Battlefield 3

Is it true that the Russian area of Caspian Border is on fire?

alt+f4 always worked like magic for me when I wanted to exit.

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Is it true that the Russian area of Caspian Border is on fire?

Well yeah, kinda. There is a huge fire on their side of the border but it's outside the playable area, except for jets.

Releasing a beta for Battlefield 3 might be the biggest mistake EA has made with its biggest game this year

Doing anything at all is often seen as the biggest mistake anybody can do on the internet.

- Release a beta, people get upset the beta is not polished/a free version of the final game.

- Don't release a beta, people get upset that things aren't as they were in the good old days, when every game had a 128 player enabled fully stable multiplayer beta 6 months prior to release.

Except that isn't true, as releasing the Bad Company 2 beta was the best decision they made, the beta was literally flawless with a few server errors.

The only issue with BC2 was the terrible map / game mode.

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Except that isn't true, as releasing the Bad Company 2 beta was the best decision they made, the beta was literally flawless with a few server errors.

But the games launch was worse than BF3's beta in terms of issues.

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Firefights in the beta prioritize reflexes over tactics, which is a departure from Bad Company 2.This is not the case with Battlefield 3 as it is now. The version of Battlefield 3 that I spent hours playing last week has weapons and damage that feel like Battlefield Bad Company 2. This, if you aren't sure, is a good thing.

Oh thank God.

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But the games launch was worse than BF3's beta in terms of issues.

Was it? I had zero issues.

The only real issue was dx9 not displaying the transparent glass texture on the shielded mounted gun. So you couldn't see dick all that you were shooting at with it.

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But the games launch was worse than BF3's beta in terms of issues.

Was it? I had zero issues.

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"Bad Company 2 wasn't great on day one. People hated it on day one. It was a complete disaster, according to the forums, it was the crappiest game ever. And then we patched it and fixed some issues. And now it's like some people think it was perfect from day one. It was the best game ever! Why can't Battlefield 3 be perfect from day one? But I mean [battlefield 3 ] is much better today day one than Bad Company 2 was day one."

Which map did they release? Rush is awesome so that's irrelevant.. But which map was in the BC2 beta?

Port frigging Val bloody dez.

Oh yeah I hate that map

Harvest day was an awesome map, I loved that in BC2!

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Oh yeah I hate that map Harvest day was an awesome map, I loved that in BC2!

Harvest day is a map from BC1 that was eventually added for free to BC2 if u didnt know.

Snipers

As I recall it there's little more satisfying than sneaking around and killing the shit out of campy snipers in past BF games.

It's a shame there's no longer a commander role as he could quite easily bombard particularly troublesome snipers with artillery.

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As I recall it there's little more satisfying than sneaking around and killing the shit out of campy snipers in past BF games. It's a shame there's no longer a commander role as he could quite easily bombard particularly troublesome snipers with artillery.

Just use mortars? Close enough!