Mon, Feb 07, 2011 | 05:11 GMT
Battlefield 3 boss: “You don’t kill CoD by trying to be CoD”
Battlefield 3 gameplay designer Alan Kertz has taken to Twitter to reveal more on the game, saying the way to “kill” Call of Duty is to make a “better shooter”.
Kertz said in the Twitter Q&A session that “you don’t kill CoD by trying to be CoD. You kill CoD by making a better shooter.”
During a Twitter Q&A session, Kertz also said it’s unlikely there’ll be a server browser for console versions of the game, which probably means due to technical reasons this will be cut the number of players from 64 – confirmed for the PC version – to 24, although Kertz wouldn’t confirm or deny these figures.
Kertz also gave some further details such as:
- You’ll be able to lie down on the job
- MoH MP and BC2 used the same weapon and FOV systems… BF3 is an upgraded version
- Destruction is important for DICE, as is visual quality and vehicles.
- Consoles will be able to get the Limited Edition too.
- One of the cities is Tehran.
An image leaked yesterday giving some details on the Limited Edition version of the game, which will release alongside the standard version this fall on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
The first Battlefield 3 teaser trailer hit last week, as did sparse details on locales and multiplayer numbers.
The game will be shown for the first time at GDC in San Francisco at the end of this month.
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#51
GwynbleiddiuM
07/02/11, 4:38 pm
I don’t understand why everyone picturing themselves in a league to beat CoD, while their game was always more intense and impressive experience than aforementioned. Look at BF2, the game needs no praise and still imo the best multiplayer team action shooter out there. You need to continue in your own direction and try to raise the bar by introducing new elements that helps elevate the franchise. keep talking about how u should beat cod is nothing but distraction and upsetting your fan-base. Yes, CoD created a strong fan base of people who mostly run n gun or camp, you created a new environment that if 20 ppl camp doesn’t change anything there are still 44 people out that can make the game balance and fun.
Battlefield always win cuz it’s a kind of game that people are required to participate in team play.
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DSB
07/02/11, 4:50 pm
Yeah, Gwyn, none of those things go for either BF2 or BC2.
And I’m just being a boldfaced liar right there, because it did, and it does.
I can’t count the games I’ve seen thrown away in countless hours of playing BF2, either because someone wanted to camp out a specific node that they had apparently fallen in love with, or because they wanted to climb a nice big crane and take potshots at a couple of guys out there actually scoring points for their team.
I know a lot of people are so fanatical about their personal preference that they subscribe to this theory that people playing online are just so existentially different from one another by virtue of the game they happen to be in, but as a relatively sane person, I’ve seen absolutely no evidence of that in any free multiplayer game.
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