I got into BF3 when Close Quarters was released and played until bf4 and I can hands down say it was the BEST fps gaming experience ever.. sadly fps will never be this fun, enjoyable or immersive ever again. :(
@@realtyrnezthe over competitive nature of most gamers nowadays and the average skill floor being so much higher than it used to be. Everybody and I mean everybody used to suck back then and that made it fun.
@@Gr00tWell if they would make games slower again everyone would still suck. But then the nubs will be crying about how they cant sprint 20 miles per hour and aim before even pressing the button.
bf3 raised me. The most memorable moments were in the metro map where usually the russians had all sectors and we were stuck in the first spawn trying to fight our way out but ultimately failing cause there were either too many sweats or too many snipers. Damn i love this game
Lol I spent my childhood replaying the campaign over and over again and thinking that montes was the coolest guy ever and that he was my best friend. I was always furious when he died. 😂
Seriously this and playing rush on damavand peak where’d you see everyone jumping off the cliff parachuting down. Was borderlined cinematic and still one of my favorite moments in any FPS to date
@@XDMIIIIIIIIIthankfully that's not really the case at least for now. I've found full lobbies of random maps on quick match. Sadly the browser is gone, but there's at least one server that still has multiple maps.
3:05 server browser has a bug where if the region “south us” is enabled it will only show that there are no servers. So when browsing, hit every other region except that and it will show all servers. I’m probably wasting my energy with this comment because you’ll probably not play this game again but if you do, here’s a tip. The end of battlefield 3 will truly be the end of an era. And after 4 shuts down. That will probably be the end of my battlefield days. They were great. And I never regret a second of it.
I go back and play BF3’s campaign literally every year. So many good memories, wish they still made games like this, the sound design, the graphics, the set pieces- amazing.
Dude I loved battlefield 3. To me BF3 and BF4 are top tier. The SV98 was my go to sniper and rush was my go to game mode. If I had to pick which to to be remade, I wouldn't be mad at what the popular vote chose. Good times msn.
@@joemellon7182I may end up getting BF4 again on my Xbox x. I played both of them at there peak but BF3 will always have a special place in my heart as one of my favorite games. But I’ll probably just get BF4 because apparently there is still a really good player base and I enjoyed BF4 at its peak as well and if BF3 doesn’t have a solid player base then I may just go to BF4 instead.
@@HarmonicMan4 I’ve played bf4 nonstop for almost a decade. After playing hell divers 2 that cut the streak tbh. I don’t play bf4 anymore but I definitely support it
I actually played it again today and I was flabbergast by the audio, pairing it with Dolby Atmos. The audio sounded so clear, and the front and rear audio sound so marvelous. I didn't know it could sound this so good, back then I was just playing it with nothing but cheap shits xD
Yea the sound design is quite impressive. The immersion you get with a high quality set of gaming headphones is unbelievable. Played BF3 for a little over a year till I got me a Tritton 720+ headset. Felt relieved to finally communicate with squad and team mates
Right now at 6:47AM on PlayStation 3, BATTLEFIELD 3 has 2 full 24/24 servers one of them has 3 people waiting in the Queue, one server has 23/24, one at 14/24, one at 13/24, one at 4/8, one at 4/24, and one at 1/24. 6 are private servers and two are DICE.
@@djangorestraind596 I could only imagine how good that was, for me my teenage prime was during BF4s prime which is still great, but as a kid I remember playing BF3 campaign all the time but I never had PS+ so I couldn't play online. To this day BF3's campaign is my favourite ever no matter how 'mid' the story actually was
It was quite an experience, also meeting up with your homies online and reviving and going alon as a squad. Makes me realized we don't play many more games together anymore.
Also spoiler, Dima didn't die in bf3 but in bf4, when we get trapped in a chinese high security prison, we encounter him still with the nuclear explosion burns on his face. He will eventually die at the end of the mission as we free ourselves outside the jail.
@@Bushberry For me it was because the actors are different so he is called Dima, but looks different to BF3 Dima. Story wise it as the same DIma though
January 1st, 2024 MY SERVER BROWSER SETTINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS: PLAYERS: ANY(unselect all options) MODE: ANY(unselect all options) MAP: ANY(unselect all options) PRESET: 2[5](Normal and Custom) RANKED: ANY(unselect all options) REGION: ANY(All unselected) The trick is to unselect almost everything in the menu. What you have to do to have them show up is to have 'Normal' and 'Custom' selected on "PRESET", this ensures that the Server Browser doesn't encounter an error from loading all 1000+ server listings at once. I also have "[×]Show Premium servers" selected and, "[×]Include and show games where the server is full". These options are at the very bottom. I understand this may not make full sense, so if you have questions: ask.
I can't even get the game to run. I install it, launch it. It opens a web browser and then when I hit quick match, the game says it's joining, but never shows me the game. Horrible.
Nice keep playing it. It was amazing back in the day no words to describe it. The player base in the millions ..... the hype was so enjoyable the best experience ever and I still play bf3 & bf4 weekly. Mr battlefield has now started his own shooter studio named TTK games and I wonder if he can come out with a likewise game as bf3 in the future.. be sure to check it out ...
it was magical. I lived and breathed it in its heyday on Xbox 360. Soooo many fun late night sessions with friends stomping lobbies or coming back to help the team win from behind. I remember getting kicked when I'd kill the admin or their buddies just because I was lvl 100, there weren't many of us around back then lol. AEK+ kobra sight+ heavy barrel+ front grip ftw lol. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...it was truly magical
@@melo5550 It's still epic. As a matter of fact, there is a massive rise of new players in the servers. But this is especially the case in with the pc version.
