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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: vincegun on February 03, 2011, 09:07:11 PM
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Gonna keep this topic semi-active, as news will be sparse until close to release date which is a ways off from now. Hopefully it'll be done before Fites2012.
Tomorrow, February 4th, we get our first video teaser of Battlefield 3. It's using the Frostbite 2 engine, like BC2, but it'll have obvious upgrades. We don't yet know if it'll have HUUUUUUGE maps and 64 player battles and dedi servers, but we do know that it'll be on the big 3. PS3, Xbox360 and PC. What else we know is told by game informer, but that's pretty much it. They say, "animation techniques borrowed from the EA Sports guys and an exponential leap in destructibility."
Here's to hoping. I'm excited!
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No dedicated servers available = no care.
The better have dedicated servers for us, not this rent a server tomfoolery.
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I agree.. When MW2 came out and lan servers weren't available, I didn't care about the game anymore. Same with Black Ops and if its the same case with BF3 I won't care for the game at all.
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Also:
"DICE announced today on the official Battlefield Blog that Battlefield 1943 and Bad Company 2: Onslaught have been canceled on the PC platform. According to the announcement, DICE is looking to instead allocate their resources on Battlefield 3."
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That blows about 1943 being canceled. If they would just release the server files and modding tools, 1943 could EASILY be made as a user mod. And I am in agreement with everyone else. No dedicated LAN server = no purchase.
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Teaser trailer. It's not much, but it exists.
Battlefield 3 - Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP0Ij1_VTY0#ws)
Also, from Kotaku who cite Game Informer as their source for a few things: "The game will include jets and the ability to go prone as well as 64-player multi-player (for PC)."
I might've bought 1943... if it was for a crazy low price. $15 when BC2 is out? That's too much, in my opinion. Make it a $5 game and watch the sales climb.
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I've said this before but...I'm tired of buying the same game 18 times. Maybe it's better that Duke Nukem took 13 years to have a squeal. That way it lived on as a legend. Honestly who goes on about COD3. No one! We're up to part 6 (You mean modern warfare 2 ?). Its a scam dammit. It's like Microsoft coming out with a new OS or Office every other year.
:hitself:
Sorry I'm done, had to rant. But yay Battle Field number next ! :thumbsup:
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I see your point but I'll keep buying them over and over and over. Also, the same can be said of WOW and most any other game.
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I've said this before but...I'm tired of buying the same game 18 times. Maybe it's better that Duke Nukem took 13 years to have a squeal. That way it lived on as a legend. Honestly who goes on about COD3. No one! We're up to part 6 (You mean modern warfare 2 ?). Its a scam dammit. It's like Microsoft coming out with a new OS or Office every other year.
:hitself:
Sorry I'm done, had to rant. But yay Battle Field number next ! :thumbsup:
I can't wait until Madden comes out this year. They are saying it is the best year yet!!!
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I see your point but I'll keep buying them over and over and over. Also, the same can be said of WOW and most any other game.
No No No...wow has 3 xpanison packs and never claims to be a new game. They are addons to the original. You can still play with people that didn't buy them. Unlike when (almost) all the people move to the next rendition of COD or BF. And Secondly you admitted to buying the SAME game over and over.
If you're referring to the subscription fee:
(http://trollcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/i_can_quit_anytime_i_want_trollcat.png)
I can't wait until Madden comes out this year. They are saying it is the best year yet!!!
Not that I buy Madden every year but the team rosters change. So even if the game isn't that different if you want to stay current you have the option of doing so.
I just guess that I lump COD and BF together cause they like the same thing. Nothing new at all.
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Wow. Someone got Gabe's panties all in a bunch.
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LMAO
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Whatever they call it, new game or expansion, I'm buying it:) To me enough changes are made that warrant the purchase. I guess as long as i have fun I'll keep doing it.
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Depending on how the game is and how everyone feels about this...we could maybe eventually discuss the possibility of transitioning over to a public Battlefield 3 server, but wasn't sure if you guys would be up for that or not.
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If it has no LAN dedicated servers....I will not be purchasing. Unless it goes on sale for like $10. Otherwise, EA can suck it.
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Time to flood the BF3 and DICE message boards with requests (demands) that they do it!
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Time to flood the BF3 and DICE message boards with requests (demands) that they do it!
:nono:
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Hey man, at least I'm willing to take the first step. What else do you want? It'd be better than kidnapping the devs and.... oh, wait, that's an even better idea!
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It's not much, but it's a start.
http://www.enterbf3.com (http://www.enterbf3.com)
I know, nothing on dedi servers, but they certainly are pretty pictures.
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Here's an idea guys: sometime during the upcoming 200 man, we'll make a FITES thread on the BF3 forum identifying ourselves as a LAN group and demanding dedicated server files so we can run LAN servers. Then we'll make an announcement for all 200 people at the LAN to go register/sign in and post in that thread, to show them that there really are 200 people who want this functionality so bad that they might not buy the game if it lacks this.
Edit: that is, if enterbf3.com is official. I have a feeling it isn't?
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That is an interesting approach though. Showing that an event is going on at that moment and here are a bulk of the participants.
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Hey, like I said.... flood the boards with requests. Except we have a specific time slot of like 20min where there are NO tournaments going on and it's announced over the p.a. that, "hey, this is what we want to do to better our and your experience at fites and this time YOU can have a direct impact on what may or may not happen. Just go to xyz.com and voice your support."
But yes, it seems official. Like, DICE-official. That contest on the main page though, I dunno. It/they want you to fill out surveys for a chance to win stuff and also for you to download and install stuff onto your system. I kinda quit that really quick.
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I'm pretty sure enterbf3.com is just a fan page.
However, this would be appropriate: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/215.page (http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/215.page)
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Just posted on ShackNews today
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=67440 (http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=67440)
"Battlefield 3 is being developed with a distinct PC focus, according to the GameInformer cover story (via Joystiq). Executive producer Patrick Bach says the team is "focusing on PC first, and then we fiddle with it to fit it onto consoles."
The game will support dedicated servers, and is sticking with four selectable classes (referred to as "the sweet spot"). Forming up into squads is also getting tweaked, but Bach is holding those details close to the vest for the time being."
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I'll post here what I posted there:
So when you say "dedicated server support" do you mean user hosted or affiliate hosted? If it's the latter, then no LAN support which means you don't get my support.
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...no LAN support which means you don't get my support.
QFT
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Yeah... Black Ops had dedicated servers. just not ones we can use.
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That is an interesting approach though. Showing that an event is going on at that moment and here are a bulk of the participants.
Exactly.
However, this would be appropriate: [url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/215.page[/url] ([url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/215.page[/url])
Bingo. If all 200 people at the FITES 200 go into that thread and demand LAN support, I'm sure they'd at least seriously consider it.
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Or sadly enough will ignore us. They have lots more to take our place.
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They might not seriously consider it, as 200 out of however many millions that would buy the game isn't much, BUT for 200 people to just outright suddenly show up and show support for something.... that would catch a few eyes, at the very least.
It's worth a shot, right? Nothing to lose, everything to gain. I'm down. We'd just have to make this actually happen at a specified time.
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I know me and 2 more who will sign up and post at my house. Even though we aren't going to the LAN I know the twins will sign up and post their support.
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So as a suggestion to go with this potential massive invasion of the ea forums, assuming everyone actually does this, is that I think there should be a picture or two (or at least a link or two leading to some picture hosting website) taken during the event to prove that yes, 200 people all in one room want something to happen and it isn't just some dumb kid making tons of fake profiles to post something. I think saturday night would be best, because everyone would be there.
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Setup a large group picture on the stairs outside the ballrooms? I'll make a large banner to hold up for the pic too.
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YES. Once again, dinosaurs for the win!
Plus maybe a shot or two of the actual event room. Maybe seeing all those active computers and pointing out that "hey, these are people from VA, MD, PA and elsewhere that want to play your game with each other (lag free) in the same room" would do some good. I dunno.
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Group photo with a banner + pictures of the LAN room are great ideas!
I'll be sure to bring my camera then, assuming there aren't any more experienced photogs among the FITES ranks. I've only had my DSLR since December.
The main problem is that at the moment, I only have a 50mm lens, which probably won't be wide enough to capture 200 people together unless I can stand REALLY far back. Hopefully we have a more experienced photographer with more gear than I have around here. or at least someone who can loan me a wide Canon lens.
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It seems the room will be set up the same as last year, so 2-3 shots taken from a couple different points in the room should cover it.
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I don't have a wide lens per se, but I do have some macro filters that may be of use....maybe. And there will be a few of us with decent cameras and HD video cameras in attendance.
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I`ll bring this. Got all sorts of lenses.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wvcCE9jbIg0/ScgAfKLoYCI/AAAAAAAADzI/Xu_tvq9OUow/s400/fisher-price-camera.jpg)
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Fisher got ALL the pimp gear, yo!
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Ok, so imagine this printed at 108"x36". Work for everyone?
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I like it!
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Have everyone sign it maybe?
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Oh my sweet zombie jesus. 9 feet long. That's awesome. We're really going to go through with this, right? I mean, I wrote down a note at work last night to bring the subject up today in this thread. Can we dedicate a slot of time on saturday to attack *ahem* i mean, politely browse the correct forums? At the very least, getting confirmation by going table to table to make sure that people have done it would be good as well.
And this banner, are we going to get 200 signatures on it and take a picture of it or somehow get a picture of all 200 people at the same time with it in front?
It would be completely awesome if this just happened to end up being a driving force behind the positive change that we all want.
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Whos gonna print this?
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I believe Sully is handling it. But don't quote me on that.
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I believe Sully is handling it. But don't quote me on that.
Quoted
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I believe Sully is handling it. But don't quote me on that.
Quoted
Nooooooooooooooo!
(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/12397/1501954-ffffuuuu_colored_super.jpg)
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Yes, I'm printing it on a wide-format printer at work.
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I believe Sully is handling it.
Sounds good!
:)
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It took a few tries, but I was able to get the banner printed today. You'd think any modern machine could handle a simple 32000-ish pixel banner, but no.... ;)
Not exactly sure when, but we'll probably try to do this sometime Saturday afternoon between tournaments out on the stairs that lead to the ballrooms. Get your middle fingers ready! (in reference to old school FITES salute pictures!)
(http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1301&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Excellent
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Agent lookin all hardcore.
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Agent lookin all hardcore.
Like a boss.
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Agent lookin all white and nerdy.
Fixed that for ya.
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Damn straight.
Oh hey look, it's fat cuzznkev!
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I like to call him "pre-op" cuzznkev. Keeps people who don't know him guessing about the meaning ;)
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So did anyone start the thread and post the pic yet? Only so many hours left until we gotta leave.
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Need to grab the pic off my camera and clean it up a bit.
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The picture got dirty from the camera being dropped? Man, technology today.....
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Let's send the banner to DICE directly. :-D
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Plan to....trying to find the cheapest way to do so. I did a quick check for FedEx and it would cost $90 to send to Stockholm, Sweden. My step dad works for FedEx, so I need to see if he can hook me up with some kind of discounted service ;)
I also want to have all of the pictures, video, etc. from the LAN available before sending it off so we can show that we are in fact a LAN party and not just a random bunch of nerds holding a sign.
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$90? That's.... expensive, but surprisingly manageable. FOR THE CAUSE!!!!!!!! and all that jazz.
I can drop $10-15 into a paypal this weekend if it'd mean anything to ya.
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Are we going to post anything on the EA or Dice forums?! Pic is ready.
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YES. I mean, uhhhh.... carry on, good chap.
Someone who's good with those word-things and can make them all presentable-like oughtta consider making a formal introduction and whatnot, then we can post from there. Though, I have a feeling the end result won't be the grand invasion by 200 people that was originally planned.
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Pre-orders are open....
http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.224766400?resid=TXbKcQoBAlgAAC68EMEAAABc&rests=1299630705029 (http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.224766400?resid=TXbKcQoBAlgAAC68EMEAAABc&rests=1299630705029)
"Available for a limited time, the Battlefield 3 pre-order offer features the digital expansion pack Battlefield 3™: Back to Karkand at no extra charge.* This themed multiplayer expansion pack includes four legendary maps from Battlefield 2 boldly re-imagined with Frostbite 2 physics, destruction and visuals. Completing the package are classic Battlefield 2 weapons and vehicles, unique rewards, new achievements/trophies, and more."
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Are we going to post anything on the EA or Dice forums?! Pic is ready.
Has anyone posted anything? Where are the pics?
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I'm thinking up something polite and thorough to put in the right place, but it's taking some time. I want it to sound really good, so I'm not rushing through anything while I think this stuff up.
