Battlefield 3 Open Beta is Live!!
All year long, we have been flabbergasted by the sheer beauty and realistic intensity of gameplay footage, trailers, and screenshots of the upcoming Battlefield 3, giving everyone the impression that if behemoth shooter series Call of Duty ever had a competitor that could knock them of their FPS throne, this is it.
And now, after so long of waiting anxiously to get our hands on DICE’s golden boy of shooter’s; the Open Beta is available – NOW!
So as you are reading this article, millions of gamers right now are downloading the Open Beta, ready to rip it up in Paris, in BF3’s multiplayer map – Operation Metro.
On the official Battlefield 3 Website, together with a welcome message to all Console and PC gamers, DICE has listed some pretty handy tips when playing the Beta, here they are:
- Stick to your team mates, and remember to spawn on them to stay close to the fight.
Use your kit specific abilities to help your team mates. Assault can hand out med kits, Engineers can repair vehicles, and Support can hand out ammo
- Make sure when you have armed an M-COM station, that you defend it to make sure it is destroyed.
- The bombed-out tunnel section in Operation Métro is an excellent place to use a flashlight as one of your weapon attachments. Use it to light the tunnels up – and to blind your enemies.
- Attach bipods to your weapon and deploy it automatically by pushing up against cover or going prone and zooming in – this gives you a huge increase in accuracy and stability.
- Use suppressive shooting (fire close to enemies behind cover) to negatively effect the enemy’s fighting capabilities.
Watch out for falling debris as this can hurt you. But you can also hurt your enemies by taking out buildings with the Engineer’s RPG.
- Shotguns are excellent for CQC (Close Quarters Combat) in the tighter tunnels sections.
- Fire automatic weapons in short bursts for accuracy, or switch to single fire mode if applicable.
- To grab your enemy’s dog tag as a souvenir, do a stealth knife kill from behind.
The Open Beta will end on October 10th. Check out Battlefield 3’s official site for ongoing news, updates, and announcements during the Open Beta Period.
So… what are you waiting for!?