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Battlefield 3 |OT2| Mine! RendeZook! Wa Isl!
- Thread starter The Faceless Master
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Canis lupus
Member
Bandar Desert just looks beautiful.
polyh3dron
Banned
THS fixed it for me... Such a pain in the ass.
Other PITA for me is that I've been trying to go through the campaign with an Xbox controller and all the on-screen button prompts still tell me what to press on the keyboard. It's confusing as all hell, and sometimes the equivalent buttons don't even work for the QTEs and I end up dying.
lostsupper
Banned
When I started BF3 on PC (after 800+ hours on 360) I had it in my head to play through the campaign. The first QTE popped up and I said "what the fuck is that" out loud, failed the event, then went to multiplayer. Let the record show that it was a "left mouse button."
Icefire1424
Member
Yea, I laughed entirely too hard at that. Primarially because I think that was my exact reaction.
Minor QTE Spoiler:
Yup, got killed by the damn rat...
Haha, I've been using the USAS with slugs which is such a ridiculous but fun weapon to use. Hiphire is absolutely useless, as is the rest of the gun in most situations but getting those 1-2 shot kills feels pretty good.
I love that people call me an USAS noob when it's really quite terrible and totally fair to use on 64p conquest Operation Firestorm.
I love that people call me an USAS noob when it's really quite terrible and totally fair to use on 64p conquest Operation Firestorm.
Shame the battlereports aren't working, I've been having some crazy good rounds the last few days. 60k points per session, not bad.
I think I may have fallen in love with the KH2002. At first I was using it because I still had unlocks for it, but it's pretty great actually. Shame about the long reload.
I think I may have fallen in love with the KH2002. At first I was using it because I still had unlocks for it, but it's pretty great actually. Shame about the long reload.
LightofRohan
Member
I'm new to this game. But just want to say. My god, the sounds in this game. Unfuckinbelievable.
Metalmurphy
Member
Yep, best sound design in any game ever.
ZackusMaximus
Banned
I have 380+ hours in this game and I still say this to myself from time to time.
I have to agree. I can't think of any game that comes close.
LightofRohan
Member
Yep! 100%
I think it is going to be VERY hard to come close to even matching this for a while. Some goddam wizards working there...
Yikes that's a lot of hours. I'm complete garbage online and daze out by the prettiness too much.
ZackusMaximus
Banned
Not really. There are plenty of guys around with double my play time. Playing with a squad on mumble makes it much more enjoyable. I don't think I've played more than 20 hours alone.
60FPS.
UnluckyKate
Member
I love the game but can't play jet with mouse. I have the Xbox controller that works but it rumble for everything and nothing...
Is there a way to disable it until I pop into a jet or something ?
Is there a way to disable it until I pop into a jet or something ?
Metalmurphy
Member
Keyboard all the way!
UnluckyKate
Member
Metalmurphy
Member
It's how I do it. Helis too. Same with BF2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xFWWjowtjg#t=3m25
I can't do it with a mouse, it makes no sense as you have to do a continuous movement.
Whatever works but watching those jerky flight movements makes me sick =$
Metalmurphy
Member
That's just the 60fps > 30fps conversion, if you notice it's the same when I'm on foot.
Cuban Legend
Member
so whats your control setup for the keyboard?
Metalmurphy
Member
Default. Wsad + arrow keys. Space for fire.
endlessflood
Member
I think BFBC2's sound was substantially better than BF3's. I agree that DICE do it better than anybody else though.
Nope nope nope. Jack up vehicle sensitivity slightly and map Space as pitch up and you have infinite turns. My ~4500 jet kills speak for themselves.
Nope nope nope. Jack up vehicle sensitivity slightly and map Space as pitch up and you have infinite turns. My ~4500 jet kills speak for themselves.
Childs play
butterstick never ceases to amaze me
In my defense, I didn't play on PC until ~May and didn't touch jets much until ~100 hours in or so and have a third of his time spent in jets. Plus I lack a shit bucket.
Is that a crossbow?
'Cause that looks like a crossbow.
Yeah, I think that's a crossbow.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I wonder if we can use it as a zipline again?
Metalmurphy
Member
You might be on to something. Specially since the maps are supposed to be all destroyed buildings and stuff.
Hope we get a hook too.
Anton Sugar
Member
Don't get my hopes up, dude.
jediyoshi
Member
new paged
lol?
Cuban Legend
Member
I actually had to go back and see what thread I was in, I thought hat was a CODBOW2 screen.
HAHAHA DICE, YOU FUNNY.
jediyoshi
Member
Battlefield 3: Aftermath Premiere Trailer
not sure why they wouldn't just do another gameplay montage trailer, those seem to work well.
not sure why they wouldn't just do another gameplay montage trailer, those seem to work well.
I H8 Memes
Member
So if aftermath is set in post-quake Iran, I wonder if end game will be set in Times Square.
Also, going by the trailer there may be a small chance that the map includes an earth quake during the match.
Strike that, I closed the video before the ending. 100% chance of an earth quake during the match.
Strike that, I closed the video before the ending. 100% chance of an earth quake during the match.
