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as a fan of battlefield 1942 i haven't played one of these games in a long time. this game looks amazing, and although i don't play fps much, if it's anything like bf1942's game style i think it's gonna be really fun. who's gettin it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsHIHxYXeLs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBu_tH8muq0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekDutunw1mk

ah yeah good ol bf1942, here's hoping it lives up to the legacy

and getting a new gfx card before release

i might get one too if i can afford it/need it

i love bf2 so i am excited fo it

yeah battlefield 3 looks sweet def gonna buy

battlefield 1942 wasnt that the little arcade scrolling shooter with airplanes?

Quote from: creamcornbattlefield 1942 wasnt that the little arcade scrolling shooter with airplanes?

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i might be getting a new machine before it comes out but i'll get it eitherway, id prefer with a new machine though so i can get the best settings possible out of it. I haven't played a battlefield game since 2 and 2142 which were both great fun.

I doubt I'd be able to run it on this computer, so I would have to get it on xbox unless I get a new one before then.. which I guess is possible.

Looks amazing though

all the computer games i play don't run on my friends computers

All the PC footage is from a very high end machine running DX11. EA and Dice have stated that the console experience will look noticeably shittier (not exact words). Don't get me wrong, I like the BF series, but I hate Dice and there is always 100 bugs when they release a new game.  Boooooo.

Quote from: fatbadgerAll the PC footage is from a very high end machine running DX11. EA and Dice have stated that the console experience will look noticeably shittier (not exact words). Don't get me wrong, I like the BF series, but I hate Dice and there is always 100 bugs when they release a new game.  Boooooo.

that's why i'll be playing it on the pc

I'll be getting it on a console because I don't have the money for a pimped out computer

looks nice, and I enjoy the other BF games, so it will probably be worth it

holy f the scriptedness of those videos kind of makes me worry that they're going for a "cinematic" experience-- i.e. linear, boring your 2nd and third time through

But yeah, those are pretty sweet videos


Also, for attempting to tout itself for being really realistic, those are ridiculously close engagement distances :I

Quote from: Thorholy f the scriptedness of those videos kind of makes me worry that they're going for a "cinematic" experience-- i.e. linear, boring your 2nd and third time through

But yeah, those are pretty sweet videos


Also, for attempting to tout itself for being really realistic, those are ridiculously close engagement distances :I

there's a difference between looking realistic and playing realistic

no fps markets itself as being a realistic gameplay experience because almost nobody wants to play a game like that, and if they did there's fan-made mods for stuff like that

and if the story mode is mostly cinematic it won't really matter since everyone buys battlefield games for the multiplayer

I'd rather they did away with the singleplayer and put more work into the multiplayer and also put in the commander mode because that's a pretty important feature they're talking about not including

i played 1942 for the first time in forever today god damn is it fun or what

it's not 'realistic', but it's authentic

in bf1942 i used to play that desert map, get a plane, do a looping with that and jump out when i was upside down, then the plane would finish the looping by itself right as im at its height, which is the exact time i would press E again to get into the plane and fly away happily like nothing happened


if that can be done in bf3 as well i will get it.

I've been a huge fan since the beginning, but my favorite by far was 2142. They're all great, so I'll definitely be getting Battlefield 3 for the PC.

bc2 sucked shit

tired of generic military shooters

everyone should get a cool aircraft simulator or something

something from the DCS series if you wanna be really hardcore and badass

play REAL games like starcraft

yeah a game with more than one color (usually white or brown)

the grahpics ???????

e3 footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPu7-LtLKmU
i will probably have to update my video card for this beast

i want to be excited for this game but i mean besides the first modern warfare lately ive been

Quote from: Tron Sawyertired of generic military shooters

so i dunno

it does look really pretty tho

looks anything but generic to me

if you want generic try call of duty

call of duty is still fun but this is probably going to be a lot better

i gave in and pre-ordered it

origin is gonna suck but you know they're never gonna change it

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

still contemplating if I should get it for PC or xbox. I know the PC one will be better in every way, but it'll have to be a on 14inch laptop screen. I feel like a TV would be able to handle the epic more efficiently.

