Because BF3 is MW3 killer, not BF2 successor. That's why.

And regarding BC2 - huge battlefield? Where? Which map? All maps in BC2 are pretty small and linear (except two of them they added after the game was played for a year or so).

bigger than mw i guess(never played) but sure not bf2 style big maps which i didnt like much

Are you an idiot? Otherwise you would know that insult is not the best way to start conversation, even here, on ESR. Or you spent your childhood and puberty in a cage full of monkeys? Well, that could explain some aspects of your behavior...

Back on topic - you don't need to have an identical clone of some product in order to compete with it. You can offer slightly different product but to the same audience. And BF3 vs MW3 is exactly this way of competition. Especially taking into account that most COD players begin to refuse to consume the same shit fourth or fifth time in a row.

Edit: after some thinking I realized that an average COD player is a lobotomized person who can eat the same shit time after time, so consider my last statement invalid.

Like quakers? :<

Except Quake is not shit. \o/

I tried my best for plus hunt :<. I guess here only pictures of boobs works...

P.S. http://eviljwinter.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/boobs.jpg

Me too, failing miserably. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bP8_Dmfbe0&feature=feedu

oh my.... oh my... :)))))

I hear it's utterly shit and has more bugs than your average ant colony

Adding prone? Itym re-adding prone that existed in all but... failc2? wololoo

I played on a Caspian Border server a few days ago, that map felt huge and very much like Battlefield

those servers were hard to find... operation metro sucked

Dice/EA want a piece of the Cod pie.

[Is still on XP and therefore cannot play]


Motherfuckers making me upgrade. If it ain't broke is my moto

bc2 could have been a perfect 'modern' shooter with some tweaks, sadly everything bf stands for goes to the opposing direction that i would want. lots of vehicles & explosives = shitttttttttttt

When i first installed beta and gave it ago i was a little frustrated with prone myself but having played a good few hours on it now, its starting to bother me less with each map.

I had hoped that beta would have given us some vehicles as a taster of whats to come but as i havent played CB yet, i can't comment on purely metro play, speaking of which the first area is totally wank but beyond that the gameplay with fairly balanced teams is actually quite good.

Looking forward to the full game!

But is the game still broken by massive unlimited grenade barrage ala bf2 or either assault snipers who can one shot everything before you can react because the other weapons have so shitt damage, hit reg and spread that it's hopeless OR by camping snipers who are impossible to kill due to their position?

I havent felt any of that when i've played and i've put in a good few hours so far. Once you start getting the better rifles + scopes, i.e. M4 + red dot, its really easy to kill or surpress a sniper/other enemy player.

Snipers are easy to locate/avoid due to the flash/glare they produce.

Grenade barage, ok but it was like that in bfbc2, i'd sit with an ammo pack next to me and just chuck grenades, perhaps could do with fixing but teamplay can still combat this and also assault get a flak upgrade they can wear to reduce damage, and it really does reduce damage as i use it.

None of the above stood up during my games. But there seemed to be a bit of rocket launcher spam in the narrow corridors of Operation Metro. You can easily corner via alternative routes and own those noobs tho.

Yeah the final defense point (B) before you are outside, the rocket spam on the corridors is insane but as long as you have an Assault player there to revive/heal, you'll soon get through it.

Do you actually go to work raw,or are you like a 24/7 bum,dude.

Back on topic been playing the beta for a long while,very enjoyable and the new multiplayer video looks superb.

regards

o'brien

I can post on ESR while i'm at work? :-)

The new mp video is awesome, the base jumping should be a lot of fun especially as you will have to activate your own shoot, a bit of lag or bad timing might see you dead on arrival!

Do you plan to play BF3 when its released? A few mates and myself i think are deep down hoping it delivers on the multiplayer scale as QuakeLive is on its way out :-D

havent tried it.. but i have a feeling it will be somehting like cod since its gonna try take some of the players. sad imo.
bc2 is awesome should've kept the whole idea like that

I got a chance to try the Caspian servers and my oh my was that BATTLEFIELD. Forget about Operation Metro, when the full game comes out you'll be able to get right into that BF feeling. I raged at them for days and days about the mouse buttons failure but I got around it with a script. I'm sure most of these bugs will be ironed out until Oct 25. If not, then it is a fail.

How did you get on? I'd love to try it before beta ends :-(

they were up the first 3 days or so, then taken down.

LE: seems they are back as of now for this weekend! http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/th...967583255/

I this caspian map only on the pc?

well yea, that's where the shit;s at. fuck them consoles.

Pc's are for nerds mate

and consoles are for the mentally challenged.

i like the beta.

all this crap talk here "id is shit / esport is best / quake is dead". its the same story in all gaming related topics here, im sick of it. nerd city deluxe. its not my view of things.

i will play bf3 for sure.

