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sim667 said:
tell them to fuck off.
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They've travelled about a hundred miles :(

Anyway, this is making me feel better about it!

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/10/28/ea_shoots_first_with_battlefield_3_release/

"Battlefield 3 shot onto shelves today and multiplayer functionality was immediately slaughtered by an army of problems.
The keenly anticipated EA title was picked up by eager fans last night, who returned home to find the EA Online servers down. Many complaints on the official Battlelog forums prompted developer Dice to Tweet that all that issues were being dealt with.
There have also been reported instances where copies were shipped with dud online pass codes - a necessity for any user to access multiplayer - and, in some cases, with no single-player campaign disc.
A statement on EA's website says: "We are aware of the invalid code issue and we apologise for the inconvenience.
"Since certain retailers are affected by this issue, please check with the retailer where you purchased Battlefield 3 in order to receive a replacement code."
 
Cans of beer - check
Ms grit out with the girls for the night - check
Installing BF3 - CHECK
 
Like I said last night, I gave up and played Dark Souls instead. I'll come back to it once things have calmed down a bit.

Still no word from Titan? Maybe the APC got him.
 
yep. there are still some bugs (had a couple of ctds) but on the whole its working fine with the exceptio of it not liking my joystick so i end up flying planes and choppers like a total dick
 
Massive server problems on the 360 :/

Only managed to join around 4 games today. Differing error messages as well. Server stress test Beta my ARSE!
 
Multi player has been largely smooth here, played an hour or two and am about an hour through single player so far, very entertaining all round.
 
Been playing it for five days now. At the start of the week it was very laggy with loads of server problems on all platforms. DICE haven't released any server patches or anything, but PB has released several updates that have seemed to of fixed things.

Also it is worth noting that many of the servers for PC gamers are probably not up to the job of running 64 man servers. You really do need the best dedi box you can buy! Put it this way, bought a dedi box at the cost of £2k including housing it in LINX before BF3 came out. We put 4 BC2 32 man servers on the box until BF3 was released and even at full capacity the load was only 4%

Now we have exactly the same set up but with BF3 and 64 man servers and now the load is around 50 - 60% at full capacity. Give it a few months, GSPs and clans will have to upgrade if they want to make money or have full servers.

grit said:
Any of you lot PC players?
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I would not do this game the injustice of playing it on anything else! Run the game in ultra on a PC and you'll see rain collecting in pools before running down the road and into a drain. You'll see splashes and dirt being kicked up by soldiers in front of you, you'll see individual petals on flowers that move as you walk past them. All that is missing in the consoles.

They've done a great job of putting it on the xbox but I don't get the immersion on the xbox that I do with the PC. It's a bit like when you want to buy a Marathon and all they have got is Mars bars :(
 
Picadilly Commando said:
Been playing it for five days now. At the start of the week it was very laggy with loads of server problems on all platforms. DICE haven't released any server patches or anything, but PB has released several updates that have seemed to of fixed things.

Also it is worth noting that many of the servers for PC gamers are probably not up to the job of running 64 man servers. You really do need the best dedi box you can buy! Put it this way, bought a dedi box at the cost of £2k including housing it in LINX before BF3 came out. We put 4 BC2 32 man servers on the box until BF3 was released and even at full capacity the load was only 4%

Now we have exactly the same set up but with BF3 and 64 man servers and now the load is around 50 - 60% at full capacity. Give it a few months, GSPs and clans will have to upgrade if they want to make money or have full servers.

I would not do this game the injustice of playing it on anything else! Run the game in ultra on a PC and you'll see rain collecting in pools before running down the road and into a drain. You'll see splashes and dirt being kicked up by soldiers in front of you, you'll see individual petals on flowers that move as you walk past them. All that is missing in the consoles.

They've done a great job of putting it on the xbox but I don't get the immersion on the xbox that I do with the PC. It's a bit like when you want to buy a Marathon and all they have got is Mars bars :(
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Yeah this is the most immersed I've got in a FPS online shooter in years, the rain and wind in Grand Bazaar is just fucking jaw dropping.

6870 coming tomo so can hopefully stick everything on ultra except the AA.
 
It's taken me about 35 minutes so far to get everything installed, updated and the extra bits redeemed. Go to Battlelog and it still tells me that Macs are not fully supported :facepalm:

This is getting painful.
 
Aha and had to do the 1.5 gig textures install. Just done the online pass (got a silenced pistol) but Battlelog isn't let me sign in...
 
I think I'll give this a miss tonight, tried the multiplayer and suprise, suprise...'Failed to join the server'

Might try BC2, oh yeah that's not working also.
 
It's really fucking stupid. I have no idea how in this day and age the servers can always be this ropey on such a major launch. They've sold 10 million copies of this game giving them around $400,000,000. They can more then afford the capacity needed :/
 
Just got on, and died in under ten seconds...anyhoooo...managed to get Blog working. Xbox 360 players looks like we need to re-friend...
 
It's crazy, I was easily finishing in the top 3 during the beta but with the fucking BC2 servers offline haven't played and already bloody rusty! Gonna try conquest now, managed a few games in Rush (which is my least favourite game mode)...
 
TitanSound said:
It's really fucking stupid. I have no idea how in this day and age the servers can always be this ropey on such a major launch. They've sold 10 million copies of this game giving them around $400,000,000. They can more then afford the capacity needed :/
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Yeah and it's totally fucking counter productive cos the money they save being cheap cunts on the servers is more than lost by people hearing bad reports of it. If they offered a flawless launch they'd have even more sales from word of mouth etc.
 
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