A lot of new facs have been released in a recent Q&A session. They’re all listed below.
Battlefield 3 Beta
- The beta will not start at midnight or 00:00 GMT
- The download size will be 2 – 3gb
- Those who had the alpha must download the beta client, the alpha client can not be updated.
- No game rank limit during beta (go all the way to 50!)
- Pre-load information coming soon
- The beta was not delayed
Battlefield 3 General
- The netcode is completely new and rewritten
- Players can not join a squad if their team is full (to prevent Battlelog groups from getting split)
- Vehicles will begin to heal themselves after 10 – 15 seconds (this is a server setting)
- Vehicles will only begin to regenerate if their health is under 75%
- Unlocks are class restrictive, can’t put a sniper scope on a support gun
- Operation Metro has been better balanced
- Two knife animations (behind and on the ground)
- A knife attack on your player can not be countered
- Throwing a grenade will still prompt enemy players to yell (Bad Company 2 similar)
- Hand grenades can not be held to make the detonation time quicker (known as cooking)
- You can join a server that a friend is on via Origin
- Friendly Fire is set to “on” by default. It can be turned off in the server settings
- Caspian Border is not the biggest map
- Jets do not have bombs (wtf?)
- If you are kicked from a server, Battlelog will prompt you with the reason (ping, server settings, or server admin reasoning)
- A ranked server can be turned into an unranked server (for practice, etc.)
- No weather or time change during a multiplayer game
- e-sports are the focus of Battlefield 3
- No word on Battlerecorder/Game recorder
Misc. Battlefield 3 Information
- Next 1 – 3 weeks will bring more information about maps
- Battlelog application for iPhone/iOS (free). No word on Android.
- Battlelog is updated separately to allow game updating to be a bit more flawless
- More community events in the works (some happening here on enterbf3!)
- Mod tools are still a possibility
- Two nVidia GTX 580′s can run the game on ultra
- Battlefield 3 may be available on the Xbox marketplace
- Some 300 employees at DICE
