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Anyone have a 2nd key for the alpha I can have, anyone at all???? Im dying here, been trying to login 2 days now. FAIL AFTER FAIL AFTER FAIL AFTER FAIL.


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There is also No such things in BF3 yet like Vsync or Detailed graphic options inside the games, or keymapping. But hey i love playing this Alpha!
 
Something needs to be done about the twitch shooting shit that's going on now. Right now it's just another COD clone.
 
bizzmeister said:
I meant for the people who have 2 or 3 registered emails. Its totally possible.
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The only way to log in to the bf3 alpha site is if your account has been given an invite, so wouldn't they have to give you the username/password for their second account in order for you to use it? I don't think they can just give you the key, but I could be wrong.
 
Eriksrocks said:
From a software development perspective, I can assure you this is not a true alpha build. The game is released in 3 months, they typically go gold about a month before release (time for distribution and printing of discs, etc.), which means they only have two months of development left.

The game is most likely feature complete by now, and if anything this is probably more like a true beta build. The game won't change very much aside from bug fixes.

The terms alpha and beta are thrown around so loosely nowadays they are pretty much just marketing terms in this context.
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It is not feature complete. Not the alpha we are playing.

Having the game in BETA in house, and having us play an ALPHA build are two completely different things. What we are playing is clearly an ALPHA build.

Features are in fact missing from the game. I am in the alpha, I can tell you that as a fact.
 
Performance update:

My system (see sig) with the ATI HD4850 is getting 25-30fps on Medium settings at 1600x1200 res. Even though it is 25 fps, it is a constant 25 fps, and it does not stutter or drop low at all. By comparison, BC2 will start to stutter at 25fps and have plenty of drops into single digits when lots of explosions go off. Unable to tell if there is AA or AF going on due to lack of menu options. For comparison's sake, I get 45-50 fps in Bad Company 2 on Medium settings, 2xAA, 4xAF at same resolution. If this is the performance I'm getting in the Alpha, I'm very impressed. When I run Auto settings the fps jumps up to near 60, but there is a noticeable degradation in the terrain and gun models to the point I can't see enemies in the distance. Low settings are just as bad. Any of you guys running newer hardware are going to be just fine.;)

My CPU is also running around 90-95% usage on ALL 4 CORES, and my system is not overclocked at the moment (@2.5ghz). It is definitely going to love quad's.

Gunplay feels like a cross of MOH and BC2 Vietnam. Assault rifles and sub machine guns definitely DON'T have ridiculous accuracy at distance. If I'm shooting at a distance, it will take nearly a clip to kill them, and you don't see every bullet register. Up close its like 3-4 bullets max (compared to 10 from the same comparable weapon on BC2 vanilla). It's like they took the damage levels from BC2 hardcore mode, and left everything else non-hardcore mode. The only exception I've seen to my last statement is the sniper rifles, which will take 2-3 shots depending where you hit them, with 1 shot headshot kills at medium range.
 
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Got it working finally, 2560x1600 in high settings.

Had some awesome fights in the metro, really just top notch.

The FOV and mouse acceleration is doing my head in though they really need to fix that for launch otherwise they're going to get laughed at for the game being consolized, rightly so.
 
JD03Cobra said:
Finally someone that knows what their talking about...They know that the cry baby complainers are out in full force so to shut everyone up their calling it ALPHA. It's feature complete and yes bug fixes at best. Many patches to follow after going gold just like BF2.

ALPHA code is considered early development and not ready for QA test.
BETA code is playable with many bugs.
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No, no and many more no's.

Alpha code does in fact have user testing. Alpha code is 'playable' (apparently you only think games use build cycles). However, the testing in this alpha has NOTHING to do with the game itself. It is specifically for the server side. Just this morning they tweaked the ranking system and at 8 tonight they are resetting all ranks.

This is clearly an alpha build. Features are down right missing that we know are going to be part of the actual game.

This being an alpha build has NOTHING to do with how far along they are in the build process. They could internally be on their 8th BETA version testing away.
 
PrincessFrosty said:
Got it working finally, 2560x1600 in high settings.

Had some awesome fights in the metro, really just top notch.

The FOV and mouse acceleration is doing my head in though they really need to fix that for launch otherwise they're going to get laughed at for the game being consolized, rightly so.
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Yeah but it is alpha. I think it will shake out ok. Hope so. We got a sponsor for the Pax East lan.
 
PrincessFrosty said:
Got it working finally, 2560x1600 in high settings.

Had some awesome fights in the metro, really just top notch.

The FOV and mouse acceleration is doing my head in though they really need to fix that for launch otherwise they're going to get laughed at for the game being consolized, rightly so.
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How did you do that? The hud extends off the screen on my 2560x1600. Ground textures flash a lot... dunno why.
 
himmy said:
It is not feature complete. Not the alpha we are playing.

Having the game in BETA in house, and having us play an ALPHA build are two completely different things. What we are playing is clearly an ALPHA build.

Features are in fact missing from the game. I am in the alpha, I can tell you that as a fact.
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What features are you referring to? If you're talking about the menus/options, I'm pretty sure your 'alpha' build has been intentionally gimped to focus the testing/feedback on the server side of the game and prevent people from ripping apart the client. It's a custom build specifically for this trial, designed to throw you right into the game and not do much else.

The only 'feature' I can think of that's not there yet from what I've seen is destruction, which has been intentionally turned off probably to lighten load on the servers and because it was buggy, not because it hasn't been implemented yet.

