official Battlefield 3

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

i cant figure out how to turn on the flashlight, a bunch of keybinds for somereason dont work. also cant rebind keys either.

thats my biggest gripe is the rebinding not working

[BeerFan]

That's a pretty silly question. Obviously it will help :D

On how much, depends on teh card.

I know it will help... hence the "significantly". :D I'm just wondering if spending the $$ is worth it yet. Boneyard Brew's graphic was quite helpful. (Y)

[Depicus]

How are his assumptions ridiculous? One would also think they wouldn't release a public beta that's based on a build that's a month old, but everyone here keeps saying that's what they did. Why would you do that? It makes absolutely no sense. So, no, if DICE and EA are going to release a public beta that isn't representative of the final product in most aspects, then I'm not going to have much faith in them doing the intelligent thing in other situations.

I wonder if this was a beta about the gameplay how they were going to get all the fixes in before release, how long does it take to press 1 million dvd's and distribute ?

No this was a poorly executed demo to test the servers which is going to make it a hard sell to the friends I have who are waiting for COD but had this been s**t hot may well have bought this.

Hohum..... no loss to me but my office sales have prob gone from 4 to 1.

[Knightwolf20024]

i cant figure out how to turn on the flashlight, a bunch of keybinds for somereason dont work. also cant rebind keys either.

thats my biggest gripe is the rebinding not working

i believe the key to turn that on is "T"

[Ayepecks]

I wonder if this was a beta about the gameplay how they were going to get all the fixes in before release, how long does it take to press 1 million dvd's and distribute ?

No this was a poorly executed demo to test the servers which is going to make it a hard sell to the friends I have who are waiting for COD but had this been s**t hot may well have bought this.

Hohum..... no loss to me but my office sales have prob gone from 4 to 1.

Generally it doesn't take all that long. After a game goes gold it's two or three weeks before it's released, sometimes even less.

I still want this game to be good. But I was very concerned EA would rush this to the market just to beat Call of Duty, and it seems like that's going to be the case after all, unfortunately. I hope they get all their ducks in a row at release, because I think they shot themselves in the foot with this public beta. You shouldn't release a bug-riddled public beta, plain and simple. A public beta this close to release is a way to test things out while also showing the market what you're games going to be like. I'm very interested to see the pre-order numbers before the beta versus the pre-order numbers after the beta was released.

[Depicus]

Generally it doesn't take all that long. After a game goes gold it's two or three weeks before it's released, sometimes even less. I still want this game to be good. But I was very concerned EA would rush this to the market just to beat Call of Duty, and it seems like that's going to be the case after all, unfortunately. I hope they get all their ducks in a row at release, because I think they shot themselves in the foot with this public beta. You shouldn't release a bug-riddled public beta, plain and simple. A public beta this close to release is a way to test things out while also showing the market what you're games going to be like. I'm very interested to see the pre-order numbers before the beta versus the pre-order numbers after the beta was released.

Well if it due for release on the 23rd then that only 3 weeks away so not sure any game changes could be made in this timeframe.

[TheLegendOfMart]

i cant figure out how to turn on the flashlight, a bunch of keybinds for somereason dont work. also cant rebind keys either.

thats my biggest gripe is the rebinding not working

The flashlight is a weapon addon so if you dont have it you cant turn it on, but 'T' is the key to turn the light and lasers on and off.

[ViperAFK]

Is battlelog really slow today for anyone else?

[SkyDX]

Why would you want any platform to suffer? :blink:

+1 :blink: That's hardly the fault of the console players Blackhearted...

Is battlelog really slow today for anyone else?

All fine here :pinch:

[mollick2]

Seems my battle log is broken. It's not finding any servers, keeps saying "A generic game error was reported, please try again. ( code: 1 )". :/

[SimplySchizo]

Is battlelog really slow today for anyone else?

It was for me when I checked in earlier today, yea.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

It may give pretty good performance on a GTX460 but the occasional flicker i mentioned thursday and the inherent stability issues in this broken "beta" kind of make the performance not matter.

I've seen the (purple and green) flickering as well. Though that might be a mix of both the beta game and the beta drivers. I've been playing Portal 2 recently again for fun and the performance in that game is different compared with stable drivers. So I'm wondering how the final version might run with stable drivers. Might it run even better or about the same? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[trag3dy]

http://www.examiner....-order-discount

Is the above NewEgg price cut promo code link working for anyone?

Every time I put the PS3 and/or the PC version in my cart, enter the code, and hit add; The items stay in my cart at the normal price and it redirects me back out to NewEgg's home page.

(P.S. You guys crack me up with all your pointless and repetitive arguing. Why bother wasting your time like that?)

Nope, for me it says it's an invalid promo code.

