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Pre-release Info

Well, after many years, DICE is finally coming out with a proper sequel to Battlefield 2, and they're coming out guns blazing with Call of Duty in their sites! Bad Company 2 was my first Battlefield game, and it was pretty impressive, but it was missing some of the key features of a true Battlefield game, like more players, jets, etc. Battlefield 3 is coming with everything fans of the series want and more. The PC is the lead platform, so it won't have to be watered down for the consoles like the Bad Company spin-off series, but DICE is actually going to make it all work on both the 360 and PS3 regardless.

With the future of Call of Duty up in the air at the moment with Treyarch having shipped Black Ops and out of the picture until 2012 at least, and Infinity Ward in shambles after the mass exodus, we just don't know what we're going to get from the 2011 Call of Duty game, so it seems to be the perfect time for Battlefield to come in and take the FPS crown. I'll admit that I may like the more arcade style of Call of Duty a bit more, but with the formula staying relatively the same all these years, I am starting to get a bit fatigued by it, so I may prefer a change of pace with Battlefield this year, esp. if the next Call of Duty is sub-par.

There hasn't been to much info on Battlefield 3 so far, but what little there is has me very excited. I can't wait to see what true, large scale, Battlefield style warfare is really like.

So far we have this teaser:



And here are some stills from that teaser so that you can get a better look at the all new engine DICE is using for this game, Frostbite 2:



















Mmm mmm mmm! Just think, the game is still in development too, so the graphics can only improve from here, now just imagine how much better everything will look upon release! The game is currently slated for a fall release of this year, so that it can go toe-to-toe with Call of Duty, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised, or upset if it got pushed back a bit since DICE has quite a bit on their table at the moment, and it's going to take a lot of work to get this all to run on the consoles.

Here's some information from an issue of Game Informer on the game:

-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.
-"Fuck" will be used often, so M rated for sure
-There will be an earthquake in a level. The destruction sounds very impressive. 7 story building collapses, looks very well done
-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 complaints from the console crowd.
-No mod tools at release. Maybe none down the line either. Frostbite 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?
-Original story, not based on Bad Company at all.

Here's a link to the Game Informer scans if you want to read the whole story

It's all very interesting stuff, and DICE's claim of it being a next generation game, on current generation hardware seems quite accurate.

The game is getting a full reveal this week at GDC, so expect another trailer, and more news soon.

So, this is the official Battlefield 3 coverage thread, so if you find any news post it here. If a new trailer is released post it here. If you find a cool interview post it here. Let's keep this thread updated with all the news of the game as we prepare for deploymen to the third Battlefield!

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03/01/11, 13:04    Edited: 10/19/12, 06:56
 
   
 
Brick said:

Hahaha, I love that GIF. It's one of the oldest ones I have bookmarked and still one of the best.
06/18/11, 00:27   
Renjaku said:
@Xbob42 Won't a moderate CPU bottleneck a card like that badly? Like mine for instance, an AMD anthlon II X4 620.

That depends entirely on how CPU-dependent the game is. GTA IV, for example, would bottleneck quite severely. Whereas The Witcher 2 wouldn't make much of a big deal out of it. I can't say at all for BF3, though, as I'm not sure how they're distributing their resource budget over your PC.

Although a very nice Sandy Bridge CPU can be had for about $120-130 at the moment!
06/18/11, 01:30   
It feels weird to think that games like this can now have news articles dedicated to them here, thanks to the Wii U.
06/18/11, 01:37   
@X-pert74
Has the game even been confirmed yet?
06/18/11, 06:45   
@carlosrox

Yes I believe it has indeed been confirmed to be coming to Wii U down the road.


Anyways, here's an episode of The Bonus Round pitting BF3 and MW3 head-to-head.

