WHY BATTLEFIELD3!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!

[Alexnader]

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1) Had you bothered to read some of the other, much shorter, comments, you'd have seen it a few times.

I'm desperately apologetic for holding a game company pulling in billions of dollars in revenue annually to a rather high standard. I'll try lowering my standards to better emulate your own some time in the future.

2) If one takes the few seconds required to note it: Very few SNIPER-rifles actually have under-mount rails. For example: The USMC standard issue M40/A1/A3 has a bi-pod mount, but no rail. Nor does the M24, or the AW L96A1, or it's younger brother the AWSM, or the WA2000, or the SVD, or the PSG-90, or the MSG-90, or the PSG-1, or the SSG-69, or the M82, or the M107.
Am I making my point here?

3) Being someone who works on the internal workings video-games regularly DOES mean I have more experience in that field.
It MAKES me a perfectionist. The fact that I'm 'Suddenly' anything, is your own assumption.
I never denied the possibility, if you'll note. I denied your broad-band generalization of the process. Different departments work separately on their own projects, but MUST mingle when differences or discrepancies appear. That means errors, inconsistencies, or faults like that are hard to overlook.
It's possible the game was rushed.
It's equally possible it was completely intentional so patches could later be added to better conform the game to the players generalized specifications.

4) I never 'co-opted' anything. I use the terms Authentic and Realistic differently. It's the fault of the text that my tone is unintelligible.

5) If you don't care about immersion, it's your problem. I play games I can get sucked into. When I expect realism and authenticity, and don't get it in anything but graphical power, it breaks my immersion.
I got perfectly immersed in Doom, Golden-Eye, Perfect Dark, Ghost Recon, and Medal of Honor despite the less than massive levels of realism in ANY of them.

6) Against Soviet soldiers massing the area searching for him, using nothing but the Iron Sights on a Mosin-Nagant in 40 below for three months, amassing almost 1000 kills. I'd like to see ANY 'modern soldier' pull that off.
Hayha was targeted by both numerous counter-snipers and artillery strikes.

If your enemy can't see you, he can't kill you. That applies to EVERY sniper on Earth.

I'm done here. This argument has officially lost my interest.

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0&t=0m55s

2) Laser sight, gun, duct tape. Adapt and overcome.

3) You made it sound like you denied the possibility or at the very least made it sound like something isolated to places of lax professional standards. While my preface was a generalisation the solid examples I provided to you were not. Maybe if you spent more than 5 minutes on a response these miscommunication would not occur.

4) We're being very black and white about this. You say the game does not present an authentic war experience as advertised because of laser sights. I say it does because of the excellent graphics, environments and sound design. We will never reconcile our beliefs here. I tell you though, in those 5 seconds where I'm returning fire as mortars land around me and my squad, as dust and screams fill the air, I get what I came for. If you cannot forgive minor flaws then good luck in life.

5) False. When you expect realism and authenticity and you don't get it that's a value problem. Your entire gripe is a value problem. The immersiveness of a game is not intrinsically tied to your preconceptions of it. If you can suspend your disbelief in MoH you can do it here, you just don't want to because you feel you got shafted by the game you spent no money on.

6) We live in an age of enhanced detection and enhanced precision destruction, not to mention greater efficiency. A sniper in this age would never even be afforded 1000 targets over the course of a war, let alone be able to do too much about them directly without deadly reprisal. I won't go any further because it's irrelevant.

I want games that play as advertised. Nothing more. Nothing less.

What you think was advertised is not what was advertised. What you want is a different game.


Finally, I ask you this. You did not buy the game but you nonetheless had preconceived ideas about its contents. If you had done 5 minutes of research and found out you were wrong BEFORE you played the game, would we be here having this slap fight? Additionally, why exactly are you angry? Are you leveling a charge of false advertising against EA/DICE?