Thursday Night Throwdown 10/27: Battlefield 3

@Thuggish: Congratz! I've been enjoying my time with it - It's definitely better when talking with people (even random internet citizens) over voice over.

One of the best TNT's in a while.  God damn silly.

Hilarious TNT. Only a minor bummer they didn't read the chat at the end, the ADMIN was all about playing the basejumping level real quick.

Popped in for a quick game, that was fun!

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/352794/1/173568513/

Yea what is up with the password, I want too murder some internet celebrity's.

what is the pass for the gb sever?

Madly hitting refresh, hoping that some poor sucker disconnects...

Ditto on the password dealio...

how do i get a password for the server?

pass?

what's the password?

for all those complaining about the release on origin, this happens on steam too.

The bad company TNT was so great, I'm gonna have to watch this one live.

@eloj said:

@Thuggish: @Thuggish said:

@LP3 said:

Can't activate on Origin. Why is there no GB story up about that? This Origin roll-out has been embarrassing. I can't play the game I bought, not even single player.

I activated on orgin an hour ago... it's likely that the activation servers are congested, and not down.

That's about when they started to get things under control, activation had been down for at least two hours before then.

As much as I dislike Orgin, overall... I don't think activation going down for 2 hours is necessarily something to have an entire article about (even though it does absolutely suck).

And with that said... despite having already put in my code, having it accepted and then downloading and installing...when i launch it doesn't seem to be able to activate, tells me i'm offline and sometimes tells me it's a bad install (I've "repaired" twice). I'm now really wishing I didn't go ahead and buy it to try playing on TnT... i was going to wait a month or two for shit to line out.

@Thuggish: @Thuggish said:

@LP3 said:

Can't activate on Origin. Why is there no GB story up about that? This Origin roll-out has been embarrassing. I can't play the game I bought, not even single player.

I activated on orgin an hour ago... it's likely that the activation servers are congested, and not down.

That's about when they started to get things under control, activation had been down for at least two hours before then.

@LP3 said:

Can't activate on Origin. Why is there no GB story up about that? This Origin roll-out has been embarrassing. I can't play the game I bought, not even single player.

I activated on orgin an hour ago... it's likely that the activation servers are congested, and not down.

I'm activated and installed (downloading patch) at this time (SE), so I think they're getting a handle of it.

Had a bit trouble with Origin wanting to download the whole game. Turns out if you install the origin client from the CD (which using the installer will do if you don't have Origin already) it won't actually be able to install from the CDs(?!). Cancelling installation, fully quitting the client to make sure the updated version is running, and THEN re-running autostart/Install fixed it.

Unhelpfully, the UI will still talk about "Download", but the client will read from disc if available.

So you cant join if you're not located in the US?

@Troncek: Not easy if you didn't buy a digital copy.

So you cant join if you're not located in the US?

Can't activate on Origin. Why is there no GB story up about that? This Origin roll-out has been embarrassing. I can't play the game I bought, not even single player.

Getting disconnected from the server every time I try to join.

Awesome TNT! BF3 ftw!

well origin isnt allowing any activations right now because it has issues.. thanks EA! great release in europe!

@AhmadMetallic: Sweet!

@Extreme_Popcorn said:

Pretty big fuck you to anyone in the UK by doing it this week. Thanks.

It's pretty easy to activate the game with a HTTP proxy from a country that the game was already released in. I've been playing since Monday and I'm from the EU. :)

Lol this aint going to work since punkbuster is seriously FUCKING up the game.

Lol this aint going to work since punkbuster is seriously FUCKING up the game.

Ping at 151 ms, think I'll pass. :D

How long intil this starts? Time zones and all that

Pretty big fuck you to anyone in the UK by doing it this week. Thanks.

How long intil this starts? Time zones and all that

Had a really good feeling they were going to play BF3. Kinda bummed that it's PC only though. I was finally going to participate in a TNT.

Holy acronyms!

No console gaming? :( Couldn't take my gaming pc to college

Ping at 151 ms, think I'll pass. :D

Conquest Mode is the real Battlefield Mode and Rush is really bad so I'm glad most of tonight will be CQ.

Ryan has to have the controller or this TNT is Fail.

@Rirse:Have you SEEN the BFBC2 TNT!?It's like one of the best ever.If BF3 isn't great TNT material then what is?

Hm, sadly no chance for EU players this time. Oh well, at least I'll be entertained until I can finally play it myself. Looking forward to the action!

@kiwi_whisker said:

@Thuggish: Ill be your friend... friend. :)

Do it. Join the collective.

@kiwi-whisker: I did it... then I remembered that I turned my PC off this morning, instead of leaving it on for remote access (didn't need it's files for work today)... so I'll have to wait till I get there to download it.

The good news is that assuming that Orgin isn't down or broken or other wacky shit (because in my experience, Orgin kind of sucks) then I should be up and running by start time tonight (my Fios connection gets me pretty damn excellent download speeds) ;)

@Rirse: You're a boring TNT!

What a boring TNT. Skip.

OH YEA BRING IT ON BABY.!

How long intil this TNT starts? Damn time zones!

" Origin activation is down at the moment. We are aware of the issue and working on it. Thank you for your patience." -- http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/gate/
 

Should be a real borefest. Sadly I'll probably still watch it.

Why no rush? It's pretty fun.

Awesome! Cant wait guys.

Please do this again another time for countries in which the game is not yet out such as the United Kingdom THANKS!!!!

@swamplord666 said:

wish i could join but you know... Europe having a later release date and all!

Wait what, it came out in Europe today! I picked up mine and played a bunch!

EDIT: Oh dang, tomorrow in the UK. That is fucked up.