Things that make me love to hate Battlefield 3

Battlelog has technical issues every second page I go to.



My eyes are dirty while playing the game.



My eyes are dirty DURING CUTSCENES!



It is somehow possible to time out from SINGLEPLAYER.



People who haven't even logged in on battlelog in the past two months are still rated highest SPM players in the platoon, when, according to other members' individual stats pages, they are not the top player in the platoon at all.



I'm hoping to show you how bad the 7x scope is, lets see how long this takes just to get in a server.



Oh, server list has forgotten my filters.. AGAIN.



Yeah, um, this is new; I've not seen this one before.



Whenever you try and play the game, this origin window comes into focus (up to 2 minutes after clicking launch), and if you happen to be typing when it pops up, you'll likely press spacebar which presses cancel by default. Why the hell this comes into focus, or even exists, is beyond me.



Okay, finally. See the pixelation on the chevrons?
For comparison, this is a screenshot of the SV98's scope from Bad Company 2.



The same animations when dying, when climbing over things, over and over. Knifing is the only thing that deviates.


Now, this is only stuff that I could show you with screenshots. On top of this, there are endless lag issues such as crosskilling and driving into phantom walls, weapon inaccuracies (they don't hit where they are aiming), server crashes, punkbuster disconnects, and one of my personal favourites (who to blame, DICE or nVidia, I'm not yet sure), crashes that are prevented by UNDERCLOCKING my $300+ graphics card.

I don't even

Bad decision or not, I simply had to post this log from Counterstrike Source console.

Evolve

Evolve is this neat new gamer's IM program that has barely over eight thousand members. I highly recommend you check it out over at www.EvolveHQ.com.

The remainder of this post is a backup of my feedback forum post on their website. I simply give my opinions and feedback on features present or missing in order to improve my future experience on the program.