Giant BF3 fan here. PC player tho. 1. The situation is drastically better on PC (even if finding a full server can be kinda hard) 2. Yes, BF3 is next. idk about next year but by 2025 it might finally have its last hoorah. I'll be there to witness it, I promise 3. But despite that PC has Project Rome for BC2 and Venice Unleashed for BF3. If that makes you feel better, despite EA's efforts BC2 and BF3 can live forever on PC by running on custom backend 4. BF3 is last unquestionably great game in the series. Even if it took way too much from CoD, it still was promising and everyone felt hopeful for the future 5. I hope they never remaster BF3. Not only is it hard to actually remaster a 10 year old game, they also will NEVER satisfy everybody, there is no way they will implement all of the maps, weapons, vehicles from all DLCs and if the game won't have monetization + support - it will die faster than VU on launch. Fuck that, I'd rather see more remade BF3 content in Portal and/or future games
This game brings treasured memories for me. I played it with my father and with some friends of school in PS3 and we had a clan there with a lot of people. I made a lot of friends and some still playing with me other games until today. Nowadays I miss that time and this game so much and I think we will never have another experience like this anymore since the gaming industry only thinks about making a profit and doesn't do anything of quality anymore.
I feel the same, except I lived and breathed BF3 in its heyday on Xbox 360. I was really sad when the BFstats websites abruptly went out of business years ago too, even years later after I stopped playing all the time I was top percentage MVP, medic, winning percentage, etc among couple top percent in multiple weapons. Nothing else has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after, was truly a magical time. Sooooo many hectic heart pumping adrenaline filled fun nights winning matching handedly or coming from behind to help the team win. Games these days truly don't feel the same. It feels like all the passion is gone and replaced by pure greed...the consumers are basically unpaid beta testers these days. I have a gaming pc and all 3 consoles but not much excites me as much these days. Squad, DayZ, Arma, The Division games have scratched an itch in some ways, Tarkov did for awhile for me but then the viral wiggle video really confirmed what I had believed and suspected for a long time that the game was absolutely infested badly with cheaters
Built my first PC for this game, still have my original install on a slow ass old hard drive lol. Used to come home from school and play until the early AM every night, easily my favourite MP game of all time. I really think all these old beloved MP games need to be dropped to $5 as a standard, would keep them alive a lot longer.
Dice can’t write codes at BF3 and BF4 levels anymore. Dice should’ve cut and paste BF3 & 4 platform with 2020s weapons, air craft and vehicles for 2042.
Battlefield 3 was incredibly popular because it offered something never seen before. But nowadays all shooters are pretty much the same. I don't think they will ever release a game like that again.
This was never a problem during the era of LAN. All these companies have to do is allow a local area network option and you can still play the game. To this day you can play HL: opposing force death match. A game from the 90’s if you wanted to LAN. Or, do what Minecraft does and allow the creation of your own server. That gives us a reason not to buy the next title though: so…
I just returned to BF3 and its a breath of fresh air compared to BF2042. Who knew restricted movement and a detailed world and effects felt so good. Good luck bypassing the Punkbuster minigame prior to playing though.
and the HUD UI was beautiful too, still remember playing the beta on 360 at op metro. What a beautiful time it was to be alive, best game I ever played in my life.
I remember when the attackers on Metro rush had an LAV at that first set of mcoms in the beta, lmao. Was wild. My fav shooter game of all time by far. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...was truly a magical time. So many late nights with friends stomping lobbies or helping the team come back from behind to win
They should have remastered it rather than shutting it down…it should be up to the gamers what they like to play instead of shutting down a game that will always be considered the best of the franchise/category just to force people to jump into something else to throw money into their pockets
I had pre-ordered this game when it was first announced, and I still remember the elongated neck glitch in the Beta as well as during the intial release 😂. How the time flies 😢
Haha good times man. Do you remember on metro you could break the ground with a grenade and his underneath it? Ahaha that was in the beta I think. Ah good times.
The bf3 maps were the absolute best. I switched over from cod to bo3 and I always played more realistically on bf3. Wouldn’t get nearly as many kills per game but it was so much more fun. Those maps were everything especially the DLC’s
I would've been happy with Battlefield 3 Remastered just so the damn network could be fixed. Otherwise it was almost the perfect first person shooter of all time.
Never forgetting the time I wanted to get battlefield 3 at the gamestore but then the guy behind the cashier was like "For 10 extra bucks you can buy the new game BF4" and I did, had a blast! unlocked the phantom bow (the legit grindy way before it became free...) and honestly had a lot of fun
Trying here too: I’m hoping to find someone who is still willing to play on PS3 co-op Trying to finish “The Eleventh Hour” final co-op mission before PS3 servers close. It’s the only co-op I haven’t finished.
I liked the blue-orange theme, while others hated. BF3 is my favourites BF. Conquest is sometimes unbalanced but at least it does not have small gadgets like BF4 that can kill me easily out of nowhere. As well as BF3 has better map designs than BF4. In BF4 i felt that there are too many places to check when i go somewhere. (Even vertically) . BF3 is simple, easy to play, BF4 is little bit too complex sometimes, too many attachments like silencers to the weapons , other attachments to the vehicles. You have to modify the loadout of your weapon,vehicle all the time for every map/mode. In BF3 you have to unlock the good attachment to the vehicle ,to the weapon and then play. Only your skill and luck were important, there is no need to modify your loadout. But if you need a silencer then it is easy pick that one and no need to choose the best from 10 options.
