The Blue Board

Haha I was going to say something about that. Bring back the vball player instead of Gacy please.

He looks like Will Patton. Not sure if it's been covered before.

This is the slowest download ever. It's only at 60%.

Wow, yea that's him.

Game is a ton of fun. Right now there is a bug for users with Nvidia cards (which I have) that after about 15 minutes or so the game freezes and you have to ctrl-alt delete. Supposed to be fixed tomorrow. Running around feels really good. You don't feel weighed down like you did in BC2 whatsoever. It seems like the game plays a lot faster.

Some thing I noticed during the short amount of time I've played.

1. When you or your team is arming or disarming the mcomm you'll see it on the 3d map. So if you see a large "B" you'll see an animation going around the letter clockwise if it's being disarmed or armed. Pretty cool actually I thought.

2. I'm not really sure of the battlelog features for console but so far on PC they're really slick.Everyone has their own profile (think facebook) can provide status updates, shows what servers you have been in or are in currently so friends can easily hop in to join you. You can use it to join as a group with your friends at once.

3. The loadout screen is just awesome. You can check gun stats, vehicle stats, which upgrades are next for each class/vehicle and see which are able to switch firing modes, which modes they're able to have (some are only single and full-auto. It sounds pretty basic but you just have to see it to see all the info it provides.

4, Funny/graphical bugs are definitely there but that's to be expected. Some of the times the textures will flicker or just screw up completely but it could be attributed to the gpu bug currently for nvidia users. I was playing defense at the first mcomm station and was just behind a downed tree. I could shoot through the tree like it wasn't there but people couldn't see me at all. It was super cheap but I wanted to get my G36c.

5. I played some assault as well and the icon for it is now the medic icon. Reviving is kind of weird as you have to be extremely close to them for it to work. I'm not sure if it was a bug or not but sometimes I know I hit them but they went away. I was revived a few times and wasn't asked if wanted to get up or not so that's not in there yet.

6. I'm kind of confused on the spawn mechanic right now. Sometimes even if my squad leader is alive or not I can't spawn on him. It wasn't due to him being in a confined space either. A lot of the time he was just in the middle of a field where I should easily be able to join him and I couldn't.

7, A couple of the handguns are without shooting animations and therefore have zero recoil. So that was fun sniping people with handguns across the map.

8. 3d spotting simply needs to go. People are still just shooting at triangles when they can't see the actual player. I know I was definitely doing it and killing people.

9. Right now there isn't anyway, unless you're using 3rd part software to remap your keys. So I had to actually use g for grenade and r for reload. Typically everything is on the mouse for those. So that was odd getting used to.

10. Right now you can definitely tell little things here and there that it's in an alpha state but for the most part, the game plays extremely smooth. It seems running is a bit slower than BC2 so maybe the speed boost perk won't be so bad. I typically had the speed perk in BC2 when playing medic to get around to as many people as possible so maybe I'm just really used to that and can't remember regular speed.

Right now i'm really psyched to play the beta where a lot of things will be ironed out. The game plays great and it'll be neat to see all the things that have changed from this build to the next. Also, on the forums a DICE employee stated that the beta will not be the same map as alpha. So that's going to be awesome seeing something a bit different. I'm calling a larger map with possibly jets or at least more land vehicles instead of the LAV.

Oh and tell your room mate that he owes me huge

This whole automatic M16A4 deal is really starting to bother me. Really DICE? A fully automatic M16A4? That doesn't even exist! They just invested a brand new weapon and called it the M16A4.

M16A4 has 3 fire modes in BF3. fully auto, three round burst, and single fire. The M16A4 DOES NOT HAVE FULLY AUTO CAPABILITY. How in the hell can they call it the M16A4 and then let it have fully automatic capabilities? How?

Its not the M16A4. Simple as that. Its a made up weapon by DICE that they are calling the M16A4.

Its already been confirmed. I'm actually in a conversation about it on the BF3 board right now. A lot of people hating it, some noobs liking it of course.

They mentioned the Ak74M being fully auto, and they had to make the M16 auto to balance it. Doesn't make a bit of sense. Its just insulting that they are actually calling the gun an M16A4 when it is literally impossible to make it fully automatic in real life. They did it. They have created a brand new weapon, but are using the M16A4 name. Unbelievable.

Are they side specific? Not sure that they are. I haven't seen any confirmation on that. Actually, I have seen many people say they are NOT side specific. EA BF3 general discussion.

The guy claiming an AK-47 doesn't have a 3 shot burst doesn't know what he is talking about. I can personally verify that it does have a 3 shot burst mode.

Sure he didn't say Ak-74M? I haven't seen anyone mention the AK-47.