Battlefield 3

[WayAbvPar]

Wake was meh, but the other three maps are AMAZING. Unfortunately EA log in servers are fucked since they cleverly set B2K to release the same day as TOR 


Hopefully they will get things sorted by the time I get done with this interminable conference call, take a shower, and grab some lunch.

[Azazel]

Ah, so THAT's what happened all of a sudden last night...

[tgr]

Centralized login servers.

Such a wonderful invention.

[slog]

Don't buy this.  There are lots of people (including me) that bought it via Origin and it doesn't work.

[WayAbvPar]

If EA had the capacity, they would be mortified by Origin's shit customer service and performance. OTOH, the maps are unbelievably fun. It is just so goddamned cool to revisit those places and see how they should have looked if the engine was around in 2005. And the destruction is ramped way up too...I get confused about where the hell I am in late in rounds when all the buildings are rubble and there are no more landmarks.

Assignments are kind of fun too. Managed to get my repair tool kill last night on the Goon server and the guy I killed jokingly whined about it in chat. It was awesome 

[HaemishM]

Thanks to a Christmas bonus, I will be going out to get a new computer and BF3 tonight, so by this weekend, I will be joining whoever is playing this.

[WayAbvPar]

Thanks to a Christmas bonus, I will be going out to get a new computer and BF3 tonight, so by this weekend, I will be joining whoever is playing this.

Awesome! Grats on the bonus, and add me as a friend as soon as you are up and running. And get a headset for your PC and you Xbox for god's sake 

[Azazel]

Don't buy this.  There are lots of people (including me) that bought it via Origin and it doesn't work.

I got the pre-order version of the game. Will that version work?

I've done Wake Island so many times, I'm keen to see the new version. Same scale as it's always been or have they upsized it slightly? Does it have any WW2 debris left lying around?

[rk47]

? Game works great. Wake Island I kinda hate. But the rest are infantry intensive. The feeling of walking together with 16 others and taking on threats, bam bam bam bam revive revive was unbeatable. The scramble for cover as the LAV rain down death and shout of TANKKKKKKKKKK over the comms.

'Blow up the walls, we need to get the fuck out!' was my fav. moment when we were pinned in the building by a lurking tank. Support dug out the C4, blew it up and we escaped moments before the building collapses. Awesome. There's just so MANY buildings to blow up in the new map. It's amazing.

[slog]

It works now.  Only took them a day.

It is fun, and I got to shoot Way Above Par in the face with a shotgun, so it's all worth it.

[NiX]

Do we have a listing of BF3 names anywhere?

[WayAbvPar]

It works now.  Only took them a day.

It is fun, and I got to shoot Way Above Par in the face with a shotgun, so it's all worth it.

I wish I could say that was a rare occurrence  

We had North Village locked down for quite a bit on Wake when we ended up in the same squad too. God that map can get rapey for the US if people get SOFLAMs up in time. I ran out of Javelins 3 times in one life defending that point.

e- my BF3 name is the same as here (and pretty much everywhere). http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/user/WayAbvPar/

As you can see, I am exceptionally bad at this game. Still a lot of damned fun though.

[HaemishM]

My BF3 name is HaemishM. I got my new box up and running about 1:30 AM last night but managed to get in just long enough to test the settings. With the Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 I got, it runs smooth as glass on ultra. This is going to be a LONG MOTHERFUCKING DAY. The good news is I will be off work starting Dec. 23rd and won't be back in the office until Jan. 3rd. I am going to catass the fuck out of this game.

[rk47]

Work on the assault guns first - whore the revives till you unlock the m320 launcher. Then you can move on to engineers ;)
Support seems to have large clip advantage, but not much else in this game. On the other hand, mortars in 64player maps are devilishly hard to pin point and counter.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, I figured the assault/medic/revive tree was the way to go to learn the game and whore some points. I got about 30 minutes in last night. For some reason, my BF3 just wouldn't let me play again after that long. Launching a game would just lock me up. That was my sign to go to bed. I did unlock the first shotgun and some IR smoke, though. I also think I need to turn motion blur off, as it's highly annoying.

[HaemishM]

Anyone else having a problem patching this goddamn game? I've got it working fine at home, but I'm trying to get it working on my work machine too and it refuses to patch. I thought it might be my firewall, but it does the same thing even when I turn the firewall off. I had to install from the DVD just to get it to the point where it would patch. Is it just the ZOMGSTARWARS crowdrush or am I doing it wrong?

[WayAbvPar]

I have heard all kinds of horror stories about connections to Origin and Battlelog. One thing to try (if you haven't already) is to log completely out of everything, then log in again. Just restarting the service doesn't seem to work.

[snowwy]

Work on the assault guns first - whore the revives till you unlock the m320 launcher. Then you can move on to engineers ;) Support seems to have large clip advantage, but not much else in this game. On the other hand, mortars in 64player maps are devilishly hard to pin point and counter.

Damn, where have you been playing? Support is a xp-machine
C4 alone is so worth it. Blowing up tanks is great fun.

[Sparky]

Damn, where have you been playing? Support is a xp-machine
C4 alone is so worth it. Blowing up tanks is great fun.

Wait... C4 goes on tanks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clDpZIaU3-Q

[WayAbvPar]

My favorite use of C4 is to plant it on an unsuspecting sniper.

