The game has already leaked. Might try the SP, maybe that will get me into the MP

10/16/2011 10:04:21 PM

SP is nothing like the MP

Have you never played a BF game?







[Edited on October 16, 2011 at 10:41 PM. Reason : durrrrrrrrr]

10/16/2011 10:40:23 PM

yeah... seriously... who the fuck plays BF SP? I don't think they started doing a real SP till BC and even then its mediocre at best.

10/16/2011 11:14:48 PM

I jumped back on bfbc2 tonight and I only see 8 servers... am I missing a patch or something?

10/16/2011 11:46:45 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQR49JGySTM&feature=youtu.be

wow

10/17/2011 11:02:32 PM

^^sadly, no.

Everyone just abandoned BC2

10/17/2011 11:12:26 PM

^^ do want

10/17/2011 11:28:37 PM

oh snap... if I was playing on a system like that, I'd wear my paintball armour. lol

10/17/2011 11:42:25 PM

Actually I've thought about that concept for some time now, an omni-directional 'treadmill' composed of little rolly balls or something that you could walk on, plus some kind of wrap-around VR helmet would prove to be quite the experience

10/18/2011 7:11:50 AM

cool story bro

I'm sure everyone has thought of stuff too before people actually did them.

10/18/2011 11:38:29 AM

Yeah. It is.

We're getting pretty close now too. I'll bet in the next generation or two consoles will go in that direction. We have the technology.

A 3D OLED high resolution screen in a VR helmet with speakers and accelerometer/compass, paired with the body tracking of the Kinect and you practically have it.

[Edited on October 18, 2011 at 4:51 PM. Reason : ]

10/18/2011 4:32:26 PM

my boyhood dream is having a working holodeck in my closet.

10/18/2011 4:53:58 PM

one more week, one more week, one more week

10/18/2011 5:30:05 PM

In your dream, did you shout "HEYYYYYYY OHHHH!" every time you were coming out of the closet in some sort of fashionable sweater and scarf? lol

10/18/2011 5:34:02 PM

BlackDog, I know it is nothing really like the MP. But I did not enjoy the gunplay of the MP during the beta, I am hoping that the SP will make me enjoy it more. And I my favorite BF games are 1942 and 2, but I really didn't like BC2 and BF3 just feels too much like that to be honest. That is why I am sticking with Quake, 1.6, and BF2.

[Edited on October 18, 2011 at 5:41 PM. Reason : .]

10/18/2011 5:40:35 PM

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/multiplayer-gameplay-battlefield-3/722567

Brand new

10/19/2011 5:45:57 PM

At least 6 hours old.

10/19/2011 6:13:56 PM

oh, I'm sorry I don't live on that site.

10/19/2011 8:00:23 PM

well, fuck. apologies, BlackDog

[Edited on October 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM. Reason : where the hell did i see that video?]

10/19/2011 8:15:44 PM

Man that is a pretty exciting video, but I'm starting to worry about my PC decision looking at the size of some of those environs. We'll see how good the new Frostbite engine is at scaling back for my older card.

10/19/2011 9:31:22 PM

I'm excited to see the amphib map coming back

10/20/2011 2:39:17 AM

pre-ordered today, so ready for tuesday

10/20/2011 11:45:25 PM

I have grad school applications en masse to do.

Debating not getting this like I planned to.

10/21/2011 2:04:02 AM

so... just get the preorder LE so you can get the mappack free and just wait till you get all your shit done before you download it.

10/21/2011 9:18:52 AM

All of you. Give a grade for this game based on your experience in the Beta.

For me, I love vehicle maps more than anything so the fact that the game forced me into non vehicle maps 90% of the time was a bit of a downer. It seems to me that as games get more and more sophisticated graphically, that it becomes harder and harder to make out opponents at a distance. This means that you are forced to get cover more out of not being able to see anyone about to blow you away more than using the cover because you know you are going to get hit.

I would grade it at a B-. The way it was deployed was a bit clunky and I really hated not choosing a server or map.

TBH I didn't get a chance to play too much. I unlocked the forward grip on the rifles but it wasn't clear how to actually use it. I am not even sure if it gets attached automatically or if it is one of the gadgets you select.

