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suck it vivi!!!!!
 
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BF3Blog - Unlock Battlefield 3 multiplayer weapons in co-op

On October 23rd, 2011 in News

DICE previously hinted at players having the option to unlock some Battlefield 3 weapons from the singleplayer campaign and use in multiplayer, but they never followed up on that. Now DICE’s Fredrik Thylander, senior game designer, and the guy who does all the unlocks in the game, revealed via Twitter that players will be able to unlock 6 weapons in the co-op campaign which can be used in the regular multiplayer game. Among those weapons is the M39 EMR (seen above), a rifle which was very popular in Bad Company 2 (under the name M14 Mod 0).
Thylander didn’t reveal what other weapons will be unlockable, but we’ll find out soon — Battlefield 3 launch is just around the corner.
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s44 said:
What are you jet guys planning to fly with? Surely not the mouse?
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I've been flying in BF2 for several years with this, still going strong:
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They better work out the throttle support in BF3, never got it working in BFBC2!
 
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GullyFoyle said:
I've been flying in BF2 for several years with this, still going strong:
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They better work out the throttle support in BF3, never got it working in BFBC2!
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I bought that thing twice. Twice did it break on me (over the span of nearly 10 years. Unfortunately, that was the ONLY joystick that can withstand any usage. All other joysticks suck. They break so quickly. I just bought its successor.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WHFQ0K

I have no doubt that it will break in 2-3 years, and I must get another one.
 
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IGN - Battlefield 3 Review (PC)

The quality multiplayer tradition returns, but the campaign feels like a different game.
October 24, 2011
by Peter Eykemans

Battlefield 3 suffers from an identity crisis.

It delivers scorching multiplayer, fitting of its decade-long pedigree of famously expansive big-team battles, but stumbles over a generic single-player campaign that feels like a different game.

While DICE may not deliver a memorable story here, it doesn't need to when Battlefield 3's online warfare raises every bar imaginable, delivering one of the best multiplayer experiences of the year. I doubt Battlefield purists will complain much about the campaign, honestly; I know you're enlisting in this battle to bring down entire armies online.

Editor's Note: This review covers PC only. IGN will post either a review update or an entirely different console review once the Day 1 patch goes live for Xbox 360 and PS3 and we're able to play the game in its final retail state. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Battlefield 3 (PC) Video Review

From the beaches of Kharg Island to the hills of Damavand Peak, Battlefield 3's multiplayer maps provide an immediate sense of scale. Everything about their design screams size, personalization, and the need to take creative initiative to succeed. Choose to pop headshots from the prone position, spin barrel rolls in a jet outfitted with personal unlocks, or see how many dog tags you can knife from your opponents; Battlefield 3's multiplayer is about the freedom of choice.

The online fight feels like a geography lesson (in a good way). Depending on the game mode, each map utilizes a different area or shifts wider and wider as gameplay progresses. You might not see half of a map like Caspian Border or Seine Crossing during your first few Rush matches. Yes, certain areas feel empty and repeated map elements like shipping crates conjure deja vu, but the sense of scope is exhilarating. Where many online shooters teach you the nooks and crannies of every map, Battlefield 3 is a wide sandbox that encourages variety and exploration. Battlefield 3 shines in matches with 63 other players, where every bullet has a new enemy's name on it.

Is the gameplay balanced? Battlefield 3's online teeter-totter comes down to personal preference. I've been pinned down at my spawn point in Operation Metro by a dozen, well-stocked snipers and I've taken over an entire conquest map single-handedly. I'm no Maverick in a jet, so I learned to rain down hellfire from a chopper. For any class or tactic that doesn't work, like a painter's palette, Battlefield 3 offers alternatives. All four streamlined classes (Soldier, Engineer, Assault, and Recon) get their own problem-solving unlocks, so leveling each one is paramount to sitting on top of the leaderboards.

Battlefield 3's rewards and progression will keep you coming back to its online rumble for a long time. From adding heat-seeking missiles to an Anti-Aircraft Tank to simply changing camouflage, there's always a carrot dangling just out of reach -- if you can wrangle the score to earn it. While the newly implemented Team Deathmatch modes encourage high kills and low deaths, Battlefield remains a team-based game where you can sit atop the scoreboard no matter how many times you've died. Heal an injured teammate, resupply a sniper, or make sure a tank gets fixed up, Battlefield is about working towards the greater good and it's just as refreshing now as it was in 2002 -- all while looking outstanding on PC.

