official Battlefield 3

[Pupik]

Ah.... in the FAQ...

WHERE DO I GET THE BETA?

On Playstation 3, the Beta will appear automatically on the Playstation Network Store. On Xbox 360, it will automatically appear on Xbox Live Marketplace. On PC, it will automatically appear in the Origin application's Free Games page.

Upon refreshing, there's already a spot for it there.

http://i.imgur.com/4g3Tl.jpg

edit: and it's there now.

[Zulcun]

not showing up on my servers list all are metro and not due to filtering so they must have hidden them or something and no ability to directly connect I guess

They are there, I just left one.

Don't filter game type, just map, worked for me.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Wallpaper on Origin page has just turned into Battlefield artwork.. must be near!

IT'S ON ORIGIN...

Downloading now at 10MB/sec! It's already 50% installed..

[MillionVoltss]

Beta is up on Origin

Downloading at 1.1mbs

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Got it already ;)

[Shaun N.]

Nice!

[MillionVoltss]

No fair, ive got 8mbs max but still at 1. NM, its free.

[Pupik]

No fair, ive got 8mbs max but still at 1. NM, its free.

Maybe you got 8megabits connection? If so, then 1megabytes per second is what you suppose to get.

Had no trouble to max my 100mbit connection. MUCH better results than on Steam, where it never picked above four megebytes per second, no matter the time of day or period.

[NoLiMiT06]

Played a few matches on the 360 and it's a pretty good game but I do not like Rush or the map, I really was hoping to try Caspian Border on the 360 but I doubt that's going to happen. As far as the frame rate, it's very solid on my 360s but the game seems extremely bright on my tv and everything looks very washed out. Also trees seem to be invincible to RPGs and bullets but grenades take them out every time. Tracers seem to float in the sky sometimes as well...

[MillionVoltss]

Virgin Media, reliable service.

Finished now, took an hour. Which was spent playing Freecell.

[Digitalx]

They are there, I just left one.

Don't filter game type, just map, worked for me.

edit nvm need to filter caspian to get them

Edited September 29, 2011 by Digitalx

[MillionVoltss]

Liking the beta, 1680 x 1050 Ultra settings. Great graphics, especially the smoke and textures. The scope reflection is good idea too, means its possible to spot snipers. Had no graphical problems or crashs.

[Pupik]

Only grabbed the beta just to see how the performance is on ultra. Played enough of metro in the alpha and to my surprise, the beta is a lot more buggier than the alpha :laugh:

But the performance on ultra without any tweaks, is acceptable for me. Doesn't get below 30 FPS on 1080p with Q9550, HD 5770 and 4gigabytes of ram.

I'm sure with a bit of tweaking of the settings on custom, it will be a lot smoother (especially when the AA and the shadows are going to be cranked down a bit).

Can't wait for the final to be released now. Which is less than a month away, woot woot :yes:

[SMELTN]

First inpressions on PC?

[MillionVoltss]

how can i check fps ?

[Pupik]

how can i check fps ?

I ran Fraps in the background.

[Gaffney]

On xbox the graphics are OK I guess but I don't like the User AI. I really want to get this game and see a much better result than Bad Company games. But the UI really hard to see and ugly.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Be interested to see how my PC handles the game... Core 2 Duo E7600 and Radeon HD4850... not especially optimistic though it handled Bad Company 2 pretty well at 1080p!

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

First inpressions on PC?

If you go back a few pages there are quite a few people, including myself, who have given their first impressions as a decent amount of us had the early access to the PC beta.

Some people like it, some people not so much, but overall I think the consensus is from a graphics standpoint, it runs much better than expected based on when the minimum and required specs were released.

[Elliot B.]

Downloading the open beta @ 1.0 MB/s, connection maxes at 1.4 MB/s, so not too bad.

Will give my performance/visual impressions soon.

[SMELTN]

If you go back a few pages there are quite a few people, including myself, who have given their first impressions as a decent amount of us had the early access to the PC beta.

Some people like it, some people not so much, but overall I think the consensus is from a graphics standpoint, it runs much better than expected based on when the minimum and required specs were released.

