It's BROKEN, folks

One of my biggest problems was telling exactly who was on my team and who was an enemy.

I'm colorblind, so my squadmates show up in a very similar "color" as the enemy. I got killed multiple times by a guy I didn't even bother to shoot at b/c I thought he was on my team.

The guys I was in a party with were clearly blue, but other guys on our side were VERY similar to the guys on the other team.

Suffice it to say, I just struggled all the way around! lol

But hey, I've never backed away from a challenge...

FightingOkra75 wrote:

I commented to Chris that I had these same KD numbers in the last round of CoD but this is actually fun even when you are dying.

THIS! I always have a blast (ok.. 99% of the time) in BF3 even when repeatedly dying. If my team is getting destroyed i'll go on suicide missions in a buggy with C4 strapped to it to take out tanks... i'll get shot normally on the way to a tank and get blown sky high... but man it's fun! haha

Glad you guys had fun with it, but I bought BF3 when it first came out and tried and tried but just didn't like it, ended up selling it back. I'm just more of a run and gun type guy and don't have the patience for BF lol.

AK, check out your settings at the main menu. They do have a colorblind assist option. And here's a funny story about colorblindness:

Once while on a geological mapping project, we were told that at the end of the day we were to return to the vans by ~2pm. It was very hot and sunny. I was a member of a 3-person team, the other two being younger females. The project area was a few square miles of rough WY country. We were also told that, should we find ourselves lost or disoriented, we should hike out of the red beds and back to the green ones where we were likely to find familiar ground and the rest of the crew. Near the end of the day were were out of a sightline to the rest of the group. Following directions, I led the rest of my group along a trail that followed the red beds to what I thought were the green ones. We dead-ended in a slot canyon. By this time, the other two members had long finished their 1L water supply. When I realized they were both dehydrated (immediately after one of them had a clinical hysteria fit), I offered what remained of my 3L supply. I located our position on our topo map and backtracked to a known trail. We arrived at our rendezvous point some 2 hours late. Personal and professional lessons learned.

Nice Horst, must have been a wonderful time dealing with a hysterical woman.
I found out I was more color blind than I thought on the job when I was doing landscape inspections on a construction site for the state in 1990. The contractor had just finished placing boulders in the area they were to be and as I was walking up, I saw the foreman standing there pointing and counting off numbers. I looked around a bit trying to figure out what the hell he was counting and just didn't see a thing. Stupidly, I ask what are you counting? and of course the answer came back, the numbers on the rocks. My response, what the hell are you talking about?. Reply, the numbers written on the rocks. Me, are you kidding?. Him, no and he points. Well I come to find that some idiot thought it was a great idea to write with orange wax crayon on sandstone (brown, tan & black) rocks. Needless to say I agreed with the count and walked away feeling like a fool. Ugh the humility. Was funny shit looking back though.

Horst Schist wrote:

AK, check out your settings at the main menu. They do have a colorblind assist option. And here's a funny story about colorblindness:

Once while on a geological mapping project, we were told that at the end of the day we were to return to the vans by ~2pm. It was very hot and sunny. I was a member of a 3-person team, the other two being younger females. The project area was a few square miles of rough WY country. We were also told that, should we find ourselves lost or disoriented, we should hike out of the red beds and back to the green ones where we were likely to find familiar ground and the rest of the crew. Near the end of the day were were out of a sightline to the rest of the group. Following directions, I led the rest of my group along a trail that followed the red beds to what I thought were the green ones. We dead-ended in a slot canyon. By this time, the other two members had long finished their 1L water supply. When I realized they were both dehydrated (immediately after one of them had a clinical hysteria fit), I offered what remained of my 3L supply. I located our position on our topo map and backtracked to a known trail. We arrived at our rendezvous point some 2 hours late. Personal and professional lessons learned.

was this before they invented gps? lol

Nice Horst - it is now common knowledge amongst all of my golfing buddies to never hand me a red tee to use (if they want it back) as I can NOT find those f*ckers laying on the green grass.

Most of the time being partially colorblind is a non-issue - but there are those instances that make you feel like such an idiot.

I'll have to enable the colorblind assist on BF3 - it's always one of the first things i do with a new CoD game as well.