[rk47]

Work on the assault guns first - whore the revives till you unlock the m320 launcher. Then you can move on to engineers ;) Support seems to have large clip advantage, but not much else in this game. On the other hand, mortars in 64player maps are devilishly hard to pin point and counter.

Damn, where have you been playing? Support is a xp-machine
C4 alone is so worth it. Blowing up tanks is great fun.

Stick with squads, be the 3rd last guy to die or survive. Revive your squad, ace squad reward, revive points, finishing kills, suppression fires, squad ammo pack upgrade. I usually end up with like 3-5k points in average maps. The m16a3 is very auto-friendly, as long as you make aim corrections as you go full auto.

I do like Support class, but the crazy recoil and large clip size encourages full auto habits that doesn't accomplish much. I'm not that disciplined for the MGs. A friend did accomplish 34 kill 10 deaths once, so yeah, good supports are a monster.

[snowwy]

1 week without a functional BF3 computer. Gonna start stepping on puppes as soon as I get sober

[HaemishM]

Best way to super quick grind up to defib? Get on a server running the Conquest version of the Metro map, wait until your team and squad get stuck in the grenade spammy chokepoints (you'll see them real quick) and just start dropping med packs, throwing grenades and occasionally shooting blindly. You'll level to defib in no time.

Man, that map is seriously assy, especially compared to things like Karkand or Caspian Border, and double especially in Conquest mode. I think they were trying to appease the Call of Duty gunfight in a phone booth fan.

[rk47]

That was the worst map of the lot imo. Seriously it's all about dashing for point B and just grind the hell out of the point there.

[sinij]

That map does come close to taking award "the worst map of all times in any FPS". It can work with 8 or 16 player settings with pre-arranged teams, and is quite a bit of fun that way, but putting it into rotation on 48-64 server is plain retarded.

[stu]

I'd like to test Metro on PC just to witness the chaos. On PS3, it's manageable if an Assault equips smoke but the results of that effort are a mixed bag. Metro is the only level I use smoke on.

[Azazel]

I've just played BF3 on 360 so far. I gotta say, Black Ops is a far superior FPS on console. I plan to set up my PC for BF3 this weekend though, and I'm hoping that BF3-PC will crap all over CoD on any every format.

But I am disappointed in the maps so far.

[rk47]

That map does come close to taking award "the worst map of all times in any FPS". It can work with 8 or 16 player settings with pre-arranged teams, and is quite a bit of fun that way, but putting it into rotation on 48-64 server is plain retarded.

Funny thing is, the best solution is just to give the US Side another flag to cap on the other side of the ticketing booth. Bam. Suddenly there's just 2 points for each side and no ticket bleed and rush madness. Camp all you want, as long you outsnipe each other, better side wins.

[Sparky]

I like metro - great for levelling up painful classes like recon.  Been 'tarding around with a shotgun, dropping motion detectors in corridors and flying up the ranks.  Just a few matches and I've nearly got the MAV.  Having so much fun with my trusty 870 shotgun that I don't really feel like levelling up any sniper rifles.

[sinij]

That map does come close to taking award "the worst map of all times in any FPS". It can work with 8 or 16 player settings with pre-arranged teams, and is quite a bit of fun that way, but putting it into rotation on 48-64 server is plain retarded.

Funny thing is, the best solution is just to give the US Side another flag to cap on the other side of the ticketing booth.

That won't solve the main problem - "trench" warfare isn't fun. 100% PUG matches on that map are grenade/RPG spam down the corridor. Plus you can't even get mech or mortar going, because fight is indoors.

[WayAbvPar]

I wanted to grind out my M320 kills toward the L8 unlock so I hit a server midway during a Metro round. Went 21-5 (all M320 kills). Such a terrible map, but I guess it is a good way to grind through unlocks if that is your thing. I would rather do it organically most of the time.

[LK]

Just upgraded my rig after a hardware failure. Looking forward to digging into this.

[kildorn]

That map does come close to taking award "the worst map of all times in any FPS". It can work with 8 or 16 player settings with pre-arranged teams, and is quite a bit of fun that way, but putting it into rotation on 48-64 server is plain retarded.

Funny thing is, the best solution is just to give the US Side another flag to cap on the other side of the ticketing booth. Bam. Suddenly there's just 2 points for each side and no ticket bleed and rush madness. Camp all you want, as long you outsnipe each other, better side wins.

It's a scaling problem on that map. At a certain level of people, you can smoke a route and advance to cover. Beyond that (the 64 player servers), there are enough hostiles that they just grenade spam through the smoke and any assault is quite dead. It turns into sheer luck to advance at all, and actually taking the center point once it's held is pretty much a sign from above that you vastly outclass the other team.

It's awesome for leveling up though, which is why it's played so much. Ammo packs and medkits are pretty much free levels.

[HaemishM]

Wow, tonight was the first time I've been able to play without crashes just ruining my nights. I mean, I've been having play 1 game, game crashes or artifacts the very next map, forget about it go play something else type of nights, but tonight was fine. Don't know what they did, but good on them.

[LK]

Wow.

I was crashing like crazy. I spent about 2 hours reconfiguring my system (combined with the 3 days of building a fresh PC from scratch and wrangling with malfunctioning hardware) and finally got the game to run. The game is super awesome even at Lv. 1. I'm playing on the PC and the mouse feels far better than the 360 controller. I don't even want to load Modern Warfare anymore. It's that good.

I thought it amusing that I had to register the same credentials to 4 different services that they had.