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FYI. New drivers will be released the day before Battlefield 3 launches. Make sure to grab them especially if you will be purchasing Battlefield 3 as there are numerous bug fixes and better performance as well. For those who have modded the latest Quadro driver (http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-tesla-win7-winvista-64bit- 285.58-whql-driver.html) it is very close to the final driver but is missing a few Battlefield 3 fixes so if you do download and mod them, make sure to update to the newest Geforce drivers next week. The Quadro driver does contain the fix we've added to address the TDR issue.
@digd0ug said:@dontrevivemebro @BATTLEFIELDO extra squadmates not in your HUD showing up in new #BF3 footage. *hopes for 6p squads* http://pic.twitter.com/IRRUOOmZ
Anyone know if sound will be better in BF3 than it was in BC2?
20 October 2011 - 04:51 AM Posted By neged
Gamespot and other notable game sites received an email recently with some news that could delay your day one game of Battlefield 3. The email states that BF3 will be receiving a day one patch that will fix various bugs, add features, and help to make sure the game is "polished." This patch will take effect on all three platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PS3. No size estimates or what changes this patch will actually bring. The email sent to these companies from EA can be seen below:
Copies are set to arrive on Tuesday because there is a Day 1 update. DICE are perfectionists -- they will not stop polishing the game until it is in your hands. The Day 1 update incorporates real-time feedback from the beta, ensuring that the consumer experience on launch day is outstanding. It is the actual consumer experience that we wish to be reviewed. The game with the Day 1 update will be available for review on Oct. 25.
"The Day 1 update incorporates real-time feedback from the beta." Kevin O'Leary pointed out that beta fixes were still being incorporated, so this is nothing to be surprised about. The PC patch will be distributed via Origin, PS3 and Xbox 360 users will receive the Battlefield 3 patch through their respective marketplaces (free).
20 October 2011 - 04:50 AM Posted By neged
GameTrailers interviewed Kevin O'Leary of EA on the Battlefield 3 beta to final fixes. Various fixes have made it into the game that will fix a whole list of bugs that were prominent in the beta. The main issues have already been addressed and as the Battlefield 3 release date closes in, bugs and issues are still being ironed out: "a lot of the smaller fixes." Branching off that statement, O'Leary states that the beta we played earlier this month, is now a two month old build. Those who played the beta said that the Battlefield 3 build presented this weekend at the GeForce LAN 6 event was leaps and bounds ahead of the beta. You can watch the interview below.
Battlefield 3 - GameTrailers Interview With Kevin O' Leary
not sure if serious?
BC2's sounds were good, and won many awards. expect more of the same.
whats really odd is the 2 with stars which I thought was the SL icon, and only 4 show up on the screen as squadmates
while it makes me excited, neither of the guys w the star are listed as in the squad, so maybe your squad and other Squad Leaders show up as green?
the helo on the right doenst appear green on teh minimap, BUT the guy on the left is green, but he isnt listed in the squad
and the helo on the lef which has a guy in it listed on the squad on the hud isnt green, so maybe that doesnt matter
would be awesome to have 6 man squads, maybe they were testing it for 'balance' and hadnt implemented supporting code to properly display it
I did like BC2's sound, but here's the thing - in BF2 you could, EVEN with commo rose spam, sit around a corner and listen and hear footsteps coming. You can't do that in BC2, at least, not until they're already standing on your head knifing you. Why is that, and will it get better in BF3?
Has anyone played anything else since the BF3 beta? I tried to go back to Black ops and BC2, but they both just felt stupid to me after that little taste of BF3...
FYI. New drivers will be released the day before Battlefield 3 launches. Make sure to grab them especially if you will be purchasing Battlefield 3 as there are numerous bug fixes and better performance as well. For those who have modded the latest Quadro driver (http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-tesla-win7-winvista-64bit- 285.58-whql-driver.html) it is very close to the final driver but is missing a few Battlefield 3 fixes so if you do download and mod them, make sure to update to the newest Geforce drivers next week. The Quadro driver does contain the fix we've added to address the TDR issue.
All I've played since the beta is Borderlands...some mindless co-op fun (and I'm almost done with the game).
Can't bring myself to load up BC2 again...just totally lost interest in it waiting for BF3 (which I pre-load from Amazon on Friday, woot!).
