Battlefield 3, weird CD install O.o
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F3AR
Well-known member
shame you wont be able to play multiplayer till midnight thoughhaha. Stuck playin single player, which tbh I wont play at all (I dont think). Will be playing it from tomorrow evening onwards.
Actually my BF3 Schedule is something like Play the Campaign till the end, then start playing Multiplayer XD
JSG10
Expert
Installing mine as I type this ^^ "Downloading" at 8.4MB/s lmao Most definitelly installing of the CD.
I just hope I don't have the same problem I did during the Beta where you had to have your character name as your account name. That was really irritating, I actually got them to agree to change it in the end but never got round to giving them a valid name to replace it with lol
I just hope I don't have the same problem I did during the Beta where you had to have your character name as your account name. That was really irritating, I actually got them to agree to change it in the end but never got round to giving them a valid name to replace it with lol
DeadEyeDuk
Superhero Level Poster
Think I have DLed 50% thus far on Origin. More tonight so hopefully its done for tomorrow.
Slightly OT...why would not play the SP Frenchy? Firstly, BF campaigns are great, and secondly, why buy something and only use half of it? That's just silly!
Slightly OT...why would not play the SP Frenchy? Firstly, BF campaigns are great, and secondly, why buy something and only use half of it? That's just silly!
tom_gr7
Life Serving
It seems that EA have put in some kind of release day checker so I cant even play the single player untill tomorrow
Maybe so no one gets a head start before release day.
DeadEyeDuk
Superhero Level Poster
Makes sense tbh. If all games had this, it would also mean retailers could worry a bit less about early delivery and ship things 1 or 2 days earlier than they do now, to ensure more copies arrive for use on the release date
Wow...praised EA...must have lie down
Wow...praised EA...must have lie down
Dayve
Well-known member
I've been having that argument over at the PCG forums. The single player mode of any BF game doesn't account for half the game, it doesn't even account for 1% of the game. It's a free bundled simulator to get you ready for multiplayer, and in the case of BF3, to show off the new engine's capabilities and shiny shiny red ball.
That's why it's so horribly scripted, short, and shallow as a puddle. Just use it to get used to the control scheme and overall layout of the game before jumping in to the real game - multiplayer.
DeadEyeDuk
Superhero Level Poster
I like BF SP campaigns...
The best way to make a BF campaign feel well scripted and deep is to play a CoD SP right before (Yeh, I went there! )
The best way to make a BF campaign feel well scripted and deep is to play a CoD SP right before
(Yeh, I went there! )
Frenchy
Prolific Poster
It makes sense, steam also do it, and to be quite honest nothing wrong with it either. You know when you purchase the game that you are buying a game which is being released on a particular date, having it early does not give you any more right than someone who buy it in a shop on release day.
One thing that was a bit annoying though is when I bought Deus Ex, i bought a retail copy, went to installe arly and couldnt because of release date issue. Fair enough. I coudl however use my cd key to download the copy, but obviously woudlnt be allowed to play. Fair enoguh again. If however I downloaded the copy it woudl also let me download patches etc. But i coudlnt do this with my retail copy until the game was released. I kow it only made me wait another 5 - 10 minutes but there should be a way to fully install and update the game even before release and then allow launch of the game once release date comes along.
One thing that was a bit annoying though is when I bought Deus Ex, i bought a retail copy, went to installe arly and couldnt because of release date issue. Fair enough. I coudl however use my cd key to download the copy, but obviously woudlnt be allowed to play. Fair enoguh again. If however I downloaded the copy it woudl also let me download patches etc. But i coudlnt do this with my retail copy until the game was released. I kow it only made me wait another 5 - 10 minutes but there should be a way to fully install and update the game even before release and then allow launch of the game once release date comes along.
Drunken Monkey
Author Level
Yay I have it and as I'm forced to have a day off tomorrow yay
Dayve
Well-known member
I like BF SP campaigns...
The best way to make a BF campaign feel well scripted and deep is to play a CoD SP right before
I enjoyed the campaigns in CoD, when they were WW2 and not modern warfarey. It's the god awful multiplayer in those games I hated. 16 people per team, 14 of them sniping (on a map with close quarters fighting and not one single decent spot for sniping) and the other 2 per team using machine guns. Utter pants.
Has the BF single player ever had a campaign? I remember them being just skirmishes.
Kalisnoir
Super Star
They are referring to the Bad Company series. All of the normal Battlefield games have only been skirmishes. I don't mind people not playing the BF series before Bad Company, but what annoys me is when people think BF2 is BFBad Company 2... No, if I meant Bad Company 2, I would of said Bad Company 2
I'm just ranting because I have to wait till tomorrow for Amazon to give me my game
Dayve
Well-known member
They are referring to the Bad Company series. All of the normal Battlefield games have only been skirmishes. I don't mind people not playing the BF series before Bad Company, but what annoys me is when people think BF2 is BFBad Company 2... No, if I meant Bad Company 2, I would of said Bad Company 2
I'm just ranting because I have to wait till tomorrow for Amazon to give me my game
Well, so do I. It's been dispatched at 12 today with the £1.99 first class delivery option, so hopefully it'll arrive tomorrow, but knowing my luck it won't.
I see what you mean about the Bad Company thing. It is a little confusing. I only ever played BF1942, then BF2, and soon BF3, or the true BF games as I like to think of them. Bad Company was clearly just an attempt to move in on the money printing machine that was totally arcadey FPS gaming, on which CoD pretty much had a monopoly for quite a few years, so you can't really consider the BC games a proper part of the BF series, just spinoffs to try to compete with CoD.