BF3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
True to the Battlefield spirit, the latest Battlefield 3 patch fixed a lot of thing, but it also included a few bugs on its own. And you have most likely come across that bug while playing the game: the M26 MASS attachment for the assault class is way overpowered due to a glitch. When the M26 is equipped with DART ammunition and the underslung grenade launcher, each dart deals full damage of the main rifle. Which means instant-kills across most ranges.
But DICE is aware of the issue, and according to Gustav Halling (via Twitter), the M26 glitch will be fixed in an upcoming patch. However, he didn’t give a timeline as to when we can expect the patch. Needless to say, the patch can’t come soon enough, as the M26 glitch is getting out of hand already. Given how long it took for previous patches to be released, it looks like we’ll have to live with this for a little while.
The patch will probably come out with the next DLC (June)… BTW I’ve read that this bug with the M26 Dart existed since the release.
finally!
Do you guys think EA is trying to wear DICE out, so they could get stressed and think about selling the game to another company (EA)?
EA has sure been suspicious with DICE, since Battlefield has been successful lately, but EA has been bringing it down…
@ AirwavesHD
EA owns DICE, which means EA pretty much has full rights to Battlefield. EA just tells DICE what to do and DICE does it.
If I’m correct DICE was even developing Battlefield 1942/ BF2 / 2142 while they were owned by EA (correct me if I’m wrong).
EA just really screwed over Battlefield when they decided that it would be the end of all time if CoD came out before BF3.
DICE was independent before 2142. I believe after Battlefield 1942, EA made it their goal to fully acquire DICE. Honestly, DICE has lost alot of their freedom though.
Interesting thing: DICE used to make Pinball games.
I didn’t make this video but It goes over DICE’s and Battlefield’s history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwO-CMoDYI
wtf,now what patch this patch that peice by peice now? wow really poor on dice part now this whole game just so bad needs a new patch to fix a patch once a dam week i keep telling you supporters but NO we dont listen….still insist on defending this game
EA forced DICE to rush a half finished game out the door which means Battlefield is most likely not as stable as the developers wanted it to be. This means more bugs from the start, more problems down the road from things such as patches, and so on.
The patches themselves take time to develop. But coding 3 patches for 3 different systems on a rushed game? That takes even more time. Pile on the demand from players for a patch on top of that and DICE not wanting them to have to wait too long; of course bugs are going to rise.
If DICE takes time to make a quality patch three systems; people complain it’s taking too long and complain that we need a patch stat. If they rush it out the door and it ends up causing more problems than it fixes; people complain.
Can’t we just learn to be patient and let them properly fix things?
well if thats the case they should of waited in 1st place! the real issue here ia same as always been EA all this stems back to them to please there market shares ill just stop there!!! good post i must agree with this!
grate gramer dood
Best part is, had DICE been able to push back the release to provide a more polished game for us, most of the BF3 community would start to whine about how they have to wait now. No matter what DICE does, people are gonna whine that it’s not good enough thinking they can do it better.
Nice points sir if you are a battle vet since BF1942 you’ll also know that every BF series game has always been buggy before EA was their making impossible deadlines it’s just the consequences of pushing the limits of current technology. But back when the BF series first started at least the gamers themselves could try and help the devs with mod tools and such. Now all the time is wasted on finding ways to cheat. People just seem to remember the golden years of BF2 long after the first 2 years of at sometimes an unplayable game full of glitches. I’m pretty sure that BF2 was the reason I had to put my favorite rig I ever owned (it being the first one that i built by myself) it contracted the HPV virus among every STD from A to Z. I found that BF Vietnam was the most complete BF title to ever be released with the least amount of issues and bugs
Hotfixes. If games that are bigger and more intense code-wise and resource-wise like WoW and all other MMOs can release small patches quickly to fix major issues, DICE can do it too. There’s no excuse other than lazy developers that don’t care about their playerbase.
See how many people buy BF4 when it’s released, because I’m willing to bet it’s going to be few in comparison to BF3.
