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[BATTLEFIELD 3] Open Beta Starts Now!

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    Flanking is the bomb. One of my first games had me flanking a bridge the enemy comes down to set the MCOMs. All their little heads were flying across the bridge. Q, Q, Q, bang bang bang!

  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    Masume wrote:
    Fuuu the beta and origin!

    This shit better be better than the alpha and more like the BF I know and love. Vehicles all up in there!

    When I saw six people camping the jet spawn, I knew this was indeed Battlefield. :P

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  • KagliciousKaglicious Registered User regular
    Is there any groups for the pc going around stomping or is everyone pretty much going solo?

  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    Not easy to stomp when it's hard to join a server as a group, and you can't choose squads.

  • LepwaveLepwave Registered User regular
    You're lucky if you can get more than 4 people on one server with each other. I know I had trouble getting on one with other PAers.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    I definitely need to get better at hitting the right keys, heh. I've died more than a few times because I hit crouch instead of move left. So both shooting and spotting will take a little practice. But thanks for the tip, I hadn't really thought of it.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    did they change the conquest password again?

  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    Yeah I really dislike the fact that you can't easily get in squads with your mates. Makes the whole teamwork thing that much harder

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  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    Klyka wrote:
    Senshi wrote:
    Klyka is a dick

    always where he can see you but you can't see him

    Doop di doo, shooting some dudes with my rifle, doop di doo, flanking some guys shooting them in the butts, doop di dooooo

    doop di doo taking a million rounds from the 240

    die

  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    Something I noticed that makes me believe this is a really old build:

    There is no knifing animation for people that are prone. Devs said they already had added that to the game so....

  • ConnorConnor Registered User regular
    So I just flew a jet. Jesus this is all I've ever wanted from a BF game and more.

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  • Mr.SunshineMr.Sunshine Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    6hrs of playing, 1hr 15min actually saved on Battlelog. :(

    So many games lost. Games where I was doing good. The bad ones can go to hell.

    IR scopes are rad.

    Mr.Sunshine on
  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    I thought I'd at least be able to run this at low settings but my computer apparently can't do it very well. Even on the lowest resolution it is super choppy. :/

  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Mulletude wrote:
    And you can't spam the spot button. After something like 5 presses in a row it makes a ding noise and wont spot.

    And in regards to the graphics on the 360...They aren't at high settings, even for a console, so I wouldn't worry too much.

    Nope.

    This isn't a BETA. This is just a demo in disguise and totally launch code. I know. I have nerdivnoyance. Clairvoyance
    Satsumomo wrote:
    Something I noticed that makes me believe this is a really old build:

    There is no knifing animation for people that are prone. Devs said they already had added that to the game so....

    What? No way. The internet assured me this is retail code and EA is just trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

  • TurboGuardTurboGuard Registered User regular
    Holy shit Origin is the worst piece of shit I've ever used. So I click on the game in Origin only have it open up my fucking browser and then I have to download a pointless plugin because I have to find servers and launch games from there and then I have to import my friends A SECOND TIME holy shit EA what the fuck?

  • AuburnTigerAuburnTiger Registered User regular
    Nothing better than being down to 10% health and being surrounded by Assault classes that won't drop a med kit.

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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    TurboGuard wrote:
    Holy shit Origin is the worst piece of shit I've ever used. So I click on the game in Origin only have it open up my fucking browser and then I have to download a pointless plugin because I have to find servers and launch games from there and then I have to import my friends A SECOND TIME holy shit EA what the fuck?

    Which takes all of 10 seconds.

    Downloading the new ATI drivers is taking longer than the actual 3.whatever gig game did.

  • TwistedJesterTwistedJester Registered User regular
    Oh god. The shotgun. THE SHOTGUN.

  • [Tycho?][Tycho?] As elusive as doubt Registered User regular
    Does anyone know a source where I can find things like stats for weapons? Damage, rate of fire, attachment info, and so on. I know its early days yet so I'm not expecting anyone to have done the testing, but the game doesn't even have little bars that show these things so I have a hard time knowing what guns do what.

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  • mr_michmr_mich Mmmmagic. MDRegistered User regular
    Caspian is gorgeous. Rubber-bandy though, then disconnected.

    Soon my stats will save and I'll have access to some optics.

  • [Tycho?][Tycho?] As elusive as doubt Registered User regular
    Actually the Battlefield wiki must have been updated, because it has a lot of that sort of info.

