Hitboxes, Punkbuster, and more new Battlefield 3 information
Russian Battlefield fansites battlefieldbc.ru and bf3.com.ua had the pleasure of holding a podcast with the Russian Battlefield Community Manager Eugene “Joe” Olenev. In turn, Battlefieldo picked up in this interview and condensed all the facts into an easy-to-read list. Read on, friends:
- Hitboxes are much improved in comparison with BFBC2.
- Recoil is really tricky and needs getting used to.
- The closed betatest for MoH owners will be held but no word on date yet.
- There will be ingame VOIP.
- There are three slots for weapon customization.
- Character customization will be up but no word on details.
- The anticheat system is PunkBuster
- BF3 will be greatly optimized. DICE is willing to optimize it for all platforms and hardware.
- System specs won`t be “fantastic”. They will be reasonable.
- The feeling of BF3 is truly different. It`s not BF2 and not BFBC2.
- BF3 will be highly cybersports-oriented.
- There`s no final decision about commo-rose at DICE.
- There`s closed area at DICE office where people work on unannounced project.
- Battlelog is a web-application for BF3.
To those not quite sure what 'commo-rose' is; remember in older Battlefield game when you could hit 'Q' and you would call out enemies for your team, or request health and ammo? Like this? That's commo-rose. And the Battlefield 3 fans want it lots.
FonteEA and DICE are currently running alpha/beta testing on the new Battlelog service, where a number of third party testers have been given access to the alpha version of Battlefiled 3 in order to test Battlelog. One of the testers sent us these screenshots of Battlefield 3, which is in alpha mode. The map is the same as we’ve seen at E3: Operation Metro. While the screenshots don’t reveal anything we haven’t seen yet, we do, for the first time, get a good glimpse of the Battlefield 3 HUD. There’s also an extra screenshot of Battlelog, showing a server browser.