Battlefield 3 News Around the Interwebs

[CptainCrunch]

So there is a lot of scattered news about Battlefield 3 this weekend, which is kind of strange as usually the weekend is slow for news. I thought I would bring all the news together to catch everyone up:

First, the picture above shows in-game squad management. Vertago, from Reddit, posted that up.

Second, it has been confirmed that there will be an in-game console in Battlefield 3. Repi revealed that and Battlefieldo has an entire write-up of his event:

It looks like DICE brought back the famous Ingame-Console we all have missed since we played Battlefield 2. On yesterday’s Battlefield 3 Presentation with DICE Dev Johan “Repi” Andersson it was revealed that Battlefield 3 will indeed feature a full Ingame Console with some useful commands that help you analzye the Game, like a Performance Graph that shows you the FPS / CPU and GPU usage. He also gave out a lot of Details on the Frostbite 2 Engine and how stuff works out, it’s very technical, but still very interesting. The Presentation is split into three parts, we posted them for you below. So make sure you watch it, as we do – right now!

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Battlefieldo also has a list of fixes from the beta. Nate79 posted the link up to this information. Here is a rundown:

• Hit Registration Improved
• Tons of Vehicles
• Mini / Full map is back
• Mortar for kicking Ass
• 3D Spotting is Tweaked
• Now the 3D Spotting works properly. You will lose track of your enemies when they got out of view be it in a bush or around a corner.
• Manage your Squad
• If you hated the Beta, all has changed

You can click here to read the finer details of the report. You should do that for the "Tons of Vehicles" comment as it pertains to Operation Firestorm.

Finally, the Battlefield 3 Soundtrack will soon be available. Zuiquan1 posted the link and here is a demo of it. "Warning-Titles contain possible spoilers"

You can purchase here starting October 24th.

Well, I think that just about catches us up with all the weekend news.

[SgtMattBaker]

Good to see they paid attention to this, but 4 man squads suck....

BTW I just got most parts for my PC, looks like I'm gonna be able to play at launch, missing GPU and mobo (which I should get this week), everything else is now at my house

[Iwantcable]

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Am I the only one that can't stand the brrrzzzzz crap every 5 seconds?

[Mavrik347]

Yeah the static does my nut in. Also IMO it's a pretty bad tune. Sounds like a remake a kids done in his bedroom. Far from the classic cinematic music of 1942, 2 and Armoured Fury.

[Anarchy1]

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I like it. I don't like it more than the orchestral version, but I won't say I like it less. It's nice to have a different style. Plus I think it fits with the style of BF3 better.

[Stryker]

6 man squads and commander please

[Rambo]

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•If you hated the Beta, all has changed

[Eagle101]

good news post :) great for a monday morning read...i hate mondays.

[Scinto]

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Well good squad management, don't really care that its 4 people, BC2 was the same and it was perfectly fine.

6 man squads and commander please

Not going to happen. If you want a commander stick to BF2.

[Cantina_Fly]

Glad you can see which Squad Specialization your other squad mates have equipped from the menu screen too. Will make it easier to be sure you have complimentary choices.

[Dronetek]

Looks like squads still broken. No join squad button there. Just the same old shit "find squad". Also, why cant you name your squad? Why would they go backwards in functionality. I just don't get it.

[CptainCrunch]

Dronetek, you need to look at the picture a little closer. There is a leave squad and a switch team and you can click on which squad you want to join. It also shows who is in the squad and what perks they have for the squad. I dont know what picture youre looking at, but its not the one posted.

Crunch

[Dronetek]

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Dronetek, you need to look at the picture a little closer. There is a leave squad and a switch team and you can click on which squad you want to join. It also shows who is in the squad and what perks they have for the squad. I dont know what picture youre looking at, but its not the one posted.

Crunch

Where do you see "join squad"? The reddit article even says there was only the "find squad" option:

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3...f_playtime_on/

"However, there still isn't a "Join Squad" option that lets you populate an empty squad. You click "find Squad" and it automatically puts you in a squad just like Beta"

[Cantina_Fly]

If you notice the player is already in a squad. The "Leave Squad" button likely changes to "Join Squad" after you leave.

[CptainCrunch]

Yeah, and if you remember in BF2 and 2142, you double click on squads to join as well.I also think BC2 does it that way. Part of squad management is joining a squad. If people are saying they created the management, but a pic doesnt exactly show that, its easy to assume that there must be soemthing that does that.Or, you can go by strictly the pic and nothing else that anyone else is saying and assume its all still broke, which in all honest, I can understand why people would do that.So anyway, my guess is you can double click on a squad to change to it or when you leave a squad the button changes to Join.Probably both.Crunch