Mine is JK919

I hope you can change your in-game name though.

also I hate that you can't rebind your keys. I don't use wasd

9/30/2011 8:44:31 PM

downloading this demo on my 360, gonna see what its like

9/30/2011 8:45:08 PM

Tried it on PC, mine just isn't powerful enough to render well and puts me at a disadvantage. It's decent fun on the 360, not a whole lot of environment interaction though, MW does the infantry only better.

Although the slower moving and large outdoor environment paired with copious foliage allows for some more tactical movement rather than the all out assault rush that MW usually becomes.

Several times I utilized the hedgerows in the outdoor map to move up on an enemy squad from their flank or rear and wreak havoc in the confusion. Doesn't hurt that it's a bunch of noobs right now and the best paths aren't all that well known.

9/30/2011 9:33:58 PM

My clanmates have gotten the suppression fire down. Two supports in the squad to supply constant covering fire while the team moves up. Pretty cool.

9/30/2011 10:08:11 PM

Ended up playing for most of the night, (on Xbox 360) I like it a lot already. I didn't see the number of glitches some did but crawling prone sometimes I popped through the ground when it sloped and got random weird screen flashes on occasion.

10/1/2011 12:30:11 AM

support class, m249 with bipod, iron sights, double mag upgrade; c4 pack; suppression fire perk is da shit... Can't wait till I get the reflex optics on it.

10/1/2011 3:57:42 AM

you know you don't get to keep that stuff when it switches over to full game

10/1/2011 6:55:43 AM

^^^Yeah and some idiots are exploiting that and crawling around under the map.

10/1/2011 9:37:41 AM

This is now ***Official Battlefield 3 PC Thread*** apparently.

10/1/2011 12:29:38 PM

People play it on console? WHAT! NOOOOOOOO!

10/1/2011 12:44:41 PM

Finally got on a competent team and we pushed through all four phases of Rush

Was a ton of fun and the destructible environs are a huge game changer.

Some camper in the third story pissing you off? No problem, grab that RPG and take the side of the building off...

EDIT: Newegg has the preorder for $47 now with a promo code, see http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/59626

Hell, I'm in for one just to get back to my BF2 days

[Edited on October 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM. Reason : ]

10/1/2011 12:53:28 PM

anyone know if you can "spot" enemies (marks them on the map for the team) with recon like you could in BFBC2? I played for a few hours today, couldn't figure out how to do it if you could,

10/1/2011 4:35:05 PM

I was playing today and got some random 'spot assist' bonuses, kind of along the lines of the 'suppressing fire' bonus but I wasn't doing anything special.

I may have been actively sighting them for some period of time but I don't know

[Edited on October 1, 2011 at 4:44 PM. Reason : ]

10/1/2011 4:43:45 PM

^^yes.

10/1/2011 5:12:00 PM

Quote :

"Was a ton of fun and the destructible environs are a huge game changer."

Someone apparently never played BC2... this map is a lack luster when it comes to showcase the destructible environment. They haven't included a lot of destructible walls or the famous falling debris yet.

10/1/2011 6:18:12 PM

^Guilty as charged, I checked out after BF2 and played MW pretty much exclusively when I did play anything.

I didn't really notice at first except sometimes a grenade or rocket would fell an entire tree, but the very last stage of Rush is very much urban environment.

10/1/2011 7:15:46 PM

No idea on the validity of this but someone told me that the destructible environments of frostbite 2 are not 'enabled' in the demo.

I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

10/1/2011 7:21:44 PM

Rumor is that both the graphics and some of the Frostbite features have been toned down in the demo, but definitely not disabled entirely.

10/1/2011 7:35:29 PM

i destroyed part of a stone beam with a med pack or ammo box earlier today.

10/1/2011 9:07:14 PM

Once I saw a grenade go off and blow a guy clean through a thin wall.

Also one of the subway tunnels is initially boarded up, I shot an RPG but it was too close to engage so it punched a clean hole through the plywood and continued on.

