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Battlefield 3 Beta: Info and Meetups [Over]
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So are they just pretending the console beta is not a completely glitchy and ugly mess? Have they said anything at all?? The image keeps blinking, everything keeps twitching and flashing as you walk around, it's a pain to move around the environment because you keep getting stuck on little things, or dropping from the map... seems like a game 12 months away from release. Bad Company 2 looked and played so smooth on console.
Anton Sugar
Member
HotHamWater said:
Yup, I'd say at the very least, it's three weeks old. Probably closer to a month--would be surprised if this wasn't the Gamescom build. They announced the commo rose (not in Beta), destruction is still on the same level as the Alpha, they said the middle tower of Caspian is destructible (not in Beta), etc. Has to be a fairly old build.
darkwing said:
Or you could coordinate with your team, spot enemies, and win? Working as a team beats campers every time.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Letters said:
Whats funny is they'll probably fix a majority of the glaring issues before the beta's over and everyone will forget about how bad it was immediately.
A lot of those issues are in the PC as well and evidently PC was improved while the console versions were stuck in certification limbo. I'm pretty sure that the console beta build is from mid-August at the latest, by my estimation. Since beta builds have to be split from the rest of development to get them ready to go I assume that would take a couple of weeks. The console versions were in certification for most of September and were released a little over a week after certification was cleared. Since a lot of the visual aspects are the last things to be polished and we've gotten some good console footage since then (Operation Guillotine 360) I'm hoping for a decent visual jump and for most of those glitches to be gone.Letters said:
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Is "join friend" on PS3 broken or does it just not do anything at all because his game might be full?
Relaxed Muscle
Member
PS3 players apparently don't know what the radio bacon: first Ihide ir pretty well, to have an advantage in one m-comm, they didn't find it, next time I put it more on the open just for curiosity when I was sniping in one of the buildings in the last set on Metro, they kill me but.....they didn't destroyed the radio when it was pretty close to me, so I respawned...they kill me...I respawned again....they kill me....and I respawned again and took the dogtag of one of them.
After playing a BF on PC I realized how much different are the player base and their different styles.
After playing a BF on PC I realized how much different are the player base and their different styles.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Oh god why have they taken down the Caspian Border servers, why?!
I can't go back to Metro. Its dogshit. I was almost entirely put off the game when I played that map, but after sneaking into Caspian I was back on board again.
Throw the switch, EA. Its clearly ready to be played, don't you two tier an open beta like assholes.
I can't go back to Metro. Its dogshit. I was almost entirely put off the game when I played that map, but after sneaking into Caspian I was back on board again.
Throw the switch, EA. Its clearly ready to be played, don't you two tier an open beta like assholes.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Didn't work for me last night at all (360, couldn't sign in), I said f' this and threw in Gears 3.
SirButterstick
Banned
Pie and Beans said:
I'm in the same boat. I didn't hate metro, but after playing Caspian, I can't go back.
Sho_Nuff82 said:
Looks like they are restarting all the servers now.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/devblog/view/2826551894249002797/
Should be back up soon. 360 servers are getting restarted first.
digita1alchemy
Member
Does the T-UGS actually work? I was excited to unlock it last night because I loved motion mines in BC2, but it doesn't seem to do much of anything... I think I read somewhere that if enemies crouch or crawl by it they won't be detected, so maybe that's what was happening.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I knew it was over when the browser hacks came out.Woo-Fu said:
Anton Sugar
Member
digita1alchemy said:
They beep (too quiet, IMO) and they're supposed to show enemies briefly on the minimap, but that doesn't appear to be working.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
It may be listed as a 'beta' but I don't think anyones fooled as to the purpose of it. Its a glorified demo with that "work in progress" part highlighted, all the while hyping up the game.
Lump someone with Metro and they'll call the game dogshit choke-point sniper camping heaven.
Let someone play some Caspian and they'll hype your game faster than an unlock code for a gold dildo attachment to the SVD ever will.
Hell, I don't think Battlefield even works without vehicles. They're absolutely essential for breaking forward in a mode like Rush rather than some endless sniping stalemate of who see's who first with such low health. Not fun.
Lump someone with Metro and they'll call the game dogshit choke-point sniper camping heaven.
