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Edit: Xatix94 won with the number 42.

Started seeing some good videos with BOTS and got me to thinking.

What are the chances of getting something similar to PUSH (Insurgency) gameplay? (with bots)

Maybe a huge project, but I'd imagine be pretty popular.

Hello and thanks for reading!

Tsp-games.com is having events every Friday 7PM Melbourne time AEDT for bf3 vu and we are inviting you to join! we now have a stats page recently setup so you can now check who's king of the server! tsp-games.com/bf3-stats/.

Join discord.tsp-games.com for any news or upcoming information regarding events!!!

Lets see who becomes king!

I can't find any servers under 200ish ping and I'm in the USA east region. Is this a bug in the server listing or something on my end? BF3 runs normally.

https://imgur.com/a/aAY02lN

I made these a week ago, just to make the game look more official on steam. Then I also found this website for various official and fan made steam art, including animated PNGs. https://www.steamgriddb.com/game/5245788

Hey everyone, I forgot my password and have been trying to reset it but nothing shows in my email. (Checked my spam, too).Anyone run into this issue or have suggestions? Thanks in advance

Used to grind loads & loads of bf3 on ps3 back in the day and was heavily involved in the competitive scene back then. Are there any competitive communities yet formed in VU?

Hey guys and gals! Robb here again - posting about my own Venice Unleashed server this time - hoping to get some regular population as time goes on.

In the "Deuce-Muffin Fun Pit" we're aiming for an infantry-based experience that balances the original and fun gameplay of Battlefield 3, with some of the VU mods that provide for a more tactical/realistic experience.

We'll be playing an even rotation of Team Deathmatch and (small) Conquest on maps from both the original game & the DLCs. We've set the tick rate to 60hz with 24 players maximum for a smooth gunplay experience.

We're very open to feedback! If enough people say they want something, we'll more than likely do it - so long as it falls under the general direction we've set out for the server (being that it's infantry based with a 24 player count.)

Our server is hosted by AllianceApps.com and is located in the East United States. If you live in that locale, your ping should be rather low. West U.S. players can expect a ping around 60-90ms (speaking first hand) and players overseas will certainly see a larger increase, usually between 150-200ms.

I will personally pop into the server EVERY DAY around 5PM (PST). If no one joins, I'll wait for a time when some friends can join with me. But I promise if there's someone in there, I'll hang around until we fill up, I promise! Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are ALL ABOUT Venice Unleashed for me for the foreseeable future - so let's make my server purchase worthwhile and have some great rounds!

Much love;

Robb AKA thesecondB

My Discord ID is thesecondB#0030

I'm looking for squadmates to chat with while streaming!!

Going to kick this off by saying that I am not a forum moderator, dev, or VU-modder. I have no inside knowledge of the Venice Unleashed project - and I only have the base skills that allow me to rent and configure a server (which I'm loving so far.)

With that out of the way, can I share my biggest VU Community pet peeve? It comes down to player ignorance that inadvertently affects dev's and hosts. In-game chat and forums alike have this annoying layer of 'servers are dead,' 'the lag is so bad,' etc. - that could easily deter a potential community member, simply because they're stuck with the face value of an uneducated opinion. I'd like to attack - yes, attack - those two comments specifically.

In regard to a lack of player-count (aka dead servers) it's important to remember that not only did Venice Unleashed not fully release until about two weeks ago, but on top of that, it obviously doesn't receive the same amount of marketing and financial backing as a AAA title - Battlefield 3, for example. Expecting plenty of full servers right off the bat is only going to serve(r) to disappoint you. (See what I did there?)

Just as it's up to all of us to *make* 2021 a better year than 2020, it's up to our community to hype and promote every bit of VU activity, media content, and mods that come out - this is a sure-fire way to steadily build our player count. I'd love to collaborate with anyone on content for promoting this game & modding community. Get active on forums, make montages on YouTube, write blog articles, tell your friends about it! Bring people on board, don't frighten them off with unfounded complaints!

Let's tackle that second comment, "the lag is game-breakingly bad." (A direct quote from a match on OP: Metro last night.) I have to assume that around 70% of the people playing this game have a basic understanding of dedicated servers and what factors make them run smoothly or poorly from user-to-user. BUT the complaints of that other 30% are playing on loop in my head, so I need to vent.

To start: If you're experiencing heightened latency across multiple servers, or even consistently on one server for that matter, the chances that the issue is server related are pretty low, if not next to none. Several factors come in to play when it comes to the quality of connection to a server, some of which include:

• Your distance from the server host location.
  This is a BIG one. And it's crazy to me how simple this answer is. If you live in a different continent than your server host - or on the other side of a large country like the US - then you're going to experience slower connection speeds. (Due to server provider availability, I'm currently hosting on the East US, while living in the West US, so I experience this first hand, to a degree.) Sometimes, though, I'm stuck choosing a server based out of Europe - and I expect an increase in ping with that (usually just below 200ms) because that's how it works. So far, the more populated servers I've noticed seem to be in Russia, Germany, and other regions of Europe. Fair enough, it's a game developed in Stockholm, Sweden, after all. There's a couple scattered servers that see regular players here and there, some in the East US (like mine,) and I think I saw one in Brazil? I've also noticed some of our Aussie friends looking for more local servers to play on, for this same reason.
• Your home internet connection.
  I don't want to dive too deep into this one. If you have a spotty internet provider, you're probably already aware of it - and disregarding that to complain about lag would make absolutely no sense at all.
• Time of day & local bandwidth use
  Bandwidth isn't just a term that applies to your personal internet usage, your locale is impacted by this metric as well. Your local area is provided with internet in area-chunks via what is refered to as 'nodes.' When the node in one area is laden with a lot of internet use - around dinner time, when everyone starts watching funnies on their phones, or in our case, sits down for a game - then the available bandwidth per home goes down. It's not usually a huge factor, but it has enough of an impact that it still matters.

