Topic Battlefield 3 Details Leaked to Digitalbattle.com

-HAL-

A tipster has sent a PDF document which looked like an outline of features for Battlefield 3 to Digitalbattle.com. The 3 page document looks like it's meant for investors which should get it in December this year.

Here are some "headlights" from that document:

• Release in late 2008
• Powered by “Frostbite DX”
• Will ship with 8 maps, each supporting up to 40-players per team
• Two playable factions, NATO and MEC (Middle Eastern Coalition)
• Maps are mostly urban, based in Middle East
• Squads and Commanders are present, introduced are “Battalions” which consist of three to four squads.
• Five playable classes; Sniper, Assault, Engineer, Medic and Support
• Will feature 48 different vehicles (24 for each faction)
• Will feature 34 different weapons (17 for each faction) and another 22 unlocks (for both factions), in total 56 different weapons.
• Other unlocks include different types of ammunition, body armor, helmets, camouflage and accessories.
• Possible public beta in “Summer 2008″
• Built-in auto software updater (no more patches!, ed.)
• Widows Vista and OS X (no XP?!, ed.)
• Announcement and teaser trailer in January 2008.

You can find more details on the Digitalbattle.com website:
http://www.digitalbattle.com/2007/10...3-leaked-info/

Neither DICE or EA have verified/denied the content of the document, so it could very well be real.
The features looks very good, and 80-player maps should be really interesting to try as well..

mmarsh

Thanks -HAL-

I have been searching for info on BF3. Your the first link I have found.


I am glad they got rid of the PLA. It was my least favorite army, also it look like they have added a bunch of new guns and vehicles. The say NATO, so I assume we will get to play with European 'toys'.

Last thing I noticed thats cool is that they are adopting a 'character creation' option as you would find in a MMO. I always suspected they would go in this direction, It would surprise me if BF4 or 5 became a true FPS MMO.

-HAL-

I just wonder if this is a real leak or a "leak"..
Several software companies (and other companies) have leaked things on purpose in the past as PR stunts...
But I'm looking forward to the first official Battlefield 3 announcement since the features listed here looks very nice..

mmarsh

I did learn something else Frostbite is the graphic render they are using on BF:\Bad Company (for x360) so Frostbite DX must be a modified version of that.

-HAL-

It's also speculations that DX stands for DirectX 10, and may be true since this seems to be a game that's "designed" for Vista..