Battlefield 3 Clubhouse - Page 484

cadaveca · Mar 15, 2012, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMailMan78

Honestly this is closer to me...

http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/.../Music_ocd.jpg lol

lulz. I saw that pic and thought of that pic of you in the car...

Had some good games last night, thanks guys. Maybe one night this weekend we can load up Startrek and make erocker happy.

TheMailMan78 · Mar 15, 2012, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cadaveca

lulz. I saw that pic and thought of that pic of you in the car...

Had some good games last night, thanks guys. Maybe one night this weekend we can load up Startrek and make erocker happy.

I have an account already for star trek. I need to ask more questions about playing it because when I did the trial months ago it was in fact damn fun. I just refuse to pay monthly.

Radical_Edward · Mar 15, 2012, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMailMan78

I have an account already for star trek. I need to ask more questions about playing it because when I did the trial months ago it was in fact damn fun. I just refuse to pay monthly.

It's free to play now, well worth it.

cadaveca · Mar 15, 2012, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMailMan78

I have an account already for star trek. I need to ask more questions about playing it because when I did the trial months ago it was in fact damn fun. I just refuse to pay monthly.

Free-to-play works for me. I have not tried it yet though, as BF3 takes up the majority of my gaming time. I think it'd be awesome if we could get teh bunch of us to all start at teh same time.

I refuse to play ANY game that I have to pay for monthly. DLC...fine.

TheMailMan78 · Mar 15, 2012, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cadaveca

Free-to-play works for me. I have not tried it yet though, as BF3 takes up the majority of my gaming time. I think it'd be awesome if we could get teh bunch of us to all start at teh same time.

I refuse to play ANY game that I have to pay for monthly. DLC...fine.

The guy I played as is only about 5 hours old and was just a trial. Ill use him if we can get a few more people.

brandonwh64 · Mar 15, 2012, 05:58 PM

I found MailMan!

d3fct · Mar 15, 2012, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ufgy20

Got my third Video up and running Guys, Let me know what you think

n1, was waiting for that c4, thought u forgot.

GullyFoyle · Mar 15, 2012, 06:45 PM

Digital Trends - Battlefield 3 dev talks about the Close Quarters and Armored Kill map packs, and their “lesser” competitors

Spoiler

March 14, 2012 By Ryan Fleming

We sat down with DICE’s Patrick Bach, Executive Producer for Battlefield 3 and talked about the upcoming Close Quarters map pack, what we can expect from the next map pack Armored Kill, and the rivalry with Call of Duty.

The last few GDCs have belonged to EA, at least as far as the public is concerned. In general, GDC is a much more low key show than something like E3 or CES. For the most part, the event is about networking, sharing ideas, and helping the industry grow. Of course, there are exceptions.

Last year EA stole the show with the first look at Battlefield 3, and this year it was Medal of Honor: Warface. But before Danger Close took the stage, DICE unveiled the three upcoming BF3 maps due out later this year (and possibly into next). For a closer look at the first map pack, Close Quarters, check out our hands-on preview.

Following the presentation, we had a chance to sit down with Patrick Bach of DICE, an Executive Producer for Battlefield 3. Naturally the talk began with discussion of the Close Quarters map pack. It then expanded into how the fans impact the development process, and then strayed into talk of the industry in general, including what he thought of the Call of Duty rivalry. Check out the transcript below.

The Close Quarters map pack was was just announced, and it will have four maps when it is released in June. Will there be any new weapons?

Yes, there will be 10 new weapons, and the weapons will be spread over all the classes. There will be new assignments, so there will be a lot of new stuff in general

Will there be any more single-player or co-op content in the future?

I can’t really talk about the exact plans for the future packs, but we haven’t included that in Close Quarters. For the close future though? No.

“Ziba Towers” is small and contained. Is that theme representative of all of the Close Quarters Maps?

Yes, that is the theme, as the name hints. To be a Battlefield map, the classic Battlefield player would imagine that you were in a big open landscapes. To enclose the player makes it very intense, almost claustrophic at times—it adds a lot of new emotions to the spectrum of Battlefield.

