Battlefield 3 Fall 2011

Cant wait to get us in the mood here are some epic BF2 Project Reality Mod Videos - (by the way BF2 Project reality Mod still on going by far the best FPS warfare mod aon any game)

Cant wait for it! and rogue are the system reqs for BF2 really high? Because i have a good hp laptop and was wondering if it could run the game on it.

ARGH! YES!

DANAN DA DA DA DA, DANAN DA DA DUH DUH, DANAN DA DA DA DA, DA NANANANAAAHH!

thats the theme tune btw..

Nicky, to celebrate you up for a game of 1943 ??

Nah mate, im being a studious student right now.

Well, looks like I'm going for the PC version at the moment.

Here's why:

-Aiming for CY Q4 2011 release
-Concept for BF3 has been in the works for years, waiting on proper tech to seamlessly come together
-Frosbite 2.0 is the culmination of this tech, entirely re-written
-Lighting sounds neat, one “probe” contains more lighting information than an entire BFBC2 level.
-Level destruction is going to be “believable” but basically everything is destructible.
-Character animations powered by ANT, what EA Sports uses.
-AI characters and multiplayer characters have different animation sets
-No more “gliding” animations that look off, animation realism is a focus
-Captured their own war audios (bullets, tanks, helicopters, etc) at different distances to ensure realism
-Better audio cues for certain actions, more easily able to listen for threats
-Plan on better, more immediate post release content
-More unlocks than BFBC2
-Dice trying to find a good balance between customization of your character and not having “pink rabbit hat(s)”
-4 classes
-Will talk about squads “later”
-Looking into a theater mode but can’t talk about it
-Will have co-op
-There will be a kill-cam but it can be turned off
-BF3′s team is almost twice as big as the team for BFBC2
-They want the pacing of the single player mode to be balanced, with highs and lows. Makes the comparison to a song vs a guitar solo.
-Part of the single player mode takes place in Sulaymaniyah – Iraqi Kurdistan.
-“[The F word]” will be used often, so M rated for sure
-There will be an earthquake in a level. The destruction sounds very impressive. 7 story building collapses, looks very well done
-Significant narrative that goes with the SP mode
-More than one setting, you’re not in the middle east for the whole game
-PC version is lead version
-Why 64 players for PC only? No complaints from the console crowd.
-No mod tools at release. Maybe none down the line either. Frosbite 2.0 is complex and mods tools would have to be dumbed down, so does Dice really want to put their time to that or would it be better spent elsewhere?
-Original story, not based on Bad Company at all.

And in addition to the news nibble that Battlefield 3 will allow players to go prone, Best Buy has detailed that you’ll be able to “drag your fallen comrades to safety and mount your weapon on almost any terrain to defend them.”

This is all starting to sound very, very good to me. Dragging my comrades to safety in the middle of an earthquake while using “[the F word]” often? Count me the [F word] in.

OMG well looks like I have made up my mind new pc rig here I come, any suggestions for good model for around £1000

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pc/range/ireign.html

'nuff said.

I have the predecessor to the iReign, which stil runs Crysis on full graphics/anything graphics heavy AND runs a movie on a second monitor at the same time, so this should P all over your system requirements! Just get yourself a nice monitor and away you go, job done.

Wait Chris, are all of those details for the PC Version only?

Yes. The PC version is the "lead version" as the console versions have to be cut down due to system limitations, such as 24 player lobbies as opposed to 64 on the PC version.

The trailer you saw, will most likely be single player. Which would have more detail, compared to the multiplayer part of the game for a mix of reasons.

Does look amazing tho.

wow.

holy shnikes

Defo gettin this on the PC, that looks incredible

So who like me is going to have have beast up there PC to run this?

iBUILD™ AMD Gaming Performance Custom PC

£819.90 inc VAT

CoolerMaster Elite 430 Case
CoolerMaster 700W Silent Pro M700 Modular PSU
ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO: 4x Rear USB2.0 2x Rear USB 3.0 1x Rear Firewire
AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Quad-Core 3.2GHz 8MB Cache
Standard CPU Cooling Fan
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz
500GB 7200RPM SATA II
22x DVD RW Lightscribe Black SATA
nVidia GeForce GTX 560 1GB
Microsoft Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Built-in audio
2 Year Parts & Labour Return to Base Warranty Includes 2 Year Free Collect & Return

OR

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 960 Quad Core 3.20GHz, 4.8GTs/8 MB cache, LGA1366 ***Overclockable XXX***
HDD: 500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache HDD (Single Hard Drive)
MEMORY: 6GB (3x2GB) PC10666 DDR3/1333mhz Triple Channel Memory [+21] (Kingston Hyper X Blu Series w/Heat Spreader ***Overclockable XXX*** [+13])
MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) MSI X58 Pro-e Intel X58 Chipset CrossFire DDR3 Mainboard
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card [+62] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA

Personally I would go with an Intel system, although my last computer was an AMD and it was pretty good. I was looking at pcs last night and I dunno wether to wait a wee bit until the Sandy Bridge chips are mroe widely available. Apparently they give better performance at a cheaper price and can handle overclocking better.

I would say 6-8GB of memory, but tbh I think even 4 is still suffciant. As long as you have a 64 bit operating system you can use anything above 3GB.

Graphics wise again I prefer nVidia but I don't think there is much difference. I would be tempted to get the brand new GTX 590, but it has just came out this week and sits at £500 just for the card. But it has the capacity of an SLI card in one.

Yea think I7 way to go, 5 gig and 1 gig graphics, if i get that 1 can buy seperate car and run dual or quad sli!!!

But defo BF3 pc