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Battlefield 3 Beta: Info and Meetups [Over]
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ColonialRaptor
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mr_nothin said:
Yeah that shaking is horrible when you're running half through the ground, and when someone is underground and shooting you invincibly... even worse.
But - is that a server side thing?
MrTroubleMaker
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I hope, it's not fun walking halfway though the floor.mr_nothin said:
SirButterstick
Banned
Battlelog is back up. No servers tho'.
It's weird but I almost like the decision of only having the cannon in the beginning for the jets and then you have to choose your armament later on. It creates a more intimate dogfighting experience with lots of tricks being pulled while AA units are firing at you all at the same time. Now mix in missiles and bombs and then you can have jets designed for specific roles where one F-18 will be A/A and the other will focus on A/G while cover them. I can't wait to see the A-10 and see what that adds to the mix.
Fucking unreal this game is. It's a mix of all the good things from BF2 and all the good things from the BC series while adding more on top of that to make it even bigger and more authentic. The sounds alone are amazing, especially hearing your pilot going through a high G turn. Then when you bail out, it's like a peaceful moment before returning to hell.
Speaking of which, anyone have any trouble when you bailed out of your jet at high altitudes? It said I needed to return to the battle and then suicided me like I was way off course when I was right above the tower.
Fucking unreal this game is. It's a mix of all the good things from BF2 and all the good things from the BC series while adding more on top of that to make it even bigger and more authentic. The sounds alone are amazing, especially hearing your pilot going through a high G turn. Then when you bail out, it's like a peaceful moment before returning to hell.
Speaking of which, anyone have any trouble when you bailed out of your jet at high altitudes? It said I needed to return to the battle and then suicided me like I was way off course when I was right above the tower.
johnFkennedy
Member
Valnen said:
I hope it's a beta but with 3 weeks before release I'm not too optimistic. This game has a LOT of issues.
Bugs I've encountered in my 45 minutes with the game:
- Ground clipping
-Blue tint covering the entirety of my screen after pausing the game
-Unable to pull up iron sights after respawning
-Spawning inside of geometry after spawning on squad and not being able to suicide in order to respawn
-Game freezes every time that I've tried to quit out to the main menu
-Party being put on different teams once we got into a game together
soulassssns
Banned
SirButterstick said:
not for me...
RebornYeti
Member
My Beta is about to finish downloading. I'm kinda excited to try it, but it sounds like the Beta is in rough shape, so I'm also kinda not excited haha.
I hope the gameplay is at least decent.
I hope the gameplay is at least decent.
GeneralIroh
Member
I hope by the time the final game gets released, the netcode receives a major overhaul because this game is pissing me off. Just like bc2 there's this annoying hit registration delay. Whenever I initiate the firefight where my shots produce multiple hit indicator flashes, the enemy often gets to drop me in fewer hits . Then when it shows the guy on the killcam it says he has 100% health or only 1 of my shots seem to have registered. Most of my shots are either on the upper torso or head so it doesn't make sense how the guy is still standing while I'm the who is dead.
computers putin'
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advice to anyone who lower body gets stuck under the geometry; run forward while jumping repeatedly, and hopefully you'll mount back up
Got to try it out on PC. Looks gorgeous, when you're not experiencing these glitches, and man are they rampant. I'm utterly shocked to see that many so close to release. These shakes from clipping is crazy along with the random "white flashes", first time I ever actually started to feel sick and got a headache when playing a game. I can't believe they let this version out for "open beta". It doesn't matter if it's "beta", I'm sure many people are going to be skeptical with launch so close.
And it seems from what I read that the consoles are no better.
And it seems from what I read that the consoles are no better.
That I do agree with. A decent baseline option should be available but I don't see it being too annoying on PC as long as the first unlock doesn't take too long because these jets can always get kills on ground targets as it is so they don't need to dogfight. So they could be support on a Rush map where the Attackers have the advantage and more at their disposal in the beginning.Kahoona said:
But right now, I didn't have missiles at all and the other jet did but I could still shake him and kill him with just a few basic maneuvers. It shouldn't be that hard and new people will just need to learn to fly first anyway since they wreck them constantly right now anyway, lol.
Maybe it'll scare people off from camping the runway so it could be a good thing in a way. It might be the novelty of the private servers with new people always trying to get in, but there's constantly 5+ people chilling on the runway with a lot more in most of my matches so far.
Eight Diagram Bat Fighter
Banned
You guys think a delay would be unthinkable right now, or you think EA would do it knowing the current problems it has right now?
thunker 9000
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I thought I read somewhere that Jets have had their bombs removed.Moaradin said:
Anyone confirm?
Absoludacrous
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Valnen said:
I have never in my life seen a beta this glitchy, this close to release.
I mean it's still fun when you get past all that, but damnnnnnn.
What sucks is that it wasnt present in the 1st half of the Alpha. It didnt start doing that until half way through the alpha. 1st half of Alpha was AMAZING in terms of netcode/hit registration and detection. Now, I get killed a whole second or 2 right after im fully prone behind a wall/rock. Also get hit behind/through rocks while im backing away from gunfire. I HATE itGeneralIroh said:
ColeTheMole
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thunker 9000
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hallelujahColeTheMole said:
Tallshortman
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Absoludacrous said:
Wasn't BC2 more glitchy in the beta and turned out relatively fine at retail? So there, now you've heard of one.
iSurvivedTheOutage
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bluerei said:
Highly doubt it. Im sure they would skin Unicorns and sacrifice Interns to Satan himself before they would miss that Oct. 25th date.
thunker 9000
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Welcome to playing video games over the internet. It's going to happen every once in a while.mr_nothin said:
Absoludacrous
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Tallshortman said:
BC2 didn't have these kinds of glitches. I still have faith they're not going to ship a game like this. I don't think anyone can get away with shipping a AAA game in this shape.
Tallshortman
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Absoludacrous said:
Are you talking about BC2 beta not having these glitches or BC2?
I'm not sure it's good news still though. You have to rely on a teammate marking a target for you with the SOFLAM which might be difficult unless you get some cooperative buddies in there. Basically any class would have been able to spot a tank for the jet and the jet could drop dummy bombs on there for close air support but you can't do that anymore and have to rely on a certain class to help you out.Pookaki said:
Yes, I know ground troops might not like it but that's the point of air superiority so I wish they'd have it as a specialization and it takes minutes for the bombs to reload. Either that or the A-10 better be able to wreck some vehicles with its cannon since it's supposed to be the CAS jet ingame.
So yea, I kind of understand but still don't think I like it. At least give the A-10 the option for dummy bombs to use since its whole point in the game is for ground support.
Oh man do I hope the 30mm on the A-10 will slow the plane down when you fire it. A few flight sims do that but BF3 seems to have a lot of authentic effects and that'd be awesome to see and it doesn't really affect gameplay since it's easy to speed up again. But prolonged fire of the cannon could stall you basically.