BF3 News

[secondhonor]

I am the air bitch !!!!!!!!!

yes you right zed

[Zed]

I am the air bitch !!!!!!!!!

yes you right zed

I love my .gif 2nd. And I love you to.

[CoolMoDi]

Who Battlefield: Bath Company 2 on the PC has played, already knows the Serverpolitk of EA and DICE and experiences with Battlefield 3, therefore, no surprise. Instead of offering freely Dedicated of server and leaving it to the players, putting on privately the servers, the Battlefield become 3 servers of select partners gehostet. Now in a forum contribution of the English EA web page Mikael Kalms of DICE to the contact with Dedicated to servers expressed himself in Battlefield 3.
 
Thus the Ranked and Unranked server are pursued by a row of select server suppliers. Private Dedicated to servers aren't permitted. Besides, there will be not in every country server, but where there are 3 players enough Battlefield. A list of the servers is published to the release of the play in October, 2011. The server operators are paid like with bath Company 2 by the players who also take over the administrative duties and determine therefore, among the rest, about the map choice and other play aspects. On Unranked to servers the administrators should be able to have even more influence on the play.
 
» PC version in the preview: Only really with 64 players

As an Anti Cheat system it is officially supported PunkBuster. Moreover, the tools become some Anti-Cheat-Communities support, even if not officially. PBBans, GGC-Stream and PunksBusted count to it.
 
No free name choice

As Community manager Daniel Matros informs in a Twitter contribution, PC players of Battlefield 3 her pitching names can't adapt in the play individually. Instead, the play takes over the account name from the on-line platform Origin which is assumed compelling to the play by Battlefield 3. As with the Xbox 360 player name and account name are identical.

[IkKeJr]

Who Battlefield: Bath Company 2 on the PC has played, already knows the Serverpolitk of EA and DICE and experiences with Battlefield 3, therefore, no surprise.

No surprise, no ranks, no unlocks, no spec-act and always updating your stats.

Btw is it me or is this just a google translation of a text in german?

[Zed]

Who Battlefield: Bath Company 2 on the PC has played, already knows the Serverpolitk of EA and DICE and experiences with Battlefield 3, therefore, no surprise.

No surprise, no ranks, no unlocks, no spec-act and always updating your stats.

Btw is it me or is this just a google translation of a text in german?

Yes some thing seems wrong.

[Kiss_Shot]

COOP

Battlefield 3: Co-op Demo

[Asraelite]

cool

[DevilDogUSMC]

Nice post!  Don't think I will be playing that mode much, but if I get one for littledog it could be a lot of fun.  I will eventually get him a copy if his computer will play it.

[DevilDogUSMC]

Check this one out!

http://youtu.be/cEhf92zDreU

And this one:

http://youtu.be/XhBjBy5OOFY

And some decent analysis:

http://youtu.be/pBYiZMBVxNE

More gameplay:

http://youtu.be/SDcbaR1THPQ

[Kiss_Shot]

COOOOOL   cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Asraelite]

Physical Warfare Pack: http://bit.ly/oRoFLf

[Kiss_Shot]

iraki-clan???

watch at 3min

Battlefield 3 C4 Destruction HD

[ejnardk]

Don't think this has been posted before...

Some trivia 'bout bf3, servers and stuff.

Quote:
Aug 25.
DICE's Michael Kalm wrote a post about how the servers will work in Battlefield 3. If you are familiar with BC2 servers it will be recognizable.

Ranked / unranked server vendors are, like at BC2, the only way to run a server. In unranked mode admins can decide what weapons are allowed, a feature that speaks to the contest-embossed team out there. Another feature that should be fixed is Punk Buster's ability to make player screenshots, something that did not work optimally in BC2.
A list of server vendors should show up within a month's time.

He can not give answers to the question about spectator mode, battle recorder, etc., but hope to have clarification on that issue when the open beta starts.

RSPs
The game server machines themselves will be run by a number of Ranked Server Provider (RSP) companies. We do not allow other companies to run game servers, or for other people to run game servers from home.

We try to strike a balance where there are game servers available across the globe, while still keeping the number of RSPs at a level where we can offer reasonable support to each individual company. Since we prefer to work with larger hosting companies, and we focus on countries where we have a larger player base, there will not be game servers available in every country on the planet.

The list of RSPs which will run BF3 game servers at launch is not ready yet. Once it is, we will publilalalala widely.

Server administrators
While the RSPs run the physical machines, most if not all will be paid for and administered by the players themselves – individuals, groups of friends, or clans.
A server administrator control some aspects of the play experience – which maps are being played, which people are allowed onto the server, and can also affect the play style through various direct and indirect controls. Generally speaking, servers that are administered by reasonable admins attract players, while servers which have arbitrary rules imposed see less traffic.

