Battlefield 3 beta opens
You can now play the BF3 beta if you pre-ordered via Origin, or if you pre-ordered Medal of Honor in 2010.
The beta launches with just one map, Operation Metro, and offers only one game mode; Rush. However, there are no limits to the weapons and gadgets that players can unlock. Sadly, you won't be able to play the beta right up until the game launches on 25 October, though; the beta will end on 10 October - we always knew those Dice guys were teases.
Riding the beta wave of excitement and hype, both Nvidia and AMD have also released BF3 beta graphics drivers to bring their stables of GPUs up to date for the new game. You can grab them at the links below.
AMD 11.10 preview driver
Nvidia 285.38 beta driver
As with the full version of BF3, the BF3 beta requires EA's digital distribution platform Origin to download and run, as well as track stats and servers.
Have you pre-ordered on Origin just to get the beta early, or are you waiting patiently for Thursday to roll around and try before you buy? Alternatively, perhaps you're boycotting BF3 as a protest against Origin? Either way, let us know in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyEa will get no money from me while they monopolise their digital downloads through one service at a price that is more expensive than the physical copy. (that and i had a £15 amazon voucher xD)
Will be interesting to see how Origin handles the mass download as I guess there was no pre-loading and unlocking like steam does? I imagine there won't even be one for launch day either...which will suck and be akin to the steam days of old - loads of people whining about low bandwidth speeds on release day!
Direct Drive have it......
waiting for my MoH Bf3 key.....
and i had the alpha as well
GMT is UK GMT
pretty fast download too
As for download's I have never had any issues with the download speed from Origin or EA download manager, I always get a decent speed on 50mb I got 47mb and on the 100mb that I now have I get 98mb sometimes it hit's 100mb.
With Steam I am lucky if I get 40mb regardless of which server I try to download from.
I will be checking Steam though later to see if I have my code from the MOH LE game, as I got it before the date they have said for being eligible for the early access.
Used the password recovery system and it sends you a validation code which you are either supposed to click on the link or copy and paste, neither of which work.
Try to use their contact system and you have to log in to use it.
Awesome just freakin awesome.
Ignore, it has decided to work this morning.
Pretty annoying that XBOX and PS3 owners are actually playing the beta now. Considering that the beta for PC was waiting for the consoles to be accepted, its a bit shocking that PC users are last to get access to the beta.
Yet more evidence that PC's are taking the back seat in the eyes of EA. Very dissapointed in both EA and DICE.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3WWCL7UO
My issue with the weapon's was firing a mag of ammo in to a enemy using the "Terrorist" weapon's and that playing not being killed, but hitmarkers showing for every hit then for them to turn round and fire half or less of a mag in to me and I am dead.
My dad always wanted to see something like that as it was the same in BFBC2 and until I showed him it he didn't believe me but, now he has seen it he understand's why it annoys the hell out of me.
I don't mind the bullet drop over distance and the bullet moving due to the spin on it, going through the air etc that they had in BFBC2 but when you hit people and they don't die but hit you once and you die it really is a joke.
I will record a video and throw it on Youtube if I find it does the same thing on BF3 Beta and then post the link here for you guys to see what I am on about.
I am glad someone else understand's my point's about the spawn's though as I thought I was the only one that found it stupid, that the enemy team can just spawn kill for the entire game and there is nothing you can do to stop it, thanks to the lack of the random spawn's that other games have.
Either you are joking or your serious but OMG why boycott something because it requires a program running to play a game?
Would you Boycott the Call Of Duty games because they require Steam to be running or because the Half Life games require Steam?
I can say 90% confident that you wouldn't and my guess is you say boycott it because it's not available on Steam.
If the key doesn't show reload ad it will appear!!
