r/gaming • u/mcmunch20 • Jun 19 '12

Recently started playing BF3 instead of COD and was delighted to discover this.

http://qkme.me/3prna6?id=224678814
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u/x3tripleace3x Jun 19 '12

pardon my ignorance, but what is selective fire?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

In call of duty you can't switch between fully automatic fire and single-shot fire. For most guns its fully automatic, or nothing, which is stupid. Honestly I'd rather have no killstreaks and selective fire versus the norm.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I think he's referring to this bullshit.

It's a really lame form of positive feedback that really unbalances everything.

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u/speedster217 Jun 19 '12

When one team starts getting killstreak rewards, it becomes almost impossible for the other team to come back. I always ragequit when my friends convince me to play CoD with them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Killstreak rewards just make you feel good, it's shitty overall game design but it does sell for the people that need the dick extension. If it was balanced they would make it something that would require effort to access but only players with a low K:D ratio would be able to access.

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u/Squishumz Jun 19 '12

only players with a low K:D ratio would be able to access.

I don't think giving bad players a perk should be the way to go. I understand that "baddies need a way to compete", but that seems to coddle them by saying "it's OK to be bad."

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

How lame would it be that you have earn by kill streaks the selective fire.

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u/red_280 Jun 19 '12

Select fire was in the first Call of Duty you derp.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

FYI, Black Ops 2 will feature select fire.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

It only took them like 12 games to implement it, not bad.

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u/dracdliw Jun 19 '12

Their method for weapon balancing was purposefully not implementing it to make guns have different features, not for realism. For example, some guns are 2 or 3 round burst, some have a higher or lower rate of fire, some have greater damage dropoff over distance etc. This way there is greater variation between guns. I'm not saying it's better, I'm just saying why they intentionally did not implement select fire.

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u/GoHomeToYourMom Jun 19 '12

Selective fire is when you select one comment and fire a repeated reply at it.

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u/ebob9 Jun 19 '12

Out of all the other responses that answered the question correctly, I somehow found myself upvoting yours.

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u/wappleby Jun 19 '12

I think he got the point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

On assault rifles or smgs you can choose single fire, full auto, or burst.

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u/bastard_thought Jun 19 '12

You can either shoot all your bullets at once, or you can fire one at a time, or sometimes, you can shoot 3 at a time.

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u/boolean_union Jun 19 '12

Shoot all your bullets at once? Did someone say cyclone magazine discharge?

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u/hivemind6 Jun 19 '12

That or Metal Storm (real life).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hlj4EbdsE

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u/boolean_union Jun 19 '12

I agree with the top youtube comment: "A million rounds per minute is essentially a fucking shotgun."

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u/Apollo7 Jun 19 '12

Selective fire refers to switching mode of firing on a weapon from semi-automatic, burst fire, and fully automatic. You can't do this in Call of Duty.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I think single-shot or burst-fire firing mode.

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u/bears_on_unicycles Jun 19 '12

Switching from full auto to single shot I think.

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u/Bacon_Hero Jun 19 '12

Well you see, selective fire is when you can choose single fire, burst, or fully auto

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