BF2S Forums What are your BF3 Beta Impressions?

FIrstly, I want to list a few things I enjoy about the game thus far.

- The movability feels much more fluent from BC2. PLaying many hours of BF2, I'm very used to the lighter style of engine, and was a factor why i never got into BC2. BF3 seems to be slightly lighter, though the animations do feel sluggish, it does feel a lot better. Thankyou. The Sounds are amazing, the atmosphere is great, but there are factors that immediately need to be addressed.


Faults:

- The Menu

The menu and settings in general is a joke to work with. Not only do you have to be deployed to change anything, such as video settings, etc, but in some cases you can even be kicked for idling while in this stupid thing.

- Killer Cam

Ok, I understand this guy killed me, can i edit my layout and/or change my gun now please? The amount of time I am changing my layout class / layout while readily availble to deploy is silly. Show the guy that killed me, sure, but if i hit a button (enter / whatever) take me to the deploy screen early.

- The Battle Log

I think the battle log is actually very good. Having a social side where everyone can pre-define where and what to do, have profiles etc. It adds to the atmosphere. It's a great concept, and i think people will grow for it.

HOWEVER, When i have a party of mates, and we join a game, can we PLEASE be put in the same squad and team? This is a major factor that had GREAT annoyance from myself and others.

This brings us onto squad management.

- Squads

I haven't played conquest, so i'm unsure if there are commanders or not, but the squad management is terrible. Firstly, i'm a fan of the 6 man squad in bf2. Not sure why it's limited to 4, but this is a minor issue. The main issue lies with not being able to even select the squad you wish to join. Not only now have a joined a game with my mates. Now i cannot get into a squad with my mates i'm actively talking to through vent / teamspeak!

- Voip

If i join a game on my own for some quick fun, i want to talk to my squad, and my team. That is just logic, and to not include this in the game is something that i'm throughly confused about. If i missed something, correct me here, but i didn't notice any in-game voip... only in the battle log, which is redundant if you're playing solo.

- Graphical / Engine issues.

When you are not moving, and you look at your feet, your feet do not animate
Constantly falling through the earth in various spots with no way to get back out
Looking down the scope does spaz out quite often, and also sometimes cannot look down the scope at all without first changing to another weopon and back.

Lastly, i cannot workout for the life of me how to hide and show icons above peoples heads. Sometimes it's there, and then suddenly it isn't. Logical choice would of been ALT (BF2), but that's a no.


Lastly, my computer specs and information.

i7 930 2.8Ghz
6GB Ram
GeForce 560
Driver version 285.38


I hope my Information doesn't fall to silent ears and is used to better improve gameplay with everyone

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http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/fo … 100254394/

They have alot of issues to fix, but once things are ironed out I would say it's a good game. Squad system is so bad, I really can't believe how awful it is.

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Is there a way to tell Orgin where to download/install the beta? I installed Orgin itself on my D partition, but it's downloading BF3 to my C partition, where I don't have enough room.

Yeah just found it. Thanks.

I voted bad.

tazz. wrote:

complaints

All those reasons are very annoying, especially squads.

Something else that really gets on my nerves is when you spawn your screen goes completely black for a second or two. What's that about? Several times by the time I can finally see I've already died.

And you can't bring up the Esc menu when you're dead. Massive oversight, very annoying.

Very disappointed with this beta. There are so many things wrong with the game it's unbelievable. The awful awful map isn't helping anything.

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2011-09-29 11:03:43)

Origin - broken

Artificial affectation of using your browser as a launcher - broken, silly, misguided.  Write your own damned launcher.

Config changes in game only - dumb dumb oversight. This should've been fixed during the game pre-planning sessions, before the first code was written

Poor network code - Holy fuck.  BF2 netcode worked better.  1990's eastern bloc netcode for Operation: Flashpoint works better.

Poor collision detection - models sinking into the environment, buggy code causing strange model behavior, scope issues

Other than pretty graphics, everything about this game is worse than 2001's Tribes 2.  Hell, BF2 is a better game than BF3, in ALL respects, save pretty DX11 graphics. Netcode, interface, server browser, environment/model interaction, squads, setting changes, etc etc.

How the hell does a company fail so hard, as to make BF3 worse than BF2, when they have the BF2 source code in hand?!

Why is every single server running the Metro map?

One of the main reasons I was excited for BF3 was jets.

I think it's good for a beta.  It comes with all the glorious beta issues you would expect.

My gripe is with the GUI.  Can't leave a game or do anything unless spawned in.

Battlelog needs a server join queue.

Can't do crap while waiting for the kill cam to go away.

Random issues with ability to scope and losing crosshairs.

I personally like the movement and shooting feel.

The inability to see squads is a bug as I have a friend who can see and move around squads fine.

"FALL BACK BLYAT"

It's like watching a cheesy movie.

The map just seems a bit claustrophobic but I am impressed. The Squad system is terrible like BC2 so that's a step backwards, but players only get one grenade so I'm content. Still doesn't beat BF2 though.

Not that it matters because I'll be on Karkand all the time when the game is out lololol

Kez wrote:

The map just seems a bit claustrophobic but I am impressed. The Squad system is terrible like BC2 so that's a step backwards, but players only get one grenade so I'm content. Still doesn't beat BF2 though.

Not that it matters because I'll be on Karkand all the time when the game is out lololol

You'll have to wait for the Back to Karkand expansion to be released. There is currently no release date for it, so you'll be waiting a while.