Battlefield 3

[Penguin]

With such a huge fanbase, I can't believe a thread hasn't been started here.

It's coming soon, and it will be a game 5 Battlefields in the making.  I cannot wait for this baby to come around.  A teaser trailer is availible here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0aq5zzmQs With Frostbite 2.0 powering the game, and DICE at the helm, I can expect nothing short of excellence.

Who's excited for Battlefield 3?

-Penguin

[choker41]

Not me COD wins hands down.  Don't have enough time to play AH, Black Ops, and Battlefield. 

[Latrobe]

The only reason I'm going to buy this is because I actually like the single player storyline. I'll probably buy it, beat the campaign, play a match or two online, and then sell it at Gamestop. What I'm looking forward too is Heroes of Stalingrad. That game will blow Call of Duty AND Battlefield both out of the water!! 

[Kazaa]

Lets hope DICE implement some more control options instead of taking them away.

No prone, check.
No run strafe, check.
No learn, check.
What should we remove next boss, maybe sprint or crouch?

BFBC2 was pure console port, I'm betting BF3 will be the same. Viva BF2!

[Jack16]

When's the beta coming out? I got an invite with my purchase of MOH for the ps3.

[68ZooM]

i got an invite to beta test BF3 on xbox, i dont even own a freakin Xbox so what does that tell ya, i'm waiting for my beta PC invite, but if its ported then its doomed to be a average game like BFBC2 which had such great potential, but we all know how EA works

[L0nGb0w]

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead.  that is all, carry on.  
This is actual in-game footage, with graphics turned down a little bit.  not cinematics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBtmXMFWajk

[redman555]

Not me COD wins hands down.  Don't have enough time to play AH, Black Ops, and Battlefield. 

COD gets soooo boring after awhile, once you hit like 8th prestige its just draining, no point to play.

-BigBOBCH

[68ZooM]

Arma2 is my next game i have heard nothing but great things about it

[moot]

Kazaa  Reportedly there'll be prone in BF3.
The real beef is gonna be how buggy it'll be.  If I had the patience to write down all the little stupid things they did wrong in BC2, and never fixed (even things lowly interns could fix)..

CoD is nowadays nothing but arcade bling bling fest.  More meaningless eye candy than anything.

[Kazaa]

Moot, did DICE ever fix the mouse acceleration on the PC version?

[Kazaa]

Also, just got a stiffy reading this bullet point article.

-Aiming for CY Q4 2011 release
-Concept for BF3 has been in the works for years, waiting on proper tech to seamlessly come together
-Frosbite 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.
-"lalalala" will be used often, so M rates 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 <OMFG YES YES YES YES YES!!!
-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?

[Tyrannis]

Not me COD wins hands down.  Don't have enough time to play AH, Black Ops, and Battlefield. 

your kidding, right?


bc2's $15 vietnam expansion is funner than blops could ever be.


im very excited. i have my beta code from MOH to try it out on ps3.

i dont believe there will be a singleplayer tho, just pure multiplayer.

[68ZooM]

PC version is lead version = i will buy   

[moot]

Dunno about mouse acceleration.  I know I wasn't comfortable with BC2's mouse, but I've since gotten used to it (no choice but).  It would really be a dead end issue if there was something really serious like mouse lag (as in E.G. Dead Space - I played that game less than 5min and never tried it again because of that).

 The list of features sounds nice, but given DICE's track record, you oughta see it before believing it.  Either because they'll fail to deliver, and/or because they tend to introduce very neat poop and very stupid poop at the same time.

E.G.
No more "gliding" animations that look off, animation realism is a focus
Who cares about cool looking animation, if you're still stuck with dysfunctional maneuverability (e.g. treadmill effect against inclines any grandma could scale).  But hey, you look good while treadmilling !  Awesome.

More unlocks than BFBC2
More unbalanced items that they never fix because (by all appearances, and I'm not even exaggerating) the devs in charge of balancing are utterly incompetent (regardless what the excuse is).

etc.

Make no mistake, DICE and EA care more about making money than making something great.  The money is the end, making something great is the means == if it sells well enough they'll never bother fixing all the individually benign flaws.  It's a real shame because all they'd need to do is fire the programmers.  They've got millions and millions in profit, so there's no excuse for such mediocre programming QA.