Thread: BF3 thoughts

Originally Posted by HouseWares

Well, so far I'm bummed. Tried the Beta and was not really impressed with the game play. The graphics are amazing, but the game play didn't seem all the good. But heard some good things about the release over the beta, so went through a bunch of hoops tonight to get everything loaded, patched, reloaded, restarted, reinstalled, repatched, rebooted and everything else to get the game to launch... tried to start a single player game; the mouse is all over the map and it will not fire at all. Seems like the other controls are ok, but no shooting... what kind of FPS is this?? Tried to go back to BF2 to let some of the inital bugs work themselves out, and the video driver upgrade I had to do is now jacked my BF2 so I see big black holes all over the maps... Grrrrrrr.

Hmm... I think that's just you, I'm on a older patch of the AMD video drivers on my 5850 and it's working just fine. No glitches no spikes. I set my settings pretty much all high except a few things and no AA or Blur, runs fine w/ none of the "firing errors" you're getting.

I had mouse issues also turned out to be my joystick unplugged it and all was well. As for the game what little I played tonight I liked.

Originally Posted by Shinobi

Not trying to poke a hole in your boat, but SSD vs HDD, it's a small difference in BF3 IMO. Load times on my Samsung F3 1TB aren't even that long, 5-15 sec load times. Haven't tried Multiplayer but the mission loading times are really short.

I am just playing campaign ATM, and I think it's superb!

SSDs are AMAZING. By far the biggest performance improvement I have ever seen in a rig is switching to an SSD. Worth every penny.

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

SSDs are AMAZING. By far the biggest performance improvement I have ever seen in a rig is switching to an SSD. Worth every penny.

Lol, I didn't mean in the sense SSDs are useless, but rather a 64gb boot-drive SSD is enough and you can just store the game on your HDD. I just think you don't necessarily need a 90gb+ SSD, I think 64gb is quite alright. The saved 60 or so dollars is better spent on upgrading the graphics or CPU. Difference between a 6870 and a 560 Ti (Big improvement) or a i5 2400 to a 2500K (Overclocking)

Originally Posted by chray00

Just finished the campaign. Overall it was somewhat enjoyable, but the very last cutscene was plain fucking retarded.

Agreed.

I think everything went good tonight, had some small patches of lag, and a few server crashes but all in all pretty good for day one. game play was great once you get your mouse dailed in, and some perks.

I had lots of fun, even knifed a few people and got my flank on, IMHO the maps are great you dont see any of the bottle necks like in bc2 or bf2, but maybe its just cause people dont know then maps yet. you can always find a way around and flank a flank, can climb almost anything you see and there is plently of nooks and ambush niches. And if you find yourself getting pepperd you can always find some quick cover. theres alot of maps, and alot of digital miles to learn and play in.

i cant say enough about the gun play other then its most basic fuctions are spot on, its constant in respects of not being to "arcadey" like bc2. you know that orange juice called simply orange, well this is simply gun play.

Ts wasnt working all that well, but you know what it worked, and didnt work. but aleast if we need to rally some support for an objective it was there. with spme little tweeks its gonna be good if not great


anyways GG's

We really need get the squad channels on TS. With 20 people all using VOIP it gets a little crazy. Really like all maps except Op Metro, and when I say I don't like it I mean I FUCKING HATE IT! They really need rebuild the map from ground up, and it can't be anything like its rush counter part. Metro works for rush, but has no business in conquest.