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I wonder if they will add the pay-to-unlock thing as they have for PS3. I am actually a bit in between here.
Pro paying advance (or perhaps even better - give us all the shit to start with) is that it actually makes it easier to focus on team play instead of getting 20 kills with a rifle you suck at to get another un-lock, or you skip the MBT because you need 5 kills with a jeep etc...
Skip that and focus on just playing and building a stable squad...

2. Un-locks make it ir just a little more momentum. And since so many servers are SMAW/RPG/320 spam-fest spawn killing - why the heck not?
BF3 is a good game but it has many disapointments - and spending time on unlocking stuff and then see someone just buy-for-glory is totally not cool.

I hope the updates will be good and change the style of play a bit...

good point

So, verdict on the patch?

I'm downloading now. Just went to play a game before I go to bed and get hit with a 1.5GB download x) but good good!

So far, not much have changed in the feel. Some matches you still feel like you haven't a clue and you get killed instantly. Some other changes I noticed was that the RPG's and SMAW with reduced effectiveness against infantry makes a huge difference. Got too frustrated though with the particular server and my own very bad performance - so I haven't had much to check on things. All your preferred settings have reset though so first time you play - make an extra careful check on your loadouts.

I realised that I am starting to tire on BF3 - almost on the verge of going back to BF BC2...

I'll enjoin battle so and see what they've done to my beloved MBT.
I hear you about "BFBC2", Wolfy. Tried going back to "BF2" for a bit, especially with the "Forgotten Hope" Mod (yay, WWII glory days) but it was too slow, sluggish and hard to come to grips with - with the mod, that it.
Playing "BF2" reminded me how fun, and important for new players it was to have a SP element against bots. "BF3"'s biggest letdown by far for me.

Yeah, bots for BF3 would have been really great - I liked that with BF2 - you could learn some of the maps and crucial areas etc and not being called nOOb as soon as you got on-line - if you did that is. Dice weakest link has always been the game server browser...

Can't play the damn thing any more. Getting crashes after about 5 minutes. After this patch. Hard to recall a game that isn't crashing. Hmm I'm sure I played something at some point that didn't crashed.

Reason I stopped playing "BF3" a while ago - too many damn crashes.

I haven't received that many crashes - though I sometimes wonder how the game would play more locally. Sometimes it feels like I'm emptying clips in opponents and they shot a shot or two and I'm down. And that is me starting the shooting - something feels a bit off in BF3 sometimes. Same with COD BLOPS - but there it usually was up to the server lags...

Play hard core :)

Not at my age with my eyesight and reflexes (or lack of)-:D).

Well, I do remember one of the few times I geared up with you guys in the SI squad - we had a really good run and squad tactics. Many servers are just crap and you go either sniping or tank hunting...

...or Lone Wolf as many on Oceanic servers do, sometimes using hacks and cheats as their only companions. Not good team players in Aussie Land, and even then it is more like "ganging up" than "teaming up".