Battlefield 3: New Video

[iddqd]

Welp, that ends the beta for me. I refuse to play operation metro.

[Buckeye]

I mean there is going to me no more maps at all ?

This is a 2 map pony, Metro and the other one ?

[Particle]

Caspian wasn't supposed to be a widespread public demonstration anyhow. There's no reason to get upset over losing something you didn't initially expect and weren't supposed to have in the first place.

[nullface]

I mean there is going to me no more maps at all ?

This is a 2 map pony, Metro and the other one ?

You mean a 1 map pony, Metro and nothing !

[DesertFox]

I mean there is going to me no more maps at all ?

This is a 2 map pony, Metro and the other one ?

It's a free beta that they are using mainly to test server loads and battlelog.

The actual retail game that you pay for though, ships with 10 maps and if you preoder it you get 4 free maps later, so 14 maps in total is pretty damn good, by the way Caspian Border was out of this world, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun playing a map, probably suez canal back in bf2142.

[phantomferrari]

after years of trying to get my friend to switch from the xbox to the pc he saw the pc videos of operation metro and told me to build him a gaming computer. after seeing casbian border video on the computer he is giving more money to build it

[DesertFox]

An in-depth look at the features and functionality of the free social platform Battlelog. Battlelog will change the way you play, track your stats, and interact with your friends in Battlefield 3.

[[XC] hipno650]

is anyone else having issues logging into Origin? I can't login or create a new account. everything seems to be "unavailable"

[Olivon]

We are restarting the Xbox 360 Servers first, following PlayStation 3 and also PC to follow.
We´re terribly sorry for the inconvenience

Nice to see PC on the last position

[Hornet331]

An in-depth look at the features and functionality of the free social platform Battlelog. Battlelog will change the way you play, track your stats, and interact with your friends in Battlefield 3.

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[El Mano]

Nice to see PC on the last position

Yes, because it is a PC-first game

[UNTAMED]

It's a free beta that they are using mainly to test server loads and battlelog.

The actual retail game that you pay for though, ships with 10 maps and if you preoder it you get 4 free maps later, so 14 maps in total is pretty damn good, by the way Caspian Border was out of this world, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun playing a map, probably suez canal back in bf2142.

-loved that map put most of my 750 hrs there.

[ClockZ]

Beta was running pretty ok for me for last couple days but all the sudden it won't join a server, says loading and then initalizing and then just goes away and does nothing?? I can get past the little bugs no biggie, but not being able to join a server and then not being able to bind to the mouse ect. is just silly........they will get it fixed though I'm sure. There is quite alot I do like about it as well so not hatin just sayin.

[JasonDTM]

PC users are going to pay for this abortion throw out by EA?

[Devil_Dog]

PC users are going to pay for this abortion throw out by EA?

Troll much...

[Mechromancer]

Runs smooth on Ultra (whatever that equals to atm) at 1920x1200 with two 6950@6970 and a 1090t @ 4.2ghz. Nice to see good load on all CPU cores as well

A good load on all six CPU cores? YIPPEE! (This is the only time I will ever say or type yippee for the foreseeable future)

[Spawne32]

PC users are going to pay for this abortion throw out by EA?

please, enlighten us.

[JasonDTM]

Wasn't trolling, new generation combat FPS suck pretty hard... Now if it could live up to the awesomeness known as Desert Combat, then maybe I'll give it a look. I hate how people ride a beta like it's the greatest thing ever.

[Hornet331]

Holy crap.. dice totaly ed up the squad system... confirmed that you will have no option to change to a specific squad in game.. srsly whats wrong with dice... they had a proven and working squad system in the last view battlefield games.. they throw it out try to replace it with sam social crap (aka battleblog) and utterly fail... WTH....

Caspian gave me hope... but this is ridiculous...

[RaZz!]

An in-depth look at the features and functionality of the free social platform Battlelog. Battlelog will change the way you play, track your stats, and interact with your friends in Battlefield 3.

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ok, do i get this right that even the singleplayer campaign is started from battlelog? wow, so when ea has problems with battlelog or when battlelog for bf3 is shut down one day i won't be able to play the singleplayer anymore?

other than that, i actually like battleblog and how i join servers. i mean, in bf2 or bc2 i always played on my favorite servers. most of the time these were full and i had to wait for one slot to become free. so i always sat infront of the effing server browser for like 5-10 mins. now with battlelog, it's way easier to check if the server is full - just continue surfing the web and leave the battlelog tab open so you can have an eye on your favorite server and join at the right time.

about the beta itself:
well, the map metro sux balls. unfortunately, i had no chance to play caspian border and now it looks EA/DICE shut down servers with this map. too bad and in general, i don't know. the game feels weird. i really thought it would be impossible to cripple the clumsy movement and feel of the bf games even more, but it looks like bf3 just did exactly that. additionately, spotting an enemy is like searching a needle in a haystack - most of the time when i get killed i don't have the slightest of an idea where that killer came from...
and what about the squad system? well, you can't even call this pos "squad system" - disappoinment for sure regarding this one.

grmpf, dunno what to think about bf3. from what i've seen so far in trailers etc i thought the beta would blow me away, but the only thing i can say about 2 hours of playing is "meh ". i get the feeling that the player of the game loses control of anything in the game more and more. the older the game, the more you could tweak and control (e.g. squads, settings etc.). now you just click "join" and for almost everything else it's sink or swim.

