Nah man, that **** is bad ass. I'm totally going to do low fly-bys over my allies (and probably 99% of the time crash into them and get cussed out, but god damnit when it works it'll be cool).

You're doing it wrong. You rush to the jet and then either:

1. Park a jeep in front of it or a tank close enough that the wings get clipped when they try to take off

2. Take it yourself, fly off and then eject so the plane crashes into your own team (infantry, tank, whatever)


This way you aren't in the vehicles when the TK goes down, no penalty but plenty of frustration.

Good times. I also would toss C4 on the front of choppers, find an enemy tank to nosedive into and bail at the last second. When it worked, it was beautiful.

I generally only grief if one of the following conditions apply:


1. The other team is obviously team stacking because it's their server, and there's little hope that any randomly generated team trying to fight their coordination is doomed to absolute failure

2. My team blows goats and I don't have the patience to carry n00bs


#2 is generally because I play a map to actually win the map, not rack up personal kills.

Back when I played BF2 I loved being squad leader because I knew the ebb and flow of most maps, and could anticipate which areas would be undefended and position myself as a mobile spawn point behind enemy lines in the right area to catch them with their pants down

How do i check what graphics card etc i have in my pc to see if it will run BF3? I think i have a quadcore something or other so should be fine but i will just pick up the console version if theres not gonna be a big difference between the two.

What make/model of PC do you have? That might help you determine. You could also go to your control panel and check hardware devices to see what display adapter is shown.

Also, I would expect the difference between console and PC to be pretty big if you have a capable PC

ok apparently i have an "Titan Xenomorph H20" Intel Core i3 540 3.06GHz @ 4.20GHz DDR3 Nvidia Edition System with Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 OC 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

A GTX 470 should be plenty powerful enough to play BF3

WTF, almost off the first page?

Complete weapons, perks, and vehicle list.
http://www.fpsguru.com/game/60/featu...-Overview.html

^^sick!

They say that they also have info on the number of maps - wish they'd disclosed that.

pre-ordered, first time I've ever pre-ordered a game. Nothing to add, but damn I'm excited. I've also started playing some BC2 lately as I picked it up on Steam sale and it's very fun. I hope this blows it out the water.

Does anyone know if origin does pre-loading on pre-orders? I'm assuming yes.

I think I'm in the same boat here, don't remember pre-ordering before, never usually bother.

Yes it does, you will be able to play as soon as the servers go live.

After some consideration I'm leaning towards a non-overclocked (i.e. non-K version) core i5 for around $189 with the 1333mhz ram instead of 1600.

With AMD on the precipice to launch bulldozer in mid-september, should I expect Intel price drops around that time? I can wait to build this thing another month or so

If you can wait definitely wait imo, things do get cheaper, can't see prices dropping because of bulldozer, they will drop though when intel releases newer models which isn't that far off.
Also the new amd gfx cards should be here by about oct/nov.
You should think again about the k model, first of all it's not much more expensive, second you literally just change a multipler to oc, so it ain't hard, hell most boards even do auto oc.
A $30 cooler like the hyper 212 will get you too 4.5ghz without problems.

As for ram, defo get the 1600, I dunno where u live but most places it costs the same as 1333 atm, ram has never been cheaper, get 8gb, you will need it.
I'm using over 4gb right now and I have all super and prefetch turned off, just some apps running no games, although with no apps running and bf3, it won't use more than 4gb but you will use 4 and doesn't take much effort to use more.

Didn't Intel just release their new chips in ~Feb?

Or did it get pushed back a bit? Or am I just remembering things wrong?

I think it was the 6th of Jan, I ordered mine on the 12th or so. I've read reports about some new updated chips for sandybridge, possibly in October before bf3 gets released also ivy bridge is set for release in about 6-8 months

Really well edited trailer for BF3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhf92zDreU

That got me pretty syked for this game!!!

Are you getting it..? I know I'm grabbing MW3, This and possibly NHL 12...

Looks like it.

oh man this is by far my favourite shooter ainec. a lot of my friends say mw is the best shooter out there right now for console but have never played bf2bc. they dont know that they are missing.

don't think this new trailer was posted yet

^AAAAaaarg! It just looks so damn good.