Went back to Battlefield 3 online (PS3) after a long break due to my PSN account getting nuked & me not being able to figure out how to make a new one that would work on BF3 online. Eventually I found out a trick that I read about online & initially had dismissed it as nonsense. Turns out it works. BF3 PS3 online wouldn't let me log on with my new PSN username until I had first loaded up Battlefield Bad Company 2 & went online with that (yes apparently there are still active BFBC2 servers), & then when I went back to BF3, it would allow me to log online with my new PSN account. Something to do with other EA online games still being able to authorize your unique email address that you provide to EA network during setup of EA server games when using a new PSN account. BF3 won't do it automatically anymore, you have to use another EA online game to "process" a new account in order to get online to any EA server. After the first time of doing that, BF3 goes online no problems.
BF3 looks pretty good with the MClassic, as I didn't have that before. I did have to shut off the "120 hz auto motion" feature of my tv set, or things would look odd. The auto motion helps some games & hurts others.
Servers are still active enough to find decent games regularly, although it's not like it was in its hey-day. Still fun to run around & snipe. I drew up a scope-dope chart & use various methods to range my targets. On my old account I had around 9800 kills with my M40A1, 12x scope, no other add-ons. Around 80% of those were headshots, & I was shooting with around a 35% hit percentage. Longest headshot was something like 2790 meters, which is pretty far with the M40. Hold-over puts the target nearly at the bottom of the post. I made that longest shot two or three or maybe four times, all in one match against the same two guys, & it required someone up ahead to 'mark' what I was shooting at. It was a pretty sick shot, probably had about 5 seconds of hang-time. Eventually the two guys who I kept hitting flew out in jets to where I was, bailed out on top of me, & assaulted me hand-to-hand since they were unable to make the shot against me. I had been hiding behind a jeep for some cover so I jumped in & ran one over (whilst tooting the horn), & I think I got the other one with the mounted 50cal. on the jeep, or with my hand-gun (probably tea-bagged him afterwards lol).