Author Topic: Battlefield 3 (Read 56443 times)

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #300 on:** October 23, 2011, 12:38:02 PM »

Why in the world are they shipping BF3 without the HD textures?

maxy · « **Reply #301 on:** October 23, 2011, 01:04:23 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2011, 12:38:02 PM

Why in the world are they shipping BF3 without the HD textures?

Dice did say that non hdd owners will have "standard def" experience.

HD pack is on disc 2(MP disc)

There is more,even if you install both discs on hdd you still have to install hd pack...if you want hd experience

Title update is coming soon too

drew · « **Reply #302 on:** October 23, 2011, 02:18:17 PM »

biggest install ever?

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #303 on:** October 23, 2011, 02:26:04 PM »

Quote from: drew on October 23, 2011, 02:18:17 PM

biggest install ever?

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Leaked images of early copies of Battlefield 3 installed on the Xbox 360 revealed the highly anticipated shooter is going to take up a whopping 15.5 GB of harddrive space. As everyone knows by now, Battlefield 3 is shipping on two discs for the Xbox 360, one for the single-player campaign and one for multiplayer. Also included on the second disc is an optional install for the high resolution textures available for BF3.

For those who choose to install these hi-res packs -- and judging from the screenshots you're going to want to -- you are looking at a 1.5 GB of space being eaten up. The single-player disc will install for 6.7 GB on the Xbox hard drive, while the multi-player/co-op disc adds another 7.3 GB install. Images show the day one update will eat up another 167 MB of space bringing the grand total install size on the Xbox 360 to a massive 15.5 GB. For those keeping track, this is actually 4 GB more than the PC version of Battlefield 3 which installs at 11.6 GB. In a recent unboxing video of the Battlefield 3 Limited Edition, it was shown that the PlayStation 3 version of Battlefield 3 will need only 2 GB HDD space.

maxy · « **Reply #304 on:** October 23, 2011, 02:28:41 PM »

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biggest install ever?

No.

Lost Odyssey and Rage take that crown.

chronovore · « **Reply #305 on:** October 23, 2011, 08:55:31 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2011, 12:38:02 PM

Why in the world are they shipping BF3 without the HD textures?

Quote from: Stoney Mason on October 23, 2011, 08:00:22 AM

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1.5GB on a standard DVD is sizable. You're going to see a lot more cross-platform games using downloadable packs to make up for the lack of storage, compared to Blu-Ray and PC HDD.

brob · « **Reply #306 on:** October 23, 2011, 09:16:05 PM »

"For those keeping track, this is actually 4 GB more than the PC version of Battlefield 3 which installs at 11.6 GB."

maxy · « **Reply #307 on:** October 23, 2011, 10:24:21 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on October 23, 2011, 08:55:31 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on October 23, 2011, 12:38:02 PM
Why in the world are they shipping BF3 without the HD textures?
Quote from: Stoney Mason on October 23, 2011, 08:00:22 AM
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1.5GB on a standard DVD is sizable. You're going to see a lot more cross-platform games using downloadable packs to make up for the lack of storage, compared to Blu-Ray and PC HDD.

The pack is on the disc.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #308 on:** October 23, 2011, 10:50:36 PM »

The answer is simple: The xbox 360 is a giant piece of shit so if you wnat to expect future great gaming expeditions then don't buy for that shitbag console

chronovore · « **Reply #309 on:** October 23, 2011, 10:54:40 PM »

Quote from: maxy on October 23, 2011, 10:24:21 PM

The pack is on the disc.

LOLLLLLLLLLLLL.

OK, it's just a texture streaming issue, then. Still. Wow. (lol)

maxy · « **Reply #310 on:** October 23, 2011, 11:22:54 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on October 23, 2011, 10:54:40 PM

Quote from: maxy on October 23, 2011, 10:24:21 PM
The pack is on the disc.

LOLLLLLLLLLLLL.

OK, it's just a texture streaming issue, then. Still. Wow. (lol)

It's on the disc 2(MP disc),so the size has some impact but this is primarily a streaming issue.Few months ago(2-3) their lead programmer said that they have big problems in making their streaming tech work on non hdd 360.I guess they ran out of time...

