official Battlefield 3

[sbauer]

We're in the process of moving so my gaming rig is MIA. Been playing my PS3 copy and had a great game last night. It was so close I had no idea who won until it told us.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/125832/4/206752583/

[Rooster69]

so BC2 guys, smoother launch then that game? no rubber banding like hell or random FPS drops, pings going through the roof randomly, ish like that?

This launch is way better. One thing I have noticed is I do get a bit of rubber banding for the first minute or so in a new server, then it clears up and all is well. only had one lock up and that was when I was quitting for the night, not sure what happened.

[Another Canuck]

so BC2 guys, smoother launch then that game? no rubber banding like hell or random FPS drops, pings going through the roof randomly, ish like that?

Leaps and bounds. Bad Company 2 was one of the worst game launches in history; it would be hard to fail worse than that.

There's still some rubber banding, but it seems to be caused by actual lag (EA servers are being hammered right now) rather than terrible netcode. And even then, it's not nearly as bad. You'll ocasionally jump back a few feet, but it's negligible and honestly, seems to be resolved for the most part now.

There's also no serious collision/boundry bugs like there was in BC2. Most of the ones found in the beta are fixed.

Edit: I also had a few game crashes/lockups the first day, but they must have pushed a patch because it didn't crash on me once yesterday.

[ahmz]

The game crashes on me half the time, while launching or when the next round starts. Hope this is just a breaking in issue.

[ViperAFK]

Lowering my dpi removed most of the negative acceleration, but it still doesn't feel nearly as good as the mouse movement felt in the beta... I don't know why they even changed anything about the mouse movement, it was pretty much perfect.

[Singh400]

Lowering my dpi removed most of the negative acceleration, but it still doesn't feel nearly as good as the mouse movement felt in the beta... I don't know why they even changed anything about the mouse movement, it was pretty much perfect.

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Step 1: Goto Documents>Battlefield3>settings>PROF_SAVE_profile

Step 2: Open in notepad++

Step 3: Change GstInput.MouseSensitivity to 1.00000

Step 4: Open mouse driver sensitivity controls

Step 5: Launch bf3

Step 6: Adjust Mouse Driver settings to lowest sensitivity (whatever feels comfortable)

[draklin]

Sorry if i missed it in a previous post but my sister just got her copy for XBox360 in the mail from gamefly. Seems she can't do coop or MP without a code, but there was no code in the rental package. Is this a known issue? Is each code unique to the game disk?

[rajputwarrior]

Leaps and bounds. Bad Company 2 was one of the worst game launches in history; it would be hard to fail worse than that.

There's still some rubber banding, but it seems to be caused by actual lag (EA servers are being hammered right now) rather than terrible netcode. And even then, it's not nearly as bad. You'll ocasionally jump back a few feet, but it's negligible and honestly, seems to be resolved for the most part now.

There's also no serious collision/boundry bugs like there was in BC2. Most of the ones found in the beta are fixed.

Edit: I also had a few game crashes/lockups the first day, but they must have pushed a patch because it didn't crash on me once yesterday.

This launch is way better. One thing I have noticed is I do get a bit of rubber banding for the first minute or so in a new server, then it clears up and all is well. only had one lock up and that was when I was quitting for the night, not sure what happened.

It's been fine for me so far, got lag when I first launched it but I guess that was due to the amount of koreans launching the game. :rofl: Runs well with only a few graphical glitches for me

Nope. Even the beta of bc2 was better than this launch.

nice (Y) yeah bc2 launch was oen of the worst ever. but hopefully they don't do things that ruin the game with patches (which would make the game worse in BC2 for a while) and one dbag that controls all the balancing of weapons and classes. I still owe him a kick in the nuts for inventing medic trains...

[2xSilverKnight]

Lowering my dpi removed most of the negative acceleration, but it still doesn't feel nearly as good as the mouse movement felt in the beta... I don't know why they even changed anything about the mouse movement, it was pretty much perfect.

That's weird, I don't have any problem with mouse control. And I have a new mouse and everything. Only the sensivity that was way to high.

[Rooster69]

nice (Y) yeah bc2 launch was oen of the worst ever. but hopefully they don't do things that ruin the game with patches (which would make the game worse in BC2 for a while) and one dbag that controls all the balancing of weapons and classes. I still owe him a kick in the nuts for inventing medic trains...

+100 on this. The constant patching to appease the whiners is what killed BC2 for me.

[Another Canuck]

Sorry if i missed it in a previous post but my sister just got her copy for XBox360 in the mail from gamefly. Seems she can't do coop or MP without a code, but there was no code in the rental package. Is this a known issue? Is each code unique to the game disk?

