Battlefield 3

[Herr Mafflard]

first gameplay footage, very short teaser

http://www.ea.com/battlefield3/videos/gameplay-debut

edit: youtube
[youtube=560,345]k2ciMfYcYzs[/youtube]

[SantaC]

EA > Actvision

[maxy]

nm

[archie4208]

PC

[Eel O'Brian]

i hope they don't overdo the mirror's edge climbing type stuff in the game

that would be annoying as hell, getting clipped in the head while stuck in an elaborate  climbing animation

[cool breeze]

i hope they don't overdo the mirror's edge climbing type stuff in the game

that would be annoying as hell, getting clipped in the head while stuck in an elaborate  climbing animation

Has that stuff been confirmed? I've been hoping for it ever since they teased it years ago.  If it is, it will probably be like it's in Brink or Crysis 2 where it is a quick animation.  It's better than jumping at a wall, half your torso clears it, and you're stuck because the guy is glued to his gun.  Or times when you have to jump and crouch to reach a higher ledge.  But yeah, getting shot while climbing ladders does suck.

And that teaser is nutty.  that's a pretty huge jump from BC2 or any other game; the scale, animations, lighting, style, and everything look great.  I like how they have tiny glimpses of new (or "new" compared with BC2) mechanics like dragging bodies, prone, and the sound of jet overhead. 

[BlueTsunami]

That death animation of the character getting shot is awesome. Gonna be awesome.

[Raban]

Yeah this game looks like cum. Gonna pick up an LE of MoH to get into the beta. There are tons of those things lying around.

[SantaC]

full gameplay trailer is march 1st

[duckman2000]

Wicked awesome

[Van Cruncheon]

cumming

[duckman2000]

DICE must have felt fucking stupid working on the multiplayer for MOH.

[Eel O'Brian]

you could certainly tell they were rushed through it and ended up not giving a shit

[ManaByte]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Phoenix Dark]

holy shit

[fistfulofmetal]

looks hot. now show us some MP plz

[maxy]

it looks like someone splashed white color over everything,hate shit like that



This screenshot was in gaf OP,got deleted...i wonder why
This looks totally meh,especially for a PC centric game...buildings on the right look horrible
Close ups don't bother me,they will look great,but this...

/next gen this is not

[Eel O'Brian]

what a fucking year

duke nukem
infamous 2 (hoping for an uncharted to uncharted 2 leap in game quality here)
uncharted 3 (hoping for an uncharted to uncharted 2 leap in game quality here)
arkham city
battlefield 3
witcher 2
serious sam 3
red orchestra
resistance 3 (i liked the second game, suck it)
homefront
skyrim
la noire
red faction
motorstorm apocalypse
crysis 2
socom 4

fuck, that's just a short list of mainstream stuff i'm interested in that's been announced SO FAR, probably no way i'll even get around to everything here

[SantaC]

it looks like someone splashed white color over everything,hate shit like that

(Image removed from quote.)

This screenshot was in gaf OP,got deleted...i wonder why
This looks totally meh,especially for a PC centric game...buildings on the right look horrible
Close ups don't bother me,they will look great,but this...

/next gen this is not

dude you're nuts...go watch the actual trailer. No console game has graphics like that.

[BlueTsunami]

Day / Night cycles in BF3?

http://n4g.com/news/clickout/713436

Unffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

[maxy]

off screen footage,bad compression,etc

http://multiplayer.it/video/battlefield-3_a-per-ps3/battlefield-3-gameplay-gdc-2011.hi/


have to say,it looks really good,tons of cash went into BF3

consoles will run that at 20 fps(some horribly crippled version of course)

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Herr Mafflard]

That's some quality vent crawling action right there.

[duckman2000]

Looks wicked awesome. Shooter-EA is rocking ass.