@p3trify. You are an idiot. WoW release all patches on a game that is only played on the PC. They do not have to jump through Sony and Microsoft’s hoops to release each and every update.
You don’t like it? Go play WoW, or something else. EA isn’t standing next to you with a gun to your head forcing you to play BF3 you whiny little bitch.
I agree with you, BF3blog, it’ll take some time until it’s released. And it bugs me. Something that gamebreaking should be fixed ASAP :/ Anyway, good to hear that DICE has become aware of this exploit!
PS: Why does everybody always need to use the most uber glitch newbie exploit setups? As soon as I found out about the M26′s glitch, I stopped using it, simply because it ruins the challenge! Sigh…
to be honest,i didnt know it was a glitch and
just thought that i had really good aiming
with it.
i prefer the grenade launcher for getting group campers
no kidding, why can’t they take their time on the patches and for game breaking bugs/exploits/etc. just release a quick hot fix….so ya know the game will be playable. Instead, we have to wait probably till the next dlc for a “quality” patch along with the m26 fix, and by that time more players have gotten frustrated and dropped off. Again another instance where the community dwindles.
I wish they would just pull the these weapons from the game until they can be fixed..
Oh im sorry i thought it was play to win, should i not use a gun because its the best, has the competitive spirit fallen so far that people wont use the best option available simply BECAUSE its the best? I will be abuseing this until dice fixes it, i never blame the player for abuseing glitches or overpowered setups as its the developers fault in the first place.
If something is overpowered not useing it like everyone else is just an issue of pride, gimping yourself so you can feel better with an i flated since of prise is not going to help your team win. Abuse it while you can and complain about it while you do, that is how you get something fixed. Thats like a football team skipping the top draft cause “hes to good it would make the season too easy”
Honestly it got out of hand because of YouTube. I still suck with , up close our at a distance like some of those videos. For real I thought the battlefield community was legit until recently. I just need to play the game and stop reading about how bad other suck!!
dice why cant you patch everything all at once?
After a DICE game is released you will have to wait a two years before everything is patched and repatched, DLC is out and the price has dropped to a resonable level.
Exactly.
I still remember how I started playing BF2. It was 2007, version 1.3.
Ahh, the days of only 5-6 ranked servers with reasonable ping, hiding under a BTR-90 from the enemy jet doing bombing runs on our uncap.
I’ll never buy an EA product again. Their ‘Worst Company of the Year’ award was well deserved.
finely finely finely someone around here agrees and gets the message! its such a abomination what EA has done over the years but this has truely been a showing of there policys,intentions and greed,lack of respect for there products,faulty half assed releasese and totally disregard for the community and players! dice tied right in to it! EA controls dice now to the fulest! talk about grabed by the balls!
It really was. I don’t know about all the rabid fanboy defenders of this trash, but I personally like to enjoy a game once I buy it, not be stuck in a perpetual state of knowing DICE are “looking into it”. Whatever *it* happens to be that week/month/season.
Just one game-breaking bullshit faggot strategy/exploit/glitch/bug abuse after another.
FUCK THEM.
I’m sure Halliburton, British Petroleum, Goldman Sachs, Walmart and Monsanto are very glad to hear everyone bawww’ing about EA being evil.
FUCKING THIS.
And I’m sure you’re enjoying closing in on your 10,000 kill mark with the darts. Those precious stats are L3gii7zz1337x, are they not?
Fuck you.
: )
I’ve never used the MASS.
You realize this has nothing to do with Battlefield, right? There is legitimate evil in the world, and it has nothing to do with video games. Whether EA’s business practices are shady or not (they are), failing to patch a game does not even come close to comparing to the shit happening outside our safe little bubble.
There’s a serious issue with perspective in calling EA the most evil company in America.
