Battlefield 3 announced

[Andrew Lauritzen]

My most awesome thing so far was I killed a sniper (that I was shooting at) with a direct hit from an RPG on the map where the one team starts on the aircraft carrier. I was on land and a sniper was shooting us from the carrier so I decided to randomly throw some RPGs his way. 4-5 shots later and I landed a direct hit and kill Too bad I was not recording at the time, as I doubt I'll ever duplicate it!

 

[neliz]

My most awesome thing so far was I killed a sniper (that I was shooting at) with a direct hit from an RPG on the map where the one team starts on the aircraft carrier. I was on land and a sniper was shooting us from the carrier so I decided to randomly throw some RPGs his way. 4-5 shots later and I landed a direct hit and kill Too bad I was not recording at the time, as I doubt I'll ever duplicate it!

RPG naab ..



Yeah, that's the fun thing.. taking pot shots at someone half a k away with your pistol and landing a headshot
feeling all giddy and then reading all the "cheater" comments in your (much improved) chat

after plenty of hours of play I'm beginning to enjoy Metro conquest a lot more.. it seems to have stopped being a smawfest and it's fun sneaking behind enemy lines, especially now the claymores are persistent.

 

[Andrew Lauritzen]

Haha. Ironically I almost never use RPG to kill people since I find it very ineffective compared to... bullets. I do use it to bust down walls and cover (particularly when people hide out in buildings) though, a task for which it is well-suited

In this situation I was an engi, the sniper was annoying me and I was bored waiting for people to come attack. I never expected to hit anything, but was pleasantly surprised when I managed to

I still hate Metro conquest unless it's 20 players or less, but it has gotten a lot more fun since I unlocked smoke. Smoke allows you to break through a lockdown and cause chaos I've had good luck with going to the far escalators, throwing some smoke up top then sprinting through to the back point and hiding in the buildings to cap it. Even if you eventually die defending it, you usually give your team some breathing room to push up and capture the middle point.

 

[Billy Idol]

unlocked the soflam yesterday...how cool is this!!!!
die, all vehicles, die...I killl you!!!!!!!!

 

[Richard]

Great, today I start Origin and it keeps telling me my Origin ID/Email or password is incorrect. I can login to battlelog but I can't start the game not even to try Karkand for a few minutes.

 

[RobertR1]

Is Karkand out yet? I'm been in Skyrim and not paying attention.

 

[tabs]

It is, and it is fantastic. The best maps in the game.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

It is, and it is fantastic. The best maps in the game.

Though I am playing on the ps3 side, but I concur ! THese are the best maps in the game for conquest ! Haven't tried Rush on them.

They are a must buy, in case u did not buy the limited edition. The fun is quadrupled in them.

 

[Davros]

what!!! you have to buy the maps?

 

[neliz]

what!!! you have to buy the maps?

1. It has been like this with BF for a while, they will be free after a while, like the physical warfare pack is free for PS3 today.

2. You only have to buy it if you were too lazy to pre-order.

 

[Kyyla]

I started playing as a sniper. Does anyone else get horrible shadow flickering when zoomed in with a 12x scope? Distant shadows look really jarring I remember seeing this ever since the beta on my 6950.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

1. It has been like this with BF for a while, they will be free after a while, like the physical warfare pack is free for PS3 today.

2. You only have to buy it if you were too lazy to pre-order.

Its free? How does one get it? What does it have? Wasn't it one of the other pre-order bonuses?
EDIT: Ok ! So, its a bunch of guns ! Bah !

I doubt the B2Karkand pack will go free at a later stage though. Anyways, most of the players got the limited edition.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Are the map sizes physically bigger on PC, for B2K? or do they just have more flags in conquest?

 

[neliz]

all battlefield "boosters" have been free at some point in time (EU forces, armored fury), but maybe EA will change that since they got quite a cross-platform install base now.

Karkand seems about the same size as it was on the PC, but slightly smaller. not sure if the console version has the flags on the industrial side of the water, that should give you a hint.

 

[Dresden]

God bless you, Dice. God fucking bless you.

B2K is like taking a time machine back to BF2's greatest moments, only realized with graphics on steroids. Wake Island is SUPERB. Best Wake rendition EVER.


I still get flickering textures in the distance, sometimes. It's a little annoying, but certainly nothing game-breaking. I see it in videos people post, as well, so I'm fairly certain it's a common issue.

 

[Andrew Lauritzen]

I started playing as a sniper. Does anyone else get horrible shadow flickering when zoomed in with a 12x scope? Distant shadows look really jarring I remember seeing this ever since the beta on my 6950.

Yeah it's a little buggy. More concerning to me is the obvious performance drop-off when zooming in. I don't understand the reason for that... the frustum obviously becomes longer, but narrower too. Not really sure why performance needs to suffer when zoomed. Perhaps repi could explain.

 

[KKRT]

Repi, is there a chance for an update for BF 3 with FXAA 4 or SMAA?

 

[homerdog]

I didn't preorder and I got the maps.

Repi, is there a chance for an update for BF 3 with FXAA 4 or SMAA?

You know I would be more interested in an update for MSAA that does proper tonemapping, even if it incurs a perf hit. In a couple of years we'll be laughing at how fast our HD8870 runs this game anyway.

 

[Dresden]

Is it possible to gift B2K through Origin? I wanna get this for a buddy of mine.

 

[John Reynolds]

Here's a stupid question probably answered if I read the manual. I'm on the first mission, I crawl down into a basement and disconnect the right-hand wire from a bomb. The shadow of a America/freedom-hating terrorist Islamic devil dog appears on the wall, you turn, and you're engaged in hand-to-hand combat. I hit the E key repeatedly, driving him to his knees, but then he surges up with a head butt and mission over. I see a mouse-ish red symbol flashing at the bottom of the screen, but it happens so quickly my aged eyes can't tell if I should be spamming the left, middle, or right buttons.

Help grandpa beat this cursed Muslim fiend and send another corrupted soul to Yahweh's loving eternal hell!!!