{"id":26945,"date":"2011-11-22T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26945"},"modified":"2011-11-22T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:25:28","slug":"battlefield-3-pc-patch-rolls-out-changes-listed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26945-battlefield-3-pc-patch-rolls-out-changes-listed","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 PC patch rolls out, changes listed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11923-Dice\">DICE<\/a> has just released the official patch notes for the game&#8217;s first post-release update. All three platforms now have patches ready to roll out, but the console versions still need to go through the certification process.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a> update has already rolled out, so if you haven&#8217;t already updated then you can expect to the next time you boot up <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20185-Origin\">Origin<\/a>. Stay tuned for release date details on the console patches. <a title=\"Battelog\" href=\"http:\/\/battlelog.battlefield.com\/bf3\/forum\/threadview\/2832654624754374621\/\">Details on the November 22 patch can be viewed on Battelog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the complete patch notes:<\/p>\n<p><strong> Visuals, Stability and Performance Fixes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General performance and loading time improvements<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBlack Screen\u201d fix for an issue occurring on some PC Configurations<\/li>\n<li>Stereo and Rendering Support for <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20068-Nvidia\">Nvidia<\/a> and <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20072-AMD-Advanced-Micro-Devices\">AMD<\/a> Graphics Cards<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted the \u201cstuttering\u201d encountered on some PC configurations.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed several Crashes when joining MP and Co-Op sessions<\/li>\n<li>Fixed multiple problems when using multiple monitors (Eyefinity \/ Surround).<\/li>\n<li>Fixed visual corruption issues on certain Nvidia Cards<\/li>\n<li>Improved loading times for certain textures<\/li>\n<li>Added console command \u201cGameTime.MaxVariableFps\u201d to limit max FPS<\/li>\n<li>Added console command \u201cUI.DrawEnable\u201d to hide UI for screenshots \/ videos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26959\" title=\"Battlefield 3 multiplayer screenshot 9\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-9.jpg\" alt=\"Battlefield 3 multiplayer\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-9.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-9-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-9-250x153.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Balance and Gameplay Adjustments (PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed a problem with high speed mouse movement<\/li>\n<li>Added back some missing Growlers on Kharg Island Conquest Large<\/li>\n<li>Added back EOR sound for SQDM and TDM<\/li>\n<li>You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position<\/li>\n<li>Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it(note the affect this will have on Hardcore mode!)<\/li>\n<li>Spawn protection now should work in Conquest. You should no longer spawn on points too close to enemies<\/li>\n<li>You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM<\/li>\n<li>Combat areas on Kharg Rush tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after 1st base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a problem with revived players not suffering suppression<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in COOP<\/li>\n<li>Added joystick deadzone setting<\/li>\n<li>Fixed sound for when climbing ladders<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue with some weapon sounds in first person<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a swim sound loop error<\/li>\n<li>Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns, AA guns, and Jet Cannons against infantry<\/li>\n<li>Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns against jeeps.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and Jet Cannons, players under attack from these weapons should no longer lose control.<\/li>\n<li>Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly.<\/li>\n<li>Increased the range and minimum damage of the .357 Round from the MP412 Rex.<\/li>\n<li>Increased the range of all .45cal and 9mm weapons.<\/li>\n<li>Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW-R.<\/li>\n<li>Slightly increased the range of the 5.56mm PDW-R and decreased the minimum damage at long range.<\/li>\n<li>Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62mm rifles.<\/li>\n<li>Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR-H 7.62mm weapons.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced the damage from FIM-92 and SA-18 IGLA missiles against aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>Increased the damage and range of the 40mm BUCK rounds.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced the damage .50cal weapons do against Helicopters.<\/li>\n<li>Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26961\" title=\"Battlefield 3 multiplayer screenshot 15\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-15.jpg\" alt=\"Battlefield 3 multiplayer\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-15.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-15-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-15-250x153.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UI Changes (PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added round duration and ticket summary at EOR<\/li>\n<li>Advanced squad polish \u2013 should be more intuitive<\/li>\n<li>Significant changes to the Join Squad functionality (<a title=\"Battlefield 3 Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.battlefield.ea.com\/battlefield_bad_company\/archive\/2011\/11\/21\/multiple-fixes-and-new-squad-functionality-in-today-s-pc-patch-for-battlefield-3.aspx\">further info on Battlefield 3 blog<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a problem regarding keybindings while playing<\/li>\n<li>You should now get a better error message when being disconnected via Battlelog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Server Update Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EOD Bot exploit fix<\/li>\n<li>Several crash fixes<\/li>\n<li>Anti-stat padding measures taken, disallowing ranked servers to run obscure settings<\/li>\n<li>Improved team kill kick configuration<\/li>\n<li>Support for unranked servers. Unranked servers do not report players\u2019 scores to Battlelog, but server administrators can freely control all settings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26965\" title=\"Battlefield 3 multiplayer screenshot 12\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-12.jpg\" alt=\"Battlefield 3 multiplayer\" width=\"599\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-12.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-12-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Battlefield-3-multiplayer-screenshot-12-250x153.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Share your profile and stats with new Battlelog functionality<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to share your Profile and Stats pages to Facebook, Google+, and Twitter<\/li>\n<li>User Profile and Stats pages on Battlelog can now be accessed without being signed in to Battlelog if you know a user\u2019s URL<\/li>\n<li>Single sign on from Battlelog to Origin. If you\u2019re not logged in to Origin and join a game server, Battlelog will automatically sign you in to Origin in the background and join the game server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quick notes on Squad changes in the Nov 22 update<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option<\/li>\n<li>Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1\/4 squad members<\/li>\n<li>Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM<\/li>\n<li>Disable Privacy flag when 1 man squad<\/li>\n<li>Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when squad drops to 1 player<\/li>\n<li>All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad Selection screen<\/li>\n<li>Players who choose not to join squads will also show up as Blue in the \u201cNot in a Squad\u201d line<\/li>\n<li>Squads that are currently empty will display as white \u2014 if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loads of stability, performance and gameplay tweaks made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":26967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[49,709,175,21,421],"class_list":["post-26945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-battlefield-3","tag-dice","tag-ea","tag-headline","tag-patch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26951,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945\/revisions\/26951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}