Will you be able to do the classic game modes like Rush and Conquest?

Yes, the classic game modes will be a part of this expansion pack.

So what we saw was just one small part of it—it expands?

Yes, absolutely

What kind of new weapons will we see?

We’ll release that as we get closer to it, but there will be the SPAS 12–the Italian shotgun–which is a classic shotgun that people have seen many times before, and there will be a lot of other guns. The important thing is that we’re doing these guns and spreading them over all the classes, and of course you can then bring them back into your original game. So it actually extends the other maps of Battlefield 3.

Will Close Quarters be able to support the max number of 64 PC players?

No, we are restricting players. I can’t tell you exactly what the restriction is right now, but we are restricting players so we can focus on the fun factor. How many players do we want before it turns into carnage?

It would be overwhelming.

People could potentially find that funny, but not fun.

There are some console updates coming, including some major overhauls to the matchmaking. Have you announced when that will go live?

We don’t have a date for it yet. We’re going through a lot of practical processes to get it out, but it is a full rent-a-server program. You as a player can rent your own server. You can do all the setting yourself, you can invite whoever you want, or you can keep it open to everyone. You control it. This is the first time we’ve seen this on a console. We were quite surprised that no one has done this before. It’s a special feeling owning your own server; having control over it and making sure that you have all the settings–and you have all the information that you think the players you want to invite–are there.

So it will be similar to the PC version?

Yes.

Are there going to be any obvious differences between the PC and console matchmaking?

No. I think the biggest difference when it releases is that it will be easier for console players to rent a server than it is for PC gamers today because we don’t have an in-game interface. But for the console you get everything in front of you at the main menu.

Any chance we may soon see a Battlefield: Bad Company 3?

I can’t really talk about any of the other IPs right now…

What can you tell me about the next map pack, Armored Kill?

The goal and the theme of that pack is to create something that is on the opposite side of the Battlefield scale [from Close Quarters]. Close Quarters is a very intimate, intense infantry experience. [Armored Kill] is the big open, heavy metal vehicles, focusing on the big beasts of the battle. We are introducing new vehicles into the mix. We are building the biggest battlefields we’ve ever built before, so we’ll have the huge battles. It is kind of the opposite…it is complementary part of the spectrum for Battlefield 3.

How much do you listen to fan input?

We listen a lot, but that doesn’t mean that we do exactly what people ask us to do. There are so many requests that don’t fit with reality. We don’t want the game to be fixed for a single individual. We want the system to be perfectly balanced so you can have all these things working together. If you make the game better for you, it might get better for me, but not for him. So we wouldn’t do a fix like that. Even if there is a majority of people complaining about something, that doesn’t mean that we can do that change because it may break the game as a whole.

Sometimes it can be hard to communicate that because we want to find a solution that mitigates all the problems rather than just fixing it for you and breaking it for me. That’s the challenge of building a game like Battlefield. If you get it right, it’s magic. It’s really hard to get to this perfect rock-paper-scissors balance. It’s so easy to get it wrong because if you just react to the person that screams and yells the most, you will definitely break the game. So we can’t do that, because we are responsible for the game, so if we break the game we have to fix it. We can’t blame the community and say “but you got what you wanted and look, it broke, it’s your fault.” We have to be responsible and make sure that when we do something we do it properly, and also plan for the future.

There has been a lot made of the rivalry between Call of Duty and Battlefield from both the press and the fans. How aware of that are you?

Well we do pay attention because people bring it up all the time. We don’t see ourselves as the direct competition to the other shooters on the market, because there aren’t many shooters that are trying to do what we are trying to do. If we try to limit ourselves by trying to build something that is in my book lesser, a lesser experience, even if people say that they like it, and say that they like this particular part of the experience, that is not what Battlefield is all about. Then we shouldn’t call it Battlefield, we should call it something else.

