Official Battlefield 3 Beta Announcement !!

[Apache Warrior]

Yep it was Gulf of Oman.
Apache

[Minerva]

yes, it was gulf of Oman.. and there were servers 24/7 with that map !!

[S-Man]

I pre-ordered through Newegg. Will I be able to access through Origin or I have to wait until it ships? I just want to be clear.

[Cain]

I can answer that, you will have to get the disc in hand, before you can load it.

[S-Man]

Poo. I'm thinking it doesn't ship until it's released, then I have to wait a few more days before it gets to me. Oh well.

Regarding names, can I choose my in-game name now by signing up on Origin?

[Cain]

You need to sign up for Origin before you can play the beta or the game.

[harpy]

They are on a very strict production schedule at this point. Serious bugs found during beta will need to be fixed, then the finished code needs thorough QA checks, the final game master copy needs to be delivered to the publisher, and then copies will be produced and distributed. Also, don't be too disappointed about seeing a few alpha flaws in the beta, and beta flaws in the final. Not every defect can be resolved quickly (or ever - VOIP).

Dice dropped the ball with BC2. There are a lot of big bugs that were never addressed. I understand obscure bugs, but bugs like - "Lose your clan tag if you auto-login" is not a hard bug to track down. It's easy to reproduce and seemingly easy to fix.

As a general rule of thumb, big bugs are easy to fix. The little ones are the nuisances. I hope we get better production quality this go around.

[Zantheus]

Just pre-ordered on Origin so I can get the early BETA acces...CANT WAIT!!!

[WW_UncleDumpy]

Join the upgrade group.. there are many threads on upgrading and you have a week to get into the beta. Take a look at pre-ordering so you can get the back to karkland map and start the beta on tuesday.

Thanks. Will do.