Battlefield 3

[Terbinator]

FWIW - the system on the left (GPU@850MHz) is scoring 30-40 FPS on the 32 player servers with settings on 'high'.

[Hicks12]

https://bf3alpha.battlefield.com/index.php?id=1
go there and hopefully you get a key .

nice good chance i will be happy then! same monitor too haha

[Terbinator]

It does give a message saying update drivers but AFAIK i have the latest set for the 460.

[1stRaven]

Downloading it now. Randomly, I got an invite but haven't signed up to anything for a while.

[chuckskull]

Sweet invite just plopped into my mailbox. Coming down nice and fast. Not sure how they hand them out but I've noticed if you make yourself useful in one beta or alpha you tend to get invited back for more, often see the same names in the closed stages. I found an exploit with the walkers in 2142 and I think I've had beta invites for every EA FPS since. Pretty sure they always lottery a few to EA accounts too.

[Spud1]

OK, so i've got home and I may have played it. Clearly a strict NDA on this so I can't say anything about the alpha itself. So instead i'll say the following.

I have just pre-ordered Battlefield 3. It may or may not have had anything to do with playing the alpha.

My fears about BF3 being Bad Company 3 have been shot down in flames, despite some fairly large problems with the game, which you can read all about on the public EA forums (Chiefly the lack of command-rose and the automatic shouting which breaks any attempt at stealth). Keep in mind also that my system is by no means amazing (CPU excluded..my gfx card is decidedly mid range) and yet I am still pre ordering. I am confident that the final game will play nice with my system, with graphics on High.

Go pre order this now, 64 players on this will be epic..

[chuckskull]

Bah update in progress

Good to hear it's not Bad Company 3, I really enjoyed those games but I want a proper successor to BF2. Going to be some bugs in the alpha, it's what it's for, I've played a few that were catastrophically bad and went on to be brilliant games.

*Resists gaming on mac comment*

[Spud1]

Bah update in progress

Good to hear it's not Bad Company 3, I really enjoyed those games but I want a proper successor to BF2. Going to be some bugs in the alpha, it's what it's for, I've played a few that were catastrophically bad and went on to be brilliant games.

*Resists gaming on mac comment*

Pfft this is a PC really, doesn't even have OSX installed and I actually can't anymore since I upgraded the graphics card

Update is annoying indeed but does mean I can jump ship to WoW for a bit hah.

[Ferral]

Just received an Alpha key, so had to install Origin. Downloading at the min

[Yosh]

I also just got the Alpha Key which ends in 4 days, my best guess this is the final phase of stress testing and i have better stuff to do with my time.

I already know i'll end up buying the game so it makes no odds to me.

[Singh400]

I'm in the alpha. I'M INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

[mcmiller]

Aww it keeps saying I do not meet the criteria. Anyone know what the criteria is?

[Jasp]

Bah, got in downloaded the game and won't launch because it needs a newer driver version. My laptop runs with 197.16 and nothing above, any 200 series hard locks the laptop due to being picky, no alpha for me lol.

[Allen]

Aww it keeps saying I do not meet the criteria. Anyone know what the criteria is?

That you were randomly picked for Alpha?

I get the same, no Alpha for me either... but I'm willing to wait for release.

[Ferral]

Must admit not keen on it

[Hicks12]

no? I guess we cant really comment since the NDA, but i found it seriously improved... not 100% bf2 sucessor but its good.