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So with the help of Fearon this is what I think should be posted to any forum dealing with BF3:
I am a part of one of the largest LAN Party organizations on the East Coast with [url=http://www.fites.net]www.fites.net[/url] ([url]http://www.fites.net[/url]). We recently held our largest yearly LAN party (February 25th-27th) with much success. We had a total of 180 gamers from across the country (from Texas to Massachusetts) come out for a 40 hour event filled with tourneys, games and all around fun. Indy game developers such as Cipher Prime ([url=http://www.cipherprime.com]www.cipherprime.com[/url] ([url]http://www.cipherprime.com[/url])) and vendors such as Frozen Q ([url=http://www.frozenqpcmods.com]www.frozenqpcmods.com[/url] ([url]http://www.frozenqpcmods.com[/url])) have come out to support our event. Ourselves and our sister LANS (Pittsburgh LAN Coalition, PAX East, The GXL and Digital Overload) are seeing rough times ahead due to the elimination of dedicated LAN support. I feel there needs to be a topic to discuss this outcry.
The gaming experience you have during LAN play is unmatched in comparison to online play. Unfortunately this unique experience is dying off quickly as the game industry pushes further ahead. Games such as Counter Strike Source, Call of Duty 4 and Team Fortress 2 can only hold the interest of gamers for so long before new media is available. We at FITES have taken action to voice our opinion. As you are most well aware of, EA is about to release Battlefield 3 for PC within a few months. This release will most likely be focal point on the future of LAN Parties across the board. We at FITES are attempting to make a point that we need dedicated LAN server support from the industry to continue supplying the LAN Party experience to gamers across the country. We have come up an idea and would like to have our voices heard.
Before the weekend, we went ahead and constructed a banner directed towards EA and Battlefield 3. It states simply this: No LAN Support for BF3, No Support from the LAN Community; Signed 200 Gamers. We had an overwhelming positive response from our LAN Party attendees who signed the banner throughout the event. Later on, we went ahead and had a group picture with the majority of gamers in attendance holding the sign proudly so EA and everyone else can see. Even with the overwhelming support from the gaming community, I feel our statement will fall on deaf ears.
In the past....Battlefield games were a MAJOR LAN game. The support of LAN enabled dedicated servers was a huge draw for LAN party goers to play a huge 64 player map destroying each other all in good fun. Ever since the introduction of "pay for dedicated servers" on the net, this has all but destroyed the ability to have a decent play experience at a LAN party. We at FITES.net sincerely hope you take this large community seriously when we say: No Dedicated LAN support = No Support from the LAN community. You will be cutting out a HUGE following if dedicated LAN servers are not implemented. Maybe take a note from blizzard, utilizing a one time key check over the net and allowing the use of dedicated lan servers on a local LAN.
Sincerely,
200+ concerned LAN party goers and FITES.NET
([url]http://i.imgur.com/ArSdg.jpg[/url])
Edited for grammar and corrections.
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Is there a specific forum we should be using?
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I would think the official EA bf3 forum would be a good start. if there is one.
I'm pretty sure enterbf3.com is just a fan page.
However, this would be appropriate: [url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/215.page[/url] ([url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/215.page[/url])
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All in one thread? or are we spamming with separate threads?
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Do both
I posted a new topic here: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/5373259.page (http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/5373259.page)
and here: http://enterbf3.com/viewtopic.php?t=1333 (http://enterbf3.com/viewtopic.php?t=1333)
Reply to both! Make new posts with the same message. Do whatever it takes to make our voices heard. It's one thing to have individuals post random threads here and there, but to have all of us post the same thing and in the same threads may bring on positive attention.
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"I am apart" - "a part"
Change the, "this past weekend" because it's been a few weekends by now.
"would like to have our voices by heard" - Edit out the "by."
Otherwise, that looks pretty good. Kinda the same vibe that I was going to aim for, but you got it first so you get the credit.... oh snap I just found it on the official forums. NEVERMIND.
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Edited! Thanks for catching those. I was patching text from another member who posted most of that to another site.
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My eye for detail is matched only by my hunger for chinese buffet food.
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Signed on both with the same text. Booya. Let's see how this all plays out, shall we?
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Corrected GLX to GXL....
Am I the only one who feels like the picture was a bust because, by my count, I see 50 people in that picture. How can we represent ourselves as 200 concerned gamers, when only 50 people were in the picture?
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To be fair, I doubt every attendee could've fit on those steps. Happily, that is. The fact that we HAVE a picture/proof at all is much more than any standard forum poster usually has.
Things on forums concerning a game series usually include: "I've played since BLAHBLAHgame23BLAHBLAH know what I'm talking about" and "here are my pc specs, will the game run?"
We HAVE a picture. We HAVE a solid, well-written post. We have links to this website and references to the other big LAN events. I'd say this is a pretty good start. I think there should be something on the main page here that points all goers, regulars, semi-regulars and visitors, to the 2 forums pages, though.
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Corrected GLX to GXL....
Am I the only one who feels like the picture was a bust because, by my count, I see 50 people in that picture. How can we represent ourselves as 200 concerned gamers, when only 50 people were in the picture?
Also corrected in each post. I think the sigs on the banner is representative of our intentions and of how many people actually signed. I could post something to the tune of...we couldn't fit all 200 in the pic. But no one has pointed that out as of yet.
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Someone will, doubtless.
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I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. "Not everyone was available for the pic who signed." "A lot of the people were sleeping or eating." yadda yadda yadda
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but never "too many people were too damn lazy to stand in one spot for maybe 2 minutes."
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Did you post any pictures of the venue at capacity?
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my post...
Signed.
If they are going to go and name this game BF3, why on earth are they going to short change this storied franchise by not including dedicated servers.
Do you think games like CSS or TF2 would still be going as strong as they are without dedicated servers? Heck no. Plain and simple. Games without dedicated server support die out faster than those that have it.
The first thing that comes up in serious discussions in the PC community is, will there be dedicated server support. If the answer comes up as a no, I have personally seen thousands upon thousands of pre-order cancellations as a result and know of tens of thousands by way of colleagues and friends.
Dedicated server support, or you are immoral communists and should die to campers on the dedicated servers of Homefront!
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I just saw an article that they confirmed dedicated servers they don't disclose whether or not it's lan servers or not though.
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So they've confirmed that they're NOT using the system that MW2 did... well. it's a step in the right direction.
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I just saw an article that they confirmed dedicated servers they don't disclose whether or not it's lan servers or not though.
Yep, said the same thing about BC2.
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I posted a new topic here: [url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/5373259.page[/url] ([url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/5373259.page[/url])
Crap got pushed down the list. Keep posting in that Crap. Non staffers should post too! I would say DWG and Agnt post...but you are going to buy it at launch anyway...pussies.
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Doesn't mean they can't post and support a worthy cause. I did my part and brought it back up to the top after I got home from work.
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I know, I am just busting their balls.
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Im busting the balls of the d-bag on the ea forums that has a hard on for consoles
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--Signed!
And what's with that douchebag renderedAmoeba? Clearly a consoler with PC envy ;)
Maybe it just takes a little time, but when I posted in the thread, it shows my post, but it never bumped the thread to the top of the page. Don't know what's going on there. Also, my post count still shows as 0. I'm being railroaded, I tell ya!
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Another child on the enterbf3 forums that CLEARLY knows how things go down at lan parties thinks that they're useless and nobody is social at these "social events."
Oh, and I saw that, Sully. I helped a bro out though, and put in a bump and the thread was back on top right away. Dunno what's going on. Maybe EA already knows who you are (scary thought) and is conspiring against you?
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I posted a reply in that thread with a different idea/approach to the whole hosted dedicated server model
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Battlefield 3 interview with the developers.
http://bash.podbean.com/2011/03/26/bash-180-platform-specialist/ (http://bash.podbean.com/2011/03/26/bash-180-platform-specialist/)
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Really testing my limits on the "no lan, no buy" stance. REAAALLLLY testing my limits. This is hot stuff. The game looks that good and runs that smooth on a solidly-built computer? GAH.
I mean, the debris from the explosions alone. I don't think I've seen anything that detailed up to this point in time. Then there's the lighting in the train. Then there's the destructive environment (wall) at the end of the video.
Oh, and watch it in 720.
Battlefield 3 - Operation Métro Multiplayer Gameplay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT_l1nd4zVQ#ws)
Due out in October.
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Pre ordering it now
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Not until there's a damn good sale. I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
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I mean, the debris from the explosions alone. I don't think I've seen anything that detailed up to this point in time. Then there's the lighting in the train. Then there's the destructive environment (wall) at the end of the video.
Something neat to mention about the lighting. I remember posting a video of Geomeric's Real-time Radiosity preview a awhile back (like in 2005) and have been waiting forever for a game to come out with it built in. The wait is over. Battlefield 3 will be the first commercial game to release with a real-time radiosity lighting solution. In other words... BAD ASS!! I really hope this means that the days of baking in the lighting to the level are about to be phased out.
Geomerics Enlighten Demo at GDC 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZU-JC6Hqc#ws)
Skip to 2min 20sec. Too much boring talk before that.
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New vids right our of E3:
Supposed multiplay:
Battlefield 3: Operation Metro Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer (E3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPu7-LtLKmU#ws)
Tech Demo:
Battlefield 3: E3 Frostbite 2 Features Trailer (E3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pNOxynC1Dc#ws)
And a SP map called Thunder Run...Tanks....lots of tanks.
Battlefield 3: Thunder Run Tank Gameplay Trailer (E3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A#ws)
While all of this looks damn good, I am with Sully on this one. I'll wait till the hype wears off and purchase when there is a sale. Graphics are good, but they don't make a game.
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yea im so excited i bought 2 copies for both my rigs.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A&feature=player_embedded#at=245 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A&feature=player_embedded#at=245)
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I don't see why they gotta do this to us. :-(
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[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A&feature=player_embedded#at=245[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A&feature=player_embedded#at=245[/url])
Just posted that one.
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To be fair, I posted Operation Metro a whopping 10-ish hours before you. So NYAH TO YOU!
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yea, what he said and that urs isnt embedded. :) truth is. I didnt see it there.
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BF3Blog.com has posted its Battlefield 3 multiplayer E3 impressions. Here's a taster:
- The game looks fantastic. Runs smooth, the lighting and details, the shadows are spectacular, whether indoor or outside. We dunno what hardware it was running on, but BF3 is absolutely gorgeous.
- After you die, a screen pops up that shows the custom dog tag and rank of the enemy that killed you — great little detail.
- Teams were USMC and Russians.
- Prone is back, it feels like it takes a second or so to go prone. Not too fast, not too slow, just right.
- The map offered a lot of variety: you can enter lots of buildings, go up to the second floor, camp etc. We already saw a few campers who loved the new buildings.
- Destruction is extensive and a lot more detailed. Even shooting a wall looks amazing in BF3.
- Weapons feel and sound like Bad Company 2 (on first impression), meaning they feel and sound fantastic.
- Player animations are far better than Bad Company 2 and other Battlefield games. Very fluid and lifelike, almost as if you are watching someone run in real life.
- The scoreboard looks a lot simpler than in Bad Company 2. We dunno if it was finalized or just alpha.
- We had a few awards pop up during the game (ribbons) which looked a lot like those in BF2.
- No commo rose. It wasn’t bound to the “Q” button. We looked, couldn’t find it anywhere.
- You can op-out of being revived.
- There is a health bar, but regenerative health is back.
- You can select fire mode (e.g. single shot, full auto etc.)
- 4 players per squad, squad leader is indicated by a star. Squads work pretty much like in Bad Company 2, and you still get squad point bonuses.
- In support, you can use an M4 with a flashlight.
- You can mount LMGs on the ground and on most surfaces, but the gun can only pan approximately 90 degrees to left and right, which feels realistic.
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No comm rose? Wtf? That's just stupid.
Squad leads? Yay!
No mention of commander? Wtf?
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I wonder if there will be a hardcore mode as in BC2. I do like the mounting of heavy MG's - probably makes them more accurate. I also wonder if it will be scalable for hardware that isn't super high end.
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HQ 1080p Download Trailer Here!
Battlefield 3 Thunder Run Tank Gameplay Trailer (E3) (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4573735/Battlefield%203%20Thunder%20Run%20Tank%20Gameplay%20Trailer%20%28E3%29%20%5Bwww.keepvid.com%5D%201080p.mp4)
Greetings from Germany! I know you guys already posted the youtube link, but I ripped the 1080p version to my dropbox for instant viewing, just don't forget to put on the drool bib! :army: hehe hope everyone is doing well.
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So Gamestop apparently had the specs needed for the game on their site, but then they got taken down. Luckily, the internet never forgets.
Via Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/5819852/yes-but-can-your-pc-run-battlefield-3 (http://kotaku.com/5819852/yes-but-can-your-pc-run-battlefield-3) (needs a yes-but-can-your-lan-run-battlefield-3)
Minimum
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHzRAM2GB
Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card
Recommended
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPURAM 4GB
Video Card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, GeForce GTX 460, Radeon Radeon HD 6850
About what's expected of this game, really. We finally have a game since Crysis that's going to force people to upgrade their aging systems. It's a good thing I'm building my new PC around this ga..... OH WAIT, I'M NOT ANYMORE.
Also, sadly not much activity on the EA forum concerning the no lan, no buy thread.
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WTF?! 5GB (50%) MORE disk space needed for one you don't download?
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That really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
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Perhaps they include higher res assets via the disc version? And eve if that is the case, they would eventually release the larger assets in patch form or something. They could also be extra features on the disc.. *shrug*
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That would make sense. Considering they pulled that same thing with Crysis 2. Had to download the textures and dx11 patches to run in dx11 mode.