Let someone play some Caspian and they'll hype your game faster than an unlock code for a gold dildo attachment to the SVD ever will.
Hell, I don't think Battlefield even works without vehicles. They're absolutely essential for breaking forward in a mode like Rush rather than some endless sniping stalemate of who see's who first with such low health. Not fun.
I wrote this in an email chain to my BF3 buddies, but figured it might be constructive here:
I agree with pretty much all your pros/cons. I'm trying to remember back to BF2 days and how the damage worked out, but I don't remember it being this crazy. I hate to say it, but they really need to scale the damage down significantly. As much fun as we all have playing hardcore on BC2, even that gives you enough of a fighting chance for teamwork to come into play. You can take a shot or two (even on BC2 hardcore) and retreat around the corner, refill on your ammo, refill on your health and then push out again in BC2. In BF3 beta, you get popped once, you are down for the count.
Not only are you down for the count, but you are likely not getting revived either. Why? I had Defibs for the entire night last night and every attempt I made to revive the team, I died instantly because the same prone asshole that took out 3 people in front of me in 1 clip proceeds to take me down before I can revive. My biggest gripe so far is with the damage models. As it stands now, it really doesn't matter at all what class you are, you won't stay alive long enough for the class perks to make a single difference.
Assault/Medic - Healing doesn't matter, you are dead in 1 shot. Revives are impossible to pull of because you die in 1 shot.
Support - You'll die before you need ammo. Even if you don't die, everyone starts off with like 5 clips. Suppression is an awesome idea, but even the support guns 1 shot people so really you are killing more than you are suppressing a position.
Engineer - Tough to say as we haven't played with vehicles yet.
Recon - Seems pretty good actually. I like the mobile spawn points. Sniper rifle lens glare needs to be toned down.
If they scale down the damage to BC2 levels, i think the game will be incredible. Also might be nice to put in significant movement penalties for prone positions. As of right now prone players can rotate 360 degrees as if they were standing. Moving into/out of prone is also basically as quick as running.
This has turned into a completely unstructured critique so I'll stop now.
TLDR; tone the damage way down, fix squads, fix server browser.
I agree with pretty much all your pros/cons. I'm trying to remember back to BF2 days and how the damage worked out, but I don't remember it being this crazy. I hate to say it, but they really need to scale the damage down significantly. As much fun as we all have playing hardcore on BC2, even that gives you enough of a fighting chance for teamwork to come into play. You can take a shot or two (even on BC2 hardcore) and retreat around the corner, refill on your ammo, refill on your health and then push out again in BC2. In BF3 beta, you get popped once, you are down for the count.
Not only are you down for the count, but you are likely not getting revived either. Why? I had Defibs for the entire night last night and every attempt I made to revive the team, I died instantly because the same prone asshole that took out 3 people in front of me in 1 clip proceeds to take me down before I can revive. My biggest gripe so far is with the damage models. As it stands now, it really doesn't matter at all what class you are, you won't stay alive long enough for the class perks to make a single difference.
Assault/Medic - Healing doesn't matter, you are dead in 1 shot. Revives are impossible to pull of because you die in 1 shot.
Support - You'll die before you need ammo. Even if you don't die, everyone starts off with like 5 clips. Suppression is an awesome idea, but even the support guns 1 shot people so really you are killing more than you are suppressing a position.
Engineer - Tough to say as we haven't played with vehicles yet.
Recon - Seems pretty good actually. I like the mobile spawn points. Sniper rifle lens glare needs to be toned down.
If they scale down the damage to BC2 levels, i think the game will be incredible. Also might be nice to put in significant movement penalties for prone positions. As of right now prone players can rotate 360 degrees as if they were standing. Moving into/out of prone is also basically as quick as running.
This has turned into a completely unstructured critique so I'll stop now.
TLDR; tone the damage way down, fix squads, fix server browser.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
vidal said:
games coming out in like 25 days. Beta is a polite way of letting people play slightly older code under the guise of server stress testing. If a map like Caspian isn't ready to be played, then either this game is getting delayed or it's launch is gonna be an ugly one.
agree with everyone saying damage models on infantry need scaling back a whole lot. classes are pointless when it all seems like a suicide mission to fulfill a support role.