Battlefield Tri-hard

[Ifafudafi]

What's that, Lassie? There's a shitestorm incoming? Oh dear!

"Battlefield 3 PC version won't have in-game server browser"

If you want to switch servers, you'll have to exit the game and enter a new one via Battlelog.

[ThePlague]

So just like the alpha. Lets hope it does it at the same speed too, because it exited pretty fast for me.

[Amit]

Whoa.

I guess recons who like to throw motion mines on the front line as offense would benefit, those guys are actually helpful but they tend to be limited to G3s and M14s for medium range. It is always annoying when recons use the bolt action snipers as shotguns (by attaching red dots) though.

Motion mines are not in BF3. Instead Recon class users have the option to put down a motion sensor device that tracks enemy movement slightly. If the enemy is moving in the area that the motion device is covering then they show up on the maps. However, you can just crouch and walk out of the device's range without being detected, 2142 style.

What's that, Lassie? There's a shitestorm incoming? Oh dear!

"Battlefield 3 PC version won't have in-game server browser"

If you want to switch servers, you'll have to exit the game and enter a new one via Battlelog.

This news is two are three days old, but it's nothing to worry about.

[ExAm]

That news is fucking weeks old. I honestly don't care. DICE can't really do ingame server browsers well anyway. At least this way they can update the browser easily without having to update the game. That, and they can sick their web guys on it, instead of their UI guys.

The game launches in seconds, and I was able to join games faster than I could in BC2. It just works better. That's all I care about.

[Warsaw]

Whoa.

I guess recons who like to throw motion mines on the front line as offense would benefit, those guys are actually helpful but they tend to be limited to G3s and M14s for medium range. It is always annoying when recons use the bolt action snipers as shotguns (by attaching red dots) though.

I'm an active sniper. I capture points, spot targets, and blow up tanks. I use a red dot on an M95 or Type 88. If not, I'm using either the M1 or a GOL with 12x. Don't get annoyed, just get faster reflexes. Your automatic rifle will still kill faster than a sniper rifle with a red dot.

Also, did not know that about no server browser in-game on PC. That is kind of bollocks. How fast does it exit/enter, ExAm?

[Mr Buckshot]

If having to exit to Battlelog means that I can get into servers where the actual ping is around the level of the reported, I'm cool with that. More than once, I've joined BC2 servers with the lowest possible ping that the in-game browser shows when sorting in ascending order, only to get thrown into a match with shitloads of rubberbanding. I think the record was when I joined a server that said 34 ping, and got KICKED after a minute because my ping went above 400.

e: in-game server browser in BC2 also tends to be inaccurate about the player count even after repeated refreshing. I'd rather have a good out-of-game server browser than a crappy in-game one.

[ThePlague]

In the Alpha in order to play a game, you clicked play on Origin, it took you to Battlelog to log in, then you went through the server list. Once you pick a server you want to play on, click join game and after 3 seconds the game pops up and the map starts loading. It worked fast as hell.

[Amit]

Granted, a lot of stuff was probably missing from Operation Metro Alpha map so we can expect load times to increase, especially on final conquest maps. I doubt it'll take more than 20 seconds for the low spec computer to load the map.

[ExAm]

Really all you need to load fast is a hard drive with a decent data rate and a CPU that can feed it instructions fast enough, though.

[Warsaw]

So...SSDs and a large surplus of RAM will make it lightning quick?