Battlefield Tri-hard

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Originally Posted by Freelancer

I never used a joystick, so I don't know if the hat key is auto-bound to that. If you hold down Ctrl while in the cockpit view your mouse movements turn into a hat-look style view. I did it in the beginning of my jets video.

The only problem I had with mouse/keyboard is that when you're turning/pulling up you'll eventually run your mouse off the surface it's on. Need a joystick to compensate for that. I have a Saitek joystick that I'll have to try when the game is released.

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I tried Ctrl+Mouse since that's how it works in most game that has the function. I got nothing.

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

Mouse + Keyboard != Hat switch.

Good to know there is support for looking, but actual hat-switch support is spotty outside of real sims, and even in some sims it is implemented terribly (see: IL2: Wings of Prey).

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That's all a hat switch is, except the hat is less controllable since it swings in whatever direction to desire to look, but quickly and not precisely. On a joystick the hat switch is just assignments of which direction to look. I plugged in my Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB to try it out with the beta, but I forgot to check if it works and the beta ended.

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

After the bollocks that was heli circle-strafing on Atacama, can you honestly blame them for nerfing the helicopters?

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There's so much other shit to take down air vehicles now, though. They don't need to be nerfed.


Also, Battlefield 3 to have day one patch, maplist:

Battlefield 3 maps

• Operation Metro
• Caspian Border
• Operation Firestorm
• Grand Bazaar
• Kharg Island
• Tehran Highway
• Siene Crossing
• Nosharh Crossing
• Damavand Peak

On top of that, there’s four Back to Karkand maps as well, which we’ve known for a while:

• Strike At Karkand
• Gulf of Oman
• Wake Island
• Sharqi Peninsula

Gulf of Oman was always one of my favorite maps. Carrier assaults were awesome.

In addition, is anyone else really pumped to try the campaign? I know I'm going to sit down and finish it in one sitting ASAP. I'll be recording it all with Fraps as well and uploading to YouTube fast.

EDIT: You know what I would love to see a modern game do for the Benelli M4/M1014? Ghost loading. It could function like when you empty a magazine, reload, charge (-1 round from mag), then press reload again to make sure the mag has a full 30 rounds so you get 31 instead of 30. For ghost loading an M1014 it would be: load chamber, load magazine, ghost load a round after pressing reload again.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, ghost loading or "floating" means placing a shotgun shell on the feed plate of a Benelli autoloading shotgun. See this video:

Defiantly keen for the campaign will be sitting down and demolishing that in one shot as well, and very excited for Back to Karkand, just pre-ordered it even though my laptop died and probably wont be back from repairs till after the 25th (Blue Screens on start up and wont do a factory reset).

Whoa that shotgun ghost loading is crazy. Looks too complex for video game reloading, though. I can only see it being loaded that way in uber-realistic PC Tom Clancy games.

I want Bridge Too Far... :(

Actually, I just tried it on our shotgun and there's no way to do it effectively when you load the chamber first like they do in the game (for obvious reasons).

@Amit: Believe me, you can get some serious precision out of a hat-switch, I can attest to that and so can Ross.

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