Game codes are unique, so you won't receive one if you're renting the game.

[ViperAFK]

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Didin't seem to help much, tried doing that and putting my dpi back to normal and the horrible acceleration was still there. Still felt bad after lowering the driver sens too. Only way I get get it to feel anywhere near right is lowering my dpi to 900 from 1800.

[draklin]

Game codes are unique, so you won't receive one if you're renting the game.

So then renting the game is worthless.

[rajputwarrior]

So then renting the game is worthless.

if it's one of those games where you need a code to access online (not sure if it is for xbox and ps3) then pretty much yeah it is.

[trag3dy]

Not playing nearly enough as I would like at the moment. Between working, sleeping and eating I've got like maybe 4 hours a day spareish. I feel a MASSIVE SESH coming on the weekend! :D

Reddit? Grabbed mine last night!

Nope, I saw it on battlelog.

so BC2 guys, smoother launch then that game? no rubber banding like hell or random FPS drops, pings going through the roof randomly, ish like that?

For me. it's about the same, I've experienced a little bit of all of that, but only for a few seconds here and there. All in all it's been pretty smooth though.

[Twiddle]

So then renting the game is worthless.

Correct, at least for multi-player. They are trying to curb companies like Gamestop making money off used games. Though I think you can buy the Online Pass for 800 Microsoft Points. Only $10, and if I rented it, I would. I'm personally loving the game so far.

[Napalm Frog]

I'm loving the fact that one can spawn directly into vehicles now. The only thing is I've yet to find a chopper pilot who doesn't crash me within a few seconds. At least I put in the 2h of effort earlier today in coop to figure out how to fly the damned things. They need to implement some sort of licensing system or something, haha. I'm still pure ass with the jets. I have difficulty turning properly, and still managing to determine which way I should be headed. I usually end up going straight up instead of a nice bank turn.

[trag3dy]

Flying is easy enough. Staying alive long enough to be effective is a different story entirely though. I think they make it entirely way to easy to shoot down aircraft. On the other though, a good aircraft pilot can be a nightmare.

I had a guy in a game yesterday who was flying jets and destroying tanks I was in every time. That sucked. And it seems they made it so vehicle flairs recharge faster than you can reload an rpg in bf3, unlike how it was in bc2.

[ViperAFK]

Flying is easy enough. Staying alive long enough to be effective is a different story entirely though. I think they make it entirely way to easy to shoot down aircraft. On the other though, a good aircraft pilot can be a nightmare.

I had a guy in a game yesterday who was flying jets and destroying tanks I was in every time. That sucked. And it seems they made it so vehicle flairs recharge faster than you can reload an rpg in bf3, unlike how it was in bc2.

Agreed, even with flares you get locked onto so many times its impossible to stay in the air very long. On operation firestorm you are always being locked on by a combo of other aircraft and stingers on the ground, your flares aren't enough, because on that map for example they always have visibility to lock onto you unless you are on the very edges of the map.

Anti-air needs to be nerfed a bit for sure. the jets aren't even that threatening to ground forces in this game anyway... (besides the warthog on caspian rush)

[HellboundIRL]

I have a really annoying problem, every now and then the game will do a freeze frame or seem like it skips along, it always seems to happen when I encounter an enemy player and then I usually die while I wait for it to correct itself. Does anyone else have this issue? I changed my graphical settings from high to low and nothing seems to make a difference, just random freezing every now and then...otherwise the game runs at a constant 40-50fps for me.

I tried updating graphics drivers but it makes no difference.

Intel Q9550

4gb ram

AMD 6870HD

[rajputwarrior]

I have a really annoying problem, every now and then the game will do a freeze frame or seem like it skips along, it always seems to happen when I encounter an enemy player and then I usually die while I wait for it to correct itself. Does anyone else have this issue? I changed my graphical settings from high to low and nothing seems to make a difference, just random freezing every now and then...otherwise the game runs at a constant 40-50fps for me.

I tried updating graphics drivers but it makes no difference.

Intel Q9550

4gb ram

AMD 6870HD

newest drivers from ATI? could be just a problem with the game, laggy and what not. bad company 2 did the same type of things to me until they patched it and ATI released drivers that worked properly...

[Reacon]

I've been downloading for the past 40 hrs at least, and nearly 5 hrs to completion now!

So excited. Hopefully my connection will save me from the blunt of storm of players.

[Crisp]

YAY! TV guided missiles are back! :D

[Alladaskill17]

Amazon mailed me a code for online/multiplayer and it is saying the codes already been used.

[Alladaskill17]

Also, how many missions are there? Could you list them too. Im on Comrades. Tried googling.