Battlefield 3 players to get hefty 2GB patch tomorrow

[Burty117]

Agreed, the removal of the Auto Squad assignment is a step back, I really wish you change your kits and graphics options separately as well, and Key Bindings. Also wish they would let you have an offline practice maps with maybe a few A.I.'s so you can practice, I found it was a very big learning curve (I've played alot of TF2) and died pretty much constantly until I got to level 3.

 

[yukka]

"Fixed so AT mines only live for 20 seconds after a player dies to prevent infinite mines."

Okay that sucks. They should limit the number of AT mines a player can lay by either stopping you laying more than your alloted amount of by making the first laid mine dissappear when you lay another, with some sort of notification that is what is happening. Anything except making them just dissappear after dieing (which happens ALOT).

 

[Burty117]

Anyone got this installed who can shed some light on issues they were having but are not now?

 

[Guest]

A couple days ago I was on a full server 64/64, and believe it or not, there were only 2 squads and both of them were full, I had to squad up alone, and no one joined me... Why people would forsake the extra points, extra spawn locations and all the fun that comes from playing with your squadmates is beyond me.

That said, does this patch fix the connectivity issues or the white screen ?

 

[Guest]

Where is the damn in-game voice?

 

[Guest]

In game voice? use vent much? so much time spent on making tweaks here and there all of the man hours in producing this game and all you can complain about is in game voice chat.

Grow up and use a vent client, plenty of servers out there.

Cheers to EA/DICE for at least trying to get this right. it will take some more time, but this game will be perfect.

 

[Guest]

BF3 is impressive! I was sick of Cod rolling out crap since WaW and the last straw was Black Ops for me. I made a decision to switch to BF3 in Oct...awesome1 Nothing much to dislike about BF3 except team kills and chat is taking too much space on the screen.

 

[Guest]

in game voice

In Battlelog choose "Create Party" (Bottom Right) or join one your friends are in. Voice channel is usually created automagically. If not click "Join Voice" top right of the party box

 

[Burty117]

Ok the update has made a big difference for me, First off, for me at least, the chat box is now at the top left corner out the way and has been scaled down alot, it no longer crashes at all and gets me in first time every time, my FPS have smoothed out dramatically (i'm using an old GTX260 and the frames were every where!) to the point I don't get lag any more, still can't turn the settings up and the res still needs to be lowered but it is definately better. I still feel the flash lights are too bright. Overall though it has made the BF3 experience much better, Less Lag, No more crashes and loads up a bit quicker as well. Only gripe mainly at the moment is the Hit recognition still being a bit off or very slow and dumb witted. I can revive a team mate, kill two guys and have a guy spawn on me in the time it takes for the hit recognition to detect a tank shot at me!

 

[Emexrulsier]

What you meant to say is 2Gb is going to take the minority ages to download. The average speed in the in the world is apparently 18mb so thats maybe 20 mins ish. A large majority though far exceed that speed so will see downloads in the region of 5-10 mins.

 

[Guest]

yeah, i didn't see that in the list of patches, so i guess EA could care less about the thousands of us who were ripped off. I find it kinda funny how they don't even address our problems in a help topic or respond to your emails.

 

[Guest]

How many of you honestly recognized more than 2 maybe 3 of the problems that EA "fixed"? Be honest... We all know the flashlights are a joke so it's great that they fixed them, (finally after promising to do that from 3 patches ago. Now, who the hell presses the tilde key, the pause key and the control key at one time??? And why would that person do that? Is that the cue to start up the hax?

I saw nothing about correcting the huge discrepancy of survival rates between any regular kitted soldier and a sniper. Hands down the sniper will outlive any regular soldier, regardless of the # of head shots. (But of course this has plagued EA since at least BC2 and has never been corrected.)

Also, I am seeing sniper scope reflections that are so dim you can hardly see them! Saw no mention of that either. But we got a host of fixes for problems that as far as I'm concerned most of us never experienced. But did we get fixes for the problems that have continued to reduce the fun factor of Battlefield 3? Doesn't look like it. Did the DART problem get fixed?

However, I will tip my hat to EA on their efforts to rid the game of cheaters. Best of luck with that, EA.

 

[Guest]

Average speed in the world may be 18mb, but in a lot of countries they only poll major cities, the majority don't live in cities, but in towns and villages, and most don't get more than 4-6mb, so it can take a few hours, its not their fault, so don't give them grief because their country is not up to speed.
UK is a prime example, only major cities are getting fiber at the moment, most towns won't see it until 2015 at the earliest, and about a third of towns aren't even on the list which puts them back to 2019...

 

[Guest]

I think they should fix problem from the beginning! If I don't set process affinity to 3-core after 2 mins I get msg "Battlefield 3 has stopped working". Total ignorance of major problems. Disappointed that such big company as EA doesn't see that.

 

[Guest]

no dude...that was the first big patch...looks like you have another 2gb to update AFTER your 3.9gb patch...lol

 

[Guest]

I like battlefield 3..ive just started playing it online on my 360 but I was very dissapointed when I saw this update pop up...you dont need it to play, so I wont be downloading it...its a waste of 360 hard-drive space and a waste of data..not all of us have unlimited data plans...this should never have happened...ive never seen a fix list so huge in an update...its clear they rushed an incomplete, glitched game to market to compete with a MW3 release meaning they essentially screwed all Battlefield fans...the first time I was blinded by that shitty little flashlight on the end of a pistol I thought 'what the **** was that?' how did that horrible glitch get through playtesting? You cant just release something knowing full well its broken and then just say 'oh ill fix it in a patch'...honestly I feel like I got ripped off.