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Looks like Steam might not get this game.
http://www.gamingunion.net/news/ea-puts-out-digital-distributors-list-for-battlefield-3-steam-not-present--5756.html (http://www.gamingunion.net/news/ea-puts-out-digital-distributors-list-for-battlefield-3-steam-not-present--5756.html)
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Yeah, I saw somewhere that EA and Valve are fighting, so EA's going to withhold future titles from Steam and launch their own digital distribution service instead.
Do not want!
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Yeah I was thinking that might happen. Will prolly do the same thing with bc2 and buy the discs instead.
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Yeah I was thinking that might happen. Will prolly do the same thing with bc2 and buy the discs instead.
.....and then not show up at any local LANs?
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What do you mean? I already don't do that :P
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What do you mean? I already don't do that :P
True story...
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I've seen some rumors saying you might not be able to pre-order it but it will be available on Steam. I think the whole fiasco with Crysis 2 happened before Alice: Madness Returns (EA was the publisher) was released and there wasn't a pre-order available for it and came out on Steam on day 1. So yea take from this what you will.
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But Crysis 2 isn't on steam anymore :P They pulled it.
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Hmmm...yet another reason to not support EA....that is all.
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To No One’s Surprise, All PC Installs of Battlefield 3 will Require Origin.http://kotaku.com/5830194/to-no-ones-surprise-all-pc-installs-of-battlefield-3-will-require-origin (http://kotaku.com/5830194/to-no-ones-surprise-all-pc-installs-of-battlefield-3-will-require-origin)
What say you all? I'm still not getting it until it goes on sale for $30 or whatever close price point (helloooooo Portal2 for $30!), but is this going to influence anyone's decision on buying it? I don't really care about the service used to launch the game, personally. If the game runs and is fun, then that's good enough for me.
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Already pre-ordered the downloadable limited edition at the $63 price point :P
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Origin = Crappy ass Fudge Vagina of a steam rip off.
Their web portlet is junk, navigation is horrible, and those Fudgetards even charged tax on the pre-order...
Fudge YOU EA!
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It would have been nice if it was offered through Steam for organizational purposes however this game looks so kickass (IMO) that the whole origin thing isn't a big deal. I have it preordered as well and I can't wait. I think if you wait for the price drop to $30 your going to be waiting for a long time. I waited for the price drop for BC2 and even though there's still a big community it feels like I've missed the best part.
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I'll buy the retail copy. Sometimes I want to play BF2, its been years since I even had it installed on a PC, but dammit if EA thinks they are going to make me buy another copy the can DIAF.
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Our waiting for a big price drop is for other reasons (READ: Lack of local LAN support). If they're not going to give me a full game, I'm not going to give them full price.
Read through this thread from the beginning and you'll understand our stance on this a bit better.
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I got my copy through impulse. Not a bad deal since Travis bought it for me. I can't wait to play it cause it looks freaking awesome.
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I honestly thought the price drop on BC2 didn't seem to take that long. How long was it before it first went on sale on steam?
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I had no idea about the LAN support since I just got back into the PC gaming world not too long ago. It's a real shame if they don't include it. I still won't mind paying for it though since only a small percentage of my time spent playing games would be at LANs. Are we doomed to play outdated games if companies stop supporting LANs?
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg696/scaled.php?server=696&filename=previewps.jpg&res=medium)
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Are we doomed to play outdated games if companies stop supporting LANs?
Yes and no.... But more yes and less no.
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Well that's interesting. Just got an email from EA saying:
"As a special thank you for pre-ordering Battlefield 3 early at Origin, we're offering you a bonus PC digital download game. Please apply the code below at the shopping cart to redeem one PC Digital version of one of our recommended shooter titles: Mass Effect™ 2, Dead Space™ 2 or Medal of Honor™. The price will be reduced to $0 after applying the code at your shopping cart."
Cool, I guess. Dead Space 2 is the only game in the list I don't have.. yay free game!
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Yeah DS2 is a goddamn awesome game, honestly.
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Battlefield 3 | Caspian Border Gameplay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDDfPxF3EFE#ws)
Fudgeing. WANT. DAMN IT!
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DAMMIT.
So... pretty!
Environments.... so... HUGE!
Air battles... so.... AWESOME.
No... Lan..... (struggling here).. no... (REALLY TRYING TO HOLD ON) buy.
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I love how the lot of you who are like "DO WANT" when you know after a month you'll stop playing just like you did BC2. ;P You'll find something to bitch about...then focus on it...then bitch more....then your accounts will just sit.
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Fudge you, they nerfed snipers, that is why I quit.
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Fudge you, they nerfed snipers, that is why I quit.
Not in hardcore. Snipers are 1 hit one kill unless you hit in lower body and even then you would have to be using a weak rifle. My SV98 shots are 99.9% one shot one kill.
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I play hardcore but there are so many pussies who refuse to play those levels. They think their god damned silenced SMG should be able to kill me from accross the map with spray and pray while we have to place mulitple dead on shots to kill them.
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I play hardcore but there are so many pussies who refuse to play those levels. They think their god damned silenced SMG should be able to kill me from accross the map with spray and pray while we have to place mulitple dead on shots to kill them.
QFT
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I will say, I enjoy watching the round impact my enemies face on the new monitor. It makes it that much more satisfying.
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I love how the lot of you who are like "DO WANT" when you know after a month you'll stop playing just like you did BC2. ;P You'll find something to bitch about...then focus on it...then bitch more....then your accounts will just sit.
Hey, I still play BC2 a few times a week. Game is still very fun and finally transitioned into liking hardcore mode.
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To be fair, I played the hell out of BF2. Even on what was my underpowered system at the time, I kept going back over and over again. I'm sure that once the price drops on this game, I'll be playing it for a loooooooooooong time.
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Hey, I still play BC2 a few times a week. Game is still very fun and finally transitioned into liking hardcore mode.
Finally!!!! ;) Now we can play on the same servers.
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Amen... I need some one to drop Dec and I an ammo pack....
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http://bf3blog.com/2011/08/battlefield-3-pc-version-wont-have-in-game-server-browser/ (http://bf3blog.com/2011/08/battlefield-3-pc-version-wont-have-in-game-server-browser/)
MFW
(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4414/mfwaingadcomesuptheminu.jpg)
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Sigh...I guess DICE is determined to lose as much fan support as they can?
1.) No Dedicated Server support...in a Battlefield game....really? If you claim to be really trying to cater this game to PC gamers FIRST...for a Battlefield game, that should be step one.
2.) No in-game server browser...which should be in ANY game that has multiplayer in which you join games through SERVERs....really??? I sure can't wait to exit my game, just so that I can join another server...that really sounds neat.
3.) No Steam....this one isn't the end of the world, but I mean cmon now...
The game still looks fantastic to me, but I keep finding more and more reasons to try it later...rather than sooner.
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I blame EA. And the parents.
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New exclusive BF3 Footage!
Monty Python's Military Fairy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5Dfs7jqFI#ws)
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Wow. I mean not having lan servers is one thing, but this is
really bad ridiculous.
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Fudgeing Vaginas over there man... stank ass gooey stuck shut Vaginas
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I could deal with no LAN support. Sucks, but ok whatever. No Steam? That blows, and installing a separate digital game service is annoying, but not that big of a deal. What's this? I have to exit the game to switch servers? What the Fudge is that Crap? That's more annoying to me than the other crap. It had better be damned easy to exit/start the game with that idiocy running rampant.
Fudge it, still going to play the damned thing.
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I could deal with no LAN support. Sucks, but ok whatever. No Steam? That blows, and installing a separate digital game service is annoying, but not that big of a deal. What's this? I have to exit the game to switch servers? What the Fudge is that Crap? That's more annoying to me than the other crap. It had better be damned easy to exit/start the game with that idiocy running rampant.
Fudge it, still going to play the damned thing.
I dont think they said you had to exit the game to change maps. People are assuming you have to so they are justified for not buying it. As long as the gameplay is good I will be happy. If i have to jump through a few extra hoops to get there I'll deal with it. But the gameplay vids are looking nice and i hope they deliver.
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I could deal with no LAN support. Sucks, but ok whatever. No Steam? That blows, and installing a separate digital game service is annoying, but not that big of a deal. What's this? I have to exit the game to switch servers? What the Fudge is that Crap? That's more annoying to me than the other crap. It had better be damned easy to exit/start the game with that idiocy running rampant.
Fudge it, still going to play the damned thing.
I dont think they said you had to exit the game to change maps. People are assuming you have to so they are justified for not buying it. As long as the gameplay is good I will be happy. If i have to jump through a few extra hoops to get there I'll deal with it. But the gameplay vids are looking nice and i hope they deliver.
Baaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Sheep "baaah" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubEqLl4aDg#)
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I could deal with no LAN support. Sucks, but ok whatever. No Steam? That blows, and installing a separate digital game service is annoying, but not that big of a deal. What's this? I have to exit the game to switch servers? What the Fudge is that Crap? That's more annoying to me than the other crap. It had better be damned easy to exit/start the game with that idiocy running rampant.
Fudge it, still going to play the damned thing.
I dont think they said you had to exit the game to change maps. People are assuming you have to so they are justified for not buying it. As long as the gameplay is good I will be happy. If i have to jump through a few extra hoops to get there I'll deal with it. But the gameplay vids are looking nice and i hope they deliver.
Baaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Sheep "baaah" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubEqLl4aDg#)
[/quoI could deal with no LAN support. Sucks, but ok whatever. No Steam? That blows, and installing a separate digital game service is annoying, but not that big of a deal. What's this? I have to exit the game to switch servers? What the Fudge is that Crap? That's more annoying to me than the other crap. It had better be damned easy to exit/start the game with that idiocy running rampant.
Fudge it, still going to play the damned thing.
I dont think they said you had to exit the game to change maps. People are assuming you have to so they are justified for not buying it. As long as the gameplay is good I will be happy. If i have to jump through a few extra hoops to get there I'll deal with it. But the gameplay vids are looking nice and i hope they deliver.
Baaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Sheep "baaah" ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubEqLl4aDg#[/url])
Just heard the game comes with cookies and cream ice cream from an amish farm
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I yearn for the day where we have a modern FPS with body damage is so realistic you can blow pieces off of your target. I want to maim my enemy until they simply look like a bloody stump trying to worm accross the ground. At that point, I will send the final round to explode their head like a mellon at the hands of gallagher. I am talking 84 charlie mopic style...
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I think Soldier of Fortune did something like that.
Ahh, yes. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_(video_game)#Gameplay) to the rescue again:
Soldier of Fortune was best known for its graphic depictions of firearms dismembering the human body. This graphic violence is the game's main stylistic attraction, much like the destructible environments of Red Faction or bullet time of Max Payne. The GHOUL engine enables depiction of extreme graphic violence, in which character models are based on body parts that can each independently sustain damage (gore zones). There are 26 zones in total. A shot to the head with a powerful gun will often make the target's head explode, leaving nothing but the bloody stump of the neck remaining; a close-range shot to the stomach with a shotgun will leave an enemy's bowels in a bloody mess, and a shot to the nether regions will cause the victims to clutch their groin in agony for a few seconds before keeling over dead. It is possible to shoot off an enemy's limbs (head, arms, legs) leaving nothing left but a bloody torso. In the last mission there is also a fictional microwave weapon, causing the enemies to fry or explode, depending on the firing mode.
However, nonviolence is a possibility, if the player is a good shot it is possible to shoot an enemy's weapon out of their hand, causing them to cower on the floor to surrender.
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I say bring that back! Imagine seeing a tank roll by you with the lifeless body of the machine gunner slumped over the .50 with just a bloody stump for a head. Imagine watching your squad leaders arm blow off as he attempts to throw that grenade back. Imagine your medic desintegrate in a hail of bullets from a minigun blast!
PTS here we come!
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I could deal with no LAN support. Sucks, but ok whatever. No Steam? That blows, and installing a separate digital game service is annoying, but not that big of a deal. What's this? I have to exit the game to switch servers? What the Fudge is that Crap? That's more annoying to me than the other crap. It had better be damned easy to exit/start the game with that idiocy running rampant.
Fudge it, still going to play the damned thing.
I dont think they said you had to exit the game to change maps. People are assuming you have to so they are justified for not buying it. As long as the gameplay is good I will be happy. If i have to jump through a few extra hoops to get there I'll deal with it. But the gameplay vids are looking nice and i hope they deliver.
Baaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Sheep "baaah" ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubEqLl4aDg#[/url])
[/quoI could deal with no LAN support. Sucks, but ok whatever. No Steam? That blows, and installing a separate digital game service is annoying, but not that big of a deal. What's this? I have to exit the game to switch servers? What the Fudge is that Crap? That's more annoying to me than the other crap. It had better be damned easy to exit/start the game with that idiocy running rampant.
Fudge it, still going to play the damned thing.
I dont think they said you had to exit the game to change maps. People are assuming you have to so they are justified for not buying it. As long as the gameplay is good I will be happy. If i have to jump through a few extra hoops to get there I'll deal with it. But the gameplay vids are looking nice and i hope they deliver.
Baaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Sheep "baaah" ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubEqLl4aDg#[/url])
Just heard the game comes with cookies and cream ice cream from an amish farm
I heard you fail quote. ;)
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Indeed... fix that wall of fail. Please.
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I yearn for the day where we have a modern FPS with body damage is so realistic you can blow pieces off of your target. I want to maim my enemy until they simply look like a bloody stump trying to worm accross the ground. At that point, I will send the final round to explode their head like a mellon at the hands of gallagher. I am talking 84 charlie mopic style...
Hell, Jedi Knight had that back in the day. You could lop off the arms of stormtroopers with a lightsaber.
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Indeed... fix that wall of fail. Please.
Fix that Crapty ice cream while yer at it. ;)
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I still have my Soldier of Fortune in the original box. Played the hell out of that game.
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http://bf3blog.com/2011/08/ea-call-of-duty-will-be-over-in-2-3-years/ (http://bf3blog.com/2011/08/ea-call-of-duty-will-be-over-in-2-3-years/)
It's f'in on now chaps.
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If they are getting this competitive, hopefully it will drive them to do things that are actually good for gamers. Heck if MW3 does roll with dedicated servers, that is a big step.
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If it comes with actual dedis AND manages to deviate from being too similar to the previous titles, I might actually buy it. Think I'll just enjoy Rage for a while, first. And Deus Ex.
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Does anyone else thing Deus Ex was a bad name? I mean every time I hear it, it makes me think about the hardest Crap I ever took... I could have named that Deus Ex...
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Does anyone else thing Deus Ex was a bad name? I mean every time I hear it, it makes me think about the hardest Crap I ever took... I could have named that Deus Ex...
It's pronounced "dey-uhs eks", not "Doos eks" as I've heard many people say over the years. It's from the Latin deus ex machina, the definition of which, in the context of the game's story, would mean "any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot". The literal translation means, "God from a machine".
So, nothing at all to do with dropping a deuce. Sorry to ruin your day by shattering your shat dreams ;)
Waiting for the, "Fudge you sully" in 3...2....1....
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It's from the Latin deus ex machina, the definition of which, in the context of the game's story, would mean "any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot". So, nothing at all to do with dropping a deuce. Sorry to ruin your day by shattering your shat dreams ;)
I would imagine almost everyone took a Crap so big that the end result was an improbable device that resolved the difficulties of a plot. The Crap and its immense size was the improbable device and taking a massive Crap was the difficult plot.
So yeah, Fudge you sully : )' semantics is a bitch... p.s. I wrote this listening to Falco...
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damn, for once it's not me getting Crap on for misprouncing something!
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damn, for once it's not me getting Crap on for misprouncing something!
Less about the pronunciation and more about the semantics...
Raise your hand if you have ever given an upper decker... hand raised...
Raise your hand if you have ever torn the toilette out of some one's house, put it on their back side walk, then taken a Crap in it... hand raised...
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http://bf3blog.com/2011/08/battlefield-3-pc-game-server-info/ (http://bf3blog.com/2011/08/battlefield-3-pc-game-server-info/)
Looks like it's final. We won't be getting the ability to make our own servers on our own machines. This game keeps looking worse and worse. I cancelled my pre-order and put it on MW3.
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New video.
Battlefield 3 - Operation Guillotine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0CwsHBPA0#ws)
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Baaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Ok...so I have been watching a lot of the multiplay vids out there for BF3. And I think I may have to eat my own freakin' words here....so....wait for it.....I think I might have drank the koolaide. The game looks damn good and looks damn fun. I haven't made my final decision yet but I am leaning towards getting this.
I still stand behind my views on LAN servers being left out of games though. I am sure more developers/distributors will be following this model unfortunately and there probably isn't much I/we can do about it.
(let the flaming begin)
:uhoh:
And here's to my bleeeeaaaating heart. ;)
Sheep "baaah" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubEqLl4aDg#)
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One of us.
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As much as I want this, they're still being jerks about the lan bit and now they "act" like they're changing their minds about the mod bit. I thought modding the game would be too complicated for us regular humans? I won't support someone with nearly $100 of my money if they're actually going to look down on me.
I might actually buy MW3 just on the lan functionality alone.
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One of us.
Yes, I have been assimilated.
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(http://images.wikia.com/startrek/images/9/97/Locutusofborg.jpg)
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I am Decepticon...of FITES. Resistance is futile.
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I'll just leave this here...
(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p276/f3ar0n/SCUMBAGSTEVE.jpg)
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now thats funny!
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OMG!!!!!!!
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(http://www.czaralex.com/images/borgsean.png)
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LMAO! Scumbag Sean!
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BF3 beta drops Sept 29th and goes until Oct 10. MOH people who bought the game for the "exclusive" BF3 beta stuff get the beta 2 days early. GJ EA.
Otherwise, can't wait to try the beta. Because it's free.
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I was pricing out servers today. This should have been common sense but it didnt really hit me until just now. With BF3 supporting 64 slots its going to cost twice as much to rent a server. GameServers wants $80/month. Lowest I could find was $65.
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I was pricing out servers today. This should have been common sense but it didnt really hit me until just now. With BF3 supporting 64 slots its going to cost twice as much to rent a server. GameServers wants $80/month. Lowest I could find was $65.
yea the price per slot is that of badco2. it's pretty high thats fo sho!
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Still holding onto hope...
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/17197-battlefield-3-wont-have-lan-support-at-launch-maybe-later/ (http://www.neoseeker.com/news/17197-battlefield-3-wont-have-lan-support-at-launch-maybe-later/)
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The beta starts on the 27th if you pre ordered. Myself and Griev will be playing it. Opens up on the 29th for those you pre ordered MOH. I am looking forward to it.
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Maybe later? So they're changing their minds about this AND the mod scene as well? Sigh. Wait and see.
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It has to be a direct result of MW3's announcement regarding dedicated servers.
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Would only make sense. The people who won't buy BF3 based on lan functionality alone are gonna go to MW3 to get their fix. That would be a decent number of people, despite how many are still buying the game. All they gotta do is say "we miiiiiight do it, but we'll think about it IF the community really wants it" and watch support for the game roll in.
Teasing a donkey with a carrot on a stick.
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Important Nvidia BF3 driver to increase performance for nvidias graphics cards.
http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/software/40878/nvidia-releases-geforce-28538-driver-aid-battlefield-3-players (http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/software/40878/nvidia-releases-geforce-28538-driver-aid-battlefield-3-players)
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I will be the one hiding in the bushes sniping your life away...
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"This fresh release is supposed to increase performance in DICE's highly-anticipated FPS by up to 38%"
"38%"
Holy goddamn. What's the optimal system gotta be to get that kind of performance increase? This is similar to quake3 when nvidia released a set of drivers that bumped Q3 performance up 25% if you had an optimal system (which was a 1ghz cpu and a GF6, if I remember right. correct me if I'm wrong).
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my i975 and 12 gigs of ddr3 are still going strong. Heck even my OC'd GTX285's are still giving me great performance... I would love to be able to put in a set of the 6 series... they cant come out soon enough...
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For what it's worth.
http://www.battlefield3beta.com/ (http://www.battlefield3beta.com/)
Gives you a key, apparently.
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I kind of feel like taking tomorrow off just so i can watch Origin fail miserably at the demand to pull down BF3 for the beta.
Anyone else see a trainwreck coming?
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The kind of trainwreck that you really oughtta look away from but just can't? YES.
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For what it's worth.
[url]http://www.battlefield3beta.com/[/url] ([url]http://www.battlefield3beta.com/[/url])
Gives you a key, apparently.
Doesn't seem legit....not gonna do it.
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It is only going to log your keys...
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http://th4xd3us.blogspot.com/ (http://th4xd3us.blogspot.com/)
live streaming of the game.
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odd, I never saw those click ads. Maybe it was adblock or noscript. Okay, thanks. Yeah, probably not legit.
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[url]http://th4xd3us.blogspot.com/[/url] ([url]http://th4xd3us.blogspot.com/[/url])
live streaming of the game.
Loggin MAH KEYZAHHH!!!!
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I won't be taking the day off. I already know what is going to happen to the servers.
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Yeah, time to go to candy mountain charlie... yeahhhhhh....
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I won't be taking the day off. I already know what is going to happen to the servers.
Downloading it right now @ my advertised internet speed.
Hope everyone got their emails.
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I won't be taking the day off. I already know what is going to happen to the servers.
Downloading it right now @ my advertised internet speed.
Hope everyone got their emails.
Im so jelly right now! I gotta wait till thrus. update us after you've played a bit.
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I got mine, but I am at work... fk
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I got mine, downloaded, and now playing... at work :P
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I got mine, downloaded, and now playing... at work :P
lul, im "working" from home today ;)
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Fudge you all... my only consolation is a few co-workers here also got their beta keys and are unable to play till they get home.
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Well, if it makes you feel any better, the game continually crashes on me. Longest I've been able to play was 5 mins w/o a crash. And when I say crash, I mean total crash. I need to reboot every time it crashes.
My home computer is much better than my work computer, so hopefully that will play better. Only problem is that we've been without interwebs at the apartment for about a month now, and the way it's looking now, I might not be able to play the beta from home at this rate ><
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ack... anything in the logs?
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http://www.meanyfaceclan.us/forums/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=208 (http://www.meanyfaceclan.us/forums/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=208)
screens from my first play through. set fraps to snap a pic every 10sec
for those having crashes, make sure you're on the latest BETA drives for nvidia (if thats your card).
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SHweet!!! thanks for the pics Krakah. hows it run and what graphics card do you have? How many maps are there with the beta? Sorry for all the Q's but im just excited and can't wait for the weekend!
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I installed the beta drivers before I installed the game, I was finally able to play for ~20 mins w/o a crash, though. Game is still buggy as hell even without the crashing. I was getting continual microstuttering, and when attempting to disarm the mcom station, the progress meter would get to ~80% and go back to 0%.. so I was never able to disarm anything. The movement itself is really funky too, and I'm also not able to rebind the melee attack to my mouse.
Very annoying bugs, overall.
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Got my key I hope by the time I get home the servers are all settled down and everything runs smoothly. Who am I kidding got a better shot at the power ball.
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SHweet!!! thanks for the pics Krakah. hows it run and what graphics card do you have? How many maps are there with the beta? Sorry for all the Q's but im just excited and can't wait for the weekend!
I have a GTX570. Fraps sayd 50-60fps the whole time. Not bad.
There are only two maps. Metro for Rush, and Caspian Border for Conquest.
Something to keep in mind though is we're prettys ure the graphics are locked at a certain quailty regardless of setting....
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037802492&postcount=6993 (http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037802492&postcount=6993)
the two screenshots on that post show no difference. The download was only 3.5GB. Heres to hoping for some much higher res textures with the final realease. I tend to scale down settings when playing MP anyway.
I couldnt get the game to run full screen. ALT+Enter wasnt brining it back full screen. I was playing @ 1080p in a windows that was the size of 720p.
Alas i actually do have work to do. I must get to it!
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I had the full screen issue at first as well. Once in-game, had to go into options and switch it to full screen for it to start up in full screen mode.
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^ did that. Didnt work :(
I havent loaded up the game since. So maybe it just needed a restart of the game. Hopefully I'm done with work by 5 or 6 so I can play.
If you guys want to play with us tonite look us up on steam. I'm in the FITES and VG steam groups.
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So kotaku says "that the options menu can only be accessed when you're in-game and alive. That means in order to change your audio, control, or graphics settings, you have to find a safe place to hide first."
Is this true? WTF?
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Yes it's true. Really hoping that this is just part of beta and not release. Also, if you get killed while adjusting options (like keybinds), the game will close you out of the options screen. STUPID considering that you can only change options while playing. /facepalm
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How you bring up the options menu?
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So after playing for a few hours last night, I must say I am impressed. On my aging q6600 @ 2.85ghz, 4gb of ram and a GTX460SC, it ran very smoothly on all medium settings....and still looked damn good doing it. Now I am running at 1650x1080 only because that is my monitors native res. But I didn't drop below 30fps due to graphics...only net lag at times.
The sound is AWESOME! Firing your weapon in a long tunnel produces some nice acoustics. But then transitioning to an enclosed space really changes the way your gun sounds. Listening to gunfire coming from an adjacent hallway or room has a very nice effect as well. Unfortunately, there are no vehics in the beta I think...or at least I haven't been on a server where there were vehics.
There are bugs...lots of them. Random flashing when turning fast (I think it has to do with motion blur) but it only happens in certain situations...like hiding in bushes or going prone on rocks where you may clip the level or something. Other bugs include random animation glitches. People moving at run speed while looking like they are crouching. Net lag has a bad effect on hit boxes. I unloaded a clip into someone right in front of me but none of the hits registered.
Now for the part I really do not like: the interface. Options can ONLY be changed in game. Not waiting to spawn, not in the round setup, IN GAME. Meaning you have to spawn and sit there while configuring your Crap. This may be a MP thing only since SP is not available at the time. I would think you can set your stuff up in SP and it carries over into MP.