Man your preachin ❤️ loved this game till the end. I ended up on place 700 on the leaderboard full of people with 2 billion scores I was in the top 30 attack heli kills and loved every moment i had and shared with people on the field i met some of them this year to honor the games time and friendship we made over time.
Recently hoped back onto it on ps3 and found there was only a few servers left (about 5 going at once). It was still very enjoyable until I got banned by toxic admins on several of the remaining servers believing I was cheating, purely because i was playing on an account with no bf3 playtime before and was outplaying these max rank admins…. And then it got worse as I’ve now found out the offical servers are now full of actual cheaters with 1 shot weapons and wallhacks.
Best game ever still looks sick I just cant belive and relased in 2011 and still looks sick. I want to play this masterpeice once again in my life, best game ever
Yes BF3 was the best all around. The multiplayer with the squads and squad leader setup was awesome. It definitely should have been remastered and/or the new battlefields should follow the same gameplay.
You need to remove it and install an updated version since EA cant bother to update the game anymore. Google search the error message and you find a solution. Took me awhile to fix myself unfortunately.
Well guys, this was 12 years ago. Some of us were 10 or 12 living life in simpler times when CoD MW3, Minecraft and BF 3 was where we spent time with childhood friends, time flies... Hope you all are doing well still
To be honest i played bf3 once and i didn't enjoy it but that doesn't mean that people that do enjoy it shouldn't have the possibility to play it i know my personal favourite is bc2
2:26 "While I said BF3 is realistic, people were just doing some of the unrealistic things" Because IT'S AN ARCADE GAME. Having realistic details, scenery and slower paced gameplay than COD doesn't make a game realistic
I NEVER played BF3 or BF4, never had a good enough pc to do that :( Now that i'm 21 and finally got a job, it will take me some months to build my pc and be able to do it. But it seems like i don't have much time, unfortunately. And...what about BF4? How much time do you guys think it will last from now? I plan on playing BF3 and BF4, mainly BF4.
BF3 PS3 player here, I estimate this game is still playable, fews servers actives but you can easily join a full game with 24/24 players. For the hackers, they still stay occasionnals and are always banned from non officiels servers, wich compose the majority of the servers now. I think peoples who say: "BF3 servers will be shut down" are just too pessimists. This game is the COD4 of Battlefield, if they shut down the servers of this Battlefield, it will be a suicide from the part of Dice.
@@co.1157 Ah yes. I bought BF3 on sale steam yesterday finally. BF3 UI is really clunky. Instead of ingame matchmaking, when I open BF3 it will open to web browser instead (to Battlelog). Multiplayer still works. Still fun. But of course newbies will be pitched against veterans. And yes. Co Op missions can't be played unless I have friend.
I have been playing bf3 on and off since November 2011...i bought bf4 a year after it's release and the experience could never compare to bf3. Its hard to explain but is like i remember it had this short period in bf3 where just because you saw an enemy didnt mean you had to get hostile toward eachother. A ton of good people were playing bf3 on ps3 back in the day. Took me years just to go back to cod. It was my first battlefield and no other bf has come close to replicating what we had on bf3.
BF3 should have been remastered but not in the likes of MW2. Both were classics at the time and honestly deserve to live on forever if possible. I have yet to find another game that come close to it although I transition to R6 Siege for a while.
It happened today on 7th that ea shut all servers down. Even a Petition from Elitegamers could not help.... so sad. Met so cool friends during years there from all countrys .
How dare you call the campaign a snooze fest! I think it is pretty fucking epic: "They are advancing fast - How many are there? - I think it's only 2 - What? No way...how could 2 men fo this?" or *opens box from a massive terrorist group, finds 1 nuclear warhead inside and 2 empty spaces "Holy shit, you know what this is? - weapons of mass destruction? - Yooyoyo wait a sec, there is only 1, where are the other 2? Oh Fuck WHERE ARE THE OTHER 2 NUKES??" or "The nukes will be detonated very soon, this can not happen. We can avert war between our nations. Just two of us, no politicians, no money changing hands, just two soldiers speaking the truth. Help me, help me do this."
What upsets me is everyone on pc could stop playing 2042 right now and go play this and breath life into the servers once again and itd be what everyone wants.
I saw that plane clip on AmazingFilms247's UA-cam channel back when BF3 was popular, what a time that was. Now I'm staring at BF1 and BF5 for ~$4 each, where both have too many hackers and cheaters in their multiplayer modes unless you join community servers. BF3 remains iconic.
I've been playing bf3 maps and weapons on bf2042, in the custom modes. I forget what it's called, but they pop up every once in a while and I always jump on them when I can. So fun
I was raised in call of duty but when bf3 dropped it just raised the bar for me for a game in every aspect and I was hooked on battlefield every since It really is such a sad story that most of the talent that created this game and four aren't even with dice anymore and well most likely never see this kind of game again coming from dice or EA unless they get the wise idea to do a remaster of 3 or 4
I am definitely one of those who missed out on BF3's primetime. Got an email from steam that it's on sale at the moment for 5 bucks and only now I get to afford it 😫
Im not able to get into a game and I wish people would start playing it again like the old cod’s and able to join a server! BF3 was even more fun that BF4 imo so much nostalgia…
I just bought this from ea store since they had a sale offering an 85% discount. Is it still worth it to play in 2024 in multiplayer lobbies? are there barely servers in the game?
