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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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Another little trailer released today:

REALLY? They did the jumping off the cliff shit too?! COME ON that's SO played out!!

carlosrox said:

REALLY? They did the jumping off the cliff shit too?! COME ON that's SO played out!!

If that's all you have to say about that then you're dead inside!

@Xbob42
The trailer was all footage we've seen before... Well done trailer with the music at the start though.

And yes it looks great and I'm really looking forward to this game. A lot.

But that jumping off a cliff shit needs to fuckin' go. Now. That was embarrassing.

Well, maybe a little... [face_mischief]

@carlosrox

I do kind of have to agree that the jumping off the cliff thing is a little too much, esp. when Black Ops did it last year, and DICE is trying to go for a much more realistic take with Battlefield.

Still can't wait for the game though, and snipe more dudes with my RPG!

This game is going to be huge...

I just read that the Karkand pack includes 4 BF2 maps "re-imagined." Can't fucking wait. Karkand alone is awesome, let alone 3 other maps.

Come on Kubra Dam! and Sharqi Peninsula.

Will watch as soon as I'm done playing BO in a few.

Was this the thing that needed a million 'likes'?

@carlosrox

Yes and no. They were going to release this trailer early if they reached one million Likes, but that was not going to happen at the rate they're getting Liked, (which is maddening, WTF is wrong with people, why aren't they Liking it!? It's not even about the trailer, just how the Hell can a game this amazing not already have 1 million Likes? That's not a very high number! ), so instead they will release a developer commentary on this trailer after getting one million Likes.

@Brick
A million isn't a small number lol.

@carlosrox

On the Internet, yes it is. If this was for CoD, they'd hit 1 million within a day.

@Brick
Youtube yes, Facebook no. 'Likes' don't work the same on Facebook as they do on Youtube. A Justin Beiber getting hit in the nuts vid could easily get like a million views or likes in no time but on Facebook I've seen shit take a RIDICULOUS amount of time to reach a million. People use Facebook for their own shit, not for fan pages (not as much at least).

I didn't go like the shit haha, I was too lazy.

@carlosrox

Well you better. It's not like it will hurt you...

















BUT I WILL IF YOU DON'T!

Just saw a trailer for this game during the Rangers/Capitals game. Interesting strategy...air a trailer during the second commercial break of a first round playoff match...for a game launching in six months.

Really caught me off-guard.

Pretty awesome footage but......it does look heavily, heavily scripted. That's one thing BO got a ton of shit for (that I didn't mind but realized it killed replayability AND was a sort of false advertising).

Here's hoping this game does all it can to be the best it can!

Crap, forgot about this thread! I'll post in here with new finds from now on, sorry!

Stolen almost word-for-word from Bad Cartridge of course. :p















And this is why it's hard for me to be interested in the new Call of Duty games. They're good fun and all, but they try to impress by being totally ridiculous, rather than trying to melt your face with awesomeness.