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Aww crap now I have to preorder with origin or gamesrot, I'm leaning toward origin being less evil. I've never had a good expience with gamestop.
 
Goddammit they would make the Origin preorder the most attractive. >:| Really wanted to grab this from Amazon. After playing I think the flash suppressor would actually be pretty useful.
 
Direct2drive had the pre-order on sale for $45 before. Anyone know of anymore pre-order specials like that?

Also how much will the karkand and other upgrade stuff be if you don't preorder?
 
Miklebud said:
Did anyone else have a recurring problem with not being able to spawn on your squad mates? I think I could count on two hands the amount of matches where I actually could see my squad mates name in the respawn window. The rest of the time, I only had the default spawn option. Made me pretty mad that I had to run the full length of the map EVERY frigging time.
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When the alpha first started you were able to spawn on squad mates (if you were squad leader or on the squad leader if you were not). It worked well. However, there had been intermitten issues with squad spawn throughout the alpha. And during at least the last few days, everyone in the alpha forum was complaining about not being able to squad spawn at all. There was unconfirmed speculation that the last update that was made to the alpha broke the squad spawn option. It sure seemed to be more than a coincidence though, that no one seemd to be able to squad spawn right after the last update implementation...
 
GoodRevrnd said:
Goddammit they would make the Origin preorder the most attractive. >:| Really wanted to grab this from Amazon. After playing I think the flash suppressor would actually be pretty useful.
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Yeah - the dogtags, skins and strategy guide hold no real interest for me. I am very curious about the early access to beta and the physical warfare pack sounds better than the other options
 
idk about the bf3 specact kit, but the bc2 one gave you access to weapon reskins of some of the best weapons without unlocking them(ex: M95 SA) so that could be worth while if you want to have an advantage at the start..
 
Exterous said:
Yeah - the dogtags, skins and strategy guide hold no real interest for me. I am very curious about the early access to beta and the physical warfare pack sounds better than the other options
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Yep. I considered buying MoH just so I could get access to the beta, but in the end I couldn't bring myself to plunk down $60 for a game that I knew was going to be shit (1 dev for SP, 1 dev for MP... really?) so I could get access to another game for which there was absolutely zero evidence of existence.

Seriously, I think we're about a half step away from being told we have to buy some B-list piece of shit for the privilege of buying another AAA title.

At any rate, the Origin deal was a no-brainer for me. Beta access (EARLY access even), pre-loading, and all the expansion shit. For once, it's nice seeing Gamestop getting the shaft, so that was good, too.
 
novasatori said:
idk about the bf3 specact kit, but the bc2 one gave you access to weapon reskins of some of the best weapons without unlocking them(ex: M95 SA) so that could be worth while if you want to have an advantage at the start..
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Since when does reskinning a weapon yield an advantage? No camo arguments.
 
Stuxnet said:
Since when does reskinning a weapon yield an advantage? No camo arguments.
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an advantage in the aspect you got the M95 in BC2 without having to "grind" to unlock it, so you could have the M95 at level 1 with the recon class.

I'd say that's an advantage for day one players.

that's also why I said idk though, because I have no idea what if any weapons the BF3 SPECACT kit may include as free unlocks
 
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an advantage in the aspect you got the M95 in BC2 without having to "grind" to unlock it, so you could have the M95 at level 1 with the recon class.

I'd say that's an advantage for day one players.

that's also why I said idk though, because I have no idea what if any weapons the BF3 SPECACT kit may include as free unlocks
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Gotchya. I didn't realize you got the unlock with the skin. Makes sense.
 
Are we really sure that the SPECACT will give you unlocked weapons? I would seem to think you would get the different skins when you unlocked the weapon.
 
maevinj said:
Are we really sure that the SPECACT will give you unlocked weapons? I would seem to think you would get the different skins when you unlocked the weapon.
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Dunno about bf3 but some people bought the specact kit for bc2 so they would have better guns unlocked when they started.

I think recon gets the big sniper rifle. assault gets the reskinned m16 or something. Can't remember the others.
 
Stuxnet said:
Early access to beta, even without purchasing Medal of Honor last year?

Sold.
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Agreed, just placed my order.

The preloading is pretty nice too, I just hope it is a "midnight" release for the preload. Either way I'll be taking Oct 25th off to enjoy it proper.
 
I have not done this myself, but have read of many others having success.

If you want to purchase BF3 off of Origin, and you are not yet a member of the EA Gun Club, sign up for the Gun Club and get a 25% off discount code to use when ordering games off of Origin.

This code should either be shown to you immediately, or show up in your e-mail within 24 hours. (I've heard both stories).
 
GullyFoyle said:
I have not done this myself, but have read of many others having success.

If you want to purchase BF3 off of Origin, and you are not yet a member of the EA Gun Club, sign up for the Gun Club and get a 25% off discount code to use when ordering games off of Origin.

This code should either be shown to you immediately, or show up in your e-mail within 24 hours. (I've heard both stories).
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is that via the Email Signup button, or the Register button on top? I went ahead and did the email signup.
 
GullyFoyle said:
I have not done this myself, but have read of many others having success.

If you want to purchase BF3 off of Origin, and you are not yet a member of the EA Gun Club, sign up for the Gun Club and get a 25% off discount code to use when ordering games off of Origin.

This code should either be shown to you immediately, or show up in your e-mail within 24 hours. (I've heard both stories).
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I tried it a while back and still haven't gotten my code bleh.
 
I signed up for the Gun Club too. Didn't get a code immediately, so here's hoping it shows up at some point (and hoping that EA doesn't decide to kill the deal before I get it).
 
The Gun Club thing definitely does send you a code, but I registered for the Gun Club back in december, and they sent a welcome email with a code that was valid for 5 days only. Note that subscribing to the newsletter is not good enough--you need to register with the Gun Club.
 
i know this is the wrong forum to ask in but are the preorder bonuses for the console versions going to be vendor specific as well? there really isnt a very aftive thread in the console forum for BF3

ill most likely buy it on both PC and Console, and im curious if they are going to be doing the same thing
 
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