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The Battlefield 3 developers have officially spoken on the hotly debated USAS-12/frag rounds issue. Many BF3 gamers have made the shotgun's power well known and have been urging DICE to adjust the gun. If you've played Battlefield 3 in the past two months, you may have noticed the oddly powerful shotgun as well.

Now when will this update be? We're expecting the next Battlefield 3 patch to come sometime this month.

[Demizer]

Wtf. its just frag rounds in gerenal.

[Knightbird]

[quote]Wtf. its just frag rounds in gerenal. [/quote]

yeah, wtf...

[BF3RECON]

Atleast they aknowledge the problem

[Caddock93]

They need to take out Frag rounds, PERIOD!!!!!

[Caddock93]

They need to take out Frag rounds, PERIOD!!!!!

[PravoEffect]

Lol they never seem to get the right idea from the Community...

Community: "We hate frag rounds! they're OP!!!!!111!!!"
DICE: "Hmm, they seem to be angry about something..."
Community: "Take out the fag rounds!"
DICE: "I think they want us to change USAS 12"
Community: "..."

[Demizer]

now everyone is going to switch over to jackhammer. lol

[FancyCharles665]

Demizer, on 03 February 2012 - 06:11 AM, said:

now everyone is going to switch over to jackhammer. lol

LOL, I was just about to say that this is good news for me since I finally unlocked the Jackhammer yesterday. Trololololol

[Lightning Lemur]

fuck that shit i was about to throw my tv out the window because this gun

[RNCoetzee]

Nobody is using shotgun like M1014 and 870mcs in Metro anymore, because the power of USAS-12 is very effective for K/D ratio & Suppressing Fire...and i was surprise to see that most people are using this gun with frag rounds in Metro - compare it to LMG with good field support.

Honestly, LMG+Assaultt team versus USAS-12+ammo support team in Metro - who will won??? There is your answer...then it will be "USAS" map, not Metro map anymore.

I'm not saying nerf this gun or remove frag rounds. Bring more power for other guns, because some of our favorite rifles and lmg's were nerfed after patch.

It's like when you are playing chess, where enemy has full of queens, and you have normal units on your board - how will you safe your units against queens??? There is no offensive at all!

[FancyCharles665]

I have started to notice a lot of guys who do not have the USAS yet are now using the M1014 and FAG combination.
Frags are the problem, not the USAS. They might as well remove it completely, no way to nerf them without making them completely crap anyways.

[KennyPumpa]

As always, they will remove guns, one by one, always leaving one "op", everyone will use the "op" gun till it gets nerfed. When nerfed, everyone will move on the the next best gun.

Why not make it so when you get hit by a pistolround in the foot you should be rolling around on the ground in agony screaming for help. Like you should do in real life........

Cut the fucking nerfing already and focus on the big problems for fuck sake.

Edited by KennyPumpa, 03 February 2012 - 09:37 AM.

[Random]

RNCoetzee, on 03 February 2012 - 08:09 AM, said:

Nobody is using shotgun like M1014 and 870mcs in Metro anymore, because the power of USAS-12 is very effective for K/D ratio & Suppressing Fire...and i was surprise to see that most people are using this gun with frag rounds in Metro - compare it to LMG with good field support.

When I play in metro I am using ALWAYS 870MCS, M26 or DAO-12 in metro - I don't get so much kills but atleast i'm not such a pussy

[Xthemanimal]

Random, on 03 February 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

When I play in metro I am using ALWAYS 870MCS, M26 or DAO-12 in metro - I don't get so much kills but atleast i'm not such a pussy

Agreed. I've noticed that the USAS+FRAG combo makes people play the game like Modern Warfare. Run into the enemy group head-on with trigger down just to get that K/D up. Removes all tactics with/against it.

[pierogi210]

Has a Dice employee ever thought to think, "Hey why don't we start working on BF2 featues that we left out instead of these useless gun tweaks?" BF3 is not a true sequel untill they bring back at least 6 man squads, VOIP, commander, Commo Rose, sandbox maps all for the pc off course.

[MonKfish666]

pierogi210, on 03 February 2012 - 05:13 PM, said:

Has a Dice employee ever thought to think, "Hey why don't we start working on BF2 featues that we left out instead of these useless gun tweaks?" BF3 is not a true sequel untill they bring back at least 6 man squads, VOIP, commander, Commo Rose, sandbox maps all for the pc off course.

Would be nice if this was the case

[CoLFC]

I had a period of time using the USAS-12 frag combo and now I'm bored of it. So nerf away, I can kick arse just as easily with support weapons like the MG36 even when more than half of each team is spamming the USAS frags.

I had a feeling when the IRNV got nerfed it was more down to USAS+frag+IRNV combo rather than the IRNV.
It was when I noticed everyone catching onto the frag rounds thing that I noticed the IRNV becoming more popular.

I dont know why everyone cry's like babies. OP Metro is a NOOB/COD style of map anyways and thats really the only place it gets over used...

Like already said stop wasting time nerfing everything popular because its just a viscious circle and you'll just have to nerf the next best thing when people move on.

Get fixing the real problems in the game..

[Blitzkrieg1939]

This nerf is much needed, although I do think the nerfing is getting a bit excessive. I would like to see the FAMAS and the USAS12 Frg round combo nerfed, but i know that something else will take its place. But what is near as powerful as those weapons? I wonder

[FMJ_DarkAngel]

will this be coming to the PS3 also?