Battlefield 3

Joined: Sep 19, 2006 Posts: 401 Location: KERB CRAWLING

As reported by James Hyde of Digital Battle.com on October 09, 2007.

A tipster sent us PDF document which looked like an outline of features for Battlefield 3. The three page document is apparently prepared for investors which should get it by December of this year. It details basic features of BF3, and are as listed:

Release in late 2008
Powered by “Frostbite DX”
Set in year modern day (just like BF2, ed.)
Will ship with 8 maps, each supporting up to 40-players per team
Two playable factions, NATO and MEC (Middle Eastern Coalition)
Same “ticket-based” gameplay style as before
Maps are mostly urban, based in Middle East
Squads and Commanders are present, introduced are “Battalions” which consist of three to four squads.
Five playable classes; Sniper, Assault, Engineer, Medic and Support
Will feature 48 different vehicles (24 for each faction)
Will feature 34 different weapons (17 for each faction) and another 22 unlocks (for both factions), in total 56 different weapons.
Other unlocks include different types of ammunition, body armor, helmets, camouflage and accessories.
Possible public beta in “Summer 20083
Online stats tracking, awards and “real world ranks”
“Soldier” feature, looks like MMO-styled characters and avatars
Ranked servers will be available for resellers weeks before the game ships (for testing, apparently, ed.)
In-game replay and recording feature
VoIP, friends list, in-game IM-client and “extensive clan support”
Built-in auto software updater (no more patches!, ed.)
Widows Vista and OS X (no XP?!, ed.)
Announcement and teaser trailer in January 2008.
A map is mentioned by name, called “Baghdad Burning”, and appears to be a massive urban map, similar to BF2’s very popular “Strike at Karkand”. The game is powered by “Frotbite DX”, currently the Frostbite engine is used in Battlefiled: Bad Company on PS3 and Xbox 360. The “DX” could refer to DirectX (10?), a PC version of the Frostbite engine.

Please note that none of this is confirmed, we’ve emailed a few people from EA and DICE (Battlefield developers) and will update the article as soon as we know more. Also note that we cannot, for obvious (legal) reasons, release the PDF document. Stay tuned for more info.

Joined: Aug 23, 2006 Posts: 190

sounds good to me, keep us posted

Joined: Sep 23, 2007 Posts: 125 Location: ur sisters

dude if we get anything like the bad company then all is good, plus i love the idea of havin the "equipment unlocks" like in 2142 Very Happy

Joined: Aug 23, 2006 Posts: 190

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Update 3] For clarification, the document doesn’t say that XP is not supported, it only lists Vista and OS X.

Consoles Moderator Joined: Nov 05, 2006 Posts: 829

dang i wanted them to do a ww2 setting again. ITS TIME TO REVISIT THE BATTLEFIELD ROOTS!

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:00 pm

If this is ture I wonder if it does become a great success weather you would be able to transfer your BF2 stats to the new game?

Consoles Moderator Joined: Nov 05, 2006 Posts: 829

chunkymr wrote:

If this is ture I wonder if it does become a great success weather you would be able to transfer your BF2 stats to the new game?

naw u see the bf stats are kept for 2142 individually so theyll probablly follow the same line.

Joined: Sep 19, 2006 Posts: 401 Location: KERB CRAWLING

No they wont do that cos anyone with high stats in the previous games will already be so far ahead of everyone else and it wouldnt be fair towards new players!

Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Posts: 239 Location: Birmingham

well up for keeping an eye on any developments, just hope EA finnaly make an online game without so many damn bugs aand kick issues:)

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:17 pm

best news in ages. whats frostbite dx and any ideas what graphics card you would need for it???????? and whats os x ?????????? i'm not up to pace on these things

Joined: Sep 19, 2006 Posts: 401 Location: KERB CRAWLING

Itll be designed for DX10 cards (direct x 10) and OS means operating system.It took me ages to find out what they meant too mate Very Happy

Joined: Aug 10, 2006 Posts: 71

Isn't OS X for Apple Mac??

Joined: Sep 19, 2006 Posts: 401 Location: KERB CRAWLING

Oh yeah it is sorry i didnt see the X Embarassed

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:50 pm

Sounds good but it is all a bit hearsay right now by the sounds of it. They should have been looking to get this sorted for Q2 2008 release if you ask me, otherwise Crysis etc may take a firm hold of their fanbase.

I for one hope they release it and support it with some map editor so that you would not necessarily be playing the same map each time. That is the only thing that is killing BF2, people are bored with playing the same rounds every time.

BF3 FTW!

LT!

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

The ultimate mod for BF1942 was the desert one right? Well the mod team behind that are now a development company developing Fuel of War - this team of people are from BF and COD backgrounds and the game is in early internal beta phase. The team are aiming for a BF2 styled game with differences...such as bringing a closer fighting style by having large maps but only having two checkpoints live at a time - cod stylee. All the BF2 goodies are also included .

The main thing is its due out next year whilst BF3 is the year after! So this might be one to mark up on your range finder!