

But sometimes my aim is a little off and I end up hitting a wall or the floor close by which causes me to suicide. I switch to my defibrillator then revive, and then switch to my M203 so I can launch some nades. A perfect example of this is one of my Assault macros. Now, with the press of one button, you pull out your defibrillator, dive, revive, pull out your pistol and got points for not only reviving your teammate, but also a kill.ĭisadvantages of using macros can come about from poor planning when programming. And sometimes if it is a real fierce battle, over excitement can get the best of you causing you, the one reviving to become one that needs revived. This is alot of steps to take to revive your teammate. You need to switch to you gun so you can protect yourself. At this point an enemy could be right up on you. To use this, you have to select it, and then most of the time you have to dive to the down player just so you can get a little cover then you actually left click to trigger it. In Battlefield 3 when you play as assault, you have your defibrillator. Macros are very helpful with certain classes that you may play. Or, you can do this by pressing a macro, a one button that has been programmed to do this for you in a shorter amount of time and less amount of effort. Well, you could do this by pressing your secondary weapon hotkey (2) and then left mouse clicking several times.

An example of this would be if you are a sniper zoomed into someone and you need to quickly zoom out, switch to your pistol and then fire off a round of shots because you noticed an enemy right behind you. What is a macro? A macro is basically a series of hotkeys or multiple keystrokes that are combined into one button. For this article, I am going to introduce the pros and cons of using macros in FPS games.

If you have a keyboard, mouse or even headphone macros and you don’t use them for FPS games like Battlefield 3, Call of Duty or any other First Person Shooters, you are missing a world of helpful tools that are readily at your disposal. How many does he use for Battlefield 3? 0. For my gaming buddy and Modding partner, Omning has 15 keyboard macros. What am I talking about? Keyboard Macros. Many of us have them, but not many of us use them.
