Battlefield 3 is coming to PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 this fall.
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replyComment on GDC: Battlefield 3 single-player Preview, by Xav de Matos.
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We detail our thoughts on a lengthy single-player demo of the upcoming shooter Battlefield 3, played live in front of us by a member of the developer DICE at an event during GDC 2011...
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stonedonkey, I need you! I can't click this link (although it displays perfectly now)!
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So quiet!
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To be fair we already have two or three HUGE BF3 threads. So most of the commenting is in there.
When you have 3 articles on the same subject matter in the same day --- you're going to lose one or two of them to the second page, in which case they're only going to be revived by FPP's-
See what you can do to fix the formatting of comments on front page topics.
In the chatty --- shit is spread across the width of the page. On the front page articles -- you're squished to the middle third of the screen --- comments included. Really annoying to read through especially when responding to comments after doing "Parent Author Searches" --- as those take you to the front page article, rather than the chatty. It's inconsistent and therefore broken.-
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This isn't the place.
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i hate previews articles, i want videos
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Everything I don't mind seeing.. but.. Battlefield series.. people thing MP. Wheres the damn mp previews :(!
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The weapons nerd in me said the same thing.
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Thanks. I made the change.
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"My producer is telling me this isn't an RPG it's an AT-4. It may in fact be a Karl Gustav. But look at the zoom down the scope... you can see details on the sniper."
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Sadly, they have not shown off any multiplayer and aren't talking about it.
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I suspect it has more to do with holding it back until E3 so that they have something new and exciting to showoff in order to keep the hype machine going. Developers/Publishers generally don't blow their newsworthy content load this early in the year.
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Truly, yours is a dizzying logic.
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doh! FAIL!
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This is just silly Haxim.
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Haxim, I thought better of you
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http://www.shacknews.com/article/67517/morning-discussion?id=25273466 if I'm still being too obscure
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clearly you were :/
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The one thing most of us care about. I hope the next installment on the 16th shows some multiplayer.
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What? No, the video on the 16th will just be a continuation of the existing footage. Everything's been teased of the exact same locale. First the GI images (all from the video). Then the pathetic teaser --- chopped from this video. The next video will contain the stuff off the roof, and hopefully the destruction of the 7 Story Hotel structure that's seen in the background / showcased in one of the GI images. The earliest you can expect to see any MP footage would likely be May/June. E3 is my guess. Perhaps an exclusive MP demo beta in July. Followed by it's release in September.
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Probably down to the ability to script the crap out of it so it looks great.
Crytek tried to show off MP of Crysis 2 at E3, but they actually showed a pre-recorded (and 'acted') session that had been leaked and even had people stand with xbox pads in front of PC's to make people think it was live.-
yah i remember that video, all the actors playing looked bored as fuck. lol
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It's a bug. We're aware of it.
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Why is the M4 front sight so clear when looking through the ACOG? It should be blurred out:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/nickmartinphoto/DSC00292.jpg
http://media.photobucket.com/image/acog%20front%20sight/moose00015/P1020667.jpg
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Another salient point, but you could argue that iron sights are "zoomed" and that rather they are applying that same effect with a fancy reticle, when they should really be zooming the outside area a little like with iron sights, and the center much more.
Also, if you're using a two-eyes-open aiming device like an ACOG or Aimpoint, why does the scope body still obscure the scenery? Your non-aiming eye should be able to see the scenery, but I guess that would be difficult to simulate via transparency, since it's more of an eye-dominance effect. This is one of the primary advantages of a red-dot over standard iron sights, along with rapid target acquisition.-
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Too bad it doesn't move, distort, or turn black during the reload animation.
In a situation like that, I'd also appreciate an ability to focus more or less on the scope, to get more detail in the magnified image at the cost of environmental awareness. I feel like the scope in that video has a really narrow FOV, but it might actually be accurate for a WWII sniper scope.
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it is all about the multiplayer anyways..
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Seems pretty clear to me that EA wants the Battlefield series to compete directly with the Call of Duty franchise. And the fact that the cancelled the other content for BF2BC and others is a good indicator of that. EA probably saw the whole CoD drama that caused the studio heads to ragequit, and saw an opportunity.
BF has always had a strong multiplayer... now they just need to get their single player up to snuff to be a real competitor to CoD. I think current BF fans don't care about single player... but I'm guessing EA and Dice are looking to get lots of new fans now that CoD is slightly defunct... and a solid, well polished single player is going to be the way to get those new customers.
