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ganesh said:
Only just bought this game and have played a handful of matches, it seems that i've accidentally bought call of duty. The maps are tiny in comparison to bf2 which means the combat is far more intense and chaotic, this does not make it easy as a new player, especially with the skill advantage everyone else has. Usually by the time i've spawned and run around a little bit i'm dead, occasionally managing to take out the odd enemy.

I'm going to have to see if this grows on me as i really do not like call of duty style multiplayer, tiny maps with lots of players is not an environment that i enjoy. I love the epicly large maps on BF2, like fushe pass or dragon valley, even karkand or mashtuur 64 player maps were pretty big.
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U r likely to continue to be disappointed tbh. Try playing a B2K only server (assuming you bought the expansion too) and then u can play Gulf of Oman, Wake Island, Sharqi Peninsual and Strike at Karkand which imo are better than the BF3 maps.
 
The worst part is the scenery that is present on one persons screen and not on the others. Makes a complete mockery of an already broken cover mechanic. It was always questionable if using cover at all was worth it in BF3 because of the client side detection but that renders it confirmed useless.
 
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Is it me, or is the hit detection after this patch terrible? I had a game on metro last night and shooting some guy at distance and it was 'hit marker, hit marker, hit marker, hit marker, hit marker, oh he killed me in one shot'. I thought the fact it was server based would reduce this carp? It felt like playing mw3.
 
Thegoon84 said:
What card/cards would I need to run Battlefield 3 in full rez in eyefinity?

Currently have:

I7 920
6GB RAM 1866
5850
3XBENQ’S

Bare in mind i prefer to play the game on low gfx settings. Another 5850? Or two of these? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-269-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866
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I'd suggest u might want to go with something with more VRAM for trip screens. I'm not trying to reopen the 2GB VRAM minimum thread which has been done to death, but from my experience using crossfire 1GB 5870s on BC2 @ 5040x1050 I had to play with no AA or it was a stutter fest. I appreciate u'll play on low settings so perhaps this wouldnt be an issue but bear in mind that BC2 was way more optimised than BF3 seems to be. I sold the 5870s and monitors before BF3 came out so cant tell u how 1GB cards would perform.

Think u'd be better with a single 680 or 6950/70. Or if one GTX 580 can output to three screens then that would be a cheaper option.
 
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WeOwnTheSky said:
tell you what does ANNOY the hell out of me; being on a team that has no clue how to take out choppers and ends up being completely beaten by one. make my blood boil.
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Yeah is annoying, especially with how powerful the Havok now seems. It can just hover in spawn shooting stuff!
 
creed said:
I'd suggest u might want to go with something with more VRAM for trip screens. I'm not trying to reopen the 2GB VRAM minimum thread which has been done to death, but from my experience using crossfire 1GB 5870s on BC2 @ 5040x1050 I had to play with no AA or it was a stutter fest. I appreciate u'll play on low settings so perhaps this wouldnt be an issue but bear in mind that BC2 was way more optimised than BF3 seems to be. I sold the 5870s and monitors before BF3 came out so cant tell u how 1GB cards would perform.

Think u'd be better with a single 680 or 6950/70. Or if one GTX 580 can output to three screens then that would be a cheaper option.
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Any nvidia card below a 680 can't do more than 2 screens from one card. AMD cards however don't suffer from this issue. SLI would be needed on 5x0 models of nvidia cards for 3 screens sadly.
 
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