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"The connection with EA Online was lost"

:(

Just spoke to my brother and a couple of his mates and it's the same for everyone at the moment.
 
Internet is working, downloading B3 now!

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After spending five minuets on the BF3 forums I think I'll give this a miss for at least a month.....Fuck me I forgot how much the Battlefield community was such a bunch of sad whining cunts!

Maybe I'll wait until the PR mods touch this one again.
 
playing it on the PC, game looks great but like BFBC2 I find something slightly broken about the hit detection, sometimes it seems like one or two bursts kills an enemy and other times it's half a clip, and then they turn round and kill you with one burst, very odd.

The map is also a bit of a camper fest especially with the return of prone from BF2, where there wasn't any of these indoor corridor levels that make prone a bit imbalanced.

Tbh my reaction is kind of meh, I'm sure they'll iron out the glitches and stuff but the retarded launching from a website crap and the fact there is no proper ingame menu until you are in an actual live match and then have to go hide in a bush for five minutes whilst you fuck about with key bindings or graphic settings is a sick joke as is the fact you have to be online to play the single player game.
 
TitanSound said:
Well I came 2nd in my first round and 1st in my second. The game doesn't look great but what you mentioned above is to be expected. This build is the last stable one so over a month old. Most of the bigger issues have been fixed. Graphics not as cranked up to keep the DL size from being huge. Looks good and will look better on release day. Mind you, I am playing on a 22" CRT widescreen :)
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you playing pc or xbox?

graphics are lovely on pc, on the xbox not so pretty but then you can't polish a nearly 7 year old turd with a shitty 512 of ram.

The sooner the next generation of consoles comes out the better, games are being held back by their shitness, though to be fair to Playstation 3 it is also not getting the most made of it cos of the cross platform nature of most games.
 
Played a few games, graphics are about on par with BC2: Vietnam, no glitches noticed but the gameplay felt a bit more 'floaty' than Vietnam or standard BC2 which I'm not hugely keen on. No one seems to be playing in a team minded way either, lots of rushing lone wolf style as if it's CoD. And yeah, prone, thinking this is going to be a big pain in the arse with the amount of camping I saw...
 
you on xbox?

Yeah it's a weird map for rush, it's not funneled enough and too much cheap ass hedges to lie prone in, so just nothing but camping and the odd Rambo run to try and get the objective.

Prone had a place in BF2 because infantry was only one aspect and they needed it to balance out tanks, jeeps, helicopters etc but in Rush on the metro map it simply reduces the fighting to a crawl.
 
Couldn't get on at all. Way to go DICE and EA for evaporating all my enthusiasm and destroying months of your hard work building up hype,

Enjoy the game guys, I'm sticking with Halo, Gears, and BFBC2.

(I'll probably end up buying it anyway :p)
 
revol68 said:
you playing pc or xbox?
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XBOX.

The squad system is pretty messed up at the moment. Sim invited me to a game yesterday but "nothing happened". Turns out I was in his party but it didn't show me that. When he joined a game I then went in. Trouble is, he was on the other side :facepalm:

I know it's a beta but the squad functions should have at least been bare bones reliable.

Other than that, I'm really enjoying it. Gotten a fair few knife kills and starting to get used to the guns. But I have noticed the hit detection being slightly off sometimes. Most times I take someone out easily, others it's half a clip only to get popped by him with a couple of shots.

The camping can be annoying but I have generally managed to find a way round to stab the fucker in kind. I enjoy the map, but really cannot wait to play Caspian Border and the other vehicle heavy maps. I have no idea why they took the LAV out of the beta though. You can tell that it's needed by the amount of camping bush bastard during the first stage of the map.
 
Apparently, there is a bug with inconsistent weapon damage. This is being mis-reported as hit detection issues and has been fixed for release.
 
Anyone found a way of muting other players? Kids screaming and whistling in my ears might stop me from buying it when it comes out.
 
I read somewhere, possible from TS, that you'll have options to have squad audio or team audio when it comes out. I'm not going to be too sharp in my criticism of this as it is only a beta and they have produced great games before so can't see them fucking up now.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Anyone signed up to Battlelog yet? Might be an idea for us to create a platoon..?
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Yep, never even thought about this for the beta tbh. I wonder how you do it though? Gamertag or EA account tied to it?

mwgdrwg said:
Gonna be on this tonight.....hopefully!
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Are we xblive friends?

Here are some details about the beta:

FACT 1:
The so called "Beta" version we're running right now is actually just an optimized Alpha version. All Alpha players can back me up on this one, and it makes since, when you consider the software is being released to millions of people. Release the most solid version. This also allows them to fit into the next fact(size wise).

FACT 2:
The Console graphics have been compressed, polygons removed, Audio compressed, lighting & particle effects turned down, and motion blur removed. This has already been confirmed by DICE via twitter. But why? Because the big two (M & S) place shy under 2gb file size limits on downloads of this type. You can also look at the PS3 footage on Jimmy Fallon release MONTHS ago, that looks on the verge of TWICE better than the s* graphics present in this beta. (For reference the pc version is borderline 4gb, so the current build DICE has for consoles is around 3-3.5gb). Expect it to look on the graphical level of Crysis 2 - very smooth, with better effects.

FACT 3:
PS3 version & 360 version will be identical upon release. The only differences in them now remain in the fact that the PS3 version, texture wise, is less watered down. Also the lighting system is further along. You must remember that earlier DICE themselves said that the Xbox 360 would be getting its own lighting system. My take is that we haven't even seen this yet, and as i said before, are just playing an optimized Alpha build. Which would mean lighting on 360 version in this beta is gonna be worse, because Frostbite 2.0's original lighting system doesn't perform as well on 360.

FACT 4:
Absence of a leap in destruction technology over BC2...or any destruction at all. This is also a beta specific issue. DICE has reported that alot of destruction, most prominently terrain destruction, has been turned OFF for the beta. Yes off....just more proof that this beta is watered down to a pretty great extent graphical wise.
 
Re Battlelog, I was signed up from BC2 (did it to get the veteran status for the gun) so just signed in with that. It's pretty neat really, had a decent make over and really good for pouring over your stats.:)
 
They rebooted the server about an hour ago for all formats. I've played on and off this afternoon, no server or connection problems.

Some nice footage of jet flying and dogfighting here:

 
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