Battlefield 3

[JayDizzle]

I knew they'd put SPECACT back in after the success they got with BC2 (never forgiving Sony for nixing the Dr. Pepper promotion).

Don't really care about the early access to weapons and whatnot but damned if I want those tags.

My tag addiction is worse than my trophy "problem."

[JayDizzle]

Weak. They get skins and weapons for in store preorders and online shoppers get shit.

-all pre-orders come with the Back to Karkland expansion

Free maps to kill dudes on.

[padman59]

I don't care much for the weapons either since we'll be able to get them eventually anyway. So between Best Buy and Amazon, I'm leaning toward Amazon at the moment (avoiding tax FTW (I'm cheap like that)). Hopefully, Amazon will sweeten the deal with a $20 credit.

[JayDizzle]

All I know is that if I see SPECACT gear on some bum first day on the servers, he's getting a RPG sandwich.

You might as well wear an orange vest and a sign that says, "Shoot Me First!"

Shit, I could decide to drop a building on them if the mood struck me.

[BigBucs]

I do know this, I will have to roll with some people who can carry me for a few days until I figure this shit out. I have no idea what the classes are/mean, the benefits of each and when to utilize them. All I wanna do is play team death match but Im assuming there is more to it than that.

[padman59]

I do know this, I will have to roll with some people who can carry me for a few days until I figure this shit out. I have no idea what the classes are/mean, the benefits of each and when to utilize them. All I wanna do is play team death match but Im assuming there is more to it than that.

There is actually a TDM gametype in BF3. If it's like BC2, it will be 4v4v4v4 with a light tank up for grabs in the middle of the map.

[leaffan]

[JayDizzle]

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/08/05/bb.aspx##

Fuck Yo' Backlog...

 

“Battlefield players are among the most loyal out there. Our games are literally played for years by our hardcore fans, and we want to actively support that. There should always be something left to achieve in Battlefield 3.”

Valerian Noghin and Fredrik Thylander are Persistence Designers on Battlefield 3. They’re the guys making sure you will have as much fun with the game in 2013 as on launch day.

Back in 2005, Battlefield 2 was one of the first shooters to introduce a deep persistence system to add that extra layer of tasty rewards and unlocks to keep players returning to the battlefield for hundreds of hours. With Battlefield 3, we are pulling all the stops. Compared to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3 will have more than 10 times the hardware unlocks spread over weapons, weapons attachments, gadgets, and a huge unlock tree for vehicles alone.

Skill and dedication equal rewards
On top of these ingame hardware items, players will also be richly rewarded with medals, ribbons and service stars displaying their skill, commitment, and teamplay prowess. You will be rewarded handsomely in Battlefield 3 for exemplary skill, such as capturing X amount of bases in one round. Excellent teamplayers who keep the team’s vehicles in mint condition and revive fallen comrades will not go unnoticed either. These type of skill-driven rewards are typically handed out in the form of ribbons, and good players can often get more than one ribbon in a single round.

From top left to bottom right: Assault Rifle Ribbon (7 assault rifle kills in a round), Nemesis Ribbon (2 nemesis kills), MVP Ribbon (be the best player in a round), Ace Squad Ribbon (be part of the best squad in a round), Medical Efficiency Ribbon (5 revives in a round), and finally the Air Warfare Ribbon (6 air kills in a round).

Winning a round for the team should always be the priority, so we are making sure that even when players are chasing their personal achievements, they are contributing to the overall battle. You will also be rewarded for true dedication and commitment, such as playing x amount of hours as a U.S. soldier. These honors come in the form of the much harder to get medals. They are typically given at specific milestones in your career.

There are a large number of ranks in Battlefield 3, similar to Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Your rank badge is a quick measure of your overall progress in the game. And even if you hit the max rank, there is always more glory to strive for with the new concept of Service Stars that we are introducing in Battlefield 3.