Downloading now
^^ is either joking or trolling. :D
Nope. If you bought MoH Limited Edition on steam then you get the key via Steam in the MoH page.
i am having same problem
with trial an error i figered out the like it tells u to clik is your validion key u have to copy and past but then u put in your new password and tells u .............@gmail.com is invalid even thow it just sent u the validtion key there
I see what you're saying about spawn killing - it's plagued the BF series for ages. However, at the end of the day, it's meant to be a battle. And while annoying it might be, who wants to stand back and "let" the opponent spawn into position and then win the match?
When I play with my mates, we play for fun BUT we always play for the team and work as a team to win. And it's very satisfying to drive the enemy out of the flags and keep them stuck in their base. Sure, we could "stand back" and let them spawn but then...why "battle" with weapons and tanks? We might as well have a game of pushing and shoving and bad language...
Hence why we only play on HC servers with no rules.. apart from blatent glitch exploits or cheat/hacks..
Are you saying that you get 98Mb download speeds on a 100Mb line.....?
Yes I do.
When I download drivers etc I download at a speed of 100mb, when I download from the newsgroups I get 92mb, when I download via Steam my max speed is 56mb and Origin gives me 98mb.
I will happily screenshot it for you if I manage to get that speed tonight if I get my key today, aslong as the servers are not overloaded.
Here's the info.
If you purchased Medal of Honor through Steam prior to the July 26th, 2011 cut-off, you are eligible for early access to the Battlefield 3 Open Beta.
The Open Beta Early Access starts September 27th, 2011. The Open Beta will be available to everyone else on September 29th, 2011.
To view your key, go to Medal of Honor in your Steam Library, and click the âCD Keyâ link. Find the âBattlefield 3 Open Beta Early Accessâ key.
Getting Into the Open Beta
Battlefield 3 is delivered through Electronic Artâs Origin client.
1. If you donât have the Origin client already installed, please do the following:
a. Go here: http://www.origin.com/language and click your language.
b. Click âDownload Originâ to install the Origin client.
c. Follow instructions given during the installation.
2. Once you have Origin installed, run it and log in with your Origin ID. (This will be the same as your EA Account ID used in Metal of Honor.)
3. Click the gear icon in the top menu bar, and then select âRedeem Product Codeâ.
4. Enter your Battlefield 3 Open Beta Early Access product code .
5. Hit Next at the confirmation screen and the code will be redeemed.
6. Close the dialog box by clicking the X in the upper right once the code has been successfully redeemed.
7. Click on the âMy Gamesâ tab in the top left.
8. Find the Battlefield 3 Open Beta panel, and click on the âReady to Downloadâ button.
9. Click on the Download Now button, and follow the instructions of the Battlefield 3 installer.
More Info
You can find more information here: www.battlefield.com/beta.
Any Problems?
If you encounter any issues, the EA Customer Experience team is available and ready to help. You can contact them by using the Origin Help link (the ? in the top menu of the Origin client) or by visiting help.ea.com.
Steam delivered the key.
Origin auto-updated itself.
Downloading Beta at 3,4MB/s.
I would definitely play it that way! imagine the epicness of a carrier pidgeon wearing a soldier uniform slammin into your window with your BF copy, then install all 10.000 floppy! hope for none to be corrupted!
VIVA LE PIDGEON!
Disengages bitter mode :)
Nice
That AMD driver is corrupted though. Can't install it.
And for $£%* sake get over the gripping about Origin those who are. Of course EA while try to compete with Steam by launching it's own service. I use both, it's no big deal.
Signed
Ranty McRant
@Andy Mc - lol! I'm debating on being "sick" for the next couple days after doing the school run. :)
Bah! Lousy waste of a download! :(
You cant change half the keys.
If for some reason it's impossible to send the key to wuy could I have the second one? :p
On topic though... *ahem*... wouldn't it be impossible though to order twice through origin?
No, it is not good UI until they finally add the "Start minimized" option.