OK can't seem to embed the video for some reason as I keep getting a Bionicle game trailer when I try to, so instead I'll just link to it:

Bonus Round - Battlefield 3 Vs. Modern Warfare 3
07/04/11, 03:02   
Edited: 07/04/11, 03:07
The host seemed really uninformed and a pretty big Call of Duty fan.
07/04/11, 03:41   
07/05/11, 22:06   
As a war vet I wish it wasn't so difficult for me to play these games. I bet I would really enjoy this one.
07/06/11, 08:56   
@siciliangamer

If it really bothers you man, don't play them. You served your country, this is a video game. All respect goes to you.

So is this game going to have an actual decent single player?
07/06/11, 23:25   
@MightyOwned

Sure looks it. I hear they're going for a game that actually takes its time and not balls out, blow your fuckin mind, ass pounding explosions n stuff. Trying to be more like a war movie and less like a war game (to an obvious extent) like Saving Private Ryan or something. And it sounds they're going for a more "believable" story. Something simple I guess. No World War III here I assume.
07/07/11, 02:48   
@carlosrox

Oh so no AM3RICA, FRANC3, 3NGLAND...
07/07/11, 06:08   
@MightyOwned

Well actually France and America are featured in the campaign. I'm hoping the singleplayer is good, I mean DICE really hasn't proven themselves in that department yet. BC2's campaign was just so, meh. Now this one for BF3 does look a bit better, and it seems like they're going for a more focused level design, rather than the more open layout of BC2, which might help.
07/07/11, 06:42   
I don't care if there isn't a singleplayer option at all. Battlefield 3 is all about riding on the wing of a plane while your friend flies you into a mountain! Some shitty, melodramatic singleplayer campaign is... Nah, that's not fair, I just don't care about it!
07/07/11, 06:55   
@Xbob42

Multiplayer is definitely where it's at, but, as I've mentioned before in this thread, I really do hope the singleplayer rocks as well. If the PSN outage proved anything, it's that games can't be so dependant on online these days, and we need more focus on great singleplayer. After all, what are you going to play if your Internet is out for some reason?

Still though, BF3 online, playing with friends is going to be an absolute blast!
07/07/11, 08:58   
Singleplayer FPS games are definitely not where I go when my internet is out, that's for sure! :P

A good single player can't hurt, but I don't want them focusing too much on it. DICE multiplayer is incredible!
07/07/11, 09:08   
It is indeed, but I'm just miffed at this over emphasis on online. 5 hour campaigns can go to Hell. The next Half-Life can't get here soon enough. Plus, it's not just FPS games that are getting this reliance on online, even singleplayer games that use DRM (which itself is already bullshit, but that's besides the point) will screw you over if you don't have an Internet connection, and there are of course people that don't have Internet connections at all, so they're fucked.
07/07/11, 09:34   
Well, I never complained one bit that Battlefield 1942's offline was basically a bunch of lame bots running around because that was like soooo not the point of the game, even though I was also familiar with Half-Life, which was the opposite. Both have their place.

Always-on DRM is extremely lame, though. But even then, just crack the fuckin' game, you've already bought it, so why not? DRM can suck a fat chode.

In any case, if you can't protect your property without treating your paying customers like thieves, then don't be surprised when you've upped the amount of piracy yourself, EA.
07/07/11, 09:44   
MP games with no singleplayer piss me off.

Unreal Tournament
Quake 3
Battlefields up until BC2
Etc

CS, DOD, TF2, etc are obviously okay because they actually are MP ONLY.

I absolutely hate the MP as SP thing, bots, etc. It's a mega turn-off.
07/07/11, 14:15   
Edited: 07/07/11, 14:16
carlosrox said:
MP games with no singleplayer piss me off.

CS, DOD, TF2, etc are obviously okay because they actually are MP ONLY.


...? Isn't that a direct contradiction? Battlefield and the like were MP only as well, with the bots only in there as a sort of practice mode. They never even pretended to have decent single player.
07/07/11, 14:42   
@Brick

Hmm, I am trying to decide if you got my MW3 joke, lol.
07/08/11, 00:12   
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