At this point I just run around with an RPG to see what parts of the environment I can destroy. If Modern Warfare had that kind of destruction, the houses in Nuketown would last about thirty seconds hah.

10/1/2011 9:17:22 PM

lol. this game is a huge pile of shit

10/1/2011 9:48:02 PM

dang i didn't know it had been released yet.

10/1/2011 9:55:55 PM

I blame Gmail for destroying the meaning of beta as an incomplete product. From what I was reading the build they released for beta is several months old, but it is a little shady having to take their word that the graphics (xbox) and engine will be much better in the final product.

10/1/2011 9:59:44 PM

yea this whole "oh the beta is a few months behind 'heh'" thing is the biggest pile of crap. either it is and old, and they're scaring people away for nothing, or it isnt old in which case they're gonna ship something awful.

its DICE and its EA so my guess is that its and old build and they didnt release a newer build because those are just as bad.

e: they dont test betas 3 weeks before you gotta press the disks. open betas like this should be system load testing and balance testing. not fucking engine and ui testing.


[Edited on October 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM. Reason : a]

10/1/2011 10:05:20 PM

^I donno where you are getting the idea that the beta is "scaring people off"... its just that, its a beta, this is a few builds behind the real product, this build lacks a lot of features for a number of reasons; lots of speculations, nothing concrete. This is basically the same build as the alpha. If you've seen the actual in game videos of this game, they look 10x better than the beta.

Just as you said, they are primarily stress testing the load and balancing; making sure the backbone network and servers can handle a much larger player population.

10/1/2011 10:32:12 PM

why would they test it with a busted ass build if they have a better build?

10/1/2011 10:48:42 PM

This is a demo, not a fucking beta.

They are advertising the product they are trying to sell. If they had a mythical better build, why the fuck didn't they release that?

JBaz is acting like the kid at Christmas that didn't get what he asked for and keeps hoping there is another present hidden somewhere under the tree.

10/1/2011 11:01:14 PM

the beta for this is a buggy piece of crap even for a "beta". shame, the potential's there but they aren't helping convince a lot of people to buy it.

10/1/2011 11:32:44 PM

So I just realized that Battlelog and Origin have two separate friends lists. Battlelog is just plain awful. I'm not quite sure wtf DICE/EA was thinking when they came up with that.

10/1/2011 11:36:03 PM

EA and media label it as an "open beta". so the fact that features are turned off or not present should not be surprising. they will be available in the full version.

10/2/2011 12:06:36 AM

^Don't try and stem the tide of hate. Less people bogging down the servers opening night, fine by me.

10/2/2011 12:18:13 AM

yea they turned of features like working UIs and graphics

10/2/2011 12:51:18 AM

^Have you actually played? You haven't actually mentioned.

10/2/2011 1:06:04 AM

@catalyst: I am more than happy with the open beta and battlelog, despite it having it issues, the game thus far has surpassed what this game was going to be. Its definitely the next step past BC2 and can't wait till conquest maps with vehicles.

Even if they keep the graphics at this level, I'm again happy with it because the gameplay is fun, balanced and I like the level of customization on the weapons. Yes, they need to change the GUI and a lot of other things; but for now its a nice preview to the game. I was hoping more maps would have been included in the beta.

Also, if you don't like it, you can always play a different game. I hear minecraft is an acceptable replacement.

10/2/2011 2:19:40 AM

the leveling up is going to kill the game for me. the m249 and a couple other upgraded guns are FAR more powerful than the starting equipment. the whole "rpg element" is a load of shit and if they wanted char customization, a talent tree would be a million times better

10/2/2011 8:17:01 AM

^^^ of course i have. its no where close to finished and it sucks.

10/2/2011 12:26:08 PM

^^I don't like the leveling up to unlock basic weapons either, but fucking blame MW for making that shit the new standard in the FPS models, everyone does it now (the unlocking weapons, not levels, since I guess Halo and other FPS games were doing that before). Sadly, it's also what players react to liking--it's a bastard child of the MMO gamers and the FPS gamers. There's a player base that enjoys the idea of having to constantly move towards a goal to keep the game interesting, which is understandable, but blah.