Ranked vs Unranked
One of the biggest choices which a server administrator has to make is, whether to run the server in Ranked or Unranked mode.

In Ranked mode, player progression is tracked on EAs master servers. Weapons are unlocked by playing the game. Player progression is also visible on Battlelog. The server administrators will have to abide by the Battlefield Rules of Engagement.

In Unranked mode, player progression is not tracked on the master servers. Server administrators have free reign on such servers – no Battlefield Rules of Engagement to heed. They can control in detail which weapons are available to the players, etc. This mode is suited to playing clan matches, tournaments, or to those players who just like the fairness of everyone having the same range of weapons available to them.

PunkBuster
BF3 will use PunkBuster as its anti-cheat system. Game servers that run in ranked mode are required to have PunkBuster active.
There have been problems with the PunkBuster screenshot mechanism under DirectX 10/11 in the past. However, we have collaborated with EvenBalance to make screenshots function reliably with DX10/DX11 in BF3.

Third party anti-cheat organizations
There are several community initiatives against cheating. These initiatives are usually volunteer organizations that maintain their own databases with cheaters. They do both manual work - reviewing screenshots, game recordings, and other cheating evidence – and also implement automated systems.
It is up to each individual server administrator whether to join with one or more of these organizations.
While not officially partnering with these organizations, we try to ensure that BF3 works well with their systems in time for the launch.
The biggest three organizations that support Battlefield games are PBBans (PBBans | Always Quality over Quantity), GGC-Stream (GGC-Stream / News) and PunksBusted (PunksBusted.com Sponsored by Ventrilo). There are also several smaller organizations around.

Server administration interface
BF3 will support a Remote Administration interface similar to that of BFBC2. The basic protocol will be the same, but commands differing a bit.
There is a plethora of tools available that can talk to the remote admin interface. We are in contact with several of the developers who created tools for BFBC2, and will aid them in adding support for BF3. If you have developed a BFBC2 remote admin tool which is popular (used on >100 game servers), send me a PM.

The protocol itself is still under constant revision. Expect the protocol to be published by the time that the retail game is released.

Unquote.

Seems to be very close to how bf2 was run (I've never tried bfbc2 so I cannot say if it's similar to that, too).
/ejnarDK

[ejnardk]

Caspian border extended.
Comments are at very low volume.

Battlefield 3 - Caspian Border-Extended Trailer PAX 11

[Zed]

Falling rubble kills you. I see many glitches in this idea.

[Kiss_Shot]

and again....

http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=19562

[FROG]

and again....

http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=19562

I hope there won't be soundtracks like that ingame

That video scares me... will I have enough power to play it, or I'll have to buy another nvidia 560 for SLI ??
I'm getting 16GB of RAM for sure, but will my six-core AMD 1090T be enough??? My system is at risk.

[IkKeJr]

and again....

http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=19562

I hope there won't be soundtracks like that ingame

That video scares me... will I have enough power to play it, or I'll have to buy another nvidia 560 for SLI ??
I'm getting 16GB of RAM for sure, but will my six-core AMD 1090T be enough??? My system is at risk.

duuuuude, you sound like george, "i dont think ill have enough with 24 GB RAM and 2x GTX560"
I have 8GB of RAM atm and its overkill, i havent found any program that uses more than 4 GB of RAM (GTA4 included)
Even if i render something in 3dsm i dont use more than 4 GB so you guys should chilllllllllll out.

If your cpu is good, you wont need that much RAM.

I cant be sure but i dont think bf3 will be 2x heavier for your hw than bc2. Its the same engine just a little bit (maybe more than a little, but not so much.) nicer and bigger.

Dont be fooled by "the NEW forstbite 2.0 engine" because irl its only a upgrade from bc2's frostbite 1.5.
Its just a sales pitch.

[FROG]

duuuuude, you sound like george

I hope you're not talking about Georges Cloney

I have 8GB of RAM atm and its overkill, i havent found any program that uses more than 4 GB of RAM (GTA4 included)
Even if i render something in 3dsm i dont use more than 4 GB so you guys should chilllllllllll out.

The thing is I'm planning to run a RAM Drive on my PC, and 8GB won't be overkill. I could put up to 32GB (4 x 8GB dimm), but that will be approximately $1K. And for 16GB it's around $100. A fair price to me.

So, a 10GB RAM drive and the remaining 6GB available for windows and apps. I will try to get all temporary files to the RAM drive, therefore they will be automatically erased on shutdowns or restarts. This way, I will reduce the writes on the SSD by a lot, and maybe extend its life a few extra years.

[IkKeJr]

All issues you wouldn't have with a normal HDD.
Is that extra 10-25MB/s worth it?