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Guru said:
3.7GB patch!!! Glad it's only going to be 4 minutes to download or I'd be gutted :P

Does anyone know if the ultimate unlock bundle covers this expansion too?

Thanks,

G
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To answer my own question... NO the ultimate unlock bindle does NOT cover the new vehicles.

In fact it's complete **** and I regret using it! (EA gave me a code as compensation for getting hacked)

It's changed ALL of the guns that I had spent hours unlocking so that they no longer say like 5000/5000 points as blah or anything, they now all just say shortcut!

Basically it's not unlocked anything I didn't have apart from about 2 co-op guns and it makes my whole battle log look like **** :mad:

Pretty dissapointed, I asked if they could revert it back to before I used to code and they said no. Wish I had sold/given it to someone who needed it.
 
Is anyone else getting terrible FPS? I had to drop from high to medium for a smooth framerate in the last expansion and now in order to get 50-60+ constant in AK I need to put everything on low.

I'm on a 2500K, 8Gb RAM and 2Gb 6950. Surely this isn't right?
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Is anyone else getting terrible FPS? I had to drop from high to medium for a smooth framerate in the last expansion and now in order to get 50-60+ constant in AK I need to put everything on low.

I'm on a 2500K, 8Gb RAM and 2Gb 6950. Surely this isn't right?
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Nope. I'm on a 2500k, 8gb ram and a 1gb 5850 and I can run it on high, with no MSAA, medium shadows and post AA on high (FXAA injector) at 1440p with fps consistently in the 50s and higher
 
ak22 said:
Love these maps!!! Finally some real BF maps :D
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That's very much how I felt last night.

I love the mountain map. It feels huge when you're trying to get around, and I like that it's really broken up and not one big flat open map with buildings on it.

Also really like Bandar Desert. Good place to get in some practice with the mobile artillery.

I generally suck on all the new maps, so I'm trying to keep up with the learning curve and get some tank destroyer unlocks! I can safely say I am awesome with the gunship though, much to the dismay of many of the 247 chaps last night :D The main canon is awesome, but the other gun is pointless with pretty much everyone in a heavy vehicle. You get the odd jeep/buggy/inf target or a heli to pop a few off at, but the big gun is where it's at. It's too tempting to spend the round in the gunship when I should be unlocking vehicle perks!
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Is anyone else getting terrible FPS? I had to drop from high to medium for a smooth framerate in the last expansion and now in order to get 50-60+ constant in AK I need to put everything on low.

I'm on a 2500K, 8Gb RAM and 2Gb 6950. Surely this isn't right?
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I posted further up mate a similar issue, i have had no issues with the original maps as well as CQ. I had a few drops with B2K but as for AK i get drops to arounf 48-50fps which all be it is not that low its the actual drop that makes it feel really choppy. Im sure if i set a framerate lock to something like 48fps it would feel ok. Im using a custom setup with everything on high except shadows on medium, no AO or Post AA or anything else like that. I am going to try upgrading to the latest 12.8 drivers though as im still running 12.3 on my 7850
 
I like this expansion, I really do. However, as a total infantry player there really isn't enough in it (with the exception of Bandar along the street where there's multiple houses and flags) to warrant me continuing to play it extensively - it quite literally doesn't give me enough points to keep up my SPM - sitting in a tank for 3 minutes to get somewhere before engaging the enemy is incredibly boring.

Not that I'm a CQ player either - those maps are just ridiculous COD style idiocy of the highest order - the 64 player vanilla maps are easily the best of this game - why could they not have created even 1 map in this expansion that had the vehicle focus AS WELL AS the infantry involvement of say, Caspian, Firestorm or Kharg?
 
liamcrane said:
I posted further up mate a similar issue, i have had no issues with the original maps as well as CQ. I had a few drops with B2K but as for AK i get drops to arounf 48-50fps which all be it is not that low its the actual drop that makes it feel really choppy. Im sure if i set a framerate lock to something like 48fps it would feel ok. Im using a custom setup with everything on high except shadows on medium, no AO or Post AA or anything else like that. I am going to try upgrading to the latest 12.8 drivers though as im still running 12.3 on my 7850
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I run 2560x1600 on a single GTX580, and in every other map I can get around 65/70FPS - this sucker I'm closer to 55. Definite performance hit, and no mistake.
 
played a little A.K last night - just a couple of rounds on bandar

it was rubbish

all it takes is a couple of guys on the other team who are good pilots and its insti death all round

I was getting strafed by a pilot within 10 seconds of spawning no matter where on the map I appeared, go on foot get blown up, get in a tank get blown up, get in the ac130 get blown up

not fun :(

ill try again tonight
 
Updated to the latest and greatest BIOS. Still freezes at exactly the same point. Really cant understand it. I think I am just going to have to realise that i cannot play BF3 on this system :-(
 
setter said:
There is a bit of destruction, but it's a lot lower in scale than what was possible in bc2. Ie, bring a whole building down on people for destruction kills.
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You can do that in BF3, but the problem is that there is only certain types of buildings that do it.

But even then, the ones that don't "fall down" can have all their walls blown off removing all their cover.
 
HAd a quick game last night and thoroughly enjoyed the epicness of the new maps. Really happy with what Dice have done with these. About time too.

Now I need to learn how to fly a bit better.
 
Been watching a lot of rush gameplay videos and the defenders just get steam rolled (actually feel sorry for them :p), in nearly all the videos that I have watched, I have noticed that in chat it always says "please balance the teams", "balancing teams in 3 seconds", the AC130 just rapes the ground, not a wonder people rage quit.

Search for this video on youtube (can't link due to swearies) "BF3| Battlefield 3 "Nerf the Gunship in Rush?" (AC130 Armored Kill PC Gameplay/Commentary)", the guy sums it up perfectly.
 
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