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CaptainCox
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 Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:03 Post subject: Battlefield 3 Leaked Info |
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| Quote: | 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 2008″
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.
[Update 1] A few wanted to know if the document mentions in-game advertising, it does not, but wouldn’t be surprising, considering BF2142 had in-game advertising.
[Update 2] EA responded to the rumor with a “no comment” statement. Still waiting for a reply from DICE (which will probably be the same).
[Update 3] For clarification, the document doesn’t say that XP is not supported, it only lists Vista and OS X.
[Update 4] Further investigation reveals that EA DICE owns the domain “battlefield3.com” (not so important, since it was registered in 2004, so was battlefield4.com etc.). Still no reply from DICE. Stay tuned for further updates.
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http://digitalbattle.com/2007/10/09/breaking-battlefield-3-leaked-info/
Man, i think I will be in love again come summer 2008 
Still...I wish they would have done a Battlefield 1943 !!!! |
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tiedie
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:12 Post subject: |
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YAY another one, the same thing again...i cant wait to play it again....1500$ says there will be at least 3 expansion packs for this one
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:12 Post subject: |
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Yeah!!! I hope the release date will be somewhere november 2008! Thanks for info!
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Fluppy
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:33 Post subject: |
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Eight maps is not bad, in the end people mostly play 2-3 that are best made.
I just don't like that stupid unlock thing. Battlefield is starting to look more and more like an MMO.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:34 Post subject: |
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No one really played the booster packs and poeple are playing Special Forces for like 10 minutes just to unlock the 2nd wave of weapons.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:35 Post subject: |
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If it will be based on the Frostbite Engine as stated in that document...well, 90-95% of the stuff on those 8 maps will be more or less DESTRUCTABLE! YAY!
So 8 maps is not so bad, if you count the coding that needs to be done for it. Hell, its better then the 6 levels of MOHA...no? 
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:44 Post subject: |
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| Kommando wrote: | | No one really played the booster packs and poeple are playing Special Forces for like 10 minutes just to unlock the 2nd wave of weapons. |
Yea, but you see where they are going? They don't care if peope are playing boosters, they just release a pack with couple of new weapons that are slightly better than regular ones and force people to buy it to get those.
Realy, I'm not blaming Dice for this, it's EA that has their name written all over this, it' just like that bs with disabling their sports games mp support couple of years after release.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 20:53 Post subject: |
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"The three page document is apparently prepared for investors"
LOL. No. This is not something you would send to investors of a publically traded company.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 21:51 Post subject: |
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| Rudee66 wrote: | "The three page document is apparently prepared for investors"
LOL. No. This is not something you would send to investors of a publically traded company. |
Weird. Since uh Black Isle prepared numerous documents talking about their games and features for the investors of them and their publishers, and I'm pretty sure Interplay was publicly traded then. And it was pretty much the same thing that happened here. Anyone remember Planescape : Torment? Yeah how their was supposed to be like 10 endings for it? And the various plot lines that never made it into the game? That was leaked from the investor brochure. Same thing with BI's other games. In fact you can actually download their investor's packet from some websites. The Planescape one i just remember because it was pretty hilarious. It had Morte on pretty much every page saying 'This isn't some pussy ass game, this is for fucking men!' or something along those lines. It was also funny how they broke down the combat system and character develops so much that it seemed like they were talking to monkeys. But eh i guess most head honcho investors don't really know much about gaming.
But that was all back in the days of '96-'98. I guess games now have a new sense of, i don't know, confidentiality of it so i can now see why it would be odd in this day in age to have something like that.
oh and when i was an investor of Sega way back in the day (trade symbol : SEGNY if i recall. Sega of America) i would routinely receive packets updating me on games in development and upcoming releases and updates on how the company was running. I sold after Sammy bought them though, so that was in like what, 2002?
Oh and... Edit again, haha. It says it was prepared for investors, meaning they still haven't sent it out to them. So maybe the pamphlet was chilling in the office, someone got it, then voila. I can DEFINITELY see EA sending that out to people when the game gets an appropriate run down at an E3 or some convention.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 22:19 Post subject: |
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The problem i have is that all those 8 maps "can be played with up to 40 players". What if I say, don't have 40 people at my LAN? Well, it's probably going to be 2142 all over again anyway.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 22:28 Post subject: |
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*yawn*
Only Bad Company looks remotely interesting.
Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly
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jcx
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Oct 2007 22:38 Post subject: |
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| Rhymfaxe wrote: | | The problem i have is that all those 8 maps "can be played with up to 40 players". What if I say, don't have 40 people at my LAN? Well, it's probably going to be 2142 all over again anyway. |
It says 40 people per team so there will be 80 people playing on one map
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Oct 2007 01:01 Post subject: |
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@Cox
your right man, 1943 was the best. They should really make a remake of that. Id buy it
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HoLyMaN
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Oct 2007 08:07 Post subject: |
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Yea, but a worthy sequel should be called "1943"
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wawrzul
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Oct 2007 10:59 Post subject: |
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| -=Cartoon=- wrote: | | 1942 shits all over the other BFs |
+99999
Ditto. Still on hdd.
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Oct 2007 13:01 Post subject: |
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I hope they make a sequel to battlefield 1942...that was the best game in the series...
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