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Yeah, it sucks to see Battlefield co-opted in this way, but it was sort of inevitable.
The Booster packs went free in patch 1.5, which was a full 4 years after BF2's release. And those were a relative failure compared to how well map packs do these days. EA is going to milk this cow dry.
Moo.
You could always pick up someones weapon after you killed them... I'm going to assume that the person playing in that demo was someone who's played Battlefield before and did just that. It's also Battlefield 3 and not Bad Company, faction specific weapons have always been in BF but not in BC. I think, not sure how BC1 did things.
The first few minutes of this video are really good. I especially like how they pointed out that the squad leader is back, which gives me some hope for some kind of command interface more sophisticated than Bad Company 2's lackluster offering. There were fewer insights as the video dragged on, and the whole "the Russians are wearing chemical warfare suits, are there chemical weapons in the game?!" is kind of silly when the better explanation is that those suits look cool. Also, they failed to note that the rubble in the last bit of the video immediately vanishes when it hits the ground, something I didn't notice until the video was slowed down. That's disappointing
Also, MegaMek, given that we've heard that flashlights are for engineers and given that the guy using the AK-74SU with the flashlight to gun down Russians in the video was assault, it seems to offer more evidence in favor of the idea that there are team-specific guns, because the American in that video probably picked up that gun from an enemy engineer.
Apparently that is Afghanistan, my bad. Not that "Middle East" is a very precise or useful term anyway.
I don't think the claim is that the MEC maps are nothing but sand, but consistently sand based (though like you mentioned, Gulf of Oman was on a beach).
I am disappointed in that switch.
I want to see some shotguns.
Be prepared for many other disappointments. As much as DICE wants to get back to the greatness that was BF2, they just as much want to attract players from COD. And those are two very, very different games.
This isn't "from COD". Bad Company 2 used the ammo pool method. To be honest, I like it better. I hated the method from BF2 where you stupidly dropped the magazine. The armed forces don't fucking do that. And if you did keep the mag you unloaded, using the mag system would be even more confusing. Unless you want the BF series to become a sim. I know I don't.
Battlemans: DiscoCabbage | Elite: Dangerous: Aleksandr Khabaj
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/hy24b/battlefield_3_preorder_dlc_boycott_coordination/
The developer wants to reward customers who pre-order by giving them more weapon options that will be completely balanced with the main game? INCONCEIVABLE!!
All the realism....people have plenty of other options and battlefield has always been arcade.
I don't think the dropped magazine concept is incredibly annoying from a gameplay perspective.
1. It makes you think before reloading, which is especially important now so that people don't take willy-nilly advantage of the one-in-the-chamber mechanic.
2. Most of the time, you end up dying before using all of that ammo.
3. In the event where you don't die, it gives the support class the opportunity to do the thing they were entirely created to do.
People are always firing their weapons. The support class will have plenty to be doing.
Battlemans: DiscoCabbage | Elite: Dangerous: Aleksandr Khabaj
Yes, splitting the user base at launch is a great idea and I wish more companies would do it
I've seen it work well in mixed realism / arcade. A good example is Firearms HL, which had per mag ammo counts, and a button to merge magazines which took a few seconds of standing still to do. I think it was a good mix.
I agree with them, though not necessarily to the point of a boycott. I don't mind an early game advantage, but it's dogshit to not give paying customers access to all options in a competitive game in the long haul. It's entirely possible that preload option will be, by at least a margin, clearly superior to the other options for a given map / game type, or even in general.
I don't know if I just suck a lot, or if I have better trigger discipline or something. I just don't run out of ammo that often, and if I do, it's because I wasn't squaded up with a support guy. The whole concept of topping off a mag seems silly to me, and I curse goldeneye for starting the trend. Do you guys all just instinctively reload whenever you're not firing?
Pretty much this right here.
Speaking of ammo, I wish assaults would drop ammo more often in BC2, goddamn is it ever annoying to need ammo and there's assaults all around you and nobody is dropping shit and even after you request ammo they ignore you.
Yeah I am with you Nick. I would like the set mags approach if only to fulfill my pet peave of people who habitually fire 6 rounds and then reload and then fire 2 rounds and then reload again. It should work that if you reload your gun after firing 20 rounds then you'll have a magazine in your pack with only 10 rounds in it until you meet a support man.
I think it could be a good game play mechanic even with the arcadey life that battlefield has. Could also balance firefights I think with the new suppression mechanic.
In stuff like RO where you can pop a guy in a bullet or two its adds to the tension and makes you think. I think MW2 or Blops in HC would benefit a lot from this mechanic, lord knows the games don't make you think much to begin with.
Battlemans: DiscoCabbage | Elite: Dangerous: Aleksandr Khabaj
Weapons that players who didn't pre-order will never be able to use and that may well not be "completely balanced".
And the maps. If you're on a server that's running the DLC maps and you haven't preordered or purchased them (something that, IIRC, you won't be able to do on launch day), you're gonna get kicked. It'll hurt the MP communities that have been so strong in BF2 and BC2.
Wait, what the fuck am I saying- i'm still gonna buy it and have a track record of just enjoying being mad at things. Still, the same type of protest worked when they were going to put microtransactions in BC1, if you'll remember.
I'm hopeful it'll work here, because after all, it's a win-win for everyone if we can get those unlockables by leveling. You'll still get the pre-order maps 'cause i doubt they'll do anything to change the plans for Back to Karkand at this point.
Playing medic in BC2 makes reloading a tough choice because of how long it takes on the LMG's. But otherwise i'll slap a new mag in every time i've fired and am not in direct contact.
It definitely is a force of habit for a lot of FPS fans I am guessing.
No, he meant that it's stupid that you drop the whole magazine, you don't keep it for later use. Like ending up with a magazine that has only 10 bullets left, instead of being left with nothing at all.
Are there any new multiplayer videos? I really thought E3 would deliver more than my grandparents playing BF3.
BF3 will be at Dreamhack, people who received a special invitation get to play, and if you preorder on-site, you also get to play. It's next Saturday, here's to hoping they deliver new footage this time.
Also, "Your questions on the DLC bonuses answered". They didn't answer my question though.
Can you get Back to Karkand by just buying the limited edition, or do you have to pre-order it? Or is the limited edition a pre-order only deal? I can't recall exactly what they said.
I'm pretty sure that if you pre-order the game, almost anywhere, you get the limited edition. After the game comes out, however, only the standard edition will be available. There have been several other games that have done this, too, and from EA, so I'm guessing that formula will hold true with Battlefield 3.
The general consensus seems to be this wont really splinter the community to much on servers but who knows.
The weapons I could not care less about but apparently you missed the part where the pre-order bonus includes maps. Splitting the community at/near release is a huge mistake and something I don't agree with but will pre-order anyway.