If you don’t have the vehicles, if you don’t have the structure, if you don’t have the team play, if you don’t have the classes, then you’re breaking it. I hope that people that are playing Battlefield 3 and are playing other shooters can see that it’s not the same. If you are into shooters, and you play shooters, you will definitely spot the difference.

What games are on your radar?

I’m looking forward to quite a lot of games. Maybe not always to play them, because sometimes there are games that are interesting but not always to your liking when it comes to the actual game. But there are a lot of interesting games. I think Halo 4, Assassins Creed 3… there are some big players out there that will hopefully give us something more than expected. I’m really looking forward to seeing what they have in the plans for us.

What do you predict for the future of the industry?

When we talk about gaming or gamers, we tend to look at people, because humans won’t change—their behavior, at their core won’t change–but the interface between the person and the product might. No one believed in the games that we can now play on the iPhone, because a couple years before we had the N-Gage, and machines that were on paper the exact same machines. But then all of a sudden the same thing starts to work, because it is the right platform at the right time, and with the right content, and you have the right user behavior. It’s like now it fits, but five years ago it didn’t.

In a way, the games we are building are platform sensitive, because you need to be able to see what’s happening in front of you to be able to control that with a high precision, so it is hard for us to make a hardcore, mobile Battlefield version that has the exact same values as what we are trying to create. So to answer your question, I think there will be a market for games like Battlefield in the future. I also think the gaming market as a whole might grow, but the growth might be in other areas. So you might grow the casual social part, and then the high definition, hardcore shooter audience will stay the same.

Younger people growing up have more choices when it comes to gaming. They like the casual like games—like the Pop Cap games for instance—it’s great fun to play it on an iPhone, but when I get home, I want to play Battlefield. That doesn’t exclude Bejeweled, because they are different experiences. I think it is the whole need to entertain yourself. Today you have so many more choices that we didn’t have five or ten years ago, so it is more a question of how do you want to consume your games, not do you like games. So I think that games, and specific genres like shooters, will stay. It’s just a question of how do you consume them.

TheMailMan78 · Mar 15, 2012, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by GullyFoyle

Digital Trends - Battlefield 3 dev talks about the Close Quarters and Armored Kill map packs, and their “lesser” competitors

Spoiler

March 14, 2012 By Ryan Fleming

We sat down with DICE’s Patrick Bach, Executive Producer for Battlefield 3 and talked about the upcoming Close Quarters map pack, what we can expect from the next map pack Armored Kill, and the rivalry with Call of Duty.

The last few GDCs have belonged to EA, at least as far as the public is concerned. In general, GDC is a much more low key show than something like E3 or CES. For the most part, the event is about networking, sharing ideas, and helping the industry grow. Of course, there are exceptions.

Last year EA stole the show with the first look at Battlefield 3, and this year it was Medal of Honor: Warface. But before Danger Close took the stage, DICE unveiled the three upcoming BF3 maps due out later this year (and possibly into next). For a closer look at the first map pack, Close Quarters, check out our hands-on preview.

Following the presentation, we had a chance to sit down with Patrick Bach of DICE, an Executive Producer for Battlefield 3. Naturally the talk began with discussion of the Close Quarters map pack. It then expanded into how the fans impact the development process, and then strayed into talk of the industry in general, including what he thought of the Call of Duty rivalry. Check out the transcript below.

The Close Quarters map pack was was just announced, and it will have four maps when it is released in June. Will there be any new weapons?

Yes, there will be 10 new weapons, and the weapons will be spread over all the classes. There will be new assignments, so there will be a lot of new stuff in general

Will there be any more single-player or co-op content in the future?

I can’t really talk about the exact plans for the future packs, but we haven’t included that in Close Quarters. For the close future though? No.

“Ziba Towers” is small and contained. Is that theme representative of all of the Close Quarters Maps?

Yes, that is the theme, as the name hints. To be a Battlefield map, the classic Battlefield player would imagine that you were in a big open landscapes. To enclose the player makes it very intense, almost claustrophic at times—it adds a lot of new emotions to the spectrum of Battlefield.

Will you be able to do the classic game modes like Rush and Conquest?

