Battlefield 3 freeeee

Invertigo · 29 May 2014 at 20:37

Is it just me or are EA's download servers absolutely awful for anyone else? Trying to download games, Origin either maxes out at 100kb/s or fails, whereas Steam is happily chugging away at 8mb/s

MarcLister · 29 May 2014 at 20:54

Invertigo said:
Is it just me or are EA's download servers absolutely awful for anyone else? Trying to download games, Origin either maxes out at 100kb/s or fails, whereas Steam is happily chugging away at 8mb/s

Ditto for me. See below. I'm at 57% now but it's going through a period where it'll work for a few seconds and then stop. It's currently going at 4.46MB/sec and going up but it can also drop to 50-100KB.

MarcLister said:
Not having any luck downloading the game. It does a bit then complains of a download error. Currently at 21% but it's stopping almost immediately so I'm not making any progress. Any ideas? I checked the Origin site which said to restart the client, which I have done.

4T5 · 29 May 2014 at 20:57

Pretty much flew down for me & I was downloading Payday2 on my PS3 as well as that was Free an all. :cool:

.

I remembered why I didn't like this game when I tried it on the PS3, It feels stodgy to me, I thought it was the PS3 version struggling to cope but it feels the same on my PC, I've turned every single option down to low but it still feels stodgy, It plays the same on High as it does on Low & I get no sense of impact with the kills.

Despite all that though I am still up for some fun, More so really as it's full on Arcade & we should all have a right laugh.

Rroff · 29 May 2014 at 21:00

Invertigo said:
Is it just me or are EA's download servers absolutely awful for anyone else? Trying to download games, Origin either maxes out at 100kb/s or fails, whereas Steam is happily chugging away at 8mb/s

Always been the way for me - except one of the recent big BF4 updates where I got 6-7MByte/s most of the time its struggling along between 100kbyte/s and 2-3MByte/s (which at the upper end isn't really struggling I guess) but steam its rare I don't max my line out - the new Wolfenstein game averaged a solid 9.25MByte/s over the entire 40GB download.

Wilko_Dog · 29 May 2014 at 21:27

Battlefield 1942 was the best bf game by a country mile...

Rroff · 29 May 2014 at 21:37

Wilko_Dog said:
Battlefield 1942 was the best bf game by a country mile...

Not sure about it as a game but my first introduction to 1942 was epic - jumped in completely blind spawned in a trench alongside a load of other people on the edge of a desert area just as 2 tanks appeared around dunes out in the desert along with infantry and hostile planes incoming on a strafing run on the trench.

Wilko_Dog · 29 May 2014 at 21:45

Rroff said:
Not sure about it as a game but my first introduction to 1942 was epic - jumped in completely blind spawned in a trench alongside a load of other people on the edge of a desert area just as 2 tanks appeared around dunes out in the desert along with infantry and hostile planes incoming on a strafing run on the trench.

That is one of the reasons it was the best ..

TonyTurbo78 · 29 May 2014 at 21:47

I can say only 1 thing.....WOW THESE GUNS IN BF3 KICK LIKE MULES

GBRusty · 29 May 2014 at 22:19

First map played on a new free account (mainly for guests to play alongside me) and first aim bot encountered. Vote kick was disabled so just quit the server and played another. Still plays so much better than BF4.
Currently reinstalling on my main pc to give it another go

(Oh and getting 16.10MB/s download speed)

Rroff · 29 May 2014 at 22:22

GBRusty said:
First map played on a new free account (mainly for guests to play alongside me) and first aim bot encountered. Vote kick was disabled so just quit the server and played another. Still plays so much better than BF4.
Currently reinstalling on my main pc to give it another go (Oh and getting 16.10MB/s download speed)

Not like BF4 is much freer of cheating - couple of new cheat releases recently though one of them has just been already hit by a new ban wave from PB.

TonyTurbo78 · 29 May 2014 at 22:32

did they do something to the visuals in BF3? Wow they look amazing, might even say better than BF4 lol. It looked nowhere near this nice on Xbox360 lol. Just playing through some of the Campaign, sorting out my keybinds the same as BF4 before I hop in on some MP. Played 2 games online, but my 2nd game I got a freeze.

pestt · 30 May 2014 at 07:32

Some great games last night. Admins were going mental banning hackers that were getting through punkbuster, poor sods!
Never have so many doorways been jammed with people too scared to run through them in Bazaar.

DJ_Bucho · 30 May 2014 at 08:40

Nice one, I've already got the game but now means a number of my mates can try it for free (still can't believe some of them have never played it, living in the dark ages or what, lol).

porushinobu · 30 May 2014 at 10:04

DJ_Bucho said:
Nice one, I've already got the game but now means a number of my mates can try it for free (still can't believe some of them have never played it, living in the dark ages or what, lol).

ive never played it

Defiance_co · 30 May 2014 at 10:10

You'll Laugh

dl'ed the freebie, thinking maybe make up for missing offer on bf4

Only to find i have the game tucked away with other games under my desk lmao

Lol

Sasso · 30 May 2014 at 10:21

TonyTurbo78 said:
did they do something to the visuals in BF3? Wow they look amazing, might even say better than BF4 lol. It looked nowhere near this nice on Xbox360 lol. Just playing through some of the Campaign, sorting out my keybinds the same as BF4 before I hop in on some MP. Played 2 games online, but my 2nd game I got a freeze.

single player was on a different graphics engine if memory serves correctly

think frostbite for MP and the SP was Unreal Engine x.x?

love the flying mission, sweetfx on that just looks amazing!

Ransom · 30 May 2014 at 13:25

mines downloading whilst im at work
never played any of the BF games yet

is it similar to the cod games?

Zethor · 30 May 2014 at 13:28

Ransom said:
mines downloading whilst im at work
never played any of the BF games yet

is it similar to the cod games?

Yes and better.

MrMarvelous · 30 May 2014 at 13:28

Yes and no. The aiming and movement doesn't feel as smooth, like you carry/have more weight in BF3 but the sounds and maps are amazing.

rids57 · 30 May 2014 at 13:28

will give it a whirl if it ever finishes downloading - I am getting constant failed connections with the download server and I'm lucky to get 1% between failures :mad: