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Battlefield 3 Beta: Info and Meetups [Over]
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Herpes Reasons
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If you can't handle criticism well, don't respond to critiques and opinions.
And Any news on Caspian?
What a way to defuse this beta hype by removing its best map.
And Any news on Caspian?
What a way to defuse this beta hype by removing its best map.
MiloFoxburr
Member
F#A#Oo said:
Most BC2 maps were pretty crap, I love the game but I only ever played 2-3 maps in it.
Eight Diagram Bat Fighter
Banned
Ice Raven said:
They said that Caspian has completed testing, so they removed it.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
Lame. Total cockblock.bluerei said:
Eight Diagram Bat Fighter
Banned
K, I'm hopping in, name is atrabluerei
ConstructMe
Banned
You do know that post was vefore the beta launhced?X26 said:
Alright, so got into some games tonight on U.S servers with 60 ping. Hit detection was spot on and MUCH improved from alpha. I was going 19-5 and 19-11 on my last two games.
Most of my deaths though I was not feeling and here is why:
Often I would die from spawning---no not on my team mate. I understand the risk of spawning on a buddy and getting zapped, but I was back in our spawn, moved a foot forward and was getting popped as a defender. I would like 3-5 second spawn invincibility if I pick base so I don't get destroyed by some guy who managed to sneak his way into a corner of our spawn point out in the open so he can snipe away like a mad man.
My second reason for deaths, and the one that pissed me off so much in alpha, but I figured would be solved by beta.... team mates who spawn on me PUSH my mother fucking body out of my spot I'm in as prone. Jesus christ I want to just chuck my keyboard at the wall when I'm on a 7 kill streak stopping the enemies from fusing an objective, and then my squad mate pops on me, pushes me out of my secure snipe spot, and boom a RPG hits me, a sniper hits me, or some guy with a M16 pops me. IF I'M PRONE I SHOULD BE AN UNMOVABLE ROCK BY MY TEAM.
Also, did they change the laser sights since alpha? They blind the SHIT out of me, and no I don't mean the flash lights. Freaking ridiculous that even my team mates red laser sights also blind the crap out of me.
As for general feedback I feel it's nearly impossible for the attackers to win on the beta map if the defenders are even halfway decent. When I defend I can lock down key chokes without any issues and when I'm sniping it's...well like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Xdi4T8mgI&feature=related
Most of my deaths though I was not feeling and here is why:
Often I would die from spawning---no not on my team mate. I understand the risk of spawning on a buddy and getting zapped, but I was back in our spawn, moved a foot forward and was getting popped as a defender. I would like 3-5 second spawn invincibility if I pick base so I don't get destroyed by some guy who managed to sneak his way into a corner of our spawn point out in the open so he can snipe away like a mad man.
My second reason for deaths, and the one that pissed me off so much in alpha, but I figured would be solved by beta.... team mates who spawn on me PUSH my mother fucking body out of my spot I'm in as prone. Jesus christ I want to just chuck my keyboard at the wall when I'm on a 7 kill streak stopping the enemies from fusing an objective, and then my squad mate pops on me, pushes me out of my secure snipe spot, and boom a RPG hits me, a sniper hits me, or some guy with a M16 pops me. IF I'M PRONE I SHOULD BE AN UNMOVABLE ROCK BY MY TEAM.
Also, did they change the laser sights since alpha? They blind the SHIT out of me, and no I don't mean the flash lights. Freaking ridiculous that even my team mates red laser sights also blind the crap out of me.
As for general feedback I feel it's nearly impossible for the attackers to win on the beta map if the defenders are even halfway decent. When I defend I can lock down key chokes without any issues and when I'm sniping it's...well like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Xdi4T8mgI&feature=related
I don't know... does anyone else feel bored while playing the beta in its current state? I don't know if it's a more thrilling experience on the PC version because it can support more players, but I think the map is far too big for 24 players and I find myself wandering about minutes at a time with nothing to do.
Misterinenja
Member
This game crashes on me every time I try to mess around with settings.
Now that I´ve the 4x Acog on the American Medic kit the game is much more enjoyable. We won the round I got it as attackers and, for whatever reason, were attackers again in the next round. I was in the upper middle points wise and had an even kill-death ratio, but now I have to eat. Got almost as much points in one rounds than the hour before combined. Kinda stupid that weapons get upgraded on kills, not class points, IMO.
Still, it´s almost laughable how many points you get, or at least the amout of notifications. Shoot at group of guys with teammates close "Enemy down, headshot, supression kill assist, squad heal, squad heal, squad spwan on you, kill assist, enemy down".
Kill ten guys and heal a few people (not revive!) and you walk away with 2k points or more.
Still, it´s almost laughable how many points you get, or at least the amout of notifications. Shoot at group of guys with teammates close "Enemy down, headshot, supression kill assist, squad heal, squad heal, squad spwan on you, kill assist, enemy down".
Kill ten guys and heal a few people (not revive!) and you walk away with 2k points or more.