Agree - would of definately bought it orogin for that price but £39.99 is way too much imo - have never paid that much for a PC game especially a download with no physical copy. Resorted to buying from Amazon for £29.99 for DVD version and extra £2 or something for next day delivery to ensure i get it promptly...I am presuming that getting it a day late but installing it from disc will get me playing around the same time that everyone else has taken to download it!
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2221/origindownloadspeeds.jpg
I put the lack of the extra 10mb or so down to the amount of people downloading
Did you preorder BF3 from origin and get the code from MOH? If so you'll only need 1 of those codes. The other will be spare.
EDIT: Oh, rereading I see what you men. No, I'm sure different people could use the codes.
No I haven't pre-ordered yet. I was still weighing the options and hoping for a last minute Steam announcement or a better deal. I think I'm going to give this other code to a friend and let him try it out. I guess the worst that could happen is they cancel my origin account in which I have one game listed.... the BF3 alpha.
Thats the dream. Who is your ISP and how far are you from exchange?
All downloaded and ready, using it as a reward for getting some work done... bet that won't last though lol!
I will end up with my key after the normal beta opens up. EA suck at this kind of stuff.
Down to the new Battlelog system I guess, I don't see it as a big issue.
Only played a minute or so, updating drivers to the betas atm.
Sent from my GT-I9000
Instead of clicking the "Quick Match" button click the larger Multiplayer button it is on. That should bring up a list of servers which you can filter.
Game seems quite fun, does feel and look very similar to MoH.
Origin still needs work, as does BF3. They are still in Beta so we really shouldn't expect anything but I suppose.
And you cant access the game without starting Origin, starting Battlelog and successfully connecting to a server. Feels like a browser game.
You dont have a "out-game" menu for changing options and configure the game. If you are changing whatever option and someone kills you (friend or foe) you lose what you were configuring.
Finally, someone found out how to quit the game while in the countdown for the next match? Whitout being Alt+F4?
"Feels like a browser game." <- That's just silly. It doesn't feel like a browser game when you're playing the game at all.
"You dont have a "out-game" menu for changing options and configure the game. If you are changing whatever option and someone kills you (friend or foe) you lose what you were configuring." <- Yep, that's annoying for sure. Wish they would open up the menu/options to out-of-combat time.
"Finally, someone found out how to quit the game while in the countdown for the next match? Whitout being Alt+F4?" <- There are three ways to quit. 1) Alt-F4 (hardly an inconvenience), 2) Alt-Tab, connect to a new server, 3) wait until you're in combat, Esc, quit.
The game is *amazing*. The only bad thing, honestly, is the video/sound/keybind settings only being available in combat, rather than just "in game".
The game itself is excellent, so I'm hoping for a fix soon.
I'm on Virgin Media, and I live about 2 miles from my local exchange.
I just wished I lived somewhere else at the moment because the speed's would be incredible!!!
3.9gb took me about 10 minutes or so to download
Be patient with battlelog, they are being swamped. HOWEVER, in the period that I was playing (~4 hours), it does look like they've updated Battlelog, seemed to run better. Nice thing about the web-based browser, they can meddle with things on the back-end and not need us to download anything new.
Thats very true. Seems to be a lot people complaining about the Battlelog thing but I've heard it boots the game in less than 30 seconds once you connect to a server which sounds good to me! Also read a few forums and other sites with people commenting on how they couldn't work out how to join a server...saying how clicking Quick Match put them in a queu of 80 people etc...however a lot of people are saying it's easy, you just find a server with a some spaces in it and join! Exactly like BFBC2. I'm presuming those struggling are those used to MW or other shooters. Thats not a slur on them at all, after all Quick Match should be exactly that but i think if you are used to Battlefield games it will actually seem pretty simple.
Anytime I clicked something, like in the MOUSE column to set my crouch to one of my mouse buttons, nothing happened and the mouse pointer woudl vanish until i hit ESC and tried again.
Sucks as I love the game, but cant config it to my usual BF setup.. So i sucked.. well.. I sucked more so than normal.
