Battlefield 3 revealed at GDC
Blimey. It looks good, doesn't it?
The video follows a section from the single-player component of the game, with player character Sgt. Blackburn and his marines tearing through back streets around the Iraqi/Iranian border. While it's only a brief look at the game, the video shows off the new Frostbite 2 engine's fancy features, in particular the improved character movement and animations, which look fantastic.
Sadly, it doesn't all look like good news, though. We don't think we can stomach yet another FPS in which we have to wait for our squad mates to open all the doors for us, for example.
Named Fault Line: Episode One, it's clear that Dice and EA are planning to tease us with a drip-feed of Battlefield 3 morsels for some time, with more videos in the series released in the future.
Check out the video below, or if you're feeling hungry for gaming self-flagellation, dial it up to 1080p, maximise if to full-screen and then feel sad because it won't be out until the autumn.
Are you excited by the prospect of some more Battlefield action? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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let's hope MP will live up to BF2 and to some extend BFBC2. and let's hope EA's backend "Plasma" servers are able to not crash.
I wouldn't hold your breat...lol. Just look at what it is like now, add that to the myriad of fans just waiting for release day to play ;)
Is this going to be the next Crysis? :D As in, nothing will be able to run it, :D
Part of me would rather that than it be the next Crysis 2. As in a complete and utter dissapointment ;)
WTF???
I D/L the Crysis 2 MP Demo last night, all I can say is CoDsis really... everything screams bloody CoD, even the dicks in the lobby's were asking who the host was.... yet they didn't seem to pick up on the fact that to get to the lobby, you had to browse the master server list!! tw4ts.....
BF3 will silence the CoD/Crysis fan boys.... just wait
i sure hope so, there's a GTX 680 with my name on it, somewhere/sometime :D
Nothing else to say
http://www.ziip.co.uk/gamestore/17-battlefield-3-limited-edition-ea-download-.html
Eeeeewwww...........EA Download :/
Personally I think that £30 for any game which has a decent multiplayer is good value for money. However, £30 for Crysis 2 where I will probably only play the single player....not so much.
Anyone the pre-orders now is a bit keen! Never understood why guys do that!
Sure maybe a couple of days or even weeks before confirmed release but over half and year?!?!
Rather the money in my pocket!
at least buying direct from EA, you could get a refund if you have issues.
I really dont like steams "we will never refund any game ever!"
Hopefully the config files will be fully tweakable like BC2. This will at least give me M11x some hope of playing it. (BC2 is perfectly playable with a tweaked cofig file).
Will never buy from EA download again after all the trouble i had with my Crysis install.
I'd hope you have the accuracy for it to only be a single pew.
BF3 looks f'n awesome and can't wait to get my mits on it.
Please tell me you're joking, right?
Loved BF2, was disappointed with BC, BFBC2 was a vast improvement on BC. But i have faith in Dice.
Sam
It's one thing to have a game be about "war" and killing and have fantasy elements and such to it. It's also ok to have historical war games IMO but to have a game with current conflict zones where real soldiers are killing and dying is just beyond the pale. We can't even wait for the real killing to stop before we make a movie or a god-damned game out of it these days. I find the unthinking and uncaring disassociation ****ing disgusting.
I am not up on FPS really but there is nothing to set this apart you say? Like having the "Ops" at the Iran/Iraq border? That has been a constant theme? Why not just center the game around the battle of Fallujah? Or has that already been accomplished by some fun game?
We are becoming more and more desensitised, that's true.
but surely you are starting with the wrong game? go and complain to Activision and that team who made Medal of Honour.
this is an arcade multiplayer shooter to play for fun, it is not aimed at accurately simulate warfare.
this is the reason i dislike idea of singleplayer. some people will fixate on the average singleplayer experience and miss out on possibly the best multiplayer experience to bless human kind.
when people say BF2, they know it's multiplayer only and it gives great pleasure for the multiplayer Battlefield moments. when people say BF3, some may think of the medicore singleplayer, not the amazing multiplayer moments.
Why would I want to join the US military. They're hardly the best around. I've done my time in the british army thank you.
