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Battlefield 3 - first ingame footage
Topic Started: Friday Feb 25 2011, 10:44 AM (3,268 Views)
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I have Origin, i think my username is zero9ine, ill have to check.

Its not too bad origin, you don't need it running to actually play any of the games, or at least not with BFBC2 i run that through steam for the interface popups.

I think theres new beta drivers higher than those linked (although could be the same), i noticed it popped up last night asking me to download them. 38% increase is pretty big, but could be just hype.
Sometimes you can get some beta drivers from guru3d.com too of unreleased or modified drivers.

I've got teamspeak and Ventrillo, not sure if we'd need a server though perhaps.. usually Necris and myself use Skype since its pretty clear the conversations through that if not better than vent/teamspeak.


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I'm easy for any team speak program, teamspeaks the only one i've used so if there's anything better let me know. I'll have to check to see what I am on origin, pretty sure it'll be SSBLITZ BLACK in some shape or form
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http://www.battlefield.com/au/battlefield3/1/beta

If you have Origin installed it will show up within that on the 29th.

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Early Access for the Battlefield 3 Beta goes live tonight for eligible customers and the Open Beta goes live for everyone Thursday night. For more info check out the attached link.

Also I am posting live updates on our Twitter feed right now and throughout the week on the BF3 beta and FIFA 12.

Follow the conversation here - http://www.twitter.com/EA_Australia


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Battlefield 3 Beta – Try the new shooter from DICE before everyone else
www.battlefield.com
The Battlefield beta begins on September 29TH for XBOX 360, Playstation 3, and PC. This is your chance to play the award winning shooter from DICE before it is available for sale.
Edited by JAMSIN, Tuesday Sep 27 2011, 02:01 PM.


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Fuck. Will spend all night downloading Thursday night and then I'm away all weekend for our footy trip.....ohwell, I guess if I'm feeling alive Monday when I get back I'll get a chance to give it a whirl, plus i have tuesday off which may give me a chance to play unless I'm having to make up on daddy time due to my weekend getaway
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Tuesday Sep 27 2011, 12:43 AM
Theres a PC requirements check at the GeForce Page
This only checks your GPU. which anyone can guess this anyway.


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Ah.....maybe i should have read/checked it b4 linking. Only paid attention to the 'Is your PC Ready for BF3?' - Check Now.
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Oh and i am SSBLITZ_BLACK in Origin
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Yay got my 48 hr early access to play.

its 3.9GB.
Edited by JAMSIN, Tuesday Sep 27 2011, 09:57 PM.


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OMG EA who the fuck invented this idea of the open beta...

1. download the game
2. install.
3. click to run
4. pops up your browser and logs into bF3 website and soldier stats
5. click quick match
6. popup asks to install browser plugin
7. download... wait, install
8. click game to play
9. go to step 4.
10. go to step 5.
11. you are now in queue.. place held, click to start.
12. game loads.. crashes.. bf3.exe has stopped working.
13. go to step 3.
14. go to step 4
15. go to step 5.
16. you are now position 64 in queue....

17. .. Chances are this shit is going to crash.


When you create a fucking beta game seriously just make the game load via the fucking .exe file like most games do.
Edited by JAMSIN, Tuesday Sep 27 2011, 11:34 PM.


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Lol, beta fails at login. Well, I guess beta's are designed to identify bugs...

They'll probably have a scrum meeting about it and then put it in for a fix in the next sprint. Deliverable = being able to at least load the fucking game....
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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I think its prob just me, might be related to "spybot search and destroy" - the fuck out of your computer.
just removed it and will test again.

But the method of joining servers in the open beta seems stupid compared to doing it all in game.


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ok got it working... and its using ULTRA settings. and running smooth as.



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fuck this game is awesomely awesome.

So it runs smooth and played smooth on a 32player server, little to no lag that i noticed at all even at 490 on a US server.
I'd say I was getting well over 80FPS with VSync off but couldn't check as I didn't know the command so I was just guessing.

Anyway, gameplay is awesome, the sound, the level of detail, just seeing the bullets stream around the place and explosions, fog from the lake.
The downside I noticed was sniping, the glare/glint from the opposition sniping you seems way too bright and big it stands out like obvious from the other side of the map almost.
Though Im curious as to if I'm aiming down the scope it glints or if I'm carrying the rifle it glints regardless.

Still going to play some more tomorrow and see how it goes with the unlocks and progression etc.
Edited by JAMSIN, Wednesday Sep 28 2011, 12:42 AM.


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So I guess you had to sign up somewhere to get the beta...?

PS - what are your specs jams, I can't recall. Just trying to get an idea of what's needed to run ultra. What res are you playing at as well? (you know I'm a graphics whore when it comes to PC...)
Edited by felicitous blue, Wednesday Sep 28 2011, 12:51 AM.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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I preordered BF3 from origin so I got early 48hr access you guys can all get it on origin on the 29th.

Nvidia 560ti 2Gb ram
12GB Corsair RAM @ 2000-2200mhz
Corsair Force GT SSD
i7 3.3Ghz.
Asus Rampage III Mobo

Are my specs.

its running at 1920x1080, I might turn down some of the settings like blur.

Oh I'm using those new drivers too the beta ones you mentioned earlier.
Edited by JAMSIN, Wednesday Sep 28 2011, 12:57 AM.


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Cool. I should be ok then, pretty much the same specs.

I'll probably skip the beta though, get some time in on gow before the full release of bf3
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Awesome.........pure awesome. Loving the lighting effects. I agree with Jammers, the reflection of the scope can be a bit much or excessive, think it even happens whilst running as well from what i believe i saw someone doing. Might give Ultra a crack
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Actually my mistake I checked again properly this time.

The settings were all maxed on HIGH, the "ULTRA" that I saw i thought was a preset at the top of the list when I flicked through while playing (since you can't change stuff prior) I noticed the ULTRA was for the textures.

Overlooked that section briefly while in game.

In any case I doubt ultra would make much of a difference to be honest, as on HIGH with textures on ULTRA it looks great. So I probably won't likely check out ultra to compare until final release.. since it looks great to me.

Keybindings are a bit fucked with having no option to delete the binds if you want to use C for crouch (hold) and remove it from crouch (toggle) then it doubles up and won't remove it from one or the other, so i had to assign it to something on the other side of my keyboard.


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Got the offer to use the beta yesterday on xbox due to having brought Medal of Honour, haven't bothered to download it as I am waiting for the PC version. Didn't bother pre ordering through Origin as I should have.

If anyone wants to add me to their origin account, you have one guess at what my username is...
can you read this?
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If anyone wants to add me to their origin account, you have one guess at what my username is...
Martha_the_maid?


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