized matches under your belt before joining a team.

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Battlefield 3 Team Strategy – Maps

Map knowledge is a massive part of BF3 strategy. If you haven’t poked around the map on an empty server you have no business scrimming or matching. It’s not enough to just know where flags and bombsites are. Most fighting wont even take place on the objective.

You’re going to end up fighting before you get it, and after you get it. Most objectives are weak to certain areas. For example lets look at Seine Crossing conquest small.

The most important flag on this map is C. This is because from C you have an easy route to hit every other flag. The capture radius for C is a huge area down on the ground level. Yet holding C flag has nothing to do with the ground level and every thing to do with the C building.

From C building you have a perfect vantage point and a safe place to spawn in squad mates. If you lose C building you will lose C flag even though it’s not in radius.

These are the kind of things you need to think about to be a successful Battlefield 3 team. There are 100s of more objectives like this that I can’t fit into one guide. I hope this example helps you attack/defend your objectives properly.

Battlefield 3 Team Strategy – Communication

Communication is the single biggest factor in any team game. Bad communication will cost you matches. With no voice communication it’s impossible to beat a good team. Once you have a means of voice communication there’s two topics that must be communicated.

Enemy Positions
I can’t even put into words how important this is. Ever seen a frag video on YouTube where some superstar player wipes a whole team? Many of those are set up by team mates with good communication. Every time you die you need to communicate that you’re down and either tell them where the guy is or give a good guess. Don’t whine or complain when you die, communicate the enemy dudes position.

Set Modifications
The enemy positions have been called out. Now what? Respond! Every team needs a loud in-game leader to call modifications. Once you have a decent chunk of information about enemy positions you need to move your team into a good counter spot. If they are pushing all left you don’t want your guys half guarding right and half left. When two good teams play this action will go back and forth until one team breaks. It becomes this complex game of enemy positions spotted, set modifications, they see your position then set their modification, and so on.

Other Talky Stuff
Keeping your team motivated is another useful communication tool. It’s easy for a team to get discouraged when they are down in points and in a bad spot, especially on conquest. You can’t just sit there in the bleed and defend the last flag. Rally your bros and get some sort of attack going. Every attack has a chance at succeeding. It may not be big but it beats getting a guaranteed loss from not pushing at all.

Battlefield 3 Team Strategy – Strats

Strats refer to the opening strategy of a battlefield match. Games like CoD and CS are almost nothing but strats. Those are round based games where you will see a predictable opening game 7-15 times in a match. In Battlefield you only get 2 rounds so you only see 2 openings. After the initial push you have 200+ tickets to play with. Having a good strat is important. However if you mess up or just have a bad strat it’s possible to recover.

The biggest mistake I see is teams having a decent or even very good opening strat then having nothing to back it up once mid game rolls around. What should you do when nothing is predictable and the enemy team can set up anywhere? The answer is to figure out what areas are highly contested or important for taking objectives. These are areas when an enemy must go to move forward so figure out those spots and practice them with your team.

It’s hard to give people set rolls in a battlefield game. The match can change some much in 1 minute. Sometimes it’s good to go engineer and deal with a tank. The next minute you need an assault kit to clear out a flag. The best thing you can do is make sure your team understands what needs to be guarded and what needs to be attacked. Then let them judge what would be best to deal with a specific situation.

I’ve seen good teams go in there and play matches completely by ear. To do that you need a team with lots of Battlefield experience and individual skill. If you don’t have that you need to organize a good opening strat and sub strats for dealing with choke points. Spending time with your team looking at map will pay off come match day.

Average players can come together with good teamwork and communication to make a dangerous competitive team. Most top Battlefield teams aren’t filled with superstars that can slay your whole team on a whim. In Battlefield teamwork trumps skill. A group of average skilled players can come together and become a top 10 BF team if they get communication and teamwork down. It’s a matter of putting time into the maps and not getting discouraged if you lose and lose bad, it will happen. Learn from your mistakes and you will climb the competitive ladder.

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Battlefield 3 Weapon Attachments

Some are good, others terrible.  All I care about is how effective they are in combat. If it doesn’t help you get kills why put it on your gun.

Sight Attachments

These are what you see while scoped in.

Reflex RDS
This is one of the best looking and simplest sights. The small crosshair makes for more accurate shots. All the other junk on other sights is an obstruction. RDS is on most of my guns. The only negative aspect is the mount location on some guns. The further back on the gun it is the bigger the sight, and all the metal junk around it. This can make it hard to pick up multiple targets.

