BF3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
In a conference call with analysts yesterday, EA revealed their financial numbers for the third quarter of the current financial year, and it looked pretty good for Battlefield 3: the game has sold 10 million copies worldwide, across all platforms. What’s even more impressive, the sales numbers only include until December 31, 2011.
During the same conference call, EA’s Peter C. Ausnit chipped in regarding upcoming Battlefield 3 DLC, saying that EA will have an event in New York next week. He said:
“You’re going to hear some announcements from us on Battlefield actually as early as next week in an event we’ve got in New York.”
It’s looking pretty good for Battlefield 3 — it’s already the best selling Battlefield game of all time, and we can’t wait to see what EA has in store for the next DLC.
CAN’T FUCKING WAIT!
The fact this announcement is in NYC backs up a hint last week leaked by an employee but then quickly retracted/deleted: an “All American” DLC, as in various American cities.
Keep those DLC’s coming DICE.
This DLC is going to be the deciding factor on whether I keep playing BF3 or move on completely.
So far BF3 doesn’t have the longevity of past Battlefield games.
Please for the love of all humanity DICE, make it a squad-based DLC package.
and SDKs please ! i think that is what kept past BF games alive for so long.
The announcement will be on New York city and if it’s true that “All American” DLC,how about making liberty city with destruction?
Hopefully “All American” will mean Black Hawk and Apache helicopters! Also New York with destruction would blow my mind. I can imagine an epic skyscraper/flag capture point with glass windows being shattered by a Black Hawk gunner, making the enemies inside desperately run for cover, flying through the deserted streets raining glass and blood onto the abandoned cars below as a squad moves in to capture the flag. DICE has the opportunity to do something truely epic with this…
I want to thumbs that up 50 times, colt…
I second that
Don’t disapoint me dice
in an upcoming dlc they should ad a jet like in the campaign with two spots- one person fly and the other person drop bombs. on the maps they could have two jets- a jet like this and a thunderbolt/frogfoot. the small jets could defend the bigger ones. also a fully destructable statue of liberty would be nice
You just described BF2.
these DLCs are coming too fast
well i hope the dlc is free
I hope your being sarcastic
What mother fucking dlc we still don’t have one and it’s past the due date. Wtf
oh they are going to start milking it before fixing the bugs… just nice
What bug?I play on 360 and it’s fine.
really go to operation metro on conquest, start at the city side not the park side, take an mav over the top of the fence on the on the corner and you stand over the top of the map on C and they will never be able to keep it. That’s xbox 360!
I’m really excited about a new DLC though, and maybe they will throw them all into the loop for the real battlefield players, (hardcore)
yeah i play on 360 and i never ever have problems, DICE and EA servers are way better than whatever the fuck MW3 has
for the millionth time, bug team is completely independent from the dlc team. They work seperately so quit the whining about that and put it in the correct news. This is about the dlc. Everyone wants the bugs and glitches fixed.
I hope they can add bigger maps so to play more like desert combat battles with lots of tanks, bombers, choppers etc. Also a few extra weapons would be cool.
FN fiveSeven, acr bushmaster, barrett 468/rec7, Steyr AUG, tavor TAR21 extra pdw weapons like kriss vector, uzi. Maybe add Flashbang, ghilliesuit.
Also a portable laserguided rocket like the law in bc2 was.
REAL night maps as in bf2 special forces where a IR scope and an nv goggle gadget would really work out.
But what is leaked is that it features american based maps. probably to add up to the karkand map pack.
Hope they test the new content this time but I’m looking forward to the announcement.
Wow! I’m glad that bf series got more fans! But do you think this is milking? BFBC2 had more maps (around 13) and bf3 has 9. Are we somehow forced to buy DLCs? I think we are.
Actually, BC2 had 14 maps, some of which weren’t available on both CQ and Rush. If you count the Vietnam expansion (which is really not even the same game) then the total comes to 19.
BF3 started with 9, and the 4 Karkand maps came about 6 weeks later, so we’re already at 13. And all modes are available on all maps (yeah i know there is a difference between CQ and CQ assault).