I guess I should look at the system specs and decide

yeah it's the specs i'd be more worried about honestly

my laptop is pretty solid, but it probably wouldn't be worth using to play it on if it wasn't anything but the best (or close to it)

fuck origin

is all i have to say

bad company 2 was great, battlefield 3 looks great. i wish it was on steam.

also it's authentic rather than realistic.

i think everyone wishes it was on steam, even dice. but i realize that's never gonna happen and i don't wanna punish dice for a decision ea marketing made, so i bought it

i've heard a lot of people say that origin is actually sort of... benign, in a way

you can turn off individual features and stuff until you've basically stripped it down to just a launcher

anyways i must agree with sin's first post in this topic in that all these new modern warfare games look boring

we should all get red orchestra 2 instead

i'm amazed anyone could be bored by the bf3 trailers/bf:bc2 gameplay

ro2 looks alright, but i'm not terribly interested

we're bored because they're literally all the same thing ever since like medal of honor or whatever came out years ago

i miss games like doom, quake 2 and half-life which were all hyperactive and bouncy crazy

i hope the new tribes is good

also BC2 is just white

all of it

a bit like how doom 3 was all black

space marine is a lot more fun in MP even though its really hit and miss because of the shitty p2p hosting

if it had dedi servers and more maps it would kick ass

So apparently the beta starts in like a week.

I guess that'll be one way to test how it runs on my laptop and compare it the console version of the beta

Quote from: Sinitron on September 20, 2011 04:09 PM
we're bored because they're literally all the same thing ever since like medal of honor or whatever came out years ago

i miss games like doom, quake 2 and half-life which were all hyperactive and bouncy crazy

i hope the new tribes is good

i wouldn't know, before bc2 i hadn't played a battlefield game since 1942. the premise is the same, but i still enjoy it. i'm not sure what you mean by hyperactive and bouncy crazy, but the titles you listed certainly don't remind me of those things. a bc2 online match between two even teams can be pretty intense though.

Quote from: Sinitron on September 20, 2011 04:10 PM
also BC2 is just white

all of it

a bit like how doom 3 was all black

space marine is a lot more fun in MP even though its really hit and miss because of the shitty p2p hosting

if it had dedi servers and more maps it would kick ass

there are some bright levels, but there are also some set at night. it's definitely never near blackness though. i don't see how that's a huge deal though, unless recon had nightvision his class would be rendered near useless

you've never played any of them online then, because they were way more hectic than anything released in recent years

bc2 struck me as fairly slow-paced with a lot of footslogging, and it's also REALLY FUCKING BRIGHT in the desert and snow levels

it's not even so much that it's a bad game it's just not really that good and bf3 is going to be more of the same so i'm not going to bother getting it since it would involved setting up origin which isn't worth it for one game i don't want in the first place

on the bright side though they're actually TRYING to do something that at the very least looks slightly different unlike MW3 which is the same recycled garbage as past installments

i like how the EA guy was like "fuck you your game is shit" and the activision gay was like "uh let's behave like mature adults" but as it turns out the EA game is actually superior

i wasn't aware anyone ever played half-life online

i actually did play quake online quite a bit as a kid. it was fun but fairly basic as far as online fps goes. bc2 has a lot more variables to it, i find it more exciting and honestly less generic.

the only bad thing about bc2 is much like any other multiplayer environment for fps and that is the lack of matchmaking. it's fairly difficult to get into the game and find a server where you won't die every 2 seconds to level 50's who play the game 8 hours a day. you're kind of made to fend for yourself.

the fact that you think it's 'too bright' doesn't really play into the quality of the game, it's just a personal preference. the sun reflects off of sand and snow in the daylight, its' going to be bright. and sure, some of the maps are too large to run across but that's why there's vehicles.

afaic the generic war game series is call of duty, and the killstreak rewards is probably the dumbest thing i've ever witnessed in an fps.

Quote from: cipher on September 20, 2011 08:35 PM
So apparently the beta starts in like a week.

