BF3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Battlefield 3 is “missing” many features which were in previous Battlefield games, features such as a server browser for PC players. The Battlefield 3 beta is in full swing, and most players have noticed something else missing from Battlefield 3: squad management. It’s not possible to manage a squad in-game, or to choose which squad to join — squads are created automatically and players are randomly assigned to squads (so it seems).
PC players in particular have been surprised over the lack of these features, especially since squad management is available in console versions of Battlefield 3. And for PCs? According to DICE Community Manager Daniel Matros (via Twitter), squad management and voice chat has been moved to Battlelog. Having to switch to Battlelog to create or join a squad is, to put it mildly, unintuitive. Most PC systems cannot handle the constant Alt-Tab between applications, especially RAM-heavy ones like games.
Matros did add that you will still be able to see your squad in-game (obviously), but shifting yet another game mechanic/feature to Battlelog seems overkill. We’ve been playing the beta via Battlelog on PC for a while now, and honestly, we’d prefer an in-game server browser. Judging form the feedback on Twitter and in EA Forums, Battlefield fans are not too happy about this new way of managing squads.
What’s next, go to Battlelog to change your kit?
Thanks for the tip, Paul!
Fuck ea, love DICE. We all know who is fucking this game up. I’m amazed they are able to ruin the game so badly with this system of their’s (Battlelog).
You’re kidding right? You think DICE couldn’t put server browsers and squad in because EA wanted them in battlelog? They are in this together, DICE is a company like any other, and the publisher of the game isn’t making these terrible decisions.
Step into reality people, DICE has been the one causing problems with bf3, they aren’t some godsent business out here trying to give us perfect games for free while mean old EA stops them.
Granted, battlelog was EAs idea, but it was DICE who decided what game features they would put on there.
Do you think DICE decided to use battlelog? If it were up to them I’m sure they would implement in-game server browser’s. However, DICE are being puppeteered by EA, who want origin all over everything. This is the reason they are pushing battlelog so hard, so they can link it into origin and make more money. DICE does the hard work, while EA make’s sure it’s finger’s are firmly in the pie…
Really? neg rep? lol, I guess people don’t understand the truth….
im not exactly sure but seeing as ea has the money, they have the power to mandate whatever they want. ea wants something that can compete with elite. theyre too dumb to see that piling all of the features of the game into battlelog may make IT a better feature in itself,but it diminishes the game quality.in short, ea is making these decisions.
agreed, EA most likely said here’s Battlelog, now add, lets say 12 features from in game to this feature, no less. So Dice most likely had no choice and figured these would be some of the more easier things to transition to and from for gamers.
Well i guess your right
the way i see it is that DICE and EA are a team but dont worry… what they fuck up is what they will soon realize is bad and hopefully be rushing to fix it
in the future dont worry guys just TRUST them and let them learn from their
mistakes so they can learn from it and make the game EVEN BETTER lol
I have been sick of people saying that the dev is the damsel in distress and EA is the evil overlord. After all, DICE sold out to EA. THEY ARE PART OF THE COMPANY NOW. Some of the devs might have have objected, but the BOD sold out. But I can definately see EA independently working some sort of DRM here. That seems to be all this battlelog thing is for.
Fuck EA DICE.
this is get to be fucking joke i cant see y that wanna fuck this game up so much i am getting sick of this shit just make the game work way they use and stop jamming Origin and battle log down are throats
battle log is a cool extra tool but not at the expense of basic fetchers like squad management and server browser
What are you guys all talking about, these features are AWESOME:
- Origin DRM
- Battlelog DRM (You need it even to play Offline Campaign, no Game Menu at all)
- Battlelog – I mean isn’t this just awesome? Our very own Social Network just for Battlefield 3. After all, CoD just got it’s own, so we need one too! Gotta stay competitive folks.
- Play With Friends (But only if you’re all on Battlelog joining together….)
- Kill Cam (Thankfully there’s still Hardcore Mode…..)
- Overall dumbed down Gameplay (compared to Battlefield 2 anyway, lack of Commander, and more)
- Beta with Call of Duty style Map to excite Cross-overs
- No Settings Configuration Option since there’s no Game Menu
– Although, this issue will be solved when we can access Campaign and do Settings from there, so Beta-Only issue really.
- Ability to disable Punkbuster Anti-Cheat Technology.
- Mod Tools? Meep. Sorry. They’re too complicated.
