Battlefield 3 Open Beta

[Bloodshot]

Starting today, anyone can join up and play the Beta of BF3 online:
Battlefield Blog

I was playing the beta on the metro map for a while and thought it was alright, kind of fun, but it was way to small, condensed, narrow etc. for Battlefield. It gave me a bad first impression.

Then i found out dice was giving out the Password to servers on Caspian Border:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ndz13zUms]? Battlefield 3 Beta - Caspian Border - Part 1 (vehicles, jets, joy) - YouTube[/ame]

It was amazing. 64 player maps, moving in to capture and defend outposts with squads (i was mostly an engineer) and watching Jets dogfight overhead with amazing sounds, totally sold me on the game.

I encourage anyone here to join up and start playing, but be warned - its a beta so there will be bugs (of course)

And trust me, don't judge the game until you've gotten to play the Caspian map at least once. It's virtually a different game from the other map.

BTW the current password if you do want to play caspian is: shoppingcartsareagoodride - might change soon tho.

[Spoon]

I've been enjoying it for the most part, and that's only on the Metro map. Definitely looking forward to trying Caspian though. Thanks for the password!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I dont know if I want to do this Origin thing

[powerzord]

fuck this shit

[Grim Warlock]

Fucking Origin, why can't I just download it directly?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Fucking Origin, why can't I just download it directly?

This is a declaration of war against , Steam.

[Bruce2]

I thought the same thing mindz.

It's pretty awesome tho. I like it.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I thought the same thing mindz.

It's pretty awesome tho. I like it.

How big is the download or finished install folder?

[R00k]

Sweet, cant wait to try this out!

[bluntz]

Have you folks played the first bad company mod for bf2 NAW?
It is steam free if you have the retail BF2 and similar to that one.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

If it didn't have Call or Duty in the title,I've pretty much avoided any franchise besides the CoD's. and I didnt get on board til Soap became apart of the story line.
BF3 is definately a CoD killer.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

How big is the download or finished install folder?

3.9 gb

[Mindf!3ldzX]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A]Battlefield 3: Thunder Run Tank Gameplay Trailer (E3) - YouTube[/ame]

[Bloodshot]

They removed caspian border from the servers? I am disappoint.

Now the beta is stuck on the cod-like map. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

EDIT:

What the F*ck? apparently typing in all caps gets the forums to fix punctuation FOR you. That's a nice way to be lazy

[Bloodshot]

Apparently they were either wetting our appetite with Caspian, or seeing how well the servers handled 64 players - which went pretty well apparently.

Also:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QolujkE94p0]BF3 - beta Jet gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

/\ I got to try out the jets in game, they were pretty awesome.