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[flycatchr]

i havent been on the sgs forums, so i dont know if any of the points i am going to bitch about have been covered, but my first 20 minutes or so of playing was a nightmare

seriously dice made a game loading THROUGH a web browser??
nothing is intuitive (yet one can only hope)
cant key bind - I know that is covered elsewhere - just me bitching
not much in the battlelog is intuitive either, nevermind that you cant right click on anything to get game specific options, you have to get the next page (friends for eg)
Am i a noob, because none of my team mates had ANYTHING to tell me that they where in my squad or team - am i missing something? no little triangles above their head - I only managed some kills cause there where no TIIINNNYYYY little trianlges in fron of me inthe mini map
for a change the team balancing desnt work
what voip murgs?? set it up in battlelog - RIIIIIGHT - please tell me where? comm centre - cant see where to "SET UP" is - again maybe i am missing something.
and then IN the com centre, you click on a friend online and you got to their profile??????????????? seriously like WHAT THE FRIKKEDEL???
and your avarta cant walk over a railway line?? - i know mega will bePISSED at that

on the plus side
iburst seems to handle the latency - I got so involved that I didnt check any figures.
the maps are sweet. - specially with settings on high

flame away - i only started playing late last night

[Megageth]

Its cos you have a kak pc.

[flycatchr]

yeah must be the rig geth - what drivers where you talking about - as i have DLed almost everything ito drivers this last weekend.

just so that i am clear - i am talking about "floaty names are off" any ideas how to turn on?

[Stu]

we do need to bear in mind that this is a BETA so that in mind I shall continue.

1stly - The game runs on my box in a manner of words.

I've had to install a new set of Nvidia drivers that are in Beta, and I'm still getting GFX errors after running the game for 30 mins or so.

Not sure if that would change much with the official release.

In terms of the web based interface - my mind isn't made up as of yet, yes we not used to these functions as they have generally been game driven but I can clearly see where EA is going with Origin just another 'Steam' client sitting on our desktops.
Its certainly innovative but I'm not sure how it will pan out.

I'm sure j0n0, murgz & mega will be most pleased cause you can stat-whore the crap out of the data they provide and it is instant through the web interface, so they where looking to the Soldier 'avatar' kind of feel. Not to sure what the old folk will make of it.

Other issues exist like spawn camping retards from COD and the like!

Frag Grenade's getting stuck in the shrubbery! Over powered weaponry.

Look maybe its not the best experience considering my system spec's and it being a beta.

[pmurgs]

Fly, you setup your voip in the task bar at the bottom on the battle log. Then you join (or create if you are first) a party and click to join the voip in the party window.
Team mates are blue, squad mates are green... you should see this over their head by their name... how you got them turned off, I dunno lol. Must be your poor rig Fly.

But I do hope they sort out the squad issues. If we cannot form up somehow to play together, this game will suck. I'd prefer to play BC2 again then.

[SlipperyDuck]

They have promised to sort out Squad Management for PC - it worked fine for PS3 and XBOX beta

[flycatchr]

Fly, you setup your voip in the task bar at the bottom on the battle log. Then you join (or create if you are first) a party and click to join the voip in the party window.

i hear you, but its not intuitive and i could only see the create party, were there where two friends online that i couldnt right click and join - hence the rant about the web interface

[Megageth]

From what I hear both Nvidia and ATi released beta drivers just for BF3. Sounds like there are still lots of problems, both with the drivers and with BF3.

[SlipperyDuck]

*sigh, it's sad that people didnt'/havent read up on all things BF3 Beta- - they said that the BF3 BETA was pre-alpha code used primarily for load-testing and that it would be pointless pointing out the numerous bugs that they were already aware of.
That stopped nobody though, and I suppose the community managers didn't re-enforce that point, so the result is that people are thinking that less than a month away THIS is the code we are going to get with patches on ZERO-Day.

Bottom line, this was and always will be a LOAD test, (the beta) designed for Load-Testing the Servers and Battlelog with tweeks that will make the Launch sucessful (Supposedly).

EDIT: Anyway - thats my contrib for the day ... peace out

[Onyx]

*sigh, it's sad that people didnt'/havent read up on all things BF3 Beta- - they said that the BF3 BETA was pre-alpha code used primarily for load-testing and that it would be pointless pointing out the numerous bugs that they were already aware of.
That stopped nobody though, and I suppose the community managers didn't re-enforce that point, so the result is that people are thinking that less than a month away THIS is the code we are going to get with patches on ZERO-Day.

Bottom line, this was and always will be a LOAD test, (the beta) designed for Load-Testing the Servers and Battlelog with tweeks that will make the Launch sucessful (Supposedly).

EDIT: Anyway - thats my contrib for the day ... peace out

Thanks for that, Lee. Now I can direct my wobblies purely towards the CoD kiddies who keep owning my ass. Much more satisfying even though they can't even hear what I am saying about them