The Origin interface BLOWS! I do not like nor want this interface. THe server browser is far from adequate in my opinion. When you search for a server you can either browse or quick join. Honestly it is faster to quick join but you have no control over which server you join. When you are abale to join, for some reason it loads BF3 ibehind the browser and not in full screen. That is really annoying as it tells you that (obviously) alt+enter will make it full screen....but it doesn't. You have to spawn, go into your options and select full screen from there.
I am sure (read hoping) EA will fix some of these issues. But all in all I am impressed with this game. Feels like a very good mix of BF2 and BC2 but with nicer graphics and sound.
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Did any of you guys try the caspian map yet? I heard they opened those up for people in the beta and I've seen a few vids floating around youtube. looks like they have the jets unlocked in the vids i saw. It looked really awesome but there were bugs. It actually says something if Sean is impressed with this game so I know i will like it. To quote Czar " I hope to frag ya soon"!!!!
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I have only managed to get into that rush map in metro hell...
I love the sound.
Graphics are a big step forward and I cant wait for the full game.
Medic MG's are stupidly OP.
Shotguns are under powered
Grenades are either buggy as hell or very underpowered.
The entire interface for spawning and kit management needs serious work. It feels too light, with too little information provided and too little control over re-entry into the game... I am hoping this is just due to it being a beta and not what they plan on going live with.
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I have only managed to get into that rush map in metro hell...
I love the sound.
Graphics are a big step forward and I cant wait for the full game.
Medic MG's are stupidly OP.
Shotguns are under powered
Grenades are either buggy as hell or very underpowered.
The entire interface for spawning and kit management needs serious work. It feels too light, with too little information provided and too little control over re-entry into the game... I am hoping this is just due to it being a beta and not what they plan on going live with.
Do you mean the shotguns are underpowered compared to BC2, or that they are underpowered overall. Because the BC2 shotguns are extremely OP. You should never be able to snipe with a shotgun from the other side of a map.
As for the interface, I agree wholeheartedly. Also, the squad interface (or lack thereof) is confusing as hell. Apparently you can only leave a squad and join one. But you can't specify WHICH squad. It sort of just puts you into a random squad. That better be a beta only thing.
And Battle Log is definitely horrific, as suspected. Not better.
Again, aside from these shortcomings and the frequent system crashes I'm getting, it's still very cool.
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I am talking about blasting some one point blank and it taking 2+ rounds to kill them unless you luck out with a head shot or they were already wounded.
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I noticed that with every gun I used, though :P
Also, when you mean medic MG, do you mean Support? The only gun I got as a medic (Assault class) was the M16A4 and shotgun so far. Wasn't sure if the assault class got MG's or not.
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After playing for a few hours theres quite a few things I like and HATE.
First off the notion that this is a BETA is complete and utter BS. Theres no way they are going to let this go on for 10 days and think they have any shot at changing code before the 25th. This BETA is for the release day patch. As others have said it is buggy. Way too buggy for a game at this point in its development if you ask me.
Flashes are annoying when moving fast. They are usually white. But if you're standing near fire the flashes are orange. It has serious clipping issues and it looks like you fall straight through the ground. I for one STILL cannot get the game to go full screen. I have the option checked in the settings. ALT+ENTER does not work. I can maximize this windows but I still get the title bar at the top and my task bar at the bottom.
I really hope that just like the game this is a testing period for battlellog (the game's social and server browser). Theres no waiting in queue for a server. You get the message its full and you just have to keep clicking it. If your friend is in a server theres no joining it to wait in queue while you make yourself a drink. After I stopped playing I believe chr0n0phage said they implemented a server filter. I was bitching all day that I couldnt filter out the full servers. Though it didnt really matter because when I sorted by server population it would still tell me a server that displays as 24/32 is full. They probably implemented the filter at the same time they unlocked caspian border.
You can start "parties" where you and your friends get a in a group. You can then join a game together. Half the time it didnt work. At this point trying to find a server with multiple open slots is next to impossible. This would seem like a good idea when the game comes out and there are 1000's of server to choose from. Did they not do a simple equation like.... totalbetatesters/32 = the number rush servers we should have? We were only able to do this once, but after we launched a party game we got onto the same team. I dont know if it does that automatically or not. However there is NO squad management. You are put in a squad and thats your squad. You can choose to leave the squad and then join another squad, but you dont get to choose which squad to join. It just puts you in one. We were never able to play on the same squad. Pretty stupid for a game that is so team oriented.
I was absolutely useless to my team until I finally got 10 kills with the M16 which unlocks the 4x scope. Theres alot of pixel hunting and the iron sights I thought were useless. Chr0n0phage said he was doing ok with the iron sights. And jerkoff Lilb always does good. Maybe I just suck. but after I unlocked the 4x my kd/r stayed above 2.0-4.0
I am absolutely thrilled that snipers are going to be useless. I hope they dont patch this out. Just a personal preference of mine. You will know the exact instant you encounter a sniper. Their "lens flare" is more like a spot light. You wont be able to hide as a sniper with what looks like some big ass light sitting on top of your rifle. I hate snipers anyway ;) Snipers get the knife treatment. Soon as I can get into the habit of pressing F for knife I'll be sneaking around shanking those jerkoffs every chance I get.
I really dislike the metro map. I cant wait to try caspian border. I doubt I'll ever play metro when the game comes out. Maybe it will grow on me. I cant even put my finger on what I dont like at this point.
What do I like? The obvious stuff!
The graphics are great. I can play on ultra with my GTX570 and it stays around 50fps. This is definitely NOT a console port. They were true to their word that this was being developed for PC's first and foremost. I thought BC2 had amazing graphics and detail but this blows it away. Something interesting to note is that the download was only 3.5GB. Something tells me we may be getting some higher res textures when the game releases. Maybe we wont see this type of performance.
The sound as someone touched on before is just as top notch. At first I thought they re-used some of the sound from BC2. But there are tons added. The effects are very good. At first I was overwhelmed. It sounded like there was just too much going on. There was never a quiet moment. I got used to it. I'm not sure if it was my setup but I couldnt tell if iI was getting directional sound. I heard all kinds of junk but I couldnt get any indication of where any of it was coming from. Maybe its in the options. Something to look into.
The game play is just as fun. It's slower and more tactical but its not boring. Always action. As I said before I felt useless until I unlocked the 4X for my M16. I'm still a little undecided about prone. I do think its needed but it certainly promotes camping like a mofo. Thats a problem until you start to learn the map. I cant tell you how many times i ran past a camper and died only to run past the same spot again because I didnt exactly know where I was when I died. After a few rounds that got better.
In closing this game is everything you expected from DICE. Its amazing. But sadly they have a metric crap ton of junk to fix by the 25h. Heres to hoping for a smooth launch!
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I noticed that with every gun I used, though :P
Also, when you mean medic MG, do you mean Support? The only gun I got as a medic (Assault class) was the M16A4 and shotgun so far. Wasn't sure if the assault class got MG's or not.
Support.
When you send a round of 3 1/2" high brass magnum 00 buck into some one point blank at 1450 fps it will take limbs off or open up a cavity in their body big enough to Crap in. It should not take 2, 3, or 4 shots to kill some one. If you hit some one with a puss puss 9mm round it should take many more hits to kill some one. Of course we are talking about a game where some one can survive a mid mass .50 round out of a BMG so why not... Fudge you EA.
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First off the notion that this is a BETA is complete and utter BS. Theres no way they are going to let this go on for 10 days and think they have any shot at changing code before the 25th. This BETA is for the release day patch. As others have said it is buggy. Way too buggy for a game at this point in its development if you ask me.
Do you guys remember the BC2 "beta"? I remember thinking there's no way they could fix the bugs before release. (and in reality, they don't. games generally go gold a month before release). And yet the release build has many things fixed. The way they explained this was that the "beta" that went out was on a much older build than what their current stable build was at.
My only guess as to why they did this was to provide one of their buggier builds just to confirm that the bugs persisted with a wider audience. That or they wanted to give people the short end of the stick so they'd be wow'ed when launch runs better :P
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hehe, the later is prolly true Agent. they prolly know there are a few bugs left and can't fix them in time so they'll release a build thats really really buggy so when the final is released with a few bugs people will be happy that it's mostly fixed!
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BF3 is all about big maps and full emersion... Metro just feels like an updated COD map... I cant wait for the big conquest maps.
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BF3 is all about big maps and full emersion... Metro just feels like an updated COD map... I cant wait for the big conquest maps.
I would of loved to see a conquest map in the beta. Anyone want to make a Platoon?
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The BF3 beta is working ok with the latest nForce drivers. It feels like a console port, more to the point there are no custom key mappings (I support WASD's genocide fyi).
It looks decent, but the metro map was chosen to woo the COD bro's rather than for the battlefield players
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I am downloading the latest ATI drivers. So I will see how they fair.
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Agreed... Metro was the worst Fudgeing map choice if they had any interest in keeping the true BF players calm.
That said, it still cant get over the awesome Audio and the serious potential of the graphics.
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pc open beta in about 5 hours
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I'll wait to play again until the release or if they put out a beta patch like they did with BC2. Also, my battle log name is "Agent4054" (derp).
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n/m, was alerted by Yak that it's available on origin right now. They must've refreshed it. I'm getting it pretty fast, too. constant 1.8/1.7meg down.
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Also, my battle log name is "Agent4054" (derp).
Added. You can add us.
krakah293 - some jerkoff already has krakah, which pisses me off because I swore I made that nickname and spelled it like that almost 10 years ago.
chr0n0phage
lilb3119
I think battlelog is starting to grow on me. I like that I can use it from work w/ out being in game. Can check stats, talk with people etc. Not so bad.
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Added.
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Yeah I'm getting between 2.2 - 2.4 Mb/s at the moment. mine is the same as BC2 ShadowWX1017
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Save for a few tiny bugs, it's running absolutely wonderfully on my machine. I get some choppy sound and the very occasional white flash as textures load it, but it's not bad at all. In fact, the only "bad" white flash I had was some dude blinding me with a flashlight on his rifle and then killing me while i couldn't see.
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my battle log is under busted409
derp to EA for forcing me to use the EA account name I made like a decade ago...
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anyone create a fites platoon yet?
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What's with this whore-Crap of all the conquest servers being password locked? I Fudgeing hate Rush, always have, always will. and other than the occasional rubber banding texture or white flash, and of course server lag, it's been running fine for me and I've only got a core 2 duo and an 8800GTS.
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yea something just broke in battlelog! cant join any game and went to the forums and theres been 250 posts on the subject in about 5 minutes.
the game runs really nice on my rig. looks really purdy too!!!
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According to Dave, the pw to the caspian border servers is "videokilledtheradiostar". Dunno why they bother passwording it when all that happens is that someone leaks the pw anyway.
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The need to convert all the hell hole servers running Rush to Conquest... Fudge you EA
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The need to convert all the hell hole servers running Rush to Conquest... Fudge you EA
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According to Dave, the pw to the caspian border servers is "videokilledtheradiostar". Dunno why they bother passwording it when all that happens is that someone leaks the pw anyway.
they must have changed the password 'cuz that doesn't work
EDIT: Derp! didn't see what Dave posted just above you, Agent.
yea something just broke in battlelog! cant join any game and went to the forums and theres been 250 posts on the subject in about 5 minutes.
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Herpa derp!
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They are cycling the passwords anyway...
http://bf3blog.com/ (http://bf3blog.com/)
Good spot to read up on recent developments.
I am hoping with the start of the open beta we will see Caspian servers unlock for free play of conquest.
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anyone create a fites platoon yet?
I don't think so yet but im sure one of the guys will by tonight.
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The BF3 community manager on twitter posted that a beta patch was approved a few hours ago. So hopefully that will help me some with the crashing.
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nom nom
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk1470_battlefield-3-sneaky-sniper-alphatrial-new-gameplay5-21-07-2011_videogames#rel-page-3 (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk1470_battlefield-3-sneaky-sniper-alphatrial-new-gameplay5-21-07-2011_videogames#rel-page-3)
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Looks like the beta update just came out. http://bf3blog.com/2011/09/battlefield-3-beta-update-released/ (http://bf3blog.com/2011/09/battlefield-3-beta-update-released/)
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Well that is a truly epic fail. Nvidia released updated beta drivers today, alongside the beta patch. Got both updated, and somehow my performance got much worse. Not only does it still crash/freeze my computer, the control lag got 100x worse. It is now utterly impossible to kill (let alone shoot) anyone without a massive degree of luck.
*bangs head repeatedly against desk*
Fudge you, DICE. Fudge you in your stupid asses.
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Saw the disclaimer at the end.
"UPDATE: DICE has stated that these changes won’t be implemented in the beta, rather, they will be carried over to the full game. DICE is outlining what changes will be in the final game — the beta won’t be updated."
What. The. Hell. I know it's a beta and I know it's used for testing and feedback to see how/when/why a game needs to be improved before it's actually released, but you can't BETA TEST the changes without releasing them into the wild.
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Ok, I think I've calmed down about the whole thing. I can wait another month :P
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Platoon created.