[shakey]

I have a few questions or hopes in this game... Ok, so it's Beta. Does that mean that right now, there are options and effects turned off? I have noticed that a lot of the cars on metro.. basically all of them, you can not cause to explode. I'm on the PS3, but I hope this is something that they have disabled for the beta, and will be a feature enabled on the gold. It also seems like there is less destructible environments, so I hope as with the cars, it is something disabled at the moment.

The game is still good, but this is the thing with "betas". You can't tell or judge from this, exactly how anything is going to really turn out. They leave too much unexplained. I just hope there is more happening in the final version.

[LiGhTfast]

really looking forward to this now but hope they made a lot changes to the final.

has anyone figured out how join as a party and stay on same team and join the same squad?

[trag3dy]

I have a few questions or hopes in this game... Ok, so it's Beta. Does that mean that right now, there are options and effects turned off? I have noticed that a lot of the cars on metro.. basically all of them, you can not cause to explode. I'm on the PS3, but I hope this is something that they have disabled for the beta, and will be a feature enabled on the gold. It also seems like there is less destructible environments, so I hope as with the cars, it is something disabled at the moment.

The game is still good, but this is the thing with "betas". You can't tell or judge from this, exactly how anything is going to really turn out. They leave too much unexplained. I just hope there is more happening in the final version.

I'm fairly certain the demo beta only shipped with the high graphics settings. No ultra textures or ultra anything because nothing really appears to change when I change those settings (on pc). They did this for the BC2 beta demo so I'm fairly certain it's the same for BF3. I have no idea how this would translate over to the consoles though.

And while the destruction isn't as "in your face because you can level entire buildings" like in BC2, it is still there and I think it's way more tactile. I like it just fine. As for cars blowing up, I haven't noticed it either and I'm not sure if they are supposed to or not?

[Rooster69]

Anyone know how to get the straight pull bolt to work? Equipped I still have to un-scope to set the next round.

[Knightwolf20024]

Origin Account Bans Threatened for Playing on Modded Battlefield 3 Beta Servers

Pretty much anything involving the word "Origin" and "ban" has PC gamers on a hair-trigger, and news yesterday from Battlefield 3 developer DICE certainly won't lower anyone's blood pressure.

The server files for the game have leaked out. So now, during the game's open beta, some servers have appeared with alterations to the game. That includes, as VE3D points out, hosting more than 100 players on Operation Metro, which is capped at 32.

http://kotaku.com/58...-3-beta-servers

[trag3dy]

Anyone know how to get the straight pull bolt to work? Equipped I still have to un-scope to set the next round.

I had the same problem. I think it's broken.

[yxz]

"Petition for Removal of Battlelog"

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2826564925935213578/1/

[Singh400]

So I've whored out most the guns. Anyone got an recommendations?

[trag3dy]

"Petition for Removal of Battlelog"

http://battlelog.bat...925935213578/1/

No.

So I've whored out most the guns. Anyone got an recommendations?

I like the UMP-45, M416, M40, and the SKS. The SkS is a semi-auto "sniper" rifle but I use it for rushing and I get a lot of kills with it. I use it with holo scope, grip, and silencer. The M249 is also a beast, especially with extended mags. It cracks me up firing the thing for like 5 seconds straight.

I haven't cared to unlock any engineer weapons yet, because quite frankly unless you're spamming the rpg's engineer is useless in operation metro. Especially when the death ray (ump 45) is an all class weapon.

[Singh400]

Someone in the Neowin Platoon by the name of LordLOC is looking a bit dodgy...

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/soldier/LordLOC/stats/174318690/

Hacking?

I like the UMP-45, M416, M40, and the SKS. The SkS is a semi-auto "sniper" rifle but I use it for rushing and I get a lot of kills with it. I use it with holo scope, grip, and silencer.

I've got the UMP Master Dog Tag so I've probably whored out the UMP enough :D M416 is getting there. M40? What class/type of gun is it? And I'm not a huge sniper. Only got the first two snipers unlocked. But I'll check it out if/when I unlock it.

[trag3dy]

Someone in the Neowin Platoon by the name of LordLOC is looking a bit dodgy...

http://battlelog.bat...tats/174318690/

Hacking?

I've got the UMP Master Dog Tag so I've probably whored out the UMP enough :D M416 is getting there. M40? What class/type of gun is it? And I'm not a huge sniper. Only got the first two snipers unlocked. But I'll check it out if/when I unlock it.

M40 is a bolt action rifle. It's quite accurate. I'd say it easily compares to the Gol in BC2. And the SKS is like the M14 from BC2 as well, so it's not exactly a sniper rifle but it is somewhat of a precision weapon unlocked in the recon tree.

And no he wasn't hacking, he probably just played on one of those hacked servers.

[SimplySchizo]

"Petition for Removal of Battlelog"

http://battlelog.bat...925935213578/1/

No thanks. I happen to like BattleLog personally.

Considering it's in its' infant stage. It has alot of nice features. Platoons for one, is pretty cool.

Now Origin, is another matter...

To me, BattleLog is what Origin should be.