I played BF2 during it's prime. Not BF3 and I do, genuinely feel like I missed out. I personally really love (figuratively) the middle eastern conflict themes because I grew up during 9/11 and the Iraq War. plus i just love desert aesthetic in general.--Because I moved and had satellite internet which is not good for twitch-shooting games. Believe me I've tried.
Interesting how people didn't really like it at launch. Particularly people who loved BC2 and also people who didn't like how BF3 wasn't a proper follow up to BF2. But now BF3 is hailed as a masterpiece
I had this on PS3, stuck with 24 player matches. The game however, was mind blowingly good for its time. The graphics (even at 30 fps) were incredible, destruction, gunplay, voice lines etc were insane. Initially you'd get like 10 kills and 25 deaths but that's okay, you still got a bunch of points by being a team player. Got the Steam version recently, and to put it shortly, the experience was severely depressing. Long live BF3.
I got into BF3 when Close Quarters was released and played until bf4 and I can hands down say it was the BEST fps gaming experience ever.. sadly fps will never be this fun, enjoyable or immersive ever again. :(
what would you say is causing this?
It was soo so good, id do anything to get it back
@@realtyrnezthe over competitive nature of most gamers nowadays and the average skill floor being so much higher than it used to be. Everybody and I mean everybody used to suck back then and that made it fun.
@@realtyrnezThe devs focusing on fast casual gameplay instead of immersiveness, tactics and slow movement/gameplay
@@Gr00tWell if they would make games slower again everyone would still suck. But then the nubs will be crying about how they cant sprint 20 miles per hour and aim before even pressing the button.
bf3 raised me. The most memorable moments were in the metro map where usually the russians had all sectors and we were stuck in the first spawn trying to fight our way out but ultimately failing cause there were either too many sweats or too many snipers. Damn i love this game
I was wondering where can I find a no sweat lobby
Yeah, Metro chaos was the best! Constant grenade expodes, smoke, I didn't see shit and was so cool.
Lol I spent my childhood replaying the campaign over and over again and thinking that montes was the coolest guy ever and that he was my best friend. I was always furious when he died. 😂
Seriously this and playing rush on damavand peak where’d you see everyone jumping off the cliff parachuting down. Was borderlined cinematic and still one of my favorite moments in any FPS to date
Why nobody play? Why? 😭😭
BF3 is/was the best online shooter ever made!!! They should do a remake I agree
I disagree with a remake just because I know they will find a way to fuck it up
You wanna play BF3 with rainbow skins and Soldiers, Wanna play BF3 that requires a 3070 as minimum requiriments....
@@AugustoV8Cesar I was just about to make this comment; glad you made it for me.
Cope, MW2 way better so is BFBC2
Was a downgrade in basically every way to Battlefield 2. BF3 and the other console ports killed the franchise.
Fuck I miss the old days of BF3 on my PS3…
Still works on PS3 ;)
@@Frojjnot for long unfortunately
@@FrojjBF4 is barely alive on PS4. I can only imagine BF3 on PS3, must have like two half filled lobbies running the same map 24/7
@@XDMIIIIIIIIIthankfully that's not really the case at least for now. I've found full lobbies of random maps on quick match. Sadly the browser is gone, but there's at least one server that still has multiple maps.
Reading and crying....
It's free for gamepass users, premium with all dlcs too.
There're still servers playable
If you wanna keep playing BF3, check it out on PC. Lots of privately run, public servers. Can still get onto Premium servers too
don't i have to use a browser?
@@kingalton10 yes. It has always been like this.
I find that any in north america are barely populated and there's maybe one or two at a time on pc. Not really feasible to jump on whenever you want
lmao its dead over there too
I bought it when it was like $2 on steam but I couldn't join a single server cause the web browser thingy just loads infinitely
3:05 server browser has a bug where if the region “south us” is enabled it will only show that there are no servers. So when browsing, hit every other region except that and it will show all servers. I’m probably wasting my energy with this comment because you’ll probably not play this game again but if you do, here’s a tip.
The end of battlefield 3 will truly be the end of an era. And after 4 shuts down. That will probably be the end of my battlefield days. They were great. And I never regret a second of it.
I’ll have to double check but I swear I checked and I had all regions checked
@@Bushberryyou aren't supposed to have all regions checked
Bf1 is still good
Updating and installing the disc on my 360 as I type this cause I'm seeing if online is still a thing with this game currently
@@thereaper9149it is we all gotta come on bf3 for one last good ho-rah
Calling the BF3 campaign mid is insane. Never heard anybody say that
I liked the campaign alot, but I don't remember much about it particularly. It's generic, but very fun due to the gameplay itself being really good.
Such a golden time of my childhood I remember telling all my buddies about it and them leaving call to duty in the dust to enjoy battlefield
I have completely stopped playing any and all video games. But BF 3 is the only game I still would want to play an unhealthy amounts of hours off
Me too
Came here to say same here, video games don't do anything for me anymore after living through the golden age of them.
The best team death match in any shooter too. Especially on the canals map. Too many nights where I’d play that game and the sun is coming up
I go back and play BF3’s campaign literally every year. So many good memories, wish they still made games like this, the sound design, the graphics, the set pieces- amazing.
The sound design was absolutely incredible. I dont think any game has been at that level since.
Dude I loved battlefield 3. To me BF3 and BF4 are top tier. The SV98 was my go to sniper and rush was my go to game mode. If I had to pick which to to be remade, I wouldn't be mad at what the popular vote chose. Good times msn.
