Next Battlefield 3 Patch will Include Color Grading OFF Option!

http://www.mordorhq.com/showthread.php?3318-BF3-Colour-Tweaker-what-the/page6&p=82357#post82357

There will be a console command for disabling the color grading entirely in the game included with the next PC game client update. We believe that turning it off gives no major competitive advantage/disadvantage. IRNV scope and a few others which turn the image into greyscale or greenscale don't work properly without color grading and will look real ugly. There will be no in-game UI for turning it on/off. We are unlikely to handle support questions and bug reports regarding stuff that happens when color grading is disabled. As for server settings: we are not currently planning to implement any new ones.

ill def try it out

Now if only there were a magical switch to fix the awful hit detection / networking...

Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...DanielDust

Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...DanielDust

Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...DanielDust

I think they were more worried about it being a 3rd party injection. DICE is still terrible with their customer service.

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...BrunoBRS

Yeah I don't really like how it's all or nothing. A slider would be nice. Still, it's better than nothing I guess. The newer maps have far less colour grading anyway so it's only really for base maps.

Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...DanielDust

They threatened bans for the BF3 tweaker. Not the BF3 colour tweaker. The tweaker allowed you to remove suppression, remove recoil and have your bullets do 100% damage per bullet at any range. Meaning your AEK could become the fastest firing gun that was effective at 3000m and killed you in one shot at the range.

The colour tweaker had no such problems as it just adjusted colours. All DICE said about that was it looked too colourful

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...seanmcloughlin

They threatened bans for the BF3 tweaker. Not the BF3 colour tweaker. The tweaker allowed you to remove suppression, remove recoil and have your bullets do 100% damage per bullet at any range. Meaning your AEK could become the fastest firing gun that was effective at 3000m and killed you in one shot at the range.

The colour tweaker had no such problems as it just adjusted colours. All DICE said about that was it looked too colourful

Most awesome news all day! Can't wait!

[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...Zubinen

They threatened bans for the BF3 tweaker. Not the BF3 colour tweaker. The tweaker allowed you to remove suppression, remove recoil and have your bullets do 100% damage per bullet at any range. Meaning your AEK could become the fastest firing gun that was effective at 3000m and killed you in one shot at the range.

The colour tweaker had no such problems as it just adjusted colours. All DICE said about that was it looked too colourful

I use Danoc v1.25 performance but it's essentially the same thing. SweetFX is a bit too colourful in areas for my liking

Now if only there were a magical switch to fix the awful hit detection / networking...

Swiftstrike5

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]

Now if only there were a magical switch to fix the awful hit detection / networking...

mitu123

[QUOTE="mitu123"][QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]

Now if only there were a magical switch to fix the awful hit detection / networking...

Swiftstrike5

[QUOTE="mitu123"][QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]

Now if only there were a magical switch to fix the awful hit detection / networking...

Swiftstrike5

[QUOTE="mitu123"][QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]

Now if only there were a magical switch to fix the awful hit detection / networking...

Swiftstrike5

You're insane to say BC2 had good hit detection. I loved BC2, but the hit detection in that game was BUSTED. Battlefield 3 has far superior hit detection.

I wonder if having the color grading off will improve framerate by any margin.

long overdue, but I will check it out when it gets released

You're insane to say BC2 had good hit detection. I loved BC2, but the hit detection in that game was BUSTED. Battlefield 3 has far superior hit detection.

JangoWuzHere

Agreed. BC2's hit detection was horrid.

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="DanielDust"]Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...seanmcloughlin

Yeah I don't really like how it's all or nothing. A slider would be nice. Still, it's better than nothing I guess. The newer maps have far less colour grading anyway so it's only really for base maps.

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

You're insane to say BC2 had good hit detection. I loved BC2, but the hit detection in that game was BUSTED. Battlefield 3 has far superior hit detection.

psn8214

Agreed. BC2's hit detection was horrid.