It's interesting that the CoD franchise was so single-player heavy, and then became a multiplayer power house... and now BF is trying to do the opposite, with its strong multiplayer, it's trying to move into a strong single player. But I'm a bit worried... because I can't think of a single example of where a company who has a strong multiplayer background, has made a strong single player. The Bad Company line has given them some experience... but can they pull off a AAA quality one? -
Hey here's a thought. Can we out our ages in our profiles, that way when we try and view something age gated, it knows how old we are so we don't all have to say that we were born on 01-01-1901. Steam should do this too. :(
I mean really, is there anything less effective than an age gate? I mean besides abstinence only education.-
It's not really out call.
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Our call. Not OUR call.
Apologizes.
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Who's call is it? it's amazingly annoying when combined with the inability to size the player to 720. I watch a lot of the vids at work and I'd rather not have to chose between thumbnail sized and fullscreen so I broadcast it to anyone that walks in the room. I need a step in between, honestly I just go hunting for the youtube version now if it exists.
I know that sounds like I have some latent OCD but those small details really begin to annoy you after a while. Trust me, I'd much rather stay and watch the vid here.-
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those are in violation of ESRB guidelines then
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There was a good discussion on age gating some time ago: http://www.shacknews.com/article/65513/morning-discussion?id=23958840#itemanchor_23958840
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So, DICE confirmed via twitter that dragging your buddies to safety will not be in multiplayer. To any DICE members that are reading these comments, don't start showing off all sorts of cool features from single player only to turn around and say they aren't available in multiplayer. Dragging a comrade to safety would have been nice to have in mutliplayer, and a no brainer from a next gen battlefield game.
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Ahh that sucks, would have been a great feature for medics. Could have helped the revived and instantly shot scenarios so commonly found in battlefield games.
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Nah, if your going to get gunned down as soon as your revived the medic trying to drag you away would just get gunned down instead. Either way you both are still dead.
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Thats stupid. Why even show it off then.
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hahahahaha I knew it. The bullshit has started early.
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It doesn't make sense to be honest. By the time it's safe to claim a body in MP like that, you can respawn. So the only way it would be used is completely unsafe and get you killed again, no thanks.
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Who cares? What would be the point of such a feature anyway? You would run out and get instantly gunned down while slowly dragging your buddy. Even if it was in multi-player, no one would ever use it for this very reason. If it's not safe for a medic to run out and revive, then it's certainly not safe for somebody to slowly drag.
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Two things:
1.) healing someone is a channeling function that takes two or three seconds --- requires medic to only heal when not being directly engaged.
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2.) A person can only be revived instantly if they haven't been killed by:
-a massive explosive---c4, Tank Round, Artillery Strike
-a head shot
-a knife
Option 1 would require the dragging. Option 2 would not.
Additionally, in order to be revived you have to call for it --- IE Enemy Territory --- wait to be revived, or re-enter the respawn queue immediately.-
? I still cannot envision any gameplay scenario where the dragging would be useful. The only way it would be useful is if they totally "video-game'd" it up and made you invulnerable while dragging. But that would be stupid.
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Another disconnect between marketing and the developers. Anyone else getting weird feelings about the rest of the bullet points in the BF3 List of Features that they opened up with 2 weeks ago?
I hope they don't pull an Activision / IW stunt on the PC community with a MP blackout on how servers are going to be run.
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Is it realistic or fair for the person being medic for someone to revive you only to get shot again and then again and again.
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Did the AKs (if there were any AK pattern rifles) have wood furniture? I love AKs and I especially love when they have wood furniture. The worst us when they have a lame ass crapco M4 tacticlol stock adapter on them (see MW2).
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Also, how did reload speeds seem? BC2 sometimes had some really slow reloads...I mean the guy is swapping out mags pretty leisurely with the Krinkov and he ALWAYS pulls the bolt back and releases even when it would be simpler not to because a round is already chambered. I think that slightly faster reload times with some of the weapons would be a nice improvement (and at all unrealistic, I mean I can reload my SGL-21 faster than the guy in BC2 reloads his Krinkov...and I have no training and lack any sort of coordination...so it's not beyond belief to think that you could reload the rifles a little faster).
Holy shit that was an odd tangent to go on about. Oh well, off to bed with me.-
in the gameplay footage you can see him reloading. And how come you own an SGL-21 ? can i have one too, mister ?
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Would like to see gameplay captured from an Xbox 360. I am sure this was captured from a top-end PC with like 16 GB of memory and 4 top-end graphics cards running in SLI mode. Hopefully if will still look great and run smooth on normal hardware and consoles.
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