Battlefield 3 - Official Thread

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Really hope I can get into Caspian. Playing Metro has really turned me off from playing any more of the beta. But on a lighter note, probably am skipping over it, but I have not seen a place to report bugs. Where do we go to do this?
 
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I can't get the jet or heli controls to really work. I keep trying to remap them but it's not playable. That or I just suck.
 
I had a chance to play Caspian this morning about four times, when we shouldn't even be playing it.
I think they realized Metro sucks and wanted to show us that the game is better than that.
The rush maps are better on BC2 to be honest, I hope the rest aren't like Metro. I play a lot of Mixed Mode (Conquest/Rush) servers.

As far as having some sense of entitlement to play Caspian, get over yourself. All nine map will be available at launch, the game you "actually" paid for.
 
Hey, do you gents know how the open beta is going to be distributed tomorrow (will it just appear in Origin under "My Library") ?
 
I had a chance to play Caspian this morning about four times, when we shouldn't even be playing it.
I think they realized Metro sucks and wanted to show us that the game is better than that.
The rush maps are better on BC2 to be honest.

As far as having some sense of entitlement to play the map, get over yourself. All nine will be avaib;e at launch, the game you "actually" paid for.

Why do we keep judging one fucking Rush map? Seriously. I think most of the maps in BC2 I hate.
 
Why do we keep judging one fucking Rush map? Seriously. I think most of the maps in BC2 I hate.

Rush is just not for you then, no biggie. There times I like to tun around freely, and there are times I would like to focus on one objective.
For me, it gets pretty boring playing the same mode repeatedly. That's why I perfer Mixed Mode servers.

Caspian Conquest is the real BF3 though.
 
Personally I don't know what all the complaining is about. Yes there are issues, this is a beta test. I'm sure AMD/Nvidia are going to work with Dice to fix alot of these issues soon. I just LOL when I fall through the ground.

I think this game has the potential to be the most technically advanced game out there. I really like the graphics so far, it both looks and performs better than Crysis 2 DX11 (though it does share a similar look and feel in Operation Metro). I'm sure frame rates will improve more as bugs are ironed out and drivers are optimized. I can't imagine any other game out there with these graphics supporting maps of this size and number of players and not being a slideshow. Metro 2033 engine would be in single digit framerates if it was doing the same stuff as BF3 (don't get me wrong I love Metro and can't wait for Last Light).

It has issues now, but I get the sense that this is going to be great.
 
Anyone else have BF3 installed on a SSD? The load screen only shows for a second or two then your in game! Thats how it should be (*cough* Deus Ex)
 
I didn't read much of the thread and I haven't been able to jump in (Downloading again!!! I thought it did that yesterday!) but why all the hate for Rush? I thought that was the major success story from Bad Company 2? I love rush mode personally. It adds a great deal to the normal Battlefield formula. Is it just the map that people don't like or is it the actual mode?
 
Played some Caspian for the past hour and love it!! I am enjoying doing the sweet jumps in the vehicles..
 
No more sniping with SMGs in BF3 like there was in BC2. Guns are way different this time around, don't let anyone tell you any different. Working on my engineer now, didn't see a point in Metro because there were no vehicles.

Let me just say that anyone screaming that this is BC3... way wrong.
 
Can anyone chime in regarding how much performance takes a hit in the 64 player conquest map vs the 32 player Metro Rush?! I'd love to know!
 
+1, Caspian seems to be more refined IMO. I was getting around 60-70 fps at all medium settings (no AA) on a single GTX295.
 
Appletini works for me. With capital A :)

Love the Caspian map. Performance seems to have gone up after the patch too.
 
I don't understand how the game/map seems to be getting worse by the hour. During the first 5-8 hours of the beta, I never fell through the map. There was a spot or two, just before B, where it was "jittery" but that's it.

Then last night, some rather large "sink holes" started opening up, most notably by A and to the side of B. I join tonight, and now there are even more in areas I never sunk in before. WTF is going on? I know it's a beta, not really concerned about retail, but seems pretty damn bizarre. So much falling into the ground that it isn't even worth playing right now.
 
Not working for me. dang, I've not had a chance on Caspian sea yet, so I'd really like to play it.

If its not working, it says wrong password on the left side. If it works, it starts the game (check bottom left), but you can still enter a password.
 
Appletini does work but not on all servers just keep trying im about to join one ;D
 
Hey, do you gents know how the open beta is going to be distributed tomorrow (will it just appear in Origin under "My Library") ?

You receive an e-mail to the e-mail address you have associated with your Origin account with a code and instructions to redeem the code in the Origin client, then you can download it from your My Games tab.

That's the best part. Around MCOM A, it's a quick sand fight.
You can see people being suck down until they disappear.




I can't bind anything to the mouse i.e. melee, but it's not a gamebreaker right now. In retail it would be.

Workaround and not an answer per say but if you have a Logitech Mouse, install/open the Set Point software, create a macro for each mouse button you want to bind to perform an action and record the macro key press on the keyboard to perform that action and then either change to that profile manually (on the mouse) or try getting SetPoint to automatically apply that profile based on having the BF3 exe running. Works for me.

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The game runs better than expected on my machine but I am having weird audio stuttering issues, it's very noticeable on the voice over voices because they usually repeat at the end of a sentence but sometimes it's evident with the gun sounds as well. I tried using my SB XFI sound card and then also with my USB DAC with identical results. CPU utilization is predictably high, it seems as though maybe they don't have a high enough CPU priority on sound processing or something. Kind of detracts from the action.

As others have noted, I've been sucked into the ground more than expected... Also if you stand on a hill, the screen kind of pulsates like it wants to slide your character down the hill but it just keeps getting stuck in some kind of continuous vibrating loop, that's annoying. Kind of surprised to see this kind of thing so close to launch.
 
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