DICE Still Supporting Battlefield 3

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chadachada123

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Hammeroj said:
I love how map packs out the ass are regarded as "support" now. And on the topic of those...
Oh wow. Words escape just how freaking horrible that is.

HOW MUCH FARTHER WILL YOU SINK, EA/DICE?!? HAVE YOU ANY HONOR, ANY AT ALL?
 

NLS

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I think people are forgetting that DICE has been releasing Battlefield games on an almost yearly schedule since Battlefield Vietnam. Yet this new game is released 2 years after the last game.

2002 Battlefield 1942
2003 Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome
2003 Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
2004 Battlefield Vietnam
2005 Battlefield 2
2005 Battlefield 2: Special Forces
2005 Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
2006 Battlefield 2: Euro Forces
2006 Battlefield 2: Armored Fury
2006 Battlefield 2142
2007 Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike
2008 Battlefield: Bad Company
2009 Battlefield Heroes
2009 Battlefield 1943
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
2010 Battlefield Online
2011 Battlefield Play4Free
2011 Battlefield 3
2011 Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand
2012 Battlefield 3: Close Quarters
Strange huh? No.
 

Laughing Man

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Releasing a whole host of DLC map packs is not support.

- Fixing the god awful hit detection, seriously the game is much worse than any of the previous Battlefield games and TDM highlights just how bad it really is. You can easily duck behind a container and a good second and a half later be killed by a guy who was shooting at you r location when you where standing to the side of the container. It is very obvious that what you see on screen is not what the other player is seeing.

- The awful client side system, in the past you found a server usually based on ping, players and game style you joined you played and unless something was wrong you knew the next time you played your connection and as a direct result the lag and ping would be pretty much the same. The system they use now combined with the high turn over players means that lag and hit detection is based on how good your connection to another player is and if they have a rubbish connection YOU suffer for it. I am playing on a 30meg fibre optic system and suffering hit detection and lag issues because the guy I am shooting at is on some shitty 1meg broadband, nice. Add to this the fact that the new system allows for some extra ordinary cheats. BF2 commander hack, BFBC2 some aim botters, BF3 getting knifed while in a tank and being killed by ammo and media packs, nice!

- Talking of which the rampant cheaters, yeah their are the obvious ones but the game has a lot more cheaters than the previous ones, I am thankful I don't admin a BF3 server, I used to admin both BF2 and BFBC2 ones and had a 100% hit rate for cheater bans so believe me when I say BF3 has a lot of them, some are stupidly obvious a lot of them are very subtle but they are there. What's worse though is Ea have given them the method to hide thier cheating from their automated stats banning by giving them the opportunity to reset their stats if they pay for the premium service, double nice!

- The game is flawed, it is all about quick decisions, move from one place to another, split second reactions meaning the difference between kill or be killed. Why the fuck they added these stupid context sensitive animations in is beyond me. If you aren't in exactly the right place at the right time you are

1). Left jumping up and down on the spot like an idiot with a shoot me tag on your head, just because all you wanted to do was jump over a fence or object
2). Left standing with nothing more than knife in your hand because you aren't in the right place to get the stab animation running, bringing a knife to a gun fight, BF3 will show just what this means.
3). Jumping up and down like an idiot just to get from one end of the map to the other, Try just walking across Battle at Karkand after the game has been running for five or ten minutes. You can't every bit of debris, damage, even kerbs you need to jump to get over something a normal person would just STEP over.
 

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I'd rather play bad company 2 instead of battlefield 3, if the servers still worked... Can't connect for some reason.
 

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Sober Thal said:
Can anyone here actually recommend Battlefield 3 only for it's single player campaign? Same for that Homefront game?

Just askin, they are probably cheaper now, so I might want to check them out. I'm a fan of Halo and CoD single player campaigns, but notCrysis, so take that for what it's worth ; )

(console versions)

OT: There needs to be a set time game companies support their product. I don't imagine most will be on par with Halo 2, but we need to set a timeline before the multiplayer heads commit to a game.

Sure, it depends on when the next iteration of the game comes out, but also on it's fanbase. Take Ultima Online (please) as an example. They have a lasting fanbase, while run by Origin, so they should be (and are) supported.

I think games like CoD are the long running flashes in the pan type. But if a game (I'm sure people here are aware of them) is driven by online play, they need a disclaimer on the box stating the minimal time servers will be up and running by the company.

But then again, I fucking hate multiplayer games, so I don't really care. But I think what I said makes a little sense, kinda. Eh?

'Long running flashes in the pan'... lol
I've got a couple of hundred hours in BF3. There is no single player, Battlefield games don't have singleplayer. There is aparently a Quicktime Event that you can mess with but nothing you would actually recognise a a campaign. At least on PC I don't have to worry about servers ending.
 

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Sober Thal said:
Can anyone here actually recommend Battlefield 3 only for it's single player campaign? Same for that Homefront game?
I own it but haven't even touched it. You should stick with Bad Company (specifically 1) for the single-players since that was the reason that spin-off was created to begin with.

NLS said:
I think people are forgetting that DICE has been releasing Battlefield games on an almost yearly schedule since Battlefield Vietnam. Yet this new game is released 2 years after the last game.

2002 Battlefield 1942
2003 Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome
2003 Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
2004 Battlefield Vietnam
2005 Battlefield 2
2005 Battlefield 2: Special Forces
2005 Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
2006 Battlefield 2: Euro Forces
2006 Battlefield 2: Armored Fury
2006 Battlefield 2142
2007 Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike
2008 Battlefield: Bad Company
2009 Battlefield Heroes
2009 Battlefield 1943
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
2010 Battlefield Online
2011 Battlefield Play4Free
2011 Battlefield 3
2011 Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand
2012 Battlefield 3: Close Quarters
Strange huh? No.
No, we were spoiled by different flavors of Battlefield which DICE attempted to churn all their experiences into one game. The anticipation of Battlefield 3 was something magical but now it's gone thanks to the end result and that 4 is coming out in the next year or two.
 

Strazdas

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Matthew94 said:
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Matthew94 said:
If they made it moddable it could live for much longer like BF2 did.
Moddable games don't sell DLC too well.
Unless the developer has a reputation like Bethesda (where people are accustomed to bugs), why would people pay money for something when they can get something better (and buggier) for free?
Because you know a lot of people will also be playing and it will count for ranking up.

Also, most mods are shit and only a few rise to the top so people will still pay for quality.
Mods DLCs are shit and does not evne rise to the "Shit mod" level anyway.
 

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I agree with the 2142 sequel as a possibility, at least that it's being considered. In BF3 B2K there's "2143" written on one of the crates. Possible easter egg, as they did in BF2 about 2142? Is a bit too much of a coincidence otherwise. Can live in hope. [img:]http://files.enjin.com/20752/Battlefield3/bf2143.jpg[/img]