Battlefield 1 - PC
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I'll be very much on-board with this, but won't be picking up until the end of next week in all likelihood.
Combination of time available, funds now needing to go towards a new clutch, and wanting to avoid any potential opening week server/patch mayhem...
As a Battlefield series veteran (back to 1942!) I'm certainly looking forward to it though
Combination of time available, funds now needing to go towards a new clutch, and wanting to avoid any potential opening week server/patch mayhem...
As a Battlefield series veteran (back to 1942!) I'm certainly looking forward to it though
Squirrelofwoe said:
As a Battlefield series veteran (back to 1942!) I'm certainly looking forward to it though
Same, I remember playing 1942 when it first came out and was blown away by it compared to comparable games!The beta wasn't as buggy as BF4 was at release so I am crossing fingers my weekend doesn't consist of play-patch-play-patch-crash-patch-play etc
SlowStig said:
The beta wasn't as buggy as BF4 was at release so I am crossing fingers my weekend doesn't consist of play-patch-play-patch-crash-patch-play etc
My normal procedure with Battlefield games has been to go in about a month after release- it's obviously paid off as I experienced barely a fraction of the technical issues with 3 & 4 that people were completely losing their s
t over. In fact I'm pretty sure the only technical problems I experienced with those two games came about after mandatory patches were released- attempting to fix other people's games and simultaneously breaking mine!
I was hoping to have built a new PC in time for this but the clutch going in my daily driver has put paid to that, so my current fx-8350 & R9 290 will have to soldier on for the time being. I'll be making a suitable offering to the FPS gods...
daddy cool said:
wheres best/cheapest to get it now? Quick google suggests CDKeys.com for £36...
That was the same conclusion I'd came to, I've yet to see it cheaper anywhere reputable.I find CDkeys is almost always the cheapest for release-day purchases.
I'm (very) happy to be proved wrong though!
Squirrelofwoe said:
I was hoping to have built a new PC in time for this but the clutch going in my daily driver has put paid to that, so my current fx-8350 & R9 290 will have to soldier on for the time being. I'll be making a suitable offering to the FPS gods...
One of my mates is ran the beta on a 8350 overclocked to 5ghz and a r9 380x so you should be ok with a 290(I have a 390 in my desktop). What are you planning on upgrading to, have you seen the latest Zen processors from AMD coming net year?I got BF1 from amazon for £38 delivered on friday if I signed up to 30 days of prime(£2 discount & free delivery).
SlowStig said:
One of my mates is ran the beta on a 8350 overclocked to 5ghz and a r9 380x so you should be ok with a 290(I have a 390 in my desktop). What are you planning on upgrading to, have you seen the latest Zen processors from AMD coming net year?
Yeah it's by no means a slow setup and it's been perfect for 1080p gaming. My 290 is also the Sapphire OC model with the tri-fans on the back, an absolute peach of a card that I bought second-hand and gives me almost identical performance to my my mate's reference model 290x- all while running 20 degrees cooler! 
However, my monitor is an 8yr old Dell 24" widescreen (1080p) with a 60hz refresh rate- I badly want to upgrade to a 1440p 27" IPS with G-Sync.
But in order to do so I'd need to switch my card to Nvidia (I don't like the HZ restrictions with the current Free-sync tech)- most likely I'd go for a 1080 for the sake of future-proofing. But from what I can tell, my current CPU would likely bottleneck a 1080. Also, my current system has been upgraded so many times it is now essentially a Trigger's Broom pc- with just the case and power supply remaining from my original build back in 2008, and the 8gb RAM from around 2012.
Because of this, I figured I'd be better off selling my current PC as a complete (pretty capable 1080p) system and using the money to put towards a complete new build- with likely an i5 processor, 16gb RAM (because it's dirt cheap), and the aforementioned 1080 card.
But then I bought my first house a couple of months ago, a TVR followed a couple of weeks later, and now the clutch needs changing in my daily driver... So the gaming-pc fund is currently more empty than Oliver's gruel-bowl.
Edited by Squirrelofwoe on Wednesday 19th October 11:48
I had it on pre order & played for a couple of hours last night. Did a bit of the campaign & then a round of multiplayer. So far I love it & haven't had any issues with it or when I was playing in the beta. Looking forward to a bit of banter with the usual suspects online at some point 
FUBAR said:
Im in...add me as Foobes on Origin. As a few here will attest Im monumentally sheite at BF, but also I dont care
Sometimes on during the day and if I can wrestle the PC at home from my kids I'll try to get on in the evenings again
Welcome back ! We will need to get the usual suspects together again. We might not get the highest score but we're the most entertaining Sometimes on during the day and if I can wrestle the PC at home from my kids I'll try to get on in the evenings again
Squirrelofwoe said:
daddy cool said:
wheres best/cheapest to get it now? Quick google suggests CDKeys.com for £36...
That was the same conclusion I'd came to, I've yet to see it cheaper anywhere reputable.I find CDkeys is almost always the cheapest for release-day purchases.
I'm (very) happy to be proved wrong though!
Now i need to either delete Fallout 4 or Battlefield 4 from my SSD drive so i have space for BF1 on Friday... hmmm
RussellG said:
Welcome back ! We will need to get the usual suspects together again. We might not get the highest score but we're the most entertaining
Cheers Russ. Managed an hour on it this morning as I had mastered a 'home alone' in the office today. Then the fking bossman decided to come in anyway 
Will try and get on at home later
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