From sun flares to smoke bursting from a collapsing building, Battlefield 3's Frostbite 2 engine provides marvelous visuals. It performs admirably on lowered settings, but for anyone who's doubled up on their 580s, Battlefield 3 provides a gorgeous spectrum of environments speckled with detail to brag about. Nighttime elements present a stark intensity, with glowing fluorescent signs dotting the cityscape and street lights blinding you from seeing enemies. The waves crashing on a beach below a late-game villa are mesmerizing -- as is the simple scrub brush dotting maps like Operation Firestorm. At maximum settings, Battlefield 3 looks stunning.

The engine isn't perfect by any means. I encountered prone legs jutting through walls, saw snipers half-buried in mountainsides, watched my dead body stick through the hood of a jeep, and even noticed a story character float in a straight line from point A to point B, walls be damned. I've seen flower pots float in midair, noticed AI soldiers in their shooting position long after death, and I somehow committed suicide by running over the lip of a crater. These glitches are annoying, but they don't break the game. But they do break the immersion of the story and in the case of an undeserved multiplayer suicide, cause unneeded frustration.

While longtime fans know Battlefield as a multiplayer experience, its campaign and cooperative experiences can't be ignored. For those of you more interested in the single-player campaign than multiplayer, definitely take note. Whereas both Battlefield: Bad Company games added a story underwritten with humor, Battlefield 3 takes a more serious path. Its tale of global threats reads like twenty years of military fiction thrown in a blender and turned into a checklist. WMDs? Check. Russians? Uh huh. Insurgents tucked into Middle Eastern alleyways? Yup. It's all there and woven into levels through the recollections of Sergeant James Blackburn during an interrogation (didn't we see this in Call of Duty: Black Ops?). There's inherent tension in the threat of a terrorist attack, but Battlefield 3's campaign feels like well-tread ground.

Battlefield 3's campaign does hit some memorable moments (especially in the graphics department), but as a whole it's trite and frustrating. The campaign jams Battlefield 3's multiplayer into a linear box where freedom of choice gets thrown out a non-destructible window. There are only a few buildings to blow holes in, barely any vehicles to take the wheel of, and quicktime events adorn enemy encounters in almost every level. While you can literally crash a helicopter on an opponent's head while parachuting to safety if you so choose in multiplayer, campaign makes you hit spacebar at just the right moment to avoid getting punched -- they're two different games.

The co-op missions surround the events of the campaign, yet feel more enjoyable as individual levels. Working with a teammate leads to more creative approaches of attacks, though the same AI frustrations are in place. While opening doors and during other set animations, AI enemies gain invulnerability. They also have an uncanny ability to pick you out of the crowd. Even while using an AI teammate as cover -- not standard operating procedure, I know -- enemies still find you.

Additionally, most levels feature a bottleneck where death hits out of the blue. Whether it's a grenade exploding without an indicator, a blast from an unseen enemy, or late-game quicktime event that introduces a new button, the campaign and co-op levels are a minefield of frustration -- especially when cranking the difficulty up to hard. All told, it's a brief affair -- I burned through the single-player portion in under six hours, the co-op content adds another two or three.

Closing Comments

When you shut down Battlefield 3 and let the Frostbite 2-powered dust settle, it certainly has some problems. But DICE’s adoration of and expertise with the online experience permeates every aspect of its multiplayer. Regardless of the narrative missteps or the occasional glitches, Battlefield 3 offers an unforgettable, world-class multiplayer suite that's sure to excite shooter fans, whether they fired their first bullet in Battlefield 1942 or have just now heeded Battlefield's call of duty.

IGN Ratings for Battlefield 3 (PC)
Rating Description
out of 10 Click here for ratings guide
  • 8.0 Presentation - The multiplayer’s robust, the browser-based launcher works well, but those who don’t play online won’t find much meat in the other modes.
  • 9.5 - Graphics: Frostbite 2 shines in multiplayer, single-player, and co-op.
  • 9.5 - Sound: You’ll hear every bullet whizzing by your head, and the crash of rubble all around you.
  • 8.5 - Gameplay: Traversing the enormous world feels great, on foot or in a vehicle, but the single-player’s quicktime events are just lame.
  • 9.5 - Lasting Appeal: Multiplayer unlocks will keep you chasing the dragon for months.
  • 9.0 - OVERALL: Amazing
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GullyFoyle

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Canbacon said:
Sure thing. :)

I got really good with the tank by helping out populate servers for the press. Pretty good with the helicopters now, but still stuck with jets.
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Assuming you are playing the PC version, can you comment on the speed of unlocking/ranking up? Is it any slower than the beta?