And no, no one is FORCING you to buy it.
Didn’t DICE
Didn’t DICE say that the DLCs will be free? B2K was an expansion pack, and that’s why it wasn’t free, right.. ?
No?
I hope it will be about BATTLERECORDER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck
BattleRecorder will be a Patch thing, February PS3 VoIP/Commo Rose 2.0 Patch seems next one up, but no word on BattleRecorder with that yet.
Anyone else want to see a bunch of texture packs for your troops?
I am anxious to see what they’ll come up with.
Haven’t we already had a SPECAT Kit as part of a Pre-Order Bonus for some Retail Store or something?
Yeah, bro we did. But I’d like to see some different faces, some different style helmets, optional ski masks or scarves, flak jackets and equipment belts… That kind of stuff. I’m tired of looking at the same support guy wearing sun glasses inside Metro like a douche (while weilding a USAS with frag rounds). I just want a little more diversity between people who are the same class. Ya know?
agreed
«°SOCOM°» T_T…i miss it
Then maybe you should stop playing metro
i want them to make it were ur skins stay on where u set them intead of changing it everygame
I’m guessing New York oriented DLC then, I’ve seen a few people suggesting it since release – maybe they do listen!
You are a fool if you buy the DLC.
EA does not deserve a penny for this.
EA might not but DICE does!
Yeah… coming from CoD you might think that. Pretty graphics right?
Fail coding from DICE should not be awarded.
You do realize you look like just another dick who has no idea what he’s talking about, right?
No douche bag i dont think u even have played any other battlefield so I would keep your yap shut as you don’t see the improvements that have been maid
Check my profile. Every. Single. Battlefield. Title. Shut your fucking mouth, prick.
You kids crack me up.
Thank you. =)
I think as soon as you used the term “fail coding” you proved you are the child, and a socialy awkward one at that.
people people! don’t you read signs? DONT FEED THE TROLL!
New York City maps would be nice.
I don’t mind the $15 DLC price as long as I can get 15 hours or more of enjoyment out of them.
DLC maps include Google maps for destruction in your own neighborhood
One can dream
Lol, You’re so right. When can I fight in Pittsburgh?!?!
The only downside would be rapists trying to find your location. *pumps shotgun*
i wouldn’t mind blowing up Heinz field ;D
I hope they detail their DLC plans for BF3 into the future because we need more maps.
P.s. I’m actually looking forward to the patch though a bit more because if the bugs, exploits and oversights are taken care of the maps will get a new breath of air as far as my pals and I are concerned.
Im happy to pay for quality DLC, and if Back to Karkand was anything to go by, im definitely going to buy all the rest considering how much i play BF3 compared to other games.
Only COD game i bought was black ops and i refused to buy any of their map packs.
The only COD game I bought was COD 2 lol
i played the first cod and united offensive. they were really good, but now cod sucks
One thing that separates CoD from BF is that our DLC is AMAZING. Cod’s is trash and is a waste of money.
MW3 Devs: “Here, guys pay $15.00 for these 5 year old maps!”
CoD players: “Derp. Thanks! You guys are beast!”
I think they’re paying 15 bucks for 2 maps! Are you kidding me? And my friend keeps criticizing B2K Ha!
Never liked WW2 Shooters, so only CoD Game I ever bought was CoD 4. No regrets. Was awesome. Still is, if you can find people that play it.
CoD 3 for me on Original Xbox, then I discovered Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. Needless to say, guess which game I played the shit out of?
After the great B2k DLC with true battlefield maps, i’m afraid the next map pack will be some sort of “meatgrinder pack” on the same line of metro-seine-bazaar-theran-damavand (aka worst maps of BF history), to please the COD audience.
well, I hope i’m wrong. Unless we got maps at least caspian/firestorm size, I won’t bother buying this.
I hope they at least focus the scenery of the maps maybe on the country side of NY, since I heard it might take place there. I agree that those are the worst maps in BF3, as I try to avoid them constantly, just hope they listen to the BF community not the CoD community.
