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Battlefield 3 Beta: Info and Meetups [Over]
- Thread starter Menelaus
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J-Rock said:
I thought about point farming too, but how would it work? You only get points for finishing off the disarm. I suppose the only way to point farm would be to have some friend in the opposing team arming it, then you disarming it. Sounds like a lot of hassle. Looking at Battlelog people seem to average around 200-300p per minute, if they gave you 300-400 for disarming/arming it still wouldn't be worth standing doing that shit.
1000p would be too much, but 400 or something would be ok to me, to stop point farming too.
I don't understand what DICE were thinking. Like, they had one of their meeting, talked together, and agreed that 100p was a good sum? They concentrate on Rush so much, but shit on the people that actually try to play their mode.
Woo-Fu
Banned
Xux said:
What? the times were accelerated for beta is my understanding. They're not going to get quicker at release, they're going to get slower.
They need to be much slower than beta for there to be any point in having them in the first place. If anybody can get them in a few hours you might as well ditch the entire system and start with everything unlocked.
Xux said:
Hmm, what? Halved? At 6 hours I had unlocked tons of Support things, and my points per minute is very average. Lvl 12 or something, looking at my friends they were even faster.
Tons of people on the servers were lvl 25+ two days into the beta, at that point you have a lot of stuff.
But perhaps it gets very slow at ~25?
Spl1nter said:
But you have no support. Someone arms a site but you don't have anyone backing you up when you're trying to disarm, since so many don't give a fuck about the sites. They play Team Deathmatch instead, only because there's nothing to gain for them to disarm it.
I guess this will change in retail, when those who want conquest/TM will play that instead and Rush people will play Rush.
Woo-Fu said:
desu said:
Alright, thanks. I'll probably play Metro when retail arrives, only to unlock some better weapons.
I'm sure it's been mentioned many times, but they better fix the fucking flashlight completely blinding me outside in the fucking sun. Freaking ridiculous. The instant-death thing when moving is really annoying, but I believe that's been fixed for the full game so I'm not too worried but it really soured my beta experience pretty bad.
Al-ibn Kermit
Junior Member
S does anybody know what the story is in this game? I tried looking it up and the only thing I can find is that you are fighting the PLR, which might be a kurdish rebel group fighting in Iran and Iraq?
And there's Russians for some reason. I only ask because it seems they're going for a more realistic, grounded story than like CoD so it'd be nice to know what factions are involved.
And there's Russians for some reason. I only ask because it seems they're going for a more realistic, grounded story than like CoD so it'd be nice to know what factions are involved.
Heysoos said:
They only care about their KDR more because there is no relationship between players. If you know the people who you are playing with this changes quickly.
Reason why voip, squad controls, squad/squad leader abilities, and commo rose are important. Helps build a relationship with other players.
HotHamWater
Member
Kaako said:
A friend of mine had this, try playing on non Punkbuster servers.
BF3: Don't need no damn plane to dogfight.
Not sure if this has been posted yet. The music makes this so good. hahaha
Not sure if this has been posted yet. The music makes this so good. hahaha
Metalmurphy
Member
woober said:
Like a Boss indeed!
HotHamWater
Member
Metalmurphy said:
I'm waiting for the loopzook.
bearythebear
Member
Fuck me, I really want to buy BF3 after 6 hours in the beta, but I barely played BC2 when I bought it.
lazybones18
Banned
Tried out Caspian Border. Did better, but still getting the hang of things
And I crashed two jets...which was to be expected. As for the map itself, it's big and it's awesome. Screen kept flashing white a few times (minor hiccups too) and now I tried to quit the match and can't close the beta window for some reason. Still enjoyed myself
Gaming controller works fine, but I don't think I found the right button to perform spotting (I would prefer that the scoreboard wouldn't show up with a quick press; better for holding).
All in all, even though I won't have much time playing the beta like everyone else, I can't wait for the release date to arrive
And I crashed two jets...which was to be expected. As for the map itself, it's big and it's awesome. Screen kept flashing white a few times (minor hiccups too) and now I tried to quit the match and can't close the beta window for some reason. Still enjoyed myself
Gaming controller works fine, but I don't think I found the right button to perform spotting (I would prefer that the scoreboard wouldn't show up with a quick press; better for holding).
All in all, even though I won't have much time playing the beta like everyone else, I can't wait for the release date to arrive
I'm calling it. They're going to have a short-cut pack like BC2 that you can buy to unlock everything.Xux said:
And I will be there day-one to buy it. Worst unlock system ever. Got to level 42 in the beta with 40+ hours played and I still feel like I haven't even scratched the surface. It feels like a grind and nothing more.
That video made me sad because it reminded me that BF3 will never be able to touch the likes of 1942.woober said:
Al-ibn Kermit
Junior Member
The Stinger is useless in the demo (at least on consoles which is only Operation metro). I have no idea why they chose a map without any vehicles and only a little destruction to show off the beta.
Metalmurphy
Member
Xux
Member
Kenak said:
You can do that without unlocks, though. I've been using the starter guns until the service star and then sort of soft retiring them 'til I get the service star for everything else. If everything was available I'd simply pick whichever gun I wanted to get the star for first and then pick a random order to do the rest. For a good majority of people, it's use everything until you unlock the bandwagon gun and then use that until the next nerf/Battlefield game. Without unlocks people would just conform to whatever's popular out of the gate.
vidal said:
Yeah, I'd probably strongly consider it if they offered it again, too.
woober said:
man, maybe its just me, but i dont get why so many people fall for the "Gears of war Madworld ad" thing so much.
Just add touching music to anything (even though it doesnt reflect what actually happens in the game at all) and people will be like OH SO GOOD.
This has 0 to do with Battlefield or what i expect from battlefield. Its false marketing, that's not the experience you get. Its a cheap trick that seems to be all the rage now for some reason.
Not saying 99 problems is better though, lol
Metalmurphy
Member
They don't even try to hide it...
