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Just finished the campaign. It wasn't the most memorable, but it wasn't bad either. Probably on par with the past few Call of Dutys. The jet level was the best part of the whole thing and I wish there had been another one. Maybe one where you actually get to fly the jet instead of just being placed in the gunner seat  Anyway, I'm glad I ran through it. From tomorrow on, it's all multiplayer, baby!
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 06:36 |
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4 Day Weekend posted:Some things that are really annoying: Wait, there's no voice chat in multiplayer? Then why the gently caress did I buy a microphone just for this game 
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 15:39 |
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Liberatore posted:Mumble/teamspeak/ventrilo/whatever? Yeah but don't those only allow you to talk to your friends using the service(s) and not the entire team/everyone in the match? I haven't used Teamspeak in years so I don't really remember. And BF2 had VOIP so that's a loving retarded exclusion 
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 15:42 |
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General Battuta posted:Get on Mumble with Goons The Taxman posted:Mumble is pretty much the greatest thing ever, especially if you're a giant sperglord. Okay  Will do later on this afternoon when I get on!BF2's VOIP was hilarious, what with goons singing and yelling obscenities at one another and such. But I'll agree that it was terrible on pubbie servers.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 15:49 |
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XyrlocShammypants posted:And ignore the few pubbies who constantly say gay, retarded, faggots, aids and cock. Most people are pretty nice/funny Back in the days of KFS on BF2, most goons talked like that too. But they were all pretty amusing and there was still a ton of excellent teamwork going on so I just rolled with it 
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 16:01 |
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Alex DeLarge posted:DAO-12 with flashlight is the ultimate greifing gun. I get so much hate when I use it one close quarters maps, but drat if it isn't effective. The USPAS in the campaign was overpowered as all gently caress. It had a thermal sight on it and seemed to pretty much instakill anyone in its range in one shot. Is it like that in multiplayer too?
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 16:05 |
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spasticColon posted:I haven't played a battlefield game since BF2 about 6 years ago. I did get BC2 off Steam for cheap but I never got into it so what should I expect from BF3? Specifically on a goon server because I haven't played Battlefield on a goon server. Expect to never want to play on a pubbie server again after playing on a goon server for the first time. They're leaps and bounds better than everything else. Also, Back To Karkand is coming out pretty soon I think, which is BF2 maps remade on BF3's engine, so you can relive your favorite BF2 memories with wayyyyyyyyyy better graphics, sound, everything.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 21:29 |
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Every server I try to join is full, including WookWook 
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 23:30 |
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Anyone else having a graphical glitch where you get giant black and yellow prisms wherever you aim your weapon that take up 1/4 of your screen? loving annoying. This never happened to me in the campaign, and I can't see what I'm doing all the time in multiplayer now thanks to this poo poo. I'm running a 560Ti with the drivers released on Monday.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 00:01 |
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moker posted:Anyone having an insane amount of "You were disconnected from this server" messages today? I'd say 2 out of 3 times I try. It's pretty aggravating.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 00:32 |
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The Spookmaster posted:Was having the same problem. For right now you have to downclock your coreclock. I went from 900 to 850 and it seemed to fix the problem for now. Oh okay. Is it going to be fixed in the next set of drivers, you think?
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 02:00 |
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The Spookmaster posted:I hope so. It seems be be only effecting the gtx 560ti. Pretty silly since that's like the performance/pricepoint card right now that tons of people grabbed for BF3. Yeah, I'll try it out. What's the easiest way to do it, though? I don't see an option for it in the NVIDIA Control Panel.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 02:29 |
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The Spookmaster posted:You have to download either nvidia system tools or MSI afterburner which I happen to like better. With MSI you can set fan speeds and a bunch of different profiles depending on what you're doing  So what now? Take the core down to 800?
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 03:10 |
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The Spookmaster posted:Yes it's a continual problem with the 560ti. The fix that worked for me was down clocking my core clock from default 900 to 850 I asked over in SH/SC too and apparently it's my power supply that's causing it to artifact. I'm picking up a new power supply in the morning since I've been meaning to for a while anyway, so I'll post in here when I get it installed to let y'all know if that fixed the issue.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 05:01 |
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Besides my stupid artifacting issue, the multiplayer is just absolutely immense. The maps are loving enormous and almost overwhelming. I think it'll take me a long time to learn all the ones that aren't Metro/Caspian Border. But I was playing with my cousin earlier, I forgot what map it was, but it was 64p Conquest. He flew the chopper while I played gunner. We were up in the air for a solid like 10 minutes, just destroying every loving vehicle we could see. Our team ended up losing the match because our teammates lost the ground war despite no armor being present, but it was still a hell of a lot of fun. Moments like those are what makes these games so incredible to me. And so far everything I've seen looks like it'll blow Battlefield 2's moments away for me in pretty much every way possible. Also, when we were up in the chopper, an enemy jet was flying towards us to shoot us down and it loving crashed into the radio tower and blew up. We couldn't stop laughing.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 05:42 |
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Metro Conquest, when starting from the opposite side of the map from the beta, is surprisingly fun. I had more fun in like two rounds of that than I did the entirety of Metro Rush in the beta. So pretty much all of the beta except the day or two when Caspian Border was unlocked.
