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Just me feelings:

I know its only beta and that i've only played two maps but currently I am just not feeling its a step forward from bf2 as such.

Graphics are more advanced sure but maybe too so for its own good. Seems to have a rather cluttered (not sure if this is the right word) visual feeling, making it harder work on the eyes.

A few things annoy me as well, although might be changed with unlocks or changes and some personal preference.

- Too long delay in shooting going from prone to crouch or standing.
- Jets feel slow, flying physics for both jets and helis a step back from bf2.
- Hardly any splash damage from gun on jet, gun on heli or heli missiles.
- RPGs and the like seem really slow.
- Sniper light glare too much.
- Light glare on the screen too much, especially on Caspian.
- Not being able to chat, exit the game or change weapon loadout/options on the end of game screen.
- Not being able to chat to all when dead (or so it seems).
- Having to deploy to change options.
- Spawning in on jets.
- Squad members spawning on me then pushing me around.
- Tank top gunner machine gun crosshair/hud looks pap, better in bc2 by far, same applies for heli front gun.
- No ping shown in server (unless i missed it).
- No join via IP. I know there are friends list now, but still handy.
- Web based server browser responsive, but would have prefered it ingame.


So apart from that all good :D

I do however like the gun sounds, and the way most hand held weapons handle.
 
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Ping not being shown might be added/fixed for full game. If I remember correctly, beta of bad company 2 didn't have pings displayed.

I might be missing something obvious, but after playing for a while now, how do you know which flag is being taken? On bad company 2 the flag markers blink on the minimap and the ones on the hud do as well. On this, the indicator above the minimap blinks, but the flag icons on the hud seem to do nothing :confused:
 
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greywolf said:
Graphics are more advanced sure but maybe too so for its own good. Seems to have a rather cluttered (not sure if this is the right word) visual feeling, making it harder work on the eyes.

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this is a good point because if we go back to the original bf games and bf vietnam etc...you could kill enemies and spot them from all kinds off distances.

Well bf vietnam had more foilage and trees and it worked very well.

maybe the new game is too much OTT with stuff in the environment that its quite off putting. Like Im looking though trees, benches, signs, walls and sometimes see a head pop out then dissapear etc...sometime just no idea whats going on lol

It really is almost a full real replicated world.

Anyway I wanna play bf:veitnam again
 
Prone is really starting to bug me, especially on metro, you're running along then suddenly stop dead, look down and theres a team mate half covered in foliage you didn't see.

Tons of people laying prone in foliage on the opposing side making them near impossible to see untill you receive a few rounds to the dome. And even then the killcam isnt much help as you just see some *** laying prone in foliage somewhere in a map with more than its fair share of it. We had bush wookies in bc2, now we have bush dwellers in BF3.
 
For those with an xbox or ps3 it would seem there is a BF3 tourney coming soon here with Virgin

http://virgingaming.com/tournaments/worldwide-conquest/

Personally couldnt care less but thought id post it for those that are geting it on that platform :D

Nice how they used the pc vid of caspian border for showing off their tourney lol

Hopefully they will do the right thing and have a pc one soon.
 
This game has wasted my day and night lol! Had to uninstalled can't wait for the real thing I just hope they add:

Smoke grenades (the ones you throw)

Increase the Squad size to 5-6

Make the gun sounds more unique

Let you choose your squads (view squads)

Improve the helicopter handling they feel to heavy/slow
 
Caspian Border is a bit of a bitch to get running smoothly, managed to sort it out, disabled AA ingame and forced it through RadeonPro, problem is, the map keeps crashing for me after a minute or so, so it's unplayable for me now.

Nvm, fixed it, rubberbanding a lot though and just been told to install the 11.10 drivers, as someone with the same setup as me is getting 55fps all on max.
 
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I was on morphine last night while gaming, A complete high!. However even though I was dominating the server, the game i feel is so damn good taking DG's tags was the best. Nothing better than coming beside him, grabbing him seeing his scared face while I take his tags.

Ak22 Didn't like my hax either :(

For some reason though even though at first the game was running nicely, the frame rates really dived out and didn't recover. Not happened before
 
Played this mostly on the 360 yesterday being a lowly console peasant. Had so may problems with stuttering and flickering and slow-downs on my PC that i just gave up.

Gonna try and see if I can resolve it today because the difference between the PC version and the xbox version is night and day.
 
I haven't played the beta but from peoples complaints I would say not to worry, the game still isn't finished. I reckon they still have another week to fix issues before release and then there will be a day one patch which will fix more annoying things. In any case sounds like the foundations of a good game are there.
 
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I haven't played the beta but from peoples complaints I would say not to worry, the game still isn't finished. I reckon they still have another week to fix issues before release and then there will be a day one patch which will fix more annoying things. In any case sounds like the foundations of a good game are there.
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It's a good game, they're obviously slight niggles in the game that should be resolved by the time the game is released, but it's not enough to dissuade someone from purchasing the game, unless you over analyse and are the sort to get all dramatic over a small issue.
 
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