Same with my dad he was about to cancel his pre - order because of it, as apparently they hadn't even thought about mouse binding according to a rep from Dice.
My dad loaded his mouse software and work's for him now after he stopped spitting his dummy out :) and now he loves it.
The one I do not like is the stupid online server browser, takes ages to find a game then takes ages to connect to it and load it, and the quick match thing barely works.
I just hope in the final release there is a in game server browser and all the normal stuff otherwise it's a no brainer as not to be bought by me, simply because I don't see the point in loading in to a server just to change a few options if needed.
If you're on the Virgin 100Mb service then you'd download around 12 or 13MB/sec at most.
Hmm hadn't installed the specific mouse software.. I'll give that a go. Ta.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/09/battlefield-3-is-fast-and-deadly-but-the-user-interface-needs-work.ars
lol... dated hardware trying to keep pace with a modern title. You get what you pay for afterall! ;)
I am still hungover from post-work celebrations last night, this made me smile (in a schadenfreude/total-******* kind of way!). Seriously though, I can't understand why they complain about muddy textures - there isn't enough memory and it's not a game which can afford to have CoD's miniscule levels to compensate.
I can't wait to get into the beta, hopefully they will patch some of the problems before the open beta begins.
Hazro HZ27WD testing my 2 gtx580s 7680x4320 but i dont think i will be able to use that res though
It's a PC Game for once. For the past 6+ years we've been treat like lapdogs with inferior console ports. Now it's time for the console players to feel what we've had to put up with!
If they want to have good graphics buy it on the PC, this is where the BF Genre grew from NOT a
bloody dated console!
You sir are ignorant or just ill-informed. He's talking Mega-bits per second not Mega-Bytes..
So your both right.. Note his use of the LOWER case 'b'? Although the lower 'm' would be millibits lol..
What is 8x13? Oh it's 104 isn't it? And 8x12 is 96... What a coincidence..
Shattered the open beta opens at 10pm for me, 20hour wait before I can play :(
Added more ram to bring me up to 8GB for this as my HDD keeps taking a spanking when paging dragging all my games down as of late. Maybe I shouldn't keep so much stuff running when playing games? :P
Click Play game > Launches web browser (WTF) > OK.. Ill go with it > Click game to launch > Install plug-in for Firefox.. Really.. WTF? > Install plugin > Attempt to join game > "You must be using latest Nvidia Beta drivers to play" *sigh*.
Why can't it just launch like a normal game and at the very least, allow me to use the latest WHQL drivers rather than beta?. Messing with my browsers to play is NOT cool, nor is having to install beta GPU drivers.
I under stand that the game is Beta, but why does the rest of my machine have to be?
Because it is a BETA!
It is a beta of a game that hasn't been released yet, so yes you are going to be using Beta drivers optimised for the best performance for that title. You are lucky that the card manufacturers are on the ball enough to have drivers out for the Beta before hand. It is a 30 second download and a couple of minutes to install the drivers, hardly the end of the world.
At least you have drivers that will give you decent performance in a game that hasn't been released yet.
I really don't see the problem.... :|
Can you run it on that res? :D
Just a shame you have to load origin, it seems to take ages to load for me.
operation metro has very bad clipping, and many times I have fallen through the ground into a pit of nothingness and it has taken good timing to get out. I would have expected that map to be much better finished off by now, considering it was also in alpha.
I do think that the majority of issues will be resolved by the time the game is released though, I have faith in DICE to do the best they can.
and LOL at xbox screenshots, it looks terrible compared to PC, glad i dont have an xbox
I do understand what you are saying but these core functions aren't going to get changed by Launch. I'm still going to have to install crappy plugins for my browser to be able to play a game, which by rights should be a self contained piece of software.
If it was JUST Origin fair enough. Browser plugins too? Not cool.
In addition I managed to get the game launched with the drivers I was already running (I just kept mashing play and cancelling warnings until it launched), Frame rates were great but random black screen flickering like BC2 ensued, which is fine because I know the settings that cause it.
