[BF3] All Premiums has the Aftermaths - Crossbows and gunvans, ho!

That_Guy

CarbonFire wrote: »

Gah, I'm going to have to buy premium now, aren't I?

If you don't people will think you are a scrub. You don't want to be a scrub do you?

Professor Phobos

Why are you even talking to that commoner, That_Guy? Let your steward handle such interactions.

That_Guy

Professor Phobos wrote: »

Why are you even talking to that commoner, That_Guy? Let your steward handle such interactions.

Can I trade my Steward in for a House Carl?

Professor Phobos

That_Guy wrote: »

Professor Phobos wrote: »

Why are you even talking to that commoner, That_Guy? Let your steward handle such interactions.

Can I trade my Steward in for a House Carl?

Only if he's named Gustav.

Librarian's ghost

Professor Phobos wrote: »

That_Guy wrote: »

Professor Phobos wrote: »

Why are you even talking to that commoner, That_Guy? Let your steward handle such interactions.

Can I trade my Steward in for a House Carl?

Only if he's named Gustav.

I used to be a premium member like you, then I took a .308 to the knee.

mojojoeo

Ick. Non premium people in the thread?

Peasants.

Professor Phobos

Lets get the Dome going, guys!

Satsumomo

Getting on, currently idling because somebody set the server with a minimum amount of players to start.

jaredburton

Well I'll try.

Please don't kill me too many times.

Klyka

I'm pretty sure that all the DLC we get is completely and entirely Multiplayer.
I mean, how can you even come up with the idea of there being singleplayer DLC for this? It's an entire weird notion.

Dac

BF3 is a multiplayer game with an extended tutorial tacked on.

emp123

CarbonFire wrote: »

Klyka wrote: »

Seriously, people can shit on Origin and all the other bullshit EA has done, but Premium?
It is ACTUALLY a good deal. Like, it actually saves you money IF you are 100% certain you will pick up all the DLC.
There is NOTHING you can complain about with Premium.

It's an ok deal, but it's nothing spectacular.

- Everyone owns Back to Karkand already
- CQ, Armored Kill and End Game are $15 each a la carte
- LOL more single player Battlefield (Aftermath)

So assuming you do want every real new expansion pack, then it's $45. So $5 gets you 5 new weapons, more stupid single player crap, and slightly early access.

For me, I can skip the 5 extra weapons. Early access is fine, but I don't need it. And lol battlefield single player (though it'll probably come with a co-op mission or something...whatever).

You also get to cut in line!

MrDelish

DICE has said that none of the expansions are SP-only.

Dac

Weird. I somehow dulled my minimap? Everything's faded except for points?

halp

e: nevermind Figured it out

Oakey

Klyka wrote: »

Shogun wrote: »

I just tried CQD on a server that was 37/48 and it was pretty terbo. Imagine 64 player metro with random spawns. I semi-like CQD and I like the maps, but the spawning needs to be sorted.

Faulting spawns on maps designed for 16 players which you are playing with almost 40 is not really a sensible thing to do.

It's still an issue with just 16 players. Played a few games earlier of 8v8 and a number of times we'd be defending a flag or whatever and some poor schmuck would spawn right in the middle of our squad and get shot in the face

Dac

App to 103rd Arcadians sent. Name is ShogunGunshow

TheBenjomonster

Lt Muffin360 wrote: »

TheBenjomonster wrote: »

Anyone have ideas as to when the next expansion after CQ comes out? I'm really hoping to just skip over this whole premium/close quarters train wreck. I play Battlefield because it presents a large scale, war games playstyle. CQ seems to have none of that.

Two questions:

1) How is premium a train wreck?

-It saves you money if you are going to get all of the expansions and then even gives you more stuff on top of that. None of which give you an advantage in game so it isn't pay to win and it is only a one time payment.

and

2) Why not give it a try?

-I can understand that CQ may not be your thing since this is BattleFIELD and not BattleOFFICE. I however love BF3 and was willing to give it a try. It is crazy fun and a good change up. I still like the old maps but something new/different is always good to me. Even if I didn't get it, I would have gotten it for the guns.

Sorry, not trying to be rude or anything, just genuinely curious.

I think this whole premium thing sucks because I'm not positive I want to buy all the DLC's. The only one I am sure I want is Armored Kill, and while I will probably wind up buying at least one of the other two remaining ones, I have a real problem dropping the price of a new game up front for material a year+ away in development (which I may not even want, as was the case w/ CQ).

So my options are to either:
A) just cave and pay $50 for premium so I can play w/ people I know, even though it could wind up actually costing me $5-$35 for stuff I don't want.
not play with people I know (and thus probably much less in general) until AK comes out.

I don't really like either of those.

I'm not saying EA is evil or Premium is the worst thing ever, but it sure sucks if you're not positive you're going to be playing BF3 in 18 months.

I guess it all comes down to the fact that I can't/don't want to buy shit I have no idea whether or not I'll use.


edit: and for the record I do think having weapons non-premium people won't have for several days on top of prioritized queues qualifies as an "advantage"

and like I said, my whole appreciation of Battlefield is all about jets, attack choppers, tanks, and infantry working as a unit to take out objectives/vehicles. If Close Quarters brings any of that to the table, I will definitely sit down.

tehgils

We need a bigger boat mumble server.

