BF3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
On November 19th, 2011 in News
DICE posted some new information on the official Battlefield blog, where they discussed the upcoming Battlefield 3 patch. The new patch will be released first on PCs, then on consoles (due to certification requirements). DICE gave a few general ideas what the patch will fix:
- Bring more polish to the game
- Stability improvements
- Weapon balancing
- Squad control functionality
- User interface enhancements
- Several feature enhancement based on user feedback
They didn’t go into specifics as what will be fixed — that’s is expected when the detailed patch fix-list is released next week.
DICE also had a few words on cheaters and boosters, saying they continue to analyze data to identify cheaters and boosters, and ban and/or reset their stats. Last week, hundreds of Battlefield 3 players were banned over cheating and boosting.
thank GAWD there fixing the squad thing
and gawd forbid they expand squads to 6 or 8 people.
I wonder what more polish to the game means. Are they adding mire ppl fron Poland
I personally hope it means stopping the lagfest that is going on now. I tend to get into games where one team lags, all the time.
You win the internets.
either that or they are adding Polish voice over
They need to add in a New Zealand voice over.
“LUUK OUT BRU! THERES A ENAMY BOET OVA THERE BRU!”
“CHUR BRU! I’LL GET HUM WUTH MA ROCKUT BRO!”
[nek minnit]
*BOOM!* “awwwww sheiit bru! he’s bieched azz!!”
*lord of the rings music plays for a bit*
hello all i hope this path will be they work on the MIC and other stuff
Wish they’d mention fixing 3DVision . . .
This is the worst time not to have internet . . . god i need to get a router lol.
BTW what do you guys think of running BF3 with 1.5 mps, could it work?
I got a new ISP thats why im asking. PLEASE REPLY
It’ll be fine. I used to have that slow of internet since I live out in the middle of nowhere (Utah). Occasionally on Call of Duty or on BF BC 2 would lag, but most of the time it would be decent. (as long as nobody else is using the internet also)
well vlad, i hate to break it to you but there is usually MORE than 1 person using the internet at the same time.
On Mylti-player games, all that matters is the latency of your connection/ISP. I mean, you might not see any difference if you have 24Mbps or 2Mbps.
Where do you live, how your country interconnects with other countries etc. Usually a simple DSL is enough, if you ISP has fast path routes connected with European Countries. For example, I live in a European country and usually on game-servers list, first servers that coming up are from Germany, because we’ve better connection with them ( due to some specific reasons ). But still, you might face problems just in personal level because in your house the communication-infrastructures might be shitty…
I live in Denver Colorado man, any help?
Latency and Upload speed are more important than download speed. Still, my connection drops to 3.2Mbps here on Fiber sometimes (FUCK YOU AT&T UVERSE!!!1) and it lags then, even though my ping is still under 150.
I see, so im guessing i will be alright then?
V1.02
#expect good things
this aint twitter, no hashtags.
just proving a point.
I’m guessing “more polish” refers to graphical enhancements? I’m waiting for improved destruction….
Doubt Graphics, probably stuff like Squad Spawning which has issues on some Maps, on specific Modes, or like people still falling through the Ground in some specific Spots etc.
If they had plans to improve the Destruction on the Vanilla BF3 Maps wit this Patch they’d have said so already, don’t get your hopes up.
Probably polishing up Commo Rose (major QQ about the lack of “Need Ammo” “Need Medkit”) and Joystick Support.
I can dream, right?
*nods off and thinks of a 2-seat bomber…*
Seriously, WTF is the point of the Comma Rose as it stands right now?? It’s functionally useless!
It works less than the one in BF@ (though thank God for no more “Enemy Boat Spotted” spam), and it is way less intuitive and useful than the Social button in BF2. I could spot a team mate across a map and hit Q and it would let him know I needed ammo, health kits, or repairs.
It seems the current Q is limited in distance to promote Q’ing local people for more even play, but most people ignore it.
I need to show up on their map and in a direct chat message whenever I hit the button on them, so they can see me!
well, there will be improved destruction on BTK. As you can see in the trailers and other posts. But no idea about improved destruction/graphical things in regular maps.
Patches these days don’t do major overhauls of maps and existing game systems. Especially since EA is using “improved destruction” as a selling point for Back to Karkand.
I case it’s not transparent to anyone not familiar with programming or game development, all of those extensive destruction systems are already in place in the exe sitting on your hard drive. DICE just constructed assets, such as the concrete buildings on Caspian, that have a minimum of break points and destructibility. They could have done better, but EA likes their preorders and post-release revenue.
Awesome! Can’t wait!