Roger thanks DL

[Vice]

I gave it a try today, I am a Battlefield fan and although I really don't like that I've got to use origin to play this game I decided to at-least give it a shot. And hey, free open beta can't say no to free right?

So I've got some technical issues with the game. As some of you may know I play at 8120x1600 across three 30" 2560x1600 displays. The game doesn't support this very well with the minimap all the way on the far left of my left screen. On Battlefield Bad Company 2 they centred this stuff on the middle display. I hope this is corrected before release.

I was unable to set any mouse buttons for keyboard keys which is annoying as I usually like to have my Melee attack assigned to one of the side buttons that my thumb rests on.

Anyway with those technical issues out of the way I think the game looks really good I can play it on Ultra settings with my GTX 480's in SLI it runs as smooth if not smoother than Bad Company 2 did. I thought the gameplay was a little bit disconnected I mean sure you spawn with other players in your squad but it feels disconnected and no one appears to know what they are doing when it comes to defending everyone is running around not knowing which direction the enemy is coming from. I expect this to get better as people become more familiar with the maps but right now seems like headless chickens running around and that doesn't really make for fun gameplay.

The browser launch system to me seems quite silly it doesn't really add anything to the server browser system and it's a lot slower for me than Bad Company 2. A lot of people said the browser was faster but I'm just not seeing that personally. Also it requires a lot more input from me to get in to a game. Once I select quick join I expect it to just join a game but it spends some time finding a game then presents me with a popup to click to join that server then it begins to load it and once its done tells me to click the notification yet again to finally bring the game up full screen. This to me is just stupid and a poor design choice.

I don't like that you cant simply open the game and change settings you have to be inside a server first. So I've joined a server and you first of all have to stay alive because if you die whilst inside a settings menu you are booted from the menu back to the game. So I have to join a game in progress, prone somewhere out of sight just to change my graphics settings. If they wanted us to use this web page to find servers I think they should have also made it possible to change your game settings from that web page. Just seems silly to have to waste someone's server resources just to tweak some game settings.

I think the game has potential but it has been let down by EA's greed. I feel honestly the game would have been a lot better had they let DICE do what they wanted. Proper in-game browser for one thing. I can see myself playing the game upon release but at the same time I can see myself playing Team Fortress 2. I feel kind of let down by BF3 considering all the hype and marketing. Maybe the single player campaign can save it for me as that is something I'm interested in. So yeah just to end, first impressions from me: ehhh.. meh.. has potential

[SimplySchizo]

How are you guys getting into the EA's Test Server, is the PW being constantly leaked somewhere?

All 11 servers or so are FULL!

I'd love to just get one single rnd in on CB :(

I'm close to calling it quits on metro. Every server I joined last night consisted of glitched players. It was an underground glitch war.

Not fun at all.

[ViperAFK]

current pass was posted a little bit back, and it still works for me. Avoid any of the myIS servers, they lag like crazy. Finally got plenty of lag free caspian border gameplay!. So.Much.Fun. That map is everything BF3 should be and is far, far better than metro.

Metro gives a very bad impression of the game, please don't judge it on just that map!

[Elliot B.]

Downloading the open beta @ 1.0 MB/s, connection maxes at 1.4 MB/s, so not too bad.

Will give my performance/visual impressions soon.

Hardware:

Intel Core i5-750

4 GB Corsair DDR3-1333

Gainward NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

First Launch

Current: 280.26 (WHQL) drivers, released 9th August 2011 (latest WHQL available).

Required: 285.27 (BETA) drivers, released 13th September 2011.

I installed: 285.38 (BETA) drivers, released 26th September 2011 (latest BETA available).

I find it strange that the game runs Windowed by default. A quick ALT+ENTER fixes that.

Performance impressions

I ran the game at 1680x1050, Ultra settings for everything (apart from no AA, 2X AF and no motion blur).

Seems to run at 45+ FPS constantly outside, 55+ FPS inside.

I can cope with that. If it annoys me, HBAO can easily be disabled to free up the extra frames.