Battlefield 3 has 'destructible environments' - reveal inbound?

The first Battlefield 3 details could imminently be falling upon our ears - that's if a GDC 2011 schedule is anything to go by, at least.

The 2011 timetable contains a lecture from Kenny Magnusson, a senior lighting and VFX artist at EA DICE.

Here's the blurb for the talk:

[SixZeroFour]

cant wait to see/read/hear more from this game...i would prolly take this game over blops or whatever cod game is out at the time

[Peppino7]

If its anything like bc2 I'm definitely getting day one! Is it pretty much bc2 but tremendous in scale? I never played the bf series. Bc2 is prettty big in my opinion. Why is bf so much better? Or is it? Thx

[CombineElite]

For those unfortunate enough to have played the Classic that is Battlefield 2 PC I suggest you fire up your PC (if it has balls) and check out Battlefield 2 for yourself.

Me sitting here telling you how huge the maps are along side the importance of strategy and teamwork may just sound a lot like Bad Company 2. Although BF2 does have a unique RTS game play with the commander view that is unlike any other FPS ever.

Toss in the vehicles and that got dam bunny hopping (which I pray DICE will remove) and you got yourself a war that can only be described as the best online FPS with vehicles ever.

Battlefield 2 is just like Bad Company 2 but bigger and better and if you played on PC then you would understand the differences. So dang gum it it's just different so believe me when I tell ya that.

[Substance101]

Lets hope they keep the PC version at 49usd this time. Judging by poor sales made on MOH they must have learned a lesson. Leave the 59usd to the consoles.

[theonlylolking]

Cant wait but if the PS3 version is the same as the 360 version and the PC has more players I will not be happy. The PS3 is very powerful KZ3 has huge maps with 32 players so this game should have huge maps with 64 players with great graphics.

[Fishy Fingers]

PC should have more of everything, at one point it was PC exclusive, then came the console versions and promises of a non "consolised" PC version.

The Bad Company games, while good, have no where near the scope of the previous Battlefield titles.

Regarding the consoles, DICE pretty much get them identical.

[theonlylolking]

PC will pwn all the versions when battlefield 3 comes out.

[QUNE]

It better own.

[Substance101]

Lets just hope the game doesnt get dumped down due to consoles.

@the_only_lol_king

PS3 version will probably be the same as the 360 version. Calling PS3 "Very powerful" is misleading yourself and the rest of the gamers on this site. PS3 would get slaughtered performance wise today when even compared to 80usd entry level GPUs.

[funkycoldmedina]

_King, is it true KZ3 has 32 total players? I read an article on here previously describing the beta maxing at 24. I really don't like 12v12 at all in BC2, because more often than not majority just make camp and never play the objectives. Matches usually are one sided from my playing experience. In KZ2, of the 16 at least a handful usually plays the objective which was one of the reasons why I enjoyed it so much more and Warzone (changing objectives) is the best.

[specialguest]

The Battlefield series(excluding Bad Company) was born on the PC and made popular by PC gamers. I hope to not see outdated graphics and dumb-downed features on my PC version.

[You Noob]

Is that a news? Even BC2 has....

[Philoctetes]

This is kind of like telling us that Battlefield 3 is going to have vehicles. Oh, and guns too.

[christheredhead]

i did buy medal of honor day 1 so i better get to try the beta when the time comes

[MGRogue2017]

All aboard the hype train! :D

[Akagi]

Hype trains: one of the worst things to happen to gaming.

(I didn't disagree with you, btw)

[damnyouretall]

im on the hype train. bf3's gonna be the shit.

[Fishy Fingers]

There currently very little hype for this game, and once it begins to generate it, it's justified. Battlefield games are fantastic and the recent Bad Company titles rank up with the best FPS games this generation.

[spektical]

so i wonder if they will drop bad company, if thers destructability in BF3.

[Convas]

Yeah, dude, they're done with Bad Company 2. Vietnam will be the last major piece of DLC that you see for it. Kind of sad that it won't get more support, but with DICE being EA's in-house Genie working on everything from Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit with Criterion to Medal of Honor with Danger Close, it's no wonder.

Not to mention their cooking up Battlefield 3, and Mirror's Edge 2.

[DoomeDx]

Are you sure?
Few months ago, Dice made a patch for BF2.

[hoof123]

Has Mirrors Edge 2 been officially confirmed? Please be it so! And I am praying that someone at EA is developing a new SSX!

[jaxx377]

Bad Company as a franchise isn't going anywhere. EA announcred earlier this year that Bad Company is now a stand alone franchise and that ther will be a Bad Company 3

Although I wouldn't be surprised if this is the last DLC pack for Bad Company 2

[orange-skittle]

Mirrors Edge was a commercial flop, I doubt a sequel will be made. EA is downsizing as you can see what happened to EA sports. They are not releasing sequels to crappy games. BFBC2 is not done. They have a few more map packs to put out. BF3 is PC only I think. EA knws they can make more money on consoles.

