Battlefield 3 thread - Server details in opening post -

Gackt · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:30

Can you increase the download speed of Origin? It seems capped at around 60kb/s.

Strife212 · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:30

Gunplay feels way better than BC2 to me.

Gackt said:
Can you increase the download speed of Origin? It seems capped at around 60kb/s.

I was getting 1.5MB down (fast as I can get), and I saw earlier on in the thread people were getting more than that.

Neil79 · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:30

FOV

Is also stuck on 70

setter · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:30

Dureth said:
After a couple of games I adjusted and stopped trying to play it like BFBC2 rushing around like a n00b the difference was immense. Taking cover and working as a team to provide suppressing fire and bunny hop each other towards the enemy works!

Same here, in the alpha as well i tried to play it like bfbc2, changed to how i approach moh, very careful movement and use of cover.

WingZero30 · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:30

Gerard said:
Pilots are gonna love the fact that the engineer gets the stinger relatively quickly in this at least, 7000 score total for it to unlock and im at 5400 ish after a couple of rounds.

Be useless though untill caspian hopefully rolls around.

So Gerard how did you find Ultra setting on your rig?

Did you notice any difference graphically going from Low to Ultra, cause I didn't lol

StonedPenguin · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:31

FrenchTart said:
Why don't you worry about your oc when it's not going to stress you out?

Either way, quick checklist for you:

* Completely reinstall windows and drivers. Ensure it's not a software problem.
* Remove all the extra hard drives and other bits to ensure it's not a compatibility problem.
* Try overclocking just the graphics card and nothing else.
* Try underclocking the graphics card. Same result? Probably some weird overclock protection.

etc

Cheers

I do believe it to be a software problem so will go from that.

Thanks.

rippling · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:33

This is how game looks maxed everything ultra and full aa and hsoa
look fantastic to me

Textures are top notch ! and the lighting is spot on to me ..... and sounds great , few issuse as to why i can pump 3 rounds at close range into a guy with the shot gun and he then shoots me i die he runs away .....lol

Gerard · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:33

WingZero30 said:
So Gerard how did you find Ultra setting on your rig?

Did you notice any difference graphically going from Low to Ultra, cause I didn't lol

Yeah the difference is pretty large now, if you change settings you have to wait for the map to reload to actually see them as some of them don't get applied till then. Gonna try and grab a pic or 2.

Gackt · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:34

Strife212 said:
I was getting 1.5MB down (fast as I can get), and I saw earlier on in the thread people were getting more than that.

Lame. Like a blue chocobo.

ThomBassmonkey · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:35

I've just done a game and noticed a change of pace. It's slower but I can imagine it getting intese sometimes.

By the way, is that how all games boot up on Origin? i.e. via your browser? Because that's really annoying, why even make Origin a stand-a-lone programe if you have to go via the browser anyway?

cHk4 · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:35

Why do the names above peoples head keep going soooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying.

FrenchTart · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:36

FrenchTart said:
Impressions after 1 hour of play:

* Web interface rocks, though obviously servers are overwhelmed atm.
* In game settings changing is super annoying. Let us do it through the web interface ala Quake Live.
* Game feels like BFBC2 in hardcore more (a bad thing in my book).
* Hit reg feels extremely dodgy but possibly just down to the server I was on or lack of experience with the game.
* Destructible terrain is nerfed to hell and not back. Massive shame.

This will no doubt change somewhat after enough time to get into it properly but it kind of sums up my first impressions in the hour I played before going to the pub.

Just reposting this as I'm keen to hear what other people think. I'm sure people have played it a fair chunk more than me by now.

I'm coming at this as a decent FPS player that didn't really get into *any* army-style FPS games until BFBC2, but then played tons of that.

People are welcome to come out with "lol BF noob" (though I'm not - I played BF2 beta/retail) but if you do, please at least explain why

NathWraith · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:37

Ah my key has come through now finally! Cheers anyway guys

Just had to make space on the Revodrive for BF3, I did a system cleanup, had 14GB of temporary files

LeJosh · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:38

I despise killcam.

That's all I've got to say.

kablooey · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:39

Anyone else been killed by a floating corpse? lol I think I must have been one at one point, screen stayed blue after re-spawn and I was getting very easy kills...Like they didn't see me coming. ha :/

Strife212 · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:41

I prefer people dying fast, it was my main gripe about BFBC2 that people took forever to die.

Killcam annoys me a lot in this, mainly because it's too close to the player who killed you making the camera go crazy.

cHk4 · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:41

Game is unplayable for me because of the lack of names/symbols of people on my own team :/

Devrij · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:41

Hmmm, when I alt+enter it clips the corners of the screen like the resolution is too big, but it isn't?

_Jimlad_ · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:43

gosh been playing for a bit and just don't like it... im gutted, but hope it grows on me

Ginger-Menace · 27 Sep 2011 at 21:44

enjoying it more than alpha, gfx are really nice, shame my card wont max it all out, but i have everyhting on ultra except i got x8 aliasing and somthing else turned down a bit, getting about 40- 50 outside, and around 70- 80 underground, gfx memory is maxed out and its at about 70-80 c, wondr what it going to be link on large maps with aircraft!