[Herr Mafflard]

leaked gdc demonstration gameplay
[youtube=560,345]LxZriQ4weTM[/youtube]

[maxy]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

hmm

[maxy]

Battlefield 3 will be launched this November,$100 million marketing budget

http://adage.com/article/special-report-digital-conference/ea-ceo-riccitiello-gaming-mass-media/226832/

Nice to see that gaming industry is still distinguished mentally-challenged.

November

COD
Battlefield 3
Skyrim
Uncharted 3
Some Halo game is rumored also(November 15th=Halo CE 10th Anniversary)

Probably missing some games too


Video is interesting btw,tons of interesting statistics.

Apple generation is mentioned

[Stoney Mason]

It will do fine. It won't do as well as the next COD game but despite whatever EA is saying I believe they know that. The aim isn't to outsell COD. It's to grow EA's marketshare in the category which they will do.

[maxy]

Full trailer

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

basically nothing that hasn't been shown before

[Stoney Mason]

[youtube=560,345]#at=32[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]#at=35[/youtube]

[Stoney Mason]

That may have been the most random multiplayer clip ever.

I wish they would just show straight up gameplay from the Mp side. I wonder if they are showing that at E3. Also would be nice to see the console version in addition to the crazy high performance PC stuff which my current machine couldn't display anyway although it does look very good.

[SantaC]

That may have been the most random multiplayer clip ever.

I wish they would just show straight up gameplay from the Mp side. I wonder if they are showing that at E3. Also would be nice to see the console version in addition to the crazy high performance PC stuff which my current machine couldn't display anyway although it does look very good.

apparently there will be 4 hours of new footage 4:30 EST today

[Great Rumbler]

Will be waiting for superior WiiU version.

[Brehvolution]

Will be waiting for superior WiiU version.

[Herr Mafflard]

stream is up

http://www.ustream.tv/battlefield3

[Herr Mafflard]

they're starting with the boring tank gameplay we've already seen

get to the multi already

[Pringo]

they're starting with the boring tank gameplay we've already seen

get to the multi already

Boring or not, this video is absolutely sick looking.



Best looking lighting and dust I think I've ever seen in a game.

[cool breeze]

only decent videos:
[youtube=560,345]lwKLCn9bgOA[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]sO6qkiTUES8[/youtube]



and info copy/pasted from gaf (copied from somewhere else)

Squad Leader confirmed, 4 Person Squad
Ability to spot a Enemy Squad Leader
Equippable Grenades
Falling debris from destruction 3.0 can kill players!
Equippable knife as well as quick knife (like BC2)
Support class able to mount bipods and give ammo
Rifleman class has medpack + defibrillator
Ability to change fire modes in multiplayer (semi/burst/auto)
Regenerative health in MP, but suppression effect stops regen (only regen when you aren’t under fire)
Suppression effects from LMG, blur vision
Flashlights can blind the enemy
First Person Animations in Multiplayer
Faction Specific Weapons + Unlocks
Vehicles can be immobilized before being destroyed
Able to opt out of Revives in Multiplayer
3D spotting

Solution to keeping regenerative health and retaining the medic class' usefulness sounds good.

[Stoney Mason]

What is "3D" spotting?

[BlueTsunami]

You can tell the framerate is rock steady in those multiplayer videos. Looks so damn smooth.

[SantaC]

took some screen caps












insane lightning.

[Pringo]

[duckman2000]

Boring

[maxy]

PS3 footage debuted on Jimmy Fallon

It looked weeooooooooooo

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Eel O'Brian]

bad part to demo, probably looked like every other modern war game to a normal viewer

what makes battlefield fun is loading up vehicles with explosives and jihading others, lighting shit up with helicopters, parachuting in the middle of enemy territory and causing chaos, getting a lucky shot with a tank and taking out a plane - they talked about "large scale" but then they showed this little boxed-in section

[Mupepe]

bad part to demo, probably looked like every other modern war game to a normal viewer

what makes battlefield fun is loading up vehicles with explosives and jihading others, lighting shit up with helicopters, parachuting in the middle of enemy territory and causing chaos, getting a lucky shot with a tank and taking out a plane - they talked about "large scale" but then they showed this little boxed-in section

Is any of that going to be in here?  Or is it now just a CoD clone?  Because I completely agree with what you said.  That's what made the previous Battlefield games fun, but this looks like a "me too" game with all that gone.