Assuming you can find this info in Battlelog, what rank are you after how many hours?
 
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GullyFoyle said:
Assuming you are playing the PC version, can you comment on the speed of unlocking/ranking up? Is it any slower than the beta?

Assuming you can find this info in Battlelog, what rank are you after how many hours?
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Devs did state that beta progression was sped up.
 
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New Nvidia BF3 Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce 285.62 WHQL Drivers Released

The new GeForce 285.62 WHQL drivers are now available to download. Recommended for Battlefield 3, Batman: Arkham City and Rage, these drivers bundle together all the enhancements and updates contained within the 285.27 and 285.38 beta releases, in addition to new SLI and 3D Vision profiles for many of today’s most popular games.
Performance Improvements

For Battlefield 3 we’ve improved performance by up to 11% since the release of the GeForce 285.38 beta drivers, have included several compatibility enhancements, a new and improved SLI profile, and a 3D Vision profile. Similarly, Rage has received enhancements since the release of the same drivers, and Batman: Arkham City compatibility has been implemented.

As mentioned, updates contained within the earlier beta drivers have been carried over, such as the many performance improvements made to games --between the release of the 280.26 WHQL drivers and today’s 285.62 WHQL drivers-- when running on our entire range of 500-Series graphics cards.

On the GeForce GTX 580, for example, SLI users can expect to receive frame rate boosts of up to:

13% in Metro 2033,
8% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat,
7% in Civilization V,
7% in F1 2010,
5% in Crysis 2 with the DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade enabled,
5% in Lost Planet 2,
And 5% in Mafia 2.

And single-GPU users will receive improvements of up to:

6% in Battlefield 3,
5% in Call Of Duty: Black Ops,
And 5% in StarCraft II.

Likewise, on the GeForce GTX 560, SLI users will receive frame rate boosts of up to:

11% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat,
7% in Dragon Age II,
7% in F1 2010,
7% in Metro 2033,
5% in Battlefield: Bad Company 2,
5% in Crysis 2 with the DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade enabled,
5% in Just Cause 2,
5% in Lost Planet 2,
And 4% in Mafia 2.

And single-GPU users will receive performance improvements of up to:

11% in Battlefield 3
7% in StarCraft II,
6% in Call Of Duty: Black Ops,
And 4% in Bulletstorm.

New SLI & 3D Vision Profiles

The new and updated SLI profiles included with the GeForce 285.62 WHQL drivers are as follows:

Battlefield 3
Dead Island
Diablo III
Dragon Age 2
Need for Speed: The Run
Saints Row: The Third

And similarly, the following 3D Vision profiles have been included:

Aion
Battlefield 3
Diablo 3
Dirt 3 (rating updated to Excellent)
Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) 2
Driver San Francisco
F1 2011
Football Manager 2012
From Dust
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
Last Remnant Benchmark
Men of War: Assault Squad
OIO The Game
rFactor 2
Rise of Flight
Stock Car
 
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GullyFoyle said:
Assuming you are playing the PC version, can you comment on the speed of unlocking/ranking up? Is it any slower than the beta?

Assuming you can find this info in Battlelog, what rank are you after how many hours?
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All I can say, slower than beta, but still quick due to the people I was playing against. Also, I was using a designated test account not my personal account.

imaheadcase said:
Its official, i'm going SLI in November with SB-E. the FPS increase going sli is just to great.
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Same, though I really would like to know the pricing of the new boards and sizes.
 
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Canbacon said:
All I can say, slower than beta, but still quick due to the people I was playing against. Also, I was using a designated test account not my personal account.



Same, though I really would like to know the pricing of the new boards and sizes.
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They are expensive, asrock low end is around $240..high end is almost $400!
 
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imaheadcase said:
They are expensive, asrock low end is around $240..high end is almost $400!
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Damn, then I wonder how much the EVGA ones with the full POSCAPs will be. Anyways, it was time for an upgrade in any case. Running a pretty old computer setup now, sad my test PC at work is better than my home computer :(


On another note, I would recommend the singleplayer campaign, definitely worth the look. Co-op is fun as well and you can get some unique MP weapon unlocks.
 
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