Yeah, I hope (if the rumor is true) that we get some big and open american landscapes with lots of vehicle focused warfare. Some new england countryside, rocky mountain parks, arizona deserts, southern-swamps, America has plenty of good places to use for a Battlefield game. Let’s hope DICE heads this way, instead of making linear urban maps with no proper vehicle use.
Given the popularity of metro, at least one map on the bunch will be just as awful, unfortunately.
I hope they listen to the TRUE fans of Battlefield(PC gamers) and don’t listen to the console snobs.
And another great comment from ELESSAR2880.
Shut the fuck up, Elessar. The only Battlefield game you’ve played before BF3 was BFBC2. You aren’t a true Battlefield fan. You wanna see one? Look at my profile. Every. Single. Battlefield. Title. All of em. And I play on Xbox now. You know how that makes you look? Like an ignorant asshole. Just play the goddamn game, stop dissing people. Jesus Christ.
There’s tons of 64p metro servers on PC always full, it is by far the most played map on PC. So, its kinda unfair to blame consoles or it’s players for anything here. Actually, it was the popularity of Spam at karkand on BF2 that made DICE think (erroneously) that we all want choke/meatgrinded maps instead of sandbox vehicle focused ones.
Apparently DICE didn’t figured that the popularity of IO karkand on BF2 was due to the extremely unbalanced air/ground gameplay and the appalling random deviation that ruined vanilla BF2, so people spent all the time on karkand spamming grenades to avoid devation and jet rape. Most of these IO karkand players will play vehicle maps if the gameplay is proper balanced.
And to be honest, regardless or being infantry focused on not, some map designs on BF3 is just awful. Metro, seine and bazaar are just terrible. Why not make a infantry map like sharqi and karkand?
I’m a PC gamer, but console gamers are just as real as we are!
What’s a BF3? Yeah right it’s the game that promised a lot a delivered very little.
Bring on BFBC3. At least that might have buildings that can be destroyed!
I agree about the buildings thing.
BF:BC2 = Buildings can be completely leveled.
BF3 = SOME buildings can be completely leveled.
What goes on here? >.<
They said BC2 Destruction was OP. They won’t go back to those Levels. The Vanilla BF3 Destruction wasn’t enough, so they upped it with the BtK Patch. Don’t expect it to get much better than this. Not unless they go back to using Frostbite 1.5 for Bad Company 3, which seems highly doubtful.
Frostbite 2.5, duh
Doubtful. Frostbite 2 has already maxed out Consoles. Unless they somehow find extra Console Power to cash in, Frostbite 2.5 would probably be running at 15 Frames, 240p on these, and for Next-Gen Consoles they’ll probably skip straight to Frostbite 3, which they can code natively to work for those and PCs, rather than a Frostbite 2.x which they’d have to port over.
according to daniel matros, the decision to “nerf” the destruction was that the maps become ‘unbalanced’ with the collapsing buildings (wich I disagree – it just make the experience diferent, and force you to take diferent tatics).
But the destruction on BF3 don’t bother me though, Its diferent from BC2, but doesn’t mean that’s worse.
Agreed. Unfortunately since they’re the Devs and we still have no Mod Tools, we’re screwed though
… Too Complicated… /Facepalm.
Well, if they say it’s unbalanced it’s because they’ve tryed it right? HAve a little faith on what they say.
Yay! Can’t wait!
So…DICE has announced that they are going to announce a dlc?
Wish list. Weather effects on vision and sound like rain, wind / snow, also every map could have a day / night transition option. Wouldn’t it be cool to see the map darken as you progressed to the next area and a change in weather.
I hope DLC contains New York map and more which idk what else is going to be next there and I hope the ACR Assualt rifle and the m14 EBR sniper rifle
M14 EBR sniper rifle? So that must be an M14 enhanced battle rifle sniper rifle! AWESOME dude!!!!
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dick
What do you think the M39 is? As far as the ACR goes, does anyone use it? no.
whats wrong with the acr, it doesn’t matter if anyone uses it. the jackhammer is in bf3 , but there were only 2 made in reality.