As I recall, some DICE rep on twitter that there was a bug in their build that made teammates who were in vehicles show up green as if in your squad, even though they were not in your squad. So, I think it's just a bug people, sorry...
I've played a little bit of BC2, but yeah it's not the same after getting a taste of BF3.Has anyone played anything else since the BF3 beta? I tried to go back to Black ops and BC2, but they both just felt stupid to me after that little taste of BF3...
I had MORE than a few kills from listening to footsteps, tons of knife kills. 410 to be exact. it could be your sound setup?
or I'm remembering wrong
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Today, DICE pleased our pre release hunger with another amazing trailer. Unlike previous Multiplayer trailers, this one shows a lot of variety to what this game will offer. It was only through taking screen captures and pausing at millisecond glimpses that we were able to grab some new details from the trailer.
RHIB Boats, LCAC Hovercrafts, Aircraft Carrier, Amphibious APCs
Its been too long since weve been able to play Battlefield and have a all out water war with jets strafing your boats. Looks like Battlefield 3 has delivered.
Littlebird Scout Helicopter has 4 positions.
As a squad gets ready to make a 500m jump off the cliff in Damavand Peaks, you can clearly see that the littlebird has 4 positions with the Super Huey transport helicopter next to it with 5 positions.
Humvee .50 cal gunner is no longer exposed
Remember the days when you would get sniped out of the Humvee gunner position but you had no idea because the view was bouncing around too much? Well it looks like now the Humvee .50 Cal position will actually be exactly like it is in the APCs and Tanks.
Building collapses. Destruction 2.0 baby!
From the Alpha and Beta builds of Battlefield 3, many had doubts about the destruction engine in battlefield 3. In the ending half of the multiplayer trailer, you can clearly see a building collapsing from the Tank shell. We feel bad for whoever was caught in the rubble.
Night time combat for Ninjas
For those who played the beta and wondered why the game had Thermal Scopes, looks like DICE did it for a reason. Tehran Highway immerses you into a urban settings under the cover of night.
Its Back to Karkand!
The Battlefield 3 BF2 Expansion pack is starting to shape up. Strike at Karkand looks even better then the original.
For those of you looking to see more details from the trailers. Here is a batch of screenshots. We are getting pumped for this game!
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Hope you have a Hard Drive!
Two weeks ago, we announced that the Xbox 360 Version of Battlefield 3 would be released with a High Def texture package. A lot of questions were raised, but thanks to gamerzines interview with Patrick Bach, we now know that the game, when run off the 360 disk, will not look as good as if it were installed on your HDD. Whats this mean? It means that if you do not have enough space on your hard drive (arcade version or >6gigs of space) youll be able to play the game, but it will not fulfill its full visual potential as if it were installed.
Here is what Patrick told GamerZines:
Theres nothing magic about it, said Bach. Its the same thing we do for PC and PS3, so theres nothing extra.
I think the controversy about this is that we actually let you do it on 360 for once. So what it does is it gives you the same abilities, kind of, as the PC and PS3. You can actually stream information from the hard drive.
Thats new for Xbox 360, but its not a new idea for the gaming industry as a whole. No one has really tried to do it properly, so us doing it will create question marks.
GamerZine: But does installing the texture pack actually make a noticeable difference to the game? Bach certainly thinks so.
It does make a difference, yes, absolutely. The whole engine is based around streaming textures, streaming terrain and a lot of other content.
The thing with the 360 is that you need to be able to give consumers a game where you dont have to install it on a hard drive, because there are 360s without a hard drive. So we need to give you the option of installing it, rather than just demanding it. You could call it a standard-def version for the 360 if you dont have
GamerZine: According to Bach though, it isnt the Frostbite 2 engine that demands the use of streaming tech.
Its not the engine that demands it, but that it has the ability to create a more detailed experience. We cant use more memory of the actual machine itself, we need to flush that memory with new information depending on where you are in the game.
What we let you do is let you have high-res information that gets streamed in and out of memory at all times, and that gives you a more detailed, varied and vivid experience on all platforms. We dont want to take that away from 360 players.
Were really trying to push the limits of what we can do on the consoles and the PC. Our goal is to see how we can utilise as many of the systems that you actually have in your machine that some people havent utilised before. Some (developers) just do it like, if it doesnt fit into memory we just make a lesser game. We dont do that. For us, its about how we can give you the most game ever even though the hardware is over five years old.