I guess that'll be one way to test how it runs on my laptop and compare it the console version of the beta

thursday the 29th

yeah quake didn't have cover, vehicles, or huge outdoor maps, making it more fast-paced and brutal

too bright plays into the graphical aspect of the game, in a desert or snow i could wear protective goggles and not get blinded

the maps that are too big also suffer from not having enough vehicles, when i played someone REALLY BAD would always get the chopper first and crash it

and no, cod, moh and bf are all long-running series with a lot of entries of varying quality, bf is just slightly more respectable than the rest of them

slightly? if you ask me bf series is a league above cod

nah not by much

bf3 will be better than mw3 though but mw3 will probably have a less nonsensical campaign if bc2 is any indicator

Battlefield 3 - Sneaky Sniper Multiplayer Gameplay (HD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MgQMoPwGwM#ws)

0:23

wait WHAT

Not sure what's weird about 0:23, aside from the tree falling (a common occurrence in bad company 2 and I'm sure in this game). Anyways:

Minimum System Requirements:

OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) 32-Bit
PROCESSOR: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz)
MEMORY: 2 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD AMD: DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon 3870 or higher performance)
NVIDIA: DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD ROM Drive

Recommended System Requirements:

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
PROCESSOR: Quad-Core CPU
MEMORY: 4 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 OR ATI Radeon 6950)
SOUND CARD: DirectX Compatible
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD ROM Drive

cipher you need to watch it again and pay more attention

(noob)

Quote from: Sinitron on September 21, 2011 12:45 PM
nah not by much

bf3 will be better than mw3 though but mw3 will probably have a less nonsensical campaign if bc2 is any indicator

if you think people play these games for the campaigns you're kidding yourself

well call of duty is hacker infested and battlefield sucks dog dick unless you play with an organized team of people so imho a decent campaign is the least they could do

you just join a squad if you're playing alone in bf, not that hard really

most people are buying the game for the multiplayer and don't give a shit about the campaign

Quote from: Sinitron on September 21, 2011 11:30 PM
well call of duty is hacker infested and battlefield sucks dog dick unless you play with an organized team of people so imho a decent campaign is the least they could do

I've played a TON of bad company 2. While the game is more teamwork oriented, claiming you need an 'organized' group to have fun is a load of crap honestly

sinitron hates every game because he thinks it makes him cool

nah he just has good taste

Quote from: billy on September 22, 2011 11:23 AM
sinitron hates every game because he thinks it makes him cool

"starcraft 2 is just a clickfest i've never played it" GG TROLL

to put it in the words of an SA goon, "battlefield isn't a game for pubbies", just playing with 4 friends in a squad and talking over teamspeak or skype is a vast improvement to the experience but since the rest of the team is still fucking gay and are too busy cramming vehicles up their nostrils to do anything useful it's still not really ideal

really, any game with more than one seat in any vehicle pretty much demands that you play with someone who has the same goals and objectives as you

sorta, but if the tank/av/heli pilot is good, they're going to take you somewhere where you're going to kill things. same with people in your squad - if they're fighting where the action is you can spawn on them and everyone can help eachother - be it with health, ammo, cover, or whatever.

if they're bad, then join another squad and don't get in vehicles they drive because they're gonna crash 'em. yeah, a bad player will be detrimental to the team, but a whole squad of friends who are equally bad is even worse.

bf multiplayer is fine for 'pubbies', just as long as you're a competent player. i play it by myself all the time and rank near the top of team lists full of random people i don't know and we win games through teamwork because the game is just designed that way.  you don't need to know everyone on the team to have the same objective, everyone already does have the same objective , and that's to win the fucking round. and most people are intelligent enough to know what needs to get done to accomplish that.

if your argument is that the game sucks without playing with friends w/ voice chat, then every team-based fps is exactly the same way. i can't think of one fps where it's more fun to play alone than it is with friends. but i still think it's just fine to play alone, and there's a system in place in the game to make playing alone easier to deal with (squads). team sucks? switch teams or go to another server.

Yeah sin, you're under the impression that 95% of the player base is retarded, but in reality it's basically the opposite.