Maybe a fix for the jets we heard about will be included. Hope they don’t forget.
i hope they make the recon class more useful as well as the jets. it just seem to be no point in using the recon class now, the sniper rifles are too weak to be played agressive with… don’t get me wrong, i know that the recons are ment to sit down and support their team bu spotting and shit, but what’s the fun in that? and now, when the recons don’t have any explosives (c4 or mortar in bc2 for example) to use against vehicles, it’s very, very hard to be effective as a sniper.
Um why is your name highlighted in red?
because im cool.
jk, if you put a link to a website under your name when you write a comment, your name turns red and you can click it for the link.
Red names are links.
“WEBSITE” field in the comment.
So PC players will get it even before PS3?, or is it PS3 then PC then XBOX.
Im assuming your referring to the Back to Karkand pack?…this is just a patch…to fix some of the bugs. SO for this patch, pc will get it then after its approved by Microsoft and Sony, PS3 and Xbox will get it. For Back to Karkand Pack, PS3 gets it a week early, then pc and xbox.
Oh yea I was getting mixed up with B2K. Thanks.
how do u get the patches do u have to download them or are they automatic, like just put into the servers? anyone?
If you’re on PC, it will get downloaded via Origin.
“Squad control functionality”
squad voip would go a hell of a long way towards ‘squad functionality’.
yeah, i’m getting pretty sick of only being able to hear every third or fourth word.
FINALLY!
I hope they fix the Javelin and other anti vehicle gadgets. Also balance out all the OP weapons.
will this patch fix the ps3 version’s multi-player?which is still crashing alot making us power down the console
fix the fucking save corrupt bug. its fucking annoying to keep repeating the installment of sensetivity and the weapon setups…. omfg.. fix this.
I’m not the only one!!!
Seriously had this shit happen twice today, it’s pissing me the fuck off >:O
I hope this damn list will contain a fix to the input lag issue on ps3! Game is out 1 month. I played it two weeks and happily could turn to skyrim because bf3 is just pissing off playing on 576p.
All i could catch on information about that in this whole time period were just some devs saying “we are looking into it” but no one left a word about how the progress on this is. Thats the only thing that ruins the game for me totally.
As it’s still not mentioned i have few hopes that this fix will come with the next patch
Agreed.
That’s gonna be a hell of a patch! I’ve had 3-4 crashes per day, but I managed to reduce ‘em to 1… or 0!
Will they extend the Destruction’s improvements like we’ve seen it on Back to Karkand trailer?
they need to fix the god damn ECM jammer as it doesn’t do shit…you’re better off throwing flares as the ECM jammer only keeps you safe for like 1 second.
and I want them to fix the customization menu telling you you unlocked something new ( orange thing on top right corner ) and when you open it up there’s nothing new.
also I’d like to be able to switch from american/russian soldier in the customization menu.. u can only see the american ones when customizing through the main menu. And I’d also like to see the tanks when customizing ( they don’t appear when customizing from “my soldier” )
i mean tanks/IFV’s/AA/helicopters etc.
Fix ur damn servers, with the freezes and disconnections, gets on my nerves!!! i didnt mind with these problems at launch week or the first couple weeks, but its been a month now and its getting annoying, fix the sound glitch too, when the sound goes silent and comes back again!!!
Really hope it includes a fix for the broken TV-Missile
^ This.
More polish – YEAAAAAAAH
I honestly dont care about polishing, b/c right now, for PC players, its a f-ing hackfest!!!! I’ve seen SOOOOO many people using aimbots (PB enabled games)…. it just makes no sense playing anymore. OHH and talk about boosting… People get to lvl 50 without even firing a single bullet!! Seriously, if they dont fix any of those exploits… Im about to quit this game.
Interesting. Funny enough, I haven’t come across any such issues myself, and have barely seen any Reports of such. Doh.
Impossible.
You need to play on a PBbans server (not just a PB server), or play on a server with active admins who kick and ban hackers. To this day there is hacking on bf 2 servers that don’t have active admins. It’s like night and day.
And they need to keep banning the obvious ones.
screw weapons balancing
i’ve read a lot of comments about nerfing things. Well one thing that needs to be nerfed are the weapons…all of them. Every time i get shot i die. If they are nerfed in the patch then those foam bullets will bounce right off!
every time water touches me i get wet.
i am not sure about the argument when i get shot i die.
dont you find the HUD more problematic? as it is now a friendly soldier 9 miles away is represented as a soldier 9 inches away. its hard to tell where anyone is…and i wont even mention how they tend to float above enemy players heads. might as well be an unlock for that too.
‘pose as friendly unit due to poor UI design’
when people said this game was rushed out so it could beat call of duty i snickered but seeing basic things in design being over-looked makes me think that its true.
From the tone of the patches and other updates it really does sound like the rushed the game.Good to see their fixing it though much like The Witcher 2.