The core of the game is far beyond alpha.

Trust me, people said the same thing for the BC2 beta. "Oh, it's just a beta, it's not even close to finished yet." It was pretty much exactly the same upon release. This will be similar, aside from the fact that the retail release will be the full client, not this specially-gimped "alpha" version.

Regardless, still don't have an invite and starting to worry that I never will. Are the people posting that they got in today actually getting in today, or are they just finding their emails from yesterday?
 
SeaFoam said:
Something needs to be done about the twitch shooting shit that's going on now. Right now it's just another COD clone.
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Getting hit throws off your aim, so shooting back helps alot.

(this was said non-sarcastically. I realize I had to state this after re-reading it.)
 
Well, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting into the Alpha at this point. Very disappointed. Seems like most everyone else got in. Is anyone else still out in the cold with me?
 
*sigh* Unplayable for me at this point. 2560x1600 has so many issues. That along with just the *hiding* players in plain site is just silly.

Once inside the tunnels, I am blind. An ATI issue?

The no-remapping thing is the worst though. Christ.

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spacing guild said:
What's "alpha code"? They rewrite the whole game in "release code" in two months?

That's what they said about the Crysis 2 demo..."It's not the final product." :rolleyes:
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Debugging code that tracks and logs a large amount of the game's events can seriously bog down performance.

I remember reading a blog post by one game developer where he put in a bunch of asserts to try and find a really tricky problem and those asserts brought the game down to near unplayable levels. Taking them out took the game back up to 60 frames.
 
Gmok Bonecrusha said:
*sigh* Unplayable for me at this point. 2560x1600 has so many issues. That along with just the *hiding* players in plain site is just silly.

Once inside the tunnels, I am blind. An ATI issue?

The no-remapping thing is the worst though. Christ.

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Astonishing.

ATI 5850 here, running 45 FPS solid outside 100+ FPS tunnels 1920x1200 all high settings.

No issues at all like that... Everything looks beautiful except for the first 10 seconds of the map, faaaar off background textures flash, then it stops and urvy'thang is butter...
 
Uh nda? Seriously, the game will be good. Going to take a bit to get the major issues resolved just like every BF release.
 
ManCannon said:
Well, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting into the Alpha at this point. Very disappointed. Seems like most everyone else got in. Is anyone else still out in the cold with me?
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Me. :mad: I guess they didn't look at my 1,353 hours of BF2 play. Poo poo. I cry now. Alone. With no BF3.
 
the alpha is amazing, takes alot of getting use too but the sounds and effects are awsome. imo this is prob the first FPS i can safely say i cant wait to play the Single Player and just enjoy the atmosphere and feel of the combat reguardless f how shitty the story might be.

i usually skip the single player of every fps i play unless it has co-op.
 
spaceman said:
Uh nda? Seriously, the game will be good. Going to take a bit to get the major issues resolved just like every BF release.
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Exactly. Doesn't seem to be bothering anyone in the SWTOR thread though :(... haven't seen a single NDA post edited in there.
 
Wildace said:
the alpha is amazing, takes alot of getting use too but the sounds and effects are awsome. imo this is prob the first FPS i can safely say i cant wait to play the Single Player and just enjoy the atmosphere and feel of the combat reguardless f how shitty the story might be.

i usually skip the single player of every fps i play unless it has co-op.
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Watching a few of the alpha videos on youtube, one of the first things to strike me was how much I loved the gunfire sounds...and the rockets! Sweetness.
 
Shantar I had that happen to me when I pressed Escape and went to options and got killed and it went away. So next time I was alive I went back to the options and then it was fine.
 
I am being punished for some reason.

As of right now my 12 Mb Internet is running at less than 1Mb, most recent speed test to a server not more than 40 miles away (that routinely shows the full 12Mb) gave me a speed of 0.08 Mb.

My ping test to www.yahoo.com showed an average of 545ms (out of 25 pings with 23% loss).

I've had to reset my router 4 times in the past hour.

I've spent over 2 hours on the phone with my ISP. They said they have maintenance scheduled for August 5th.



I just checked my email.



I just got an Alpha Invite that expires on August 1st.



Dammit.
 
Wrecklusive said:
Uh, stupid question about the alpha...is it possible to play fullscreen? If so, how?
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Left Alt + Enter or hit escape and go into the options.

Other fun keys people might not know about, X toggles crouch, V toggles firing modes if the gun supports it. You can tell if a gun supports it if there's little dots next to your ammo count 3 is full auto, 2 is burst and 1 is self explanatory. F for quick knife, T for flashlight.
 
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. said:
I am being punished for some reason.

As of right now my 12 Mb Internet is running at less than 1Mb, most recent speed test to a server not more than 40 miles away (that routinely shows the full 12Mb) gave me a speed of 0.08 Mb.

My ping test to www.yahoo.com showed an average of 545ms (out of 25 pings with 23% loss).

I've had to reset my router 4 times in the past hour.

I've spent over 2 hours on the phone with my ISP. They said they have maintenance scheduled for August 5th.



I just checked my email.



I just got an Alpha Invite that expires on August 1st.



Dammit.
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So... I'll trade you sexual favors for the code. :D



No, seriously.
 
refraxion said:
Veteran level 8 and still no dice. GET IT? NO DICE!!!! :mad:
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My last hope is that they'll send out a large amount of pity invites to all remaining veterans tomorrow so we can at least play for the weekend, but I doubt that will happen.
 
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