Pack contains not just textures,hi res meshes are there too.

maxy · « **Reply #311 on:** October 24, 2011, 03:05:04 AM »

Leaked score was fake,but the review was legit

Real review
9/10
http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1210387p1.html

more

GT: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/pc...field-3/722936
GI: http://www.gameinformer.com/games/battlefield_3/b/pc/archive/2011/10/24/review.aspx
Joystiq: http://t.co/1ZVyBO2r
Gamespy: http://t.co/tK7pb4Sg
http://www.1up.com/reviews/battlefield-3-PC

PC reviews only,console reviews should come "later this week"...i wonder why,hehe

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #312 on:** October 24, 2011, 05:48:46 AM »

maxy · « **Reply #313 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:43:16 AM »

Swedes are not pleased easily

http://www.gamereactor.se/recensioner/29619/Battlefield+3/
8/10

oh and

tweet from Dice "rendering architect"

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When playing #BF3 on Xbox 360, please do install the HD pack for high-res textures & meshes, that's how the game is meant to be played

heh

brob · « **Reply #314 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:51:25 AM »

Criticisms from Sweden include 'single player is lacking' and 'few proper, big multi-player maps'

At the bottom there is a second opinion from another dude who gives it 9/10 and echos the first dude's criticisms of the single player.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #315 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:52:02 AM »

i have gone from being indifferent to really looking forward to it

i started remembering all the crazy and fun times i had with bf1942, how with the bf games you don't have to be a killing machine to still have a blast playing

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #316 on:** October 24, 2011, 01:34:27 PM »

Does this game support Flight Sticks and is it still a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow race to who gets the jets first?

Herr Mafflard · « **Reply #317 on:** October 24, 2011, 01:53:16 PM »

you can bypass the release date check on boot by doing the following:

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Control Panel -> Internet Options -> LAN Settings -> Proxy server checkbox -> Advanced

Put this IP in the field provided (8000 is the port, but it should figure that out automatically)
Activate the game, then go ahead and turn off the VPN, all you are doing is tricking the authentication, battlelog seems to work fine.

220.118.19.148:8000

after authentication, you can revert back to old settings again

worked for me, playing the single player now

Vizzys · « **Reply #318 on:** October 24, 2011, 05:10:59 PM »

damn the pc download is 11gbs

anyway nobody should care about the single player for this game

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #319 on:** October 24, 2011, 07:42:09 PM »

single player isn't that bad.

I can run the game on all high at like 30 fps wit htextures on ultra. I think I might get a new video card, which one you guys reccomend

Vizzys · « **Reply #320 on:** October 24, 2011, 07:45:00 PM »

bang for buck id say radeon 6850/6870

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #321 on:** October 24, 2011, 07:50:19 PM »

i have a 6850 right now. I was looking at GeForce 560 TI. the 6850 is ok, I like it but I have some money to spend after winning a bet. Should I even do graphics card or go with more ram (4 gigs)? I just built this PC in february so I have the cpu that was before sandy bridge because it was recalled whe nI built it

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #322 on:** October 24, 2011, 07:51:18 PM »

why hasnt amazon shipped my game yet. why are you going this to me amazon?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #323 on:** October 24, 2011, 07:57:52 PM »

NEVERMIND IT SHIPPED

Vizzys · « **Reply #324 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:17:48 PM »

playin it~ thx korean proxies!

DICE/reviewers were not lying when they said the beta and this are like night and day

seriously, the weps sound a million times better. Explosions everywhere. The netcode isnt teleporty and shit now, etc etc

get hype

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #325 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:22:40 PM »

SO HYPE

FatalT · « **Reply #326 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:37:19 PM »

I'm picking this up tonight at midnight for 360 from Gamestop and trading in games to get it. I'll pick it up on PC when EA gets their head out of their asses and put it on Steam (when it's a weekend deal or Christmas deal for like 50% off

).

Shuri · « **Reply #327 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:41:06 PM »

god damn, those 320gb hard drives better come out soon! I'm running a 4gb slim + a random usb hd right now; its ghettotastic..

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #328 on:** October 24, 2011, 10:18:00 PM »

mfw Battlefield 3's jet level on the ocean starts

game is fucking gorgeous. I have it on ultra now and getting like 30 fps. its so amazin.g That level just blew my fucking mind. Couldn't get the multiplyaer to work though :qq want to use my flight stick.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #329 on:** October 24, 2011, 10:24:57 PM »

Quote from: Thomas Householmes Lane on October 24, 2011, 10:18:00 PM

mfw Battlefield 3's jet level on the ocean starts

game is fucking gorgeous. I have it on ultra now and getting like 30 fps. its so amazin.g That level just blew my fucking mind. Couldn't get the multiplyaer to work though :qq want to use my flight stick.