Although there are some pretty shitty helicopter pilots out there

Quote from: cipher on September 22, 2011 06:42 PMYeah sin, you're under the impression that 95% of the player base is retarded

yeah, uh, newsflash, it's the same people who play every other generic military-themed shooter, except they have to tend to more complex tasks and as such their bullshit becomes even more apparent

switching squads, teams and servers all the time isn't worth the effort, i rarely saw any attempts at co-operation or anything that resembled skillful or tactical play

i don't even dislike the BF series as a whole but BF3 will probably blow  BC2 out of the water and still be marred by morons and faggots

i mean the hardcore BF faggots all stick to BF2 or are waiting for BF3, it's literally only the CoD-generation that's playing BC2

put in perspective, it's a bit like hardcore koreans refusing to switch to starcraft 2 because the balance is largely inferior to that of brood war (plus all the pros are huge crybabies)

Anybody get into the beta? If so, post your thoughts.

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Oops!

Thanks for the correction.

np duder :kirb:

played the multiplayer beta today. origin is awful, impossisble to find your friends on unless you sync it up with facebook/etc, which i refuse to do. also no custom avatars, lol.

but as far as the game goes, it's looking and playing great so far. my only quips are the animation on jumping over obstacles and this bug where this blue fade/slight blur doesn't go away once you spawn. you can get rid of it by going in and out of a menu sometimes. but often it will just hang with you for that duration of your spawn.

the subway level is really good, if you're on the defending team. i don't see how the attacking team could ever win on this map on the 2nd part, but i'm sure strategies will be developed on how to get to the charges.

also the game is very pretty. i'll get some screenshots later.

this game is fucking terrible it's the worst gay sex simulator ever there's tons of man asses everywhere and queer moaning but no actual penetration how is a faggot supposed to jack off to this shit oh well at least it copy-pasted graphics from modern warfare 2 i guess that's a boon i give it 3/10

well DUH i did try to warn you with that yt vid

here's two videos of me playing on, currrently, the only available map: operation metro. WARNING: i fucking suck at fps games. also i recommend to watch on 720p with the larger screen on youtube
bf3 operation metro p1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJs-lge6ho#ws)
bf3 operation metro p2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY64-oPW7s0#ws)

game looks cool. still uneasy about origin.

i don't understand why you need origin to play it. there's the whole overlay thing, but let's be honest, no one is going to use that. the game is launched through battlelog - a website with a browser plugin. but it requires origin before you can use it. it's redundancy.

as fantastic as the game looks, i really really don't want to sign up for origin. hopefully you'll be able to get it on steam at one point (i'm kind of hoping origin will bomb laughably)

Quote from: rtil on September 29, 2011 09:13 PM
i don't understand why you need origin to play it. there's the whole overlay thing, but let's be honest, no one is going to use that. the game is launched through battlelog - a website with a browser plugin. but it requires origin before you can use it. it's redundancy.

I'd be shocked if the final game was like that, so thus they require you to sign up for origin just because they can. They want more members and they know that without this game it will fail horribly

Quote from: Jon on September 29, 2011 10:25 PM
as fantastic as the game looks, i really really don't want to sign up for origin. hopefully you'll be able to get it on steam at one point (i'm kind of hoping origin will bomb laughably)

Even if Origin does bomb, I think it's pretty much been confirmed that it will not come to steam. Which sucks. I'm guessing this may also be for any future battlefield games as well(?).

yep. with EA in the picture, you can count on it never coming to steam. so if you want to hold yourself to that, you'll either have to play it on a console or not play it at all.

i don't really see the point in the boycott. yeah, origin is stupid. but it's a small piece of DRM that doesn't do much of anything except serve as a launcher for the game. steam does the same thing - only (big) difference is that steam is actually useful, for more reasons than can be listed. origin is obviously just for EA shit.

just a warning to anyone who wants to play the beta  - there is a pretty good chance that at the end of a round the game will just time out and it won't save any of your progress. it's happened to me in my last 4 games. i'm just gonna stop playing until they fix it.