FITES.NET
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/platoon/2826550451901441429/ (http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/platoon/2826550451901441429/)
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i sent my app... under busted409
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Good news... It looks like they will be putting in game squad management in. Now for the server browser...
"DICE’s Barrie Tingle has posted on the Battlelog forums where he revealed that squad management will be available in-game in Battlefield 3. Tingle said, in an answer to a question regarding squads:
“In short answer form, yes you can browse and join squads through the squad screen and make private squads.”
The new in-game squad management won’t be updated into the beta, but will be available in the final game. "
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Well, that's good news. Love how they're not updating the beta, though. LOVE IT. Maybe they'll sneak in local networking ability into the final product and not tell anyone.
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That would be epic... doubt it would happen : /
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It is EA you fool.
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At this point, DICE is just as much at fault...
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DICE is more at fault for a lot of this stuff than EA. Devs are not infallible.
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Caspian border servers are now available for everyone!
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They've available, but....
Well, I logged into a server in Illinois and my first words were "WHERE THE HELL IS MY OSD???" and then "OH MY GOD THE LAG OH MY FudgeING GOD"
Not editing for language. It was that bad.
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I got on a server and it was decent. Although my drivers are crashing left and right on this 8800gt. But the time I played was fun. Can't wait to try it on my gaming rig.
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I got in early this morning and was in a full 64 man server and there was no noticeable lag at all. got in a little later and there it was LAGGGGG!!!! I had a blast. I even got in a little sniper time and there is just so many hiding spots it's just crazy. Fear the broken one once he starts playing!
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So apparently the console versions are getting an option to install higher resolution textures to their respective hard drives or something? A step in the right direction I guess, but methinks that putting that effort towards enabling modding ability and local network play would increase the shelf life of BF3 substantially.
Starting to beat a dead horse a bit, but goddamn will I ever beat it to a bloody pulp.
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So despite some bugs and glitches this game is the best game i've played since badco2.
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Hope you all don't mind the bit of the ol' copy and paste, but....
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2826551139132395199/ (http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2826551139132395199/)
I figured a direct post directly on the battlelog forums would be a good place for this to go as well. Edited a few words and cut out the paragraph starting with "before this weekend" since it's been a bit since that particular weekend (and I didn't see any way to post pictures, negating the need to reference the picture of the banner). All cred to Decepticon of course, for making up the original post. Just trying to do my part.
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Fear the broken one once he starts playing!
It's not sniper rape if I yell Surprise!
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Average Battlefield player vs average COD player!
http://bf3blog.com/2011/06/average-battlefield-player-vs-average-call-of-duty-player/ (http://bf3blog.com/2011/06/average-battlefield-player-vs-average-call-of-duty-player/)
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Alt-F4 ALWAYS worked for me... I played for about 5-10min before I got frustrated with the Crap interface. Open Origin, Origin opens FF, FF wants a plugin, install plugin, restart FF, find game, oops full, find game with space, launches game in window, Alt + Enter for fullscreen only works with left Alt key, spawn, open menu, get killed while menu is open, menu closes but blue overlay and sound dampening stays, respawn, STILL crap overlay, Alt+F4, Fudge YOU EA.
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Having to redo the Alt-F4 every round is also freaking annoying...
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Alt-F4 ALWAYS worked for me... I played for about 5-10min before I got frustrated with the Crap interface. Open Origin, Origin opens FF, FF wants a plugin, install plugin, restart FF, find game, oops full, find game with space, launches game in window, Alt + Enter for fullscreen only works with left Alt key, spawn, open menu, get killed while menu is open, menu closes but blue overlay and sound dampening stays, respawn, STILL crap overlay, Alt+F4, Fudge YOU EA.
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Unfortunetly, Most gamers that try bf3 think this beta is representative of the final game. Even though DICE has stated the client is earlier code, many people believe this is current code and there won't be enough time for the developers to fix the bugs. Either way the game will do well, I just hope you guys give it another chance down the road.
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They also mentioned there will be a day 1 patch implementing the fixes they made during the beta.
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I'll be getting it..... when they either throw in network code or reduce the price to $40-$45. Guess which'll happen first?
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It's a little foolish to think that the final product will be THAT different from the beta. Will they fix the very obvious flaws? Yes. Will it be drastically different? Absolutely not! What you played and experienced with the beta will be 80% similar to what you purchase. Of course they are going to tell you that the beta is an older version and the final will be much different. When you have the majority of gamers complaining and telling you your game sucks (not to mention the massive pre-order retraction) would you expect them to own up to it and say sorry? I'm not getting it because of Origin. Origin is complete dog****. Y'all can have your BF3. I will be playing MW3.
Now I know a few of you I've played with, esp Dwg 115, are very excited about this game and are defending it constantly. I am not criticizing you for wanting this game. Your choice is your choice and your free to play and like what you want 8). If you look back a few months you'll find that I was pushing for BF3 too. I'm just saying that based on what I have read and experienced I will not be supporting BF3. I would rather play a run and gun, spray and pray game like MW3 than play a game like BF3 where teamwork and tactics are needed but most will play as a lone wolf, run and gunner anyway. Search your feelings, you know it to be true :hehemean:
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a game like BF3 where teamwork and tactics are needed but most will play as a lone wolf, run and gunner anyway. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
These people are the reason I have a platinum star in knifing... I play a sniper the way it is meant to be played and in support of my squad. I will have a real problem if the rifles end up being gimped to where you cannot play a sniper properly. Allowing an SMG to single shot me at distance with no bullet drop while I arc 3 rounds from a .50 into you and you still dont die... that is game breaking.
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So... how many of you (http://i.imgur.com/ArSdg.jpg) will I see on the battlefield in less than a week? Just curious :curtain:
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So... how many of you ([url]http://i.imgur.com/ArSdg.jpg[/url]) will I see on the battlefield in less than a week? Just curious :curtain:
You don't see me in the pic. (I was catching up on sleep.) Also, I won't be purchasing. They way the game installs and launches is convoluted.
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I will be getting it. Despite all the bugs everyone else complained about, my BETA ran pretty good. If I were into TF2 i might feel differently i just can't stomach that game much like playing CS:source. There are a few others that have pre-ordered it too.
Battlefield 3 - Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRqfFfuVuNE#ws)
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TF2 is nothing like CS:S.
Point 1. Spawning.
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TF2 is nothing like CS:S.
Point 1. Spawning.
No no, I didn't mean it's like Cs:s game-wise. I just mean im kinda tired of it in the same way i am of cs. I recognize it's a great game and most of the fites guys are playing it religiously. It plays the way it's supposed to and runs at 100fps or higher. I just am looking for a military shooter that pushes the hardware that I bought and looks amazing. Just my preference is all.
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Gameplay > Graphics ALWAYS
:D
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So... how many of you ([url]http://i.imgur.com/ArSdg.jpg[/url]) will I see on the battlefield in less than a week? Just curious :curtain:
I am not in the pic, but I did tell EA to personally go Fudge themselves.
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I am in the pic....and I bought it....because I am scumbag Steve.
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I bought it. If nothing else, sectioning it under "research". ;)
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I bought it. If nothing else, sectioning it under "research". ;)
it'll be fun for a group of us to get in a squad and kick some ass. purely for research though:)
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Sooo.. singpleplayer launch trailer:
Battlefield 3 Launch Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GVSx7yMaA#ws)
Looks awesome, but I'm not expecting much, as the BC2 SP trailer looked awesome too, and it ended up being just 'meh'. But I did like two things from the trailer. First off, looks captured Glenn Morshower (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607703/)'s character in his actual appearance as well, and i loved hearing the original 1942 theme sneak it's way in!
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I am ready...
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I honestly thought the BC2 SP was freaking awesome given it's a BF game. I was laughing so much during the entire game. Love Bad Company.
Won't be joining this action, though. Unfortunately. And here I am about ready to put my system together today.
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Has anyone got the preload email yet? They said it was supposed to go out today.
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Amidst my arguing with them about my Fudgeing battlefield soldier name, they told me i would get my pre-load details by 11:59pm PDT
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Jeez...I asked for one email....they send me 4 in a row.
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Be glad I got 6. I am starting my preload.
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I got one email. Pre-loaded it this morning before work.
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I got one email. Pre-loaded it this morning before work.
so you gots ur internets up and running at home then?
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5 emails here and 2 from some rag head Fudgetard in EA customer support still pissing me off about my origin name
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I got one email. Pre-loaded it this morning before work.
so you gots ur internets up and running at home then?
Yup, thanks to Sully. On 25/5 Comcast now for $39/month. Winning.
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New WHQL Nvidia drivers increase performance for bf3 even more then the previous beta but not by much:)
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/nvidia-geforce-285-62-whql-drivers-released (http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/nvidia-geforce-285-62-whql-drivers-released)
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wish the 6 series cards were here : /
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wish the 6 series cards were here : /
i dont plan on upgrading my card till the 7 series. but the sooner the 6 gets here the sooner the 7's:)
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wish the 6 series cards were here : /
You still have the 285's in your sig?
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Dont you need to upgrade your sig? lol
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Dont you need to upgrade your sig? lol
I seriously was curious.
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You still have the 285's in your sig?
I still have 285's in my rig... I never put the 5 series in due to the 590's blowing the Fudge up when you OC them...
Also, aside from loosing out on Dx11 the 285's OC'd on liquid still push a lot of games at decent frames at very high levels of graphics settings. Seriously, those cards were & are beasts.
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Battlefield 4 Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV-gnh1En6E#ws)
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haha epic
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heads up guys... EA completely Fudgeed me over on BF3 in regards to my name. Some puss Fudge with a god damned hotmail account and no real EA games apparently has my named locked down as his EA master ID. Worst part is the wet Vagina has it under an hotmail addy. Anyway, my BF3 name will not be BrokenShadow… the Fudgeing name I have been using for FPS shooters for over a God Damned Decade.
Anyway if your in BF3 look me up as BrokenNachtmahr
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See you on the Battlefield.
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heads up guys... EA completely Fudgeed me over on BF3 in regards to my name. Some puss Fudge with a god damned hotmail account and no real EA games apparently has my named locked down as his EA master ID. Worst part is the wet Vagina has it under an hotmail addy. Anyway, my BF3 name will not be BrokenShadow… the Fudgeing name I have been using for FPS shooters for over a God Damned Decade.
Anyway if your in BF3 look me up as BrokenNachtmahr
I'm surprised that you didn't go with BloodyTurban just to piss off the guy you were talking to.
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fites.net platoon has been recreated.
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Sniper Rifles are under powered. 3 shots to kill some one is r-tarded when an smg firing full auto is also allowed to kill you in 3 rounds.
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Sniper Rifles are under powered. 3 shots to kill some one is r-tarded when an smg firing full auto is also allowed to kill you in 3 rounds.
Were you playing on a hardcore server? When I was running around as recon all of my shots were taking guys out with one mid to upper hit. There were two instances where it took two or more shots and that was because I hit them in the legs both times.
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Normal server (HC should have even more damage per shot done).
SV98 required 2 mid mass shots to kill. Even headshots through a glass window would require 2 shots. Only an unobstructed headshot with the SV98 would kill with a single shot.
Using the MK11 or SVD required 3 mid mass shots.
Regarding your Reco experience, are you talking about beta or the live version? The beta had a bug where moving targets took much greater damage. That made sniping feel more realistic as our rounds did what I feel is an expected amount of damage. The crap live now is complete and utter horse Crap.
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It must have been the beta.
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Must have... try sniping now and tell me how fast the anger builds...
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"DICE has revealed some new information regarding sniper rifles and how they will be tweaked, weapon damage, and HD textures!
When it comes to balancing, sniper rifles have always been a controversial issue in FPS multiplayer. According to many FPS forums, they’re either under-powered, over-powered, useless at close range, or too effective at “quick-scoping.” Many Battlefield fans have already shown concern towards DICE’s decision to make bolt-action rifles only a one-shot kill when striking to the head. This would seemingly give too much power to the semi-auto sniper rifles (which only needed two body shots to kill an enemy, as with the bolt-actions) that tended to dominate during the Beta. However, Alan Kertz recently clarified that the semi-autos are, indeed, being tweaked. When one fan for Kertz’s thoughts on their ability to take down enemies in two shots being over-powered, he responded, “the two shot kill range was a bit too long. They can still 2 shot up close to be competitive.” So, it seems that while they will still be able to two-shot an enemy in the final build, the distance at which that can do this will be shortened."
Yeah, Fudge them... they have no concept of balancing their LMGs, MGs, and SMGs. They have basically made long range sniping worthless while allowing every other non sniper rifle in the game to have more effective stopping power. They also havent learned their lesson of how stupid it is to have a sniper round suffer from bullet drop, even at medium distances while allowing other non sniper rifles to have none ad medium to long range.
