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@Rawrnosaurous said:

LINK

Wow. Yeah, you aren't too far off.

@ShaggyPolarBear said:

Wait, worked it out. I find it weird that you can't access options when you're dead though?

Nice lookin' game.

Yes, I found that insanely annoying. You can only access settings when spawned in the game but if you die while adjusting settings it boots you out.

Indeed it does look great. I seem to be able to run it on Ultra just fine.

@Mike76x said:

12. Everyone (yes everyone) on the other team is laying prone in shadows across the map, sniping.

Battlefield 3: Crawl of Duty

This. The hitboxes need to be bigger for prone. Sometimes you can literally use entire clips in short bursts on one person in prone and only one shot will hit and then they blindfire kill you with their m249. You could prone in BF2, but it had risks. In this it seems like the optimal way to play in many circumstances, which is just wrong.

All of the weapons feel like crap after recently getting back into BC2. They don't feel powerful at all when you use them. And thus I gave up on them and now only use the shotgun and run show because most people at this game are terrible and do the Call of Duty-eque blind run into rooms, where I promptly blast them in the face. Not to mention it has surprisingly good range.

My biggest gripe is that when you are down but not out, you can't hit enter and adjust your loadout for next time you spawn. Every other BF game you can do this but instead in this one you get to look at the person who killed you instead of doing something useful.

Also, why does it take you out of menus when you die. Since you can't seemingly adjust the settings without being in the game, I always adjust them as soon as I start, but it took me 3 tries today to get my graphics settings right because it kicked me out everytime I was half done because someone shot me. Same with when you try to exit the game and you either get revived or die, it pops you out of the menu.

I hope a lot of this is fixed at release, because some of it is super frustrating and is ruining my experience so far.

AMD Phenom II x4 965, Asus AMD Radeon 6950 2GB, 4 gigs of Gskill 1333Mhz RAM. Runs fine on default (haven't checked FPS yet but it was insanely smooth) settings as I haven't configured yet but at a quick glance it was running smoothly on mixture of high/ultra with a little bit of AA (I think it was only 2x). I'll tune the settings up a bit once I add 4 more gigs of RAM tomorrow, and then see how it runs.

Is there a setting that lowers the effect of those stupid flashlights? I will literally run it on lowest if that lowers the affect of those on gameplay, because so far that is game-ruining when you are playing the metro level and a small squad of people using only pistols and flashlights dominates the whole other team because no one can aim at them accurately and end up having to blindfire and hope for the best.

@MiniPato said:

Fuck rush mode. I want to get into a conquest game damnit.

This needs to be emphasized. And the map for the beta is kinda meh. And those stupid flashlights ruin the game. I played against 4 people teamed up with them and you literally can't see a thing and end up blind firing most of the time and hoping for the best. I eventually just gave up and went back to BC2: Vietnam. That game never gets old. I'll probably still get BF3, but I want to wait to see how the maps look because if they are all like that, I won't be as interested.

@mosdl said:

You guys are aware the game would have some other form of DRM you'd be complaining about if there was no Origin?

If it was Steam everything would be peachy keen for me. I only buy games on Steam and Battlenet anymore. This Origin thing just seems forced. I didn't really care at first until it popped up stuff in my browser, didn't give me a main menu, but hopped me right into a game without getting to configure my settings. Hopefully the release version isn't like that because it seems like a real pain.

@MetalMoog said:

Here's hoping this game's multiplayer hasn't changed much from Bad Company 2, that game has the best FPS multiplayer i've ever played.

You should play BF2, it's insane. It has multiplayer many times better than BC2 (which I agree has fantastic multiplayer. But BF2 is that much better). Hopefully BF3 is comparable to BF2.

Wait, what happened...

Oh jeez, people are too serious these days. What happened to the jolly ol' GB forum? Professionalism whining and other stupid crap like that is what is hurting this forum. Back in the day, there was no professionalism, and it was AWESOME (See Unprofessional Friday related videos that were chock full of booze and ridiculous bets about Madden and Wolfenstein). I don't mean to sound harsh, but if people get that worked up over a freaking video game forum and can't handle the odd inside joke they obviously are outside of, perhaps they should re-evaluate their life, because it is quite clear their concerns about GB aren't their biggest problem.

People need to realize you cannot contain the McBlumpkin. It just isn't physically possible. This man can transform anyone (primarily Ryan and Brad) into an Oompa Loompa, hamburger connoisseur or Italian woman. Clearly people need to visit the Hamburger forum more to understand Biff's true power.

Wow, haven't seen a thread like this in at least a year.

We need more Buford McBlumpkin threads (whoa old Bombcast reference).

@ajamafalous said:

@FlyingRat said:

It's always fun seeing people's reactions when they've never seen a Biff thread before.

This needs to be emphasized. The people who've been here since 2008 probably lost their shit as soon as they saw the OP while all new people are like "wat?" and had to be introduced to the crazy.

If spending your resources and lategame macro is an issue, I would look up the UMS Macro or Die. I use it to practice new openings on specific maps but it also is insanely helpful for practicing general macro. You can play against people or the computer (the AI is a custom made one that is actually pretty good. The zerg AI isn't as good but the Terran and Protoss ones seem accurate enough). It tells you what level you are macroing at and reminds you to spend your resources if they get too high by launching a nuke at your mineral line on a 30 second timer that will cancel if you bring your resources to acceptable levels. I find that setting the AI to medium or hard is great because it generally plays a high pressure style (constantly sending units at you) so you learn to macro under pressure better. It definitely has helped me a ton.

I approve, if only because it's like BF2. Then I can use my M16 as medic like in BF2 <3<3. That was the best gun in the game, especially in single shot mode. It was a scopeless sniper rifle.