So I tried it out on my laptop. As beast as my laptop is, the frames per second was a little low for my taste, although I made no attempt to change the settings from default, so I'll get back to that. It looks good on xbox, but I was hoping for a little better. Although generally speaking, animations and one of the most impressive things I've seen so far, that and just the general attention to detail.

The game handles a bit more like cod (as opposed to bad company 2), which was sort of a downer. Still seems fun though, but it's glitchy as fuck, you can tell EA wasn't really ready for this


Also that weird blue screen thing rtil mentioned happens on consoles too

at least BC2 is on steam

i'm almost considering playing it

you should

no, i SHOULD play more starcraft, and i SHOULD comb my hair

Quote from: Sinitron on October  1, 2011 01:54 PM
no, i SHOULD play more starcraft, and i SHOULD comb my hair

I'll settle for that then

Battlefield 3 - Official Beta Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABIyFYkJts#ws)

yeah pretty much

bugs in the beta who would've thought

True that. The only bug that actually ticks me off is the shaking/sinking one, but with luck that'll be dealt with before release.

nope

only one i've gotten myself so far is i got shot and "died", except i could still move around but my body was nowhere to be found. there was just a gun model and my screen was tilted sideways. someone put me out of my misery about 30 seconds later

In the console version there's a lot of stuff like this too, and a TON of screen tearing.

I know it's a beta and all, and so you can't really complain, but still. This is probably the glitchiest beta I've ever played in. It's not nearly enough to ruin the gameplay in any way, but it's something that should be noted. Especially when catering the console players, who are not used to betas and probably take it as more of a demo than anything else

unfuck battlelog and i'll play it

no vehicles in beta confirmed
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dumbshit island ftw

http://bf3blog.com/2011/10/report-ea-and-valve-in-late-stage-talks-to-get-battlefield-3-to-steam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BF3Blog+%28Battlefield+3+Blog%29 (http://bf3blog.com/2011/10/report-ea-and-valve-in-late-stage-talks-to-get-battlefield-3-to-steam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BF3Blog+%28Battlefield+3+Blog%29)

QuoteThe rumor says that Battlefield 3 would be available on Steam just in time for the game's release on October 25.

if this turns out to be true i will cancel my origin pre-order immediately.

Quote from: rtil on October  5, 2011 02:41 AM
http://bf3blog.com/2011/10/report-ea-and-valve-in-late-stage-talks-to-get-battlefield-3-to-steam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BF3Blog+%28Battlefield+3+Blog%29 (http://bf3blog.com/2011/10/report-ea-and-valve-in-late-stage-talks-to-get-battlefield-3-to-steam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BF3Blog+%28Battlefield+3+Blog%29)

QuoteThe rumor says that Battlefield 3 would be available on Steam just in time for the game's release on October 25.

if this turns out to be true i will cancel my origin pre-order immediately.

i fucking hear that

Quote from: rtil on October  5, 2011 02:41 AM
http://bf3blog.com/2011/10/report-ea-and-valve-in-late-stage-talks-to-get-battlefield-3-to-steam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BF3Blog+%28Battlefield+3+Blog%29 (http://bf3blog.com/2011/10/report-ea-and-valve-in-late-stage-talks-to-get-battlefield-3-to-steam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BF3Blog+%28Battlefield+3+Blog%29)

QuoteThe rumor says that Battlefield 3 would be available on Steam just in time for the game's release on October 25.

What if this whole 'not going to be on steam' thing is just a huge publicity stunt to get more people using origin

Quote from: cipher on October  5, 2011 03:28 AM
What if this whole 'not going to be on steam' thing is just a huge publicity stunt to get more people using origin

I would lose even more respect for EA

Keep in mind BF3 being on Steam will probably not affect the presence of the battlelog in any way.

i will laugh so hard if ea was just bluffing. i really doubt they'd go as far as making their own store and still release bf3 on steam though. if it comes to steam i'll get it, but if not i'll pass. stupid make or break but i just don't really care for pc games outside of steam. it's just... easier.

BATTLEFIELD 3 JET FOOTAGE (EXCLUSIVE!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bP8_Dmfbe0#ws)

lots of companies do that though.. like ubisoft. they have their own store and their own drm, but you can still buy their games on steam. it just makes sense from a sales standpoint.

