Battlefield 3 Beta - Your Thoughts?

[godofallu]

I tried it on Xbox, and wow is it ugly.

I died like 8 times before ever seeing a person, and it felt like the game was supposed to be a pixel hunt. Which is impossible due to the horrid graphics and lack of a scope on all guns but the sniper.

Also why do I have to unlock basic functionality for my classes? And where are all of the vehicles?

And falling through maps is stupid. The game has to ship in like 25 days. There just isn't enough time for them to have a chance in hell at fixing this mess.

 

[Jubbert]

Origin seems really unnecessary, to be honest. I'm not even using it at all, it's just like some random program that I need to have on while playing Battlefield, since all the server lists are on a seperate browser instead of on Origin.

Speaking of server lists, I hate how it's on a browser. It's just inconvenient, especially since now there's no main menu for me to tweak graphics settings without being in-server.

Plus, there's a shitton of graphical incompatibilities and optimization errors. My Nvidia drivers keep crashing when I enter fullscreen, and I have the latest drivers, so I basically have to play in a shitty little window.

On top of that, I fucking DESPISE the killcam. Not only does it simply jam the camera into the face of the person that killed you, but it also doesn't allow you to go to the pause menu, change your class, or loadout, or anything while you're dead.

Other than all that bullshit...

...Yeah, the game is basically just if bad company 2 and modern warfare 2 had a baby with better animation.

 

[NESJosh64]

Pretty fun, but I doubt I have much stake in what's good and bad. Pretty much my first Battlefield MP game ever.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Arg, all the people treating this beta with old, basically alpha software as some kind of full-blown demo is just...

*ahem*

Seriously people:
- This is a beta test.
- It's using a shitty, even older version of the game, pretty much alpha software. It has shitty graphics, ridiculous bugs, you name it.
- This is not for your enjoyment. This is for reporting glaring bugs and testing the servers.
- This beta has only one map, two for the lucky ones.
- If you don't like certain features, don't just complain here, report them. You're a beta tester, you're supposed to do that.
- It's a goddamn beta test.

Now that doesn't change some very basic design ideas some people don't seem to like, like the graphical direction, and that's fine. But fuck, some of the complaints here, it's like some people thought it's already October 25th.

 

[Zeh Don]

25 days to fix the fundamental issues present here? DICE took 6 months to address Bad Company 2's issues, and dropped that game before they managed to get a third of the way through the list.

The complaints raised are entirely valid. I've posted my feedback for them to ignore on their Battlelog Facebook thing.

 

[Still Life]

In every game I go into it thinking, "Am I having fun?" The answer was sadly, "no". I played for an hour last night, an hour and a half this evening with my cousin, and I was just miserable the whole time.

Teammates can make or break your experience. I've loved it when I had at least 3 (yes, just three) decent, thinking teammates. If your team is bad, you'll hate it. Everybody should try to find at least one friend to play with, otherwise it'll probably be a rage fest.

Yeah, I've found this to be the case. When both teams are working well I enjoy myself. However, when the game is released it will be frustrating to play in some games because everyone is getting the feel for the new map and other gameplay related things.

 

[saucecode]

I really like it - alot better than Call of duty.
Problem is, im really bad at it. heh.
Its kinda buggy. Sometimes ill find myself at a loading screen forced to goto the xbox dash cause it simply wasn't loading.

Overall, I'd be OBSESSED with it. if i didnt suck at it.

 

[ph0b0s123]

Love the game, hate how I have to use goddamn beta drivers for my gpu...
Seeing as the goddamn beta drivers keep crashing.

And the fact that after a match the game hogs all the CPU usage and get a mayor ass memory leak upping 1million...

I'm just waiting for my computer to fry.

I love computer users today, 'these BETA drivers and this BETA game are not working perfectly, argh'. If only they had some sort of term that prepared users for the fact that software is not finished yet and may not be perfect...

 

[Ramin 123]

I knew it would blow hard, and I once right yet again.

I get it, Beta is all testing and shit, but if you're going to put an open Beta you should be prepared for a shitload of people playing. The amount of lag is fucking horrendous. I never had that issue with Call Of Duty. I want to like it, I really do, but fix the fucking lag in your fucking games EA.
Bad Company 1 Demo lagged
Bad Company 2 Beta lagged
Bad Company 2 Online Demo lagged
Battlefield 3 Beta lagged.

No other game on my PC or Ps3 has lagged as bad as these games have.

I got to agree there as someone who played the original Bad Company demo it was so fucking laggy, don't even get me started about the knife animation.....in both the demo and game.

I don't understand how I am lagging when my connection is this like...17MB download and 6MB upload.

 

[Dandark]

I tried it on Xbox, and wow is it ugly.

I died like 8 times before ever seeing a person, and it felt like the game was supposed to be a pixel hunt. Which is impossible due to the horrid graphics and lack of a scope on all guns but the sniper.

Also why do I have to unlock basic functionality for my classes? And where are all of the vehicles?

And falling through maps is stupid. The game has to ship in like 25 days. There just isn't enough time for them to have a chance in hell at fixing this mess.

The graphics look pretty enough to me on my old Xbox. Im hearing mixed reviews on the graphics so im wondering if they appear differently for some people.

I know what you mean about stupid unlock system. It's pretty much stopped me playing the beta on my own since I need to play the same map about 20 times just to unlock basic functuality for all classes since im not that great at this.

And what is with the flashlight? I have been trying to unlock it but apparently a flashlight is far more valuable than scopes and higher level guns.