[Hornet331]

Well they call that "stream lining" or how DICE calls it "lowering the threshold" normal people call it dumping down...

If they would design supermario today you would get infinit lives and checkpoints every second screen...

[DesertFox]

ok, do i get this right that even the singleplayer campaign is started from battlelog? wow, so when ea has problems with battlelog or when battlelog for bf3 is shut down one day i won't be able to play the singleplayer anymore?

other than that, i actually like battleblog and how i join servers. i mean, in bf2 or bc2 i always played on my favorite servers. most of the time these were full and i had to wait for one slot to become free. so i always sat infront of the effing server browser for like 5-10 mins. now with battlelog, it's way easier to check if the server is full - just continue surfing the web and leave the battlelog tab open so you can have an eye on your favorite server and join at the right time.

about the beta itself:
well, the map metro sux balls. unfortunately, i had no chance to play caspian border and now it looks EA/DICE shut down servers with this map. too bad and in general, i don't know. the game feels weird. i really thought it would be impossible to cripple the clumsy movement and feel of the bf games even more, but it looks like bf3 just did exactly that. additionately, spotting an enemy is like searching a needle in a haystack - most of the time when i get killed i don't have the slightest of an idea where that killer came from...
and what about the squad system? well, you can't even call this pos "squad system" - disappoinment for sure regarding this one.

grmpf, dunno what to think about bf3. from what i've seen so far in trailers etc i thought the beta would blow me away, but the only thing i can say about 2 hours of playing is "meh ". i get the feeling that the player of the game loses control of anything in the game more and more. the older the game, the more you could tweak and control (e.g. squads, settings etc.). now you just click "join" and for almost everything else it's sink or swim.

You make a very good point about battlelog, one I hadn't really thought of, it is indeed nice to surf the web or whatever instead of wasting time ingame, that's huge plus for battlelog and on release you will be able to queue for your favourite server from the web, so you won't even have to check that's huge imo. Obv you can give the server link out in im messages too or on a forum.
In some respects you are right about clumsy movement, especially trying to jump through windows or over weird obstacles, in some cases on metro though it's simply some bug slowing down the ground or glitching, also trees sometimes turn into invisible obstacles that can be hard to get past, again mainly bugs, but now you can strafe left or right while running, that's huge for bf.
Again about the squad system, it's totally fine, it's simply not been added to the beta, in retail you will experience normal squad joining voip etc.
New things change etc takes time, I played the alpha so I'm destroying ppl only still getting used to the game.
Also realise this is a map, Caspian Border is a true battlefield map, and it was totally mind blowing for me, obviously it's very different. for a start there is almost every vehicle, jets and helicopters, giant masts you can climb up and snipe or us anti air missles from and a large sprawling map, flag placement is quite good too.

[Hornet331]

Or you know they could create a decent ingame/outofgame server browser... Look at steam I can join any valve game(or game that uses steam works) form out the game (automatically with autojoin) or in game. It slim, its fast only offers the necessary option without any gimicks.

I already have to use origin... so why EA doesn't have set up a serverbrowser infrastructure with it, they could use that for all upcoming games...

Instead I have to start origin, start a browser, run a browser pluging to finally start the game.. thats just a fail in my book...
Yes the old server browsers in BF where crap, but that doesn't mean the have to make it even worse when there are good systems out there. If they would have copyed valves system I would have been satisfied. Instead we get that abomination called battleblog...

[SBB]

Operation metro is awful, but I didnt get chance to play Caspian border

[Buckeye]

additionately, spotting an enemy is like searching a needle in a haystack - most of the time when i get killed i don't have the slightest of an idea where that killer came from...

Well I thought this was just me as I am a total noob at these types of games. But yeah I find it very hard to even find the enemy to shoot and pretty much don't even know what hit me half the time. Been spawn camped often also.

There is an orange marker thing over enemy which is pretty hard to see for me. I guess I should hit Q to spot enemy ?
But I see many that do not have the marker and just jumping around in the shadows or something. Hard to hit them but I shoot em anyway LOL.

I am slowly learning whats going on but without a online manual or something I can refer to I find learning what I should be doing pretty slow going.

Battlelog doesn't bother me much and I find it pretty simple to use. Seems a few games are going this route like D3 requiring internet connection in order to play it so this might be the way things are going to be for a lot of games. This doesn't really bother me all that much as a lot of games I play are online games so no internet no game, this doesn't happen much to me tho. and when it does I have plenty of other things I can do.