A lot of people got into Alpha today, so check if you have any invites.

Over a million will get invited to Alpha, according toEA support
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blade55555

United States17423 Posts

July 22 2011 17:35 GMT

#904

On July 22 2011 23:48 pdR wrote:
Oh man! Just got accepted into the alpha test. Downloading now!

i'm so jealous its not even funny T_T

Hopefully one of my friends or me can get into it so I can play!

babishh

Canada965 Posts

July 23 2011 22:18 GMT

#905

one of my friends got the invite as well, funny that he doesn't even play bc2 that often, just from time to time. meh you know how's life, after all.

Grettin

42417 Posts

July 24 2011 13:00 GMT

#906

On July 24 2011 07:18 babishh wrote:
one of my friends got the invite as well, funny that he doesn't even play bc2 that often, just from time to time. meh you know how's life, after all.

Well, you can have a decent change of getting invite by just going to the support chat and tell that the alpha testing site doesn't recognize your games and thats why you cannot reach the "veteran" status. Many did the same and got the veteran status, and some got alpha invite.

Silence-

Canada116 Posts

July 24 2011 23:34 GMT

#907

W00t, got into the Alpha =D

Was it completely random or was it done by veteran level/BFBC2 play time/ whatever else?

United States3249 Posts

July 24 2011 23:45 GMT

#908

On July 22 2011 06:50 blade55555 wrote:

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64! And yes I can imagine, did that in BF2 all day long back in the day. Glad to have it back! Wish it was out now

bf2? try bf1942 in 2002-03

Highways

Australia6124 Posts

July 24 2011 23:57 GMT

#909

On July 22 2011 06:40 MERLIN. wrote:
bf3 is going to blow everyones minds... 60 player teams (PC side) can you imagine? omg omg omg

So is it 64 vs 64 players (128 total) or 32 vs 32 (64 total)?

Aduromors

United States279 Posts

July 25 2011 00:03 GMT

#910

starsiege tribes did 64 player CTF in 1998, and it was almost playable without broadband. Tribes 2 had both ground and air vehicles in 2001

consoles put multiplayer gaming back literal decades with arbitrary bandwidth limits and little or no dedicated server support

LoLAdriankat

United States4307 Posts

July 25 2011 00:06 GMT

#911

On July 25 2011 08:57 Highways wrote:

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So is it 64 vs 64 players (128 total) or 32 vs 32 (64 total)?

He's misinformed. 64 is the player max.

Modders figured out how to get 128 player servers in BF2 a while back. There are 128 player servers for Forgotten Hope 2 and Project Reality.

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

July 25 2011 00:21 GMT

#912

So apparently, BF3 has player perks such as sprint, extra ammo, etc. How do you guys feel about this? I thought the vehicle perks from Bad Company 2 was fine, but I'm afraid that this might become another CoD.

FragRaptor

United States184 Posts

July 25 2011 00:28 GMT

#913

it appears like it is going back to a more 2142 approach, there were ammo upgrades and sprint and other things like that in 2142. IMO it was a great system.

LoLAdriankat

United States4307 Posts

July 25 2011 00:29 GMT

#914

On July 25 2011 09:21 zoLo wrote:
So apparently, BF3 has player perks such as sprint, extra ammo, etc. How do you guys feel about this? I thought the vehicle perks from Bad Company 2 was fine, but I'm afraid that this might become another CoD.

It's not bad. Faster sprint is a 5% increase for example. They seem like little boosts instead of game changers so far.

Bub

United States3518 Posts

July 25 2011 01:06 GMT

#915

Not a. Lucky day for me