Oh, and I take it you won't be buying this?
hahaha! never played a bf game before so id expect to be a little rusty:)
I probably am "starting" with the wrong game. But then, as I said, I am not really up to speed on first person shooter war games. This is the first one I have watched any video on really. I admit that the graphics and gameplay elements look great from a technical standpoint but, for someone who has been there and remembers it well enough, the idea that we make war games out of increasingly more current and specific events and places just floors me and I think it says something about not only the creators but also those who would play the thing without really considering the real world connections.
I HATE BATTLEFIELD GAMES!
Not a chance.
Do you count WW2 games as historical? So someone suffering 60 years ago is less important then someone's suffering now? If so I don't really get that logic. Either all games about war within living memory are acceptable, or non are. I know WW2 is long over, but there are many alive today that are still in someway negatively affected by the horrors of that era.
FWIW, appreciate you and anyone else that goes to serve and so should everyone else, it's the volunteers that keep the draft at bay and I never forget this. I imagine a majority of the users on this forum would not cope to well in a real world combat situation and we can't all be controlling the UAV's, heh.
This. Not that I have personally served, but well said mate :)
Put that troll in his place ;) Have some rep sir
EDIT: And isn't the game set in 2014?....
Or that you have a little problem... ;)
You can delete or rename the EA\Dice Logo videos from C:\Program Files\EA Games\ folder or where ever it has been installed to. This will let the game launch straight into the EA login page, just don't delete or rename the menu videos. Infact, probably better off just renaming them to *.old
Slow old hard drive or PC I suspect, BF2 load times where pretty much the highest around at the time of release. The only thing that annoyed me was when switching between Vanilla/SF it had to optimise shaders each time, getting stuck at 62% for frickkin ages. Although these days it shouldn't be a problem with a faster PC/HDD/SSD
I hope you haven't tried ARMAII as that will really blow your mind because it's a full blown Mili-Sim rather than FPS.
SMIFFYDUDE - like what B1GBUD said it's probably your hardware or your net connections, rounds load for most people in under 30 seconds? Gives you time to open another beer or have a pee. Anything faster would be too much lol.
"No political parties or national elections are permitted and according to The Economist's 2010 Democracy Index, the Saudi government is the seventh most authoritarian regime from among the 167 countries rated"
Lets go kick arse!
nice SP. hopefully the MP is at least just as good and just as fast.
but really, nice SP.
..... now give me some MP news! i couldnt care f00kin less about some offline single-player scripted junk!!!!!!
can't wait.
The doctor could't giveme anything :{
SP looks great but let's see some MP :) Like those "Battlefield Moments" trailers they put out for BC2 :D
@Juppun - YES, I'D love to see some videos similar to the "Battlefield Moments" that were shown for BC2. Every game trailer should be like that, someone who is skilled at playing showing the strength and power of their class in a game, leading their team to a victory! What more could you ask for? Silly videos with no gameplay and voice-overs from characters we just don't care about? No thanks. :)
But I do have a few niggling feelings about this that could lead to fail:
-Looks like there is health regen...
-Ammo pool rather then magazines...
But it is pre-alpha so I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that they may be place holders... for now.
Also I want a Linux dedicated server option.
Looks nice but then so does cod4 and I never enjoyed that due to the small maps, unrealistic weapon and lack of bots
Should be a blast.
Link
the dx11 comment game should fallback to dx9 like bf bc2 did
From the interview Quote:
"...It's about different weapons, different gadgets and different vehicles in different ways. You can see the singleplayer as a training ground. It's more or less a planned training session to go online. You should be able to try all types of weapons, all types of gadgets and all types of vehicles before you feel ready to go online. There are people who are afraid to go online because they thing that they'll get old the millisecond they go online. So you need something where you can practice and that's also a goal for our singleplayer"
It's funny reading that, because BF :BC2, in no way prepared new players to go online. I remember getting in one of the helicopters and thinking, so now what ?....before promptly crashing it lol.
The campaign certainly will need a lot more work, if they really mean it when they say ,you can practice everything before going online. I just hope no bots doesn't mean EA has something sneaky lined up for the multiplayer ...or am I being too cynical?