Yes, the classic game modes will be a part of this expansion pack.

So what we saw was just one small part of it—it expands?

Yes, absolutely

What kind of new weapons will we see?

We’ll release that as we get closer to it, but there will be the SPAS 12–the Italian shotgun–which is a classic shotgun that people have seen many times before, and there will be a lot of other guns. The important thing is that we’re doing these guns and spreading them over all the classes, and of course you can then bring them back into your original game. So it actually extends the other maps of Battlefield 3.

Will Close Quarters be able to support the max number of 64 PC players?

No, we are restricting players. I can’t tell you exactly what the restriction is right now, but we are restricting players so we can focus on the fun factor. How many players do we want before it turns into carnage?

It would be overwhelming.

People could potentially find that funny, but not fun.

There are some console updates coming, including some major overhauls to the matchmaking. Have you announced when that will go live?

We don’t have a date for it yet. We’re going through a lot of practical processes to get it out, but it is a full rent-a-server program. You as a player can rent your own server. You can do all the setting yourself, you can invite whoever you want, or you can keep it open to everyone. You control it. This is the first time we’ve seen this on a console. We were quite surprised that no one has done this before. It’s a special feeling owning your own server; having control over it and making sure that you have all the settings–and you have all the information that you think the players you want to invite–are there.

So it will be similar to the PC version?

Yes.

Are there going to be any obvious differences between the PC and console matchmaking?

No. I think the biggest difference when it releases is that it will be easier for console players to rent a server than it is for PC gamers today because we don’t have an in-game interface. But for the console you get everything in front of you at the main menu.

Any chance we may soon see a Battlefield: Bad Company 3?

I can’t really talk about any of the other IPs right now…

What can you tell me about the next map pack, Armored Kill?

The goal and the theme of that pack is to create something that is on the opposite side of the Battlefield scale [from Close Quarters]. Close Quarters is a very intimate, intense infantry experience. [Armored Kill] is the big open, heavy metal vehicles, focusing on the big beasts of the battle. We are introducing new vehicles into the mix. We are building the biggest battlefields we’ve ever built before, so we’ll have the huge battles. It is kind of the opposite…it is complementary part of the spectrum for Battlefield 3.

How much do you listen to fan input?

We listen a lot, but that doesn’t mean that we do exactly what people ask us to do. There are so many requests that don’t fit with reality. We don’t want the game to be fixed for a single individual. We want the system to be perfectly balanced so you can have all these things working together. If you make the game better for you, it might get better for me, but not for him. So we wouldn’t do a fix like that. Even if there is a majority of people complaining about something, that doesn’t mean that we can do that change because it may break the game as a whole.

Sometimes it can be hard to communicate that because we want to find a solution that mitigates all the problems rather than just fixing it for you and breaking it for me. That’s the challenge of building a game like Battlefield. If you get it right, it’s magic. It’s really hard to get to this perfect rock-paper-scissors balance. It’s so easy to get it wrong because if you just react to the person that screams and yells the most, you will definitely break the game. So we can’t do that, because we are responsible for the game, so if we break the game we have to fix it. We can’t blame the community and say “but you got what you wanted and look, it broke, it’s your fault.” We have to be responsible and make sure that when we do something we do it properly, and also plan for the future.

There has been a lot made of the rivalry between Call of Duty and Battlefield from both the press and the fans. How aware of that are you?

Well we do pay attention because people bring it up all the time. We don’t see ourselves as the direct competition to the other shooters on the market, because there aren’t many shooters that are trying to do what we are trying to do. If we try to limit ourselves by trying to build something that is in my book lesser, a lesser experience, even if people say that they like it, and say that they like this particular part of the experience, that is not what Battlefield is all about. Then we shouldn’t call it Battlefield, we should call it something else.

If you don’t have the vehicles, if you don’t have the structure, if you don’t have the team play, if you don’t have the classes, then you’re breaking it. I hope that people that are playing Battlefield 3 and are playing other shooters can see that it’s not the same. If you are into shooters, and you play shooters, you will definitely spot the difference.