Install beta drivers anyway so that I don't have difficulty launching the game, reboot, black flickering is gone but frame rates are about 10 lower than before if not worse.. Yeah those drivers are AWESOME AND TOTALLY improve performance.. Oh wait.
So we have a server browser that smacks of EA trying to be twunts and forcing you to install their crap when steam is perfectly good.
Drivers said to improve performance that make things worse..
Oh yeah, and to top it off, post process effects that are actually making me motion sick, that no matter what I turn off, don't seem to go away!
First game that's ever made me motion sick.
Seriously tempted to cancel my pre-order at this rate, if nothing else other than the motion sickness and the poor software that is Origin.
I bet you play the **** out of it and you dont cancel your pre order :p
Scratch that, kept F5'ing and after a few minutes it opened up, downloading @ 700KB/s which isnt too bad.
Edit: 1:22 remaining :D
Took a few attempts to get Origin working though as it wouldn't load up the main page where you choose the games for some reason. Closed and restarted it 3 times until it worked but when it did it was very easy to use.
So the crux of my post? I like the game...A LOT and if any of you see me (chris24031982) just remember, go easy on me
To be honest, i found spawn killing to be pretty bad on some BFBC2 servers.
Web platform is terrible.
Site "breaks" if you try to resize to fit smaller window.
Useless voice chat plugin REQUIRED.
Server browser lacks filters and "goodness".
Friends list and "social" aspects are poorly thought out.
Have to be alive and in a game to change video/keybinding settings. Woo, free frags!
Can't bind mouse buttons.
"Reset All" button i keybind menu resets ALL game settings. Video, Sound, etc.
Can bind multiple commands to 1 key. "F" became step right, stab and prone.
I didn't get to play any of the game because apparently my preference to have jump on right mouse is unsupportable. Also I don't want a game to feel like I'm facebooking...
the game:
Very jumpy/laggy my first few goes (around 5pm) making it pretty much unplayable however I left game and made sure my graphics drivers were up to date and restarted machine and went off to make dinner. Went back on around 7pm joined a UK server and game played fine.
I'm running a pretty good laptop but nothing compared to some of you guys. 2.53hz (6 MB Cache) Core 2 Duo, HD 4650 (1 Gig graphics), 6 gig ram, Windows 7 64 bit. I'm happy with the laptop and I'm certainly not going to change it just to get Ultra settings on a game - it's mainly a work laptop so think it's still got at least another year in it before i consider replacing it.
Graphics - set them at medium, looked good, around the same as BFBC2 I would say which is fine by me. I buy games for the gameplay more than the graphics. I do think the design/textures etc are better in BF3 than BFBC2 and I think the game overall looks a lot more realistic than BFBC2 but i can't put my finger on why...it's just evolved i guess and Frostbite 2 engine is doing what it set out to do.
Gameplay - I mainly play BFBC2 but i only play a couple of hours a week so am only on 17th rank. Doesn't bother me about always trying to rank up, i'll keep playing it as I enjoy it. i also still enjoy multiplayer on the old Call Of Dutys (2 and Modern Warfare 1) so i can't be bothered with the "ones better than the other " debate as they are different styles and thats preferential to whomever plays them. I personally prefer BFBC2. I have to say I was mighily surprised by the gameplay in BF3 - I didn't realise it would feel so different than BFBC2 but it felt a lot more real. Maybe it was the design layout of the level where it was easy to crawl within 5 metres of someone without being seen, the feel of the guns etc. I was loving the vaulting, very smooth. The map felt big and small at the same time - 32 players but sometimes you couldn't see any enemy - so this reflects the more mature/realistic nature of the game I suppose and it also means it fluctuates between deadly quiet and all out warfare in short bursts making it very intense and making you stay on your toes. This is a good thing.
