News Battlefield 3 beta gets 64-player Caspian Border this weekend

The bugs were never going to get fixed during the beta. The point of the beta was to test the back end services, not bug test a client that was a month or so old by the time we got our hands on it. Had it been a PC only beta test then it might have been a different situation but by rolling it out across PC, XBox and PS3 it meant Dice were constrained by the need to have their beta build go thru MS and Sony's validation processes before it could be released on their networks and that's something which takes time. Which means that the beta client was always going to be an old build and wasn't likely to recieve any sort of updates in the short period the beta was on.

 

Balls! Finally get a PC together and I'm away for the wkend!

 

Some people are quite dumb. DICE is one company that works hard to deliver quality. SLI support from the word go, latest DX FX and a game that pushes your hardware. They don't release generic console ports. They don't release games designed first and foremost for the lowest spec systems (consoles).

 

Agreed. This is one franchise even EA have not been able to spoil.

Caspian Border is a must play for all dedicated BF2 players, finally we get to see how the game will be favourable to us old timers!

 

Hurrah!

 

What a joke. No console love? Mag supported 128*128. Youre telling me they couldn't figure out 32*32? And what about the 360? They want this to compete with MW3 but can't even show the console crowd the main reason its better? Pathetic. What a waste of time and money.

 

And does Mag let you blow up most of the environment? Do you really think Dice wouldn't have loved to have had bigger teams available on console versions as well as the PC?

Well aside from the limitations of the console itself Caspian Border was never included in the download made available for the 360 or PS3, it was only included in the PC download. And exactly what time and money has been wasted?

 

This is one of the very few games built for PC first so perhaps u should get over it and build yourself a PC?

I don't want to hear that a PC is way more expensive, that's a myth. Initially outlay may be more but once you have your PC u can upgrade individual parts and sell the old bits to offset the cost. I would hate to play a fast FPS with a joystick/thumb stick. That's just wrong.

 

+1 for sure, in my mind consoles are for people that can't handle multiple things at any one time, like multi-tacking, something you need to do in games nowadays

 

Looking at the videos this game looks like a clone mix of COD and BC2 I;ll play it but if it turns out to be just that then its gone from my pc for good as BC2 and COD are not to my taste,rush mode for me is boring as hell just hope its not in the final finished product, but then I suppose I have the choice to play or not to play rush I guess

 

Wow. That is fun. Runs nicely on mine too, shocked

 

Rush has been pretty awful, it plays like COD...run and gun...BC2 had far more squad and team play which made the game much more realistic. The beta so far feels like pandering to console kiddies by making the game a simple shooter with little in the way of tactics, teamwork and planning.

Hopefully conquest will go some-way toward fixing this, as will the final release.

Otherwise there will be no winner to the COD/BF battle...both sides will have lost.

 

just came off a quick peek - very very laggy on the server I was on, made it unplayable at times.

 

I just came off a server which was no lag atall. Although theres an awfull lot of anti air so helicopters dont last atall. Also despite being a very good pilot in BC2 i cant get the helicopters to swivel left and right atall so adjusting your aim is near impossible without having to sway the whole heli left/right.

Very fun though..caspian border seems like a fairly small map for a 64player though. I found that your pretty much getting shot from AA nomatter where you are in the air which is slightly annoying.

 

QQ more, Rush was a gameplay mode taken from MoH where it was fairly popular, and highly tactical., objective gameplay is not my favorite but metro rush had it's moments, and at least I know one map very well now. the COD style gameplay isn't "simpler" in many ways the gun play was more indepth and tailored very well for infantry only gameplay. BF3 will be fun, save for all the spawn-kill instapwns by a tank when you're a recon or assault and can do 0 damage to it.

I played BF2 big time and it brings back a lot of the memories, of course all the old modes such as deathmatch and conquest will be back. squad and teamplay isa two edged sword. Oddles of fun if you had 3 like minded and equally skilled friends. Painful if you were playing solo against a team with 1 or 2 squads that played together.

Unfortunately on the internets most people are playing by themselves and squad play is at a minimum.

 

Found a server that doesn't have a ping of 52 million billion. Tons of fun. I'm definitely buying it.

I do hate the server browser though. You can't even have a server auto start whenever its full. Bah. Waiting for a free space in my good server now

 

played a few hours of the map yesterday evening, it is huge, as big as if not bigger than some zones in WoW(for size comparison purposes only). Obviously the queue for the jets was quite big but I managed to get into a few of them, pretty easy to fly. They do look a bit slow when you see them flying around though but I guess that's expected.
The detail of the map is simply fantastic, I like the fact that its hard to spot people, it prevents you running into an area without properly looking around, you should be taking peeks round corners and checking out whats there before you commit yourself to running across a huge open area.

I cant wait to play the full game.

 

Each server I tried yesterday was too laggy to play (due to stress tests), but got a good feel of the map nonetheless. Feels like a different game altogether from Rush Op Metro.

Also anyone reckon this map would also be good infantry only? Or maybe that's just me.. I like the idea of a full team of 32 players charging across the fields when the game starts...

Now just hoping for 2 seater jets.

 

think you got to re-do your research. Rush started in BFBC1, on the consoles because Conquest confuses those kids and there can only be 2 objectives.


the major problem i have with BF3 at the moment is it's way too hard to see people. almost all of my death are from people hiding in a bush.

this game seems to punish those who dare to go for the objective/flags. rewards those who camp in a bush.