Played a little over the weekend with a couple of people and noticed they seem to have vastly improved the joining and staying with your team. I had some great games and outstanding moments. The servers mostly behaved themselves too but I was very careful when choosing which to join.
I'll get the upcoming dlc if people here are getting it. The destruction from the promo vid looks quite nice.
I'm also buoyed by our new found esprit de corps, natch.
It's a shame you've lost enthusiasm I_R but to be honest i'm not surprised. Just looking at the battlelog and you've put in so many more hours than the rest of us:
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[i'm off to read mods thread on how to use the forum again]
Seriously, well done for putting that many hours in despite all the problems. I still hope we can get some great forum games in, in the future and you will be drawn back in because it's not the same without you. (also, we seem to win more with you there! :D)
Re: The server thing, I really would resent having to pay for the servers to get the experience we want out of this game consistently but i'm definately up for a short trial period to see if it would be worth it. Perhaps it's be best to wait until (hopefully) we get quite a few of us on regularly (perhaps when people have finished things like FEZ and the trials buzz has settled down a bit). I also think if we're to do it we should play for a few days before on normal servers so the experience is fresh in our minds so we can easily compare and see if it really would be worth it.
Really again, I would really resent having to pay but I think it's definately worth a trial period because I long for the BFBC2 days of old...
End of an era. Since Trials and Fez came out I've not touched it. I might have a squint at the bigger map DLC, but if the netcode is shite it will still be a chore.I_R said:I have zero enthusiasm for this now. Left it alone for a week, stuck it back in at the weekend, played two games, switched it back off.
humantarget said:I have Battlefield 3 on the PC, but my (now) outdated PC has some awful graphical problems, such as players disappearing if my settings are set too high etc. I was considering getting it for the 360, so is it worth it? From reading this thread it seems to be dying off a bit?
Yeah, i'd say you should pick it up. I could have went for it on the PC (it looks so so much nicer) but I decided on xbox mainly because of the games I had with the guys here on BFBC2. I had a 3 month break from it where I didn't play at all but now i'm playing it again.
What we really need is to set a day and try and get as many people on as possible, if we could have six or more of us on at once it's always (no lag permitting) a whole lot of fun.
Mainly when a load of Americans join on to European servers, or if you're playing with people that live right beside the server. I'll not lie, it can be very very frustrating but I do think it has got a lot better recently.
edit: the worst thing is actually when you're in a game that you can both have an advantage over some people and disadvantage over others. Normally you can recognise this and find another, better server.
humantarget said:So, is lag an issue then?
vicinity_of_pie said:What we really need is to set a day and try and get as many people on as possible, if we could have six or more of us on at once it's always (no lag permitting) a whole lot of fun.
Aye, pick a week day and I'll probably show my face. It's better in small doses, so once a week with a full team should be fun.I_R said:
vicinity_of_pie said:What we really need is to set a day and try and get as many people on as possible, if we could have six or more of us on at once it's always (no lag permitting) a whole lot of fun.
This is probably worthwhile, the playing solo while you wait for friends is the really unbearable bit now.
Webbins said:...and of course the netcode kills it at times. Talk to me about client side hit detection with dedicated servers, Cuckoo, what's the story there?
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