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 05:58 |
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560Ti problems: I replaced my power supply today and that didn't fix my graphical issues. Should I just wait for new drivers to come out or uninstall the current 285.62 driver and install the last one? The 285.38?
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 00:15 |
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victrix posted:Finished the campaign. Some loving awesome set pieces. Like really, really loving awesome. In the first Crysis, the first half of the campaign was killing North Koreans v v
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 00:40 |
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Khan!!! posted:
I just updated my BIOS a couple weeks ago, actually. Still getting the artifacting Apparently there's an even newer version of the BIOS out for my motherboard, but the fix list for the new version only lists "Supports new CPUs". I'll try updating it anyway, though. edit: Wait, BIOS in the 560Ti? Separate from the motherboard BIOS?
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 01:38 |
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TO ALL THOSE WITH 560TI CARDS
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Eej posted:Welcome to the 21st century, where video cards have upgradeable BIOS. poo poo, that's crazy. Where do I upgrade mine? I'm looking on EVGA's site and I don't see anything about BIOS.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 01:50 |
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I turned down my core clock down to 800 from 850 with the EVGA Precision tool, and now my artifacting has gotten even worse  I guess I'll turn it back up to 850 and play with this annoying glitch until NVIDIA releases new drivers or something.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 03:17 |
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Sergeant Steiner posted:That sucks that you are having so many issues with artifacting. I have a 560 Ti as well (MSI Hawk, 950 MHz stock but I overclocked it to 1050 Mhz) and I thought I had dodged a bullet with the artifacting, but today it happened to me on 2 different maps, and holy gently caress is it annoying. It hasn't happened to me again after 3 hours of online play, but sweet Jesus did it ever make the game unplayable. Every time I would enter ADS, gigantic black polygons would obscure my view, and they'd move and distort as I'd move around. On top of that, I'd get green flashes on half of my screen. Hopefully nVidia or DICE release something to fix it soon, because my game runs incredibly well otherwise, I can have everything on Ultra except MSAA and it runs ridiculously smooth at 1080p. Yeah, everything else about the game is gorgeous except for that, and it runs incredibly well at Ultra @ 1080p for me too. And it doesn't even happen on some maps. It seems like it's only present on maps with a lot of sunlight. Like, Tehran Highway is completely immune from it. But maps with lots of sunlight are annoying as hell to play because I can't spot enemies a lot of times since a giant black polygon is blocking my view.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 03:41 |
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Alex DeLarge posted:I changed my resolution from 1920x1080 to 1600x900 because it was running a little sluggish. But when I do there's a one inch black bar around the screen. Any ideas on how to get it full screen? There's an option, I think it's in video settings, to adjust the screen. Also, I just changed my settings from Ultra to High and now everything's running so much faster. Everything still looks gorgeous enough, too, so I'll just leave it like this. This is awesome.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 03:54 |
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It is soooooooooo much easier for me to score points and level up in Team Deathmatch than Conquest. At least, for now. Maybe it's because I'm still unfamiliar with a lot of the maps.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 04:17 |
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hello internet posted:I can't believe how awesome this looks even on medium settings on my older PC but still leaves a little to be desired. I don't have much money to spend on a whole new PC but if I replaced the video card only how much performance increase do you guys think I'd get if the processor didn't bottle neck it? If you spent a little less than $250 to replace the video card, it'd be more than playable on Ultra settings, everything maxed out at 1080p. And I doubt that processor would bottleneck too much.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 12:52 |
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The Kins posted:I was feeling unproductive after doing the server banner for the tehsid's server, so I decided to little minibanners for the servers in the OP, should there be a need to clean things up a little. I missed a couple (the EuroWook ones, mostly), but either it's a start, it's unneeded, it needs something or someone else will do something better. Awesome  How's WookWook? I tried to get in yesterday but it was consistently full and never let me in. Planning on trying KFS later on. That was my server of choice for my entire BF2 career and I didn't even know it was up and running yet. Haven't tried the rest of those, though. I've been having a surprising amount of fun playing with pubbies the last two days or so, and I'm excited to see how much better playing with goons will be.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 18:19 |
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I've never tried playing the retail (or the beta) with any setting besides War Tapes. It just sounds so loving good that I'd never want to change it. Though you might develop slight PTSD after playing with that setting on for a while, so just take note of that if you have a weak stomach or whatever. But really, if you can't take war games with insane levels of realism at times, why the hell are you playing Battlefield 3?
