BattleField 3

IvyFanboy

IvyFanboy

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Expected to the shooter of the year and the next evolution of the FPS genre, BF3 early BETA is NOW and very soon for everyone. Post your experiences here and discuss new info.

So key observations:

  • Damage feels higher then BF:BC2. Enemies seem to drop at a satisfying amount of damage
  • The knife does a slow semi-cinematic kill to prevent it from being abused like in COD games
  • The GUI now displays your health %
  • There are 3 items/buffs outside your main/primary guns
  • The jump button now doubles as a "climb over" button similar to COD. You are very vulnerable in this transition and there's a lot of camera movement, so don't be careless
  • There are flashlights, and in some very cool areas this can be useful. It can also blind the opponent for surprise pop ups.
  • Noticing a scope lens flare is pretty easy if you're looking for it, so this will dissuade a lot of camping snipers
  • Grenades feel stronger. RPGs feel weaker
  • Scoping now has a sway, holding shift will cause you to hold your breath and aim like in COD
  • Prone feels balanced. It's not near as quick as COD prone so it can't be abused for quick crouch shooting.
  • You can now strafe while running forward, making circle strafe possible
 
Sounds awesome. According to the video interview on the Xbox dashboard the open beta begins on Sept. 29th so the rest of us don't have too long to wait.

Does the scope sway thing help prevent quick scopers or does it not affect that very much?
 
yes. You can aim as it sways, but it's difficult and you shouldn't be able to quick scope kill outside of point short range. It feels right.

Played some more, game just feels good. It feels like a mix between what COD did right and Battlefield:BC2. COD has some great elements that got tacked on here and I feel they implemented them way better. prone position feels balanced and you can't use it brainlessly like in COD. I think we get a 2nd map tomorrow. So far no vehicles. Also seems like ammo clips are a bit larger too. I find my self able to get a few kills in the heat of battle and not have to desperately count my ammo in a close range fight.

Only thing weird so far is rockets feel vastly under powered. I feel like my grenades are devastating and my RPGs barely register unless it's dead on.
 
Ah, seems i may have been looking in the wrong place for the drivers. I tried to do an update and kept getting the 280 and I need the 285 version. I did a google search and got pinged to the nvidia site to a page specifically for it and I guess since it's a Beta update, it wasn't detected by normal methods of auto updating. So if anyone else is having issues when they get the beta tomorrow, try google searching for the drivers, you will all likely need this for PC.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-285.38-beta-driver.html
for nvidia/win 7.

ALSO:
 
I cant believe this thread wasn't created sooner this game is gonna be amazing I cant wait to start playing with infantry only on. Really all I want is to have jeeps only and no other vehichles just as means to get somewhere quicker. But having no vehicles at all will do too (Dice officially announced that as a feature by the way).

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You should add a gadget list I know theres a link to the list of all the gadgets I like the flash suppressor it suppresses the muzzle flash.
 
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