Hero much.

is there a way to reduce the texture quality below what is called "low" in the video options (also foliage, particle effects, lense flare etc)? i know you can screw around with some settings in the PROF_SAVE_body file but i haven't found anything that yields a satisfying "high visibility" config beyond the ingame options.

im looking for this too - i eventually managed to find a happy medium in bfbc, there is no happy medium in bf3 - you cant see fk all, nada, squat : (

would love a visibility cfg, not struggling for fps - just visibility ; )

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The new multiplayer video looks amazing!!!

Link?

Try the video on here -> http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/19/battlefield...t-carrier/

Can't wait for the release!

stop this SH1111TE!
play Rage

Rage sucks!

hud images and normal view allinone, really? if they give u info they should also force you wear a special helmet which in turn should reduce lateral visibility
also looks like a 2 penny arcade game, and on top of that level of detail is sh1t too (1 brush a substract and 1 texture and the door is ready lol)

Oh snap, looks like p0rt hacked your account...

So last night i was playing BF3... and its absolutely fucking awesome!

chavgame

best sounddesign ive heard in a game so far.

gtfo boring epic LOTR shit, i'm sitting at my computer and i'm no hobbit dancing on a meadow.

Huge number of issues on the day one. Move along people, nothing to see here.

I havent seen any issues so far.. i mean its running fantastic in ultra. I had a a couple of crashes till i moved on to the new nvidia drivers but its been perfect ever since.

Sure there are a few laggy servers but search around and find a lower ping one with less than a 64 slot game.. at least until they've had chance to optimise server configs and such for bigger maps/players but really, i cant fault it one bit.

Hehe, typical no-clue fan-boy response. Move along, pal. :)

Issues are numerous and if you are not seeing them - means that you are not affected. Like, for example, with negative acceleration - I have it cause I use very low sense (1.25 METERS for 360 :) with custom acceleration curve applied through mouse filter drivers. But others, who use much higher sense, will not notice it.

The game is garbage and should only be bought in a week or to, when all the fixes will be released. Also, there is probability that all PC issues will never be fixed (cough, Black Ops, cough).

And BTW, so called ULTRA has so big artifacts compression in textures, that for a second I thought that it is done in idTech5 engine - so similar the effect is...

Not sure opening up a reply with such a condescending attitude is really the way to go, unless you want to look like a dick but congratulations on the achivement.

So I’m a clueless fan boy because the game runs fine for me and I haven’t experienced any issues? You sound like your hating for the sake of it.

Rest assured, I won’t be wasting any further key strokes on you.

OMG, are you trolling me? Learn to read, pal.

The game is broken. There is literally thousands of reports on battlelog and oficial EA Battlefield forums from users having different problems. And in every report the person reporting have at least one, but usually, several problems with the game.

Being overly optimistic assesing the situation and defending the DICE who fucked up once again delivering sub-par product to the customers is an utter no-clue fanboism.

And If you do not notice any problems - that doesn't mean that game is free of any bugs.

Ignorance is a bliss, you know...

it was obviously rushed out the door before mw3 was released, that being said - other than key and mouse binding limitations, and slight negative accel, ive also got very few issues, and runs well even on my slightly older machine.

Overall, there are two very big fixes upcoming - new drivers from NVIDIA in the mid of November which will fix BF3 specific issues (shadows and stuttering to name a few) and second PC client patch from DICE with unknown ETA, but I suppose it should be after NVIDIA drivers release. After that, I hope the game will be playable for me too.

if he was playing bf3 on console, he would have got a trophy for that achievement!

I don't understand the excitement for war sim #35265. Prettier graphics, yay. Enjoy your turd.

Graphics are impressive!

playing bf3 last night too...somewhat of a let-down though when finally getting into the jet and going through all that pre-flight prep crap and taking to the air -- only to operate a few guns(and ONE type of gun at a time) while your NPC has fun flying the bird.

Have only played maybe a quarter into the game, but I think the single player campaign so far suffers from a few things:
1. trying to imitate MW2's Black Ops interrogation-flashback story structure
2. no sense of humor, even dark humor -- so seriously grim and gritty without the slightest dash of slapstick or sarcasm. (Anybody remember Halo 2's NPC voiceovers? David Cross ftw)

p.s. counterbalance positive comment: graphics are crisp w/o being cartoony, amazing sense of disorientation with blinding lights, wind&particle effects and seriously sampled sound.
p.s.s. if you have probs binding more than the two default mouse keys, just map remaining mouse keys to numbers. duh, i know.

BF3 on pc : "press start to Begin"

Lights are all precooked and so intense you cant even see the roads sometimes. every surface reflects like chromium. It has a fucking bug on the movement, not strafe jump like, just an annoying bug, just try to move at a 45degree angle and aim forward xD.
Destruction is good, but it is crysis 2 like, at a bigger scale. I still think that crysis 1 looks more natural. auto aim is activated by default.

Hope there'll be some tweak guides out so you can turn off all that light bullshit and dirt on your screen.

The most irritating is that c4 doesn't stick to vehicles. So me and 3 friends had this awesome plan to take each our EOD and load them with c4 and just rush their base, but no...I guess that isn't realistic?