Battlefield 3 -- the buggiest piece of crap I've ever played (not a CoD fanboy)

[Vakz]

Don't like bugs? Don't play beta.. Like already said a few times above; had this been a released product, I could very well have been the one who created this thread. But this is BETA. I've been in buggier betas than this that turned out alright for the released product.

 

[therandombear]

Usually I'd say "It's beta, can still fix it", but when they are only a month from released and as mentioned earlier, they go gold a few weeks before release. I liked the way Epic did for GoW3, beta several months early before release.

 

[BakedZnake]

Usually I'd say "It's beta, can still fix it", but when they are only a month from released and as mentioned earlier, they go gold a few weeks before release. I liked the way Epic did for GoW3, beta several months early before release.

I got to agree, few weeks before launch I doubt any of these bugs will be fixed, when it is released and it is true that there are a lot of bugs, the people who argue it's only a beta will fall back on "the game only launched what you expect all day on release games are buggy" excuse. Personally I partly blame these type of people for giving developers an excuse on releasing buggy games at launch and spend months trying to fix it while fanbois defend it to the death and flame anyone mentioning any valid problems with the game

 

[Beryl77]

This is the buggiest game you've ever played? Man I wish I was that lucky. I've played a lot worse games, games which wouldn't even start or simply crashing my computer every 15 minutes, one even fried my graphics card once.
The Battlefield games have always been buggy. I don't remember ever playing a bf game without it always crashing after a while and whenever they tried to fix that, they caused a new crash bug. Bfbc2 still crashes my whole computer and I bet that if I re-installed bf2 again, it would still crash.
Surprisingly, the bf3 BETA is the most stable version of a bf game that I've ever played. You've probably already tried this but there is a new driver from amd, which they released yesterday or so, specifically for bf3.

 

[sharpe95th]

Oh god it's horrible sometimes. Plenty of bugs, controlls not responding, I can'g get a sensitivity that feels right, dealing with the crappy EA servers, can't mute my team mates without going through loads of different menus. I want to love this game and there are times when I do, but it's full of niggling little things that detract from the experience. And guy's this isn't really a beta it's a demo they're just saying is a beta.

 

[Supertegwyn]

Sorry, you mean the Battlefield 3 BETA is the buggiest piece of crap you have ever played. Don't judge the game until it is released.

 

[yuval152]

I almost always fall under the map and have to sucide,also this map is horrible too many camping spots(not battlefield camp but COD camp),spawn camping,exploting proning,exploting the 4x sniper rifle scope at close range,no vehicles,at the subway it's very small,press RB dosen't bring up the knife but uses the knife and then i have to hold RB for it to use the knife and then put it in my hands,and the screen tearing & screen randomly flashes at a random color for a second.

It needs to get the worst beta of all time ribbion.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

I understand your use of hyperbole, but I must say that your complaints seem...misplaced. This being the Beta, this is exactly the phase where bugs are to be expected, as this is the phase of development where they deal with it. Pre-alpha would be grey-boxing.

I have yet to play it myself though so I can't defend or condemn the game's current state, I'm simply arguing semantics and purpose.

 

[Spencer Petersen]

The problem is that they aren't really looking for players to find bugs and report them, they are looking for people to get excited and sell the game by word of mouth. You can see it because they are actively encouraging the competitive gameplay when the real focus should be testing the game to its limits.

If the best AR in the game has a bug with its reload animation it will be found very quickly even without a beta, but when the weakest shotgun shoots at a teammate while in the air and stabbing causes you to gain invincibility and noclip that is the kind of obscure and hard to find but more gamebreaking problem that needs beta testing to sort out. The advice that DICE should be giving out is:
1. Look for weird geometric areas that may cause pathing issues and report any time you escape the level geometry.
2. Try out strange varieties of weapons and be on the lookout for problems with animations or mechanics when doing strange things (like reloading and switching weapons while hitting melee)
3. Test melee distancing and try to find issues that may cause unfair kills.
4. Push vehicles to their limits to see if high speed collisions cause physics glitches or errors.
5. Directly test weapons in controlled environments to see if they actually do the damage listed and aren't bugged when it comes to headshot hit detection or penetration.
6. Look for areas where the destructive scenery is too exploitable or is simply too ineffective to be feasible.
7. Try to find areas that can be used to unfairly spawn camp or cover an area without a workaround and report them.
8. Test the victory conditions by setting up confusing scenarios (like what happens if the attacking team loses its last reinforcement by the explosion of the final objective)

The problem with opening a beta and encouraging the competitive aspect in lieu of the bug-hunting is that it turns the players from testers to exploiters. If you found a way to escape under the level, why report it when you can have some fun pwning noobs? Maybe if I don't report this extremely rare and hard to find yet extremely powerful exploit I can use it when the game goes live. It encourages bad behavior, which is the single worst thing an online heavy game can do, turn its community toxic.

 

[Alduin Silas]

I enjoy betas, it's my way of playing a game and helping a developer by pointing out "Hey, yeah, this bit of wall killed me when I brushed against it." or "My 9mm pistol is shooting grenade sized explosives." It's about making a better game for when it's properly released.

 

[Jazoni89]

This is a beta, B E T A.

When a game is in "beta", that means the developers are still ironing out the bugs before release.

So if you come across a bug, report it like you are suppose to.

That is the whole god damn point of the beta, for players to play to find bugs.

 

[Woodsey]

Blah blah blah, beta is buggy.

If you're that concerned then hold off your purchase to confirm whether or not the bugs have been eliminated.

 

[Jazoni89]

This is a beta, B E T A.

When a game is in "beta", that means the developers are still ironing out the bugs before release.

So if you come across a bug, report it like you are suppose to.

That is the whole god damn point of the beta, for players to play to find bugs.

Are people deliberately being stupid or have EA included some weird subliminal in the programme?

This is NOT A FUCKING BETA.

YOu don't release a buggy unstable build of a premium rate game that you've hyped to oblivion at the expense of your rivals scant days before the game goes gold. You just don't. Beta tests are done months in advance so as to give time to FIX problems.

What on earth do you think DIce and EA are going to do in the meantime? Take the game back, cancel preorders, find a new publishing window and lose all remaining credibility?

Time to wake up folks.

And i still cannot play the game. Some beta, at least beta tests are supposed to be stable enough to actually run in the first place. This doesn't even do that. EA obviously aren't terribly interested: they've made their money from people like 'it's a beta woo woo'.

This hobby is it's own worst enemy.

It is a much earlier build of the game, so yes.

They use the beta as research for any potential future patches of bugs that they might of missed.

Games nowadays are much more complex, and sophisticated so this is necessary, especially on a multiplayer game.

 

[Woodsey]

Blah blah blah, beta is buggy.

If you're that concerned then hold off your purchase to confirm whether or not the bugs have been eliminated.

I am concerned. I was looking forward to this, but i place no faith in a company stupid enough to launch a public beta this late in the day. That's like going into the cinema to watch a movie and find them still filming it in the auditorium.

So wait.

 

[XDravond]

I really hope this is just a BETA and not "almost-finished-smoothed-out-all-bugs-we-think" because there's several not to great things, like unexplained blueish tint, sometimes choppy animations, seeing the scope over the whole map, feels sometimes unbalanced and some more...

But what annoys me the most is the kids running around complaining "this is not CoD stop camping", "go back to CoD noob", "prone is the worst thing EVER".
For those: go and play ARMA II (and save your money for ARMA III later...).