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  • 0Replace4Displace0Replace4Displace The best girls are ships and guns. Registered User regular
    Maybe it's semen.

    Probably should clean it.

    You've got browns, right? My blues haven't been giving me any trouble.

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    I knew Recons were generally of a lesser caliber, but I didn't take you for a faceroller, TOG.

    But you'll love the keyboard. My Das is pretty much the best thing in the world, assuming you're the one typing on it. Otherwise, hammers!

    I occasionally run into input dropping problems and it'd be nice to know that if I'm moving in one direction, reload, and try to move diagonally or something like that my keyboard won't go HURRRRRRK due to only registering two keys at the same time. The Das I'm getting has the Cherry Browns instead of the Cherry Blues and they're not terribly loud from what I can tell from my Youtube researchings.

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    I've been able to play this game perhaps three times since I bought it. Since mid-November it's been crashing just as it launches, and nothing I've tried will solve it. I've even reformatted my drive and reinstalled Windows (not due to BF3 solely - I'd never do that for a single game) and still, the problem remains. People have very different ideas as to what the problem is - Origin running in the background (disabled, ran once then never again), the game installing by default to \Battlefield 3 tm instead of \Battlefield 3 (not in my case), gamepads installed (I WANT to use my joystick when controlling the jets, removing it is not an option), etc.

    I don't think I've ever had a game give me so much trouble. And the hilarious part is that reportedly the cracked .exe has no such issues!

    Rohan on
    ...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

    Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
  • zilozilo Registered User regular
    You should maybe un-do whatever you did to make Origin not run. BF3 requires it to authenticate.

    What's your video card? Driver version?

  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    Yeah disabling Origin is kinda....counter productive to the whole "running the game" thing.

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    It's not actually disabling Origin, it's something that was suggested by an Origin employee to others with the same issue. Something about the overlay, I think. Origin still runs when starting the game.

    Edit - And indeed, it is the Origin in-game overlay feature that they suggested be turned off. The game ran once after that, but now doesn't whether the overlay is turned on or not.

    Rohan on
    ...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

    Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    I mean, it could be a million things. What's your system specs?

    I know you'd catch something obvious, like not meeting minimum spec and such, but working a problem you have to start at the beginning. We can't join the conversation half way through.

  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    The game ran perfectly back when I first bought it, I played on a couple of servers and then, at some point, it just began crashing on launch. I don't even see a screen or anything, as soon as the .exe begins to start, it crashes. All drivers are updated, the game is up to date and so is the Battlelog plugin. And Origin, of course. I reformatted the Windows drive and reinstalled everything, and the problem remained. I've tried installing it to different folders, and again to the default folder, but no such luck. I'm not the only one with this issue - you can see here that some EA employee seems to understand what the issue is but says that there won't be a fix for this until January.

    Specs are a non-issue -

    Core i5 2500
    12GB DDR3
    Asus P8H67-M
    Sapphire Radeon 6870 1GB
    Windows 7 x64

    ...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

    Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    I gave a paintball picture of myself the BF3 treatment. I think it worked out well.
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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    So last night with tog and the rest it was demanded that we get ace squad on a metro meat grinder rotation; I was clearly lagging.

    Turns out you can shoot your teammates health boxes to make them go away. Only my heals then count. *troll face*

    That and about 20 rezzes in a row and flanking the lockers with an f2000 literally sitting on a ammo box and holding down the trigger until empty and repeating over and over.... we nailed ace squad.

    just a few lil levels and i get my wings.

    Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Holy shit I just played some rounds on a pub.

    HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO BAD AT THIS?

    Rush. We defend. They arm M-COM A. I run towards it, kill a guy and get killed by some dude half sunken into a bush. My "buddy" kills the bush guy. It's cool right? He's gonna disarm right?
    No.
    He looks at it. LOOKS STRAIGHT AT THE BLINKING, SCREAMING M-COM and TURNS AROUND, running away.

    I SHIT
    YOU
    NOT.

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  • Wicked Uncle ErnieWicked Uncle Ernie Registered User regular
    Metro 64 is bonkers. I did the first support achivement there in like one round. I might have gotten a few kills before the round began, but I was very surprised to grab the mortar when RU got pushed out to the Cafe, popped off 2 quick kills, and get the assignment unlock. I love that place for weapon unlocks.

  • jefe414jefe414 "My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter" Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered User regular
    Prohass wrote:
    Goddamnit, just had the most infuriating run.

    A guy in an apache had 39 kills, on console. I kept trying to anti-air him, firing over and over, never got the little white 'x' , even with direct hits. Drove me fucking insane.

    Also everyone is all of sudden amazing at air combat and im shit.

    Had something like this happen on Wake Island. Enemy chopper was labeled as friendly (showed as blue on the map). They could kill us but we couldn't damage it. Maybe some glitch where the pilot was on our team but the gunner was an enemy? F'ing stupid glitch/oversight if that's the case.

