Game: Battlefield 3

[Ryllharu]

Playing on PC, despite the activation issues tonight. Looks great, plays smooth. Obviously better controls (for non-flying vehicles and infantry).

While I clearly suck at...basically everything other than spotting, I had an absolute blast playing with a pickup squad. Good communication, and in general had one hell of a time. I've got to figure out how to get a decent chat running so things work more smoothly. Playing bait is actually...kind of fun.

It does sort of suck that Support is basically useless in Large Conquest other than giving ammo to snipers that ran empty. Definitely my favorite class.

I also cannot fly. At all. But I am good at being a gunner.

[Buffalobiian]

Playing on PC, despite the activation issues tonight. Looks great, plays smooth. Obviously better controls (for non-flying vehicles and infantry).

While I clearly suck at...basically everything other than spotting, I had an absolute blast playing with a pickup squad. Good communication, and in general had one hell of a time. I've got to figure out how to get a decent chat running so things work more smoothly. Playing bait is actually...kind of fun.

It does sort of suck that Support is basically useless in Large Conquest other than giving ammo to snipers that ran empty. Definitely my favorite class.

I also cannot fly. At all. But I am good at being a gunner.

Yeah, I ran into an issue tonight with installing. Basically after installing from Disc 2, it keeps asking me to "Please Insert Disk 2", but won't recognise any of my discs. I ended up cancelling the installation, but it still showed the game as being installed. I then had fun navigating the web interface, which asked me to install the browser plug-in, as well as install the game (uh huh..). A repair install fixed it though, and ended up downloading 500MB from the internet.

For some reason, I can rarely see the ping of the servers I'm trying to join (in the server list), and not at all once I'm in the game.

Also sucked that I had to change graphics settings once I've spawned into the world, not while I'm dead, nor when I'm not playing a game. Thankyou, web-interface.

I got to work out how spotting works. I thought it would have been using a pair of binoculars or something, but from playing it seems more like setting up your radio and then looking at people. (I can't hear myself making the calls though, so does that mean it's not working?) (edit: nvm, the button's "Q". Sometimes it's awesome since if I'm not sure if someone's there, I press Q to check without shooting to give my position away)

Any idea of campaign mode is a good training ground? Or just learn the maps and leave the campaign alone (like in BC2)?