The spawn menu wasnt clear either. It is hard to tell where you are about to spawn because it doesnt show you the entire map so you can tell where you are. Unless you have the thing memorized. I found myself spawning on a squad member but having no clue where I was until I saw which direction enemy fire was coming from. I am used to BF2 method of entering into a squad and then spawning at the squad leader. But it seemed that in BF3 it doesnt really care whether you want to be in one or not. It just assigns you.

Say I had a friend in the game and I wanted to be in his/her squad and or spawn near or at him/her. I never found a way to be able to do that.

However, maybe I didnt give it enough time to figure it out. But a game or interface shouldnt be built in a way that it takes time to figure it out. It should be straight forward.

10/21/2011 10:44:16 AM

I'd give Caspian Border an A, Operation Metro a D, and Battlelog an F-.

10/21/2011 11:45:23 AM

I'd give the whole beta a C-... and that's being gracious. Mostly due to stupid stuff that could be easily fixed like the GUI, maps/hud, squad issues, etc. At least the gameplay mechanics worked pretty good.

Quote :

"The way it was deployed was a bit clunky and I really hated not choosing a server or map."

You could choose a server and/or map... you have to go to the server browser tab...

I agree, the menu system sucked ass and the customization system was just too clumsy to quickly change your loadout/rifle attachments. And no, if you get the add-on, it doesn't auto add on to the rifle; have to go through 4 levels of menu's to even select it. Also the fact that you can't customize your settings unless your alive and in game is stupid.

The map system was also very limiting. No full maps? wtf? really? Took me 2 hours to learn Caspian. very frustrating. And not being able to join custom squads was stupid.

Also the controls on the jet is completely fucked up. you really need to have a controller or joystick to play as a pilot and high levels are way too overpowering in the game. The tank's graphical overlay, specifically the cross-hair, is too think and needs to be transparent. It blocks what you are aiming at.

The battlefield blog mentions a lot of these issues and they are fixed for the final release so thank god for that.



^I'm mixed on battlelog only because its an interesting way to integrate your stats, social network and a game together. I like how you can see a full server list without being in an actual game menu (like Valve's server broswer in steam, don't have to be in game to see a list of servers and then join on it), but everything else is moot. I honestly don't give a shit about which one of my friends got the ace pin for the 2000th time on the front page. Its also annoying to "hooah" everything.

Battlelog pretty much negates the whole reason to have origin in the first place, so my biggest beef is why the fuck do we need origin? Just give me a simple non-ingame browser feature that I can join servers with and skip the intro video's, loading screen, BS menus and stuff. Allow me to jump in and jump out with ease. I don't want to waste 2 minutes having the game load to some fancy screen to just unload and load a game session.

10/21/2011 12:55:51 PM

theres no god damn reason the battlelog cant be in the game AND have the stats and shit be available outside the game.

launching the game from the browser and having no in game server browser sucks 10000 dicks and theres no debating that.

and yeah origin is a pos. optimally they would have used steam+steamworks and removed the need for 90% of the crap in the battlelog. more realistically they should have just made a competent server browser system with stats + shit along the lines of the SC2 battlenet integration


[Edited on October 21, 2011 at 1:17 PM. Reason : a]

10/21/2011 1:15:44 PM

^good point, also they did have the game stats outside the game... you can log into battlelog on regular computers without the game. Although I hope they make it like BC2 where you don't need to loggin to see the stats... is that what you mean?

10/21/2011 3:36:03 PM

yea. the bc2 site had all the stats and stuff that people seem to be so blown away by in battlelog. also it had an api that people could tie into so they could pull stats into their own sites.

it didnt have facebook statuses but i dont give any shits about that and its not like they couldnt do it and have in game stats/server browser/friends.

really this whole "UGGHHH WE DONT WANT IN GAME SERVER BROWSER CAUSE THERES BATTELLOHG!!!" thing seems retarded because its not an either/or.

10/21/2011 3:44:36 PM

http://youtu.be/9DM7NsxOS0Q

OH LAWD

10/21/2011 4:16:56 PM

nice find, not quite as exciting as my video find was (in terms of the content)

this is the official footage release: http://kotaku.com/5852048/this-is-battlefield-3s-launch-trailer

the footage is SP only.