What games are on your radar?

I’m looking forward to quite a lot of games. Maybe not always to play them, because sometimes there are games that are interesting but not always to your liking when it comes to the actual game. But there are a lot of interesting games. I think Halo 4, Assassins Creed 3… there are some big players out there that will hopefully give us something more than expected. I’m really looking forward to seeing what they have in the plans for us.

What do you predict for the future of the industry?

When we talk about gaming or gamers, we tend to look at people, because humans won’t change—their behavior, at their core won’t change–but the interface between the person and the product might. No one believed in the games that we can now play on the iPhone, because a couple years before we had the N-Gage, and machines that were on paper the exact same machines. But then all of a sudden the same thing starts to work, because it is the right platform at the right time, and with the right content, and you have the right user behavior. It’s like now it fits, but five years ago it didn’t.

In a way, the games we are building are platform sensitive, because you need to be able to see what’s happening in front of you to be able to control that with a high precision, so it is hard for us to make a hardcore, mobile Battlefield version that has the exact same values as what we are trying to create. So to answer your question, I think there will be a market for games like Battlefield in the future. I also think the gaming market as a whole might grow, but the growth might be in other areas. So you might grow the casual social part, and then the high definition, hardcore shooter audience will stay the same.

Younger people growing up have more choices when it comes to gaming. They like the casual like games—like the Pop Cap games for instance—it’s great fun to play it on an iPhone, but when I get home, I want to play Battlefield. That doesn’t exclude Bejeweled, because they are different experiences. I think it is the whole need to entertain yourself. Today you have so many more choices that we didn’t have five or ten years ago, so it is more a question of how do you want to consume your games, not do you like games. So I think that games, and specific genres like shooters, will stay. It’s just a question of how do you consume them.

So they reduced the player count for the new CQB maps? GAY!

Wrigleyvillain · Mar 15, 2012, 07:02 PM

Didn't they kinda have to?

TheMailMan78 · Mar 15, 2012, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Wrigleyvillain

Didn't they kinda have to?

No. No they didnt. I want a 64 player sword fest meat grinder with homosexual undertones.

GullyFoyle · Mar 15, 2012, 07:15 PM

Other sources have quoted 16 as the player limit. How many 16 player servers are out there?

TheMailMan78 · Mar 15, 2012, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by gullyfoyle

other sources have quoted 16 as the player limit. How many 16 player servers are out there?

16 players?! Wtf is this quake 1?

brandonwh64 · Mar 15, 2012, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMailMan78

16 players?! Wtf is this quake 1?

I would say atleast 24 but I can deal with 16 players

boise49ers · Mar 15, 2012, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by brandonwh64

I found MailMan!

http://i42.tinypic.com/ip9nrs.jpg

Nice and I get this :

http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/x...FF-MY-LAWN.jpg

I'm making sure I get on an annoy the shit out of somebody tonight

Armor Kill sounds great. I wonder how long until we see that one ?

brandonwh64 · Mar 15, 2012, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by boise49ers

Nice and I get this :

http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/x...FF-MY-LAWN.jpg

I'm making sure I get on an annoy the shit out of somebody tonight

Armor Kill sounds great. I wonder how long until we see that one ?

I also get this when he talks sexy!

El_Mayo · Mar 15, 2012, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by brandonwh64

I would say atleast 24 but I can deal with 16 players

There should be no limit. If you want to play 64 players then that's up to you.

Also I swear my post from earlier was removed?

brandonwh64 · Mar 15, 2012, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by El_Mayo

There should be no limit. If you want to play 64 players then that's up to you.

Also I swear my post from earlier was removed?

Maybe or maybe not......

El_Mayo · Mar 15, 2012, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by brandonwh64

Maybe or maybe not......

So......... yes then

How come? o_O
Did it look like spam or something?

MT Alex · Mar 15, 2012, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by El_Mayo

So......... yes then

How come? o_O
Did it look like spam or something?

It's still there, and the $ signs are all funny.