Tell me how the servers look when you get mp working.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #330 on:** October 24, 2011, 10:58:36 PM »

got into a game but started micro stuttering and didn't even get to kill anyone :'(

drew · « **Reply #331 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:22:37 AM »

Quote from: Viz on October 24, 2011, 05:10:59 PM

anyway nobody should care about the single player for this game

i care about the single player for this game, mw3 too, they both look bangin'

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #332 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:40:19 AM »

Picked it up at Gamestop. I've preordered games but never went to a midnight launch. It was much more organized than I expected. It went really quick.

Apparently the MP on consoles doesn't get turned on until 3 A.M. EST so I'll probably play the singleplayer tonight.

edit: or maybe not. I see people on my friends list playing conquest on Caspian Border.

2nd edit: on second thought they may be in a european time zone.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #333 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:58:05 AM »

any mp impressions, Green Man? I'm kind of tempted. I'd imagine I'd have to run it on good settings due to my cpu, which isn't a problem

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #334 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:58:45 AM »

Quote from: Green Man on October 25, 2011, 12:53:30 AM

When do the karkand maps go live?

Blogs say a month after the release of the game although I can't find that on the EA blog.

FatalT · « **Reply #335 on:** October 25, 2011, 01:40:39 AM »

So far it's been a blast on the 360. I played for about an hour and now I'm gonna install the disc for the single player and then head to bed. Woo!

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #336 on:** October 25, 2011, 03:46:44 AM »

Played for a few hours both some MP and SP.

The SP so far seems meh but I'm early. So far it takes a lot of cues from COD but much like MOH to me it puts it in a boring context and isn't as exciting as COD early in. I'll discuss more what I think of it when I get further in. On console the graphics are nice but it comes with a cost and that cost is a ton of screen tearing and a sometimes iffy frame rate. This is probably one of the few games along with crysis where when you play on the consoles you really see the limits of the console technology that is in place in stark relief. This is a next gen engine sort of running on last gen hardware.

The MP seems fun so far. Really big maps on consoles. I wish they had been able to bump the player count on consoles to 32 which would seem about perfect to me. Not really a fan of 64 personally but just a few more people would flesh it out more on consoles. Otherwise its really fun. The controls are better and tighter than they were in BC 2. Too early to sort of say what I like and don't like. Maybe tomorrow when I put a lot more time into it.

maxy · « **Reply #337 on:** October 25, 2011, 04:19:01 AM »

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As some of you may know, the general embargo for publishing Battlefield 3 reviews online expired at 8.01am UK time this morning.
Eurogamer and many other websites only received finished console copies of the game yesterday morning. Our reviewer signed for his at 7am.
There were a few reviews online yesterday based on the PC version of the game. When it became apparent last week that there might be a distinction between timings for PC and console reviews, we asked for PC code but were told none was available. We still haven't been sent a PC copy of Battlefield 3 despite being told it is the leading version.

Throughout the last seven days we've also been told that a day-one patch would be released early this week that was essential to reviewing the game. In the event it turned out to be 167MB on Xbox 360.
Under the circumstances, our review is not ready for this morning's embargo.
However, our reviewer was able to play the game extensively at pre-release hands-on sessions and has been playing pretty much non-stop for 24 hours with the patch installed, so the review will hopefully be ready later today.

Meanwhile, disks are on their way to Digital Foundry so that Rich Leadbetter can put together our PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 face-off for the end of the week.
We don't know exactly why we've been put in a position where we can't review the game at the same time as other websites, but we have asked politely.
We're obviously disappointed by the circumstances, but we don't harbour any ill feeling towards DICE, for whom we have infinite respect and affection, and we won't let any of this nonsense cloud our analysis of a game we're really excited to finally play.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #338 on:** October 25, 2011, 04:22:27 AM »

Yeah EA did a lot of weird shady stuff both in their marketing and in their rollout of this game concerning reviews. I guess they felt they had to play all these weird mind games to try to compete with Call of Duty and get that big upfront rollout but it makes them look very odd. Not that they especially care.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #339 on:** October 25, 2011, 05:49:49 AM »

October 25, 2011 05:30:00 AM Buffalo NY US Out for delivery

maxy · « **Reply #340 on:** October 25, 2011, 08:39:42 AM »

Console review(360)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-25-battlefield-3-review-review

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Shame, then, that the overall package is marred by a me-too campaign, filled with hollow bombast, and a co-op mode that feels undercooked.

Those who buy the game for multiplayer likely won't care that these elements aren't up to par, but what stings most is the thought of what DICE could have done to evolve and expand its multiplayer design skills if the mantra of "BEAT COD" hadn't been drummed so relentlessly into the development process. Battlefield didn't need to be more like Call of Duty to succeed, it just had to double down on what it was already good at. Hopefully that's a lesson that will be learned by the time Battlefield 4 roars into view.

