Battlefield Tri-hard

[Amit]

Na, I'm bored in Calculus so I decided to check the BattleBlog. Lo and behold, it was posted just two minutes before I checked.

BTW, I have some VERY disturbing news about this "so-called" beta. It will be on Operation Metro and using the RUSH gametype. Seriously, DICE? This same bullshit again (albeit with improvements and bug fixes)? Where the fuck is our 64-player Caspian Border action you motherfuckers?

Confirmation: http://battlefieldo.com/beta-live/


I'm no longer bummed that I pre-ordering through a source other than Origin and don't have the early beta access. It's the gametype on the same map. What the hell? Oh well, it's less effort for DICE now since they can roll out almost the same thing on consoles and PC simultaneously except consoles have 8 less player slots. Hopefully there are moderators on the Battlelog forums for the beta this time.

This quote from the Battlefieldo comments section expresses my views EXACTLY except for the part about keeping the CB trailer from the public:

RUSH map with smaller rooms for the PC. (NO Conquest?)
Only 1 vehicle to test. This really was a great opportunity dumbly wasted by DICE to show the COD tools what vehicles (jets, flyable helis) in a game really look like. Now we just get another Rush map that will be universal across all platforms? I understand pushing Metro on the consoles, but on the PC they could have shown off the huge maps.

And we have to wait 9 days? For something we already played? You should have kept the Caspian Border trailer to yourselves if this was the original plan. Swapping my preorder from Origin to one of the other options. The 2 day early entry lost is value when the PC beta became a rush map.

Still looks like a sweet game, but this was an awful PR move.

[Ifafudafi]

Alright, OP's updated with all the pertinent information underlined.

As for the map choice, keep in mind that while you alpha-goers might have already had a spin, some of us (namely, a shitload of people) weren't graced with an invite, and are incredibly excited to play BF3 for the first time, potentially for free. While the beta certainly aims to test shit out and to get people excited, starting off with a smaller map is probably designed to ease and entice all the CoD kiddies into the game so that they'll buy it, instead of warding them off with the complexity of a 64-player Conquest map.

[nuttyyayap]

CoD kiddies are gonna be CoD kiddies iffy, they won't buy this, it's too colourful/actually fun ect.

[Amit]

CoD kiddies have their heads too far up Activision's ass to buy a shooter that doesn't have the Call of Duty brand.

[Mr Buckshot]

CoD fanboys will quit the beta after finding out that they don't get some delicious reward for having the best killstreak.

Also, I bought MoH standard edition off steam because Steam's page on MoH said it came with early beta access, but now all websites are saying only MoH Limited/Tier 1 owners get early beta access. Just checked my Steam CD key for MoH, doesn't show a BF3 beta key.

can anyone confirm?

e: many google searches later, I can confirm that my $10 purchase this summer didn't get me a BF3 early beta. Not really a loss, since MoH was still a decent game and I still get the open beta anyways, but I'm just disappointed that Steam placed misleading info on their MoH store page.

[Amit]

Yeah, that was Steam's bad. A lot of people got refunds do to it. Idiots. They paid for a game because they thought they would get 2 day early access to another game. Ha. I laugh even more at the people who pre-ordered MoH because it guaranteed them BF3 beta access. I said from day one that BF3 beta would be public because EA and DICE have too much to lose not to have one. I was right.

[ejburke]

Shit, I don't think I technically meet the min requirements. My CPU is the precise minimum (C2D 2.4GHz), but my video card is an 8800 GTS 640MB, which is not as good as the 8800 GT. Oh well, I'll check out the beta for myself before canceling my pre-order. I am perfectly willing to turn every graphical feature down for multiplayer. Not so willing to do that for the campaign, but the campaign doesn't interest me.

[Mr Buckshot]

Yeah, that was Steam's bad. A lot of people got refunds do to it. Idiots. They paid for a game because they thought they would get 2 day early access to another game. Ha. I laugh even more at the people who pre-ordered MoH because it guaranteed them BF3 beta access. I said from day one that BF3 beta would be public because EA and DICE have too much to lose not to have one. I was right.

hilariously, Steam still has the message on their MoH page saying that all MoH owners who bought before July 26 2011 get early beta access. And do they really give refunds?

Can't deny that my decision to buy MoH was influenced by the prospect of the BF3 beta, but you could do a lot worse than MoH for $10.

[Cortexian]

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[Guardian]

Im only 0.1 Ghz out on my processor! Yus I may just be able to run it