EDIT: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...ostcount=12064

Wrigleyvillain · Mar 15, 2012, 09:38 PM

Haha yeah is your keyboard broken?

El_Mayo · Mar 15, 2012, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Wrigleyvillain

Haha yeah is your keyboard broken?

Oh god this is so weird I scrolled and I DEFINITELY didn't see it haha

But yeah, Back to Karkand for £6, I'm getting it tomorrow!

Wrigleyvillain · Mar 15, 2012, 11:17 PM

Noice

El_Mayo · Mar 15, 2012, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Wrigleyvillain

Noice

Nice indeed

off-topic: Sell me some of that RAM already!

TRIPTEX_CAN · Mar 15, 2012, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MT Alex

I did a lot of building at Big Sky during the mid '90s, and that's what we'd call all the baggy pants boarders who worked somewhere on the mountain and lived in the dorms. Not the classiest cut of people

Big Sky has to be one of the more impressive looking ski hills there is, with a tram clear to the peak. Anyhow, back on topic...

http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/...ky-montana.jpg

I thought there was a snowboarding reference in there. Having lived in several ski towns I do know the class of folk you mention.

I've only heard good things about Big Sky. Little south for my liking but it looks like good times.

Our modest resort just received 70+ cm in the last 3 days Ive been choking on frozen cocaine all week.

So anyway. this is how you see me.

this is how I see myself.

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Video Card:	AMD Radeon HD7950 3GB x2 w/AMD Catalyst 12.10
Hard Disk:	OCZ Nocti 60GB mSATA, Crucial M4 120GB x2
Optical Drive:	LG BluRay/HD-DVD
CRT/LCD Model:	3x Dell U2412M
Case:	LianLi T60
Sound Card:	N/A
PSU:	Silverstone Strider 750W GOLD
Software:	Windows 8 Pro
Benchmarks:	Benchmarking is for suckers. ;)