What this guy said so many more companies are happy your mad about vidya and not paying attention to the real world and the things they get away with. So they can pull of “Crap” that ruins thousands of lives and get to sit back and watch as they can continue while the rest of the commoners are too caught up on vidya
GUYS COME ON! would DICE been able to create Frostbite 2 without EA’s Funding? no, most likely not. you all act like this is the worst game that ever set foot in your gaming system. could it have been better? yes, but to say it was ONLY EA’s fault is just being ignorant. DICE is the producer of the game and they are responsible for some of the problems with Battlefield 3.
god damn will you all stop bitching about the game!!!! “this is to strong” change it!!!! people bitch about something and dice jump!!! wtf u guys are never gonna be happy about this game!!! there will always be something someone will bitch about!!! “i suck at the game make me better”!!!!! get a life u little bunch of girls!!!!!!!
So, if the game is so bad… why the F*** are you here crying about it? Go play with your Wii.
I plan to keep using ANY weapon I choose until EA/Dice bans it, fixes it, nerfs it or whatever. And all you crybaby admins/players that ban weapons are violating the ROE. Serves you right if your server gets bumped or deserted.
Serves you right if the hard core real gamers leave you in the dust for catering to the babies that can’t play a simple game without boo-hooing constantly. Last time I checked I don’t need a bunch of idiots to tell me what weapon I can use or how to equip it.
I swear I have never seen such a cry baby spoiled brat gaming community in what is suppose to be an adult game.
Why not STFU and get out there with the dart and do some serious damage to the high rankers?
Can’t get it… just can’t understand how those bugs can be possible. DICE it’s huge professional studio, they made not 1 or 2 games focused on multiplayer, they have just endless count of experience with fps online shooters. How can they do same misstakes all over again and again and again…
I preordered BF3, now I see that it was better to buy the game not even after release but even 2 years later after release, to download 25gb of patches and to play fine game.
This seems like very easy code to miss. They also released a 1 gb Patch that made game play much smoother, but people still cry when they join a terrible server that lags and blame it one dice. Okay now back to the topic at hand. The problem will probably be fixed soon. Fortunately you can kill the exploiters they aren’t invincible. Things mess up very easily when you have as much code as they have in BF3.
Maybe if they didnt have a week long beta, many things wouldve been fixed much sooner. Stop defending DICE. They are not loyal to you. EA owns them.
and again one more comment that reflects the truth behind all this crap! right on! how could such a antisipated hyped up game turn into this! 1st the hacker,then the truth of this game being console ported in development now the last patch destroyed this once cool game and developer whats next? is this the kind of product you want to invest in? lies upon lies if one not hear the bells then you deserve this crap! beta was so short and bad its no wonder oit started off like this only it was atleast better and fun in the beginning
we never had all this bullshit with bad company 2!!! the fucking game came out and that was that!!!! people played with what they were given and got on with it!!!! all this fucking bitching about shit is so damn annoying!!! its starting to turn me off battlefield all together!!!
so what now the mass is gonna be nurfed now watch!!! will be rendered useless!!! if u get hit with a shotgun close range ur dead!!! 1 shot 1 kill!!!!! they way it should be!!! go play core if u cant handle it!!!!!
i bet they don’t even test there patches there’s always epic fails with them
Using the term “Epic Fails” is so 2008.
Yo dawg, I heard you like to patch, so I put a bug in the patch, so you can patch the patch!
Random idea… Why not send out a “Pre-Test” patch. It would work best for PC, but it would help find any other glitches that would come from it. They could fix them before it “Officially” is released to both PC and Console. Because both seem to share the same glitches.
It would save DICE and the community lots of time and money that comes from short or blind patches they release.
It would have to update every time they fix ONE thing at a time. Then if the “Pre-test” public says “Yo, dawg. This part of the patch would brake (blaw blaw).” this way they can fix it before EVERYONE has to deal with it. A larger public looking at the patches peace by peace would help DICE find and fix it faster then they have been.
I don’t know its just an idea, if you want to add onto it just say something.
Sounds good but this “pre-test patch” Should be released on all platforms, just for the sake of finding console specific bugs. Other than that why the hell shouldent we have this.
