PC version of Battlefield 3 to be best

[kuroikenshi]

I also forgot to mention, we have assigned roles, actions on and a rank structure in the clan...

[don_xvi]

I also forgot to mention, we have assigned roles, actions on and a rank structure in the clan...

I dunno where you game or how you game, but our clan has multiple training sessions on BC2, plans battles using Gtactix, and work on team support and cohesion.....but I suppose you already knew that.

Yeah, I did one of these competitive things some years back and of course it was a lot more organized that just logging on and playing with the general public, but the point I was trying to make is that in the end it's a game. While people go on and on complaining about every little concession that's been made to make it more playable at the expense of realism, there's a reason. People don't want to go out and get instagibbed when they make some ill advised move. If one was required to spend 6 weeks, 18 hours a day, training to play the game, you can really step up the realism, but nobody's going to sign up for your product without getting a college education paid for in exchange.

[fiskov]

Battlefield 3 may be a while from being released but the next game in the first person shooter series from developer Digital Illusions will be getting some extra effort for its PC port. In a post on Electronic Arts' UK message boards one of the game's designers Alan 'Demize99' Kertz talks about the differences in making a game for the PC as opposed to a console game.

"Firstly, we decided to keep jet aircraft out of the console versions, as you really need to be able to support large maps for those vehicles to work effectively," he says. "On the PC version of the game, we're building multiplayer maps to support up to 80 players, with a full repertoire of vehicles to use. You just can't have that many players on today's consoles without serious compromises."

http://www.gamedaily.com/games/battl...or-pc-version/

[squilliam]

I'm incredibly excited for this.
I seriously hope they've gotten their act together though.
I'm really tired of the bugs assosciated with this series.
Do we have any idea on how long it will be until this comes out?


I'd be willing to bet that they'll charge $60 for the pc version, as Modern Warfare 2 has done.
I find it completely unacceptable, but I have no control over that.

[don_xvi]

fiskov, great to hear! (Even though I didn't have time to track down the actual post you reference.) I really want to see the naysayers that just assume we'll get something nerfed for console proved wrong. I knew BC2 wouldn't be a successor to BF2. The latest news reports keep me encouraged that BF3 will be!
As for bugs... of course there will be. I really only play BF games, but I hear the same gripes about buggy releases about many other games. Are there companies or series' out there that are perfect on day 1? Must admit that would be nice, but I don't think that's the way the software world works as things get so big and complex.

[ColonelCain]

Battlefield 3 may be a while from being released but the next game in the first person shooter series from developer Digital Illusions will be getting some extra effort for its PC port. In a post on Electronic Arts' UK message boards one of the game's designers Alan 'Demize99' Kertz talks about the differences in making a game for the PC as opposed to a console game.

"Firstly, we decided to keep jet aircraft out of the console versions, as you really need to be able to support large maps for those vehicles to work effectively," he says. "On the PC version of the game, we're building multiplayer maps to support up to 80 players, with a full repertoire of vehicles to use. You just can't have that many players on today's consoles without serious compromises."

http://www.gamedaily.com/games/battl...or-pc-version/

That's not what I see:

Battlefield 3 may be a while from being released but the next game in the first person shooter series from developer Digital Illusions will be getting some extra effort for its PC port. In a post on Electronic Arts' UK message boards one of the game's designers Alan 'Demize99' Kertz talks about the differences in making a game for the PC as opposed to a console game.

At the end of his post he states, "It's too early to talk BF3 specifics. But it's never too early for me to acknowledge that PC players have a fear that BF3 will be "consolized." PC gaming is alive and well, (Battlefield Bad Company 2) has proven that and no one at DICE or EA can argue with the numbers. Battlefield 3 needs an extra bit of special attention on the PC. I intend to give it that attention, tradition and our community demand it." EA has said little about Battlefield 3 other than owners of the just released Medal of Honor will be invited into the beta for Battlefield 3.

[SexyMF]

I'm incredibly excited for this.
I seriously hope they've gotten their act together though.
I'm really tired of the bugs assosciated with this series.
Do we have any idea on how long it will be until this comes out?


I'd be willing to bet that they'll charge $60 for the pc version, as Modern Warfare 2 has done.
I find it completely unacceptable, but I have no control over that.

Why unacceptable? I played 1200 hours of BF2. No way I'd play 1200 hours of MW2. Even for a light player I'd expect they play 100 hours of the game making your dollar/hour rather cheap.

There is no basis for comparing BF2 to MW. BF2 was only a multiplayer game, with emphasis on squad and commander roles, featuring jets, heli's, tanks, vehicles and infantry. A great balance of arcade and realism.
MW (like so many titles) is a single player rambo shooter with a multiplayer addon played out in a stupidly confined portion of a level.

[Pontos]

Battlefield 3 may be a while from being released but the next game in the first person shooter series from developer Digital Illusions will be getting some extra effort for its PC port

I'm hoping that was just the ignorance of the writer, or maybe just an habit, seeing the situation with virtually every other multiplatform game.