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Personally, I don't think game developers these days have ever even fired a gun, so how the hell would they know how to balance the damn things. I think they just need to stop tweaking the the guns and start fixing their damn hit boxes. instead of here's a hit box for the head that's 100% health no matter what and hit box for the body that's only a certain percent damage from the gun, they need separate hit boxes for arms, legs, torso, chest, center of mass, and head, and then each one of those with a different percentage of weapon damage that gets through. While CM and head should both be instant kills, at least you would have something to base the gun damage off of by using the percentages from the other hit boxes on the body. Obviously arms and legs would cause you to lose less health than a torso shot, which would cause you to lose less health than a chest shot. You would also take far less damage from a 5.7mm SMG than you would a 7.62mm assault rifle and even more damage from a .308 cal. or .50 cal. sniper rifle, regardless of weather or not it's semi-auto or bolt action, all that should affect is accuracy. Also keep in mind that, in my opinion, the CM box should actually be slightly smaller than the head box because, lets face it, your heart is smaller than your brain.
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.... MY heart is amazing!
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People are still signing this to show their support....and people are still calling him Deception *LOL*
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/135/5373259.page#17867479 (http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/135/5373259.page#17867479)
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.... MY horse is amazing!
FTFY
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People are still signing this to show their support....and people are still calling him Deception *LOL*
[url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/135/5373259.page#17867479[/url] ([url]http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/135/5373259.page#17867479[/url])
LMAO! If they only knew.
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That is the real deception... :P
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Do you guys plan to rent a server?
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Do you guys plan to rent a server?
Nope....Chuck Testa.
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Well in that case....
If anyone is interested our server should be up by the end of the week. Will probably be rush and conquest all maps (i havent really ran into a bad map yet), no hardcore. If anyone would like to make a donation it will get you a reserved slot. And as always FITES is welcome to play in it regardless. I already have a few of you on my friends list on battlelog and hope to play with you guys soon. I'll post final details when I have them.
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We put up our Lighthammer server yesterday.. and less than 5 mins after it was activated, it was full. Has been full 24/7 since then. Crazy.
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I really want to play. Really really. So I gave the SP campaign a shot to see how hard it could potentially push my new 8core and gtx460.
All settings maxed, only got chop when there were many light sources hitting me at once and action started to pick up. Otherwise, very playable.
I really, really wanna buy and play it. :-(
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My copy is still sealed in the shrinkwrap. I gotta get some time to play.
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We put up our Lighthammer server yesterday.. and less than 5 mins after it was activated, it was full. Has been full 24/7 since then. Crazy.
Yea I assume evetually when a very large number of servers are up this might change. But for now it might actually make sense to get yourself a reserved slot on a server you like with a good community *cough* ours *cough* ;) if you arent privledged enough to have your own.
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I can barely log into my own server since the VIP reserved stuff doesn't work yet. Have to kick and join with lightning reflexes! Hasn't dropped below 23/24 since it's been up. Getting a little annoyed.
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Ahh had a great weekend playing BF3 with broken, tibbs, decepticon and JimmyCarter. This game still has a lot of bugs but when it works it plays really good. Hopefully it gets some of these bugs fixed soon.
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MW3 on Tuesday! F-BF3!!!
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MW3 on Tuesday! F-BF3!!!
yea you guys with the older hardware should stick to MW3.
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First off, Fudge you Dave.:hehemean:
Second, dedicated servers for the win. :box2:
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First off, Fudge you Dave.:hehemean:
Second, dedicated servers for the win. :box2:
I dont knock dedi's i just can still enjoy a game without them sometimes.
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Well it's just that the way you have to use the game, and access the servers leaves just a little too much to be desired for me. Forcing people to use Origin to play their game is just a little over the top.
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kiind of like forcing people to use steam to play thier games:) But it's ok i know its different and peeps are resistent to that. Battlelog is broken atm but if werent it would be kickass in what it can do.
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For the record, I hated Steam when it first came out too. I now love it because it's got a proven (mostly) trouble-free track record and they also have some fantastic deals on a regular basis. Somehow, I don't see EA/Origin having free-to-play weekends, 75% off sales, or any of the other, frankly, awesome things that Steam does in its current state, not to mention the support of so many indie titles you can find on Steam.
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Offline mode. That is all. Plus what sully said, except for hating steam at first. I've never really had a problem with it... 'cept I wasn't playing HL2 until muuuuch later into steam's life so I had nothing to hate.
Ain't nothing wrong with steam running in the background and at leave Valve has blatantly said that if the servers were to ever go down for good, then they'd patch things up so you could keep your games.
I seriously, seriously doubt EA would be that nice to everyone.
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And I agree with Sully, i dont see Origin doing that either. Also, I hated steam as well in the beginning as did most of us. It's a great platfom now but if a game isn't on steam it wont stop me from playing it. If you guys hate the game thats fine, I just thought more of you might like it since it's similar to badco2. But I will still enjoy it despite your trolling efforts ShadowWX.
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I saw something about a patch/hack to allow play without origin, on a certain torrent site, that was released by one of the more big-name ripping groups. Didn't test it though, because... I can't. /cry.
Still want the damn game. At least Batman, Mario 3D Land and Zelda Skyward Sword will fill the gap.
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I just thought more of you might like it since it's similar to badco2.
Implying BadCo2 was a good game :confused:
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I saw something about a patch/hack to allow play without origin, on a certain torrent site, that was released by one of the more big-name ripping groups. Didn't test it though, because... I can't. /cry.
Still want the damn game. At least Batman, Mario 3D Land and Zelda Skyward Sword will fill the gap.
DO NOT USE THAT CRACK!!!
EA will crack down on it in due time and you will have lost your $60 investment. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
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I just thought more of you might like it since it's similar to badco2.
Implying BadCo2 was a good game :confused:
While you may not have liked BC2...a lot of us enjoyed it thoroughly.
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I just want to be able to put a GD sniper round into a GD center mass and get a GD kill. None of this, you gotta hit them 3 times bull Crap.
I swear they just made the game going, how can we make sniping the worst Crap experience we can with the worst Crap gear we can and the worst Crap scoring system possible for a class...
Seriously wtf are they smoking.
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I just want to be able to put a GD sniper round into a GD center mass and get a GD kill. None of this, you gotta hit them 3 times bull Crap.
I swear they just made the game going, how can we make sniping the worst Crap experience we can with the worst Crap gear we can and the worst Crap scoring system possible for a class...
Seriously wtf are they smoking.
While I agree sniping is somewhat flawed, I just cant get upset about it :D I hate snipers!
Perhaps they wanted snipers to really be more of a support role than an offensive role. Nothing is more annoying that some pansy sitting 1000 meters away. I think a sniper could be more useful spotting people as a squad is moving into an objective.
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Then we should get 50 points per spot and a 150 point bonus if the tard we spoted gets killed ... not this 10 point bull Crap. Seriously if their intent was for us to just be observers, the scop glar should be gone and our spotting point system drastically revised.
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Watch it and get dog tags...
http://actofvalor.com/bf3/ (http://actofvalor.com/bf3/)
Make sure your EA country of origin is either USA or Canananananada
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Watch it and get dog tags...
[url]http://actofvalor.com/bf3/[/url] ([url]http://actofvalor.com/bf3/[/url])
Make sure your EA country of origin is either USA or Canananananada
good deal thanks Broken!
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Then we should get 50 points per spot and a 150 point bonus if the tard we spoted gets killed ... not this 10 point bull Crap. Seriously if their intent was for us to just be observers, the scop glar should be gone and our spotting point system drastically revised.
I agree, i just happen to be happy about it lol.
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I would be perfectly happy choosing my victims and coming out with maybe 10 kills a round. I would spend my remaining time picking up neutralize/cap/spot/kill points for spotting incoming targets for teammates who are on flag caps. Using my spotter to call in precision strikes on targets.
Instead, if I play recon as a recon, i get a pittance of 10 points a spot. I cant call in a strike on anything. I get out gunned by a 9mm smg. I have to shoot some one 3 times with a GD gun that can defeat all standard issue body armor and get 1 shot kills through trauma plates in RL. I cant lay claymores for ambush. I cant assist with armor. The BF3 reality of recon as recon is 10 points for a spot and run for your F'ing life. They best way to get your KD up as recon is to hunt other snipers who are trying to snipe. Equip your SMG and run to the hills.
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Make sure your EA country of origin is either USA or Canananananada
I see what you did there ;)
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I log in infrequently now, but nobody is ever playing BF3. Did EA just do a horrible job this time around (Like 2142?).
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Get the Fudge in TS man... i know a bunch of us are playing, why the Fudge arent yall in TS?
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Women > Video Games
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I mostly agree with that statement. Mostly. Sometimes it's like GIT OFFA ME WOMAN I PLAYS VIDJA GAMES!!!!!
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Women > Video Games
what did you just break your virginity or what man? Get in TS every so often and join us.
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You can Fudge and be on TS... just mute your GD microphone.
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You can Fudge and be on TS... just mute your GD microphone.
He uses push-to-talk unlike dwg and nstuff. With those two we would hear everything... ;)
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You can Fudge and be on TS... just mute your GD microphone.
He uses push-to-talk unlike dwg and nstuff. With those two we would hear everything... ;)
i switched over. i now use push-to-talk.
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You can Fudge and be on TS... just mute your GD microphone.
No wait...DON'T mute your mic.
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Well I am just glad that when BF3 does crash, it doesnt call itself BF2.
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Well I am just glad that when BF3 does crash, it doesnt call itself BF2.
Haha! That's bad. I saw screenshots of that.
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Well I am just glad that when BF3 does crash, it doesnt call itself BF2.
Haha! That's bad. I saw screenshots of that.
Never had MW3 crash on me.
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Man, I talked about playing BF3 for awhile... then when it finally came out, I barely play any of it. Not because I don't like it. I love it. Some of the most fun I've had in a multiplayer game. I have something like 6 hours played total. Meh ><
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Im pushing 40 hours...
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I am pushing... I didn't buy it.
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You would make a good tank commander...
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im almost at 20hrs. and about 5min of MW3.
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bf3 2011-11-08 11-50-18-04.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV_Ms2wbLxg#)
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@dwg -- that was awesome at 1:27 when he fired the RPG right into your window... the sounds add SO much to BF3; I'm back from a few weeks out of the country and can't get enough :)
Would be great to organize some events with everyone like we did with BFBC2!
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@dwg -- that was awesome at 1:27 when he fired the RPG right into your window... the sounds add SO much to BF3; I'm back from a few weeks out of the country and can't get enough :)
Would be great to organize some events with everyone like we did with BFBC2!
Yea man, we should schedule something for next weekend if everyones down? There are about 5 of us that play. Decepticon, Broken, Spooge, tibbs and myself.
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@ Shank, what was with the kick from the VG platoon?
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Yea man, we should schedule something for next weekend if everyones down? There are about 5 of us that play. Decepticon, Broken, Spooge, tibbs and myself.
Sounds like a plan. Personally, I may be leaving again for work as soon as this week, hopefully back by Saturday night (19th) -- would love to get some teamwork going with everyone :army:
@ Shank, what was with the kick from the VG platoon?
Sorry, I should've sent you a message. Noticed FITES platoon is all FITES guys and VG platoon is all VG guys. If we want (as a whole), we can just friend up on both platoons -- either way, as long as all of us are online, we can just create parties and join servers as a group.
As of right now, here are our members:
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/platoon/2832655240989872431/listmembers/ (http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/platoon/2832655240989872431/listmembers/)
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kk no worries. Was wondering what was up. Thanks for the update!
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Two more friends might get BF3, but in the meantime, they randomly boot up BC2 and I joined them last night on Heavy Metal... good times -- its just amazing how different it looks/feels/plays since tasting BF3... feels like a little kids arcade game pew pew lol -- anyway I was having so much fun that I didn't even notice they left; ended up on Atacama... glad I flipped on the ole FRAPS!
Any FFVII fans out there?! (sorry its so big, less than 5 min, but didn't render correctly)
dl.dropbox.com/u/4573735/vG.shank%20bad%20company%202%20assault%20solo.avi?dl (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4573735/vG.shank%20bad%20company%202%20assault%20solo.avi?dl)
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Any FFVII fans out there?! (sorry its so big, less than 5 min, but didn't render correctly)
dl.dropbox.com/u/4573735/vG.shank%20bad%20company%202%20assault%20solo.avi?dl ([url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4573735/vG.shank%20bad%20company%202%20assault%20solo.avi?dl[/url])
MS Expression Encoder + Youtube for the win.
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This game needs more gore...
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This game needs more gore...
Like Soldier of Fortune type gore.
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hell yeah. I would love to blow limbs off of my enemy then watch their heads explode.
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MS Expression Encoder + Youtube for the win.
Sweet, thanks krak, I'll check this out. Uploaded it to my vimeo acct. in the meantime for quicker access:
vG.shank bc2 assault solo (http://vimeo.com/32173634)
hell yeah. I would love to blow limbs off of my enemy then watch their heads explode.
Omg, I completely forgot about how gory SoF was hahaha -- looking back, spent wayyy too much time dissecting fallen enemies with the knife :o
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nice killing spree!
KRAKAH07 PWNAGE ON VALPO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LgXBcZLH4w#ws)
now thats a killing spree ;) skip to 1:45
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Weekly BF3 night anyone?
http://www.meanyfaceclan.us/forums/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=212 (http://www.meanyfaceclan.us/forums/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=212)
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friday evening or sat works for me. thru the week is bad for me...