Didn’t they do something like this with Battlefield 2142? I remember a “beta” patch which contained the Battlefield 2142 version of Highway Tampa.
On a side note; why can’t they update things via origin similar to how Steam updates games? On Steam, if one little thing goes wrong with a game they can do a minor update which automatically downloads. The problem gets fixed quickly and it’s not a massive pain in the rear to the players.
Surely they could do it with Origin.
For server-side issues, Origin is fine. But it’s a piece of shit for everything else. It doesn’t directly interface with the game, so it can’t be used to patch directly. Just another unnecessary step made by EA to compete with a random game studio.
@Trollzor
The reason I said it would work best for PC is because every time DICE releases anything for console, they have to pay a minimum fee. I don’t know what that fee is for each but it would just be a wast of money IMHO.
I did not realize that lol thanks it actually makes sense when i thought about it again.
This bug right now just makes it Easier to identify the scrubs.
Booting up the game, and looking at the roster of the very first match you join lets you identify the scrubs at this point.
Put this baby with the G3, and you’ve got a new USAS FAG rounds.
Except its not full auto or no splash damage…….
I’m pretty sure there isn’t an anderslung rail for the G3 so there’s a fail right there.
So sad that every douchebag is using the G3A3 just because of the glitch. Used this gun for months b4 the patch, now its image just seems so tarnished.
i really hope the next patch will fix all autoshotguns.
they have crazy range, power, and the suppression
factor makes it where the enemy can just fire at you
and run away because you cant hit them back.
Dice gave recoils to rifles yet autoshotguns do have
an recoil setbacks.
If the cargo trailers of noshahr canal is any indication
of how CQB is gonna be then i am definitely not
gonna get the DLC because its an all out autoshotgun
battle.
it sucks
I played the Beta of the Ziba Tower map at PaxEAST, and it does NOT play like a small map. It has multiple levels, plenty of corners, but some longer sight-lines as well. It’s not as ridiculous as the crates on Noshahr.
the game contains many weapons each with different traits such as accuracy damage etc.. coding all of this is really a monumental effort. People seem to have no clue what making a game like this entails the work DICE has to actually put in to create a game that is this expansive. This is not MW that gets copied and pasted and is simply just an expansion patch of the other with new skins. For any1 who has actually written simple C, JAVA programs should know that while u may have 1500 lines of code if you make adjustments in one area it can often cause unexpected results that adjusts or affects a whole different area of code. Now DICE has to patch the game but its extremely hard to do extensive patches and updates without causing something else to go wrong.
Well said yong_gunnerz. It does take loads of effort to patch program a game. I like lots of people believe the last patch has ruined a lot in the game play of BF3.
My main gripe is surpression. It’s perthtically high. One shot and the screen blurs.
I’ve been in combat I can tell you my eyes never lost focus.
Also since they’ve rented servers out there is so much more lag. Personally as soon as I’m in a game with it I change. Some game have as bad lag as Cod. Which is terrible.
Stop going into the technical aspects of something, that many MANY people have zero interest in nor understand.
I can write the same technical crap about car engines, make them sound much more complicated than they are.
DICE is well known to have horrible net coding in ALL their games across the PC, since BF 1942. You shy away from the facts, and start talking about technical aspects, where a vas majority of FPS games on PC run crisp with zero issues.
Didnt say anything technical 0_0. Its hundreds of millions of lines of code. After making changes to anything its hard to check everything to make sure its in working order and even then there will always be bugs. The Alpha test is over and so is the BETA technically the only BETA there is now consist of we the BF3 community that finds problems and report them to DICE when we play. All games and software have glitches and I am just saying that the game has so much weapons and stuff its bound to have issues. Thats nt that hard to imagine now is it?
Nope. Most big programs utilize a sub-version control or separate functions that subvert any errors that come from editing the software. The reason bugs are made in large programs is due to shitty QA teams that can’t do a proper bug report.
