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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1095 on: 27-09-2011, 09:09:12 »
The Ground-to-air game play is alot better in BFP4F than in BF2... Why is that relevant to BF3? I dont know!  :o But maybe because 2005 and 2011 is 6 years in between, 6 years of progress in design, technology, art, maybe DICE and EA is better at making games now, than in 2005? omg, what a revelation! Maybe it could even be applied to other speculations and comparisons between a 2005 game and a 2011 game, who knows ;D

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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1096 on: 27-09-2011, 16:09:44 »
Relax Natty, people are actually positive about these little tidbits of news. Time for me to go home, check if my Beta key is in the mail and rock on in Paris  ;D

Don't forget, if you are participating in the Beta, there are drivers out from NVIDIA and AMD that boost performance in BF3, or so they claim:

NVIDIA: http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Beta

AMD: http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDCatalyst1110Previewdriver.aspx


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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1097 on: 27-09-2011, 18:09:00 »
Just got my beta key after coming back from class! So excited to start playing.

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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1098 on: 28-09-2011, 08:09:52 »
This game is way too noobified...sniper glint like a flash light attached to their scopes that can be seen from everywhere. Derp spotting (3d spotting) acts like a wallhack following everyone, even through bushes and rocks. You have a squad leader that doesnt do anything special just to call airstrikes and that's it. Everyone can spawn in everyone like BC2 (a fail system). Bullet damage is way too high, way too high. The recon has a mobile spawn, where the enemy can automatically spawn behind your back and nobody notices it because it's too goddamn small and people dont even know what it is.

And they even removed the LAV-25 from the map, and their promise of "everything unlockable" was a lie. The mortar for example cant be unlocked.

Also, the killcam is the worst thing to come to BF, after derp spotting. I dont have high hopes for this game yet. The community has way too long said this things to DICE and they stubbornly dont listen, they prefer to attract the noob and cod community.

And I dont think we will ever get mod tools, so prepare for a massive dissapointment with this game.

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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1099 on: 28-09-2011, 09:09:44 »
It's still quite rough and with 1 Month left before they plan on releasing this game, I'm a bit set back.
-The animations look like they've been ripped directly from other Dice games, namely Mirror's Edge, where every small ledge you try to jump over results in a full-out joust over said ledge (most of the times, sometimes the collisions do register and make you climb over it).

-Collisions still feel a bit odd and the destruction 2.0 is rather a step back from BC2, the scripted bits falling off of walls and stiff tree physics are more apparent than ever before.

- Textures are ok, but (IMHO) you can see that the details were toned down to run on the consoles. (I'm playing with everything on high and it still looks a bit worse than BC2 (which is strange, as that was also made with Consoles in mind)

- The gameplay feels like BC2 on speed which is almost too fast for my taste.

- Origin.... oh my god Origin... now DICE is innocent on this part, but by god, how can you fuck around and produce a program like this? It is everything but consumer friendly... You have to start Origin, then press start BF3 there, then your browser opens and you can choose a server via battlelog, then Origin starts again and loads up BF3 and then the browser tells you that the game is ready to play and you can finally join up the game from there (if it doesn't decide to drop you into some Queue in the last second.  ;D

- Oh and the worst bit of BC2 is back for more... you still can't open the score tab and the options while being dead! I like to change my keys and view my score while being dead, not while someone can still shoot at me. Also you can't exit the game, you always have to wait to respawn to disconnect... come on people! ^^

- As Yustax said, the Deathcam is bad... plain and simple. Like above, I want to view my score when dead and not stare at the ugly face of my killer from 5" away. It's especially painful when you see the errors in the animations from that distance. Who thought that this was a good game-mechanic?! ^^

Other than that, finding a server isn't as bad as it was with BC2s beta... that's good, although the amount of servers available is quite conservative, hope they up that number by another x thousand for Friday. ^^

Ah well, let's say it's still the beta, so all will be well in 1 month.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Yeah right...^^
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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1100 on: 28-09-2011, 10:09:06 »
TotalBiscuit takes a look at the BF3 beta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0POAnWAmV0w
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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1101 on: 28-09-2011, 10:09:27 »
Raises some good points. Especially not being able to change any settings without joining a server. Ridiculous. Some issues I still have is regarding squad play, 4 player squads are too small, squads no longer have callsigns as far as I can tell which makes teamwork between squads difficult to say the least and squadleader only spawning was much better than spawn on every squad member.
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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1102 on: 28-09-2011, 10:09:21 »
hm

not sure if BF3 is worth it
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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1103 on: 28-09-2011, 11:09:29 »
At the moment I would still prefer RO2. ^^
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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1104 on: 28-09-2011, 12:09:34 »
This game is way too noobified...

I won't judge until I play it, but it certainly sounds like it... ::)

I'm not a fan of either jets or snipers in BF2, but the way they've nerfed the jets (by removing the bombs) is ridiculous and comes across as laziness.

And making snipers easy to see kinda defeats their whole purpose, without the ability to hide they're nothing more than a soldier with a long-range rifle.


It's just not Battlefield if you don't get sniped and blown into orbit at least once a round... :)

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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1105 on: 28-09-2011, 12:09:56 »
7-minute Caspian border HD Beta gameplay.
Btw, didn´t DICE say they´d change the "enemy spotted doritos" so that they´d disappear after you lose visual contact with the spotted enemy and yet we see that feature in-game. Oh, and what about the COM-ROSE, is it already in-game?
Another thing that makes me cringe and a little bit destroys immersion for me (and probably makes me sound like some nit-picking nerd) is seeing the player models constantly having their index finger on their guns trigger, while running, reloading or just standing around.
With all those advises and "inside knowledge" DICE got from Andy McNab to make the game "absolutely immersive" I kinda find it odd to see that in-game, since it´s a basic rule of firearms safety...
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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1106 on: 28-09-2011, 12:09:12 »
This doesn't sound good to be honest...

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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1107 on: 28-09-2011, 12:09:08 »
Caspian Border map is what we need. I do not like the Rush game mode.

Haha just noticed the jets taking off from a dirt strip.
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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1108 on: 28-09-2011, 14:09:39 »
I wonder if they decided to bring out the beta with mostly medium textures and ultra setting not working to prevent mass Internet complaining about bad peformance.

Tonight I finally have some time to check it out myself.


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Re: Battlefield 3
« Reply #1109 on: 28-09-2011, 14:09:29 »
Why the hell is that Caspian Border gameplay video giving me the "this video is private" crap? When I have the link I should be able to watch it, no? :-X