I would say that you seem to get XP points for every single thing though and I think that needs to be calmed down...points for someone spawning on you? I suppose they are rewarding you staying alive but sometimes I was respawning after dieing only for someone else to respawn on me 2 seconds later giving me points...seems wrong.
A few other thoughts (some may see these as cons but i think they are less cons but just differences you have to get used to):
Team play: The map made it difficult to work as a team but this may be because it's full of people just playing the game to see what it's like instead of Battlefield players used to doing things the Battlefield way. or it's the nature of this indivdual map - I would guess Caspian border is better for team play as it's larger and more open but we won't know yet.
Loadouts: Again linked to team play I will have to get used to the new roles of soldiers - where in BFBC2 everything seemed quite defined (e.g. Medic, recon, assualt,engineer) the new loadouts mix this up a bit so will have to get used to that. not a bad thing but just something to get used to.
Weapons: didn't feel that different to each other but overall felt more refined and less forgiving than other Battlefield games. Sure my view will change when i start unlocking things.
Audio: Cant comment as couldn't be bothered setting up sound system and couldn't fine headphones so it was just coming through laptop speakers. BFBC2 audio was excellent though so I'd be surprised if this wasn't
Bad things:
BFBC2's squad sytem wasn't broken - they should of left it as is.
Map: We need to see a bigger map please - gameplay changes a lot in Battlefield games depending on which map you play, which to me is the beauty of them, - would like to paly vehicles and a larger map to get into some proper team playing.
Overall - mighty impressed. Some teething problems with Battlelog etc but this is a BETA. they probably won't change the battlelog system for launch as thats one of the things they have promoted a lot and it's in direct competition as a free version of MW3's new social network thing. If there is one thing they should change it's the squad management system so friends can play with friends...that's the most social aspect of these games not commenting on each others profiles on Battlelog.
I'm with you on pretty much all of it.
Squad play does happen but only if you make the effort.
As i've been playing for a while now i've switched player type.
Everyone is a Medic/Assault! ok not all but a high %
You can rack up some really good points with it.
But only if you do it right.
Hardly anyone seems to be able to revive.
I've just unlock the UMP so i've added it as my Support gun.
Ammo points are great.
Lots of Blopers on moaning as well....
Yep, forgot about that one lol
had a few problems with Origin to start with - not showing games etc - but just started it and closed it down a few times until it sorted itself out. Now it's fine. Use Google Chrome for Battlelog - it seems to prefer that to Firefox - and once you install the plugin you should restart the browser then reconnect to battlelog as that seems to sort a few niggles out.
You have to remember that this is a beta and these problems are the reason the run beta's - to see what problems people are having with all aspects of the game so they can be fixed prior to release. It's not a demo as such which a lot of people seem to forget, but at the same time I understand your frustration.
I believe EA are updating things in the Beta though to fix big issues so just keep trying for a few days...you can cancel your pre-order a couple of days before the release date so might as well not jump the gun before the end of the Beta testing.
I saw yesterday that if you call up the map and press N twice it zooms in once, and then zooms out and shows pretty much the whole map. Though, it does not fill the screen, which is a bit of a kicker.
Will see how it works in release.
Yeah, the comments in that article are sadly hilarious. One thing that pisses me off about consoles and Macs is that it's technology without responsibility. I'm not saying everyone should get a Phd in computer science (lord knows I'll never have one of those,) but that you at least need to understand the basics.
You don't go out and buy a Toyota Corolla and then say "MY COROLLA HAS FOUR WHEELS AND AN ENGINE LIKE A BUGATTI VEYRON! THEY SHOULD PERFORM EXACTLY THE SAME!!!"
Oh, but my favourite comment was about the guy who said that consoles actually "saved" gaming because, well, games are getting shorter...but if everyone was focused on updating the hardware they'd be shorter still. Right. Because back in the late nineties, when the PC was king and hardware changed every six months, games were much, much shorter than modern ones. Never mind that it's the constant trade-in culture on the consoles that pushes shorter games.
