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.....sounds like a DRM...
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Battlefield 3, a huge game, will not feature an in-game server browser. Instead of this, DICE's online stats tracker Battlelog will be the main menu for the game on PC. Eurogamer reports that to change from a server mid-game you will have to alt-tab out of the game and choose another match from the website.
Senior designer on Battlefield 3, Alan Kertz was talking about the new system on his Twitter.
“Battlelog is the PC main menu,” he writes. “You go straight from Battlelog to playing. No splash screens, no menus. Just straight to the playing.
“You Alt-Tab or close the game and go to Battlelog. Infact, you can get to the Main Menu of the game from anywhere you have the net”.
Later he said - defending the new system - “that’s the way the game is designed, we can skip loading a menu this way and reduce the time.”
This change will mean more optimization of players who really want to just get in a game and only have a limited amount of time, but this will also really hurt smaller servers that can't make it to the first pages of the "server list".
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.....sounds like a DRM...
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alt tab to find servers from a website? is this 1990?
Or steam browser it somehow o.O
1. Alt-tabbing doesn't work with all systems/drivers. My ATI card would crash every time I alt tabbed out of a game. My two diferent Nvidia cards I could alt tab all I wanted.Originally Posted by Inflik
alt tab to find servers from a website? is this 1990?
2. WTF? They were comparing it to BC2's menu that would take too long to pull up etc. So instead of fixing it/making a GOOD menu system, they just make it web based?
Don't like alt tabbing out, a lot of things can get messed up. Sound, video, crashes. I think this was a HUGE mistake not integrating it into the game.
Meanwhile.... the console version IS getting an in game menu... WHAT THE ****?
I know this sounds bad when you initially look at it but from my experience in the alpha it seems to work pretty seamlessly.
I'll take your word for it, but so far, I'm unimpressed.
1. Log into battlelog from your browser
2. Server browser takes ~5 seconds to refresh
3. Pick Server - Hit Play
4. Play game instantly
Load time on my PC was barely noticeable. It was a great deal faster than BC2 is currently.
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