Hello,

It seems Battlefield 3 has devolved into web-crap.

Battlefield 2 already had a bad/slow game browser, but Battlefield 3 seems
to be simply ridicilous.

The game doesn't even start so I have no idea if it's working.

It's also impossible to start your own server so it's mostly all full.

And when it does find a free server it says:

"Joining Server..." forever...

Does this mean Battlefield 3 won't play on AMD X2 3800+ and GT520 ?!?

The processor is a bit old, dual core, but the GT520 is brand new... it's
DX11 capable.

Here is a screenshot showing the bad server joining and web-crap in action:

(Also it seems to use punk baster crap, but it's not enabled, maybe that the
problem ?

Perhaps later I will try on my Mom's laptop.

So far the experience has been quite bad... origin beta buggy, all kinds of
web crap necessary to install....

It installs, but no game... not even a game menu, thumbs down from me for
now

Screenshot:

http://www.skybuck.org/Games/Battlef...verForever.png

Bye,
Skybuck.

Hmmmm....

I can remember the Origin (download manager) to want and restart my system
?! Which was very weird really, I didn't do that because I did not see a
real reason to do that for a game.

But maybe punk buster needs the system to be restarted.

So I just rebooted/restarted the computer.

Now I will give it another try...

During the windows startup I heard a couple of beeps, so it probably
installed something.

So maybe it will now working.

Going to try again, I will report back later !

Bye,
Skybuck =D

Well, after the reboot it's still not working.

I checked if punkbuster is running and according to services it's running.

However some time ago I tweaked some services and disabled them like
workstation, these are only needed for debugging or so.

I do wonder if perhaps Battlefield 3 requires certain services to be
running, but that would be weird for a game.

Usually games don't need special services to be running.

The reboot didn't help, it's still joining the server forever:

http://www.skybuck.org/Games/Battlef...rRebootToo.png

Well so far this has been the worst beta game ever, it doesn't even show a
game menu !

My conclusion for now:

Total crap.

If it works for you great ! If it doesn't better cancel that pre-order !
=D

Bye,
Skybuck =D

After people seem to have the same problems, one of them recommended trying
with windows firewall off... I already checked those settings and
Battlefield 3 was added to the public networks to allow it.

None the less, I tried with firewall off anyway, still not working:

http://www.skybuck.org/Games/Battlef...irewallOff.png

For now it's nice to know that their webcrap isn't working.

But still no judgement of their actual game... perhaps their game is so
bad... that they don't want people to play it ! =D

Well I wasted enough time on their webcrap for now (about 1 hour).

Time to go on with life and do some other stuff...

I'll try again a couple of times until 10 oktober, but I doubt it's going to
work any time soon

Bye,
Skybuck.

(I also give it one last try by making sure the 32 bit internet explorer was
running, at least I think so, also didn't work)

Anyway:

Now I totally understand this "99 problems in Battlefield 3 music/trailer
from Jay-Z" ! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.

There is some hidden fun/message in there ! =D

http://www.gamer.nl/video/145175/99-...-battlefield-3

It's more like

9999999999999999999999999999999999 problems in Battlefield 3 when I read
what people are writing about it ! LOL.

Bye,
Skybuck =D

(Could be a dutch issue, maybe a fix):

**** it, this is why I hate dutch software. I never said I wanted dutch
software.

I just want the bloody ****ing english version.

Perhaps the "dutch" translation of the folder names is causing problems !?

Apperently the folder name for the dutch version is beta with an apostrophe
or whatever the ****ing french ****ing thing is called.

So somebody is suggesting to try this fix:

I shall try this fix:

Use google translate to translate it for ya, cause I am too busy to
translate it for ya know... but I ll report back to see if these changes
help make it work or not !

"
-------VOLLEDIGE FIX (UPDATED)--------

Mocht je spel het niet doen, ongeacht welke error je dan ook hebt, dit is DE
FIX!

1. Ga naar je installatie folder.
32-bit: "C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Bèta Battlefield 3"
64-bit: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Bèta Battlefield 3"

2. Verander de foldernaam naar "Beta Battlefield 3" in plaats van "Bèta
Battlefield 3"

3. Open regedit (Uitvoeren > regedit) en wijzig de volgende sleutels (LET
OP: Check welke versie bij jou hoort)


Voor X64:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\EA Games\BF3 Beta
Deze wijzigen: "GDFBinary"="C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Beta Battlefield
3\GDFBinary_en_US.dll"
En deze: "Install Dir"="C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Beta Battlefield 3\"


Voor X86(32Bit):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA Games\BF3 Beta
Deze wijzigen: "GDFBinary"="C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Beta Battlefield
3\GDFBinary_en_US.dll"
En deze: "Install Dir"="C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Beta Battlefield 3\"
"

Bye,
Skytry.

Ok,

It seems to go one step further now it ****ing complains about me driver:

http://www.skybuck.org/Games/Battlef...dateNeeded.png

So I am gonna try and update it... on the screenshot I will also try and
include the bugfix.

This is probably an ASCII/Ansi VERSUS Unicode string coding problem !