No, I boycott Call of Duty games because they're ****.
Assault does seem to be the primary class at the moment but once you have tanks there'll be much more of a need for engies, I stopped playing engy tbh because the RPG is pointless and I refuse to run around using it on infantry.
Need to give support a proper go too, looking like that'll be tonight :)
I'm presuming not but I was thinking about how much harder everything is working to give you those Ultra settings and whether this would affect anything - mainly affecting how quickly information can be sent and received. But then maybe it's a case of if oyu have good hardware it the same as having lower grade hardware running at a lower setting?
Longer answer: sometimes. If your framerate resembles a slideshow then your ping will go up. I know this because I have, in the past, been auto-kicked from a game because my computer lagged so much my ping went through the roof.
But under normal circumstances I can't imagine any ping problems if you are running BF3 above 20fps.
Also - does anyone else think the reason they released Metro as the beta level was as it was one of the smallest and most linear levels to not scare the CoD crowd too much?
I was trying to think as to why they had not released something a lot more Battlefield style like Caspian Border and thought that this is the most likely reason. If you let the CoD crowd who had never played Battlefield on to the Caspian Border level it might be too much of a change from what they are used to.
I pre-ordered my game from EB Games so I don't have access to the Beta. I didn't plan to play it but now that all my friends do, it's kind of annoying to wait :(
@mongpong. Yes, just yes. I don't care really, as long as there's a mix of map types.
I canceled my pre-order right after the alpha because I couldn't help but feel like I've already played bad company 2.
You should have played the Caspian Border map.... it truely is Battlefield 3.... ;)
Sure. The problem is that sometimes 90% of the both teams are prone all the time. At least for now there is a bunch of idiots putting flashlights and laser guides on their guns. I especially love the snipers with the flashlight, it is a sort of "idiot indicator" - "Hey, i am a sniper and i am hidden here" :D
Imagine Jim Carey fighting his own hand... That's me right now, fighting myself from downloading the thing
Those aren't flashlights. That is the scope glare you get when you point a sniper scope at someone.
Glad I hadnt pre-ordered, but if I had I would cancel it.
There are still too many bugs and the inability to properly configure mouse and keyboard makes it unplayable for me.
Did you download the game through Origin or some other source ? If other source, then that answers your question.
Now i just need to see if it works
All sorts of important settings are only available while you are deployed.
Who the heck wants to change key bindings while under fire?
If they don't fix those two thing at the LAUNCH, this game will be for sale on eBay. Hey it's the LE version!
Don't buy this game...I don't want the competition later this month.
It is called a tactical light.
It's an unlock add on.
The gameplay is awesome. the weapons seem very authentic. You cant spray etc standing up which is good. graphics are great even on Low/Low/Low. Runs fine on my Q6700@Stock/4GB/5770 (Oc'd) - can push to low/med but prefer the extra FPS. Preording now. :)
I haven't either and i played the Alpha as well
Overall I am happy with the beta (demo), I'll be buying it for sure. Just because the beta has no vehicles and that should be fantastic with the retail version! The sound is crazy too, it actually sounds as if your there. Top notch rendering on their part.
The web launch is not a big deal. Origin is not a big deal. Get over it and enjoy an excellent game. Cry babies I swear...
SPAWN>HIDE>ESC.
E6700, 6gb RAM, 6850 1gig. I did 'Can you run it' and it said my computer was below the recommended but i still get 25 fps+! Must say i'm very impressed!
Ultra isn't actually ultra in the beta.
I probably will not buy it at full price but will probably buy. Maybe I'm playing the wrong kind of game for my personal tastes.
That would explain it!
the beta is old code, we're playing on an old build because dice needed so long for sony and microsoft to ok it
Coming to Beta this weekend - only for the PC!!
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2826564925967583255/1/
then tell us BF3 is crap
And its now Active!
Welcome to the forums BTW ;)