Post by Eorl @ 01:18am 17/08/11 | 52 Comments
Also note, consoles won't be getting jets, and are limited to 24 player multiplayer maps.
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Posted 01:27am 17/8/11
Oh really, sux for them.
Looks ok, still feels small, was funny to hear them talk themselves up about scale among other things on the live feed.
Posted 01:37am 17/8/11
Posted 01:39am 17/8/11
That's cuz they have f*** all room to move.
Posted 02:31am 17/8/11
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Posted 08:26am 17/8/11
Looking forward to joining all the other 32 players on my team waiting for a jet to spawn... :D
Posted 08:38am 17/8/11
It will prolly be like the other BF games where some lucky guy grabs a plane only to be shot down by teammates because they didn't get it.
Gonna be an awesome game either way though.
Posted 09:02am 17/8/11
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Posted 09:29am 17/8/11
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Posted 09:39am 17/8/11
Seems to be so, my bad! Guess they got that wrong on their live feed haha.
Posted 09:45am 17/8/11
Posted 10:03am 17/8/11
god i really want the game but i hate the no steam and the origin requirement bulls***.
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Posted 10:15am 17/8/11
Posted 10:32am 17/8/11
:|
want this game so hard. f***ed that we still have to wait ><
Posted 10:37am 17/8/11
Oh, and about the jet speeds, I remember earlier on a developer stating they wanted to keep the speeds somewhat un-realistic due to the nature of the maps. You can't have a jet doing mach 5 and raining fire down upon the ground. It's not feasible for balance.
Posted 11:03am 17/8/11
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Posted 11:46am 17/8/11
BF map size is an unholy balance between extremely fast aircraft and extremely slow infantry, but on the whole they've done a pretty decent job in the past. The maps can't be too small or there's no point in using the jets, they can't grow too big or the dudes that end up on foot or in a lumbering tank feel like it's an eternity before they can get back in the action.
Posted 12:09pm 17/8/11
Wonder if they are going to bring the whole "Commander" thing in for BF3 like BF2 had. Anyone heard anything about it?
Posted 12:14pm 17/8/11
Posted 12:34pm 17/8/11
Posted 01:45pm 17/8/11
Posted 02:00pm 17/8/11
Well, looks like I'll have a freshly upgraded PC in time to run this! (GTX580 anyone? :D )
Posted 02:08pm 17/8/11
Posted 02:13pm 17/8/11
not surprising really
Posted 02:27pm 17/8/11
It's a piss take at the RC cars in COD: Blops
Posted 03:14pm 17/8/11
Posted 03:22pm 17/8/11
Posted 03:27pm 17/8/11
Posted 03:36pm 17/8/11
Well played Battlefield, well played. (except for Origin, that sucks. Someone will need to make a Origin/Steam client hybrid so we only have to 1 run content platform application, get to it).
Posted 03:37pm 17/8/11
Thanks guys :)
Posted 06:05pm 17/8/11
Posted 07:29pm 17/8/11
I don't really care whose online distribution system needs activation, if I want the game I buy it. With the exception of 2142 and BF1943 I have all the BF games including expansions.
Posted 11:33pm 17/8/11
BATTLEFIELD 3 BETA: 48HR EARLY ACCESS* (09.2011)
Can anyone clarify what that means? does it mean you get beta access for 48 hours before release? if so that's a lame incentive lol.
Posted 11:42pm 17/8/11
Posted 11:47pm 17/8/11
That's cause it was totally s*** and buggy when it came out. Plus many/most of the end users were on dial-up at the time, which didn't play nicely with Steam as it needed lots of bandwidth for authentication, updates, news feeds, etc.
It's improved greatly over the years to the point where it doesn't really get in the way. Like I said in another thread, Origin is where Steam was about 6 years ago in terms of features and maturity.
Posted 12:07am 18/8/11
Yeah this is my problem with multiple platforms, that and needing to know that the service will stick around for a very long time (I still bust out old DOS games from time to time), which I trust Valve with over most anybody else.
I've tried to come up with a few possibilities for a file format which could be imported into any library software, while containing the credentials and download source for a digital product (which, in the case of games, is a bit harder due to needing to also install/patch in unique ways), dunno if the distributors would want to go that way though (no advertising, probably less sale's tax, etc). Or perhaps just a product ID and distributor ID, with locally saved credentials for each distributor within the library platform (perhaps a download method can also be negotiated, via a standardised protocol for getting OS dependent instructions/whatever). I just really want my library combined damnit. :/
Posted 07:47am 18/8/11
It means you get access to the beta that's coming in September 48 hours before it's open to the public.
Posted 07:59am 18/8/11
This doesn't really bother me, cos I rarely ever actually start a game through Steam anyway, I have shortcuts to all my games on my desktop. As long as you can make a shortcut to an Origin game that starts up Origin then the game, I can't see it changing how I play my games at all.
Posted 09:11am 18/8/11
Posted 09:49am 18/8/11
Oh it's a hard life isn't it.
Posted 05:18pm 18/8/11