Aerothorn on 25/10/2011 at 16:11
Sadly, I'm gonna have to duck out of this thread for a week or more, as I just got assigned the review-writing job for BF3 (we didn't get a review copy for this one :( ) and I want to go in blind as much as possible.
Look forward to hearing all of your thoughts when I'm done!
Love, Aero
wonderfield on 25/10/2011 at 19:01
Quote Posted by Koki
And changing the FOV requires restarting the level. LOLWUT.
Funny, isn't it? All the new-age graphical wizardry in this renderer and they can't modify the view frustum without reloading the map.
Jason Moyer on 26/10/2011 at 00:26
Quote Posted by mothra
the singleplayer is really bad. like....medal of honor bad
Weird, I thought MoH was the best of the "modern warfare" campaigns.
EvaUnit02 on 26/10/2011 at 02:18
Forget it, Jason. It's Mothratown.
mothra on 26/10/2011 at 02:32
MOH-bad means that your squad does the whole job. if you let them. if you take point and go forward they will push you out of cover or just stand for hours infront of an enemy and trade potshots with him. FROM LITERALLY 1 METER DISTANCE. I thought I am in the movie PoliceSquad!
Every action requested of you makes no sense at all in a military sense. go there do this. NO, you moron, you provide cover-fire. one stays back and covers the approach. but no we all go guns-blazing because we are bots and we never die. The list goes on.
another mission has you traversing a street with conveniently parked cars that the enemy can take out per rocketlauncher. So I snipe the rocket-launcher dudes because I spot them. But my squad just runs in the middle of the cars. After I killed all threats I follow. SUDDENLY a rocket out of thin air appears and shoots the car next to me. Well, way to fail the script-trigger, invisible enemy.
Jason Moyer on 26/10/2011 at 04:40
It sounds like you want to be playing Arma II but bought a Battlefield game instead.
Koki on 26/10/2011 at 05:49
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Weird, I thought MoH was the best of the "modern warfare" campaigns.
At least "modern warfare" has, forgive the word, epic fast action. And Black Ops/WaW has gun variety.
MoH had neither. It was just some popamole shooter.
mothra on 26/10/2011 at 12:17
ok, finished it. there are about 4 setpieces (defend/hold) where you actually HAVE to shoot anybody yourself. And even there if you do not shoot a certain guy at a certain time it goes into infini-loop and just drops more troops. last missions are solo and against quite a few enemies so they fit more with what I was expecting in terms of difficulty. But that plane-bit, boy, that was boring.
btw, I lied, only easy/normal diff has autoaim, not hard but it sure felt like it had autaim too.
and another thing: there is no leaning and most objects in the world have "bigger" invisible borders obscuring LOS to the enemy even when you think you have it. What happens is that the bullet will still hit him, only with less force since the game thinks he is behind cover of type x. So I had to headshot enemies 4 times and wondered why they are such bulletsponges.
EvaUnit02 on 27/10/2011 at 13:37
EA really derped up the shipment of Battlefield 3 PC physical media copies to New Zealand. Heaps of people who bought the Limited Edition received keys for the standard edition in their packaging.
(FYI, the difference between the standard and LE is that the latter provides free redemption of the upcoming Back to Karkard expansion pack due next month.)
I had to sit in EA Support's Live Chat for about an hour until I got issued a proper LE key. (EA NZ's phone-based tech support line is not financially viable because they charge $1.99 NZD per minute, fucking Christ.).
EvaUnit02 on 27/10/2011 at 17:19
Why is that disconnects always seem to happen just when you're having a good match? This would happen to me all the time during BF:BC2 and MoH 2010 (all DICE Frostbite games), BF3 thus far is proving to be no different.
On Tehran Highway I had dusted four camping wookies (who were armed with SKS rifles) in a row and our attacking side was so close to winning, then BOOM, disconnect.
Blah, I'm thinking of putting off getting a new mobo/CPU/RAM combo a little longer to buy a non-shit router. Linksys Wireless-N's seem to be pretty cheap these days. NZ Telecom's Thomson TG585v7 routers really eat.