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Optical Drive:	LG - 24x Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
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Sound Card:	SupremeFX X-Fi 2 with Bose Companion 2 speakers.
PSU:	SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold
Software:	Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center 64bit
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Mar 15, 2012, 06:45 PM	#12083
GullyFoyle Join Date: May 2010 Location: Steeler Country Posts: 119 (0.11/day) Thanks: 113 Thanked 1,268 Times in 522 Posts System Specs	Digital Trends - Battlefield 3 dev talks about the Close Quarters and Armored Kill map packs, and their “lesser” competitors Spoiler March 14, 2012 By Ryan Fleming We sat down with DICE’s Patrick Bach, Executive Producer for Battlefield 3 and talked about the upcoming Close Quarters map pack, what we can expect from the next map pack Armored Kill, and the rivalry with Call of Duty. The last few GDCs have belonged to EA, at least as far as the public is concerned. In general, GDC is a much more low key show than something like E3 or CES. For the most part, the event is about networking, sharing ideas, and helping the industry grow. Of course, there are exceptions. Last year EA stole the show with the first look at Battlefield 3, and this year it was Medal of Honor: Warface. But before Danger Close took the stage, DICE unveiled the three upcoming BF3 maps due out later this year (and possibly into next). For a closer look at the first map pack, Close Quarters, check out our hands-on preview. Following the presentation, we had a chance to sit down with Patrick Bach of DICE, an Executive Producer for Battlefield 3. Naturally the talk began with discussion of the Close Quarters map pack. It then expanded into how the fans impact the development process, and then strayed into talk of the industry in general, including what he thought of the Call of Duty rivalry. Check out the transcript below. The Close Quarters map pack was was just announced, and it will have four maps when it is released in June. Will there be any new weapons? Yes, there will be 10 new weapons, and the weapons will be spread over all the classes. There will be new assignments, so there will be a lot of new stuff in general Will there be any more single-player or co-op content in the future? I can’t really talk about the exact plans for the future packs, but we haven’t included that in Close Quarters. For the close future though? No. “Ziba Towers” is small and contained. Is that theme representative of all of the Close Quarters Maps? Yes, that is the theme, as the name hints. To be a Battlefield map, the classic Battlefield player would imagine that you were in a big open landscapes. To enclose the player makes it very intense, almost claustrophic at times—it adds a lot of new emotions to the spectrum of Battlefield. Will you be able to do the classic game modes like Rush and Conquest? Yes, the classic game modes will be a part of this expansion pack. So what we saw was just one small part of it—it expands? Yes, absolutely What kind of new weapons will we see? We’ll release that as we get closer to it, but there will be the SPAS 12–the Italian shotgun–which is a classic shotgun that people have seen many times before, and there will be a lot of other guns. The important thing is that we’re doing these guns and spreading them over all the classes, and of course you can then bring them back into your original game. So it actually extends the other maps of Battlefield 3. Will Close Quarters be able to support the max number of 64 PC players? No, we are restricting players. I can’t tell you exactly what the restriction is right now, but we are restricting players so we can focus on the fun factor. How many players do we want before it turns into carnage? It would be overwhelming. People could potentially find that funny, but not fun. There are some console updates coming, including some major overhauls to the matchmaking. Have you announced when that will go live? We don’t have a date for it yet. We’re going through a lot of practical processes to get it out, but it is a full rent-a-server program. You as a player can rent your own server. You can do all the setting yourself, you can invite whoever you want, or you can keep it open to everyone. You control it. This is the first time we’ve seen this on a console. We were quite surprised that no one has done this before. It’s a special feeling owning your own server; having control over it and making sure that you have all the settings–and you have all the information that you think the players you want to invite–are there. So it will be similar to the PC version? Yes. Are there going to be any obvious differences between the PC and console matchmaking? No. I think the biggest difference when it releases is that it will be easier for console players to rent a server than it is for PC gamers today because we don’t have an in-game interface. But for the console you get everything in front of you at the main menu. Any chance we may soon see a Battlefield: Bad Company 3? I can’t really talk about any of the other IPs right now… What can you tell me about the next map pack, Armored Kill? The goal and the theme of that pack is to create something that is on the opposite side of the Battlefield scale [from Close Quarters]. Close Quarters is a very intimate, intense infantry experience. [Armored Kill] is the big open, heavy metal vehicles, focusing on the big beasts of the battle. We are introducing new vehicles into the mix. We are building the biggest battlefields we’ve ever built before, so we’ll have the huge battles. It is kind of the opposite…it is complementary part of the spectrum for Battlefield 3. How much do you listen to fan input? We listen a lot, but that doesn’t mean that we do exactly what people ask us to do. There are so many requests that don’t fit with reality. We don’t want the game to be fixed for a single individual. We want the system to be perfectly balanced so you can have all these things working together. If you make the game better for you, it might get better for me, but not for him. So we wouldn’t do a fix like that. Even if there is a majority of people complaining about something, that doesn’t mean that we can do that change because it may break the game as a whole. Sometimes it can be hard to communicate that because we want to find a solution that mitigates all the problems rather than just fixing it for you and breaking it for me. That’s the challenge of building a game like Battlefield. If you get it right, it’s magic. It’s really hard to get to this perfect rock-paper-scissors balance. It’s so easy to get it wrong because if you just react to the person that screams and yells the most, you will definitely break the game. So we can’t do that, because we are responsible for the game, so if we break the game we have to fix it. We can’t blame the community and say “but you got what you wanted and look, it broke, it’s your fault.” We have to be responsible and make sure that when we do something we do it properly, and also plan for the future. There has been a lot made of the rivalry between Call of Duty and Battlefield from both the press and the fans. How aware of that are you? Well we do pay attention because people bring it up all the time. We don’t see ourselves as the direct competition to the other shooters on the market, because there aren’t many shooters that are trying to do what we are trying to do. If we try to limit ourselves by trying to build something that is in my book lesser, a lesser experience, even if people say that they like it, and say that they like this particular part of the experience, that is not what Battlefield is all about. Then we shouldn’t call it Battlefield, we should call it something else. If you don’t have the vehicles, if you don’t have the structure, if you don’t have the team play, if you don’t have the classes, then you’re breaking it. I hope that people that are playing Battlefield 3 and are playing other shooters can see that it’s not the same. If you are into shooters, and you play shooters, you will definitely spot the difference. What games are on your radar? I’m looking forward to quite a lot of games. Maybe not always to play them, because sometimes there are games that are interesting but not always to your liking when it comes to the actual game. But there are a lot of interesting games. I think Halo 4, Assassins Creed 3… there are some big players out there that will hopefully give us something more than expected. I’m really looking forward to seeing what they have in the plans for us. What do you predict for the future of the industry? When we talk about gaming or gamers, we tend to look at people, because humans won’t change—their behavior, at their core won’t change–but the interface between the person and the product might. No one believed in the games that we can now play on the iPhone, because a couple years before we had the N-Gage, and machines that were on paper the exact same machines. But then all of a sudden the same thing starts to work, because it is the right platform at the right time, and with the right content, and you have the right user behavior. It’s like now it fits, but five years ago it didn’t. In a way, the games we are building are platform sensitive, because you need to be able to see what’s happening in front of you to be able to control that with a high precision, so it is hard for us to make a hardcore, mobile Battlefield version that has the exact same values as what we are trying to create. So to answer your question, I think there will be a market for games like Battlefield in the future. I also think the gaming market as a whole might grow, but the growth might be in other areas. So you might grow the casual social part, and then the high definition, hardcore shooter audience will stay the same. Younger people growing up have more choices when it comes to gaming. They like the casual like games—like the Pop Cap games for instance—it’s great fun to play it on an iPhone, but when I get home, I want to play Battlefield. That doesn’t exclude Bejeweled, because they are different experiences. I think it is the whole need to entertain yourself. Today you have so many more choices that we didn’t have five or ten years ago, so it is more a question of how do you want to consume your games, not do you like games. So I think that games, and specific genres like shooters, will stay. It’s just a question of how do you consume them.

