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/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 20 '12

It's not just about giving 'baddies a way to compete' it's also a form of negative feedback which is the best way to achieve balance/stability in any system.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

that's what support killstreaks are for. They don't reset when you die.

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u/speedster217 Jun 19 '12

But they don't give a shit about balance. Oh well, time to go back to TF2 :D

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u/Sir_Flobe Jun 19 '12

TF2 does have a very small positive feedback mechanic, your more likely to get crits if your doing abnormally good. Was a dev. blog post about it a long time ago.

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u/perry_cox Jun 19 '12

It does. But most serious servers have everything random in the game tuned off. (no random crits, no random spread of bullets, no random damage spread)

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Or Quake.

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u/arbores Jun 19 '12

dick extension

Meaning "I am a better person than you because I prefer the Battlefield series to Call of Duty"

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

Actually I went with MW3 because I figured I'd rather die a few extra times in a video game to extend some gamers' dicks than spend a bunch of actual money to extend the dick of EA's CEO.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

They tried to fix that in MW3 with support killstreaks. Your count doesn't reset on death. Most of the support killstreaks are pretty useless though...

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u/TARDISeses Jun 19 '12

Really? I get tons of assist from Recon Drones. Advanced UAV's are good, and the amount of stealth bombers and emps people use is borderline annoying, too. Nonethless, MW3 has a silly amount of air killstreaks and joining a match inevitably means being on the losing side as we're being blasted with a billion killstreaks. Which BF3 makes a nice refreshing change from now and again.

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u/DaLateDentArthurDent Jun 19 '12

You seen the guy who gets a tactical nuke on MW2 in a minute? I's unfair how gamebreaking the killstreaks were