Battlefield 3 Beta - Your Thoughts?

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Tigurus

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I like it so far. Only thing I sorta dislike is that I have to start it all through a web browser and THEN I must deploy and THEN I can change my settings. I also can't stop the game while dead or when I am done with a round as it first need to load again and THEN I must deploy and THEN I can quit.

And I noticed (My G15 tells me) that my CPu is at 99 to 100% when running BF3. While when it is off it goes to 3% again. Which probably makes my game lag a tad too much.
 

Necromancer1991

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I've played a few games on my PS3, it's fun, but I'm not a huge fan of Metro Rush (Hope to god they add Caspian Border), it's not that it's a bad map per se, it just doesn't involve any real use of the destruction engine or vehicles (Feels like CoD IMO). Of course since I'm on the PS3 everybody and their grandma picks Recon to show off their "l33t snipa skillz", also the lack of voice communication generally means your squad acts like a bunch of headless chickens. It's actually really easy to flank in the subway which I always enjoy, coming up behind a squad of guys and mowing them down is always fun!
 

Burn2Feel

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I will admit that I didn't like BFBC2 and that may affect my opinion a fair bit, but I went on this with an impartial mind and really don't like it so far. First off, one map and one game type isn't enough for me to want to buy the game. Next, the bugs I've found so far (Knife or Ammo/Med box becomes primary weapon, running across water, spawning teammates deactivating your gravity making you fly a few meters in whatever direction they push you in and ADS not working in certain conditions) are waaay too numerous this close to the release date, bugs are to be expected by come on, for a major release this is pushing it.
The destruction physics look ok, but the opportunities to apply it are few and far between compared to BC2; what happened to blowing a huge hole in a wall to get at the objective or throwing a grenade to make make-shit cover? Also, the guns need to be more balanced (5 shots to the chest with a sniper rifle means he's dead in everyone else's books) and everyone needs to stop dancing while they aim, a little bit of movement doesn't bother me, but when you're trying to line up a shot with a sniper rifle and your character decides that it's the best time to start doing the macarena is pretty annoying.
My opinion, it isn't making me want to buy the game. I wasn't keen on it before, but so far Dice has succeeded in making me honestly dislike the game, rather than be indifferent to it.
 

MajWound

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In every game I go into it thinking, "Am I having fun?" The answer was sadly, "no". I played for an hour last night, an hour and a half this evening with my cousin, and I was just miserable the whole time.
 

Chaos1228

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Im playing it on xbox, and other than some connection issues and one weird glitch where i got killed but could still move around with a lopsided view, im doing fine.

Maybe im just lucky, or has anyone else been like me?

PeePantz said:
First off, it looks like shit (not that I care really, after all, I love MAG). Not just let down from hype ugly, like generic fps on original xbox ugly.
Really? Huh. BF3 is one of the prettiest looking games ive played in a while.
 

LookingGlass

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Are all the servers in North America? I'm assuming it would be laggy as hell for me down here in Australia.
 

MisterDyslexo

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MajWound said:
In every game I go into it thinking, "Am I having fun?" The answer was sadly, "no". I played for an hour last night, an hour and a half this evening with my cousin, and I was just miserable the whole time.
Teammates can make or break your experience. I've loved it when I had at least 3 (yes, just three) decent, thinking teammates. If your team is bad, you'll hate it. Everybody should try to find at least one friend to play with, otherwise it'll probably be a rage fest.
 

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Burn2Feel said:
I will admit that I didn't like BFBC2 and that may affect my opinion a fair bit, but I went on this with an impartial mind and really don't like it so far. First off, one map and one game type isn't enough for me to want to buy the game. Next, the bugs I've found so far (Knife or Ammo/Med box becomes primary weapon, running across water, spawning teammates deactivating your gravity making you fly a few meters in whatever direction they push you in and ADS not working in certain conditions) are waaay too numerous this close to the release date, bugs are to be expected by come on, for a major release this is pushing it.
The destruction physics look ok, but the opportunities to apply it are few and far between compared to BC2; what happened to blowing a huge hole in a wall to get at the objective or throwing a grenade to make make-shit cover? Also, the guns need to be more balanced (5 shots to the chest with a sniper rifle means he's dead in everyone else's books) and everyone needs to stop dancing while they aim, a little bit of movement doesn't bother me, but when you're trying to line up a shot with a sniper rifle and your character decides that it's the best time to start doing the macarena is pretty annoying.
My opinion, it isn't making me want to buy the game. I wasn't keen on it before, but so far Dice has succeeded in making me honestly dislike the game, rather than be indifferent to it.
Just so you know, the thing with the knife, the ammo box, and the med kit being held like a regular weapon is actually a feature, not a bug. You can ready grenades like that, too. It allows you to use them more quickly, and is also a feature going all the way back to 1942, which didn't allow for one button grenades, knifing, or anything else.
 

internetzealot1

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Its hard to find a game, the interface is terrible, and I'm lagging everywhere. The destruction is almost completely gone, my bipod will only deploy when I don't want it to, and prone is all kinds of unbalanced. I wasn't planning only getting it anyway since I was burnt out on BC2. This is just letting me know I'm making the right choice.
 

