Battlefield 3 thread - Server details in opening post -

MoRT489 · 12 Oct 2011 at 19:51

Frapple said:
Yeah it's down for maintenance, should be up soon - keep refreshing!

Trollolol

no way that antenna falling is in game footage, it hit the plane! That's only ever gonna happen if scripted!

Lethagized · 12 Oct 2011 at 19:53

lee20010 said:
Is the beta up still?

No. It finished on monday afternoon

Vulcan · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:05

spiki said:
Not sure which is more desirable - physical warfare or the extra skins.

The T-rex dogtag is clearly superior to the above.

lee20010 · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:05

Lethagized said:
No. It finished on monday afternoon

Damn, I need a game to run my new rig on....grr

Explosivo · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:18

Woo!
they've removed spawn Immunity

roll on spawn rape

norm · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:23

Lethagized said:
That link is for Bad Company 2.

Yes I'm well aware of that, purely making clear the same key process will likely follow.

bJN · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:39

Explosivo said:
Woo!
they've removed spawn Immunity

roll on spawn rape

Thank Christ for that! Got so angry at unloading a clip into someone that had just spawned, only for them to turn and get me down in a couple of shots. Literally took the ****!

And the EOD bot is awesome! I had one kill using the blow torch on it, the other 10 were from doing road-kills on Metro with it LOL!

Aedus · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:44

zh1nt0 Daniel Matros
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@NoInGmeVOIPFail you can ask EA support to change it. Your origin id is your soldier name.

Enjoy it guys if you got stuck with a ****** Origin ID. Console players get their usual gamer tag, we get stuck with some **** we may not even want which support can blindly refuse to change.

So at release we:
Won't have a commo-rose, joystick support, in-game VOIP, the ability to change our soldier name, the ability to have multiple soldiers, advanced flight controls, battle recorder, spectator mode, mod tools.

I thought this was a sequel to BF2? *Sigh*.

chief barker · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:51

Explosivo said:
Woo!
they've removed spawn Immunity

roll on spawn rape

Rape?....I hope you're not talking about baserape?

Thinking about it I have seen you on BC2 baseraping on rush after the comms have been taken.

Obviously you were defending.

same name in game as this forum.

WingZero30 · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:52

norm said:
Yeah but you do get the legendary Dinosaur dogtag.

I bought the dogtags pack along with specact kit a while. With regard to dogtags pack, I assume the dinosaur tag will be included and I can choose it as my default tag?

RavenXXX2 · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:53

Aedus said:
So at release we:
Won't have a commo-rose, joystick support, in-game VOIP, the ability to change our soldier name, the ability to have multiple soldiers, advanced flight controls, battle recorder, spectator mode, mod tools.

I thought this was a sequel to BF2? *Sigh*.

No in game ping.

bJN · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:54

Aedus said:
Enjoy it guys if you got stuck with a ****** Origin ID. Console players get their usual gamer tag, we get stuck with some **** we may not even want which support can blindly refuse to change.

So at release we:
Won't have a commo-rose, joystick support, in-game VOIP, the ability to change our soldier name, the ability to have multiple soldiers, advanced flight controls, battle recorder, spectator mode, mod tools.

I thought this was a sequel to BF2? *Sigh*.

All bolds are confirmed that they won't be in the launch version of the game, but will be included in a patch.

Mod tools DICE will most likely not release, but they have moved their position from "Definitely not" to a more "Possibly but unlikely".

Soldier names are nothing to do with the game itself, it's EA and their gaming platform (Origin) that set that rule, not the game developers. This doesn't affect the game in the slightest.

As for advanced flight controls, elaborate? The only thing I've found that I don't like so far is the inability to roll the choppers, failing that there's nothing in else in terms of "flight controls" I could possibly want.

Aedus · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:55

RavenXXX2 said:
No in game ping.

Just another 1 to add to the list

spiki · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:55

What are the big river like for pre-orders? Do they normally deliver on time? Bought Rage recently from Shopto and it was a day late so inclined to give them a miss.

cyclonus10 · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:55

Explosivo said:
Woo!
they've removed spawn Immunity

roll on spawn rape

Spawn immunity?? Was there any? How long was it?
I seen myself spawn on a squad member and die within 2 secs. If it was even that long.

WingZero30 · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:57

cyclonus10 said:
Spawn immunity?? Was there any? How long was it?
I seen myself spawn on a squad member and die within 2 secs. If it was even that long.

This

Spektor · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:58

Moving / Shooting / Aiming instantly removes spawn immunity, otherwise its a couple of seconds.

chief barker · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:01

chief barker said:
Rape?....I hope you're not talking about baserape?

Thinking about it I have seen you on BC2 baseraping on rush after the comms have been taken.

Obviously you were defending.

same name in game as this forum.

Yes it was you. Running around shooting people in the back as they spawn in front of you.

Aedus · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:03

bJN said:
All bolds are confirmed that they won't be in the launch version of the game, but will be included in a patch.

Mod tools DICE will most likely not release, but they have moved their position from "Definitely not" to a more "Possibly but unlikely".

Soldier names are nothing to do with the game itself, it's EA and their gaming platform (Origin) that set that rule, not the game developers. This doesn't affect the game in the slightest.

As for advanced flight controls, elaborate? The only thing I've found that I don't like so far is the inability to roll the choppers, failing that there's nothing in else in terms of "flight controls" I could possibly want.

Things like this should be with the release of a game, but EA were all "Hurr we need to get it out before ME3 durr", EA really do just **** everything they can get their hands on, up.

Basically chopper rolling (For me personally) is 1 thing I miss which is 1 example.

The multiple soldiers and soldier name thing is just something so ****ing basic, it makes you wonder how on earth they managed to overlook it. It's because their system is so screwed up that if you register your alias before-hand, it's then not available to use as your Origin ID, so you can't have your normal alias because YOU'VE already used it. I wonder how a company can just be so ****ing dumb towards basic customer needs.

bJN · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:10

Aedus said:
Things like this should be with the release of a game, but EA were all "Hurr we need to get it out before ME3 durr", EA really do just **** everything they can get their hands on, up.

Basically chopper rolling (For me personally) is 1 thing I miss which is 1 example.

The multiple soldiers and soldier name thing is just something so ****ing basic, it makes you wonder how on earth they managed to overlook it. It's because their system is so screwed up that if you register your alias before-hand, it's then not available to use as your Origin ID, so you can't have your normal alias because YOU'VE already used it. I wonder how a company can just be so ****ing dumb towards basic customer needs.

Unfortunately I don't think we'll see rollable choppers due to the Frostbite engine. Same as it was in BC2. You can pretty much roll it if a jet unleashes its main guns into the side of you, unfortunately at which point you're either a) dead, or b) plummeting uncontrollably towards the ground, and death.

As you rightly said, EA have just pushed and pushed the developers to release this before Call of Duty's annual refresh, sorry, Modern Warfare 3.

The alias system that they use is perfectly justifiable in my opinion. It's a lot easier to keep track of ONE name on ONE account. My actual EA account has about 15 different names on it due to so many game profiles that I've used, I'm happy to use just one. Perhaps limiting it to your Origin ID is a tad harsh, that I do agree on.

Could have sworn when I was exploring Battlelog in the beta I saw something about selecting active soldiers etc, which hinted towards being able to have more than one per account. However I think it was just widely misunderstood to be able to swap between PC / Console accounts, rather than multiple PC soldiers