Metalmurphy
Member
Still no update on my end.
Liquid Helium
Member
I agree, the gun play in BC2 never felt right to me, the weapons felt too floaty. BF3's feels really good though. I also don't understand the reason people are saying metro's map design is shit, I can understand them wanting a different experience than it gives but I think from a level design standpoint it is fine. The third capture point especially feels really well done, the way it plays out when you have 2 even teams who are at least semi-decent is great.NBtoaster said:
Lostconfused
Member
Because an infantry only map isn't really a battle field map. That and tons of narrow corridors.Liquid Helium said:
MiloFoxburr
Member
F#A#Oo said:
Actually sorry, looking at the map list I liked more Maps than I thought lol. Really hated Nelson Bay and a couple of others though. I think my hatred of Nelson Bay might of tainted my memories of the maps in general.
Game just exits randomly however usually on spawn with no error code... Just crashes/closes...
Lateset ati drivers with correct 11.10 bf3 drivers and all upto date on bf3 beta (3gb patch ensures confidence that the engine may possibly have horrible patch implementation or it's just due to it beign beta)
GPU and CPU temps all fine.
Can only imagine crunch time for getting the full game out will be hard, sloppy, followed by mass burn out from the dev team and staff allocated to other projects and like 2 random people left to patch/fix the rest of the game ala bfbc2 after it's went gold.
In an ideal world:
*I'd love to hear about dedication towards future support and not just promoting what DLC you'll be flogging in a few months time.....
I don't mean facebook, twitter and other social integration rubbish, I mean actual patches and corrections.
*Tell us how has punkbuster has improved & why it'll keep the playing field fair because PB site looks like it's a $2 operation and history has proven it's banned a lot of people but it's also near-useless. They aren't open for job applications, they sned automated replied emails when you give them an addy directed to a site that sells bfbc2 cheats thus bypassing the lousy anti-cheat client. They don't amend it or update the database. How do these people still have jobs?
*Working closely with ATI/Nvidia with drivers
*Tell people that Q is used to spot people ffs!
*Jewelers polishing away at the potential jewel.
*Not keeping people in the dark about patches/fixes. Ignoring a customer would result in a loss of sale in a retail store, yet once you've got our money in the digital game world you can basically tell us to go blow our selves and there is little recourse.
*Acknowledge and admit bugs you're aware of & actually tell us which once you're working towards fixing & let us know which ones you're ignoring instead of keeping people hopes up.
*Actually listening to reported bugs/glitches brought up in BETA and correct those issues. NOT the bfbc2 way where the beta bugs were and are still in it 2 years later.
*DICE wont immediately start work on a MOH basically leaving 1 person left to fix bugs present in BF3.
*I'm wrong and DICE will do a fantastic job providing after sales support and punkbuster will improve incredibly. ATI and Nvidia drivers 100% solid for both single and mult gpu. More blood..... This is a battlefield right? yeah a g rated battlefield by the looks of things.
Lateset ati drivers with correct 11.10 bf3 drivers and all upto date on bf3 beta (3gb patch ensures confidence that the engine may possibly have horrible patch implementation or it's just due to it beign beta)
GPU and CPU temps all fine.
Can only imagine crunch time for getting the full game out will be hard, sloppy, followed by mass burn out from the dev team and staff allocated to other projects and like 2 random people left to patch/fix the rest of the game ala bfbc2 after it's went gold.
In an ideal world:
*I'd love to hear about dedication towards future support and not just promoting what DLC you'll be flogging in a few months time.....
I don't mean facebook, twitter and other social integration rubbish, I mean actual patches and corrections.
*Tell us how has punkbuster has improved & why it'll keep the playing field fair because PB site looks like it's a $2 operation and history has proven it's banned a lot of people but it's also near-useless. They aren't open for job applications, they sned automated replied emails when you give them an addy directed to a site that sells bfbc2 cheats thus bypassing the lousy anti-cheat client. They don't amend it or update the database. How do these people still have jobs?
*Working closely with ATI/Nvidia with drivers
*Tell people that Q is used to spot people ffs!
*Jewelers polishing away at the potential jewel.
*Not keeping people in the dark about patches/fixes. Ignoring a customer would result in a loss of sale in a retail store, yet once you've got our money in the digital game world you can basically tell us to go blow our selves and there is little recourse.
*Acknowledge and admit bugs you're aware of & actually tell us which once you're working towards fixing & let us know which ones you're ignoring instead of keeping people hopes up.
*Actually listening to reported bugs/glitches brought up in BETA and correct those issues. NOT the bfbc2 way where the beta bugs were and are still in it 2 years later.
*DICE wont immediately start work on a MOH basically leaving 1 person left to fix bugs present in BF3.
*I'm wrong and DICE will do a fantastic job providing after sales support and punkbuster will improve incredibly. ATI and Nvidia drivers 100% solid for both single and mult gpu. More blood..... This is a battlefield right? yeah a g rated battlefield by the looks of things.
