Damn you Parachute..

Why wont my parachute open when i want it to? Is there some magic trick to it or combination of buttons I'm supposed to do to get it to open? I will spam the 'A' button when jumping off a building and what do I get for my impeccable spamming abilities? You committed suicide. Thanks parachute for not being there for me when I needed you most. /Rage Quit

Am I alone on this?

This happens to me all the time. Parachute just sucks...

I like to make a game out of the parachute. Deploy it at a very high altitude and see how many jets you can dodge as they try and roadkill you.

They killed the parachute in BF3...
It will open in 2 stages, first it will take about a second to open all the way, then it will slow you properly.
I've actually taken damage from a very high fall where my parachute had over 20 seconds to open all the way.

Yeah parachute is trash, it actually worked on BFBC2. They should of added repelling out of support choppers would of been safer

If you do it just right, sometimes you can jump high as you exit the roof and spam your chute button while holding back on the stick to slow down. This nets little or no damage from a 2nd story fall.

Because you're jumping of a Third-Story building. There is no way a parachute would have time to open up.

Use common sense people, if the building is to high to jump off in real life without serious injury or death, it probably is to high for you in the game as well.

If a parachute wouldn't open in real life, it probably wont in the game as well. That is how it should work, this isn't Just Cause 2 where you can just open a parachute at any height without any velocity or whatever.

Use common sense! A parachute isn't for jumping off 3-story buildings and landing safe!

Well whatever story the warehouses are on firestorm

Not enough for the parachute to open up mate

In all fairness I think the parachute works fine, because if you're only jumping from a building in real life, do you expect it to open off the high winds?, when you come to landing, just pull back to slow down, and you land smoothly and perfectly. it's alright man, just stop trying to bail around the map at 50mph

you have to pull back right before you hit the ground... it acts as a brake and stops your momentum

I find myself pressing the space bar repeatedly but then when it finally opens I end up pressing the space bar again by accident and so it closes my parachute and I suffer a large amount of damage.

you cant close your parachute once opened, you are taking damage because you dont pull back at the moment you land

Bah! I gotta learn how to use it properly. I hardly ever parachute. #fail

It took me a while to get used to the parachutes in BF3. Like someone else said, you could jump off of anything in BFBC2 and open your chute and not take damage. I splattered so many times in the beginning due to forgetting they made them more realistic in BF3.

They really need to fix this , I understand they wanted a realistics game but come on IT is a freaking game!!! BC2 had this perfected! Why can't they just get it fixed and done and make us ALL happy? It is too much to ask?

You cant really win with the parachute in Battlefield games.
Bad Company 2's parachute was too good, jumping downstairs enabled you to pull your chute... Now on BF3 it does piss all.
Granted, a real parachute does take like 100+ meters to open, but this is a game...

To combat the damage when you land, pull back on your chute with your S key [or whatever it is on your consoles controller] before you touch down, it'll stall your chute and slow you down enough to prevent damage. Most of the time...

I would love rappel lines from the transport helos... Need a Blackhawk really though, for dramatic movie effect.

Mmmm...I guess next time I jump a 3 story building I will put on my marshmallow boots