Dude, just play at your own pace. Play when you feel like it and when you enjoy it!
that's all! Ignore the people who are only in it for points and stats, I rather play
with a motivated level 1 'noob' than with an arrogant level 50 number crusher!

Ah cool, yeah you were on and BladeHD I think which I'm guessing may be your brother, your team was whooping us pretty bad since most on my team were not really trying to control the docks or working as groups, thanks for the info on how to switch teams, for some reason I didn't seem to be able to but I will try next time.

Yeah I'm no tactical genius either and a relative noob at BF3, the main thing to do when on a pub server by yourself is just try to stick together around other teammates, some of them seem to be pretty clueless about working together and just treat it like deathmatch but if you stick around them at least they might flush out enemy shooters for you or help kill the enemy if they start shooting you.

Other than that just focus on team goals and control of the map, that seems to be the most effective thing.

I tend to play mostly Assault (medic) to keep the team healed and revive when it makes sense, or I switch to engineer when there's enemy armor dominating, both of those classes seem pretty good to learn the game.

BlueFlameHD

i think after I left, you kept killing him, lol, he'd get 2 guys then you'd get him almost everytime.

that last few rounds i played, the team you were on was trying to camp, in TDM, Camping = Death. The maps are too small to camp on, you got at least 8-12 players for the other team running around, with random spawns, which means they can literally (and I have on several occasions been on both ends of this) spawn next to an enemy player giving the spawned player an advantage.

People that set Spawn beacons in TDM are either trying to land on a roof or top of a crane, or just planting a dedicated point for his entire squad to spawn to make it easier to stay together. snipers that camp on the corners of the maps are easy targets.

one round, we had 4 squads, and each squad literally had a spawn beacon hidden in the back corner of the map. so we always spawned under cover and together.

Team Deathmatch is just a simple running gunfight, correct? Whoever gets to a certain number of kills first wins the match...

pretty much

Cool that was him alright, he got me his share of times too

I didn't really know how the Spawn beacons work yet, but I pretty much figured out which areas the other team seemed to be coming from and I started patrolling it and trying to get the drop on you guys from a direction that most of my teammates were not coming from... good fun while learning.

Looking forward to getting on the same squad sometime soon.

i like the new guys/campers that always go back to the same spot... easy pickings.

If you're new to BF3, you'll need to be tolerant of the large number of cheaters that are about. PunkBuster appears to be completely ineffectual in identifying these players. What you'll mainly see is a lot of single-shot kills (from ludicrous distances), and invulnerability; The best I saw was the other day on Scrapmetal. One guy was running along the front of a building. He was approaching a player who was shooting him. He was pursued by a player who was shooting him. And I was shooting him from the opposite building. He took so much damage he should have been blown to bits, but still he kept on running! That UK server was rife with this type of thing AND was supposedly running PinkBuster. I've frequently been killed by an apparently invulnerable soldier and then seen in death-cam that they are on 0% health and still fully active, no attempt at healing or any character yelling about being chewed up, etc. More often, you'll shoot someone, see the hits making them waver, but after they then turn around and do you in with a single shot, you'll see they are on 100% health. It's actually really getting on my tits lately as it seems to be on the rise. I can't wait for Arma3.

^ this is why I play on my own server with people I know and kick out players that are obviously cheating (or are really good. Its a junior varsity server )