Battlefield 3 Open Beta Update #1

[CptainCrunch]

From the Battlefield Blog:

The amounts of people flocking to our Open Beta is fantastic! We are happy to see so many players enjoy this Open Beta, and giving us their valuable feedback on the experience on the Battlelog forums.

This blog post is the first in a series of posts that will outline some of the changes we are making in the final game thanks to your feedback and participation in the Open Beta.

Come back regularly and stay tuned to the Battlelog forums and the News section in Battlelog for daily news and updates from DICE on how your playing the Open Beta is helping us make the final game better.

A SELECTION OF CHANGES FROM OPEN BETA TO FINAL, PART 1
(Not a complete list – for up to date news, visit the News section in Battlelog)
* Fixed occasional client crash when reviving.
* Fixed killcam showing glitched area under map if your killer is dead.
* Issue with spawning on dead squad mates fixed.
* Fixed a bug where shooting at a moving enemy could cause more than the intended amount of damage.
* Crosshairs for shotguns have been replaced with a new, thinner, art.
* A subtle low health screen effect has been added.
* Tweaked scores of Medals and Service Stars.
* Tweaked the Rank progression.
* Pushing prone on console will not play the animation twice.
* Fixed loss of Squad Leader after EOR at some times.
* Framerate stability fixes.
* The 3D spotting icons has been tweaked to better match the target’s visibility. Icons will show frequently less on mostly obscured targets.
* Fixed issue with crosshair disappearing after round transition.
* Fixed issue with crosshair disappearing after trying to deploy while the countdown timer still active.
* Squad list now shows specializations chosen, VOIP activity and dead squad mates.
* Non working options in squad menu fixed: "Private" flag and "Switch Teams".

Good to see communication with the community about what is being fixed and tweeked due to the beta of Battlefield 3. Remember to keep posting up bugs and feedback and the more detail about the issue or idea, the better.

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[The_Eliminator]

Tweaked the rank progression, hopefully its a little longer now :)

[Anarchy1]

Re: Battlefield 3 Open Beta Update #1

The screen effect made me slightly happy. I don't want CoD jelly around my screen, but I'd like to have something, especially when the health percentage is so easy to not look at.

Tweaked the rank progression, hopefully its a little longer now :)

Yep, I already saw someone nearing the max level (Colonel). He's about 10,000 away at the moment.

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Battlefield 3 Open Beta Update #1

IDK, maybe I am just getting better at BF3, but it seems like I am ranking up faster. I played for two hours tonight and started at 13 rank and ended at 17. Granted those are the lower ranks.

Anyone notice any difference themselves?

Crunch

[Anarchy1]

Re: Battlefield 3 Open Beta Update #1

You are probably getting better plus getting more rewards. That's what's happening for me.

[The_Eliminator]

Re: Battlefield 3 Open Beta Update #1

I got a random "2000 additional points" anyone know what for?

Im currently Rank 11 and i must admit that the ranks feel like they are going faster than they did before :s

[Alesi08]

Yeah the ranks need tweaking. 20 000 from 15-16 and 10 000 from 16-17

[Eagle101]

I still keep getting disconnected when trying to join a game. anyone getting this, or knows the reason?

[Scinto]

Hopefully they changed the Medal rewards, the PDW Medal is too easy to get. So if the max rank is 50 apparently.. why are there people on upto 56.

[Eagle101]

problem solved, had to turn off upnp from router. i can play now :)

[*FMJ*Power]

I gotta think the rank progression is drastically sped up, if I'm not mistaken that's how it was in the BFBC2 beta as well.......or DICE's idea of "years worth of unlocks" is drastically different from the the communities.

[Stev0esque]

Re: Battlefield 3 Open Beta Update #1

Well Then again, if it was BF2 scale Unlocks everyone would be stuck with the same 4 weapons for a time, then when they finally unlocked something, one it would all be the same thing mostly, and 2 the beta would be over in hours after we finally unlocked something. I think its mainly because of the short time we have. Of course that is optimism, but we need some in times like this, just to shake things up a little.

[Anarchy1]

Re: Battlefield 3 Open Beta Update #1

I think the focus is more on unlocks and not rank this time around. You get unlocks based on kit points, and as they said, it will take 100 hours to complete a single kit, but they never said how long it would take to rank up (which appears to only give you PDWs, pistols, and dogtags).

[Mavrik347]

Here's something that should be fixed... Not that it's at all urgent. You can't join a server. At all, ever. PS: restarting Origin does jack ^*£%.

[Dronetek]

Hey a bunch of things nobody cares about. Whats going on with the squad control? The lack of basic functions seen in every game since BF2 is ruining BF3.