Poll: Battlefield 3: Yay or Nay?

[park92]

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Battlefield 3 is to ship out on October 25th is anyone other than me excited?

 

[Haxxle]

October? I though they were going to release it at Novemebr to contend with up-and-coming Call of Duty.

 

[silentx3ro]

Hells yes, In my head there are only 3 battlefield games (not counting expansions) BF1942, BF2, BF2142. I ignore the existance of all other BF's as their multiplayer lacks the awesomeness of these 3.

Really excited about BF3 been waiting for this for years, Can you say Wake Island 2014

 

[ultrachicken]

I'm only purchasing this if the multiplayer has better balancing of teams than BC2. That game had extremely one sided matches waaay to often.

 

[banksy122]

I'm only purchasing this if the multiplayer has better balancing of teams than BC2. That game had extremely one sided matches waaay to often.

I agree with you totally.(this time haha) I am hoping for more BF2 type maps, huge ones with lots of flags to capture all over the maps, hopefully with real maps like in BF2 as well, just gave it a better feel imo.

 

[EkurioX]

[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zw8SmsovJc [/video]
This video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zw8SmsovJc is far better...

If you pay close attention you will notice that there is a snap/auto too vaulting over objects.

That and you can prone... The game looks completely amazing. Comming out in October is even killer. I might actually buy a better video card and get it for the PC because I hear rumors about 128player matches on PC.

 

[Tartarga]

I had never been all that interested in the modern warfare aspect so many shooters have been taking these days but Battlefield 3 is looking pretty damn cool. I may not buy it right away, but it's looking like a must get.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

Hell fucking yes.

 

[StANDY1338]

anyone else feel the squad mechanic fell away after 2142?

 

[Cowabungaa]

I hear rumors about 128player matches on PC.

Woah...woah....woah! WHAT?! Where did you hear that?! That'd be...amazing! All I've heard is 64 on the PC and 32 on the consoles (for whatever stupid reason). 128... Man, that'd be awesome. Got a link?

anyone else feel the squad mechanic fell away after 2142?

Worked great in Bad Company 2 I must say.

 

[TankTop]

I hear rumors about 128player matches on PC.

Woah...woah....woah! WHAT?! Where did you hear that?! That'd be...amazing! All I've heard is 64 on the PC and 32 on the consoles

I heard 64 on PC as well, but for consoles I was under the impression that it was only 24. Sad face.

EDIT: I forgot to put in "Yay. A million times yay."

 

[Technocrat]

It's like Battlefield and Armed Assault had a baby!

 

[park92]

I hear rumors about 128player matches on PC.

Woah...woah....woah! WHAT?! Where did you hear that?! That'd be...amazing! All I've heard is 64 on the PC and 32 on the consoles (for whatever stupid reason). 128... Man, that'd be awesome. Got a link?

anyone else feel the squad mechanic fell away after 2142?

Worked great in Bad Company 2 I must say.

I played a 128 player match on bf2

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[park92]

It's like Battlefield and Armed Assault had a baby!

LOL not that realistic

 

[park92]

[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zw8SmsovJc [/video]
This video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zw8SmsovJc is far better...

If you pay close attention you will notice that there is a snap/auto too vaulting over objects.

That and you can prone... The game looks completely amazing. Comming out in October is even killer. I might actually buy a better video card and get it for the PC because I hear rumors about 128player matches on PC.

I played 128 players on bf2 once

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[Alexnader]

I hear rumors about 128player matches on PC.

Woah...woah....woah! WHAT?! Where did you hear that?! That'd be...amazing! All I've heard is 64 on the PC and 32 on the consoles (for whatever stupid reason). 128... Man, that'd be awesome. Got a link?

anyone else feel the squad mechanic fell away after 2142?

Worked great in Bad Company 2 I must say.

Ehh... some of it was good. Giving some of the gadgets the squad leader had to individual classes instead helped with teamwork but removing the SL entirely got rid of any desire for squads to stick together as there's no need to protect this one guy when I can spawn off anybody. Of course now you can spawn off anybody in your squad which theoretically should keep you all together but more often than not results in people spawning and then wandering off to do their own thing. Also the smaller maps made spawning off squad mates less of a time saver which added to the fragmentation of squads.

Additionally nobody follows "orders" anymore. In 2142 the SL would place orders to attack a point and often people would follow them as they'd get point rewards and there was a big bloody line pointing you to the point. Now though they're a side-note. You still get extra points but more often than not me and my friends forget we can even issue orders.

Not to mention how squad voicechat is broken in BC2. Although it wasn't all that great in 2142 either.

As for the OP, well all I can say is "yay yay". I mean I'd get it even if it was just a prettier CoD with vehicles and 64p because I know all my friends will most likely get it regardless of how "battlefield-like" it is and then spend every match we play whining about it while we run around knifing people and quickscoping or whatever it is you do in CoD now. However it actually looks like a battlefield game (with CoD elements, Team Deathmatch *shudder)

Seriously though DICE, MAKE SQUAD VOICE CHAT WORK. If Valve can do it for a 12 man team you can bloody well get it going for 4 man squads.