    Xbox Live: Jefe414
  • 0Replace4Displace0Replace4Displace The best girls are ships and guns. Registered User regular
    Can't do that. You switch teams and you die. Probably some non-blatant hack that is hard to detect.

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  • deadstickdeadstick Registered User regular
    There is a bug where you can have two different teams in the chopper if someone jumps in while the gunner is using the TV missile.

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  • emp123emp123 Registered User regular
    Rohan wrote:
    I've been able to play this game perhaps three times since I bought it. Since mid-November it's been crashing just as it launches, and nothing I've tried will solve it. I've even reformatted my drive and reinstalled Windows (not due to BF3 solely - I'd never do that for a single game) and still, the problem remains. People have very different ideas as to what the problem is - Origin running in the background (disabled, ran once then never again), the game installing by default to \Battlefield 3 tm instead of \Battlefield 3 (not in my case), gamepads installed (I WANT to use my joystick when controlling the jets, removing it is not an option), etc.

    I don't think I've ever had a game give me so much trouble. And the hilarious part is that reportedly the cracked .exe has no such issues!

    It blows my mind that USB only lets you hit 3 or 4 keys at a time or whatever. USB 2.0 can transfer data at like 40MB/s (well, I assume most keyboards are USB 1 so theyre limited to like 12MB/s but still) but I can only press 3 god damn keys at once? Fuck that noise.

  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    Klyka wrote:
    Holy shit I just played some rounds on a pub.

    HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO BAD AT THIS?

    Rush. We defend. They arm M-COM A. I run towards it, kill a guy and get killed by some dude half sunken into a bush. My "buddy" kills the bush guy. It's cool right? He's gonna disarm right?
    No.
    He looks at it. LOOKS STRAIGHT AT THE BLINKING, SCREAMING M-COM and TURNS AROUND, running away.

    I SHIT
    YOU
    NOT.

    If you have to play on pubs ever, play engineer and do nothing but play anti-vehicle. Find a good ammo buddy and sit on a roof somewhere just taking down choppers and planes and things.

    Don't worry about the score or the wider game. Just think of it as a skeet shoot.

  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    Klyka wrote:
    Holy shit I just played some rounds on a pub.

    HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO BAD AT THIS?

    Rush. We defend. They arm M-COM A. I run towards it, kill a guy and get killed by some dude half sunken into a bush. My "buddy" kills the bush guy. It's cool right? He's gonna disarm right?
    No.
    He looks at it. LOOKS STRAIGHT AT THE BLINKING, SCREAMING M-COM and TURNS AROUND, running away.

    I SHIT
    YOU
    NOT.

    Naw, man, didn't you hear that other dude totally say he had it? I heard him. He was all over it. I had to go shoot mans, brah, my kay-dee's been laggin.

  • Wicked Uncle ErnieWicked Uncle Ernie Registered User regular
    Klyka wrote:
    Holy shit I just played some rounds on a pub.

    HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO BAD AT THIS?

    Rush. We defend. They arm M-COM A. I run towards it, kill a guy and get killed by some dude half sunken into a bush. My "buddy" kills the bush guy. It's cool right? He's gonna disarm right?
    No.
    He looks at it. LOOKS STRAIGHT AT THE BLINKING, SCREAMING M-COM and TURNS AROUND, running away.

    I SHIT
    YOU
    NOT.

    he thought it might blow him up. Because dying in this game is a more horrible fate than...actually dying. Push the point? But they might shoot me!

  • acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    where do I connect to with mumble? I'm trying to set it up because ragequit from MW3 and because scat said I should.

    GT: Acidboogie PSNid: AcidLacedPenguiN
  • AhiMahiAhiMahi Registered User regular
    This game is much more enjoyable when you have ZERO expectations from pubs. I bet half of them don't have their balls dropped yet.

  • wakkawawakkawa Registered User regular
    disconnected: Something went wrong.

    OH REALLYY?!

  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    wakkawa wrote:
    disconnected: Something went wrong.

    OH REALLYY?!

    Better than "Disconnected: Fuck you we just didn't want you to play."
    Which is what they really mean, because they don't like you.

  • 0Replace4Displace0Replace4Displace The best girls are ships and guns. Registered User regular
    We're in vent playing vidyogaymz. You guys should join us.

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  • emp123emp123 Registered User regular
    What happened to mumble?

  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    Why vent now?> whaaaA?

    Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
  • 0Replace4Displace0Replace4Displace The best girls are ships and guns. Registered User regular
    Just because we thought it was mumble making my friend sound like shit. It wasn't, but we stayed on vent anyways.

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  • KogareruKogareru Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    bleh, you're a bad person and you should feel bad, mumble is better. also TOG you're going to love your DAS I have the cherry brown and while it's still loud it's not nearly as bad as the others I've heard. best purchase i've made in a long time. GUYS GUYS we should play these pubbies are KILLING ME.

