Battlefield 3

[Spore]

Excellent. Will preorder when it comes to Steam.

[Kirby]

though I feel people are going all "End of the World" over the lack of a couple weapons,

I think part of the reason people are up in arms so badly is because of the seemingly fast growing trend of giving PC gamers the short end of the stick after bad console ports, and all the micro-transactions and 'must buys' for features that are popping up in games as of late. As an example, in DiRT 2 there was a Colin McRae R4 that was awarded as a prize in one of the X Games series, now in DiRT 3, you need to buy a DLC to get it and a host of other (Very popular and most driven) cars.

It seems to a lot of people that the PC genre is rapidly declining into lameness, and such a widely regarded and played game like BF2 having it's sequel fall victim to the same charade, really rings home hard to a lot of people who were very excited for it. It feels like you're getting buttfucked without a courtesy reach-around by developers now, who seem to value a dollar over content.

[copulatingduck]

Great news, glad that consumers were able to slap some sense into EA there. Will probably put my pre-order in pretty soon as well

[backfire]

Wow, that's probably the first time I ever saw an internet petition pop up and actually work. Sure I know Bad Company had the same deal, but I wasn't around for that one. Anyways, good for Dice and/or EA for actually listening to their customers.

Anyways, that's 2/2 issues with this game gone, so I guess I'll be picking it up then.

[zaneyard]

Excellent. Will preorder when it comes to Steam.

[Squishy3]

[quote author=Maxon link=topic=5422.msg210473#msg210473 date=1308189102]
though I feel people are going all "End of the World" over the lack of a couple weapons,

I think part of the reason people are up in arms so badly is because of the seemingly fast growing trend of giving PC gamers the short end of the stick after bad console ports, and all the micro-transactions and 'must buys' for features that are popping up in games as of late. As an example, in DiRT 2 there was a Colin McRae R4 that was awarded as a prize in one of the X Games series, now in DiRT 3, you need to buy a DLC to get it and a host of other (Very popular and most driven) cars.

It seems to a lot of people that the PC genre is rapidly declining into lameness, and such a widely regarded and played game like BF2 having it's sequel fall victim to the same charade, really rings home hard to a lot of people who were very excited for it. It feels like you're getting buttfucked without a courtesy reach-around by developers now, who seem to value a dollar over content.
[/quote]Need to handle it like the way some of the fighting games handle unlockable content. Unlock it now for $1 or $2 or keep on playing the game to unlock it.

[Versus]

[quote author=Spore link=topic=5422.msg210536#msg210536 date=1308248534]
Excellent. Will preorder when it comes to Steam.

[/quote]

[ThunderStain]

I got an invite to play the alpha over the weekend. Il post some codes if im allowed to give any away.

[Maxon]

I've been in the Alpha myself the past few days.  It's over on Monday, but it's definitely given me a good look into what we'll be seeing come the Beta.

[Moosendoo]

Oh god yes

Battlefield 3 | Caspian Border Gameplay

[Maxon]

Fucking hell that looked amazing.  Also was that a bomb disposal bot?

And for those that were asking.  COMMO ROSE IS IN THE PC VERSION.

http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/ful...?id=165282

*EDIT*
Also here is a list of all the vehicles, weapons, specilizations, and accessories that will be in the game.

http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/fms...sheet2.jpg

http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/fms...sheet3.jpg

http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/fms...sheet4.jpg

[Moosendoo]

Reviving teammates (with opt out option)

Excellent.  No more, "don't revive me, bro" moments.

Vehicles with regenerating health

Wut?

the rest

awesome

[Maxon]

With vehicles, I believe you can recover some health, but it's not as quick as people, but it goes along with how you can disable vehicles, like blowing up their tracks or destroying the turret and then from that they can recover, though I don't think it's a full recover.  I didn't get much of a chance to test that kind of stuff out in the Alpha where there was only one APC, but I love the disabling thing.  No more vehicles escaping with minimal health to just fully repair themselves and run back out.

The Opt out is pretty great also, though needed some tweaks, cause it like...respawns you anyways, then you can opt out, not too mention it respawns you with your pistol in hand.  It was handy, but felt off, so hopefully that is fixed by the Beta.

[Maxon]

A few other game specifics...

-That tower on the Caspian Border map is climbable so snipers can use it.

-Squad members can spawn on any squad member.

-The 9 multiplayer maps are in the release of the game and does not include DLC.

-Co-Op Gameplay - Battlefield 3: Co-op Demo (LOL, the ingame dialogue is hilarious.  Hopefully that is tweaked abit during more quiet game moments.)

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-Server Browsers for consoles.

-And while my knowledge of 1942 is very limited these days, apparently Caspian Border is as large as El Alamein from 1942.  I'm guessing that is a pretty good size?

[Eschatos]

-And while my knowledge of 1942 is very limited these days, apparently Caspian Border is as large as El Alamein from 1942.  I'm guessing that is a pretty good size?

Kinda small for jet fighters, pretty big for infantry battles.

[Maxon]

Ah, here we go, a better size comparison for Caspian Border.  Here is a picture with Heavy Metal, the biggest Bad Company 2 map laid over Caspian.

http://i.imgur.com/c67FO.jpg

Motion Sensors are now beacons you deplay and can be destroyed, so no more spamming motion sensors to find people.

TDM can go down to 4 on 4 and up to 24 players and is a vehicle-less game mode.

The EOD Bots are just what I was expecting.  They are for arming/disarming MCOMs, but are also for repairing vehicles.  Also you can put C4 onto them and make them kamikaze bots lol

3D spotting has been reworked.  You can only spot people when you have LOS.  If they get behind cover, the 3D mark disappears, but they stay on the minimap.  No more seeing people behind cover.

[Kirby]

Motion Sensors are now beacons you deplay and can be destroyed, so no more spamming motion sensors to find people.

Lame

TDM is a vehicle-less game mode.

Best Ever

3D spotting has been reworked.  You can only spot people when you have LOS.  If they get behind cover, the 3D mark disappears, but they stay on the minimap.  No more seeing people behind cover.

Lame, no more wallhack sniping. =/

[Versus]

"DICE's Alan Kertz has confirmed that in order to switch servers, you have to exit Battlefield 3, and use Battlelog to find another server and join."

[backfire]

"DICE's Alan Kertz has confirmed that in order to switch servers, you have to exit Battlefield 3, and use Battlelog to find another server and join."

Okay I'd actualy prefer IW.net to this... what are they even trying to do?

[Dr. Zaius]

[quote author=versus link=topic=5422.msg219561#msg219561 date=1313782639]
"DICE's Alan Kertz has confirmed that in order to switch servers, you have to exit Battlefield 3, and use Battlelog to find another server and join."

Okay I'd actualy prefer IW.net to this... what are they even trying to do?
[/quote]

Set a model for modern gaming that's shit so they can easily take control of it.