Battlefield 3 beta open to all today
The Battlefield 3 open beta starts today on all platforms, and DICE has laid out easy download instructions for each one.
If you're burning with jealousy over your friends' early Battlefield 3 beta access, you can quell the green-eyed monster today. The Battlefield beta is going live on all platforms, and the hefty download could be waiting to pick up on your storefront of choice right now.
At this point, we assume there's only a cloud of gamer-shaped smoke in the chair where you used to be, but at the off-chance that you're still here, we'll share some details.
The Battlefield Blog carries instructions for each platform. It appears in the "Free Games" section of the Origin storefront, the "Demos" section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, and under the alphabetical listing on the PlayStation Store.
The team also shares a few helpful tips, like where shotguns are most useful (in the tunnels) and using bipods to improve your accuracy. Following these tips may very well double your time between deaths, giving you a solid 6 seconds of continuous play before you are capped in the head by someone much better than you. At least, that's what will probably happen to me.
This open beta only features the Rush mode on the Metro map, and is available until October 10. Check out some impressions while you wait for the download to finish.
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The Battlefield 3 open beta starts today on all platforms, and DICE has laid out easy download instructions for each one.-
Servers are getting smashed atm
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Maxing out my download at 2MB/sec
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tried again after a few mins and its back up.
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I suppose it's silly of me to even ask, but...
Alternate download sources?
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'This Content cannot be accessed by your account'
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Yea Ill take a hit from all of you but every time I try and give EA a redemption pass, they just screw things up more. Battlelog is not only a joke but this game is beyond over-hyped plain and simple. EA and Dice can keep this crap, Activision can keep their crap and all I can be hopeful for now is that RAGE doesn't suck goat balls. Let the flaming commence....
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What SP? This game is built on MP and what little SP there will be is going to be shorter than fast food lunch hour.
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Ok, this is one point I can get behind. 200 hours in BC2, never touched SP once.
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Given the legacy of the BF series. I find this sad.
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How on earth could you possibly know that this is "crap"? TROLLLLLLLL
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Yes anyone with an opinion other then your lemming self is a troll. Bravo to you
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What is it exactly about Battlelog you don't like? I was turned off at first by the idea of doing everything in the web-browser first, but it seems to be working well enough, and certainly as good as any beta BF ingame server-browser I've ever seen or heard of.
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Battlelog isn't the problem that you think it is. And from the sound of it, you haven't even used it...much.
All DICE / BF games have some of the best MP gaming / action, but they always come with the usual goofiness of a DICE game. That said, all the other shit can be dealt with, because at the end of the day, every BF game has been a blast to play (note: never played the console games: whatever the BF2 port was and BFBC1 aside from the demo). -
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after my first few attempts, I'm inclined to agree. they PUNTED on getting in-game stuff working, they completely just said FUCK IT let's use flash on a web browser!!! maybe we can get that to work!!!
they completely abandoned how game management is going and want to shoehorn in their own totally disjointed method.
it fucked up completely the first few times, then spawned another 323425 EULAs to agree to, THEN totally went batshit insane in firefox 7, then the friend requests finally started working, and then it hung on "matchmaking..." then I noticed there were multiple versions of origin running, so I rebooted, and went straight into IE 9 which then actually launched a game.
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Battlelog seems like shit at first, but give it time and then it starts to trump every other server browser out there.
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I liked it from the start.
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I liked you from the start.
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I'm not sure what you expected from this game. Battlelog seems pretty slick to me and the game is fun but it still has a lot of quirks to work out. Prone can be a little bit glitchy at times and there is the occasional odd visual bug. That said, it's nailed pretty much all the basics. Hit detection, weapon handling, and player movement all feel better than it has in any other Battlefield game.
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Sorry, I know it's cool to hate EA...but am I the only one getting sick of it? Like this guy had to give EA a "redemption pass"! They're a god damn game publishing company, not the fucking return of Hitler. You must live a pretty sheltered existence if these video game publishers cause you so much turmoil.
And beyond that, even if you think the Battlelog is the most horrible, shittiest, worthless server browser ever you only have to use it for like 15 seconds to actually get into the game. Take a step back and look at how god damn uptight you are...-
^^^^ What he said.
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Ug, between this and Rage's 25GB, I need to start making some choices about what to kick off my drive. I need to keep ME1 and 2 cause of the save being used from game to game, everything else I've finished is on the chopping block. But I never know when I'm going to feel like a pick up game of UT3. :(
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i cant download this at the moment because i already passed the monthly cap or i'll be overcharged :(
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Bah, caspian border pw changed. Clearly leaked though because all the servers went from empty to half emtpy to totally full.
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shoppingcartsareagoodride I think is it but they are all full of course.
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so? you think they are going to make new assets before final?
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Ya this was huge for me.
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Maybe I just suck, but I did not like the controls compared to BF: BC2. It also seemed that you go down way faster, like 1 bullet headshots. I hate running for a couple minutes only to be insta killed by some guy proning in a tunnel that I only see for maybe 1 second.
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You do go down WAY faster. Controls and movement are also a lot better.
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Rub some dirt on it.
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I much prefer it this way as opposed to the BC2 style of shooting someone like 10 times and not killing them unless one of those shots happens to be a headshot. That sort of damage modeling makes weapons capable of killing in 1 hit (ie Carl Gustav, Sniper Rifles, Shotguns) too desirable.
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BC2 was way too bullet spongy
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I tried registering for an Origin account, got this "Sorry, this service is temporary unavailable."
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Ya, they are getting hit hard. Steam was super fucked for the first 2 weeks HL2 launched.
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I would keep trying once every 5-10 minutes. Their system is getting overloaded, but you should be able to get through eventually.
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