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Mar 15, 2012, 07:02 PM	#12085
Wrigleyvillain Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago Posts: 4,507 (2.20/day) Thanks: 1,528 Thanked 1,579 Times in 1,122 Posts System Specs	Didn't they kinda have to? __________________ “i dont care what consoles have they dont have mouse and keyboard” -crazyeyesreaper

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Motherboard:	Asrock Z77E-ITX
Cooling:	Apogee HD White/AC Nexxos 120/XSPC H2O 750
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Video Card:	MSI HD 7950 TF3
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Mar 15, 2012, 07:15 PM	#12087
GullyFoyle Join Date: May 2010 Location: Steeler Country Posts: 119 (0.11/day) Thanks: 113 Thanked 1,268 Times in 522 Posts System Specs	Other sources have quoted 16 as the player limit. How many 16 player servers are out there?

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Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AM3 / Foxconn G31
Cooling:	Thermaltake Frio / Intel Stock
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PSU:	Ultra LSP750 750-Watt / Rosewill 400 watt
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Processor:	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz 95W
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX Socket
Cooling:	Alpenföhn Nordwand Tower CPU Cooler
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Sound Card:	Onboard 5.1
PSU:	Corsair TX650W
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Processor:	i5 2500K
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Cooling:	Swiftech MCP35X, 2 DD 5870 WB, EK HF Copper, 2.120 rad, 3.120 rad
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Mar 15, 2012, 09:38 PM	#12096
Wrigleyvillain Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago Posts: 4,507 (2.20/day) Thanks: 1,528 Thanked 1,579 Times in 1,122 Posts System Specs	Haha yeah is your keyboard broken? __________________ “i dont care what consoles have they dont have mouse and keyboard” -crazyeyesreaper

Mar 15, 2012, 11:17 PM	#12098
Wrigleyvillain Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago Posts: 4,507 (2.20/day) Thanks: 1,528 Thanked 1,579 Times in 1,122 Posts System Specs	Noice __________________ “i dont care what consoles have they dont have mouse and keyboard” -crazyeyesreaper

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