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ph0b0s123 said:
It's taking a huge amount of will power, but I am not playing as then I would have to use the spyware loaded piece of rubbish that is Origin.

So Battlefield 3 is the battle of will power for me.
Godspeed, noble soldier.
 

Ushiromiya Battler

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Love the game, hate how I have to use goddamn beta drivers for my gpu...
Seeing as the goddamn beta drivers keep crashing.

And the fact that after a match the game hogs all the CPU usage and get a mayor ass memory leak upping 1million...

I'm just waiting for my computer to fry.
 

LookingGlass

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Well I played it for a little while. Probably about 20 mins in the last hour or so... it doesn't appear to like my 560Ti. It runs flawlessly for 2-10 mins and then dies. Goes to desktop but leaves the game "running" but not openable.

Beta drivers + beta game + really shitty browser app means I shouldn't be surprised that it's hard to get into.


Seems fun though, and from what I've seen (in videos) of the map with vehicles it would be enjoyable. I'd need to see a demo that doesn't crash with my setup (be it a DICE or NVIDIA fix) and some improvements to the browser garbage (preferably remove it altogether but that won't happen) before I'd be willing to buy the game though.
 

MuppeTeN

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Tried for 30min to join a game, kept telling me "Error Loading"( After that I had to quit to the dashboard), so I couldn't even play so I'm not buying it anymore. Cancelled the Preorder this afternoon and preorder Batman:AC
 

TacticalAssassin1

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MuppeTeN said:
Tried for 30min to join a game, kept telling me "Error Loading"( After that I had to quit to the dashboard), so I couldn't even play so I'm not buying it anymore. Cancelled the Preorder this afternoon and preorder Batman:AC
You do understand this is a beta, yeah? That problem will most likely be fixed in the released game.
 

JackWestJr

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The beta was, is, fun. I haven't had any connection issues AT ALL and I have played the beta a fair bit. IT IS A BETA though, so it is not nepresentative of the final product! They took out the vehicles on Opertaion Metro and there are still issues with balancing and spawn places at the moment. Based on what I have heard, I seem to be the sole person who has had literally experienced no problems what so ever during the beta.

Cannot wait till access to Caspian Border, it looks so beast :D
 

JackWestJr

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Dandark said:
I haven't played the beta but from what I have seen it looks a lot more like COD now. Have they made it more similar to that because if so I may have to pass on this game.
Its just the map DICE choose for people to test the servers for them. They took out the APC that was there in the Alpha and dumbed down the graphics so everyone can enjoy the only 1GB download. It is going to be so much better in the full release, and I have a feeling the the Operation Metro map will turn out to be the smallest of them all.
 

SomebodyNowhere

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I'm not very fond of the launching from a browser. I didn't like having to update my drivers to a beta driver(but I can deal with it). I don't like falling through the map on the first section. I don't like all the prone players just hanging out in the bushes and waiting for me run around a corner. I don't like how the kill cam is so close you have absolutely no clue where said bush dwellers were camping. I don't like constantly being disconnected from a game for no reason and basically losing any xp I would have gained.

I liked the BF:BC2 and the MoH betas far more.
 

Awexsome

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Ok, but CoD is superior. It may be a beta but it's less than a month til it'll release so it has to have gone gold already if not then very, very soon.

Way too many glitches and bugs for things that should've been caught earlier. Clipping through objects, killcams commonly going outside the map, annoying things like not being able to do anything with your classes or in the main menu while dead and forced to watch a 5 second kill-cam, good ol' hit detection, very difficult to stay in a squad with your friends without it breaking up, not very responsive controls, reload and stand/crouch/prone animations glitching out, very often I had the ambient sound cut out after dying while suppressed so my sound was acting like I was being suppressed for all of my next life off spawn, no vehicles in a BATTLEFIELD demo/beta...

Far more annoyed than pleased.