So many battles, so little time. EA/Dice already seem busy alternately delighting and outraging their fanbase with the much-delayed casual shooter Battlefield Heroes and sorta-remake Battlefield 1943, so dropping an apparent Battlefield 3 into the mix seems like a special kind of madness. Then again, perhaps a full sequel, expanding rather than simplifying or repeating the remit, is the way to win back men’s love. I have precisely zero information beyond EA CEO John Pleasants (he’s not a pheasant plucker, he’s a pheasant plucker’s son) dropping a sly “I’ve had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE in Sweden and was highly impressed by the way the team is working on that product“, so every word of this post I write is essentially killing time until it looks long enough to publish. Oh, there we go.
BF3 then: whadda we want?
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Gustav Halling, who works on BF1943, just posted a BF3 confirmation on
his blog.
Special issue gadgets = good
Helicopters that can take multiple stinger missiles to the face and not care = bad
APM’s you can sneak past if careful = good
Switching auxilary grenades for auxilary rockets = bad
I hope they’ve learnt this.
Lean would also be nice.
BF3, what do we want?
A BF2 clone, really.
I’ve got more than 450 hours on BF2 and I pretty much played and enjoyed every class during that time. I’ve had tons of fun, and I’m going to buy BF3 if it turns out to be close enough to BF2. I didn’t like 2142, partly because of the futuristic setting (strange, because I usually like SciFi), and I’ve played more than enough WW II games. Just give me BF3 that is like BF2 with nerfed jets, smaller patch sizes, better (working would actually be sufficient) server browser, and a slightly more refined communications menu to coordinate squads and teams. But even without it I’d probably buy it :p
- Sometime between January and April 2010, Battlefield 3 is confirmed and goes gold (meaning it is definitely coming to stores)
- A period of rumors, PC upgrades, and anxious people occurs
- A demo is released, July – September 2010
- Battlefield 3 is released in late November – December 2010 However, if things don’t go as planned, the game could be delayed up until March 2011!
Winter 2010 is the most legitimate option for release as of now!
http://enterbf3.com – Battlefield 3 (source)