Become Acquainted With Battlefield 3's Battlelog

Whatever. Just damn open Caspian Border for everybody.

Let us not become acquainted with Battlelog. It is a silly system.

Battlelog is awesome. As a format, that's how MP-centric games should be handled. It's already great and it will get better over time. Battlefield is Battlelog from now on out. Beats regular ass in-game menus easily.

I'm loving that you don't have to be in game to find a server and group up. It's so nice to not have to alt-tab all the time. The battlelog is pretty buggy right now, but that'll surely be fixed. I'll probably not use the social networking stuff but at the same time they don't get in the way so they might as well be there.

The stats are great. Wish they'd spent that much time making a functional in-game menu system though. Key bindings are busted, can't access any in-game menus at the most useful time (when you're dead waiting to respawn), etc. The ergonomics are horrendous.

The social aspects are mostly irrelevant for most of us. In fact, I can't think of anyone over college age who would want their Battlefield 3 achievements broadcast to their Facebook page/feed.

The party system being in the pre-game browser currently blows. Maybe they'll figure out how to actually reserve the slots properly so your entire party can successfully drop into a server together and wind up in the same squads.

Or better yet, give us back the ability to adjust the squads in-game like in BC2 so we can get all our friends into proper squads.

i could buy battlefield 3 on the PC but i wont..... ill buy it on the PS3 instead: ENTIRELY because of origin and battlelog -- it should've all been handled in game just like battlefield 2

Now, what if you're like me and have no friends that play video games?

Seems like EA and DICE are spending more time trying to come up with distribution and social platforms than they are trying to make games better.

Hopefully the server browser part will be functional and the rest of this "social network" bullshit will be irrelevant to the core experience. None of this looks like it's going to be any good even without considering that you'll also have to run fucking Origin at all times. Damn, I hope this game will be any good - it has been too good a series to be thrown to the dogs :|

@Baal_Sagoth: You know, I didn't like the idea of running Origin at all times, I've always been the kind of dude trying to minimize resource usage. But then one day when I was bored I streamed myself playing Dirt 3 in windowed mode, while listening to music, while looking at Nokia Ovi 3D maps, while having Google Earth spin around, while playing a 1080p 12mbps rip of Avatar, having One Note open, Windows Word 2010 open, MS Visual Studio open with a project, and Photoshop CS5 with a 129mb PSD file open all open at the same time while streaming to Justin.TV... and my frame rate in Dirt 3 was still around 30fps with nearly max settings.

So what's the point of this story? Oh, that I love how bad-ass my computer is (it's not the fastest in the world at all, but I fucking love it). And that 0% CPU use and a few dozen MB of RAM is nothing to cry about.

@TiE23: Sure, we'll really see if it all works fine when the retail game comes out. I have no issues with a browser-based interface, especially since BF's server browsers always have been a little lacking before and something new might be a good idea. I don't throw insane amounts of money at keeping my machine up to date at all times though, just enough to play games I want in an adequate fashion. Anything that makes that unneccessarily complicated because of corporate bullshit that doesn't interest me in the slightest (social network shit, Online store & DRM nonsense) is potentially bad. But I'm still looking forward to the game a lot - that's were the love/ hate/ paranoia thing comes from ;)

I thought all these stats tracking/persistance thing were start from BF2

Not playing it. That's how good it is.

@AhmadMetallic said:

@Arker101 said:

I still feel sorry for those of you who have to use all of that browser and alt-tab stuff.

Anyone still holding out for BF3 on Steam?

This Battlelog & alt tabbing stuff is the most fun PC-gaming functionality i've used in years.. Your'e missing out.

Sorry, I was still under the impression that quite a few PC gamers thought Battlelog was not as great as it could be.

It's good to hear that it's not too shabby after all.

@AhmadMetallic said:

@Arker101 said:

I still feel sorry for those of you who have to use all of that browser and alt-tab stuff.

Anyone still holding out for BF3 on Steam?

This Battlelog & alt tabbing stuff is the most fun PC-gaming functionality i've used in years.. Your'e missing out.

Sorry, I was still under the impression that quite a few PC gamers thought Battlelog was not as great as it could be.

It's good to hear that it's not too shabby after all.

Battlefield 7... Whoa!?

@Rirse: Get over yourself and stop being such a Valve sheep.

One thing that keeps popping up in my head is how my fellow countrymen can be so awesome at making great games yet seem to inevitably fail at pronouncing shit in english. What the hell.

On another note, the game is goddamn sweet. I can barely wait for some proper 64 player action.

Sounds cool, looks really awesome as well

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