8/10

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #341 on:** October 25, 2011, 08:43:00 AM »

Mine shipped from amazon but I didn't get their usual email alerting me to my $20 credit. Did you?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #342 on:** October 25, 2011, 08:56:59 AM »

Quote from: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2011, 08:43:00 AM

Mine shipped from amazon but I didn't get their usual email alerting me to my $20 credit. Did you?

i never get a credit. ever. i buy shit all the time from amazon. i have amazon prime. ffs.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #343 on:** October 25, 2011, 09:07:29 AM »

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If Call of Duty is Bridget Fonda, then Battlefield just became Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #344 on:** October 25, 2011, 09:48:25 AM »

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-battlefield-3/17-5134/

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #345 on:** October 25, 2011, 10:43:31 AM »

do any of you guys wanna be origin friends so I can have someone ot play with, i promise I don't troll in games

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #346 on:** October 25, 2011, 11:29:43 AM »

This will be my last post on the SP since its not really relevant to this package. Yeah COD has nothing to fear here on that front. EA studios just really struggle in creating those great setpiece moments and action to action levels that drive most fps games. My overwhelming feeling so far is boredom. It's just not especially fun. COD is all bombast and over the top and crazy shit. By comparison here I'm on prozac when I play MOH and this. To be fair MOH was better than this so far. Maybe Respawn will be able to teach the other studios how to design and create really fun stuff on the sp side.

If DICE is going to bother to stick a campaign in these games (I have no problem if they didn't) they need to find their hook. In the same way that the MP is different than COD they need to make their campaign different than COD. At minimum it should be 4 players for one thing. They should go for the squad aspect and really do something different because their current approach isn't working. That jet level is a perfect example. You keep waiting for the cool bit to ever come and it never does. It's like they focus on the boring part of a war movie.

That being said of course nobody in their right mind is going to pick up this game for SP but when you put something that mediocre in your game its going to hurt them in the reviews. They could have put in a 4 player horde mode as the campaign and that would have probably been a better use of time.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #347 on:** October 25, 2011, 11:41:33 AM »

My origin username is HondoCochise

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #348 on:** October 25, 2011, 11:42:36 AM »

i do not understand why it is downloading stuff when i bought the game on disc

wtf origin

wtf ea

wtf

chronovore · « **Reply #349 on:** October 25, 2011, 11:45:01 AM »

Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on October 25, 2011, 09:07:29 AM

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If Call of Duty is Bridget Fonda, then Battlefield just became Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Does that mean this game gets its tits out for Rutger Hauer?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #350 on:** October 25, 2011, 11:50:04 AM »

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #351 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:26:06 PM »

i wouldn't rate this game higher than an 8/10 just for the simple fact that you have to log in to a goddamned web browser to play it

what a bunch of bullshit

brob · « **Reply #352 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:31:55 PM »

Is that true for the single player as well? as in no off-line play?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #353 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:38:20 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on October 25, 2011, 11:42:36 AM

i do not understand why it is downloading stuff when i bought the game on disc

wtf origin

wtf ea

wtf

no different then if it's a steamworks game

demi · « **Reply #354 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:38:26 PM »

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on October 25, 2011, 08:56:59 AM

Quote from: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2011, 08:43:00 AM
Mine shipped from amazon but I didn't get their usual email alerting me to my $20 credit. Did you?

i never get a credit. ever. i buy shit all the time from amazon. i have amazon prime. ffs.

Cause they never give credit for PC versions. Loser.

Raban · « **Reply #355 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:39:48 PM »

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #356 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:42:06 PM »

I can't kill anyone in multiplyaer. It fucking sucks. Why do I have to be so bad,.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #357 on:** October 25, 2011, 01:20:14 PM »

man, this is a really pretty game

running high settings on an msi gtx 460 cyclone, getting anywhere from mid-70s to mid-40s fps, never drops below 45, averages in the mid-50s

might try ultra next just to see my sept 2010 purchase become slowly obsolete

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #358 on:** October 25, 2011, 02:57:40 PM »

this game is frustratingly shit in single player. You infiltrate a bank and at one point you and your ai buddy are standing on like a veranda. Your AI Buddy is literally standing and not getting hit or killed, nor is he killing anyone. The second you get up from laying ass up you get lit up and die. It's fuckign distinguished mentally-challenged.

UGH

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #359 on:** October 25, 2011, 03:47:26 PM »

anyone install from disc yet? it seems like it's going to download it through origin....

edit: nvm. origin was just being dumb

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