I love bf4 but on consoles the frames are shit. Complete shit. But I still love playing it every day.
@@joemellon7182I may end up getting BF4 again on my Xbox x.
I played both of them at there peak but BF3 will always have a special place in my heart as one of my favorite games. But I’ll probably just get BF4 because apparently there is still a really good player base and I enjoyed BF4 at its peak as well and if BF3 doesn’t have a solid player base then I may just go to BF4 instead.
@@HarmonicMan4 I’ve played bf4 nonstop for almost a decade. After playing hell divers 2 that cut the streak tbh. I don’t play bf4 anymore but I definitely support it
I actually played it again today and I was flabbergast by the audio, pairing it with Dolby Atmos. The audio sounded so clear, and the front and rear audio sound so marvelous. I didn't know it could sound this so good, back then I was just playing it with nothing but cheap shits xD
Was this on console or pc mate ?
Yea the sound design is quite impressive. The immersion you get with a high quality set of gaming headphones is unbelievable.
Played BF3 for a little over a year till I got me a Tritton 720+ headset. Felt relieved to finally communicate with squad and team mates
Sgt Blackburn from BF 3
Clyde Blackburn from BF1
Only just realised that now
“bf3 portal mode is the definition of ‘we have bf3 at home’” This is the best description of bf3 portal I have heard
add "unplayable" for 'consoles' in the title clown
Console servers are dead, but pretty sure the PC ones are still kicking. PC is the place to be anyway.
Sure it doesn't even work
Xbox usually has 3 servers full at peak hours
PC servers are working, tried today. BF3 is wonderful
@@UnboxRacing steam version?
i just bought it on steam due to your comment, thank you@@UnboxRacing
Right now at 6:47AM on PlayStation 3, BATTLEFIELD 3 has 2 full 24/24 servers one of them has 3 people waiting in the Queue, one server has 23/24, one at 14/24, one at 13/24, one at 4/8, one at 4/24, and one at 1/24. 6 are private servers and two are DICE.
LOL so little compare to crack servers which are huge
@@borjan.Is that on PC?
@@co.1157 yes
Unfortunately I was a bit too young when it released, Lucky are those who played it in its prime.
I got to play it in its prime in my prime teenage years
@@djangorestraind596Must've been amazing playing Battlefield at a time where DICE was much more competent. You still play Battlefield today?
@@djangorestraind596 I could only imagine how good that was, for me my teenage prime was during BF4s prime which is still great, but as a kid I remember playing BF3 campaign all the time but I never had PS+ so I couldn't play online. To this day BF3's campaign is my favourite ever no matter how 'mid' the story actually was
It was quite an experience, also meeting up with your homies online and reviving and going alon as a squad. Makes me realized we don't play many more games together anymore.
There are still about 4-5 servers running on xbox at peak hours. This game needs to stay alive for a remaster
Also spoiler, Dima didn't die in bf3 but in bf4, when we get trapped in a chinese high security prison, we encounter him still with the nuclear explosion burns on his face. He will eventually die at the end of the mission as we free ourselves outside the jail.
How do I not remember this
@@Bushberry it happens lol
@@Bushberry For me it was because the actors are different so he is called Dima, but looks different to BF3 Dima. Story wise it as the same DIma though
January 1st, 2024
MY SERVER BROWSER SETTINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
PLAYERS: ANY(unselect all options)
MODE: ANY(unselect all options)
MAP: ANY(unselect all options)
PRESET: 2[5](Normal and Custom)
RANKED: ANY(unselect all options)
REGION: ANY(All unselected)
The trick is to unselect almost everything in the menu. What you have to do to have them show up is to have 'Normal' and 'Custom' selected on "PRESET", this ensures that the Server Browser doesn't encounter an error from loading all 1000+ server listings at once.
I also have "[×]Show Premium servers" selected and, "[×]Include and show games where the server is full". These options are at the very bottom.
I understand this may not make full sense, so if you have questions: ask.
Thank you!
@@sedgelord2760 you're welcome, have fun!
I can't even get the game to run. I install it, launch it. It opens a web browser and then when I hit quick match, the game says it's joining, but never shows me the game. Horrible.
Quick match is not how you do it. Use the server browser.
I just got BF3 on my Xbox series X and honestly... I get the hype. I can only imagine how good it would have been back in the day.
Nice keep playing it. It was amazing back in the day no words to describe it. The player base in the millions ..... the hype was so enjoyable the best experience ever and I still play bf3 & bf4 weekly. Mr battlefield has now started his own shooter studio named TTK games and I wonder if he can come out with a likewise game as bf3 in the future.. be sure to check it out ...
I know im a couple months late, but are you able to finds games on console? I've been thinking of buying bf3 but dont know if its worth it
@@elcowboy2613 I play to this day. There are mainly 2 servers full all times of the day. (Europe region)
it was magical. I lived and breathed it in its heyday on Xbox 360. Soooo many fun late night sessions with friends stomping lobbies or coming back to help the team win from behind. I remember getting kicked when I'd kill the admin or their buddies just because I was lvl 100, there weren't many of us around back then lol. AEK+ kobra sight+ heavy barrel+ front grip ftw lol. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...it was truly magical
Me too until I got a bug during comrades where my checkpoint loads and it says mission failed and I can’t fix it
To be technical, Dima does die but not in BF3 but dies in BF4 instead.
I never played the BF3 multiplayer, but the menu intro was pretty sick whenever I opened it up.
why?
Damn you missed out on a lot bro. The multiplayer days were epic.