- Lead Development Platform: PC. That’s why we get all “Teh New Age Goodiez”, and Consoles get stuck with the Classic In-Game Server Browser + Game Menu Page. But hey, its all good. After all, PS3 gets DLCs one week in advance, right?
We got the best features ever, and exactly what we all want! Thanks EA + DICE for truly paying attention to the Community, and NOT turning Battlefield 3 into a CoD Switch-Over Game.
See what I did there?
You summed it up pretty good dude.
whoa whoa whoa…there is no hardcore mode? tell me there is still hardcore!
he never said it´s not gonna be hardcore mode, however, it´s confirmed by DICE that there will be hardcore mode for BF3.
Oh no no, we will have Hardcore Mode, that part was actually non-ironic. Hopefully that won’t be dumbed down too though >.<
this “Fuck EA – love DICE” thing starts to get really fucking boring. Dont tell me its only EA who fucks up… I mean DICE designed this shitty Op. Metro too, right? Also, battlelog+squads+beta are utter bullshit, i dont really care who should be blamed, though. Dice or EA, i dont give a shit, if BF3 will be a shit game, im not gonna support them anymore.
same thing happened to COD. loved it, loved IW too, then MW2 was released, now i hate it… i want a quality game for my money, also, fuck origin and battlelog.
I had assumed squad management would be in the full game. This is looking more and more like the transition from cod4 to mw2. At least we will have our own servers… and hacks!
P0w3r t0 t3h 1337 pl0x
I’m going to rage if they don’t give us some dam mod tools to compromise this.
I wouldn’t mind if it actually worked.. I but it doesn’t.
Battlefield 3: reputed to be developed with PC as their lead platform. What they didn’t tell you was that the PC would literally be the new gaming consoles. No menus? Fine. No in-game browser, okay. No squad management or chat? Seriously?
DICE, this is a great game mechanically-speaking, but you guys are seriously making some stupid mistakes with the seemingly-small things. This would be okay if all three platforms were missing these features, but to give them to the XBOX and Playstation is a clear indication that implementing these is perfectly doable, yet you consciously choose to slap PC players in the face.
Blame EA, not DICE.
EA are just publishers. They did edit some stuff but DICE is control of the game.
Thumbs down!
Dice’s Board of Directors agreed to the buyout by EA. If they wanted to they could’ve negotiated to prevent stuff like this from happening. Either through short sightedness because of the dollar signs or whatever, they chose to allow themselves to be in the developmental corner. Either that or they’re choosing to do this of their own free will. Either way, the game is excellent, the execution of it is all wrong.
BF started on PC and now we’re the ones getting screwed! They are just making some stupid mistakes with things that should be seemingly no brainers. I hope they are listening!!
I agree. Even though I play on a console I still think EA was fucking over PC user’s which really boggled my mind.
At first I was cool then I heard a console get’s DLC’s first. Which threw me off then I read this and thought WTF?
So what started out as a PC only game has no some how become more dedicated to console’s. Sure PC get’s better graphic’s and more player’s but in return they loose functionality!?
I feel for you guy’s. You got some bullshit and the short end of the straw let’s just hope it stop’s here.
No kidding, Its like they are going out of there way to screw over PC players
Forever alone…great
I want to be in same squad as my mates is that to much for ask for ?
Get the fuck out! They’re saying I won’t be able to choose to be in the same squad as my friends??
Thanks EA for ruining yet ANOTHER game.
If EA fucks up another thing I’m going to cancel my preorder and not buy this game.
DICE, get a new publisher. I beg of you.
They should side under activision! Wait, no that’s a step down, Sh*t I guess theyre stuck
Capcom here..
possibly this. BUT PLEASE NOT ACTIVISION.
Perfect World. They’re not as big, and that keeps their Ego down.
Unfortunately EA has bought DICE, so there’s no chance of anyone else ever publishing a DICE Game unless DICE buys themselves out.
ZOMG ITZ TEH TROLLFACE!!!1
You learn something new everyday… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
The issue were having is that currently we can’t join on a friend who is in a full squad, so then it sticks us in a separate squad with no way of creating or joining their squad. If they want to keep this system, they bloody well better fix it.
They already announced that joining your friends squad/team is not enabled in the beta. It was done purposefully. In the retail version you will be able to play/chat with your friends.
I have not read this from a developer, do you have a link? If what you say is true then I have no issues.
They’ve listed it on their FAQ which can be found under the “News” section of the Battlelog.
“Joining as squads doesn’t work in the BETA.”