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  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    edited September 2011
    Don't like the shotguns. As always, the hit detection and range is shit

    Senshi on
  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    Well, that was a fun bug. Died and the camera got seriously fucked up, put my viewport outside of the map with the deploy window invisible. I managed to spawn, and then the game spawned me somewhere on the map but put my viewport on the killcam. I was able to continually spot the guy who killed me until he got shot.

    Then the server disconnected me.

    Dehumanized on
  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    Bummer on the server maintenance. But thanks for the info Mulletude. Any idea on when they'll be up?


    All i've seen on battlelog from DICE is they're working on it. i wish they'd just do an update and give us a second map while they're at it :)

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  • TwistedJesterTwistedJester Registered User regular
    Senshi wrote:
    Don't like the shotguns. As always, the hit detection and range is shit
    I just went on a rampage on the third stage of Metro on defense with the 870, wiping out entire squads. Seems to work pretty good for me.

  • Lord YodLord Yod Registered User regular
    This beta is so beta you can't even search the goddamn forums.

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  • phishstikphishstik Registered User regular
    How can they actually make it look worse than BC2 on the 360?
    Hopefully reason is "it's a beta" ?

  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    At relatively close range you'll one-shot almost everyone with the shotgun, and in the metro you can choose to camp the hallways there to easily murder people. On maps like Caspian though, the gun is all but useless

    Zzulu on
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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    Yes, I'd go with that. I'm assuming they didn't bother baking their ship quality textures for a 1.2GB beta.

  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    Sheep wrote:
    Mulletude wrote:
    And you can't spam the spot button. After something like 5 presses in a row it makes a ding noise and wont spot.

    And in regards to the graphics on the 360...They aren't at high settings, even for a console, so I wouldn't worry too much.

    Nope.

    This isn't a BETA. This is just a demo in disguise and totally launch code. I know. I have nerdivnoyance. Clairvoyance

    Well shit. Time to go on the battlelog forums and tell DICE how much they suck and how shitty a piece of shit their shit game is.

    Man...The battlelog forums are shit-tastic


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  • Angry WeaselAngry Weasel Registered User regular
    phishstik wrote:
    How can they actually make it look worse than BC2 on the 360?
    Hopefully reason is "it's a beta" ?

    I am sure they had to cut texture res to be a small download. 20GB goes fast.

  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    So ever time I hit join a server it just hangs forever at "joining server". Any tips?

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  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    And all you new 360 players who haven't joined the 82nd Arcadians yet...Well...WHAT THE FUCK IS THE HOLDUP

    edit: ITALICS

    Mulletude on
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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Quick questions.


    Are there paddles?

    How do I change my graphics settings?

    How do I post and prone?

  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    You mean electricity paddles, for cheating death? The assault carries them.

  • LeevityLeevity Registered User regular
    So, I played Caspian early. That was brilliant. Truly feels like a good battlefield map. I can't understand why they are putting Metro in the forefront when it just feels like a few bad CoD maps sewn together.

    Not a fan of the battlelog/origins system. Just feels clunky and unncecessary.

    XBL/PSN/Steam: Leevity
  • Wicked Uncle ErnieWicked Uncle Ernie Registered User regular
    Lord Yod wrote:
    Tzen wrote:
    I will never ever ever ever ever buy another ATI/AMD product again. Ever. EVERRRRRRRRRRRRR

    Me either. This underscan bullshit is, well, bullshit.

    Edit: I wonder if you can bind spot to mouse 1?

    What are we talking about?

  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    Zzulu wrote:
    At relatively close range you'll one-shot almost everyone with the shotgun, and in the metro you can choose to camp the hallways there to easily murder people. On maps like Caspian though, the gun is all but useless

    Well, doesn't that kinda make sense though? That a close-range weapon won't be all that good in wide open spaces?

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  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    There are paddles but you have to unlock them. On PC I think you have to be deployed in game than hit ESC to get the menu.

    What do you mean by post? Deploy your tripod? If that's it than you use the aim down sight button standing in front of whatever you want to deploy it on.

    This was posted on the Battlefield twitter one hour ago
    We will let you know as soon as we receive confirmation that the servers for XBox360 have been fixed

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    What do I do to not spawn 3cm in front of an enemy every other life?

    Clicking spots on the map between lives doesn't do anything.

    What am I missing?

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