Battlefield 3

[kuronosan]

We got it working. You can also click to their profile and choose it as an option when you click "Join this person".

Every time we've tried to join as a party though it hangs on joining and we don't even get squaded up.

[Salodin]

You can create a squad yes. I do it on 360, all you do is go to manage squad before a game, and invite whoever. Once they accept it you guys get made into a squad with 4 slots; there is no confirmation message or anything though, it just happens and if you don't see your menu you wouldn't even know you were in a squad.

The system is still glitched though, my squad will join with me, but once you're in the game the server forgets about your squad and you guys get split up. So at least we all join the same game, but being in the same squad or even same team is iffy. More often then not we'll be on same team but on different squads, we usually just join and leave a squad between deaths until we all get back together. It's definitely glitchy, but it's there if you try hard enough.

[Greedouw]

PP-2000 OWNS

[Salodin]

I don't like it much.

[Tekki]

http://kotaku.com/5845851/frustrated...eful-community

About a week before the Battlefield 3 beta began, the game's community manager had decided he'd heard enough shrill complaining about the fact that "Operation Metro" and not some other map would the only one playable. And so he went off.

Rewind: Operation Metro was revealed to be the beta map on Sept. 20. Apparently, large numbers of forum goers thought some other map would be used, like one that allowed up to 64 players. The choice of Metro did not sit well with many, and the Battlefield forums were filled with great anger and profound disappointment. This is what Daniel Matros, DICE's global community manager for Battlefield 3, had to confront at the end of the day.

"Right now, I am not in the mood to even browse in here and check out most parts of the forum," Daniel Matros began on Sept. 20. Saying that "the beta is a privilege, not a right," unless you got a key with a pre-order, Matros ripped into the whiners, still with a measured tone that suggests he had to choose his words carefully.

"The vibe I'm getting now is just that tons of ungrateful people don't understand how much work we are putting on this game how many overtime hours we are doing and also how many meetings we are in to ship a game like this."

Matros thanked those who did provide constructive feedback. "To the rest of you—grow up."

Two replies later, proving his point, someone wrote: "Why aren't you releasing Caspian Border in the beta?"

It should be noted that although this thread no longer exists (a cache of it does) even a cursory Google search of the forums turns up threads backing Matros.

As for why they went with Operation Metro, not something else, well, it's a beta. "We have already showed this map and made some big changes to it to enhance gameplay as well as get it more fluent than in the Alpha," Matros explained later. "Lots of new things have been added in closer to launch. Our rank progression system as well as customizations have made their way into the beta and it´s very important for us to test these things before we launch. That is the purpose of the Beta as well as combining it with Battlelog and all of the features there. If you feel that this isn´t the right map for you, then perhaps we don´t really agree on what maps we want to see."

It is indeed hard not to be sympathetic. These games are not made by elves. We've heard plenty about "crunch" at the end of a development cycle, I'm sure the last thing anyone wants to deal with, amidst all of that, is inconsiderate sniping and snide questions from some entitled dickbag who is unhappy that the free thing he's being given isn't optimized for his comfort.

It is, however, rare to see this kind of thing play out, probably why the thread is gone. The Battlefield 3 beta runs until Oct. 10. I hope everyone survives.

EA needs to get a new community manager, or he needs to keep his mouth shut, and simply focus on the launch.

[Insanecyclone]

It's a boring as fuck map for rush. Should have been the conquest version. Plus Caspian Border looks like a real BF map, not this shit.

[Avarice]

I was so excited when upgrading the Recon kit when I saw my next unlock was the SOFLAM. Then I unlock it and in big letters across the screen as it's displaying a picture of the item it says "NOT IN BETA."

[Insanecyclone]

[Gekii]

man watching someone that actually knows how to pilot a jet is awesome, too bad ill never be able to fly like that

[Misterjingles]

Sniper rifles without the LOLLENSFLARE scope are deadly as fuck. I've done it with iron sights and with an ACOG and it's glorious. I don't think that the ACOG gives off a light when using it.

Also, you think if Ace Combat: AH comes out with the flight stick bundle that it'll work on PC? Looking to get a flight stick...

[Salodin]

No scope gives off a flare if it's under 7x, so yeah acog won't do it.

[shidobu]

lol guys if you are lose the first area and still alive and haven't spawned in the subway. Run to the far right tunnel. go prone, mow down anybody that enters that mouth its so small/confined its really rape town for anybody trying to get in.

[jmc]

Hey man, I snipe from dumb shit island

[Insanecyclone]

[Kurokikaze]

Omg I thought something was odd when I would get randomly one-shotted.

That shoot first thing happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

[Vandole]

anyone want to play on pc soon and want to be in the presence of a god? add me :D itsvandole

[Misterjingles]

I always thought that getting one-shotted was a person scoring a head shot on you so never gave it too much attention.

Fuck yeah guided missiles.

[Kurokikaze]

anyone want to play on pc soon and want to be in the presence of a god? add me :D itsvandole

Oh dang I would've played but had a meeting early in the morning... then I wake up early and get an email saying it's cancelled.

[Demosthenes]

What a garbage game

[shidobu]

wanna put some complaints behind your reasoning.. or you just suck at the game?