Battlefield 3

[sedition]

New Battlefield 3 Info Surfaces
Published : 9th Sep, 2011

Senior Gameplay Designer on Battlefield 3, Alan Kertz, revealed a bunch of details regarding Battlefield 3 on twitter while answering questions from fans. He talked about the revival system, hitregs, squad beacons, shotgun sniper rifles and much more. Check out the full reveal below.

Squad Specs don't stack and players can use as the same numbers of squad specs as the squad members.
Frag won't be doing a lot of damage to the environment since they aren't really high explosives.
No Hitreg and there will be a totally new system for BF3.
Multithreading will be supported.
Supersonic bullets make a crackling noise when close enough.
No weapons for the pilot of a transport chopper, but there will be rewards.
There will be lots of never before seen vehicles, some returning classics, and a TON of customization items.
6x is the highest zoom level for most guns apart from recon rifle.
Flag number varies between Conquest Small and Conquest Large. But is consistent across platforms.
Squad beacon goes away on respawn.
When the beacon is outdoors in the open you control the parachute.
A host of fast and light Jeeps with a heavy MG will be at your disposal.
No shotgun sniper rifles.
Up close in hardcore bolt action sniper rifles can 1 Hit Kill at close range. In normal, no 1 Hit Kill with bolts in the body.
The ranks are based on Authentic Marine ranks, with comendations to fill out the full 50.
Marksman Bonus for sniper headshots beyond 50m are back!
Wide variety of shotgun types, but only 1 pump action - Semi, Auto, Tube, Magazine, different spreads.
Flight models will be identical on PC and consoles.
Players can shoot stingers from the passenger seats.
The mortar has both HE and Smoke rounds.
When you get defibbed you are "back to life." You need to accept to use anything other than your pistol in prone.
You can shoot someone trying to knife your teammate from behind.

[Destro777]

Smoke round mortars sounds delicious. Just imagine a crate in rush being bombarded by 3+ smoke mortars simultaneously. Killer.

[Diff-chan]

360 version looks like smeared poo

[Destro777]

The BF3 beta has been sent to microsoft and sony for cert.
who knows how long that will take - usually those things take 2-3 weeks - but really it could drop any day now.
DICE is supposedly trying to speed up the process.

PC folk no doubt pissed but...
Since its been sitting in cert for consoles, the PC beta is going to have more stuff/fixes than the console one.

BF3 beta, Radiant Silvergun, Street Fighter III online, and soon to be Dark Souls? The gaming is good man, real good.

[Changeling]

I'm so freakin' ready for this! Wonder how we'll have to get the PC beta? I'd be nice if they didn't try to make you preorder through Origin and get it that way.

Speaking of Origin, I downloaded it and went through their store. Its absolutely shitty! It starts when you start your PC up and I couldn't find a way to turn it off at boot. Also, stuff I got through EA link(store) didn't transfer at all. Not surprised, but it really turns me off when theres a completely superior digital soulution out there, but EA has to guinea pig BF3 for this bullshit.

[Destro777]

360 version looks like smeared poo

You were saying?...

[Error]

easy to make dark look good.

[Destro777]

Eh, lighting and animation are pretty insane for a console FPS.
Destruction too. just shows what good art design can do with aging hardware. DICE rules!

[Yoshi]

at 30 fps

[Changeling]

A solid 30 is fine for Battlefield. Its not twitch. I didn't realize when that trailer first leaked that it was 360 footage. It does look damn good. It'll be fun to compare both versions myself.