Chinner said:
I'm still going to buy it, but yeah, Metro is really awful imo. Especially that terrible Subway portion. And like others have said, it's really easy to defend if you work well together. I'm more of a Conquest guy, so I guess it doesn't matter a whole lot, but the map is just not that good.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
This game still uses 100% of my CPU all of a sudden and is performing horribly. No idea why.
To compare, I just played The Witcher 2 on max settings and it used 68% of my CPU and ran like a dream.
I have no idea why BF3 has decided to break for me, but it has.
To compare, I just played The Witcher 2 on max settings and it used 68% of my CPU and ran like a dream.
I have no idea why BF3 has decided to break for me, but it has.
This game runs pretty damn good on my GTX460 OC and 2500k i5. Even my laptop could run it so I can play when I visit my parents, so I don´t need to talk to them XD
Graphics of course are pretty sweet. Sound is amazing. Gamneplay is awesome. But there is one thing that had me excited.
Under options. You can choose which monitor the game should use when it goes fullscreen <3
I always game on my secondary monitor which is my 50 inch Panasonic Plasma. Now I don´t need to change it to primary. Comfy couch mouse+keyboard gamning truly makes PC gaming the master race.
Love you DICE!
Now please connect my PS3 account to my PC account so I don´t need to unlock everything twice.
Graphics of course are pretty sweet. Sound is amazing. Gamneplay is awesome. But there is one thing that had me excited.
Under options. You can choose which monitor the game should use when it goes fullscreen <3
I always game on my secondary monitor which is my 50 inch Panasonic Plasma. Now I don´t need to change it to primary. Comfy couch mouse+keyboard gamning truly makes PC gaming the master race.
Love you DICE!
Now please connect my PS3 account to my PC account so I don´t need to unlock everything twice.
Foliorum Viridum said:This game still uses 100% of my CPU all of a sudden and is performing horribly. No idea why.
To compare, I just played The Witcher 2 on max settings and it used 68% of my CPU and ran like a dream.
I have no idea why BF3 has decided to break for me, but it has.
BF3 & BFBC2 utilizes 100% cpu also on my i5 750 @ 3.5, which kinda indicates the engine was built around the strengths of the consoles and frostbite 1.5 or 2.0 o whatever is possibly doing the same.
Sorry if this has been posted in previous pages, but is anybody else getting password errors?
I can't log in to BF3 because I get an error stating they are having problems with password's that contain special characters, and mine does.
They have a message saying the fix for this is to update your password to something without special characters, but when I try to update my password I just get a system error.
Anyone know of a fix for this?
I can't log in to BF3 because I get an error stating they are having problems with password's that contain special characters, and mine does.
They have a message saying the fix for this is to update your password to something without special characters, but when I try to update my password I just get a system error.
Anyone know of a fix for this?
fabricated backlash
Member
So far I gotta say that OP Metro is probably the worst Rush Map I've played. It's a mess. And I know that this is a complaint that is specific to consoles, but the graphics are really weird. On one hand you have great animations and some nice lightning, on the other you have blocky ass environments, and interiors that look cheap as hell (especially on the last set of M-Coms.) then there are some instances where you have to wonder if DICE has just discovered speculars for the first time. In particular the floor on the subway plattforms looks like it's been polished and waxed to perfection much like early xbox games overdoing the vaseline on surfaces look.
Gameplay seems to be ok for the most part (except for some very poor hitboxes at times), and since this is a beta I'm not going to nitpick on all the technical issues, but honestly I am not impressed with it, and certainly not with the map.
If all goes well I'm going to build a new PC early next year, and I'll just get it for that then.
Gameplay seems to be ok for the most part (except for some very poor hitboxes at times), and since this is a beta I'm not going to nitpick on all the technical issues, but honestly I am not impressed with it, and certainly not with the map.
If all goes well I'm going to build a new PC early next year, and I'll just get it for that then.
Metalmurphy
Member
You could completely destroy some buildings in the Caspian Border map.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
playing it right now, seems well done., Metro at least. I'm having some issues with key bindings though since it won't accept my mouse key for jumping
also, how do you take screenshots?
also, how do you take screenshots?
Calibur said:I think DICE overhyped the Destruction in this game, most of the mass Destruction will be taking place in single player.
I think it was pretty cool on Caspian. When every round started you could see people running tanks through buildings, shooting down walls, in their own base. Just to try it out, and it looked pretty awesome to me.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Either the shotgun is very overpowered or I am actually good at the game, I think over powered part is the most likely though, was pretty average before that but with shotgun I can just rush around killing everyone with one shot kills.
You can't bind mouse buttons for some reason. :/
Screenshots : use fraps or something like it.
Anasui Kishibe said:
You can't bind mouse buttons for some reason. :/
Screenshots : use fraps or something like it.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
thank you very much, BBB. Shucks though because I cant adapt to a online FPS without right mouse jump :/
and I noticed a screenshots folder....uhmmm
and I noticed a screenshots folder....uhmmm
Metalmurphy
Member
jokkir said:
You need to restart the game.