 

[42]

I don't care about the whole graphics issue but this Beta is balls-crazingly buggy, and to make a comparison of a beta that wasn't as bad, and was more used carefully to sort out balance issues which is actually what a Beta should be, Halo: Reach did a waaay better job at Beta than BF3.

AS for the official Beta itself Battlefield 3 is eerily way too close to feeling like CoD, *ducks under flame shield* but again this is only because the vehicles aren't in it, and they are pretty much what defines a BF game to me, otherwise it just feels like a more smoother and more reasonably paced CoD shooter *ducks into Flame bunker* and to be honest i think coDs going to be the better game this summer *....* sorry i ran out of things that can protect me against the flames.

But Battlefield 3 isn't without merits. the game looks fucking gorgeous, however marred by the fact that i played it on 360, it's not as good as it could be or live up to the pre-rendered trailers and hype about the fucking graphics. but god this game looks better than real life. except death matches aren't real and any retard that believes that this stuff happens in real life are idiots.
*ends rant*

 

[aenimau5]

Bloody glitchy, sound randomly goes occasionally see thin lines of light wherever guns were fired. Ragdoll physics are funny though. Still fun though (shame about no vehicles).

 

[yuval152]

Arg, all the people treating this beta with old, basically alpha software as some kind of full-blown demo is just...

*ahem*

Seriously people:
- This is a beta test.
- It's using a shitty, even older version of the game, pretty much alpha software. It has shitty graphics, ridiculous bugs, you name it.
- This is not for your enjoyment. This is for reporting glaring bugs and testing the servers.
- This beta has only one map, two for the lucky ones.
- If you don't like certain features, don't just complain here, report them. You're a beta tester, you're supposed to do that.
- It's a goddamn beta test.

Now that doesn't change some very basic design ideas some people don't seem to like, like the graphical direction, and that's fine. But fuck, some of the complaints here, it's like some people thought it's already October 25th.

It's an older alpha build? Then how could it possibly be labeled as a beta?

I'm very confused.

betas are meant to test the stress on the servers,and some balancing tweaks.

 

[Creator002]

Played it a bit on PC and 360 (didn't try PS3 as I heard it was lag-tastic and my internet capped).
PC was excellent. Can't play for shit because I suck, but I liked it.
Xbox 360... that's another story. I could play it fine solo (still sucked as mentioned above), but if I joined a squad with a friend, I couldn't even get moving. The game would start, but no one could move. Only jump, crouch, lie down and look around.

Overall, I'm not a big FPS fan, probably wouldn't buy the game anyway, but it was fine for a few kicks. I'd probably like it better if I could get playing with my friend to work.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

I'm loving it so far, but I really miss vehicles, and that there's only one map... one extremely large map. It's a bit buggy, like invisible people, and bodys floating around on the ground, and there's some random disconnects from time to time, but overall it's great... I just fucking hate that flashlight thing

EDIT: I noticed alot of people complaining about the graphics. They look pretty good to me, and the lighting is pretty damn good. The destruction could use some work though. Shoot a fence and it gets destroyed a second later, but since this is a beta, i'm pretty sure most of theese things will be fixed. I'm just glad my PC runs it with no trouble at all. Yay for me... except the disconnects and such, but that happens to everyone

 

[mitchell271]

The game wouldn't connect at first but it's fun once you actually get in. The SV98 is overpowered but awesome to use, and they need to add squad orders for squad leaders on consoles (i.e. "Go here!" "Heath here!" "Ammo Here!") cause I don't want to compete with shouty 13year-olds arguing with their mothers over who gets to use the TV! (actually happened)

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

Love the game, hate how I have to use goddamn beta drivers for my gpu...
Seeing as the goddamn beta drivers keep crashing.

And the fact that after a match the game hogs all the CPU usage and get a mayor ass memory leak upping 1million...

I'm just waiting for my computer to fry.

I love computer users today, 'these BETA drivers and this BETA game are not working perfectly, argh'. If only they had some sort of term that prepared users for the fact that software is not finished yet and may not be perfect...

I know very well how beta's work, but that I have to use NVIDEA beta drivers to play the game is fucking ridiculous, especially since we all know that anything involving the word beta is unstable as fuck.

And yes I get pretty mad when said drivers keeps shutting my computer.
I'm not fucking stupid...

 

[ph0b0s123]

Love the game, hate how I have to use goddamn beta drivers for my gpu...
Seeing as the goddamn beta drivers keep crashing.

And the fact that after a match the game hogs all the CPU usage and get a mayor ass memory leak upping 1million...

I'm just waiting for my computer to fry.

I love computer users today, 'these BETA drivers and this BETA game are not working perfectly, argh'. If only they had some sort of term that prepared users for the fact that software is not finished yet and may not be perfect...

I know very well how beta's work, but that I have to use NVIDEA beta drivers to play the game is fucking ridiculous, especially since we all know that anything involving the word beta is unstable as fuck.

And yes I get pretty mad when said drivers keeps shutting my computer.
I'm not fucking stupid...

Look I am completely sympathetic with the frustration of things not working well. I just don't understand your expectations. Did you expect Nvidia to have perfect drivers for a game that has not even been finished yet. I was actually quite impressed that Nvidia had done anything for a game that was not finalised yet and will only be available for 10 odd days in it's current state. When the game comes out and Nvidia still don't have working drivers. Then by all means go full on rage at them.

Also you don't need to have the beta drivers to play the game. The beta driver just work better than previous drivers and have an SLI profile. You could have made an SLI profile yourself.

I love having others playing on PC, but if you cannot 'suck it up' for stuff like this, you may want to consider moving your gaming to consoles where you won't get these issues and the stress.