Shogun

what is battlelog's problem right now

emp123

Ugh, this expansion is killing my SPM, Im down to 560 from 588

Wicked Uncle Ernie

New server smell! These new maps are crazy fast. That Gun Game was fun as well, is there another mode I'm not seeing or is that it?

Archsorcerer

Seems the A91 is back to its old glory now that it lost some recoil.

Euphoriac

You make my SPM of 300 seem like shit.

The fact that it is shit should have no relevance to me, but now it does. Are you happy emp? I hope you are because someone needs to be!

acidlacedpenguin

I'm kind of sick of unloading 20-30 bullets from an LMG into a person only to have them shotgun me to death in 2 hits from like 40m away.

emp123

Euphoriac wrote: »

You make my SPM of 300 seem like shit.

The fact that it is shit should have no relevance to me, but now it does. Are you happy emp? I hope you are because someone needs to be!

Well, I feel shitty about my SPM because some people have theirs in the triple digits.

Lt. Fragg

This is getting fucking stupid - now I can't connect to EA servers WTF

Shogun

I was having trouble earlier and a reset got me into battlelog and onto the Dome, but my internet is acting up and lagging me out.

Lt Muffin360

TheBenjomonster wrote: »

Lt Muffin360 wrote: »

TheBenjomonster wrote: »

Anyone have ideas as to when the next expansion after CQ comes out? I'm really hoping to just skip over this whole premium/close quarters train wreck. I play Battlefield because it presents a large scale, war games playstyle. CQ seems to have none of that.

Two questions:

1) How is premium a train wreck?

-It saves you money if you are going to get all of the expansions and then even gives you more stuff on top of that. None of which give you an advantage in game so it isn't pay to win and it is only a one time payment.

and

2) Why not give it a try?

-I can understand that CQ may not be your thing since this is BattleFIELD and not BattleOFFICE. I however love BF3 and was willing to give it a try. It is crazy fun and a good change up. I still like the old maps but something new/different is always good to me. Even if I didn't get it, I would have gotten it for the guns.

Sorry, not trying to be rude or anything, just genuinely curious.

I think this whole premium thing sucks because I'm not positive I want to buy all the DLC's. The only one I am sure I want is Armored Kill, and while I will probably wind up buying at least one of the other two remaining ones, I have a real problem dropping the price of a new game up front for material a year+ away in development (which I may not even want, as was the case w/ CQ).

So my options are to either:
A) just cave and pay $50 for premium so I can play w/ people I know, even though it could wind up actually costing me $5-$35 for stuff I don't want.
not play with people I know (and thus probably much less in general) until AK comes out.

I don't really like either of those.

I'm not saying EA is evil or Premium is the worst thing ever, but it sure sucks if you're not positive you're going to be playing BF3 in 18 months.

I guess it all comes down to the fact that I can't/don't want to buy shit I have no idea whether or not I'll use.


edit: and for the record I do think having weapons non-premium people won't have for several days on top of prioritized queues qualifies as an "advantage"

and like I said, my whole appreciation of Battlefield is all about jets, attack choppers, tanks, and infantry working as a unit to take out objectives/vehicles. If Close Quarters brings any of that to the table, I will definitely sit down.

Fair enough. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. Makes sense if you aren't sure what you will be doing down the road. As for the "advantage", i can understand it as an "advantage", but it isn't a pay 2 win format is what I was getting at. I can understand that it is a bit of a leg up however.

emp123

Servers are still down

http://www.ea.com/servers/battlefield3

Lt Muffin360

That says that Xbox servers are down but I am still playing so I have no idea what is going on. Battlelog refuses to give me my stats though.

That_Guy

I am unable to join the dome due to the error.

Satsumomo

I want to vote gun game out of rotation

emp123

Lt Muffin360 wrote: »

That says that Xbox servers are down but I am still playing so I have no idea what is going on. Battlelog refuses to give me my stats though.

If youre connected to a server youre fine, but if you disconnect you wont be able to reconnect.

Well, now you can, servers are back up (for pc, xbox and ps3).

DietarySupplement

Servers back up.

Dome time.

Librarian's ghost

Satsumomo wrote: »

I want to vote gun game out of rotation

Ditto. Also god damn you for knifing me each time I had just managed to get off the last sniper rifle and to the grenade launcher. You put me back on that damn rifle three times...

mojojoeo

DOME TIMES- GET DOWN ON IT>

Satsumomo

Haha I really like that mechanic.

Mulletude

Lt Muffin360 wrote: »

Fair enough. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. Makes sense if you aren't sure what you will be doing down the road. As for the "advantage", i can understand it as an "advantage", but it isn't a pay 2 win format is what I was getting at. I can understand that it is a bit of a leg up however.

Except that it really isn't an advantage. The starter weapons on all classes are some of the best in the entire game.

Lt. Fragg

Wow, now that i finally get to play it, I'm loving CQ. They do COD better than COD.

Now how do I find The Angry Dome for Xbox folks? I searched it and nothing came up. Is it private?

Blendtec

BF3 really likes to crash on me after about 20 minutes of playing. Then if I get back in it's fine for hours. No idea why it does that, never gives an error or anything. Screen just blacks out, sound stops, have to ctrl+alt+del it.