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 19:23 |
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Captain Beans posted:Can someone explain to me what each of the antialiasing options do compared to each other? Post and differed? I honestly don't know, but I turned all my settings from Ultra to High in an attempt to make things run even faster. It turned AA Differed off in doing that, so I turned it back on all the way and now it looks like I have Ultra settings on but it's running way faster than it already did before 
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 21:14 |
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I think it's loving awesome that you can use attachments you unlock mid-match literally the next time you spawn in that same match. Like, I just unlocked a red dot sight for my AK and then died. Then I respawned with the RDS attached and took revenge plus killed like 5 other guys too for good measure.
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 00:52 |
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I just unlocked a ton of loving awesome guns, seemingly all at once. Using the PP-2000 in Support class is awesome. Get all the points from resupplying ammo while using an Assault class-like weapon 
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 02:10 |
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Good lord, the P90 absolutely destroys. I'm playing Support with a P90+Laser Sight+Red Dot Sight+Supressor and I'm a loving killing machine.
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 02:38 |
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Aw poo poo, I think the only reason I had the P90 and other guns unlocked was because I was playing on an All Weapons Available server
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 02:44 |
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VarXX posted:Haha, you aren't even close to max level yet. Max rank is 145  Motherfucker. I'm only on rank 9. This game is going to keep me busy for quiiiiiite some time!
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| # ¿ Oct 30, 2011 21:40 |
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loving Christ. Gotta agree with everyone who's saying that the IRNV scope is so ridiculous it feels like cheating. Just unlocked it for my AK74 and my kill amount nearly tripled that round 
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| # ¿ Oct 31, 2011 08:15 |
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Yeah, they just started maintenance on the server or something. BF3's Facebook posted that it'll last about an hour. Oh well. I've gotta go to sleep anyway
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| # ¿ Oct 31, 2011 09:09 |
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Am I the only one who's been playing on the Fast Rank Infantry server and having a ton of fun with it? It's TDM only on Seine, Canals and Bazaar, it's 64 players in a 32 player map, and the rounds are only a few minutes long. It's loving great for getting tons of resupply points, leveling up kits and so on and so forth. I went up like 4 levels the past two nights.
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| # ¿ Nov 2, 2011 01:26 |
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Goddamn, every server I've joined in the past half hour or so has had lag so bad that the matches have been virtually unplayable
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| # ¿ Nov 2, 2011 02:29 |
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The Kins posted:Welcome back.  I hope NVIDIA releases new drivers by then that fix the artifacting for 560Tis so I can crank my settings back up from High to Ultra without extended polygons all over the place because goddamn those maps look fuckin' incredible. Especially Gulf Of Oman. Jihad jeeping on that map is gonna be so much fun. Again.
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| # ¿ Nov 4, 2011 18:41 |
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Caspian Border is such a terrible loving map for Team Deathmatch. Ugh, I swear I'll play Conquest mode after I finish getting my level up / poo poo unlocked for my weapons of choice. Like, once I have all that, I'll probably play Conquest for months and months, with only the occasional TDM match. And then there's Rush which I haven't played since the beta...
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| # ¿ Nov 6, 2011 09:57 |
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Metanaut posted:Is TDM better for getting points / levelling up than Conquest for you? Try 32 player large Conquest. Revitalized posted:At the very least, TDM is really good for unlocking weapon mods. Conquest for pure points. Yeah, that pretty much. I've been playing a lot on this server [HOG] FAST RANK, and it's been solely 64p TDM on Bazaar, Canals and Seine lately. I don't know if you've played 64p TDM on Bazaar, but it's loving insane. It's more or less "Meat Grinder: The Server". Play Assault or Support on there and you rank up (your classes at least) much faster than you do on most other servers. Even Conquest, I think. I played a few rounds of Conquest Large a couple days after I got the game, and while I had a blast, I didn't feel like I was leveling up as fast as I'd like to be. Now, once I get every single assault rifle / machine gun and all mods for each unlocked, I'll probably quit TDM and go back to Conquest.
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