Holo Sight
My favorite attribute of holo is how wide the sight is. This makes picking up string kills much easier. The sights wideness allows you to scope out your next target. The only thing I don’t like about it is how busy the crosshair is. The lines on it are thick and there’s a bunch of them.

Kobra RDS
Russian version of an RDS.

IRNV
There was a point in time when IRNV was god. It’s still fairly effective but is much more balanced now. This sight works best on large maps. For small indoor maps the fog is so heavy it’s useless.

ACOG 4x
The ACOG is a specialty scope. It plays best from defensive positions. Its 4x zoom and narrow sight make you blind to anything coming from left, right, or behind. The extreme zoom is also disorienting. Spotting a guy with 1x zoom then going to 4x throws off your aim. Its better to be sighted in and let enemies come to you with this scope. That makes it great for camping main bases in conquest.

Under Barrel Attachments

Foregrip
Far and away the best under barrel attachment in Battlefield 3. It tightens up the bullet spread which is great for obvious reasons. You should be running this attachment most of the time.

Bipod
Battlefield 3 is a game of positioning and dynamic movement. Locking yourself in one place opens you up to countless dangers, the biggest being mortars. Out maneuvering a bipod user is just too easy to make it effective.

Underslung Rail
This a fairly useless attachment. I don’t like bipods and you need this to put a bipod on. It’s just not worth giving up foregrip.

Barrel Attachments

Heavy Barrel
This is my most used barrel attach. It causes your first shot to be more accurate. More accuracy makes you more likely to win gun fights. This attachment works best on assault rifles. It’s least effective on SMGs, although you still throw it on there and find some success.

Laser Sight
If heavy barrel doesn’t make sense then This is where you go. It greatly increase your hip-fire accuracy. It works great on SMG’s and carbines. You also have the option to turn it on and off while running around in game. I take advantage of this regularly. Hiding in a corner with your laser beam pointing out is counter productive. I usually turn it off when I first spawn in, then turn it back on when clearing buildings or taking corners.

Tactical Light
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Supressor
Makes the first shot less accurate but causes your gun to be quieter. It also hides your position on the map after firing. Normally after shooting you will show up on the enemies mini map. This is another attachment that works well on SMGs. It tends to be less effective on burst fire assault rifles.

Flash Supressor
This attachment hides muzzle flash but decreases iron sight accuracy and over all accuracy. It basically does everything you don’t want an attachment to do. I personally never felt like muzzle flash was an issue so skipping it’s easy.

Battlefield 3 weapons Assault

The most popular kit in Battlefield 3. Assault is equipped to deal with enemies at close, medium, and long range. The only downside is how helpless it is to vehicles.

AK74M
The AK is a great range rifle. Its power and accuracy destroy infantry at a distance. The only thing holding it back would be firing speed. The rate of fire is turd.

KH2002
One of the best mid-long range assault rifles. This gun is great for console players because it has basically has no recoil.

AEK971
Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. The AEK does well up close. At mid and long range it gets sketchy.

M16A3
This rifle used to be god. It’s still the best assault rifle but you can’t spray like before. The M16A3 is beast when used in short bursts.

Battlefield 3 weapons Engineer

G36C
The G36 feels like an assault rifle. It kills fast and has good accuracy. The only downside is it lacks the speed of other engineer guns. When zoomed in you move at a crawl. Most of the other engi guns are highly mobile while zoomed in.

A-91
My personal favorite SMG. It has a high fire rate and great mobility. You wont be winning many range fights but engineers aren’t meant to be fighting infantry at long range anyways.

M4A1
Many pro players favor the M4A1. The reason is how well balanced it is. The M4A1 has good fire rate, range, and mobility.

Battlefield 3 weapons Sniper

M98B
This sniper rifle does work. Face shots are always a 1 hit kill, there’s nothing special about the M98b there. This gun will also randomly 1 hit kill to the chest. It happens more in hardcore servers. I generally don’t like snipers because they contribute little to nothing for a team, but if you’re going to play one this is the gun to use.

AS VAL
This is my favorite recon gun. It’s basically a suppressed assault rifle. So you get the spawn beacon without having to be gimped by an assault rifle. It has a small clip but is deadly at close range.

Battlefield 3 weapons Support

M240B
This LMG has a ton of power and a ton of kick back. You have to be good at pulling down to use an M240B. This is the best of all support specific LMGs.

USAS-12
This is an all class gun that works perfectly with support. You can be mobile and aggressively hand out ammo to team mates. One of the downsides to shotguns are how quickly they run out of ammo. Support is the perfect class for shotgunning.
 

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PreBuilt Computers

Are you lazy, or rich? Both perhaps? If money is no object you can find some prebuilt computers that will run Battlefield 3 with ease. Here are a few worth checking out.