Here is 10 mins of it: http://kotaku.com/5851961/watch-the-first-ten-minutes-of-battlefield-3s-singleplayer-campaign


BTW:

Caspian: 9
Metro: 5
Origin: 6
Overall Beta: 8 (not cumulative obviously) due to the pure groundbreaking game play and graphics (which we haven't even seen seen fully yet)







[Edited on October 21, 2011 at 5:32 PM. Reason : _]

10/21/2011 5:04:02 PM

umm.. blackdog... your first video is the same as BEU...

And nice find on 2nd SP vid

10/21/2011 5:12:35 PM

I know it is the same, I was saying that is where it came from (the YouTube upload).

Exciting I was talking about this post above I made: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/multiplayer-gameplay-battlefield-3/722567


Also to the guys above DICE has already confirmed you can changed the graphics/controls/audio etc outside of the game. The menus will change drastically between Beta and RC.




[Edited on October 21, 2011 at 5:18 PM. Reason : _]

10/21/2011 5:14:43 PM

Oh and guys BF3 is on Origin right now for Preloading!!!!

10/21/2011 6:06:46 PM

[old]

at 60%

10/21/2011 6:15:01 PM

meh.. can't play it for another few days. I'll preload next week. Might do a clean install this weekend.

10/21/2011 6:27:40 PM

after seeing that trailer, might do the midnight release at gamestop like the old days

10/21/2011 7:28:36 PM

Well I downloaded it from Amazon, but the install doesn't do anything, must not let you install until launch.

10/21/2011 9:03:18 PM

^Origin is the only one that'll allow you to pre-download

And Origin sucks balls. My BC2 got corrupted and couldn't update so I ended up uninstalling it, re-download, re-install and now the fucking game comes up with a shit ton of graphical errors in the menu screen... wtf They had to touch the fucking game to be "more integrated with origin" and add cloud storage, it was working just fucking fine two weeks ago.

GOD DAMMIT

10/22/2011 6:31:50 AM

No I mean Amazon let me download all ten gigabytes of it but when I launch setup the Origin screen comes up and the install button doesn't do anything. Three more days! Why couldn't it launch over a freakin weekend, I guess they didn't want max load on the servers immediately.

10/22/2011 7:11:05 AM

interesting...

anyhow, just gonna reformat and do a clean win7 pro install. might as well. system has become bloated and 3min+ restarts are annoying.

10/22/2011 7:40:35 AM

how powerful are the guns? Does it take half a clip to kill someone at close range?

10/22/2011 9:32:10 AM

Amazon just added a $20 credit to preorders of the console versions.

10/22/2011 9:33:20 AM

I have the biggest battlefield boner right now.

I took tuesday off to play it. yeah that's right.

10/22/2011 1:08:17 PM

Quote :

"how powerful are the guns? Does it take half a clip to kill someone at close range?"

Based on the beta, I'd say they're quite a bit more powerful than in BC2. At long range it still takes quite a few hits to get a kill though.

10/22/2011 2:15:01 PM

i will be playing this in 59 hours. SO PUMPED

10/22/2011 2:46:16 PM

BF3 commercial in the very beginning of the 2nd Quarter of the NCSU vs VA game.

Can't wait to blow up some heads

Quote :

"And Origin sucks balls. My BC2 got corrupted and couldn't update so I ended up uninstalling it, re-download, re-install and now the fucking game comes up with a shit ton of graphical errors in the menu screen... wtf They had to touch the fucking game to be "more integrated with origin" and add cloud storage, it was working just fucking fine two weeks ago. GOD DAMMIT"

I kept getting login errors last night, eventually gave up and probably won't try again with BF3 so close.




[Edited on October 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM. Reason : _]

10/22/2011 4:20:17 PM

Battlefield 3 - 3 Days Left: Singleplayer Campaign (Countdown Series)


http://youtu.be/nv40meKVw5U

10/22/2011 6:58:48 PM

fuck origin, fuck EA.

way to ruin a huge release by being a bitch and trying to create your own steam.

/rant

10/23/2011 1:02:21 AM