Battlefield 3

[Qalbert]

[Asilius]

Epicpenis

[Cail]

hahha wtfff

[Arrmani]

I'm excited about tank shells obliterating aircraft now. I haven't been lucky enough to hit a jet yet, but its frustrating when a transport helicopter is circling and I can't out damage the engineers. I'm not sure how I feel about IGLA doing 50% less damage now though.

[Dylon]

so.. watch this and get ready for #8

[avelle]

I'm going to ask a question that will probably get me laughed out of this thread. How is BF3's single player? I haven't picked up either this or MW3 and I generally play through single player before ever diving into multiplayer because frankly, I'm bad at FPS.

[Ezek]

It was ok. The only mission that I found to be exceptionally good was the 3rd or 4th one (jet mission). All in all, I liked the MW3 campaign more than the BF3 one while I found BF3's multiplayer more fun than MW3's.

[Arkanna]

I'm going to ask a question that will probably get me laughed out of this thread. How is BF3's single player? I haven't picked up either this or MW3 and I generally play through single player before ever diving into multiplayer because frankly, I'm bad at FPS.

It's pretty bad. I'd rate it "barely acceptable". Not only is almost all of the single-player campaign of the "follow your squad and watch them do stuff" variety, but it's got at least one game-breaking bug that I had to consult Google to find a way around. In this instance, near the end of the campaign, there's an on-rails event you have to tap various keys on your keyboard at a certain time to avoid dying. If you have Jump bound to any key other than Space, you die regardless of whether you hit it at the right time or not. All it took to fix it was re-binding Jump to the Space key until after the sequence, but that stinks of bad QA and shitty testing.

[avelle]

Ugh, well I got an email about BF3 being 40% off today so thought I would look into it, but I probably don't need another excuse to sit around and game all day anyways.

[Arkanna]

Ugh, well I got an email about BF3 being 40% off today so thought I would look into it, but I probably don't need another excuse to sit around and game all day anyways.

Trust me, the multiplayer more than makes up for the somewhat shitty singleplayer. The learning curve is steep though, so if hardcore FPS'ing isn't your thing, it's probably not worth the money. Question: have you ever played any flavor of Counterstrike?

[avelle]

Trust me, the multiplayer more than makes up for the somewhat shitty singleplayer. The learning curve is steep though, so if hardcore FPS'ing isn't your thing, it's probably not worth the money. Question: have you ever played any flavor of Counterstrike?

I've played CS and CS:S. Never competitively or anything, usually just with friends. I enjoyed TF2 quite a bit, but usually because I could run around as a Medic or Engineer and feel slightly useful!

[Arkanna]

If you didn't mind how fast you could die in Counterstrike, it won't bother you in BF3. Just saying that because you go down mighty fast in BF3 lol.

[Hank]

so.. watch this and get ready for #8

I typically hate commentary on video game montages, but I could listen to that guy all day. I found his voice soothing and his commentary was hilarious.

[Insanecyclone]

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Tomorrow between 10am CET and 11am CET we are going to perform maintenance on Xbox 360 and PC.

Back to Karkand Release Schedule
13th December
Xbox 360: starting at 09:00 GMT (1am PST / 4am EST)
PC digital: starting at 08:00 GMT (12am PST / 3am EST)

15th December
PC code in a box

BF3 PC Server R12 is due next Tuesday
BF3 PC Server R12 will be released on Tuesday. Exact timing to be confirmed; I will update this post once it is confirmed.

We will have a downtime for the master servers. The RSPs will begin updating their game servers at this point. Those admins which have had their servers updated to R12 can then add the Back to Karkand maps to the map rotation.

There will not be any client update - all that was taken care of last week.

Server R12 manual is available here.

Changelog
* General crashfixes
* Fixed problem where kits would remain on the level for a long time (>10 minutes); this would eventually make the server keel over
* The Back to Karkand maps are included

Notice that there are two variations on the Conquest gamemode. The differences are mainly to do with the flags. You will see a "#2" after the map name for a server that runs the second Conquest variation.

Game servers can mix and match B2K and non-B2K maps. Players who have not purchased B2K will be warned if they attempt to join a server with B2K maps in the rotation. Quickmatch will not send those players to servers with B2K maps in the rotation either. The guiding principle here is: if possible, avoid having people get kicked from servers.

[Ezek]

Hmm, seems like I'll be able to play a bit of Karkand before SWTOR launches (assuming I get in on the first early access wave). Hopefully enough time to unlock the FAMAS!

[Krazy]

Famas will take you all of five minutes to unlock.

[Omniyoji]

I typically hate commentary on video game montages, but I could listen to that guy all day. I found his voice soothing and his commentary was hilarious.

Yeah also liked Billy Idol. Didn't know he played BF3.

[Dmitry]

How is Back to Karkand? I can't play it because this game is still fucking broken and Battlelog needs abolished.

[ikethegreat]

Will we be able to use guns that have been unlocked in the expansion on all servers?

[kuronosan]

Will we be able to use guns that have been unlocked in the expansion on all servers?

Yes.

How is Karkand?

Wish I could tell you, but Origin authentication is down so I'm sitting here ready to throw a brick at EA's window.