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We gotta do that again.
Broken raging on the 3v2 was funny.
My stats say I have a total of 26 knife kills. I only had about 4 or 5 before last night.
God I hate that tactical light. Decpticon is a pretty nasty sniper too.
Fun times. More people should join in.
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We gotta do that again.
Broken raging on the 3v2 was funny.
My stats say I have a total of 26 knife kills. I only had about 4 or 5 before last night.
God I hate that tactical light. Decpticon is a pretty nasty sniper too.
Fun times. More people should join in.
yea, it was a good time. you got all those knife kills on me!
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Hahahahahahaha!!!!! :hehemean: :hehemean: :hehemean: :hehemean: :hehemean:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/ea-being-taken-to-court-over-broken-battlefield-promise/ (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/ea-being-taken-to-court-over-broken-battlefield-promise/)
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Broken raging on the 3v2 was funny.
Yeah, the crash mid rage didnt help the BP either. Then the server not letting me back in sent me straight to the bottle... We were winning too : /
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Broken raging on the 3v2 was funny.
Yeah, the crash mid rage didnt help the BP either. Then the server not letting me back in sent me straight to the bottle... We were winning too : /
Yea that kind of explained why nobody was joining the server.
Dont worry, after you crashed to desktop chrono switched teams and we picked up right were we left off. Came right down to the wire. I believe it was 100-97. Helluva match. The music on the last few kills made things so intense I was freaking myself out lol.
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Patch is out today guys!
I know you all will like this one:
For PC, you are now able to highlight the various Squads and select which one you wish to join by selecting a Squad and then clicking the Join Squad button. Please note that the Squad Privacy option still allows 2 man Squads which, during 64 player sessions, can lead to players with no squad position –- the number of people with no Squads will be shown at the bottom of the Squad selection list.
We can finally make sure we all get into the same squad.
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Patch is out today guys!
I know you all will like this one:
For PC, you are now able to highlight the various Squads and select which one you wish to join by selecting a Squad and then clicking the Join Squad button. Please note that the Squad Privacy option still allows 2 man Squads which, during 64 player sessions, can lead to players with no squad position –- the number of people with no Squads will be shown at the bottom of the Squad selection list.
We can finally make sure we all get into the same squad.
thank God. that will make things a bunch better!
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Imagine how much more effective we all will be when we arent shooting each other!
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Imagine how much more effective we all will be when we arent shooting each other!
hehe true true. that will make friday much more fun.
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Might as well have Decepticon and I change our names to Prime and Time... you know how much we like to reach out and touch people from a distance.
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Some good stuff in here.
Nothing about that damn tac light though :angryfire:
Major client update for the PC version Battlefield 3 as well as a server-side update for all platforms.
The update will be made on Nov. 22nd 7:00 AM UTC / Nov. 21st 11:00 PM PST.
We’ll share release timing on the console patches as soon as we are clear on the timing, these take a bit longer due to console certification process.
---- Client-Side Changes:
-- Visuals, Stability and Performance Fixes:
• General performance and loading time improvements
• “Black Screen” fix for an issue occurring on some PC Configurations
• Stereo and Rendering Support for Nvidia and AMD Graphics Cards
• Adjusted the “stuttering” encountered on some PC configurations.
• Fixed several Crashes when joining MP and Co-Op sessions
• Fixed multiple problems when using multiple monitors (Eyefinity / Surround).
• Fixed visual corruption issues on certain Nvidia Cards
• Improved loading times for certain textures
• Added console command “GameTime.MaxVariableFps” to limit max FPS
• Added console command “UI.DrawEnable” to hide UI for screenshots / videos
-- Balance and Gameplay Adjustments (PC)
• Fixed a problem with high speed mouse movement
• Added back some missing Growlers on Kharg Island Conquest Large
• Added back EOR sound for SQDM and TDM
• You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position
• Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it(note the affect this will have on Hardcore mode!)
• Spawn protection now should work in Conquest. You should no longer spawn on points too close to enemies
• You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM
• Combat areas on Kharg Rush tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after 1st base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun
• Fixed a problem with revived players not suffering suppression
• Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in COOP
• Added joystick deadzone setting
• Fixed sound for when climbing ladders
• Fixed an issue with some weapon sounds in first person
• Fixed a swim sound loop error
• Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns, AA guns, and Jet Cannons against infantry
• Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns against jeeps.
• Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and Jet Cannons, players under attack from these weapons should no longer lose control.
• Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly.
• Increased the range and minimum damage of the .357 Round from the MP412 Rex.
• Increased the range of all .45cal and 9mm weapons.
• Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW-R.
• Slightly increased the range of the 5.56mm PDW-R and decreased the minimum damage at long range.
• Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62mm rifles.
• Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR-H 7.62mm weapons.
• Reduced the damage from FIM-92 and SA-18 IGLA missiles against aircraft.
• Increased the damage and range of the 40mm BUCK rounds.
• Reduced the damage .50cal weapons do against Helicopters.
• Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells
UI Changes (PC)
• Added round duration and ticket summary at EOR
• Advanced squad polish – should be more intuitive
• Significant changes to the Join Squad functionality (see below)
• Fixed a problem regarding keybindings while playing
• You should now get a better error message when being disconnected via Battlelog
---- Server Update Highlights
• EOD Bot exploit fix
• Several crash fixes
• Anti-stat padding measures taken, disallowing ranked servers to run obscure settings
• Improved team kill kick configuration
• Support for unranked servers. Unranked servers do not report players' scores to Battlelog, but server administrators can freely control all settings
-- Share your profile and stats with new Battlelog functionality
• Ability to share your Profile and Stats pages to Facebook, Google+, and Twitter
• User Profile and Stats pages on Battlelog can now be accessed without being signed in to Battlelog if you know a user's URL
• Single sign on from Battlelog to Origin. If you're not logged in to Origin and join a game server, Battlelog will automatically sign you in to Origin in the background and join the game server
-- Quick notes on Squad changes in the Nov 22 update
• Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option
• Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 squad members
• Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM
• Disable Privacy flag when 1 man squad
• Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when squad drops to 1 player
• All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad Selection screen
• Players who choose not to join squads will also show up as Blue in the "Not in a Squad” line
• Squads that are currently empty will display as white -- if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text
-- A detailed look at Squad refinements
A detailed look at Squad refinements
Today's PC client patch features numerous tweaks to Squad functionality and is part of our ongoing efforts to make it easier to play with friends and Platoon mates. These changes will also be implemented for consoles when we release the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 updates shortly. Stay tuned for the exact date of the console updates.
First, we need to look at how joining with Squads and Platoons affects the balance of teams. Initially, servers are commanded to equal out each side, so joining with friends can impact that balance while joining with Platoons further hinders this. As a result we have made some adjustments to the in-game Squad management screen.
For PC, you are now able to highlight the various Squads and select which one you wish to join by selecting a Squad and then clicking the Join Squad button. Please note that the Squad Privacy option still allows 2 man Squads which, during 64 player sessions, can lead to players with no squad position –- the number of people with no Squads will be shown at the bottom of the Squad selection list.
After the patch is applied to consoles (in the near future) you will be able to join Squads by cycling through the list and selecting which Squad you wish to join.
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oh yes the beloved tac light has been preserved in all its bright glory!!!!
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oh yes the beloved tac light has been preserved in all its bright glory!!!!
and the IRNV scope... Fudge both of them and those that use them. You Fudgeing puss hack exploit bastards.
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R9 update for servers released yesterday. I applied it today and 15 minutes later I get an email that R10 has been released. I applied that too.
Absolute minimum to start a round is 4 people. I dont mean by points. No, you sit around at the start round waiting for people to join before you can even move. This is retarded.
I wasnt apart of the BC2 launch. But so far being apart of the BF3 launch has been nothing but a headache. I cant even populate our server because people randomly cant join on it. And then now whos going to sit in our server while 4 people join?
Thinking about canceling our server for a month or two until they figure this crap out.
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BC2 they settled on no points scored and round not starting until 4... not sure why they have their heads up their arses and wont even let you move around... there goes the concept of anyone learning to fly
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Does anyone ever really learn to fly in a BF game? Really?
Okay, yeah I know they do. Joke still stands, though.
Gamestop selling BF3 for $40 on black friday. I'm thinking about getting it.
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oh yes the beloved tac light has been preserved in all its bright glory!!!!
OH NO!
http://bf3blog.com/2011/11/upcoming-battlefield-3-details-hinted-by-dice/ (http://bf3blog.com/2011/11/upcoming-battlefield-3-details-hinted-by-dice/)
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The change in size/position to the chat window will be welcomed with open arms.
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Working the Friday after Thanksgiving sucks. Is it time to game yet???!!!!!
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We get our BF3 server from End Of Eality. eoreality.net
The guy running the show has been a HardForum member for almost 7 years. One of the reasons I went with this host. Hes very active on the board and actually has a stickied thread stricly for his hosting.
I sent him PM and asked an interesting question. Here was the question, and his answer:
Unfortunately, per our contract with DICE we can not disclose an information regarding this.
Hey man quick question. Please be honest.a
One of the only reasons I can think that EA/DICE took the dedicated servers away from the community is $$. Do you guys have to give some kind of kick back to them in exchange for being a provider of their server?
All logical explanations point to this being some kind of extra revenue source for them. It doesnt matter to me either way. I can clearly see why they might go this direction though. Going against the cash cow that is CoD would require some extra cash.
I'll take that as a yes ;)
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Interesting....
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9rsa7oZHU1qcga5ro1_500.jpg)
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Last night was total kickass!!!! A lot of fun with BF3 and even Czar got to play! working on those Vids today for a bit.
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Yea its just too bad it took so long to get us all on the same team. As soon as we switched to the one round of rush the server instantly filled up. Not sure if that was a coincidence or not.
You guys should try rush more. Alot more action, but still alot of strategy involved.
Driving that jeep with me, shank, czar, and decepticon, over that hill, into their base, arming both mcomms and watching them explode with 2, 1, and 0 tickets left has got to rank in my top 5 all time BF moments.
My apologies to Broken. I know he has ended up on the short end twice when we played, but its actually because hes pretty damn good. We wanted to fill the server and had I moved him (earlier in the night) it would have been steamroll city at that point. Everyone on the other team would have left.
Wanna set something up for this Friday too?
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count me in for this friday!
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Driving that jeep with me, shank, czar, and decepticon, over that hill, into their base, arming both mcomms and watching them explode with 2, 1, and 0 tickets left has got to rank in my top 5 all time BF moments.
QFT! That would have to be in my top 5 as well. A lot of tension during those last few tickets.
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So Maelor decided to get on gamestop.com and get me a e-gift thinger so i could get bf3. I'll be joining this whole mess soon enough.
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Driving that jeep with me, shank, czar, and decepticon, over that hill, into their base, arming both mcomms and watching them explode with 2, 1, and 0 tickets left has got to rank in my top 5 all time BF moments.
QFT! That would have to be in my top 5 as well. A lot of tension during those last few tickets.
Couldn't agree more... too bad I didn't have fraps running ahhhhhh lol -- need to upgrade some hardware before I can run it non-stop.
Friendly FYI -- I'll be out of the country again through early December. Have fun fellas!
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I'm down for more on Friday. I have to pull a motor out of my brother in laws race car that evening, but I will be on as soon as I get home.
Being on the short end only sucks, when most of your team doesn't know how to join a squad... or has theirs locked.
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I just put some fresh long lasting duracells in my tact light for next friday! I can't wait. Na im just kidding about the light, i will disable it:)
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Posting from my new droid tablet. Got my disc today and installed and updated. Just waiting to get home and play.
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I really wanna FRAPS the base jump off Damavand Peak... but I want to do it in a jeep. LOL
The attackers get a jeep on the mcomms before it. You'd have to keep it around. Hopefully it could drive over the guardrails.
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Base jump and deploy chute immediately. Then drive the jeep off and pass you on the way down : )
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My replacement G500 mouse came today. I've been playing with some crappy $5 Microsoft optical mouse the past two weeks. God it sucked. This should help immensely.
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Gulf of Oman gameplay
Battlefield 3: Gulf of Oman Gameplay Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emGXp-qRrVg#ws)
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VTOLS AWWW Crap VTOLS!!!!
December baby!
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Definately looking forward to some Wake Island. Without a doubt THE classic Battlefield map :)
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I really wanna FRAPS the base jump off Damavand Peak... but I want to do it in a jeep. LOL
YES YES YES :10:
Just watched the new gulf of oman gameplay trailer... god I love this game!!!
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ok heres one of the videos from friday night. the mix is off(music too loud) but I'll have to fix it later!
BF3 Fites and Vitality gamers: operation firestorm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wFUvfU6pE#ws)
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This thread went from no LAN support no buy to OMG BF3 is the second coming of the second coming. I lol'd. I guess 30 pages will do that.
So, I am going to lock this thread. Please make new ones for your game play vids! We love seeing them but since only this one thread gets updates you aren't getting posted to twitter! :D
Shut it Down! Shut it Down Forever! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZSDCvUwN8#ws)