Pheonix Ultimate Gaming Computer with the Intel Core i5-2500K
If you have $1,400 to spend this PC will save you from having to put everything together yourself. This machine offers solid frame rates in BF3.

CyberpowerPC Gamer Infinity GLC950 Desktop Computer

A touch on the expensive side at $1,575. This computers GeForce GTX 570 will handle all the shine of BF3.

Build Your Own

My favorite part of PC gaming is putting a sick computer together. It’s easy to lose yourself and overspend when picking out parts. This guide will focus on balancing out performance and price.

CPU

Intel Core i5-2500 3.3 GHz
The I5 2500k is nice quad core CPU. This is what I use in my PC. It’s a great CPU for the $230 and  under price range. BF3 is a very video card heavy game so we don’t need to go  nuts the CPU.

Video Card

EVGA GeForce GTX 570 1280 MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0
This is the most important part of a Battlefield 3 computer. BF3 was designed to have your video card doing most of the work. You have to shell out a few bucks if you want to run BF3 well. You’ll need to spend atleast $200 to get decent FPS. My recommended GTX 570 costs about $350 and will run BF3 with good FPS.

Power Supply

Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 700-Watt
The power supply will feed your video card so don’t skimp on this. We don’t want a cheap $20 power supply feeding our $350 video card. At about $70 the extreme power plus is a great deal for this build.

RAM

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB)

Battlefield 3 is a big game so your going to want some good RAM. You’ll need atleast 4 gigs to run smoothly. I play with 4 gigs but 8 gigs can only help.

HardDrive

Seagate Barracuda 7200 500 GB SATA 6.0

There’s two ways to go for hard drives. Solid state drives(SSD) and the normal. SSD is more expensive and faster. It makes your game load faster, and your PC boot almost instantly. If you decide to go SSD it’s a good idea to two get since they are pretty small storage wise at the moment. I went with a normal hard drive in my build because the price difference is huge.

Motherboard

ASRock P67 Pro3 B3 Intel P67 ATX
Now we need something to bring it all together. This motherboard is compatible with all the stuff I’ve listed. If you decide to swap things out from this guide make sure they are compatible with it.

Case

LEXA S Crafted Series Black Steel Mid Tower

Cases mostly come down to aesthetics and air flow. If it looks nice and has 2-4 fans for cooling your good. This is the case I use, it does work.

Monitor

BenQ XL2410T Black 23 inch

This is the most overlooked aspect of PC gaming. Most monitors are terrible for gaming. They lag, have ghosting, or limit you to 60hz. There are LCD monitors specifically designed for high performance. I won’t use a monitor unless it has a 2ms response time and 120hz refresh rate. If you want to be serious about PC gaming you have to get one of these. Spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a new PC means nothing if your monitor is trash. A good 120hz monitor is going to run you atleast $350.

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Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Review – PC

What most PC players worry about is Origin and the web browser game launcher. For the most part it works, there’s issues and hang ups here and there but most can be fixed by closing the browser and reopening. It’s pretty clear the game was rushed it still feels betaish. the main culprit for this feeling is how often the game crashes. Many times the game will crash when first trying to load, then work on the second launch. Battle log was clearly wasn’t ready for release in a $60 game.

Battle log does have some interesting features, one of them being the party system. You can create a party of up to 8 people before joining a server. This makes getting all your friends into one server easier. You would think it could keep the party on one team but that isn’t always the case. The bigger parties are almost always broken up, which is understandable with an 8 man party. It would be nice if the game could shuffle teams to keep parties together. So like all things battle log related it kinda works.

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Review – Leveling

Once I got in-game the first thing I realized was how little there was to work with equipment wise. Starting off as a level 0 soldier you have nothing but a basic rifle and pistol to start off with. I mean sure, leveling up and unlocking shit is cool to a point. I think BF3 takes it way too far. Vehicles are bare bones until you start unlocking their features. Your tank starts off with only its main cannon. You have to unlock its coaxial gun and equipment slot. Playing an APC is a huge pain in the ass untill you unlock the TOW(anti-tank rocket), good luck playing against some one who has it already.

Air vehicles are no different. Jets and choppers start off with one basic weapon and every thing else has to be unlocked. Chopper gunners start off with only a cannon and must unlock guided rockets. You don’t even get flares for free they must also be unlocked. I thought BF2 and BF2142 did the unlock system best. Give people the basic shit they need to compete and unlock customization’s and niche weapons. Having to unlock every little gadget on a vehicle is annoying.

