Battlefield 3 - Page 399

On January 27 2012 05:25 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:


would be weird since my router is unchanged since 2 windows installs back. but what do you mean by "changing router"?

On January 26 2012 05:19 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
btw whats a normal spm? im currently at ~245 and rising playing like 95% big vehicle conquest maps. see people with 500++, am i right to assume they mostly play metro etc or is my spm just bad ? my spm was very low when i started since i fooled around A LOT more and in general sucked so im not sure yet what i will peak at.

On January 27 2012 10:23 Fumble wrote:


Mine is about 529. I play about 20% hardcore, 80% normal. Almost a perfect split between conquest and rush games. Of my 750 games, i've only played conquest metro maybe 8 times. (i avoid it like the plague because I want to keep my stats legitimate). I have some friends who are also completely legit (they play 100% rush) and they have just under 600 SPM.

Imo, maybe as much as 70% of players who avg more than 500 SPM are conquest metro boosters. However there are other ways to easily get more than 500 SPM, none of which i like or condone. People who play on fast vehicle respawn maps can really dominate if they are a good vehicle driver to begin with. Spawning only when a tank or jet is available (which is easy to do if you keep on dieing with your vehicle) can rack you major SPM. Those players can get up to 700-800 SPM. If they are over 800 SPM, it is almost guaranteed they are metro spammers. Playing TDM can also boost you up a bit but not too much. A very underrated way people get super high SPM is to play conquest bazzaar only. Its not as good as conquest metro but allows for people to easily get high SPM while boosting that they dont play conquest metro.

My guess for the cap for a completely legitimate player is about 750 SPM if they constantly play with friends only and always get ace squad ribbon and always win along with other benefits with owning with a squad such as better spawn positions.

The key ribbon to really put you in the 600 SPM range is to get lots of combat efficiency ribbon. That ribbon is the most overpowered ribbon in the game by far. It gives you 500 points per ribbon + it only requires 30 to get your 10000 point medal. Once you get on a 5 person kill streak, every 3 additional kills essentially gets you 800 bonus points. Everyone I have seen and known that averages around 600 SPM have a buttload of those. I only have like 210 of them but i've been getting better at getting them. My friends who avg around 600 would have 400 of that ribbon in 100 hours of play.

On January 27 2012 16:55 aksfjh wrote:
Got this game a few days ago and have been playing mostly as recon. It's a lot of fun, but it's also really annoying any time you come up against any vehicle. I've been able to kill a few people in helicopters, but if it's anything else, it feels like I just have to bend over and take it. I really wish I had at least a fighting chance if a tank rolls in to take a point on conquest.

On January 27 2012 17:49 Assault_1 wrote:

heres some things you can do:
- roll in your own tank
- snipe them when they get out to repair
- throw a grenade at it
- get help from teammates
- flying a mav into a helicopter/jet is instant-kill

anyway im out of ideas.

On January 27 2012 16:55 aksfjh wrote:
Got this game a few days ago and have been playing mostly as recon. It's a lot of fun, but it's also really annoying any time you come up against any vehicle. I've been able to kill a few people in helicopters, but if it's anything else, it feels like I just have to bend over and take it. I really wish I had at least a fighting chance if a tank rolls in to take a point on conquest.

On January 29 2012 19:20 Necrophantasia wrote:
Everyone keeps talking about offensive recon/battle recon to say they contribute their team.

But what exactly is offensive recon?

I gave it a go with the L96 acog 4x, laser sight, straight pull bolt, and the g18 suppressed as a side arm. I started sniping and instead of my usual 200-300m headshots, most of my targets were between 100-150, though surprisingly you can shoot up to 200 relatively easily with 4x :O.

I must be doing it wrong though, I was getting schooled by machine gunners and struggling to break even on KDR. Only when the teams were pretty stacked was I able to pull off some pretty good ratios.

On January 29 2012 22:58 Mithhaike wrote:


offensive recon basically is a term refering to people moving up to 100-150m range to fight with a lower power scope, instead of the long range sniping people expect from a recon. its a pretty effective style seeing how a sniper rifle does at least 65dmg per shot(bolt action), if you follow your squad and capture points, you can pretty much expect a 1hit ko if the enemy takes any sort of damage....of course its dependent on how accurate you are since you pretty much get only 1shot.