GOOD! I remember a guy going 89kills/20deaths with the mass on ps3.
might have been me
i was in a op metro conquest with max tickets then got kicked rejoined didn’t use the mass went 20-0 with my m16a3 and then i got banned lol
thats crap i whent 99 – 6
just saying i am not ashamed of using a glitch especially when me and my mates always get stuck with useless cod noobs who camp with their sniper rifles not much help on conquest or any other game type for that matter..so it leaves me and maybe 2 or 3 overs trying to win the game on our own and when its like that hell yeah i bust out the mass glitch..
I’m just waiting for the collision detection patch; If they can do so quickly.
“True to the Battlefield spirit, the latest Battlefield 3 patch fixed a lot of thing, but it also included a few bugs on its own.”
Sorry, but name me ONE item that dice actually “fixed” on PC with the last patch?
Tweaks? yes, FIXES no.
USAS, MAV riding, spawning issues, glitchs like spawning without a gun etc etc…
It partly fixed the MAV, which was fixed right after.
Fixed ramming, kind of.
Fixed the L96.
It made a nice bunch of guns not useless anymore.
Heck, I’d even be ready to say that the gun balance is pretty much alright now(except for glitches). Pre-patch the G3, the L85, the Scar were useless. The only prob I see ATM is with the silencer rendering the guns utterly useless even at med range.
Most people complaint about the previous patch because it changed things so they had to change and don’t like it. Many guns needed rebalancing.
And before someone says they could have done it pre-launch. You have to wait to see what truly is OP. Just look at the L85 since the patch. At the beginning, it was prolly the most used AR, but now, most went back to other guns, namely the M16 and the AEK.
Haha, on what noob servers are you guys playing?
I rarely encounter M26 glitchers and I play quite a lot.
No word on the huge unbalanced between air and ground?
Stingers are useless, MAA gets killed within seconds from out of it’s range by both jets and helicopter… constant ECM jammerspam and gunnerflares on top of that…
FUN!
Actually, I would say its more air being underpower against anything with two missiles.
HEre is the procedure
1- Lock on
2- Shoot 1 missile
3- Wait for 5 seconds after flares
4- Shoot second missiles, since you lock hasn’t been broken
5-????
6- Profit!
WHOA. Is this glitch for real? How come I never heard of this. I’m gonna start using the dart more often now, sounds epic! Thanks bf3blog
In the mean time, a warning and a kick will have to suffice. At least, thats what it comes to on my server.
Most of you are saying this game is terrible. If you hate it so much that you must constantly bash it, maybe you should stop playing and sell your game.
We have 2 dedicated servers on PC, both are not getting renewed and going offline next month.
€450 for 6 months is how much it costed me, dice screwed the pc side of this cod style game.
M26 Dart,Mass etc is out of hand?
DICE says: We will patch this…
*Sometime later when the patch is released in the future*
“I try the M26 to see how nerfed it got”
*INGAME*:Takes 3 shots to kill someone close range… Guess they nerfed it to much, just like the USAS-12, Famas
Oh wow i got killed by a weapon so fast!
*Community of BF finds out a new OP weapon*
Months later DICE Patches it…
weeks after the patch: Oh look the weapon that they patched has over rated recoil and does minimal damage, Oi look this weapon is OP,DICE Better patch it!!!
This is how DICE and BF3 will die, sad but im guessing from all the patches we had, its gonna be true
Also like to mention… F*Ck you EA with your SH*T SERVERS!!!
We’ll see if its truly that if they make any major changes to guns, since IMHO, the balance seems quite alright.
Also, the Dart glitch doesn’t work if you only use the gun itself, it requires a combination of attachments I won’t tell here. On its own its an absolute POS, the M26 should pretty much always be used with buckshot.
They’re trying to BALANCE the game.
They don’t want it to be like COD where one gun rules all. eg scar on MW2 and the one on WaW whos name escapes me… MP45?
Those guns were left OP and everyone used them to death.
I’m glad they’re balancing but agree that it should have been balanced from the start.