Official Battlefield 3 Thread

[Maverick123w]

Originally Posted by Peoples-Agent

The lack of VOIP will hurt this game in the long run, absolutely crazy omission for a serious team shooter. And dare I say it, MW3 will have it.

Cause I want to hear every 14 year old throw around racial slurs the couple hours I get to play.

[DiscipleDOC]

Originally Posted by Maverick123w

Cause I want to hear every 14 year old throw around racial slurs the couple hours I get to play.

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[Crow_Nest]

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/batt...lefield-3.aspx

Our dedicated Back to Karkand team continues to make awesome progress on this expansion pack, which will be available in December at no extra charge to everyone who pre-ordered Battlefield 3. If you didn’t pre-order, you’ll be able to purchase it for $14.99, 1200 Microsoft Points, or the equivalent in your local currency, at the same date.

It contains four of the most loved Battlefield 2 maps boldly re-imagined in Frostbite 2: Gulf of Oman, Sharqi Peninsula, Strike at Karkand, and Wake Island. You'll also get to patrol the battlefield with your favorite Battlefield 2 vehicles and weapons, and the expansion pack also features the return of the exciting variation on Conquest called Conquest Assault (more on that later). And for those of you who love your persistence, you'll get new "Assignments" to complete for unlocks (we'll talk more about Assignments soon)!

Damn, $14.99 for a re-made 4 map map pack? And I thought COD's map packs were over priced...

[mojoman0]

they dont come with just maps, they come with new weapons, vehicles, awards, game mode, etc. which justify the price. And hell its free if you preordered like they advertised for 4 months

[mojoman0]

DICE's response about the Platform Lead Focus Debate, I don't mean to start anything here so keep it under control, no trolling.

k, I'll take this one.

I've been reading the threads on this for a few days and I think people are showing a bit of lack of understanding when it comes to developing games.

As you know, we have to "submit" to Sony and Microsoft when a game is in development. Therefore at certain times during development these get additional focus to make sure that things work according to standards.

UI, memory footprint, loading times, disc layouts - these are all different on each platform. Quite often they are made by different engineers/designers etc. Therefore when making a game work on this platform you have to focus on it. That makes it "lead platform" for a set period of time. However for tech development in general PC was the lead platform.



JoeGrant
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I think this and the "why they hate PC gamers" thread are moving towards the same track.

Let me start with a story.

One of the biggest manufacturers of off the shelf PCs sent me 12 PCs to use for an event. These are premium, high end specifications that most "tech geeks" would love to get their hands on. Each one was exactly the same hardware and software configuration. The OS was installed from a OS image to suit the hardware. The game worked first time on 8 of the 12 PCs. But they were all the same, right? Now the problem here is out in the "wild" people then say "OMG THIS GAME IS SO BROKEN!!" but if all the PCs are the same, then this should not happen, right?

This is an assumed luxury on console, despite what people think not all consoles are exactly the same. However in general they are closer. This makes it easier to develop for.

So, when we make the game and run it on 1000 PCs and get different results, what do we do? Early on there was panic of "we will need super computers to run this game!" so things have to change to cater for that. Rather than blame consoles, perhaps you should ask why we cant do the same on 2GB of RAM? To have the game looking good on all configurations you need to pick a middle line. It is what is known as deciding your lowest common denominator.

[mojoman0]

Battlelog got a hefty update today. The browser pings work much better and a lot of filters were added.

Back to Karkand Trailer...is there any other game in the world that has this good of sound?

[Maverick123w]

Finally got my mvp medal

[Muppet]

Originally Posted by mojoman0

Battlelog got a hefty update today. The browser pings work much better and a lot of filters were added.

Back to Karkand Trailer...is there any other game in the world that has this good of sound?

As far as online shooters go, Battlefield is the best and everything else is a distant second.

[Muppet]

Originally Posted by slaWter

Mh, the good old Rainbow Six games were better in my opinion. Can't beat them, those matches were really intense.
Battlefield is a great series but for competitive gaming, it was always a bit tricky because you need big teams/clans.

That's the thing, a lot of what we post is our own personal opinion.

[bacon12]

Trailer is sick.

[Peoples-Agent]

Originally Posted by Maverick123w

Cause I want to hear every 14 year old throw around racial slurs the couple hours I get to play.

Sorry, but in a supposedly team based game, how are you meant to conduct anything? You can't most of the time.

You could always mute, or stick to using the ESN Sonar rubbish for your own party if you wish.

Not talking open VOIP, just team VOIP.

The whole game is orientated around run and gun nonsense because there's no coordination, Battlefield Bad Console 3.

Look forward to Arma 3.

[Peoples-Agent]

Originally Posted by slaWter

Mh, the good old Rainbow Six games were better in my opinion. Can't beat them, those matches were really intense.
Battlefield is a great series but for competitive gaming, it was always a bit tricky because you need big teams/clans.

Tactical shooters are more my thing, whatever happened to those?

Dropping IQ levels amongst fat retarded children has taken over.