As a former poor kid with limited internet connection, I know that feel brah. Long live the campaigners
@@fuzzo-zr6ztlol
@@melo5550 It's still epic.
As a matter of fact, there is a massive rise of new players in the servers.
But this is especially the case in with the pc version.
Bf3 in its prime is my first battlefield experience
I actually really loved the UI and aesthetics of BF3
UI is fantastic. Simple yet has character. Like somebody put some thought into it.
Giant BF3 fan here. PC player tho.
1. The situation is drastically better on PC (even if finding a full server can be kinda hard)
2. Yes, BF3 is next. idk about next year but by 2025 it might finally have its last hoorah. I'll be there to witness it, I promise
3. But despite that PC has Project Rome for BC2 and Venice Unleashed for BF3. If that makes you feel better, despite EA's efforts BC2 and BF3 can live forever on PC by running on custom backend
4. BF3 is last unquestionably great game in the series. Even if it took way too much from CoD, it still was promising and everyone felt hopeful for the future
5. I hope they never remaster BF3. Not only is it hard to actually remaster a 10 year old game, they also will NEVER satisfy everybody, there is no way they will implement all of the maps, weapons, vehicles from all DLCs and if the game won't have monetization + support - it will die faster than VU on launch. Fuck that, I'd rather see more remade BF3 content in Portal and/or future games
i love me a good match on markaz monolith, bandar desert and strike at karkand
Ea is shutting down 3 last gen [ps3/360] hardline and 4
I’ve met my best online friends on BF3… sadly to see in 2024 “last online 4 years ago” friends I made
This game NEEDS a remaster !
This game brings treasured memories for me. I played it with my father and with some friends of school in PS3 and we had a clan there with a lot of people. I made a lot of friends and some still playing with me other games until today. Nowadays I miss that time and this game so much and I think we will never have another experience like this anymore since the gaming industry only thinks about making a profit and doesn't do anything of quality anymore.
I feel the same, except I lived and breathed BF3 in its heyday on Xbox 360. I was really sad when the BFstats websites abruptly went out of business years ago too, even years later after I stopped playing all the time I was top percentage MVP, medic, winning percentage, etc among couple top percent in multiple weapons. Nothing else has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after, was truly a magical time. Sooooo many hectic heart pumping adrenaline filled fun nights winning matching handedly or coming from behind to help the team win. Games these days truly don't feel the same. It feels like all the passion is gone and replaced by pure greed...the consumers are basically unpaid beta testers these days. I have a gaming pc and all 3 consoles but not much excites me as much these days. Squad, DayZ, Arma, The Division games have scratched an itch in some ways, Tarkov did for awhile for me but then the viral wiggle video really confirmed what I had believed and suspected for a long time that the game was absolutely infested badly with cheaters
@@SolidSnake4Ever2003BF3 is a treasure I agree. I remember playing the knife only servers back in middle school…I got really good to.
Built my first PC for this game, still have my original install on a slow ass old hard drive lol. Used to come home from school and play until the early AM every night, easily my favourite MP game of all time.
I really think all these old beloved MP games need to be dropped to $5 as a standard, would keep them alive a lot longer.
Seriously, after all these years the DLCs are still quite pricey.
Dice can’t write codes at BF3 and BF4 levels anymore. Dice should’ve cut and paste BF3 & 4 platform with 2020s weapons, air craft and vehicles for 2042.
I got into Battlefield 3 on 2024 because its servers will shut down on November 7. Gotta get that platinum trophy asap.
Just have them remake this game and I'll be happy.
Battlefield 3 was incredibly popular because it offered something never seen before. But nowadays all shooters are pretty much the same. I don't think they will ever release a game like that again.
This was never a problem during the era of LAN. All these companies have to do is allow a local area network option and you can still play the game. To this day you can play HL: opposing force death match. A game from the 90’s if you wanted to LAN. Or, do what Minecraft does and allow the creation of your own server. That gives us a reason not to buy the next title though: so…
Getting a good match in BF3 on PC will result in the best first-person shooter experience you will EVER have in a video game, period.
I just returned to BF3 and its a breath of fresh air compared to BF2042. Who knew restricted movement and a detailed world and effects felt so good.
Good luck bypassing the Punkbuster minigame prior to playing though.
and the HUD UI was beautiful too, still remember playing the beta on 360 at op metro. What a beautiful time it was to be alive, best game I ever played in my life.
I remember when the attackers on Metro rush had an LAV at that first set of mcoms in the beta, lmao. Was wild. My fav shooter game of all time by far. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...was truly a magical time. So many late nights with friends stomping lobbies or helping the team come back from behind to win
Omg i remember playing the beta too i remember it had a ton of bugs but it was awesome
They should have remastered it rather than shutting it down…it should be up to the gamers what they like to play instead of shutting down a game that will always be considered the best of the franchise/category just to force people to jump into something else to throw money into their pockets
I had pre-ordered this game when it was first announced, and I still remember the elongated neck glitch in the Beta as well as during the intial release 😂.
How the time flies 😢
Haha good times man. Do you remember on metro you could break the ground with a grenade and his underneath it? Ahaha that was in the beta I think. Ah good times.
The bf3 maps were the absolute best. I switched over from cod to bo3 and I always played more realistically on bf3. Wouldn’t get nearly as many kills per game but it was so much more fun. Those maps were everything especially the DLC’s
There is an massive increase of new players on the pc version.
