Battlefield 3 announced
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Billy Idol
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So you have both AA options off BT? What GFX card are you running? I'm thinking I may be playing beyond my means here...
Played the first few campaign missions. 1920x1080 all ultra on a 580 and performance is just fine.
Playing on hard. It's been an emotional rollercoaster. I went from "omg wtf holy shit this is amazing" to "what the fuck is this cod infinite spawning invisible enemy killing you from all directions before you can see them bullshit". that's not hard, just fucking annoying just like it was in cod.
Playing on hard. It's been an emotional rollercoaster. I went from "omg wtf holy shit this is amazing" to "what the fuck is this cod infinite spawning invisible enemy killing you from all directions before you can see them bullshit". that's not hard, just fucking annoying just like it was in cod.
Yes. I notice it too but it's near instantaneous in SP. Also it doesn't seem to be related to video memory in use. video memory usage is typically between 1350 and 2050 MB depending on the map.
At one point in the game I suddenly saw a crazy crazy spike in temps this was during the night missions where I guess any GPU's shaders will be wipped into shape.
None whatsoever. I do see the occasional geometry error or tree stumps getting rock textures applied but all-in-all the game feels very polished on the graphical side. heck even the ~console looks like it's from 2011!
Worst part is the skymap in the F/A-18 mission. Guys, it's really not okay to use a 8 bit texture for a sky. the colorbanding was awful.
I read this in reviews too, but so far I haven't seen any of that. When AI's spawn it's always from a logical direction. it's not random like in COD so after a reload you know exactly which door or which alley way will have baddies running out of them. this saves a lot of frustration. Also, I haven't noticed any "invisible tripwire" stuff. It's literally clearing an objective that is set or killing all enemies in a certain area.
Worst part about the AI is them hiding on the wrong side of cover.
one good detail, when you're scoped and strafe left or right your scope will actually tilt, very nice detail.
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Yeah the former is similar to a "tripwire" cause they keep spawning till you reach a certain point on the map. On hard you can take about two shots before dying so it gets annoying real fast trying to move through a never-ending hail of gunfire.
Multiplayer settings ?FPS Smooth as hell and no perceptible lag, not even bothered to measure. I'll do that in a bit though and edit this post. I downgraded the settings not for framerate directly so much as input latency.
Singleplayer settings 30-45 FPS
Audio I have on Home Cinema with 5.1 headphones.
system: (no overclocks)
Q9650 @3.0
4 Gigs @1066
GTX470 1.25GB
120hz 1920x1080
Pretty midrange-ish set-up, but SP is good enough at those settings. Would be nice to use MSAA but the game is so pretty I'm enjoying what I've got.
which mission? I play on hard and for me it's just kill the enemies, I haven't seen any unlimited respawns so far.
Thanks, I'm going to turn off msaa and switch on post. I'm pretty sure the beta defaulted to post on / msaa off with my card, whereas with the retail it was the opposite. Having tried it out for a while I think you're right about msaa being a performance killer.
am I leader?
I'll be taking bribes for that; in the form of supply and medic bags in my immediate vicinity.
I got sooo stuck on that bit. I thought it was a good idea to let my guys go in first (they seemed to want to). Trouble is if the first dude gets over there and you're not on his tail there's no way to get past the gunfire, at least on hard mode.
For ages I was trying to jump over the left wall that was just a wee bit too high; I thought the game was broken.
Speaking of broken.. I'm still finding places to drop through the floor on Operation Metro.
Speaking of Operation Metro. What a let down the conquest map was. It's pure infantry! What good is INF Only mode if a bunch of the maps are inf only anyway? As an inf map it's awesome IMO, so still a blast playing it.
Speaking of blast... BF3. It is one.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...as-a-single-player-campaign-unfortunately.ars
Bummer that the SP is kind of weak. I really enjoy SP too. Only saving grace is the rig they played on will be weaker than mine in a month or two
Bummer that the SP is kind of weak. I really enjoy SP too. Only saving grace is the rig they played on will be weaker than mine in a month or two
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...as-a-single-player-campaign-unfortunately.ars
Bummer that the SP is kind of weak. I really enjoy SP too. Only saving grace is the rig they played on will be weaker than mine in a month or two
Play it on hard and not ONE second you feel like your waiting for a next event to trigger because you're too busy not to die.
There's also plenty of paths to take, sure the goal is the same, but if you need to storm a villa, you can do what is expected (enter through the front door) hold a firefight there or .. circle around a balcony. and be greeted by enemies. why? because it's ultimately still an open world that has been filled with scripted enemies because the devs thought about it.
