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I guess with flags pretty close together, it will be an explosive scenario :p

You will have a large amount of infantry fighting each other in the central area. Couple this with tanks, uav and fighter jets thrown in the mix, and it will be a devastating central region, while the rest of map is quiet and where only wind can be heard :p

The other possibility is that with everyone attacking each other at close range, ground targets will be an easy picking for jet fighters
 
Ruiner said:
Hey all.



This is a serious question about my PC specs I am not a super techy guy! Will it be enough to run on highest settings or more of a medium setting for BF3?

AMD Phenom II X2 550
Clocked to 3.11Ghz
4Gig RAM (Forgotten the brand).
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series



I'm looking to upgrade the processor to a quad core and to upgrade the stock cooling kit, just money is tight at the mo as times are.

Feel free to add me on Origin/EA BC2: Ruiner89

Cheers. :)
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Have you tried unlocking the CPU to a quad core? I have the same CPU and have unlocked it to a quad core, and assuming you have a motherboard capable of unlocking it you have a good chance of success.

I very much doubt you will be able to run it on anything but the low to medium with your current setup. If BC2 is anything to go by a quad core is needed for high settings, and you're graphics card isn't all that strong either.
 
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That footage reminds me of bad company which I thought was great apart from the console control fiddliness
So will I get a double barrel shotgun to fire at some point, that was always my favourite for putting an absolute end to anyone in your way

Putting the flags anywhere near the edges of the map would be a negative. Ideally you never want players constricted or directions limited by false boundaries
 
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LOAM said:
Imagine the bomb carnage in that middle if ff is on.
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There are no "Dumb" bombs, only smart bombs. Presumably you have to either lock on to a target or co-operate with infantry on the ground who are using their laser designators.

No BF2 style carpet bombing on bases/flags.
 
WingZero30 said:
I guess with flags pretty close together, it will be an explosive scenario :p

You will have a large amount of infantry fighting each other in the central area. Couple this with tanks, uav and fighter jets thrown in the mix, and it will be a devastating central region, while the rest of map is quiet and where only wind can be heard :p

The other possibility is that with everyone attacking each other at close range, ground targets will be an easy picking for jet fighters
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Aha. Might even help thwart snipers sitting off, at the edges of maps?
 
WingZero30 said:
The caspian border actual width/length is 1.4km

http://thesimgamer.com/2011/09/08/b...r-map-length-trailer-ultimate-destructablity/

https://twitter.com/x/status/109134213659377664

Is this big enough?
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That Caspain border map looks to me like the full map scaled down to a 16-20 man map size,the bigger full size variants will have more capable flags just like the maps in BF2,a good example is Daquing Oilfiields in BF2
http://wiki.bf2s.com/maps/battlefield-2/daqing-oilfields

3 different sizes, i reckon Caspian will be the same.
 
TallPaul_S said:
There are no "Dumb" bombs, only smart bombs. Presumably you have to either lock on to a target or co-operate with infantry on the ground who are using their laser designators.

No BF2 style carpet bombing on bases/flags.
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Hohoho what could possibly go wrong.
 
crackerman said:
Have you tried unlocking the CPU to a quad core? I have the same CPU and have unlocked it to a quad core, and assuming you have a motherboard capable of unlocking it you have a good chance of success.

I very much doubt you will be able to run it on anything but the low to medium with your current setup. If BC2 is anything to go by a quad core is needed for high settings, and you're graphics card isn't all that strong either.
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It was a friend which put this PC together, and he said it wasn't possible for this CPU.

That's a real bummer, looks like another thing to add to my ever growing list of upgrades to get. I'll be getting some money which will fix this PC up, just uncertain when.

I also run BC2 at full. So was hoping to get away with at least medium settings for BF3 in the mean time.
 
crackerman said:
I very much doubt you will be able to run it on anything but the low to medium with your current setup. If BC2 is anything to go by a quad core is needed for high settings, and you're graphics card isn't all that strong either.
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It's that kind of talk that made me upgrade to a new everything, apart from the case and PSU. I have a quad core with GTX 560Ti coming from OCUK on Tuesday. Bad timing I know, because I have early access, but I wanted to wait until specs came out, and I will be able to enjoy good graphics at some point this week if my build goes OK.

For those interested, I bought this lot:
Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler
 
skymook said:
It's that kind of talk that made me upgrade to a new everything, apart from the case and PSU. I have a quad core with GTX 560Ti coming from OCUK on Tuesday. Bad timing I know, because I have early access, but I wanted to wait until specs came out, and I will be able to enjoy good graphics at some point this week if my build goes OK.

For those interested, I bought this lot:
Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler
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It's a damn shame people don't do research before they splash out :(
 
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