I have a 6750m with 512mb VRAM and have to heavily overclock my card and turn off Windows Aero Desktop to get 30-40 fps on low settings and I don't have much of an issue.Epoxidation wrote:I'm poor and can't afford a computer to give me good graphics. To see a soldier medium to long range away is a struggle and 3D spotting helps tremendously to even the playing field against players who have a more luxurious rig.
As said by others, that's more of a discipline and organization issue. (and one of my concerns about 8 man squads, but that's another discussion.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard the KI airforce is notoriously bad for this.Epoxidation wrote: Edit: b/c i'm going to persuade you damnit
Not sure who posted the thing about communication being more important with 3D off but here's my counter.
TS3 is flooded with players yelling into my ear about where i need to be and what i need to do. Last battleday it was 8 players in my teamspeak and it still felt like 2-3 people were always speaking (yelling/aggressively talking) constantly. I usually tune everyone out unless someone specifically tells me to do something. This isn't because i don't care about what they are saying, but because it is incredibly difficult to pick out information among the noise of multiple people (some of whom i can't understand with their accents) talking while i shoot whatever weapon i am using. now you want to take away the ability for players outside of our 8 man teamspeak to communicate via 3D spotting, and emphasize more yelling. Now to properly play a 64 man game i will have to reduce the audio level of my BF3 game just to distinguish what people say in TS. This is very annoying as sounds are incredibly important for BF, the flag ding that lets you know you cleared a flag, the shhhhh sound when you fully heal, the suppressed bullets that you can only hear and not see on a minimap, and countless others. All gone so that i can hear 3 people yelling at me that someone is behind me, but i can't understand that they are telling me that b/c they are all yelling. All of this is avoided if i have my BF3 audio at normal levels.
We try to do what we can with an imperfect tool and we modify it to the best of our ability. It's really just like hardcore. I'm not asking for frickin' ARMA I'm just asking for enemies to not run around with bright flashing Doritos over their heads.Someone said immersion in a more realistic experience
Dice made an arcade shooter, not a war simulator. I don't want to embellish on this as i feel it's not too important. I enjoy BF3 for how Dice made and balanced it. Trying to take BF3 and make it into a war sim leaves us halfway between, with neither BF3 or the war sim truly shining.
Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure they don't. The number of people who've never played without 3D spotting and the amount of misinformation in this thread is staggering.Chefcook wrote:All people here say, that 3d Spotting off will only affect Air.
Its not. You can STILL spot yourself (and see the doritos), but nobody else will see them. So as a Jetpilot, i still do the same stuff. Go high, press q, dive, shoot, kill.
So if you just voted 3D Spotting off, to make it harder for air, thats not the case.
Dude, have you read anything in this thread?matsif wrote:I still don't see any reason to have it off, even with the things brought up in this thread.
EDIT/Disclaimer: Sorry if I sound angry/rude, it's way too early for me to be posting.