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Battlefield 3 Beta: Info and Meetups [Over]
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SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
But on the plus side, it makes engineers slightly better than useless in Metro.AndyD said:
Anyone explain to me its only 24 players on consoles even though the game runs on dedicated servers? That other game on ps3 had like 128 players or some shit? Are EA/Dice just being cheap as they're paying for the dedicated servers unlike on PC where the community makes their own servers?
Does anyone else find it really annoying that the "accept revive" key is the same as the jump key?
So when you get revived, you're essentially prone, but to accept the revive you press space which makes you stand up and expose yourself if you were originally killed from cover...
They should really bind that to a different key so you can accept the revive and stay prone without having to instantly prone again after standing up, it's silly.
So when you get revived, you're essentially prone, but to accept the revive you press space which makes you stand up and expose yourself if you were originally killed from cover...
They should really bind that to a different key so you can accept the revive and stay prone without having to instantly prone again after standing up, it's silly.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Vehicles too. Someone at DICE did a writeup on the reason for the player count.AndyD said:
rabhw said:
This has annoyed me so much, not sure if its intenional or just the usual dice fuck up without thinking when implementing this.
Mit- said:Success?
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2826551518966795507/3/
Now I just need my static minimap, and some way of seeing the entire map layout, preferably on the deployment screen.
6 player squads on PC would be nice tooI understand limiting it to four on consoles, but why on PC? There's so many more players in our 64 player rounds.
Gooood to hear, but man, they needed days to communicate this ... DICE what the heck are you doing ...
Legato.Reborn-
Member
Keasar said:Eh, I am starting to tire of this beta. All I do now is drive my RC-deathmachine around and run over people. I am tired of playing on a cerealbox sized map. I just want my 64 player epic conquest battles and a T90 tank to drive around in.
3 weeks.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Hopefully. Games coming out in November are coming out of cert but still no sign of BF3.Legato.Reborn- said:
Nostalgia~4ever
Banned
SapientWolf said:
ceo of dice just reconfirmed october 25th, no worries
Keasar said:
lol Robbaz is hilarious, his full Caspian video is gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0r-7iYf9qI&feature=relmfu
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Support Class + UMP45 + Holo + Tactical Light + Suppressor = One Man Fucking army
Goddamn refilling your own supply + getting team/squad supplied (BONUS points)
Never Ending killing spree
Goddamn refilling your own supply + getting team/squad supplied (BONUS points)
Never Ending killing spree
legacyzero
Banned
"oh shit! oh shit! We YUMPED over him! We YUMPED over him!"
ColonialRaptor
Member
Max said:
I play on an Apple iMac 27" as my Monitor because I believe the Apple monitors are the best you can get and they look the most clear and vibrant in my personal opinion. It also means I have a Mac at the same time.
These are my specs:
i7-860 @ 4.0Ghz w/ Corsair H50 Cooler (HT Disabled)
TRIFIRE 1x 6990 + 1x 6950 Unlocked @ 880/1375
16 GB Corsair Dominator 8-8-8-24 PC1600 DDR3 RAM
G.Skill Falcon 2 120GB SSD
Not a cheap setup by any standard, but I set it up especially for BF3, as soon as the new Intel processors come out I'll be buying an i7-3980K and an X79 Motherboard with a Corsair H100 Cooler to go with it.
Does the beta have autobalance? Because I was just playing a game with a few gaffers where it started out even (attackers were rolling defenders) then for whatever reason more people kept joining the defenders side as attackers started leaving and there was no auto-delegation. Lead to a rather cheap victory for defenders considering the lack of teamwork from those that were left.
ColonialRaptor
Member
aperman said:
I literally rigged an iMac to be my display lol... it's crazy yes I know, but I wanted to have a Mac as well as a PC so I can switch on the fly between the two by hitting a couple of buttons on the Mac Keyboard and boom it's a Mac, hit the keys again and BOOM it's a PC, it's ace.
It means that I can be in a game and not have to ALT+TAB out if I want to post on forums and things, it's just a matter of switching the display input, very good - and I prefer to use the Mac for browsing (among other things, like viewing PDF documents and some images etc) but overall, I tend to use the PC primarily.
I run at full 2560 and get pretty much no less than 60fps with everything Ultra, 4xAA, HBAO, no VSYNC (it actually CAUSES tearing for me), so essentially I've got EVERYTHING EVERYTHING maxed.
I simple CANNOT wait for the new CPU's to come out, six core twelve thread minimum 5Ghz overclock MADNESS, it's going to be SUHWHEET! I'm hoping the CPU will give a big performance benefit to my two graphics cards, also the 2x PCIe 16 lanes will be of benefit as well, at the time I might even consider putting in a second 6990 if I can afford it...
