RIP Battlefield3 Online!!! (Except for PC.)
Welp, it's done, folks. Servers shut down at around 6:15 EST this morning November 7th, 2024, a very sad day! Gameplay was great through the end, & I even had a pretty epic match during the last day, went 24-1 with three Sniper Rifle Ribbons & three Accuracy Ribbons, where usually I'm trying hard to get one of each for a round. Also spent time doing other fun stuff like setting up C4 buggies & going after tanks, & driving the helicopter gunship around with a gunny & going after the attack helis, flying around in the airplanes, & sometimes just going into an empty Operation Firestorm server to practice that long shot some more. Unfortunately I never had a chance to actually try & hit anyone with that 1800m long bomb in-game on my current account, but I've done it before & that battle was one of my favorite memories of playing.
One thing that I know a lot of people might be upset about, is that they've wiped the stats out. My account on Battlelog.com has no more stats, but I snapped a couple pics in-game before the shutdown with a few basic stats.
My typical loadout & attire:
There were at least a dozen camo skins available, but I liked to run the blues because I felt that they helped me blend better into the shadows & clutter.
My basic goal was to usually try & get one of each of these per round:
Hardware after you get enough ribbons:
I ended up with ten more kills after taking the pic, & was eight away from getting one more M40A5 Service Star, when the servers shut down. (I think I called it an M40A1 in my earlier post, I meant M40A5.)
I ran some numbers & had to slightly estimate my final shot & accuracy totals for this account, but I ended up with 5492 M40A5 kills, 4558 headshots, approximately 22600 shots fired. M40A5 hit percentage was approximately 46%. M40A5 headshot accuracy was approximately 83%. I earned 10 Sniper Medals, 9 Accuracy Medals, and 54 M40A5 Service Stars. I forgot to write down how many Recon Class Service Stars that I earned.
If I add in my stats from my first account, I ended up with 15,472 M40A5 kills, 12,472 M40A5 headshots, out of 70,351 M40A5 shots fired. My M40A5 hit percentage accuracy worked out to about 43%, & my M40A5 headshot kill percentage ended up somewhere between 82.2 & 82.4%. I'm surprised that I was able to carry those numbers basically the whole time I was sniping, which I didn't really start getting into that aspect of BF3 gameplay until around 2017.
Finished out with 29 Sniper Rifle Ribbons, 36 Accuracy Ribbons, & 150 M40A5 service stars across both accounts.
I'll wait here for the reboot...