For my experience it was the exact opposite :U

That's... very surprising. Also, excellent news! I hope other games follow suit instead of forcing certain colour options on their customers. I'm happy :D

[QUOTE="psn8214"]

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

You're insane to say BC2 had good hit detection. I loved BC2, but the hit detection in that game was BUSTED. Battlefield 3 has far superior hit detection.

SharkheadHD

Agreed. BC2's hit detection was horrid.

For my experience it was the exact opposite :U

From my experience of hundreds of hours in both games...I had deaths after taking cover in pretty much every BC2 match I ever played. In BF3, it happened, but once or twice a day.

And you don't want to get me started on the knifing in BC2. Air knifing facing the other way, the dude walks 5 meters then falls down and I get the knife kill. Shlt like that was everyday stuff.

I wonder if having the color grading off will improve framerate by any margin.

SharkheadHD

It won't change the framerate even a little

Oh man, thank you DICE. Now the game will look even better without that blue filtering business!

Oh man, thank you DICE. Now the game will look even better without that blue filtering business!

Frankenstrat247

people here are confused

the filter hides all the low res textures very well

gross

bf3 has so few polygons and low res textures

that's why it runs so well

they just made up for it with good art style

[QUOTE="Frankenstrat247"]

Oh man, thank you DICE. Now the game will look even better without that blue filtering business!

JigglyWiggly_

gross

Is it too late to get into Battlefield 3? I kinda wanna play it for single player campain and some MP, I'm going to buy Black Ops 2 next month so i'll be busy with that, but for single player and occasional MP is it worth getting BF3?

Is it too late to get into Battlefield 3? I kinda wanna play it for single player campain and some MP, I'm going to buy Black Ops 2 next month so i'll be busy with that, but for single player and occasional MP is it worth getting BF3?

II-Siamak-II

it's not too late just use SKS and sv98

[QUOTE="II-Siamak-II"]

Is it too late to get into Battlefield 3? I kinda wanna play it for single player campain and some MP, I'm going to buy Black Ops 2 next month so i'll be busy with that, but for single player and occasional MP is it worth getting BF3?

JigglyWiggly_

it's not too late just use SKS and sv98

M417 > SKS

[QUOTE="SharkheadHD"]

[QUOTE="psn8214"]

Agreed. BC2's hit detection was horrid.

QQabitmoar

For my experience it was the exact opposite :U

From my experience of hundreds of hours in both games...I had deaths after taking cover in pretty much every BC2 match I ever played. In BF3, it happened, but once or twice a day.

And you don't want to get me started on the knifing in BC2. Air knifing facing the other way, the dude walks 5 meters then falls down and I get the knife kill. Shlt like that was everyday stuff.

I find it impossible to effectively take cover in BF3 simply because the hit detection favors the shooter and, if they're high ping, you're dead before the server even tells the player they're being shot. How's that fair? The whole point of having servers is to have better networking / hit detection and to level the playing field.

BF3 has the exact same issues as BC2:

Shots not registering-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMsRVi4IsS0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3De99hquk&feature=related

Knife BS-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIbzxtYlD4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_XGD45WBs

Except it also has this:

Client Side Garbage-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p933kkTUNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adfgUL5aM0I

Except for Vietnam and Heroes, I've played all the BF titles extensively and I've never been as frustrated as I am with BF3's hit detection. It's clearly a step in the wrong detection for the series. I don't even bother playing anymore because I know it'll be more frustrating that it is enjoyable.

Interesting they threatened with bans because it breaks balance, now it's absolutely normal and ok if you want to play with it like that, pft DICE...DanielDust

yes, for shame, that DICE reconsiders a previous standpoint based on community feedback. What horrible, horrible people.

Except for Vietnam and Heroes, I've played all the BF titles extensively and I've never been as frustrated as I am with BF3's hit detection. It's clearly a step in the wrong detection for the series. I don't even bother playing anymore because I know it'll be more frustrating that it is enjoyable.

Swiftstrike5

They're all pretty horrible though. DICE is notorious for having awful hit detection, and I have the same issues in BF3 as I did BC2. The only two games I don't have issues with the hit detection in are BC2 Vietnam and BF1943. Those games both had very minimal amounts of environment destruction compared to other DICE games, so I have a feeling that's related.

