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Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:16 pm
by Ryoki
Goddamnit, i had a momentary lapse of sanity, installed Origin and preordered it. Memph phant and 4days, you slags better get this as well or i will be most upset
PS Origin is not as bad as i feared... but it's pretty shit all the same. I'm still really worried i might not get to play this game on day one due to EA failure.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:01 am
by 4days
Ryoki wrote:Goddamnit, i had a momentary lapse of sanity, installed Origin and preordered it. Memph phant and 4days, you slags better get this as well or i will be most upset
PS Origin is not as bad as i feared... but it's pretty shit all the same. I'm still really worried i might not get to play this game on day one due to EA failure.
Done, and I have the same impression of Origin. It takes 70-90MB of memory just sitting in the system tray (compared to 2-4 for Steam). Fingers crossed that it works on the day.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:39 am
by Fury
I too pre-ordered. I want my BF goodness and BF3 looks too damn good.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:59 am
by Big Kahuna Burger
do u get a free tf2 hat for preordering?
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:03 pm
by phantasmagoria
So where's the best place to pre order this from then?
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:22 pm
by 4days
Origin? It's going to be about £30 wherever you go and I guess Origin has a reasonable chance of the game being available from day one.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:52 am
by 4days
Beta unlocks on Origin tomorrow (27th), public beta on the 29th.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:52 pm
by brisk
It'll soon be on Green Man Gaming, which usually offer 20% pre-order discounts, amongst other codes. Best save your orders until then imo.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:58 pm
by scared?
will this game be as shitty as all the previous battlefields?...
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:27 pm
by 4days
first impressions from someone at RPS:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09 ... ld-3-beta/
..obviously it begins with a glowing report for Origin and the flawless match-joining system.
unrelated:
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/37480/IT ... prised.php
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:42 pm
by Ryoki
So, the hurdle to jump through before I could get to the point where I tried to hover a reticule over a man’s face was the new server browser/friend management/character system. This all works through your browser, and in my case wanted to download two plugins for Chrome so it could do whatever the hell it was doing. Initially, I thought my only option was to press the big QUICK MATCH button as everything else was apparently disabled for the beta. This didn’t go well, as it placed me in a 80-strong queue and then accused my client of being out of date and kicked me right out when I finally got to the head of the line some 20 minutes later.
In a bit of a mood by that point, I explored the web interface further and found the actual server browser, wherein I was able to track down a game with a few spaces free and join within a couple of minutes (though the game was still launched via a JOIN GAME button in my browser – trying to load the client myself only opened another browser window). In the human versus computer stakes, I was therefore winning – but I guess the match auto-finder might get a bit more reliable once the initial crush has died down.
Oh god

Imma wait till it's out officially i think, in the futile belief they'll fix things like this before then.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:05 pm
by shaft
think quakelive
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:18 pm
by Transient
Fucking EA. Fucking Origin.

Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:28 pm
by Captain
scared? wrote:will this game be as shitty as all the previous battlefields?...
The matchmaking shit will make it almost as shitty as CoD...almost.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:13 am
by andyman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3-VzYft ... ture=feedu
is the game always in slow motion?
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:33 am
by shaft
idk i couldnt stand more than 10 seconds of billy bob gangstas commentary.
im having fun with it. the web interface is pretty good imo.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:06 am
by Foo
The one appealing aspect of origin is the idea of account banning for hackers. BFBC2 is absolutely fucking rife with it at the moment, and you don't see that kinda shit on Valve games because of VAC banning.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:38 pm
by Deathshroud
Foo wrote:The one appealing aspect of origin is the idea of account banning for hackers. BFBC2 is absolutely fucking rife with it at the moment, and you don't see that kinda shit on Valve games because of VAC banning.
+1 to that. Its gets tiring playing a game where someone is going 40+ kills with a few deaths, and sniping people across the map with an assault rifle.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:48 pm
by brisk
Public BETA is now on Origin. Check the free games tab.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:23 pm
by feedback
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:35 pm
by brisk
LOL i've never played a BF game online, but trying that, I didn't even know who the fuck I was sposed to be shooting at. Literally just sniper camp fags everywhere. Oh and you can't change the mouse binds yet in the beta version, or the FOV. It didn't even look that impressive imo.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:39 pm
by andyman
i imagine that's what it would be on pc
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:28 pm
by shaft
All the Caspain border servers were passworded for testing, somehow it was leaked. If you happened to get on one, most of the servers from one provider were like that..i swear they mustve been running all 6 servers on one machine. When I joined a EU server it wasn't like that. I cant believe Kotaku would use a leaked password then post up a video like that from a testing server.
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:33 pm
by scared?
i'm sure it will be shit compared to cod...
Re: Battlefield 3
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:47 pm
by shaft
you should be happy, the only map right now in the beta is infantry only rush map. trying to lure the cod fanboys. pretty disappointing.
I spent an entire night getting my ass pounded over and over till I learned the layout, you could tell the people who were in the alpha trial were having fun with all the fresh meat.