[Eel O'Brian]

i think the sp is probably gonna end up being somewhat of a cod clone, but the multi is still the same old battlefield style  (although there is a cod-styled deathmatch mode)

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

bad part to demo, probably looked like every other modern war game to a normal viewer

what makes battlefield fun is loading up vehicles with explosives and jihading others, lighting shit up with helicopters, parachuting in the middle of enemy territory and causing chaos, getting a lucky shot with a tank and taking out a plane - they talked about "large scale" but then they showed this little boxed-in section

I think that was the point. CoD dudebros don't like sandbox gameplay.

If that demo was "sandbox" then we've got a new definition of sandbox.  The exact same shit happened there that happened the last time they showed that section.  Looks like the single player game in Battlefield 3 is going to be scripted all to hell just like your standard CoD game.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

gotcha.

Next time I guess I should probably read the whole thing instead of just bits and pieces. 

[SantaC]

bad part to demo, probably looked like every other modern war game to a normal viewer

what makes battlefield fun is loading up vehicles with explosives and jihading others, lighting shit up with helicopters, parachuting in the middle of enemy territory and causing chaos, getting a lucky shot with a tank and taking out a plane - they talked about "large scale" but then they showed this little boxed-in section

Is any of that going to be in here?  Or is it now just a CoD clone?  Because I completely agree with what you said.  That's what made the previous Battlefield games fun, but this looks like a "me too" game with all that gone.

eh what? MP has confirmed jets, large maps etc the usual battlefield elements. DICE is showing SP right now so they can hype MP near release instead. Makes sense to me.

[SantaC]

bad part to demo, probably looked like every other modern war game to a normal viewer

what makes battlefield fun is loading up vehicles with explosives and jihading others, lighting shit up with helicopters, parachuting in the middle of enemy territory and causing chaos, getting a lucky shot with a tank and taking out a plane - they talked about "large scale" but then they showed this little boxed-in section

I think that was the point. CoD dudebros don't like sandbox gameplay.

CoD dudebros also don't care about a short little firefight in a court yard. Compare what was shown from BF3 to what Activision showed of Modern Warfare 3 in the same venue, it's a laughable attempt by EA to win over hardcore CoD fans who would have been watching.

Again, compared to the CoD footage, this looks like a simulation and not the balls to the wall action CoD had on display.

oh please it was 4 minutes of gameplay. You say like it will be in a courtyard the whole game.

[Eel O'Brian]

it was 4 minutes of gameplay on a national television program

of course you and i know it isn't gonna be like that, but it doesn't exactly sway over the reg'lar folks who only play cod every year

i wasn't complaining, just saying it was a bad choice of a section to demo on tv

[SantaC]

bad part to demo, probably looked like every other modern war game to a normal viewer

what makes battlefield fun is loading up vehicles with explosives and jihading others, lighting shit up with helicopters, parachuting in the middle of enemy territory and causing chaos, getting a lucky shot with a tank and taking out a plane - they talked about "large scale" but then they showed this little boxed-in section

I think that was the point. CoD dudebros don't like sandbox gameplay.

CoD dudebros also don't care about a short little firefight in a court yard. Compare what was shown from BF3 to what Activision showed of Modern Warfare 3 in the same venue, it's a laughable attempt by EA to win over hardcore CoD fans who would have been watching.

Again, compared to the CoD footage, this looks like a simulation and not the balls to the wall action CoD had on display.

oh please it was 4 minutes of gameplay. You say like it will be in a courtyard the whole game.

Here's the four minute clip of Modern Warfare 3 shown on Jimmy Fallon:

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Compare this clip of a wide-scale New York invasion and then Spec Ops mode with Simon Pegg with Battlefield 3's courtyard shootout. Public perception is everything and EA dropped the ball significantly. They could have at shown the building falling down later in the same mission.

the thing is that frostbite 2 with its dx11 tech shits on MW3 though, people were impressed by the graphics on the show. That's more worth than what specific level they show off.

