Battlefield 3 Beta
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octafish said:
IT BUUUUUUUURNS!
PS: Battlefield 3 beta is buggy as hell, but if they fix them it will turn out a goodgame.
Quite a bit of the bugs are fixed in the PC version of the beta, consoles don't have it simply because it takes a good week of sitting there in Sony/Microsoft's possession to approve the patch. Of course most people just replace the lack of bugs with how DICE is lazy and needs to make an in-game browser despite the fact that battlelog does what it's supposed to and does it just fine.
Beta or not, Battlefield 3 I believe will blow Call of Duty MW3 out of the water.
But I don't see Battlefield 3's compainge being as good as Crysis 2 though.
But I don't see Battlefield 3's compainge being as good as Crysis 2 though.
Core gameplay is very solid. Annoying things start to add up though. The bugs obviously are the big one and hope they can get them fixed but they hold the beta less than a month from street release... makes me doubt how much of it was 'beta' and how much was really 'demo'.
Yeah, yeah patches and all that but there were a LOT of bugs.
Honestly I've been in games won and lost. Shame no vehicles so the engi has little purpose in life for the map.
Biggest annoyance besides the obvious bugs would have to be the menu interface. Both after death and between rounds you're unable to access the main menu. Why? Especially after a death. That's your prime chance to change up your classes but no you have to waste time you could be actually playing the game to change your loadouts. Major annoyance.
Yeah, yeah patches and all that but there were a LOT of bugs.
Honestly I've been in games won and lost. Shame no vehicles so the engi has little purpose in life for the map.
Biggest annoyance besides the obvious bugs would have to be the menu interface. Both after death and between rounds you're unable to access the main menu. Why? Especially after a death. That's your prime chance to change up your classes but no you have to waste time you could be actually playing the game to change your loadouts. Major annoyance.
Well speaking as a medic you do have to wait for the revive for a bit after death so I can get to you, but I would like to access the menu between rounds in particular. I'd also like to be able to quit the game between rounds in game rather than alt-tabbing to battlelog and clicking close game. That works just fine, but not having a quit option between rounds, feels awkward. Not being able to tweak settings/keybindings/graphics settings while you are dead/between rounds is annoying too.Awexsome said:
Loving it so far. Its buggy as hell to a point where it would not be acceptable less than a month out from release but Dice have already mentioned the Beta build is at least a month old already which makes sense seeing as it was being used to show off the game to the media quite some time ago. I can imagine most of the idea behind this open beta is to find anything they haven't already fixed for the RTM version and to get people excited about the game. The menu system, for example, will most likely have been fixed already as it is an obvious fix. Why bother fixing the obvious faults in a beta for public release when you could be working on the final build?
I like it. It feels slower than Bad Company 2 but I think because you can go prone now everyone is taking a more paced tactical route to the objectives.
Obviously the beta has bugs and I personally have had it crash twice in two sessions just as I got my groove on. The spawn menu is a bit of a mess so they'll have to try and condense that and make it more streamlined. Also am I the only one who thinks (on 360) the metro outside has an odd greenish tint?
So to sum up, good game, great with chums, has some menu problems, bugs too. Wouln't say it was as good as the Gears 3 beta in terms of content however. I'm already quite familular with Rush on Metro so a second map with Conquest might have been a welcome addition.
Obviously the beta has bugs and I personally have had it crash twice in two sessions just as I got my groove on. The spawn menu is a bit of a mess so they'll have to try and condense that and make it more streamlined. Also am I the only one who thinks (on 360) the metro outside has an odd greenish tint?
So to sum up, good game, great with chums, has some menu problems, bugs too. Wouln't say it was as good as the Gears 3 beta in terms of content however. I'm already quite familular with Rush on Metro so a second map with Conquest might have been a welcome addition.
Not sure whether I like it more than BFBC2 or not.
Saying "It's beta so don't complain" isn't really a valid argument in this day and age. Open Beta's have more to do with demos than actual betas. The game goes into print in about two weeks, and what you're seeing in this "Beta" is pretty much what you'll get, if you buy the game at launch.
Saying "It's beta so don't complain" isn't really a valid argument in this day and age. Open Beta's have more to do with demos than actual betas. The game goes into print in about two weeks, and what you're seeing in this "Beta" is pretty much what you'll get, if you buy the game at launch.
Go to nvidia and search for Beta drivers, I thought it wouldn't support my 8800 cause I couldn't get to driver 2.85 or whatever, but nvidia created a new driver specifically for the BF3 Beta, because if you look at all the video cards, their updates all only go to 2.80, you have to search for beta driversSupertegwyn said:Really? I'm doing it on PS3 and raping with snipers. You just have to be skilledKopikatsu said:
I would play it on PC but I don't even reach the minimum drivers (sigh)
Stupid 8600....
