Kite

You are not banned here. All accounts on your IP address (mostly BFP4F, no BFH) come up clean. A quick search of the name on the T4G banlist reveals a ban for statspadding, so it seems your problems lie with them, not us.

http://www.pbbans.com/master-stream-index.html or the "Check GUID or Server" on the left hand side of the home page. I don't play BF3, so I don't know if the IP is shown in the server browser, but usually a Google search of the server name brings the IP up in a GameTracker page or something similar.

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

Yeah, they announced the change a few days ago because it sounded too similar to World War Z (supposedly). http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/20/the-war-z-changes-its-name-if-not-its-ways/

OH MY GOD IT'S NEXT GENERATION GRAPHICS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXrZoMmggog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a0TzFx5hE

I apologize if I didn't make it sound clear in IRC. To me it sounded like you just wanted a clarification if the gameplay was suspicious, since I do not own BF3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3F3KW-2ABc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dTOnyp58NM New project revealed at the very end of Ubisoft's E3 Conference. Pretty damn impressed I must say. Platforms haven't been announced, but the graphics just scream for a PC release. Kotaku edit:

Haha I wish, but no, it was playing like a regular game. Except the game colors were still stuck in the waiting mode style :P

99.9% positive this was happening only on my side, but still, pretty strange & hilarious. A simple reconnect fixed it. Demo proof that this wasn't a graphics card mess up. cod4bwnoir.rar

We don't know either. You'll have to ask EB themselves.

@Fourzertwo (notice the spelling) Fake account. Back to the unconfirmed pile of dust it goes.

Still in the boxes on a shelf. But I guess since I'm sort of a newcomer to the PC gaming scene (first game was CoD4), it's not as quite overflowing as I've seen before from other people. I mean, not trying to be offensive towards Steam users ,but while I don't think Steam is the worst program ever, I don't see it as a necessity. Yes you can buy old games found extremely rare retail anymore, yes there's no cd hassles, yes most indie games only come from it, but I guess imo from continuously buying games retail (and maybe a bit too young to have a giant collection of games XD), I haven't had any problems with [retail] that makes me want to start seriously using Steam. and tbh I just find it a bit easier and faster that way (of course YMMV and all that) course that could all change once I actually get my own... "resources" and maybe actually buy a game off steam :P but that's for another day I'll just leave it at that to prevent a huge Steam vs. retail debate/flame war and to bring it back on topic.