[naff]

Probably should've shown one of the more scripted extreme situations shown in earlier videos like when they're fighting on the street and an earthquake happens destroying a heli as a building falls on it. Still, compared to the MW3 segment where Fallon played spec ops with Pegg and pretty much just moved around in circles while they were trying to get him to 'pick up the shotgun!' it wasn't that bad.

[SantaC]

the thing is that frostbite 2 with its dx11 tech shits on MW3 though, people were impressed by the graphics on the show.

You mean the tech they didn't get to see because they were playing the PS3 version?

lol the same tech is in the PS3 version...

quoting DICE:

Frostbite 2.0

    Focus on workflows

    Frostbite 2 uses deferred rendering

    Target platforms PS3, Xbox 360 and DirectX10/11

[SantaC]

Battlefield 3 on consoles looks about the same as Bad Company 2 on consoles. Yeah, it has better animation, probably more particle effects and more subtle damage on objects but overall they look pretty close.

lol wtf, no it doesn't. And please dont jump to conclusions when there has been extremely sparse footage of the console versions yet. And once again, Frostbite 2.0 was not available for BC2. You are the real dumbass here. CoD fanboy.

[Stoney Mason]

This is part of the reason why I avoid these threads until the games release. The inevitable COD versus Battlefield arguments which are fairly pointless. Not dissing anybody here but just saying.


I get why they picked that part of the clip to show on Jimmy Fallon. You can't demonstrate sandbox multiplayer gameplay in a 4 minute clip on Jimmy Fallon. It's not the venue for it.


It looks good for a console game that is going to be 30 fps. I still would like to see actual MP gameplay on the console version but I wasn't expecting it here.

[cool breeze]

I just want to see classic battlefield multiplayer

E3 was supposed to be the 'multiplayer revealed!' but it was just infantry stuff.  I want a full scale battle with jets, helicopters, boats, tanks, cars, infantry, etc.  I want to see someone use a plain just to get from point A to B, then abandon it in midair to parachute down and die in two seconds, wasting valuable military resources and funds.

[SantaC]

I just want to see classic battlefield multiplayer

E3 was supposed to be the 'multiplayer revealed!' but it was just infantry stuff.  I want a full scale battle with jets, helicopters, boats, tanks, cars, infantry, etc.  I want to see someone use a plain just to get from point A to B, then abandon it in midair to parachute down and die in two seconds, wasting valuable military resources and funds.

You were able to play multiplayer at DICE booth, and yes it didn't had any vehicles in it. But the end product will have it.

[maxy]

Target platforms PS3, Xbox 360 and DirectX10/11

That means very little because DX is a software api,any cpu can run it,the only question is how fast.Graphics cards have transistor configurations tailored to DX api and that makes them extremely fast and effective.
 
PS3 version is not 720p,btw...1280x704
Bunch of other stuff is gone,like high quality motion blur...

This footage looks fine but I bet that nobody would notice if that footage was labeled as MW3 footage.You can't beat COD like that.

EA needs to show exactly what Linkzg said and honestly I'm quite surprised that they didn't do that at E3.

[SantaC]

Target platforms PS3, Xbox 360 and DirectX10/11

That means very little because DX is a software api,any cpu can run it,the only question is how fast.Graphics cards have transistor configurations tailored to DX api and that makes them extremely fast and effective.
 
PS3 version is not 720p,btw...1280x704
Bunch of other stuff is gone,like high quality motion blur...

This footage looks fine but I bet that nobody would notice if that footage was labeled as MW3 footage.You can't beat COD like that.

EA needs to show exactly what Linkzg said and honestly I'm quite surprised that they didn't do that at E3.

Dice has said this is not final footage, it is pre alpha, pre beta, pre ship. Everything will most likely improve