Battlefield 3 Teaser Trailer and First Details Arrive

Raise your hand if you jizzed within 5 seconds of seeing this post. [raises hand]

I am so relieved that this isn't Bad Company 3. BC should remain as their casual/console version of Battlefield.

Prone (which NEEDED to be in there), jets, 64 players...all it needs is the commander and we have a worthy sequel to BF2!

Player count on consoles? 32?

Did they really just brag that they would have prone? LOL

Christ, is there no one that can't appreciate subtlety and doesn't need everything to be spoon fed?

I wanted to like Battlefield 2, but the silly hit detection (or was it just that they were so inaccurate?) issue rendered the vast majority of the weapons almost unusable. No one likes pinpoint accurate weapons, but when you're at only 20 feet, im inclined to think your bullets should generally hit whatever you're aiming at. I tried so hard to like the game (hey it is one of the most popular PC fps games) but I got tired of hitting nothing but thin air whenever I tried to shoot something.

I also really hope they do something more with that aircraft carrier. We all remember it from that one map.. right? It might have been completely impossible on 2005 tech, but how cool would it be if you could actually drive the aircraft carrier? Or maybe even a smaller ship like a destroyer or something.

I know battlefield is all about vehicle combat, but the whole concept is in desperate need of innovation. We have been driving the same old tanks and helicopters in games for probably over a decade at this point. They can add some fancy physics and realistic handling and that's all good but the wow factor ran out many years ago. I personally would like to have vehicles that I can walk around in while they're in motion (as opposed to being permanently glued to a chair like every game does.) I don't know why any game doesn't atleast allow you to look around while you're in a tank. Atleast that would help to communicate the idea that you are traveling in something that was volume.. and not just a floating pov.

Battlefield 2 had a lot of potential. The classes/commander system was great and the map size could have made for some epic firefights. Do games realize that guns can actually shoot out to a few hundred meters? Speaking of which, I think sniping could do with an overhaul as well. The sniper has to be the most underused and useless class in ALL shooter games. From CoD to TF2, hardly anyone uses the sniper. The reason for this is that games make sniper rifles redundant weapons. Any range that the sniper can shoot, so can a rifle (or whatever the "workhorse" weapon happens to be), and often better. CoD is a great example. The maps are just so tiny that you can shoot across the map with a rifle in many cases.

Assault rifles should be able to shoot out to 500 meters and a sniper should be able to do something like 1200 meters. Games like CoD have made a mockery out of modern weaponry in my opinion.

For the love of god I hope this is more like Desert Combat than Bad Company. Enough with the infantry-centric crap already. Vehicles are what made the BF games so goddamn fun.

I want huge maps full of awesome vehicle combat going on again.

A real FPS. Thank. Fucking. God.

lamest trailer ever

Stage? Stages? STAGES??!?! BF2 is about a real world open battlefield. There are no "stages", there is only a place of battle, in this case a map, and everything else is up to the rules of war, which there are none. So everything goes.

"stages" is what killed the Battlefield in Battlefield: Bad Company.

Really? I can only pre-order a digital copy and only from EA? :\

I really love Battlefield and all and I enjoyed all of them to death, but EA's support is far from what you'd describe as par.

I would have pre-ordered straight away if it were a physical copy. I have the sense that when it is 'unlocked' and you're asked to punch in the Key you got by email on game day, it's going to claim your Key... is already in use..

Of course this is all just speculation, but it's based on what has happened with enough frequency to produce first page Google hits on trying to find solutions to past blunders.

hahahah i said yesterday that they dropped the bomb on 1943 and onslaught so they could tease the new bf3 stuff :D


ALSO PRONE! :P

and mother fucking co-op,

puts on shades

'hell yeah'

Awesome! Steam preorder ready to deploy.
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Ugh Frostbite is the clunkiest engine from a gameplay standpoint in a while. Hopefully the game won't suffer too much from it

What an absolutely useless trailer.

Everything sounds absolutely amazing so far! Pre-ordering as soon as it's available on steam!

GOTY!!

Did they just rip off the terminator theme?

Also hoping BF3 has more then PB in terms of anti-cheating technology...

Whoever has played BC2 should know the woes of google hacks at the current moment. Nothing spoils a game faster then cheaters for anyone who plays competitively.

64 players and prone. Pretty much all I wanted. Maybe Commander mode too but I'll take this for sure. BF3 FUCK YEAH.

Here is hoping to this not turning into another consolized PoS, especially another 'me too' CoD. BF has always been a epic series, hope dice keeps it that way.

Given the current trend of games, I'm not going to get my hopes up though.

Uhh Frost bite 2. YES YES YES

I'm really happy that this is out of the bag so to speak. Hope you guys will like it.

Please please if there are snow/desert maps, don't go crazy with the god awful bloom

Well I am a "less than average" plane/chopper pilot, and I think it´s a shame that 1 good plane pilot in BF2 can OWN the entire server even with excellent players as enemy infantry, tanks drivers and in the AA guns (Not a good thing for game balance if you ask me), also I am a regular commander..but...Please DICE, leave the planes and the commander seat in the game, those are the elements that make Battlefield the awesome game that we love,

Don´t castrate the game in the name of the infamous "less is better" principle of console design, give us HUGE maps with at least 64 players, commanders, planes, vehicles, ability to go prone, LAN servers, (and PLEASE, give me a portable AA gun okibbthx)

Also...Skill in the FPS genre is not only found in games with railguns and rocket jumping, try for once to kill a moving chopper pilot with an sniper rifle, or to repel a long attack of numerous enemy players (infantry and vehicles) with an squad of only 4 fellas, resolution, skill, and more important... Team play.

I got a Terminator vibe from that! Looks good so far!

64 players, jets, and prone? YES!

The inclusion of squads is also key for me, so I hope it gets mentioned down the line. 64 players is exactly what I wanted though!

Loved being commander and ordering squads to key positions to change the course of the battle, that was immensely satisfying. Squads just bring a lot more teamwork and strategy to the battle. They were in BC so surely they'll be here too.

We've finally caught up with 2005.

So is this battlefield meets tron.

I'm strangely not as enthused after seeing BF:BC2. Here's to hoping it actually feels like BF2 not BF:BC2.

didn't watch the thing, but does it have player controlled ships and artillery?

Terrible teaser, but 64 players! FUCK YEAH!

Loins girded, moist, and quivering in anticipation of Dice's big load.

Steam Preorder get!
Can't wait.

i must admit, i am quite giddy atm, kinda wanting to reinstall bf2

Been waiting for this for a LOOOOONNNG TIME! Looking forward to bombing some of my buddies again. Muahahahaha!