Battlefield Heroes Due by April

Here's to hoping that those BF3 rumors last year are still goals for the game.
"Among the leaked features are some impressively large numbers: 56 total weapons, 48 total vehicles, and most stupefying of all, 40 vs. 40 battles. With teams that big, it's no wonder they're also reportedly adding a new tier to the squad mechanics introduced in Battlefield 2. Squads and the commander role return, but now three or four squads will form a battalion."
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163595

Another rumor was that it's only MEC vs USA, which means 24 vehicles each, which leaves a lot of large gaps that we can spend our time filling in with our favorite vehicles, just by taking BF2's vehicle set to list the essentials.
Combat Chopper, Transport Chop, APC, Jeep/Buggy, LightArmor(Humvee/etc), Tank, AA, Boat, Jet-Fighter, Fighter-Bomber. Even if you do something ludicrous and start counting static turret weapons like mounted machine guns, ship-based AA/Minigun (Essex), Infantry AT Mounts, and Infantry AA Mounts, there are still many vehicle types to speculate on.

The gaps could be filled with a few types of unarmed civilian vehicles (Truck/Motorbike) or a few technicals (pick up truck with a mounted MG), but I'd really like to hope it implies that mobile artillery vehicles akin to 1942 are returning. I suppose there will be micro-choppers (think Project Reality) entering the fray, too. So right now, I'm up to about 16 out of 24 vehicles for each army, except for the fact that I named 3 neutral faction vehicles, bringing it up to 35/48 total. So there's only 21 vehicles for each army, or maybe 20 if you wanna think a civilian motorboat might spawn for either side's use.

So what are the 4 other vehicles? Large-scale versions or small scale versions? Perhaps there are howitzer AND rocket-based artillery. Perhaps a second type of attack chopper. Maybe a C103 type of plane and a MEC fantasy equivalent. Maybe the armies won't be balanced. They sure weren't when BF2 launched (Blackhawk lol).

Maybe there will be support-versions of certain vehicles. Medivac chopper, Supply Truck. Things of that nature with a repair/heal aura around them.

What else is there to possibly add? The MEC doesn't really have a navy, so they wouldn't bring back controllable/sinkable ships would they? Plus, they'd need a mechanic to keep players from beaching the goddamn things since it seemed to be the first thing anyone did with the ships in BF1942.

Or maybe the rumor is just a rumor and there's no use in brainstorming the gap based on the mention that it'll be a modern/semi-future setting like BF2 was.

Would rather have BF3 and will continue to play TF2 in lue of this.

its to early for BF3, technology is there but dice and in fact all other developers are not quite up to the challenge to make a truly worthy BF3, BF3 has to be MMO with major battles with possibly 100's of players on the same battlefield, huge open maps (much bigger then bf2 maps)... i do not think dice could do it now, but they might after they finish BFH

I showed a BFH video to a friend of mine. He plays some UT1 and Starcraft with me, has a passing familiarity with Battlefield, plays some consoles, and is not a Shacker. He thought it looked awesome.

I think it looks fun. But I haven't tried it. If it is, in fact, not fun that would suck. But I sure don't think the look disqualifies it, and neither did he.

Dice / EA... unless you've had another team working on BF3 this whole time then I really don't care.

And if you have, after the press release that you're working on Bad Company 2 for 2010, you'd better be making an anouncement before you have a few thousand ticked off gamers at your door step. Talk about a stupid freaking marketing decision, who comes up with this stuff?

screw all of you front page flunkies, this looks great

Totally uninteresting news.

Give us info on BF3 Dice - no one really cares about BF Heroes. It looks retarded and unless they change massive things from the Beta, it also plays retardedly.

Just a Shack PSA.

Every time someone brings up how this looks like TF2 or whatever...I'm water boarding an infant.

So far so good but my cellar is going to get some wicked water damage.

battlefield boring

They also just restarted the beta.

The way the game plays you'll feel more at home running around with your player character wearing combat boots and underwear, nothing else.

Oh fuck yes. I was so worried this was going to get pushed back to the late summer or fall.

I'll be giving this one a try for sure.

Also, not sure why people are comparing it to TF2, seeing as it's a third person shooter. Sure they both have an animated look, but they're completely different.

Meh, I don't know why I'd want to play this.
I'd rather play Team Fortress 2 or Quake Live ...

If this is Battlefield 3 I'll turn emo and cut myself.