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/devblog/view/2826551895412487853/
I’m kind of sick of people saying that the dev has said something but its probably complete bs. Please if your going to say that provide a link/proof.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/#!/bf3/devblog/view/2826551895458193965/ the last line says that you can make your squads private in the final game, and what would be the point of making your squad private if you cant invite friends, there is hope
Notice that they are going back to BC1 on destruction levels. Bah, this game is more and more disappointing.
dice is awesome,
but fuck you ubisoft, activision, and EA >:(
gaming publishers are such whores
Don’t forget Rockstar…we all know what happened at LA Noire
Why ubisoft i never seen a problem with them before
Ubisoft enjoys lying to the customer
Valve is atleast a semi decent publisher to bad they cant count to three
Only Lying?
What about the ridiculously broken DRM Technology they put on their Games, and then back them up with claims that “Hey, look, they work! They keep Piracy down!” Which they actually don’t, and actually, drive even more people to Piracy out of rage, and not to mention, causes them sales losses from people who don’t want to Pirate the Game but don’t want to buy a Game that requires a Constant Internet Connection either.
Not that Ubisoft would have such a big Piracy Issue if they didn’t make so many ridiculously bad Console Ported Games for the PC in the first place…
But hey, for them, whatever makes them look good at Board Meetings works. Even if its total bullshit.
Well, Ubisoft completely fucked the Far Cry series…
I like how ea bragged that battlelog would be free and cod’s elite wouldnt. They forgot to mention that battlelog is awful and im glad my pc sucks too much to play it. I’ll be on xbox for now but if they ever make a new gears of war for pc i’ll upgrade.
I’d love to see Gears of War 2 and, especially, Gears of War 3 on the PC, or even just the PS3, but no plans for it
Way to fuck up another, at first great looking game with stupid, complex features about which no one give the shit and they just ruin game and eats your ram.
I Still Cant Talk To my Friends ! Can Someone tell me why ???
the Left shift key is the push to talk button by default. Which is odd, because that means you can only talk when you are running.
Oh and I think it is squad based right? Managed through battlelog.
If I remember correctly, it’s the Left CTRL which is the default. Not the left Shift
I meann On Consel.. Sorry for my spelling but when im in a squad with my friend we can talk to each other !
Was hoping that this was a “betaism”, but now we can’t chose which squad to be in? WTF? Is it really that hard to code something that has been there from the start?
Pre-order cancelled.
Unbelievable how can they do this to us?
Make battlelog a social communication platform between players and something where you can track your stats
BUT FOR GOODNESS SAKE MAKE AN INGAME SERVER BROWSER!
And SQUAD MANAGEMENT PLZ PL0x
EA: U mad bro?
Me: YES I F**NG AM
why are they pushing battlelog so hard? Almost NOONE likes it and they’re moving traditional parts of games to it. They’re making it MORE difficult for PC gamers to use, AND worst of all, console gamers get all of those features that PC gamers don’t. What? Way to support you “PC game”. I just don’t get it. What is so special about battlelog that’s worth pissing thousands of PC gamers off. What is there to gain? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.
Well we cant really manage our squad on consoles either all we can do is leave and join a squad, all random bullshit…
Same sh*t on PC :/
Ow wait people :O Read this
!!
http://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/120778416227221504
There is hope for us!
Good to hear but at the same time its bizarre they didn’t see this as a issue to begin with.
i am most unpleased about this.
this game is ok…but it have to many problems…..more players gone cancell the pre-order…..i pre-ordered the game to…from february and i did not got any email for early acces and now everybady can play so…? what is the fucking point to fucking pre-order…..atleast fix the problems…..
did you check your Gmail spam folder?
you get the Back to karkand map pack. and Pre-ordering didnt get you the early access.
I think you needed to Pre-Order from Origin
Battlelog is dumb. point made!
Thank EA and their anti-piracy ideas.
DRM only hurts consumers.
No more artificial scarcity when we live in abundance.
This really sucks.. I wanted to play in the BETA with my friend but he doens’t go in my squad.. He’s almost always by the enemys or just in my team in place of being in my squad. I even can’t talk on my PS3 with my friend. I only can talk in the menu with him but ingame not. I’m really disappointed to Battlefield 3. I thought this would be the game of the year, mostly yes, but with this ‘faults’, I don’t think that. Sorry for my hard critic.
FUCK EA
Battlelog is a dissapointment even as a server browser. I’d be outraged tbh if I’d have to put up with switching to battlelog every time i switch a squad.