Battlefield 3

[Kid_Eternity]

On davamand peak on rush there's an epic base jump into the m-com stations below.

We need to get four of us, and do it. We need someone with a video capture card to film.

With the amount of us we've had regularly on it we could do a drop of 2 squads, that would shit up the enemy



You can open your chute later than he does though, hes just a pusseh!

Totally!

 

[grit]

I need a sanity check here, I've never gotten to fly a jet. On operation firestorm I stand on the runway waiting for it to spawn, with no one else around. It spawns I try to hop in but there is ALWAYS someone already in it. WTF is going on?

 

[TitanSound]

I need a sanity check here, I've never gotten to fly a jet. On operation firestorm I stand on the runway waiting for it to spawn, with no one else around. It spawns I try to hop in but there is ALWAYS someone already in it. WTF is going on?

You can see empty vehicles on the spawn menu. Chances are someone spawned into it.

 

[grit]

You can see empty vehicles on the spawn menu. Chances are someone spawned into it.

Ah that makes sense, thanks.

 

[TitanSound]

Ah that makes sense, thanks.

Your best chances of getting into a jet are at the start of a round. Next time on a plane map, get in quick and try to spawn in it.

 

[Picadilly Commando]

You don't need a video capture card, hahaha, FRAPS, man, FRAPS!

Been away for a week and upon returning everyone has ranked up to 40 and I am sat on 17.

I might even break my own rule of never playing on a SC server so I can catch up.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Lol a week? I'm away for a day and everyone is about fifteen ranks above me. Where the hell do people find the time!?

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

On davamand peak on rush there's an epic base jump into the m-com stations below.

We need to get four of us, and do it. We need someone with a video capture card to film.

With the amount of us we've had regularly on it we could do a drop of 2 squads, that would shit up the enemy



You can open your chute later than he does though, hes just a pusseh!

Just recorded my effort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAbVKR_gXM

 

[grit]

Just recorded my effort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAbVKR_gXM

LOL and what a fucking appropriate username..

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

LOL and what a fucking appropriate username..

I was trying to video the guy to the left of me...

 

[Picadilly Commando]

Just recorded my effort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAbVKR_gXM

That looks very different to my map, are you running it in low or something? I have mine on ultra and get around 50 - 70fps but even then it doesn't run anywhere near as smooth as that. I don't entirely trust the fps.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

That looks very different to my map, are you running it in low or something? I have mine on ultra and get around 50 - 70fps but even then it doesn't run anywhere near as smooth as that. I don't entirely trust the fps.

I play it on the 360, so that's 30 fps I think.

Might have something to do with the conversion process - Hauppauge PVR to iMovie, export to HD and then upload to YouTube at 720p.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Just had an insanely fun game. Loved every minute of it. Cackling with glee throughout. I know Grand Bazaar well enough now to play with some thought and it really makes a difference.

However, the biggest difference is playing on a big screen. Have brought my PC through to the lounge and hooked it up to the surround sound. OMFG. Even at 720p (new 1080p 42" plasma on the way) it looks stunning on ultra. Sooo much better than on my 24" monitor. And the optical sound with proper surround sound is also incredible. The level of detail in the sound is mad.

Woohoo!

 

[Supine]

Just recorded my effort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAbVKR_gXM

The game looks fantastic. Your shit at bouncing though

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Just had an insanely fun game. Loved every minute of it. Cackling with glee throughout. I know Grand Bazaar well enough now to play with some thought and it really makes a difference.

However, the biggest difference is playing on a big screen. Have brought my PC through to the lounge and hooked it up to the surround sound. OMFG. Even at 720p (new 1080p 42" plasma on the way) it looks stunning on ultra. Sooo much better than on my 24" monitor. And the optical sound with proper surround sound is also incredible. The level of detail in the sound is mad.

Woohoo!

This is something I'd like to try.

How's the missus with having it in the main room?

 

[ChrisFilter]

Totally fine

It's near silent even at full load, so it's a blessing compared to the Xbox.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Totally fine

It's near silent even at full load, so it's a blessing compared to the Xbox.

Compared to the 'old' xbox.

 

[Picadilly Commando]

Dead Cat,

I have been doing a bit of investigating and found the problem, IE9 coupled with the latest Nvidia drivers (285.62) includes a GPU accelerator function that reserves a certain amount of rending power just for IE9 tasks that never gets released to other processes. I believe the beta drivers also included this.While IE9 is open, for example Battlelog, single GPU performance is hit by up to 20% while in-game. SLI performance is more pronounced and gets hit by up to 50%. The impact is not immediate, it can take up to 2 hours (oddly) to take affect after a clean restart of Windows. This feature is on by default in IE9: Internet Options > Advanced > Accelerated Graphics. To disable, just tick 'Use Software rending instead of GPU rendering'.

