Battlefield 3
Game » consists of 15 releases. Released Oct 25, 2011
Battlefield 3 is DICE's third numerical installment in the Battlefield franchise. It features a single player and co-operative campaign, as well as an extensive multiplayer component.
The Caspain Border trailer will not be like that on Consoles
I'm a humble man, I take what I can get.Cool. Keep in mind that as i discuss this, I am not mad that BF3 is not identical to BF2. Sure, I would pay ridiculous sums of money for a Battlefield 2 remake, but I'm totally ok with BF3 moving on.
Now then, when the number of players on a map grows, the strategical depth and teamplay element naturally grow with it. Which is why 4v4 or 8v8 TDM is about sneaking around waiting for a kill while keeping your head down, 32 player Rush is about a team pushing forward together and clashing with the enemy as they try to reach the objective and blow it up, and 64 player Conquest has always been about an all out war, with all kinds of vehicles utilized, many flags spread across the map to give a genuine feel of a sandbox, where playing alone renders you helpless, and where not only pushing forward with teammates but rather working with them in strategical methods is the way to go.
If you look at Battlefield 2, it had three versions of each map - 16 player size (2-3 flags), 32 player size (5-6 flags), 64 player size (8-9 flags). The more the people running on the battlefield, the more control points added to the map and the more space there is between said flags.
Enlarging the map by making the playable area bigger, while keeping the flags of the 32-player version, is simply flawed. If there was a 6v6 Conquest map with 2 flags, would it make sense to add infinite dead space around the two flags and put 64 people on it? No! The two flags wouldn't suffice even if the map is the biggest ever created.. You'd need to add more flags, because each flag added, adds a ton to the playability of the map and all kinds of action that can happen. It gives a purpose to the fuckload of people playing, and divides them across the map better, and gives them more options to pursue.
Now, if you look at the Caspian Border map, you will see that it has 5 flags, all located in the center of the map.
The first problem with that is the flag number. How does it make sense that Bad Company 2's conquest with 32 players had four flags, and now we have TWICE the number of players, with 1 flag added?
Second problem is the flag placement. It's clearer that a shit Hitler mustache on somebody's face that the map was designed for the console, which has 24 players, and then dead useless space was added around which is somehow supposed to absorb the FORTY MORE PLAYERS on PC ..
According to Alan Kertz, the consoles have the same flag number and placement. Need I say more?
20 bucks says this is the console version:
Somehow, those 5 flags created to suit a conflict between 24 players, will also be enough for a conflict consisting of 64 players. Somehow, the 40 people added to the equation will not choke the game up by attacking the flags that were meant for 24 people to attack.
Somehow, this dead outer space is supposed to absorb the 40 extra players:
@Tarsier said:
it makes sense that they would start with the console version of the map and then add to it and expand it for the PC later on. it doesnt make sense to do it the opposite way, how would they make the maps smaller? shrink them? lol the gameplay would be lost in the processLol indeed, good sir, lol indeed. Read what i typed above, and look at this:
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