Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

[Phistachio]

I look forward to this release like many of you. BC2 is still at the top of my list. One thing is bothering me...

I took a chance with MOH thinking "Hey, its DICE. BC2 is the best!" and pre-ordered MOH. Of course we all know how different the two are. I guess the point I'm trying to make is this, if they botch BF3 and I find I am stuck with pre-set spawn points, no in-game voice or any of the other major issues that I saw with MOH, I am done with them. As much as I love BC2, I'm a bit leary of pre-ordering.

At least I can try the beta and then make the call.

It's different. I kinda enjoyed MOH. But I think it was a low-budget game, and it wasn't as "big" as BC2. I bet if it was GvD's team (BC2) making MoH, and not Patrick Liu's (BF 1943), the game would be GOTY.

Also, 300 posts!!!! 400 more for custom title and 700 more to complete one of my new year's resolution : post 1000 posts by 2012

[usapatriot]

MoH used to be a very popular franchise, I don't know why EA nerfed it so bad with the latest MoH. Maybe they didn't want it to compete with Bad Company 2 or Battlefield 3.

[Pooster]

GI magazine scans out:

[BatBoy]

Oh wonderful... look at that last screenshot - look familar? *SIGH*

[tetutato]

Oh wonderful... look at that last screenshot - look familar? *SIGH*

LMAO *cough* Medal of Honor

[Prydeless]

Info from the magazine: GameInformer Battlefield 3 information revealed - National Video Game | Examiner.com

-Aiming for CY Q4 2011 release
-Concept for BF3 has been in the works for years, waiting on proper tech to seamlessly come together
-Frostbite 2.0 is the culmination of this tech, entirely re-written
-Lighting sounds neat; one "probe" contains more lighting information than an entire BFBC2 level.
-Level destruction is going to be "believable" but basically everything is destructible.
-Character animations powered by ANT, what EA Sports uses.
-AI characters and multiplayer characters have different animation sets
-No more "gliding" animations that look off, animation realism is a focus
-Captured their own war audios (bullets, tanks, helicopters, etc) at different distances to ensure realism
-Better audio cues for certain actions, more easily able to listen for threats
-Plan on better, more immediate post release content
-More unlocks than BFBC2
-Dice trying to find a good balance between customization of your character and not having "pink rabbit hat(s)"
-4 classes
-Will talk about squads "later"
-Looking into a theater mode but can't talk about it
-Will have co-op
-There will be a kill-cam but it can be turned off
-BF3's team is almost twice as big as the team for BFBC2
-They want the pacing of the single player mode to be balanced, with highs and lows. Makes the comparison to a song vs a guitar solo.
-Part of the single player mode takes place in Sulaymaniyah - Iraqi Kurdistan.
-F bomb will be used often, so M rates for sure
-Significant narrative that goes with the SP mode
-More than one setting, you're not in the middle east for the whole game
-PC version is lead version
-Why 64 players for PC only? No complains from the console crowd.
-No mod tools at release. Maybe none down the line either. Frosbite 2.0 is complex and mods tools would have to be dumbed down, so does Dice really want to put their time to that or would it be better spent elsewhere?

If there's no mod tools, they better have a lot of good maps.

[daranik]

Oh wonderful... look at that last screenshot - look familar? *SIGH*

Still pre beta bud, not a final build could be a place holder for a different HUD, just giving them the doubt, but either way its not a big deal, truthfully they should cut the hud and really challenge players to keep reloading and clip management in their mind and off the screen.

I will say it does look a bit better the BFBC2 , so far no shadow jaggies of any kind for screen shots, character models look like BFBC2 ALOT! But I guess its standard military look, destructable environments is nice to see, its the feature that seperates it from other games, hopefully its not soo repetitive. How much better in the end will the pc dx11 version look compared to the dx9 console version, thats the 100 million dollar question :P

[usapatriot]

Those graphics (Game Informer scans)!

[Shadowfate]

WOW Graphics looks good specially coming from a printed copy

[stevenxowens792]

This game is going to be so EPIC I can't wait.. I hope we get BETA before end of summer.

Bout time we get something this good. Can you guys remember... It's been almost a year since BFBC2 was released... In March 2010 correct?

StevenX