Battlefield 3 Battlelog social network detailed

Battlefield 3's Battlelog social network has been given its official unveiling, after being inadvertently revealed last week.

Alice O'Connor

July 21, 2011 6:00 AM

Battlefield 3's Battlelog has now been given its full and proper unveiling, after developer DICE inadvertently revealed, then tried in vain to un-reveal, images of the shooter's social network last week. It's a bit like Facebook, with more face-shooting and statistics, see. The Battlelog is a social network with friends lists, messaging and all that malarkey, along with a bevy of face-shooting-specific features. It'll report users' character progression, unlocks and performance, and offer "full stats tracking for every shot fired and every action performed in your Battlefield career." It's all centered around the Battlefeed, a Facebook Wall-like entry point which shows what your chums have been up to recently in Battlefield 3, along with messages and whatnot. "The feed will encourage people to play even more," producer Fredrik Loving explained. "They will see their friends ranking up, receiving awards they don’t have yet, or getting the new cool guns they have been missing. It will increase the competitive edge. Everything you do on the battlefield is shared amongst your friends." Battlefield 3 is headed to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 25. US retailer GameStop has claimed that it won't be available on Steam, but neither Valve nor Electronic Arts will say what's going on.

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Battlefield 3's Battlelog social network has been given its official unveiling, after being inadvertently revealed last week.
- Haxim
  
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  July 21, 2011 6:10 AM
  
  So it's the stat tracking they already had combined with the gun club stuff nobody ever used?
  - DM7
    
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    July 21, 2011 7:39 AM
    
    lol :D
  - dedgecko
    
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    July 21, 2011 9:15 AM
    
    pretty certain this is an attempt to clone what Steam and Bungie have been doing with their backends, as well as show the CoD folks that BF3 has this feature too.
    
    It's really not necessary at all, and seems like wasted resources.
    
    SHOW US A WELL IMPLEMENTED, FULLY FUNCTIONAL SERVER BROWSER THAT WILL WORK IN THE BETA! and subsequently keep working after the day -1 patch
- head crab
  
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  July 21, 2011 8:53 AM
  
  hopefully the friends list actually works unlike in BC2 for me
- Finchypoo
  
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  July 21, 2011 11:49 AM
  
  Will these stats actually stay up to date? The BC2 stats are always about 2-3 ranks behind where I am. Even the "weapons and gadgets" menu ingame thinks I haven't unlocked the M14 when I've been using it all day.
- alllivestaken
  
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  July 21, 2011 11:50 AM
  
  At least its free lol
- CozNL_
  
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  July 21, 2011 12:10 PM
  
  There have allways been stats sites for battlefield, practically since day 1.
  Meaning DICE has allway shared there databases to certain people who can organize a good stat site, wich can easily be found on the internet,google.
  
  What is new is that they try to approach this in a different way by connecting different communities within one platform. Although this cannot be granted to Activsion for being the first, DICE/EA cannot take this credit aswell. In my eyes that is quake, quakworld and even that might be wrong and maybe not the best comparison since gaming and internet has change significantly within a short amount of time.
  
  All in all, I think this is an important major step for gaming in this genre and 2011/2012 will probably give a new erra in the addicition a large community gives the people. The 2 largest War-Genre FPS games will almost certainly be responsible for these platforms to stay forever and improve each year.
  
  gr CozNL
- ironhorse86
  
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  July 21, 2011 4:21 PM
  
  can we please get a damned answer from Valve and EA regarding the steam debacle??? this is just so stupid and childish i am tired of the speculations
- hmm666
  
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  July 21, 2011 4:41 PM
  
  this does look pretty PRO.. i hope it works well like everyone else is saying.. cannot wait for the game obviously.. hope this feature doesnt ruin it some..
- spammehardo
  
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  July 21, 2011 8:03 PM
  
  No thanks. If you have ever spent anytime on bad company 2 forums or the game itself you would know that the game easily has one of the worst communities i have ever played with. The game itself is fun but it's almost to the point i would rather play against bots then put up with the players.
  - sarcaz
    
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    July 21, 2011 9:14 PM
    
    I honestly have never played with a game where people bitched about everything. In fact, I've gotten more compliments than any kind of abuse, could be the fact I'm on the Australian servers... who knows..
- Dr_Cube
  
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  July 21, 2011 8:21 PM
  
  Can't complain if it's free. I would never pay a monthly sub for something like this, maybe a one time fee for things like storage of videos or recorded game battles but even that's a stretch.
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  July 22, 2011 11:45 AM
  
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