For the love of god give us some more open maps with this DLC.
I really fucking hate the closed-in, non-destructible bullshit feel of so many current maps. Too many fucking alleyways, narrow streets, claustrophobic buildings full of walls that C4 can’t even put a black spot on. It just drives me insane sometimes. Campers everywhere, knowing they’re *safe*….
Why does it have to be all metropolis-style urban? Why not some heartland in the DLC? Tornado alley, plains states under a thunderstorm sky with tanks annihilating each other. Caspian-ish, but in America. I would be pumped for that. If it’s just more square maps with endless chokepoints I seriously think I’m gonna pass. I already haven’t been playing for a few weeks now because the maps make the gameplay feel so stale.
I’m just hoping is all.
well said, my feelings exactly.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but unfortunately that is exactly what’s going to happen. The closed-in action-packed chokepoint maps are the most popular with the new BF players, so that’s what they’re going to focus on. Plus it’s harder to make large maps for the consoles. Haven’t you noticed that all the current “large” maps are nothing more than 4 points very close together, and then 2 randomly separated points? Firestorm and Caspian Border are a joke compared to the large maps from BF2 and 2142.
1944 (XD), 2143 or Vietnam. I know they did BC2 Vietnam, but they didn’t even have planes in that, so it doesn’t really count.
1942*, 2142*. Retard….
The only retard here is you.. 1942 was released back in 2001 or something, and 1943 in 2009. Battlefield vietnam was released 2004, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 vietnam came 2010. = 2142 = 2143
Nah, dipshit, 1944 or 2143. Think man, you can do it!
you obviously didn’t understand what he was trying to say numb nuts.
NYC + All American DLC rumor = great stunt EA
I want at least snow level one dawn/daytime/noon and one night time, ghillie suits and atvs, a couple night levels
agree man dice should make ghillie’s for bf3 and make snow maps and night maps
I hope its a kinda tribute to the American special forces .
“SEAL TEAM 6″ xD
I’m getting tired of journalists spreading misinformation. There is no “Seal Team 6,” there hasn’t been one since the late 80′s.
Just like every MW game. *rolleyes*
Hopefully DICE will decide to add a NYC map. But in addition to this, I wouldn’t mind seeing a map in Washington D.C. Or perhaps a map in San Diego or Miami where the U.S. are the defenders and the Russians are attacking…you know something like that. I enjoy playing on the maps that have that kinda…beach feel to it(like gulf of Oman-because that was one beautiful map with some gorgeous scenery), but I wouldn’t mind seeing more maps like Caspian border that have that open country side feel to it as well. Like a blend between Heavy metal and Caspian border would be really fun. But anyways, keep up the great work DICE…I look forward to seeing more DLC in the future.
Just like mw2 then…
So what guns would you guys like to see in the new DLC?
Steyr AUG
I would like more British weapons but that should wait until the ‘Euro Force’ pack comes out. This routine of DLC seems similar to BF2 . . . not entirely but similar enough. I’m thinking something close to Armoured Fury. If we’re going American with weapons, I would like to see more gadgets like a rifle based SOFLAM but with shorter range?
Despite not being british myself, i’m looking foward as well for more british weaponry. After I unlocked the l85A2 it become my most used weapon in a matter of 3 days.
The Steyr Aug is one of the most beautiful weapons of all time. Also, the Kriss Super V would be a great PDW, as well as a Desert Eagle
ww2 british bren lmg or american bar
None, new guns will not add anything new at this point, it will just make the game more complicated to balance. Also, adding anything aside from new maps will give EA the excuse to label this DLC as an “expansion” and therefore charge money for it rather than making it free. And I don’t recall how many people here remember that during BC2′s release EA kept bragging about NOT charging for map packs because it splits up the multiplayer community. They used this in comparison to Activision with their practice of charging for map packs.
I would Like to see a rocket launcher called basuka or however u spell it, it will totally make my day
id like to see them get rid of 1 gun ik that usas 12 pure noob pos gun.