    Kogareru on
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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    Hey. We are going to get a game going. Join us in mumble.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Mulletude wrote:
    But you spent 400 dollars on the console! Maybe less. And PC games are generally cheaper (sometimes much cheaper) than the console alternatives.

    The main reason I got this on the PC instead was because of how blatantly better it was. It almost isn't even worth getting for the consoles, IMHO.

    A one time investment of $300. That I don't have to spend monies upgrading or replacing altogether as new games come out. When I was single, I had no problem putting my extra cash into a PC so I could play new games and have them look good.

    I get what you mean about this game being better on PC (why I recommended to the dude earlier to get it for PC). I am a child of the 1942 and Vietnam Era. I loved those games so much, even ran a BFV server. Just the fact I get to play a version of this game that isn't completely castrated like BF2 on the OXBOX was means alot to me.

    I can't say I blame you. I had no idea how hilariously buggy and unstable the game is even when it's working exactly as it's supposed to, and I'm running it on a setup with GTX 470 SLI that eats and spits out more intensive games than this. With that in mind, $35 is pretty much the ceiling of what I'd pay for a new game this unstable that I'm going to be waiting for patches and you know, proper support, rather than just waiting for it to not have these problems (and perhaps be cheaper). Especially when there's a $15 DLC you're expected to buy as well.

    As said, it's almost all in the actual program. If the console versions don't have this problem--deciding, "Hey, the player is running for his life/about to move to disarm an explosive on an MCOM/trying to sneak up on a tank, better fucking shudder and freeze for four or five seconds so he dies."--more power to him for going with it. Hell, I bet there's a 1/3 chance that Kykla's complaint about playing on a public server, with a player ran from disarming and saving the game, was actually due to a lovely 4 second "Hope you weren't doing anything!" period. Maybe 1/4.

    Then again, I play heavily medic, and don't really care about game outcomes too much (I switch to Russian because I like the AK-74M), so long as I get to run around reviving guys and tossing out health packs. Probably not a huge benefit to the team I'm on.

    The other 3/4 was that he was an idiot.

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  • rRootagearRootagea MadisonRegistered User regular
    setting up a mumble server now...

    server: mbl7.gameservers.com
    port: 10047

    let me know if you guys can connect, i'm learning this stuff as i go


  • UEAKCrashUEAKCrash heh Registered User regular
    Anyone know where the cheapest place to pick this up for PC, download only? I see amazon has it for $40, anywhere better? I want to gift it to someone.

  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    I'm surprised ther wasn't another origin sale for it for Christmas. Maybe for new years

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    CALLING ALL MANS TO THE DOME

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    How do I get to the dome? I can't seem to find the server through EA's terrible interface

    I cant url good so add me on steam anyways steamcommunity.com/id/Raslin

    3ds friend code: 2981-6032-4118
  • TorgaironTorgairon Registered User regular
    getting 5-10 fps in that karkand game was depressing me so fucking much, my archaic computer can't handle 64 mans at all. sorry to the few people I was prone'ing and shooting, literally couldn't do anything else.

    @raslin: make sure to take off filters like number of free slots and certain modes because the dome cycles through both, and then just type in "angry dome". if you still don't see it, you have a filter on that's blocking it, so just trial-and-error it.

  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    Just finished a most excellent match...Me on one team. Ahi on the other. Both carrying our dogshit teams. We squeaked that shit out although Ahi ended up with MVP. We both had over 5000 points with the 2nd closest on either team around 2500. Highlight of my night was snagging Ahi's dogtags. I'm sure for him it was C4'ing my tank 3 godamn times.

    GG Ahi. Wish I coulda played with you but every time I tried to switch your team immediately filled.

    XBL-Dug Danger WiiU-DugDanger Steam-http://steamcommunity.com/id/DugDanger/
  • Chrono PaladinChrono Paladin Registered User regular
    So I'm sure this has been brought up, but man...the FAMAS iron sights are awful. They're like the UMP sights from BC2...but somehow worse!
    Getting to red dot was essentially like being healed of blindness.

  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    So I'm sure this has been brought up, but man...the FAMAS iron sights are awful. They're like the UMP sights from BC2...but somehow worse!
    Getting to red dot was essentially like being healed of blindness.

    Yes indeed. They are pure shit. And when the hell are we gonna play again? I've been off the game for a few days but PA 360 dudes need to put down skyrim for a bit and get together for some steamrolling. I complained about it before but nothing but pubs or getting stuck playing against PA can get depressing. Even when i'm doing very well.

    XBL-Dug Danger WiiU-DugDanger Steam-http://steamcommunity.com/id/DugDanger/
  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    Raslin wrote:
    How do I get to the dome? I can't seem to find the server through EA's terrible interface

    You could just look at the OP.

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