I don't know why you think a talent tree would be better though.

10/2/2011 12:45:38 PM

Caspian Border opens while I'm doing a wedding for two days and then closes, fucking weddings. It was my best friend though haha.

10/2/2011 3:14:50 PM

Add me to the list, by the way:

UnstableNet

10/2/2011 3:25:36 PM

^^Yeaeaaahhh. They need to add that back for the Beta.

10/2/2011 3:32:56 PM

Just downloaded the beta. Its ok, but I think I will stick to BC2 until the full game is released. That same map is getting boring.

add me to the list, NCSUCobra

10/2/2011 4:33:11 PM

I love the wall-jumping, slide-crouch, slide-prone, but shit it looks awful when other people do it.

10/2/2011 4:40:53 PM

Played 3 or 4 matches earlier on the xbox

This game rulez

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 6:30 PM. Reason : Sniping is fun!]

10/2/2011 6:30:37 PM

Is PC beta down for anyone?

10/2/2011 7:13:05 PM

Please use the current list and add your names.

Origin Friends list add:
seedless: tang0d0wn
Prospero: ProsperoLT
JBaz: BazTech
smoothcrim: hollablack
BEU: BeepBeep19
brianj320: sil3ntfury
FriendlyFire: GeneralShatton
BlackDog: ledhed
Air: Redneckvtek
gs7: gs77
neodata686: kpshaver
Azaka: dslowder
Golovko: golovko21


And yes, the server list is down as the EA backbone is down, I was still playing the game for another hour till everyone started to just leave and no one was joining.

@smoothcrim: leveling is not going to kill this game. Its basically very similar to BC2 and other modern shooters. You also get the m249 very early as an upgrade while the starting weapons is still very proficient. The mk11 sniper rifle and SVD are da shit as starting sniper rifles go. Adding a Talent tree would make the game completely unbalanced.

10/2/2011 8:08:16 PM

^True, I've found the first unlockable sniper rifle to be inferior to the defaults in that the bolt action isn't worth extra range. Much slower rate of fire, and still requires a 2-hit kill unless to the head of course.

^Also, are all of those people PC players? Mine runs alright at the lower end of medium but it feels like a disadvantage with the graininess and fog, so I'm going to take the personal skill hit and console it up I think.

10/2/2011 8:24:12 PM

Origin Friends list add:
seedless: tang0d0wn
Prospero: ProsperoLT
JBaz: BazTech
smoothcrim: hollablack
BEU: BeepBeep19
brianj320: sil3ntfury
FriendlyFire: GeneralShatton
BlackDog: ledhed
Air: Redneckvtek
gs7: gs77
neodata686: kpshaver
Azaka: dslowder
Golovko: golovko21
mikey99cobra: NCSUCobra

added myself. I also wanted to add that the beta ran fine on my 5870. I was thinking about upgrading but if the full game runs as well as the beta did I think I can hold off until the next big PC game.

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 8:46 PM. Reason : ....]

10/2/2011 8:43:45 PM

^Yeah it ran more than fine on mine as well.

10/2/2011 10:33:41 PM

Well now that I installed the beta Nvidia drivers it actually runs a lot better on my PC, I might actually switch from 360 for this one, especially since I realized that the console versions are being limited to 24 players vs 64 even after all this time.

I've got a GTS 250 and a dual-core 3 GHz, so not beautiful, but honestly not much different than the Xbox, and it only got laggy in a really crazy gunfight and near all those fires in the subway tunnel.

10/2/2011 11:36:28 PM

Quote :

"I don't know why you think a talent tree would be better though"

A talent tree would allow for character customization (faster reloads vs running faster vs better camo vs more ammo type stuff) without a need to grind. give people a tree to customize and don't worry about leveling up garbage.

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 11:42 PM. Reason : ^ install the 280 drivers instead of the 285 drivers and it will play much better]

10/2/2011 11:42:00 PM