So there is more than enough to choose regarding servers and maps.
yup got on was very suprised to see many new players most likely to do with how often the game goes on sale
I would've been happy with Battlefield 3 Remastered just so the damn network could be fixed. Otherwise it was almost the perfect first person shooter of all time.
Never forgetting the time I wanted to get battlefield 3 at the gamestore but then the guy behind the cashier was like "For 10 extra bucks you can buy the new game BF4" and I did, had a blast! unlocked the phantom bow (the legit grindy way before it became free...) and honestly had a lot of fun
Trying here too:
I’m hoping to find someone who is still willing to play on PS3 co-op
Trying to finish “The Eleventh Hour” final co-op mission before PS3 servers close.
It’s the only co-op I haven’t finished.
PC still has quite a few full servers. Still play the game everyday. Damn. I need to make another video. Don't judge. I'm fat and lazy!!!
I liked the blue-orange theme, while others hated. BF3 is my favourites BF. Conquest is sometimes unbalanced but at least it does not have small gadgets like BF4 that can kill me easily out of nowhere. As well as BF3 has better map designs than BF4. In BF4 i felt that there are too many places to check when i go somewhere. (Even vertically) . BF3 is simple, easy to play, BF4 is little bit too complex sometimes, too many attachments like silencers to the weapons , other attachments to the vehicles. You have to modify the loadout of your weapon,vehicle all the time for every map/mode. In BF3 you have to unlock the good attachment to the vehicle ,to the weapon and then play. Only your skill and luck were important, there is no need to modify your loadout. But if you need a silencer then it is easy pick that one and no need to choose the best from 10 options.
Man your preachin ❤️ loved this game till the end.
I ended up on place 700 on the leaderboard full of people with 2 billion scores
I was in the top 30 attack heli kills and loved every moment i had and shared with people on the field i met some of them this year to honor the games time and friendship we made over time.
Anybody know if the campaign/coop is still playable? I bought a physical copy for PC at a midnight release.
Recently hoped back onto it on ps3 and found there was only a few servers left (about 5 going at once). It was still very enjoyable until I got banned by toxic admins on several of the remaining servers believing I was cheating, purely because i was playing on an account with no bf3 playtime before and was outplaying these max rank admins…. And then it got worse as I’ve now found out the offical servers are now full of actual cheaters with 1 shot weapons and wallhacks.
What is your PSN?
Actually PC has a good number of active servers on it. I just made a new rush server on PC [Gold] Good Old BF3.. Almost always full on weekends
Best game ever still looks sick I just cant belive and relased in 2011 and still looks sick. I want to play this masterpeice once again in my life, best game ever
Yes BF3 was the best all around. The multiplayer with the squads and squad leader setup was awesome. It definitely should have been remastered and/or the new battlefields should follow the same gameplay.
MW2, BLACK OPS 1, Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3
This was my childhood. BF3 was so much fun.
I can't even get into the game because it yells about punkbuster not being installed, even though it is.
You need to remove it and install an updated version since EA cant bother to update the game anymore. Google search the error message and you find a solution. Took me awhile to fix myself unfortunately.
Well guys, this was 12 years ago. Some of us were 10 or 12 living life in simpler times when CoD MW3, Minecraft and BF 3 was where we spent time with childhood friends, time flies... Hope you all are doing well still
Noshar canals conquest on the PS3 was so much fun everyone was obsessed with stealing all 3 helicopters and spawn killing everyone on the ship 🛳️
To be honest i played bf3 once and i didn't enjoy it but that doesn't mean that people that do enjoy it shouldn't have the possibility to play it i know my personal favourite is bc2
I just bought the game today on PC and hearing all this stuff that it's dead and/or unplayable just makes me sad
BRO JUST HAVE FUN 😁
Its only dead on consoles. The author forgot to mention it.
3:09 called it
2:26 "While I said BF3 is realistic, people were just doing some of the unrealistic things"
Because IT'S AN ARCADE GAME. Having realistic details, scenery and slower paced gameplay than COD doesn't make a game realistic
True.
I NEVER played BF3 or BF4, never had a good enough pc to do that :(
Now that i'm 21 and finally got a job, it will take me some months to build my pc and be able to do it. But it seems like i don't have much time, unfortunately. And...what about BF4? How much time do you guys think it will last from now?
I plan on playing BF3 and BF4, mainly BF4.
I really think if EA/DICE shut down BF3 and 4 Battlefield will never recover unless it is rebooted.
That I might need a towel comment is so true that menu music was so good it really got the blood flowing and ready for battle for sure
BF3 PS3 player here, I estimate this game is still playable, fews servers actives but you can easily join a full game with 24/24 players.
For the hackers, they still stay occasionnals and are always banned from non officiels servers, wich compose the majority of the servers now.
I think peoples who say: "BF3 servers will be shut down" are just too pessimists.
This game is the COD4 of Battlefield, if they shut down the servers of this Battlefield, it will be a suicide from the part of Dice.
Thanks for the info. I'm about to buy this on this Steam Winter Sale. Does the Co-Op campaign still works bro?
@@Cyan_Nightingaleyes but you will need a friend to play the game with
@@co.1157 Ah yes. I bought BF3 on sale steam yesterday finally. BF3 UI is really clunky. Instead of ingame matchmaking, when I open BF3 it will open to web browser instead (to Battlelog). Multiplayer still works. Still fun. But of course newbies will be pitched against veterans.
And yes. Co Op missions can't be played unless I have friend.
@@Cyan_Nightingale Can you still play on PS3? As in does your PS3 work. You could play with the crew of guys I play with.