Service Stars challenge the hardcore
Even getting your first Service Star would be a major achievement. But keep playing, and you will be eligible for even further promotion by getting Service Stars added to your weapon skill badge, your vehicle, your kit, and your overall rank. Anytime your kill card is displayed, everyone will see exactly how experienced you are with your current equipment. The ultimate bragging right would be for a player to be awarded the rank of Colonel with 100 Service Stars attached, and to have 100 stars in all weapons, kits, and vehicles. Getting there will be a massive task – consider that a challenge!

The design philosophy behind the unlocks in Battlefield 3 is pretty sweet. We basically give you more hardware to play with for doing what you love to do. Case in point: Using gun X will give you more upgrades specifically for that gun. Playing with a kit and vehicle earns more upgrades for that kit and that vehicle. In addition, all XP gained also goes towards your overall rank, which in turn unlocks new weapons, specializations, and camouflages usable by any class.



From left to right: Maintenance Medal (obtain the Maintenance Ribbon 50 times), Marksman Medal (obtain the Marksman Ribbon 50 times), and the U.S. Army Service Medal (spend 100 hours in the U.S. Army.)

Play Battlefield 3 your way
The mantra we keep coming back to when designing Battlefield 3 is “play it your way”. What that means is there’s an unprecedented flexibility in how you tailor your kits. The playable classes are not rigidly defined in what they are supposed to play like. While all four classes in Battlefield 3 (Assault, Engineer, Support, Recon) start out with everything they need to be an efficient soldier in the field, it is totally up to you and your personal preferences how you want to tailor them.

Take the Assault class, for example. As you may know by now, this is now the class that has the ability to equip both a defibrillator and medkit for frontline medic abilities. But if you would prefer to switch your add-ons to, say, an underslung grenade launcher with 40mm grenades, go ahead! That will give you an Assault soldier with a more offensive set of capabilities than the player who opts for the default medic approach.

Tactical unlocks force you to choose the right loadout for you
That’s the way all of the unlocks and upgrades work. They are specifically designed to be tactical in nature, forcing you to choose loadout based on the map and situation. Do you go for the heavy barrel for your assault rifle? It gives added accuracy for single shots, but at the cost of stronger recoil in burst fire/full auto mode. A standard assault rifle can be modified into a long range accurate weapon or for close quarter, almost SMG-like, combat. For jets, do you go with Maverick ATG missiles to take out tanks or AA missiles to dogfight airborne threats? With your Engineer, do you bring your anti-tank or your anti-air RPG launcher?

In short, we think there has never been a better time to be a Battlefield gamer, no matter your play style.

TL;DR - They plan on keeping you playing for a LONG time.

[padman59]

TL;DR - They plan on keeping you playing for a LONG time.

LOL. I've got almost 300 hours logged in BC2 and I'm still not at level 50. They didn't need to add much to keep me playing BF3 for a while.

[leaffan]

LOL. I've got almost 300 hours logged in BC2 and I'm still not at level 50. They didn't need to add much to keep me playing BF3 for a while.

Same here.

Some quick Battlefield stats I pulled from my old xfire or battlefield profiles I had saved.

BF1942: 365 Hours
BF2: 1043 Hours (includes the expansion pack)
BF2142: 854 Hours
Bad Company 2: 123 Hours

[BigBucs]

Will I get stoned if I told you all I sold BF2:BC on ebay after like a week of having that shit?

[padman59]

Will I get stoned if I told you all I sold BF2:BC on ebay after like a week of having that shit?

:boothisman:

[leaffan]

Will I get stoned if I told you all I sold BF2:BC on ebay after like a week of having that shit?

[Maynard]

u guys are some hardcore shooter fans. i just get bored and lose interest. they all remind me of COD4 and none seem to live up to its standard

it poses the question. MW3 or BF3....pointless to ask in this thread. i would probably lean towards BF3 cause i never really played the series for any real amount of time

[BigBucs]

I got rid of it because of the learning curve and having nobody to roll with. Its so much different than COD. A monkey can pick up COD and play it, wasnt the case with BF. If it isnt a sports game, Madden or Boxing, then me my attention span isnt that great.