Yet another reason why Battlelog is a big pile of steaming shit. IE is only doing what it is intended to do, web browsers were never meant to be a launch platform for a game and the window in which the game is played is effectively a browser window. Hence the problems.

Since turning this off I am getting upwards of 70fps on the smaller maps with everything set at Ultra and around about 50fps on the larger maps. But most importantly it plays like that!

Sadly it hasn't improved my game play any

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Totally fine

It's near silent even at full load, so it's a blessing compared to the Xbox.

Best of both worlds!

 

[Picadilly Commando]

Weapons damage chart, together with damage over different ranges and with different shot etc. Worth a bookmark!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...E0bjBueWVSQjc0V0E&f=true&noheader=true&gid=15

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Definitely!

 

[TitanSound]

Dead Cat,

I have been doing a bit of investigating and found the problem, IE9 coupled with the latest Nvidia drivers (285.62) includes a GPU accelerator function that reserves a certain amount of rending power just for IE9 tasks that never gets released to other processes. I believe the beta drivers also included this.While IE9 is open, for example Battlelog, single GPU performance is hit by up to 20% while in-game. SLI performance is more pronounced and gets hit by up to 50%. The impact is not immediate, it can take up to 2 hours (oddly) to take affect after a clean restart of Windows. This feature is on by default in IE9: Internet Options > Advanced > Accelerated Graphics. To disable, just tick 'Use Software rending instead of GPU rendering'.

Yet another reason why Battlelog is a big pile of steaming shit. IE is only doing what it is intended to do, web browsers were never meant to be a launch platform for a game and the window in which the game is played is effectively a browser window. Hence the problems.

Since turning this off I am getting upwards of 70fps on the smaller maps with everything set at Ultra and around about 50fps on the larger maps. But most importantly it plays like that!

Sadly it hasn't improved my game play any

A valiant effort, but he's using an XBOX

 

[tommers]

A valiant effort, but he's using an XBOX

An embarrassing xbox?

 

[ChrisFilter]

A valiant effort, but he's using an XBOX

I think that's his point. His powerhouse of a PC wasn't getting as smooth performance as the lowly Xbox, much to his consternation, but since discovering the IE9 issue things are much improved.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Compared to the 'old' xbox.

Yeah, although the new one is still pretty huffy.

 

[TitanSound]

Yeah, although the new one is still pretty huffy.

Yeah but with the cans full of bullet whizzes and explosions, aint no thang...

 

[Picadilly Commando]

My PC isn't a powerhouse, it's carried along by an almighty crutch that is the OC graphics card. Without that, I'd be running everything on low with my fingers crossed

So what's everyones favourite maps? I love Seine and the Bazaar in conquest (never really been much of a Rush fan) but I think Karkand will hold the best maps again, I hope they're as big as promised because the maps in BF3 aren't as grand as the ones in BF2, am pretty sure that is because all the command points are clustered together in the middle where as in BF2 they were miles apart. I'd love to see a whole battalion of tanks rumbling across a map towards a cap point as you lie in wait with RPGs, ATMs and A-10s circling over heard. Less Rush and more CQ for me, pleaese!!!

Also looking forward to destruction being turned up - maybe on par with SP 8)

Right...... time for an all day BF3 session and rank up!

 

[TitanSound]

I must say I'm preferring Conquest to Rush at the moment. Grand Bazaar and Davemand Peak are my fave so far. Team Deathmatch is good for ranking up quickly on a certain kit. I'm trying to get the SOFLAM so play TD with Recon just to grind out the kills and get the points.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I've always preferred Conquest to Rush in Battlefield.

 

[Picadilly Commando]

I think I prefer CQ to Rush because that is what I am used to and it encourages team play. Where as in Rush it's perfectly possible to play the CoD lone wolf and win games, but BF is not about your stats and your K/D, it is about how you perform as a team and that is why it is so satisfying when you're part of a good team in a good squad - you feel like you're contributing and not not playing a JD shoot-them-up.

SOFLAM + the guided tank shell is fucking brilliant, Chris. Couple it up with an engineer on a Javelin and a squad can decimate the armour and air support of an entire team

(My jaw aches from grinding my teeth whilst playing haha)

Oh yeah, I forgot to say - have you got your war tapes turned on? If not, turn it on but not before you warn anyone within a mile of your vicinity. It is VERY loud. @ Chris