So Battlefield 3 has been sat in many a Gamers Xbox 360 / PS3 disc tray for the past week or so ..if your anything like me of course.
Anyway after a fairly chaotic start online for Battlefield 3 in regards to the quick match not working and rubber banding and not to mention horrendous lag and having to find games with what I thought was going to be a great addition the Server Browser and not being able to Squad up .Its not been a greatest of starts for DICEs baby has it …
Now I must commend DICE for actually listening to the faults and issues about the game as over the past week things have really picked up and games are a hell of lot smoother and actually enjoyable to play the past few nights and actually getting the “just one more go“ feeling with the game which is in my opinion a sign of well designed game.
Now I played the Engineer class in BFBC2 and must admit the Engineer class has well and truly been given a new lease of life in Battlefield 3 (as have all the classes) but of course I love the Engineer class seeing as it’s the class that gets some of the best toys such as the Stinger and Javelin and a good selection of Carbines and anyone who bums the class will tell you there is nothing better than locking onto a Jet and letting loose some rocket death and seeing the “Vehicle Disabled” appear on the screen a few seconds later. Along with taking out that pesky tank camping the flag on Conquest or taking out a squad huddled behind that window with your trusty SMAW or RPG. Although I do occasionally play Recon its very rare but must AGAIN commend DICE for making sniping fun without the need of having to Quick scope which in fairness is quite hard due to the mechanics of bullet drop in this Battlefield outing.
So after a week or so of playing TDM and Conquest and SQDM its turning in to a good purchase for me and countless others I think as DICE have gotten on top of the problems and smoothing them out in a timely fashion. I’m enjoying the steady unlocks and camaraderie of teamwork and the like as well as the maps which I might add are ridiculously huge although 64 players would have been amazing on console, maybe it’s something for the next generation of consoles …
Now In fairness if there is anything too moan about with in the game then there’s a few little things I wish were added in development like the option to quit out of a match after its ended and not having quits added to your Battlelog stats as well as having a option to show what upcoming unlocks there is as having to keep checking Battlelog is a chore sometimes . But as I said its little things ..
So all in all DICE have done well although maybe not well enough to outsell or take Call Of Dutys crown but its damn fine effort by DICE all the same in my opinion…
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Recon class is absolutely useless in my opinion. I've barely even used it. You can't do anything to help your team whatsoever. The other three all have their merits. Unless you've got the SOFLAM and a squadmate has a Javelin, there's very little you do to help your team while you're sitting back and spotting or sniping. If you're defending an MCOM, that's fine. But in conquest or the attacking side of Rush, it's damned near useless.
So Bf3 is a good game? Glad I read this blog to figure that out.
I forgot thought, we live in an age where everything must be amazing and better then other stuff, or else it sucks, and you are an idiot for liking it. yay internet.
I have to say that my biggest gripe with BF3 thus far is that there are so many people who don't work as a team. They don't communicate with anyone, don't spot enemies, don't drop ammo or health, and so on.
Server problems are more acceptable, as are the bugs and glitches that appear every now and then: I know that DICE will take care of those.
To me, the game is well worth the money.
Team Deathmatch in BF3 is a mess. Enemies will spawn a few feet away from you, and you HAVE to be watching your back every second. K/D ratios suffer heavily, thankfully sometimes I still manage to balance it out but I die so many times due to an unfair spawn advantage by the other team, same goes for the former side. Every other multiplayer mode is golden, but I have to say that the maps are just not my style. Sometimes you have to sneak INTO the action, which is ridiculous.
Still, I enjoy the freedom online, the classes, and the vehicles. Probably won't sell more than MW3, but MW3 is definitely not the best FPS out there.
so true lol. My copy made its bed already in the ps3 since launch.