Yeah now the screenshot shows how to fix it !

Just make sure it says: Beta instead of Bèta

Which is some stupid dutch ****ed up ****.

Germans probably have that ****ed up **** too or french, **** all of them.

Bye,
Skybuck =D

YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

IT WORKS.... ME VERY EXCITED...

THIS IS MY VERY FIRST SCREENSHOT OF BATTLEFIELD 3 BETA
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OPEN BETA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.skybuck.org/Games/Battlef...SHOTYEAAAH.png

I haven't even played yet, I haven't even looked at it yet !

Not even for 1 second to be honest.

Me waaaaay to excited to report it's working.

I don't hear much yet... but I did hear some talking ! =D

NICCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ! =D

Now me go play it ! =D

BYEEEEEEEEEEE
SKY-****ING-KILLER ! =D YEAHHHHHHHHHH =D

Well,

I played for 16 hours straight !

The game has many bugs... mannnny bugs

It's BattleBugField LOL.

But it was kinda fun...

I especially enjoyed the "recon"... it allows you to respawn at positions
marked by a radio by yourself by dropping it.

Only after 16 hours of playing did I discover it's possible to join other
squads with other classes too... so the recon not really necessary.

I thought teammates can only spawn on recons.. that would have been cool...
but nope... they can spawn on anybody it seems ?!

Well... I got a bit bored with the recon, because I didn't get the lofsap
weapon or whatever... it's targgeting weapon...

But there are still more goodies/unlucky... I still think recon is most
interesting to play.

So then I decided to play with engineer the last few minutes...

But that was kinda boring... rocket launcher almost doesn't do any damage
what so ever...

And it's explosion is reaallly tiny... like an ant's dick explosion..

Almost pretty much worthless, but it can blow stuff up...

There is still more fun to be hand with the "UMP" gun

It's probably a bit overpowered but ok

Sniping seems to be the most fun.

There was also quite some frustration with the menu's and stuff not
intermingling... can't change graphics when dead and so forth.

Also people die really fast, which is a bit frustrating/shitty... perhaps
lower might be better.

However the game ran pretty damn slow/laggy on my system... but that could
be because of old pc and slow graphics card.

I will probably try again on a faster pc sometime... not sure how much
faster it is but it should be good

The sound was laggy.

I wonder if this game would play better with just 1 core... so the game
should have an option to use 1 core/thread if possible... that might work
better.. at least it did in other shooters !

There was also some screen blinking could be driver issue.

Bye,
Skybuck.

I must say and admit there were some fun moment already in Battlefield 3
were I really had to laugh.

That's the kind of fun/humor that Call of Duty will probably never have.

For example:

The crates were blown... and I was about to go into the tunnels... and then
I saw this ammo crate lieing on a rock...

So I go over there... trying to refill my ammo... lol... and this mean
mother****ing support guy... blows me away with his machine gun ! LOL.

He was between the rocks in a little pit... and he had ammo around
himself... he probably layed them down there... and one of them was sticking
out by accident ! LOL... At least I think so..

I could also have been planned by him ?!

Other way... he was like: "WTF are doing over here ?! Stealing my AMMO ?!?
You dirty filthy little stealer ! I BLOW YOU AWAY ! LOL ~!!!!!"

And so he did... and he had a really mean face... I could see his face up
close !!

I LOLLED ALL THE WAY THEN AND I LOLLED ALL THE WAY WRITING THIS **** !

Yup that's battlefield 3 funny stuff as hell ! =D

Sometimes people right in front of you is the most funny ! Both having
trouble blowing each other away whatever and then one dies or something...

Or the dirty little plans that people make or gang up ! LOL. =D

Though I must say... the beta doesn't yet have enough of that... I hope with
vehicles and stuff it might become even more funny like BF2.

So ultimately who cares about the small little bugs... as long as it's
fun... though I do hope some get solved, since it's a bit twitchy here and
there...

And seeing through ground is also not too cool, but could lead to funny
situations.

But the holes definetly need to go... those annoying when you fall into it !
=D

Though it's kinda funny when 3 people stuck inside it... and then I do
suicide... by dropping a nade... and sometimes only I die and they still
stuck ! LOL.

Or... if an enemy fell into it... he shot me before that or through it...
and then I take revenge by dropping a nade into it from further raway...
that's pretty cool.

But overall it's kinda annoying (the holes).

Also the units feel a bit slow... everything goes slow... switching weapons,
throwing nades... it's not really super fast...

But maybe they do that for "realism" sake or so ?! Or to make it easy to
counter-snipe/shoot somebody if he busy switching oh well.

Many times I thought man... I bet I could shoot faster in reality or maybe
not I would then wonder... maybe also slow pc might have something to do
with it ! =D

Ok bye now,
Skybuck-Battlefield has got to go now, yessss, go eat some stuff me and
then me go to sleeeeeepppppp yes me must go to bed sometime ! :P* =D
Berherherherhre yeah bert and arnie...

:P************************************ Wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I played
Battlefield 3 !!!!!!!!!! That rhymes ! Lol =D