Quote from: Gladius on October  5, 2011 04:31 AM
Keep in mind BF3 being on Steam will probably not affect the presence of the battlelog in any way.

i don't mind battlelog. i've had way more problems w/ origin.

Origin works for me except I can't find other people through the search function, it has no games worth speaking of and really reminds me of a bad crossbreed between Steam and GFWL. Battlelog, on the other hand, either finds games with horrible lag or doesn't find them at all (even when it pairs me with shitty russians and swedes), it won't let me pick servers to join by myself, and BF3 itself has a really queer start-up and will fuck up half the time. So yes, even if it is released on Steam, the shitty ass battlelog thing will mean it's more likely that I just end up playing Counter-Strike or some shit instead.

don't use the quickmatch, use the server browser http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/servers/ (http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/servers/)

they should just sell it for full price on steam and sell it $10 cheaper on origin

Quote from: Sinitron on October  5, 2011 09:59 AMit won't let me pick servers to join by myself

^ server browser doesn't work

that sucks. it works for me.. and quickmatch almost never does.

gonna start the campaign tonight, can't wait

an EA rep at reddit actually passed this on to DICE, i hope they fix it honestly, as well as the chat and post-death screen where you can't do anything
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I went to Target and Walmart today, this game sold like hotcakes with icing from the proverbial vagina of Athena.

Today I was playing multiplayer and was owning with a shot gun. I was at a 40some kill streak, at which point I realized I was glitched out and couldn't actually die. So I just ran around and let people knife me and then eventually committed suicide, which seemed to fix it. I then proceeded to die 5 times with no kills then the game ended. Final score was around 49 kills and 12 deaths.

good times

wtf why did you kill yourself idiot you should have griefed the shit out of everyone hardcore the whole game

No I would have just gotten banned. I already got flagged by a few people and my 'reputation' went down a bit lol

Quote from: cipher on October 26, 2011 11:05 PM
No I would have just gotten banned. I already got flagged by a few people and my 'reputation' went down a bit lol

Reputation? Is that like some ingame karma system?

Quote from: ZennyPLUS on October 27, 2011 05:29 AM

Quote from: cipher on October 26, 2011 11:05 PM
No I would have just gotten banned. I already got flagged by a few people and my 'reputation' went down a bit lol

Reputation? Is that like some ingame karma system?

Well I play it on 360, since my PC laptop can't handle it except on lower settings.. and fuck that. Every gamer account has a rating, and people can flag you for various kinds of things, from abusing glitches to just being a dick

Quote from: cipher on October 27, 2011 07:11 AM

Quote from: ZennyPLUS on October 27, 2011 05:29 AM

Quote from: cipher on October 26, 2011 11:05 PM
No I would have just gotten banned. I already got flagged by a few people and my 'reputation' went down a bit lol

Reputation? Is that like some ingame karma system?

Well I play it on 360, since my PC laptop can't handle it except on lower settings.. and fuck that. Every gamer account has a rating, and people can flag you for various kinds of things, from abusing glitches to just being a dick

So it is a karma system. Just sounds so new to me, since I don't own an Xbox 360.

Quote from: ZennyPLUS on October 27, 2011 06:23 PM

Quote from: cipher on October 27, 2011 07:11 AM

Quote from: ZennyPLUS on October 27, 2011 05:29 AM

Quote from: cipher on October 26, 2011 11:05 PM
No I would have just gotten banned. I already got flagged by a few people and my 'reputation' went down a bit lol

Reputation? Is that like some ingame karma system?

Well I play it on 360, since my PC laptop can't handle it except on lower settings.. and fuck that. Every gamer account has a rating, and people can flag you for various kinds of things, from abusing glitches to just being a dick

So it is a karma system. Just sounds so new to me, since I don't own an Xbox 360.