Played several rounds of BC2 recently, hit detection is still so bad. For example I knifed a recon twice and it did nothing to him due to the slash motion and then he turns around to knife me once. I shot a medic with a shotgun 3 times and he takes no damage yet he hits me with a shotgun once and kills me. I shot an engineer with an XM8 assault rifle 1st and he still gets me somehow.

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"][QUOTE="mitu123"] BF games with perfect hit detection will never exist!JigglyWiggly_

[QUOTE="Frankenstrat247"]

Oh man, thank you DICE. Now the game will look even better without that blue filtering business!

JigglyWiggly_

people here are confused

the filter hides all the low res textures very well

gross

bf3 has so few polygons and low res textures

that's why it runs so well

they just made up for it with good art style

Played several rounds of BC2 recently, hit detection is still so bad. For example I knifed a recon twice and it did nothing to him due to the slash motion and then he turns around to knife me once. I shot a medic with a shotgun 3 times and he takes no damage yet he hits me with a shotgun once and kills me. I shot an engineer with an XM8 assault rifle 1st and he still gets me somehow.

mitu123

What a troll, first time seeing Jiggly writing in common English this month and you're annoyed by it, it's like you're not even trying these days, as bad as having an yellow trollface for your avatar an signature I guess.DanielDust

Really?

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

Played several rounds of BC2 recently, hit detection is still so bad. For example I knifed a recon twice and it did nothing to him due to the slash motion and then he turns around to knife me once. I shot a medic with a shotgun 3 times and he takes no damage yet he hits me with a shotgun once and kills me. I shot an engineer with an XM8 assault rifle 1st and he still gets me somehow.

nutcrackr

[QUOTE="nutcrackr"][QUOTE="mitu123"]

Played several rounds of BC2 recently, hit detection is still so bad. For example I knifed a recon twice and it did nothing to him due to the slash motion and then he turns around to knife me once. I shot a medic with a shotgun 3 times and he takes no damage yet he hits me with a shotgun once and kills me. I shot an engineer with an XM8 assault rifle 1st and he still gets me somehow.

Toxic-Seahorse

Yeah I got Vietnam in that EA blunder recently and decided I wanted to go back to BC2 cos I hadn't played it since getting used to PC controls. But man it's such a different game. Some ways I like it a whole lot more than BF3 and some ways I don't. The maps in BC2 are far superior to BF3 but the gunplay of BF3 is better. I would love the maps and overall atmosphere of BC2 with the visuals and gunplay of BF3

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="nutcrackr"] BC2 knife has been broken for a very long time, people look back at BC2 with rose tinted glasses. seanmcloughlin

Yeah I got Vietnam in that EA blunder recently and decided I wanted to go back to BC2 cos I hadn't played it since getting used to PC controls. But man it's such a different game. Some ways I like it a whole lot more than BF3 and some ways I don't. The maps in BC2 are far superior to BF3 but the gunplay of BF3 is better. I would love the maps and overall atmosphere of BC2 with the visuals and gunplay of BF3

[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"] I still had way more fun with BC2 than I did with BF3. Toxic-Seahorse

Yeah I got Vietnam in that EA blunder recently and decided I wanted to go back to BC2 cos I hadn't played it since getting used to PC controls. But man it's such a different game. Some ways I like it a whole lot more than BF3 and some ways I don't. The maps in BC2 are far superior to BF3 but the gunplay of BF3 is better. I would love the maps and overall atmosphere of BC2 with the visuals and gunplay of BF3

There's also a bigger feeling of actual battle I think. Like take port valdez as an example on rush. When you come in as an attacker in your parachute and all those air rounds are going off around you as you come down and then everyone hopes in vehicles and full on assaults the capture points. It's a very powerful experience. Then you have the failure or success cinematics at the end of the round that looked cool and added a little extra something. It just felt better overall somehow. BF3 feels very cold sometimes and a bit disconnected, you don't feel part of a bigger battle