ColonialRaptor
Member
Do people know if you can setup this game to fly and drive vehicles with an xbox 360 controller on PC? Could you do that on BC2?
Woo-Fu
Banned
OG Kush said:
It comes down to one thing: RAM. Consoles don't have enough.
In other news I started using smoke grenades this evening and let me tell you, they make a huge difference if you're attacking. I used the smoke grenades 2 rounds, got the MCOM destruction ribbon 2 rounds. I did die a lot, though. You're pretty much dead meat if you get caught reloading the smoke launcher by anybody with a gun.
The hard part is getting the rest of your team to pull their collective thumb out and use the smoke to assault to the next set of cover.
Yes, I mentioned it a few times when Caspian was up. Since joysticks weren't working, I emulated my DS3 as a 360 controller and BF3 picked it up fine with most of the controls already laid out and only a few needed tweaking. Depending on your controller, you might still want to remove the foot and ground vehicle controls for them if you're only using the controller for flying, but mine is fine and doesn't interfere with using the keyboard for anything else.ColonialRaptor said:
BC2 was hard to set up and joysticks were mostly broken there too. I ended up using an external program to make my controller work like a 360 controller again since the ingame options didn't like any of it.
legacyzero
Banned
Or the German guys from Beer Fest LOLJ-Rzez said:
ColonialRaptor
Member
Pity caspian isn't still up to check it out.demolitio said:
I've got a Hotas X and it's perfect for jets, but Choppers are another matter, probably can't have both though...
The hotas is a bulky bastard and I bought it primarily for BF3 but all the buttons wouldnt map properly, I hope that gets fixed by the full game or I'm going to have to be pissed off and suffice with the 360 controller... But I was so looking forward to dog fighting properly.
It doesn't do anything on mine.Moaradin said:
Also, odds every game I join tonight is a defender team getting steamrolled? It's five in a row so far. When I first played this I didn't think it would be possible to see attackers winning and so far I've yet to play a match tonight where the attackers aren't gangraping the defenders. People are so bad at this game.
Edit: Oh yay, first game I'm not attacker we can't even get out of the first area. For the love of God...
la flama blanca
Banned
So how are people still getting into caspian border?
Ezduo said:
It won't go off idly. You have to be in range of someone and just hold down left click and it will burn them. I have done some hilarious plant -> EOD defends before. When you get a kill with it, it doesn't display a weapon type, which is a shame, since I want to shame people with Joe [EOD BOT] Nab.
Man, I just had the best match. We were on offense and started off so well. Took down the park and first subway objectives very smoothly. Then something went wrong. We couldn't even get close to the upstairs objectives. The other team got on a huge roll and was just cutting through us like crazy no matter how we came at them. The whole team got wiped and we ended up spawning back downstairs. We had 10 tickets left and neither objective was taken. Suddenly, without any kind of conversation, we just came together and pulled it off. We were down to 1 ticket when both MCOMs blew, almost simultaneously. The final area was a cakewalk, we got back all of our lost momentum. Everyone else went out the front doors of the subway while I went out the side and did an end-around to objective B. There was only one guy on it and I caught him off guard. While the rest of the defenders turned to see who was covering B, the rest of my team plowed through them and took A. Game over.
I mentioned this on the other Battlefield 3 thread, but I thought I would post it here too:
Was listening to Epic Battle Cry this morning and during the panels 'battle cry of the week' segment one of the panellists (cant remember his name) said that 'apparently' the console versions of the Beta are deliberately running on lower quality textures to make the downloads as small as possible, with the full retail release sporting higher quality textures.
Don't know how true this is, but it certainly gives some food for thought - especially with this HD Hard drive install pack that comes with the 360 version of Battlefield 3....
EDIT: The rumour is mentioned @ 31:13
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/skirmish-134-epicbattlecry/721718
Was listening to Epic Battle Cry this morning and during the panels 'battle cry of the week' segment one of the panellists (cant remember his name) said that 'apparently' the console versions of the Beta are deliberately running on lower quality textures to make the downloads as small as possible, with the full retail release sporting higher quality textures.
Don't know how true this is, but it certainly gives some food for thought - especially with this HD Hard drive install pack that comes with the 360 version of Battlefield 3....
EDIT: The rumour is mentioned @ 31:13
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/skirmish-134-epicbattlecry/721718
Ubersnug said:
That's by far the most ridiculous thing I've heard with regards to BF3. PC version lacking options is one thing ( it helps reign in the user base in some regard ) but the console versions are made and optimized for one build, one set of hardware basically.