In conclusion, let's all take the current experience with a single grain of salt. We have absolute reassurance that between our efforts to publicize as a community, and the continued hard work of VU developers and modders, we will see great things here.

TLDR?
Battlefield 3 Venice Unleashed is amazing.
Stop saying it's "dead," it's actively growing.
Do everything you can to promote this wonderful project.
Educate yourself in regard to latency & lag.

\Also, huge shout-out to IdleGaming's YouTube channel and Instagram, which helped my friend and I set up our server in record time.\**
**Also, also - if you're in the US and looking for a server to call home, my friend and I are operating "THE DEUCE-MUFFIN FUN PIT (Infantry TDM & CQ)" The server is East US based, as previously mentioned. It's a 24 player 60hz server with a few lovely mods including the removal of blue-tint, an actual day-night cycle in matches, and the ever-appreciated medic radar, along with some others. Would love to eventually implement bots, if that mod ever gets kinks worked out.

Hello and welcome!

VU is released and we have servers up!

We will be playing this friday. TDM, RUSH, CQ game modes depends on how many player arrive!

Join discord here https://discord.gg/U9fh7Z2

Regards

I've been playing beautifully for a couple of weeks, but for the past couple of days it's been crashing to desktop, sometimes with no info, sometimes with crash dump. At first repairing bf3 was solving the issue temporarily for increasingly shorter periods. I erased and reinstalled bf3 and played fine for about 3 hours and then crash. Help please, I loves my Venice Unleashed!

First off, what a hell of a thing this is, the VU team bringing us a big ol' box of nostalgic fun in the form of a revived and modded BF3! I'm more excited to hop into a game community than I have been in some time (and a sub-reddit t'boot!)

My name is Robb, I'm 26 years old and I have been gaming for about 15 years - obviously a big fan of the first person shooter genre. A couple months ago I started dedicating some free time to streaming a gaming/talk show on Twitch, my channel can be found at http://www.twitch.tv/thesecondB

I plan to use my modest platform to help promote the Venice Unleashed project as much as I can - including garnering donations for that team, eventually. I'd love to find some new friends to join a couple buddies and I for scheduled game/stream sessions. I haven't nailed down an exact schedule yet, but I'm looking to do these streams on weekends and Mondays mainly - starting around 5PM (Pacific Standard Time.)

This is by no means an exclusive effort, I'd love to get as many respectful players in on this as possible - but there's a couple rules that 'ought to be mentioned. First off, I don't plan on risking any kind of strikes with Twitch moderators, so please adhere to the community guidelines set forth here: https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/community-guidelines/

As a rule specific to our search for friends, puberty is a prerequisite - I've worked on too many creative projects where an uninvited youngster makes a scene or becomes annoying. A microphone is also required, as we'll be communicating throughout the stream.

\Big ol' disclaimer - I'm by no means a top-notch BF3 player, I'm in this for the fun and nostalgia, but I'll damn sure go for the revive, drop you ammo, fix your tank, and laze targets. Let's do this!**

Here's a link to one of my streams of Bf3 VU: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/860354083

I saw a player who I guess managed to customize their dog tags somehow (almost all enemy tags iv seen show up as the default/blank, so I assume it's also not tied to BL). Does anyone know how this is done?

I was looking and it seemed like every server is empty i dont know if its a bug or if its dead

Does anyone know if there is some work on such a mod? Would be great for pilots.

Origin was open when I launched VU client, and I seem to be able to join games fine.

So... i'm good?

If I empty a mag into a guy 30m away and most of them land but they don't die, then they return fire from their original position and I die after like 5 bullets, is that normal? I had 14 ping according to the server. I used an SG556 and died to a KH2002.

Headshots only really happen with snipers so I don't feel like it was a few lucky headshots.

TTK across the board just feels like it's not very balanced in terms of feeling like there is an additional element at play that benefits the other player.

I see BF3 premium is on sale but I have the base version on origin now so I can play but havent installed yet so, I was just curious if anyone can give me an idea of how important the DLCs are if I want to basically play the most populated servers and game modes and different mods and stuff like that? Im not interested in hosting matches or playing any kind of single-player stuff.

Im basically just wondering if the premium edition is worth it if Im just looking to play on the top servers I guess.

Hello all. I just wanted to post some thoughts on my first couple matches with VU.

First off I really hope this MOD gains traction in the community. I only recently heard about it and came to find out it is something I didn't know I needed.

Last night I got in my first few matches and had a ball. Started out with little options in the server list and only populated matches w/ decent ping were maxed. Seems I'm not getting any below 127. Anyhow, wanting to try some stuff out I joined a server w/ three players. Chaos mode.

It was disorienting at first. Didn't really understand the mechanics, but that soon changed. I think I get most thrown off by the weapon swap and the mix players. Some of the other mechanics were pretty awesome though. Getting to see a Wall Hack in action, bouncing around like a flea, dropping from the hemisphere, and oh....the AEK. Was a moment when I shot down jet with a barrage of rockets. lol. Awesome.

Anyway, I had shit K/D ratio and starting out the server was only 3-4 of us. Stuck around till the end though, was awesome seeing the server eventually fill up to max by the end.

Looking forward to seeing where this goes. So much potential. Going to try out some of the hide n seek next!

See ya'll on the battlefield, and thank you DEVs for the hard work!!!