Battlefield 3 Announced!

This is my surprised face.

Good news, since they just recently announced BF 1943 won't be coming to the pc. http://ironhammers.org/?p=3510

Other tidbits; battlefield 3 won't support windows XP, and will use "higher than DX9" (built for dx11, may be playable on dx10).

Some little detail on what will be in the game: http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/02/04/battlefield-3-is-coming-preorder-now.aspx

• 64 players
• Single and Co-op Campaigns
• Jets
• Prone

Now the big question for these forums - WILL BF3 BE ON IMPULSE?

Impulse? Its almost an automatic no given the history right?

Anyway I love the way BF3 is "Hai guis! Member BF2ZzZZ? Well BF3 will HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS BF2 OMGOMGOMGOMG!!11!".

I would be excited about this.. if they had decided to  support win xp in the frostbite 2 engine. I'll be passing on this until I decide the benefits of upgrading my OS are worth the price. (probably never with the going price of non OEM windows)

I'll never buy a Battlefield game again after what they did to me on 2142. I bought the original game, then I bought Northern Strike, and Northern Strike ended up an a different EA account and I couldn't play it even though I'd linked my three accounts together. So I basically just wasted money.

I submitted multiple tickets, and each ticket never got a response except an email going "If you don't respond to this email within XXX amount of time we will assume your issue has been resolved." So they basically stole money from me.

I loved Battlefield 2142, but I just won't do it again. I hate EA in general now. </3

Should have turned them into the BBB.  I had a problem kinda like this with Bethesda and one oftheir DLC, and they wouldn't respond to the email, so I got pissed and turned them into the BBB.  Couple weeks later I got a phone call from Bethesda and they whined about me turning them in and then fixed the problem.  John Wayne, Cheap Toilet paper, and Lord Xia have something in common, "We don't take no shit off of nobody!"

OH YA! (remembers good old days, 1942, BF2 oh ya!)

I wonder if they will bring back the general position from BF2 or something like it...

Good point.  Forgot EA was one of the few that put up their new games for sale on Impulse.  Got things a little confused with no BC2 Vietnam along with a lot of other titles from most of the major studios.

I'm excited, personally. BF2 was a big moment for me getting into FPS, and I enjoy that they're going back to a different kind of game play philosophy. BC2 was and is fun, but the depth ran out of that game a long time ago for me. It's all about blowing people and things up now, and very little else.

I was smart enough not to buy the DLC/Stand-alone packs for BF2. That shit was a train wreck, and continues to be to this day. So I avoided getting screwed over in that whole mess.

There are a lot of mixed reactions to BF3. Some people are like "we should be excited about going back to older design features" and others are like "thank god you're going back to older design features."

Is it that they are older design features? For me I want to know what NEW things they added to the game (graphics is not enough). Haveing what BF2 had is minimum requirments.

Same situation with Planetside Next (BF2 and PS were the big competitors for the 'wargame' genre back then). If they just remake Planetside/BF2 its just the 'same' game and we have already been there and done that.

Well off the top of my head:

-Machine Gun mantling. Which isn't "new" but it's new to Battlefield.

-Dragging opponents and teammates away who are wounded. Which implies the medic system is changing.

-Destructible environments better than BC2 in a heavy urban setting.

That's all they've revealed so for that's "new." But really I just wanted a refined BC2, where it wasn't so run n' gun, get your 20 minutes of fun and leave. So far, that seems to be playing out.

Did almost the same to me. I moved and changed ISPs and it was a while b4 I went to reinstall but I could not remember my old EA account password which would be emailed to my old ISP which no longer existed and even with the box, cd key, account name and receipt they basically said to bad, so sad, by it again.

Also refuse to ever buy a game again that requires a connection for single player.

Sorry EA. Never get another dime from me. You guys can go F&%# yourself.

I'll wait for the expansion standalone they almost certainly have planned. 

More info:

http://www.gamersmint.com/battlefield-3-gameinformer-scans-are-here-info-blowout/

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Am I the only one who have never been into battlefield?

This feels like one of the big gameseries that "everybody" has to play but I've never been interested in it.

Your loss, it's just the most impressive, compelling and deep multiplayer FPS out there.

I don't know if I'd go *that* far.

But they're great games. And compared to the CoD franchise, DICE tends to care more about design than Infinity Ward or Treyarch, in that they have had more features with more depth, and game play has usually been more interesting than 16 dicks on opposing teams spawning at random and shooting each other. Sort of. Bad Company 2 was a console-based compromise intended to fund DICE until the release of BF3. It was a step away from their traditional mechanics and a step toward CoD.....but with BF3, they've said it is a completely separate franchise from BC, and has it's own set of design rules and requirements.

The lighting and animations look amazing.

Most everything else, the story, the action, the shooting....looks pretty standard.

Had to laugh when the bloodsplatter on your screen came from a homie, and getting shot produced no BLOOD SCREEN, SO REAL effect.

Looks like prone is back (since BFBC2).... Now I'm sure to die much more often

Wow I liked the looks of it.

Isn't it bloody scream?

Hahahah that game was so pointless...and entertaining.

I'm playing Bad Company 2 at the moment - it's great. And i think i will play Battlefield 3 as well.