I dig infantry in BF3, and I must say I do enjoy it. Just felt like that should be stated before I continue my leveling rant. Leveling infantry is much easier than vehicles. Again you start out with almost nothing and have to earn every thread on your uniform. The medic doesn’t even start out with his defibrillator. Luckily  most of the starting guns are good. Many professional players favor the M16A3 which is the standard assault rifle.

My biggest complaint about leveling is speed. Climbing through ranks takes tons of playing. Every new rank is painstakingly slow and gets slower each time. I tend to have higher scores and more time to play then the average player and it took me about a week to get every thing for my favorite kits. I can’t imagine what it would be like for a beginner. Each kit levels individually. Which is a pain in the ass for sniper since you don’t start off with the good bolt action rifles. So you have to inadvertently level shitty guns then start over and relevel the good ones. BF3 is a good game but the leveling is a grind.

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Review – Guns

The guns in BF3 are powerful and accurate. They don’t feel as powerful as they were hyped up to be, most kill in about 4 bullets which is fairly reasonable. Head shots are more important in BF3 then they were in past Battlefield games. Spraying and bursting is incredibly accurate so aiming for the head actually matters.

Medics have it best when it comes to guns. They have 2 very solid starting guns the M16A3, and AK-74M. Snipers have it worst with two shitty semi auto rifles. Engineers have seen the biggest upgrade. They have anti-tank rockets, mines, and improved SMGs/carbines. Engineer carbines can hang with assault rifles at close range. Going engineer in BF3 doesn’t really feel like a chore, that wasn’t always the case in BF games.

The guns are definitely more effective then past games. If you aren’t going crazy full auto on everything that moves its easy to get 2-3 kills a clip. Iron sights are a must for 99% of guns in this game. You can hip-fire the shotguns and a few SMGs but thats it. It would be nice to see a game come out that doesn’t rely on iron sights for every confrontation.

Each kit has specific guns that can only be unlocked by playing with that kit. Furthermore each individual gun levels up its own attachments. Some of the attachments like heavy barrel and grip can make or break a gun. Which is a pain in the ass because you can start out with a gun and have it be shit but want to unlock the grip and barrel to see if it gets any better. That can take a long ass time and bear no fruit.

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Review – Maps

BF3 comes with 9 maps. For conquest each map has 2 sizes, 32 man, and 64 man. In TDM and rush you play small sections of those maps. Some of the maps are fun, others not so much. Most people enjoy the smaller urban maps and avoid the large vehicle maps. Infantry is fun but I don’t think that’s the reason people shy away from those maps. Most of the vehicle maps just aren’t that good.

Caspian Border is the best vehicle based map because of the distance between flags. There’s plenty of action going on in the middle and all the flags are approachable on foot. Then you have maps like Operation Firestorm that are marathon simulators. Each flag is 200-300 meters apart and there are no vehicles anywhere except in the main base. So what happens is you take a jeep from your main to a flag and fight it out. Then your jeep explodes because they last seconds without being occupied before returning to the main. So now you’re stuck in the middle of the map with a 250 meter sprint to reach anything in both directions. Hope you don’t get sniped because that’s a long way to restart from.

Out of 9 maps 4-5 are fun to play. The bad one’s are so shitty that I can’t believe they never thought to tweak them. Some of the problems with these maps are so glaringly obvious I can’t understand why they weren’t fixed. How hard is it add jeep spawns to a few flags? On the other hand there are also maps like Seine Crossing that are done really well. Maps that have cover and lots of sneaky back routes are tons of fun. They also make leveling kits less painful.

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Review – Features

Origin and Battlelog were 2 big issues for many PC players. Neither one is perfect by a long shot but they don’t ruin the game. I would hope that over time the crashing and party issues will be resolved. Once the Battlelog problems are fixed it could turn out to be a great tool for Battlefield players. I’ve put Battlelogs built in friends list to work countless times. It shows you where your friends are and their party. It’s also fun to check out your friends stats.

This list is just a few of the things you’ll find in Battlelog stats.

Kills

Deaths

Accuracy

Top Weapons

Score/Minute

Longest headshot

longest Kill Streak

Wins/Losses

One of my favorite features in BF3 is the scaled back map destruction. Full destruction was a good idea in theory but having tanks be able to blow the shit out of every reasonable place for cover was dumb. The knifing animations are also a good addition. Granted I don’t see many from the desired end. Guess I’m weird for playing FPS games to shoot at people. Anything that opens up a knifing bastard to gun fire for a few seconds is fine in my book. Scope glint is another interesting feature. Snipers with long range scopes will flash and give you a heads up to get your head down.

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Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Review – BF3 Hub