This comment didn't age well at all, look at the amount of life support they're pulling on bf3 and 4 7th gen now
How do you get the footage so colorful? Im on Ultra Video settings, and it looks very pale anyway.
I change the saturation on my monitor to about 80 something but I also have a capture card set to about 80 something.
Does anyone know if i can still play on the close quarters maps ?
I have been playing bf3 on and off since November 2011...i bought bf4 a year after it's release and the experience could never compare to bf3. Its hard to explain but is like i remember it had this short period in bf3 where just because you saw an enemy didnt mean you had to get hostile toward eachother. A ton of good people were playing bf3 on ps3 back in the day. Took me years just to go back to cod. It was my first battlefield and no other bf has come close to replicating what we had on bf3.
BF3 should have been remastered but not in the likes of MW2. Both were classics at the time and honestly deserve to live on forever if possible. I have yet to find another game that come close to it although I transition to R6 Siege for a while.
It happened today on 7th that ea shut all servers down. Even a Petition from Elitegamers could not help.... so sad. Met so cool friends during years there from all countrys .
can u tell how do u make it work cuz the game keeps asking me for activating product key and even tho ive deleted the license file
yeah i should do research on games before buying them 😭
Bf3 will forever be the best war game ever for me❤
How dare you call the campaign a snooze fest! I think it is pretty fucking epic:
"They are advancing fast - How many are there? - I think it's only 2 - What? No way...how could 2 men fo this?"
or
*opens box from a massive terrorist group, finds 1 nuclear warhead inside and 2 empty spaces "Holy shit, you know what this is? - weapons of mass destruction? - Yooyoyo wait a sec, there is only 1, where are the other 2? Oh Fuck WHERE ARE THE OTHER 2 NUKES??"
or
"The nukes will be detonated very soon, this can not happen. We can avert war between our nations. Just two of us, no politicians, no money changing hands, just two soldiers speaking the truth. Help me, help me do this."
What upsets me is everyone on pc could stop playing 2042 right now and go play this and breath life into the servers once again and itd be what everyone wants.
I saw that plane clip on AmazingFilms247's UA-cam channel back when BF3 was popular, what a time that was. Now I'm staring at BF1 and BF5 for ~$4 each, where both have too many hackers and cheaters in their multiplayer modes unless you join community servers. BF3 remains iconic.
Great video. I love seeing analysis videos like these from smaller channels. Goes to show how influential the game is.
Much appreciated!
@@Bushberry Hello, you had the server browser settings wrong. I can help you fix them to show all of the servers that were invisible.
I've been playing bf3 maps and weapons on bf2042, in the custom modes. I forget what it's called, but they pop up every once in a while and I always jump on them when I can. So fun
BF3 was peak
IS playable in 2024.
I really think EA should do a masters collection of all the Battlefield games, kinda like what HALO did.
on PC there's LOTS of servers....
yeah it’s very much playable
I play Bf3 on PS3
Up to 300 people playing usually here in 2024
And it’s a big fun
Is anyone on this game rn and it keeps saying failed to connect to ea servers?
Bad company is not realistic, bad company is the definition of personality in videogames 😂
I was raised in call of duty but when bf3 dropped it just raised the bar for me for a game in every aspect and I was hooked on battlefield every since
It really is such a sad story that most of the talent that created this game and four aren't even with dice anymore and well most likely never see this kind of game again coming from dice or EA unless they get the wise idea to do a remaster of 3 or 4
I am definitely one of those who missed out on BF3's primetime. Got an email from steam that it's on sale at the moment for 5 bucks and only now I get to afford it 😫
11 months ago 😢😅
2024 coming soon
God forgive me for the utterly devious sniper shots I made back in firestorm. RIP
I loved Battlefield 3. It was the best Battlefield of all time. Even the Beta was amazing on the Metro map 🥲 But I never finished the campaign
The game made me change from COD the guy is right battlefield 3 in its day blew away all competition
Im not able to get into a game and I wish people would start playing it again like the old cod’s and able to join a server! BF3 was even more fun that BF4 imo so much nostalgia…
Btw I’m on Xbox One
@@BeatsByKeshi ea is shutting down bf3 and last gen hardline and 4 for 360/ps3
When games were games.
Battlefield 2042 was on sale for $5 bucks. STILL DIDN'T BUY. 😂😂
I just bought this from ea store since they had a sale offering an 85% discount. Is it still worth it to play in 2024 in multiplayer lobbies? are there barely servers in the game?
I played BF2 during it's prime. Not BF3 and I do, genuinely feel like I missed out. I personally really love (figuratively) the middle eastern conflict themes because I grew up during 9/11 and the Iraq War. plus i just love desert aesthetic in general.--Because I moved and had satellite internet which is not good for twitch-shooting games. Believe me I've tried.
if they remastered bf3 on the new consoles and made it EXACTLY how it was i bet people would play it again
Interesting how people didn't really like it at launch.
Particularly people who loved BC2 and also people who didn't like how BF3 wasn't a proper follow up to BF2.
But now BF3 is hailed as a masterpiece
I had this on PS3, stuck with 24 player matches. The game however, was mind blowingly good for its time. The graphics (even at 30 fps) were incredible, destruction, gunplay, voice lines etc were insane. Initially you'd get like 10 kills and 25 deaths but that's okay, you still got a bunch of points by being a team player. Got the Steam version recently, and to put it shortly, the experience was severely depressing. Long live BF3.
3:18 Bros aiming is depressing.
I tried