Yeah I guess, except you can't grant it, you can only take it away

wow that sounds really gay "hey here's a broken game if something bad happens we punish you for playing it"

Quote from: Sinitron on October 28, 2011 11:47 PM
wow that sounds really gay "hey here's a broken game if something bad happens we punish you for playing it"

this

if their game is exploitable the onus is on them to fix those exploits, not punish those who (unintentionally) use them

Quote from: Gladius on October 29, 2011 12:00 AM

Quote from: Sinitron on October 28, 2011 11:47 PM
wow that sounds really gay "hey here's a broken game if something bad happens we punish you for playing it"

this

if their game is exploitable the onus is on them to fix those exploits, not punish those who (unintentionally) use them

Fine fine, I get it.

back to karkand came out today, all the maps are amazing except for gulf of oman which is way too spawncampy. also there's a ton of new unlockable weapons and playable vehicles including a construction vehicle you can run people over in
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fuck unlocks

when are they getting rid of origin and battlelog so the game is actually accessible without tons of annoying shit to go through first

i want to fly a gunship and cram rockets down peoples' throats

without unlocks the game wouldn't have as much replay value imo, i like unlocking new equipment and weapons

although unlocking stuff for jets can be difficult because you start without ir flares and can get shot down extremely easily

also they will never get rid of origin and battlelog

battlelog isn't really that bad though. however, everything that is in battlelog could be in the game instead

Quote from: rtil on December 14, 2011 11:10 AM
however, everything that is in battlelog could be in the game instead

and that is exactly why it is redundant, annoying shit and why bc2 is more accessible

game longevity comes from not relying on special drm features or whatever, just look at counter-strike which is easy to pirate and just about anyone can play it, you won't see bf3 or mw3 ten years from now unless they pull their shit from their ass and start making accessible and worthwhile games again

unlocks are also really annoying because grinding to unlock the next gay shit doesn't make a game good, actual engaging gameplay and variety does (see: starcraft)

that being said, running around playing carmageddon in bf3 with that loader would be pretty hardcore

i don't hate bf3 itself though, and can't really say how deep it goes, but most games with unlocks are kind of gimmicky and bad

played the campaign about halfway through

not as exciting as medal of honor or any of the cods and doesn't look or play as good as crysis

so far i'd give it 7/10, not too bad but needs to be less of a WANNABE

also origin isn't that bad either.

sure it's got a fraction of steam's range at higher prices and it spies on you but what doesn't invade your privacy these days?

everyone who was turned off the game just because of origin implicitly revealed that they weren't even all that interested in the first place, and i don't blame them.

Quote from: Gladius on December 14, 2011 11:58 AM
so far i'd give it 7/10, not too bad but needs to be less of a WANNABE

This is basically what I felt when I played it. It's good for sure, but at times, its trying to hard to be like CoD (especially with the campaigns)

i dunno if i'd call the unlock system in battlefield 'grinding' - the more you play a class, the more stuff you get, and you get them fairly quickly. it rewards you for playing the classes that you like, and if you play every class equally you still get unlocks available to all classes. the gameplay is engaging from the get-go, they don't start you off with a bad kit. no matter what your kit is, the team that exhibits the most teamwork will win, period. this isn't cod where everyone is rambo trying to get the most kills. in battlefield you have to play the objective.

the game is already good without unlocks. the unlocks make the game even better. you can see what you're going to get and when, and you can get things you want by simply playing the game in your style.

but yea, the main problem with bf3 is the way the game is launched. origin AND battlelog both have to be working in order to play. if one of them goes down, you can't play the game. origin does absolutely nothing to enhance the game experience, and VoIP has been moved to battlelog for some reason, so you can't even talk to your entire team or even a squad - only people you are in a party with. that leaves you with only the chat box and the marking system, which is designed not to work in hardcore mode, so teamwork can be difficult if you're playing alone. it's so segmented and it doesn't really make sense.

battlelog's server browser and stats pages are far superior to bc2's interface - it makes sense for a pc. but, like i said, there's no reason it couldn't have been in the game itself. the game shells only purpose is to play in an isolated server environment, and to change your kits and options.

beat campaign. overall not too bad but the ending was pretty abrupt and left me wanting more.

[spoiler]rip montes he was a good man[/spoiler]