Technology Battlefield 3

[Flipmo]

Actual gameplay footage. I'm not 100% sure if you can pull fallen teammates out of gun fire when playing online, I hope its there though. It would add a good layer of strategy to MP.

It's gonna rape in multiplayer with 64 people in a server though, well on PC its pushed to 64 people, not sure about consoles.

Can't wait - been playing the BF franchise since BF 1942 so I'm quite confident this will rock.

 

[Preach]

console versions of previous Battlefield games had what, 24? i dont think the current console systems could support 64 players effortlessly without problems

i hear they are taking the blowing-up the scenery around you even further. and fighter planes are returning!

 

[Flipmo]

Yeah I think it's 24 in consoles. I know for now I've been on Bad Company 2: Vietnam and the max is at 32. So they'll be doubling it for us = pure mayhem. :smile:

 

[Preach]

if they include the statistic that tracks how many people you've run over with vehicles, im gonna fly the jet plane into my enemies every time, for greater justice and luls

 

[masta247]

That's great.

BF >>> Call of duty

No, really I think so.

 

[Preach]

idd

different types of games, but i too prefer BF

 

[Bobby Sands]

this looks 100 times better than black ops. i havent got Bad Company 2 yet. i must get that game soon.

 

[Flipmo]

Squad takes sniper fire on the roof top.

Lots of attention to detail, especially involving destructive surfaces.

 

[masta247]

It will be very hard on graphics cards, and I mean extremely hard. You just need to have Nvidia since ATi-AMD don't support PhysX which this game heavily relies on. Not to mention that you will NEED at least something like GTX480 to even consider launching it with details like those though I suppose that the gameplay video was recorded on something like GTX580 in 3xSLI.
This game is not going to look too good on consoles anymore though and PS3 will have an edge thanks to more cpu cores, including a separate one for game physics. And they will try to implement some elements of realistic phisics on console versions too so it won't look like an entirely different game. Either the xbox version will look more shitty or be more feature-light or will have low fps.

The need for more gpu cores than 1 is getting more and more obvious.

 

[Flipmo]

Oh for sure. I agree. I'm going to have to invest in a new card soon as my GeForce GTX 260 won't be cutting it. I'm happy to hear though it's not a console port. It was specifically made for PC, and will be ported to consoles afterwards. Unlike Bad Company 2, and the last Call of Duties (which is a piss off, cause they built their name on the PC gaming community)...

Anyways... from the first looks, it seems promising. I think it's released in October here in North America. Gives me time to save up.

 

[Rukas]

This will be fun for about the first month and then people will stop playing and online games will suck. Same thing happened with Bad Company 2, which I loved, for the first month until it became too repetitive with the same idiots and tiny map selection.

 

[Flipmo]

I don't know about the consoles, but people still play it on the PC, especially with the new map pack. Its all still very popular, which is pretty good for a game that came out about a year ago

 

[Flipmo]

 

[Bobby Sands]

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/fault-line-battlefield-3/711835

looks awesome

 

[Flipmo]

EA: Battlefield 3 Designed to Take Down Call of Duty

Riccitiello confirms November release.

Electronic Arts is setting the bar high for Battlefield 3.

Speaking during the Ad Age Digital Conference in New York City today, CEO John Riccitiello confirm it will launch Battlefield 3 in November of this year and said the publisher has rival Activision's Call of Duty series in its sights.

"This November, we're launching Battlefield 3. It's going up against the next Call of Duty, which is presently the #1 game in the game industry," he said. "A game that last year did $400 million dollars in revenue on day one. [Battlefield 3] is designed to take that game down."

Riccitiello later compared this holiday's battle between the two games to the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry in baseball and said gamers can expect to see massive advertising campaigns for both titles.

"There will be a couple hundred million dollars of marketing against these two products going head to head. We think we have the better product," Riccitiello added.

EA Games president Frank Gibeau echoed similar comments during GDC last month when he told us: "Everybody loves a heavyweight fight, and that's what this is going to be. We're here to compete."

http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1160082p1.html

 

[Flipmo]

The end, holy crap. lol

 

[Flipmo]

Another holy shiet.

In other news, EA is reportedly spending about $100 Mil just on promotion for the game. Makes me wonder how much was spent on the game production. They're really going guns blazing to compete with COD:MW3

Additional news, today Electronic Arts announced it will release Battlefield 3 on October 25, 2011.

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^all the footage is from the pc version right?

 

[Flipmo]

Yeah. It's a PC built game, rather than console... but consoles will get it eventually as well.

 

[masta247]

Yeah they are probably running it on a "pretty" decent PC, I suppose a triple-SLI of dual core cards comes in play, as usual. At around 7:30 of the last video you can clearly see that even that wasn't enough - hence the disappearing debris after that huge explosion. It was made intentionally to prevent a fps drop.
PhysX is responsible for those cool effects and it's extremely taxing on GPU for Nvidia cards and impossible to handle for ATI cards since they don't run Physx and CPU has to do it much less efficiently.
It will not look anywhere as good on consoles, you can forget about PhysX but I'm sure it'll be pretty
awesome too.

*watches the latest video*... *leaves with a hard-on".