Because we're still more than a month out from the expansion releasing and Medal of Honor releases next week. No need to overshadow their friends at Danger Close. I figure we'll have proper gameplay soon enough, but I liked this little trailer too. Reminded me of the old BFBC2 concept trailers they had. before BC2 came out. It gets the idea of the expansion across very well.
And the Russians, they have FACES! I eagerly await these new cammos since they seem more Apocalypse Now than Tacticool Barbie (not that I don't enjoy dressing up my soldier in garish colors).
Guys, I want to play BF3 and I just joined a game and even managed to kill a few guys and revive some more, BUT
Punkbuster kicked me. IT did that for some time last year, then stoppded, now it looks like it is at it again.
I downloaded PB again, installed it as admin, downloaded the pbsetup files, run them as admin as well, added bf3 and BC2, but when I hit "update" it says update failed after loading for a bit.
Help.
Punkbuster kicked me. IT did that for some time last year, then stoppded, now it looks like it is at it again.
I downloaded PB again, installed it as admin, downloaded the pbsetup files, run them as admin as well, added bf3 and BC2, but when I hit "update" it says update failed after loading for a bit.
Help.
The Faceless Master
Member
the best part of that trailer is the RU team is attacking what looks to be an early version of the RU base at Atacama Desert
Looks like some of the soldiers were shooting left handed.
I wonder if this will be a new option for players, or has it always been like this and I just never noticed before?
Either way, it would be only beneficial if we had a "lean" function.
Or this E3 2009 trailer where they have CAS from A-10s and the assault has the paddles. Hell, White Pass (which is what that map is) didn't get Rush until the fifth map pack! The point of the Aftermath trailer wasn't the same as the other expansions because the aesthetic of the map isn't based on tight quarters with a bunch going on (Close Quarters) or fuckhuge maps with heavy armored gameplay like in AK. In fact, I don't think that these maps can really be given justice with the sort of vista shots that AK got. These seem to be more labyrinths of urban rubble, so the only real way to get ahold of the maps is to be on the ground level and dig through them. I expect at least Sharqi/Karkand size and complexity with probably more than a few excellent instances of vertical gameplay and interiors that could be their own CQ maps. Scavenger looks like a great change of pace too, though I hope I can choose my own handgun. I get the idea of needing to command weapons resources, but I don't wanna be TOTALLY outclassed by some lucky SOB who found an M60 or something.
Metalmurphy
Member
Looks like some of the soldiers were shooting left handed.
I wonder if this will be a new option for players, or has it always been like this and I just never noticed before?
Either way, it would be only beneficial if we had a "lean" function.
No, the whole thing was mocapped and isn't recorded gameplay at all.
xclaw
Member
Looks like some of the soldiers were shooting left handed.
I wonder if this will be a new option for players, or has it always been like this and I just never noticed before?
Either way, it would be only beneficial if we had a "lean" function.
Lefthanded shooting would make my brain so happy. Being lefthanded I have to actually focus on ignoring the location of the weapon on the screen.
Nope. This was all done using previously existing assets. You can tell by how janky some of the animations are. Play the single-player game and You'll see pretty much every animation seen here in that game.
Personally, I'd LOVE to see a "left-hand mode". Even barring the issues of reanimating reloads for south-paw, it would just be pretty cool to see in game, what with watching the action of the bolt and all that.
Still, that said, it's highly unlikely. In the video, the engineer and the recon were both handling their weapons in their right hand most of the time. The sudden bout of left hand had to do with cover. I'd have to check to be sure, but like in normal military forces, the AI in the campaign switch what hand their firing their weapon in depending on cover. The technique is to improve handling around corners and show as little of the body as possible, and if you noticed, both the engineer and recon were behind "left handed" cover, so sadly, I don't think we're going to be getting that left-handed mode.
Metalmurphy
Member
Stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcO5ajxGenc#t=0m56
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcO5ajxGenc#t=1m12
Is totally mocapped, you will never see that in multiplayer which is why the left handed people chars here means nothing
You just posted the Aftermath trailer twice. And yes, many of the initial animation elements are mocapped, that's true, but they're part of a greater animation system. That sequence was not mocapped through and through, however. There were some parts that were algorithm generated, others that were amalgamations of previously capped or hand-made animations. It's part of the animation system they use, and you can see alot of it in multiplayer, which is why it all looks so good in motion. It's more like a synthesizer except instead of music samples to recreate a live orchestra, you're putting together animation samples to recreate a full motion capture in situations too dynamic to really pull it off. You're right though, it could totally mean nothing. Still doesn't hurt too much to hope, even as a righty myself.
Metalmurphy
Member
Fixed the time stamps.
That trailer you posted simply shows the in game animation system, but that doesn't mean they still don't do full on motion capped animation sets for certain scenes, because they do. And it's pretty obvious through out the single player campaign, and this trailer.
If it was just mocap to transfor into ingame animation they wouldn't need "“male actors with strong acting ability and credits in Film, TV and Theatre,”" for their motion capture.
Well that certainly wasn't anything for this trailer. I remember EXACTLY where that first animation came from. It was a part of the whole sniper in the hotel sequence early in the game. The second one can easily be recreated using the previously mentioned animation tools using headtracking and some manual adjustments.
Keep in mind, I'm not disagreeing with you on the whole left-handed thing, but all of this was created with pre-existing system and assets. There's nothing new or especially mo-capped about this.