Battlefield 3 - PC Players Thread

Battlefield 3 - PC Players Thread

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Mister V

1,106 posts

200 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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onlynik said:
not a great fan of teh web interface. I bought mine from Origin, and I finally activated the game, had a few games but there isn't a manual, and I don't know how to remap the keys frown.

Bed time now, but I won't be able to play the game for 4 weeks.
you can view the manual from the origin game select screen. to remap the keys press esc in game and and go into the options.

Mister V

1,106 posts

200 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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onlynik said:
not a great fan of teh web interface. I bought mine from Origin, and I finally activated the game, had a few games but there isn't a manual, and I don't know how to remap the keys frown.

Bed time now, but I won't be able to play the game for 4 weeks.
you can view the manual from the origin game select screen. to remap the keys press esc in game and and go into the options.

AndrewEH1

4,917 posts

153 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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Must have spent an hour trying to activate the game as I downloaded it from Origin, gave up and went to bed...

Origin is terrible, is it back up and running correctly now?

keith HF

49 posts

175 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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I tried at midnight and gave up after 20mins! Played a few rounds this morning is pretty awesome. Joined to the pistonheads platoon orgin id is sh0plifter

onlynik

3,978 posts

193 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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Mister V said:
you can view the manual from the origin game select screen. to remap the keys press esc in game and and go into the options.
The manual I get from Origin is only generic warnings about epilepsy, and when I press escape from within the game, I get a pop up asking if I want to quite the game.

OMNIO

1,256 posts

166 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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Lol, sounds like the standard Battlefield release woes. I'm suprised those that did manage to install managed to get on a server! wink

Mine's winding it's merry way to my door at the moment. Should be delivered today, so i can spend all weekend trying to install it by the sounds of it!

Did anyone else order with Amazon? I just got an e-mail with a code for a SPECAT Kit download. I knew i was getting the extra maps for free but didnt know about this specat thing. Nice little bonus.

AndrewEH1

4,917 posts

153 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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I'll try again when I finish at work.

Origin ID: Firewatch90

mackie1

8,153 posts

233 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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Yesssssss!




Mikeyboy

5,018 posts

235 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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onlynik said:
The manual I get from Origin is only generic warnings about epilepsy, and when I press escape from within the game, I get a pop up asking if I want to quite the game.
Google "Battlefield 3 manual" there are a few in the results.

130R

6,810 posts

206 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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I had to install Origin in safe mode to get the thing to actually run .. I don't know if it is Comodo or something that doesn't like it. It still seems really slow to start (I already have Steam for this EA you bunch of *$*£("#!)

What key bindings are people using, just the default ones? I tried swapping them around but might go back to default, I just don't like x/z for crouch/prone much.

dele

1,270 posts

194 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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Just to remind some people as its now a few pages back, we've got a server to play on! whoop


Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

194 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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OMNIO said:
Did anyone else order with Amazon? I just got an e-mail with a code for a SPECAT Kit download. I knew i was getting the extra maps for free but didnt know about this specat thing. Nice little bonus.
Yeah, I got it through Amazon as well.

Will certainly help for the first few hours of gameplay whilst levelling up for the better weapons.

Can't wait to get home now.....unfortunately...it looks like today is going to be a loooonnngggg day!

Nasta

372 posts

249 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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Installing now, and the Origin ID is : Teamsreth

BTW, Origin is reporting that I am downloading at 8.2MB/s, bleeding heck...

EDIT: False alrm, just asked for disc 2.

Edited by Nasta on Friday 28th October 14:24

peanutjb

956 posts

246 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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My copy has only just dispatched but admittedly I only ordered it last night...

flat-planedCrank

3,697 posts

203 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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RJames said:
flat-planedCrank said:
What drivers are the ATI users running?
11.10 preview 3 ?


How are they? smile
I am currently running the preview 3 with no issues.
Thanks for that smile I'll try them this evening

Thought there may have been an official release of 11.10 before BF3 launched actually - wonder how many people know about the preview drivers

flat-planedCrank

3,697 posts

203 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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That's all installed fine, no real problems:

Auth went through ok, downloaded from disk at about 9.7MB/s, downloaded the patch at 2MB/s, only hiccup was that I needed to update the browser plugins (still had the BF3 beta installed) but was prompted to do so and once installed everything works.

Played a whole 15 minutes so far - seems great smile 'though some people are already WAY too good. Wonder how may hours they have played to level so far in a few days hehe



If you are playing on speakers then I can recommend trying a decent pair of headphones and setting the audio to 'wartapes' - the sound design is probably the stand-out part of BF3 imo smile


Kaelic

2,686 posts

201 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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dele said:
Just to remind some people as its now a few pages back, we've got a server to play on! whoop

Holy fk I will be there tonight biggrin

who is running it and do they need donations to keep it going?


OMNIO

1,256 posts

166 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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flat-planedCrank said:
wartapes
cool yeah i love to get the subwoofer pumping air with tank shells and explosions hehe.

YesItsARover

2,721 posts

165 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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Is there a (legal) alternative to using Direct 2 Drive to download this? Was hoping it was on Steam but I couldn't find it! Thanks,

Mister V

1,106 posts

200 months

Friday 28th October 2011
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YesItsARover said:
Is there a (legal) alternative to using Direct 2 Drive to download this? Was hoping it was on Steam but I couldn't find it! Thanks,
Origin...