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Battlefield 3 Unveiling at GDC 2011 (March 1st)

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Yeah, I wonder if we'll be able to pre-order the LE on steam.
I don't think I've ever pre-ordered a game, but this will be the first.
 
Does the EA Download Manager limit the number of times you can redownload something? And if so, is it likely we'll be able to pre-order the DVD copy?
 
ViviTheMage said:
I am going to wait for steam to have it ... hopefully same price + LE.
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I'm probably with vivi on this, I've reinstalled BF2 on 3 different machines a minimum of 5 times and keeping track of the CD keys to play Project Reality is a major pain. I'm not thrilled about the EA installer (not sure how many downloads they allow) where as I know steam is easy to deal with and tracks stuff great.
 
I'm kinda hoping they make aircraft actually land to re-arm and if the aircraft has been damaged to add a few seconds penalty to the repair/re-arm time before allowing take-off.
 
Yea, that's what we been discussing over on the EA UK BF3 forums. I was thinking that jets could have to land to rearm, which would take them time and would reduce the jet whoring that causes them to get 100 kills per round(out of only 300 tickets for 64 players, but really more like 200-220 after you count ticket bleed), but to compensate they would get 1 salvo of general purpose(unguided) bombs, and 4 laser guided bombs(individually dropped) that can respond to laser designation requests from ground troops. In this manner, if the jet reliant player tries to rely on constant bomb spamming of his unguided bombs, it will slow him compared to BF2 since he will have to constantly land to rearm them. However, if he goes the teamwork route and uses his LGBs to help ground troops, it will make him perhaps even more devastating than in BF2. But there would be less reason to complain about jet whoring in that situation because the infantry shining the lasers would be just as much a part of it as the pilot. After a fashion, anyway, but they would definitely feel more included instead of just cannon fodder to get bombed.
 
GullyFoyle said:
-Jets. They are back.
-Prone. It is back.
-Maps 3 times the size of BC2...They are here.
-The PC Version of the game is being ported to the console, unlike the vice-virca we all thought. Huzza!
-Information and "other cool stuff" coming this month
-Beta Summer 2011
-Release in November/December 2011.
-PC Version is getting remakes of fan favorites.
-64 Players Max on PC. Unknown for consoles.

Dont worry about the console players, by the time they are half way through their 180 turn we have armed 2 MCOMS plus cut and polished all the armour.
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lol this guy was more or less right gully
 
The maps part has yet to be determined. Would love to see El Alamein, Wake(well I don't like wake but I acknowledge many do), Mashtuur, oil rig from DC, Kubra Dam, Dragon Valley, Daqing Oilfields. Songhua Stalemate but with night instead of fog would be superb...
 
maniacalpha1-1 said:
The maps part has yet to be determined. Would love to see El Alamein, Wake(well I don't like wake but I acknowledge many do), Mashtuur, oil rig from DC, Kubra Dam, Dragon Valley, Daqing Oilfields. Songhua Stalemate but with night instead of fog would be superb...
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They better have Wake and i would love a night vision map
 
I can't wait to mess around with the demo...have a feeling the graphics from the new FB2 engine are going to be off the chain...
 
Arsinek said:
About time they put prone in. Hopefully its not buggy like their previous attempt. Now if they'd only fix their sprint. Also the guns didn't feel very precise in BC2.
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They need to fix something...I was shooting at a guy with the 93R from a decent distance (hard to say in-game, but maybe 30-40 meters?) and ended up killing a guy that I hadn't initially seen who was very close to me, maybe 5-10 meters, and was a good couple inches on-screen to the left of where I was aiming. 😕 I definitely shouldn't have hit him.
 
From what I am seeing on Twitter, there is some kind of press embargo until the 2nd. So, we may get some impressions leaked here and there, and we may hear about what it is we will get to see soon, but we may not actually get to see it until Wednesday.

Whenever information is released, it will be posted in the Official FAQ and news thread stickied at the top of the PC Gaming forum.
 
Well its march 3rd, havent seen anything except for a small gameplay vid.

What about China? Are they included? Need Wake island!
 
Well she sure is pretty lookin.

As to the cover art, someone cue up that cracked.com cliche requirements for FPS cover art.
 
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