[mrv321]

BC2 is ONE of the best shooters this generation... it sold MILLIONS, Bad Company 2 sold OVER 5 MILLION, a HUGE commercial success for Dice, sure Mirrors Edge didn't sell like CoD but it was a new IP and by releasing it EA gained a lot of respect which lead to sales. Dead Space didn't sell too well, yet Dead Space 2.

[Da_Evil_Monkey]

nah its on consoles too, either good or bad depending on your perspective.

[Motion]

Other than MOH coming with beta access, has there actually been hard confirmation of a console version? I haven't looked into it that deeply, but thought that only PC was confirmed as of yet. Though it would be odd to give beta access to a pc game in a console game box.

[Da_Evil_Monkey]

At the bottom of this page

http://www.medalofhonor.com...

"Xbox GOLD membership required for Xbox users."

[Motion]

Yeah, I've seen that, though I still don't think that makes it definitive. Any online game requires live, so thats just kind of a blanket statement. It doesn't really prove that the console version is in development, just that if they DO make one, it will require a gold sub.

Again, I'm not saying it won't be on consoles, but I'm still not satisfied with that as a complete confirmation. There *could* be a scenario where the pc and console versions are pretty different, aka BF2 and BF2 modern combat. I'd really hate for the PC version not to see its full potential.

[Shackdaddy836]

I hope they take into account the size of explosion/shell when they do destruction(big explosion makes big hole, small explosions make small holes.) I think they could do it.

It would also be cool if they implemented armor-piecing shells. Like when you fire at a wall with a tank, it would go through the wall making a small hole and then explode on the other side.

[Alcohog]

They are making console versions? I assume they will be radically different than the PC, as to this day even BFBC2 is a joke compared to the masterpiece that is BF2 (a five or six year old game).

[Shackdaddy836]

I think they said it will be the exact same except with less players, smaller boundaries for the maps, and worse graphics.

Its going to be ported from PC this time.

[Xfanboy]

The developer said on EA's Battlefield forum that it has no intention of dumbing down the PC version of the game, which will also release on PS3 and Xbox 360.

http://www.computerandvideo...

DX11 http://www.pcgameshardware....

I just hope its back to 64 players!!

[Shackdaddy836]

I meant the console version was slightly dumbed down. I know they said they were building it for the PC then altering it for consoles(not enough to make it a new game but enough to tell the difference)

I read that PC will have 64 players and console will have slightly less. the interesting part was that they said something about altering the boundaries of a map to accommodate to the number of players in the game(less players means smaller map)

[Gamer_Z]

If this game gets dumbed down it would be because of the Xbox DVD space limitations, I can't wait for DVD to die then we will start seeing awesome multiplats, graphically anyways. I don't know why they don't use all that extra space on a bluray to improve the game or add extra stuff I mean if it fits why not? Why not make all versions different according to the hardware I mean like the wii version of BO is not the same as the xbox 360 version because of the hardware and ps3's hardware is as different from the xbox as the wii is deferent, they are both last gen tech the wii and the xbox, so the xbox should be treated as such. It's like this your not going to treat a brand new corvet the same as a 1996 handa, more care has to into the corvet.

[Xfanboy]

Ps3 is incapable of having tessellation,ambient occlusion,compute shader technology,Multi-threaded 2-8 cores.. (dx11)

you wont see effects like this on ps3 or 360..
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

"If this game gets dumbed down it would be because of the Xbox DVD space limitations" = irrelevant

Dumbed Down goes for 360 & Ps3!
http://www.computerandvideo...

[Pandamobile]

Crysis and Metro 2033 have the best graphics of any game in existence right now, and both of those shipped on a single DVD, so your argument about disk space is kind of moot.

[Incipio]

PS3 can use effects like you speak of with custom code in OpenGL...you can keep your silly DirectX 9.5+ limitations.

Plus, that water "effect" is one of the lamest-looking things I've seen in a long time, and there's no reason such a simple shader-looking effect on top of the water couldn't be rendered on a PS3. Uncharted 1 even has better water than that.

You're delusional or just plain misinformed.

For one, Uncharted 2 has SSAO, the effect you said the PS3 is incapable of.

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Read that and be quiet. Also, for your information, the 360 and PS3 have 6 and 8 threads respectively.

[metsgaming]

battlefeild bad company 2 is my foavorite multiplatform game.

[dirthurts]

They have my cash already.
Great game.

[artsaber]

Didn't Killzone2 already do this to some extent?

[Pandamobile]

Hahaha what?

Killzone? Destructible environments? The most 'destruction' I've see in Killzone 2 is small hunks of rocks breaking off pillars and stuff.

[Incipio]

@ artsaber

Killzone 2 is great and all, but the level of destruction doesn't touch what you see in Bad Company 2.

[Ascalon94]

Battlefield 2 is the best FPS ever made, I still play it these days every know and then. I can't wait to get info for the true sequel.

[Ascalon94]

I also hope I have a PC that can run it cause it wont be as fun on console

[DJKGBYF]

They better include map making tools.