Battlefield Tri-hard

[=sw=warlord]

Crossfire the two fastest dual-GPU AMD graphics cards available, use eyefinity 6, plug in 5 gamepads, do the multiple instance fix for COD4, configure each gamepad to a specific profile for each game instance, run 6 player local splitscreen MP matches. Win.

Or buy a pre owned Xbox for $80 plug in 4 game pads and just play instead of having to mess about with buying expensive hardware.

[Mr Buckshot]

Or buy a pre owned Xbox for $80 plug in 4 game pads and just play instead of having to mess about with buying expensive hardware.

for COD which is more "lets get the highest k/d" then splitscreen is probably included, but Battlefield 3 (and its predecessors on console) won't have it, sadly. If it had split screen that let 4 players go online at once with the same account and 3 guests, then it might be a compelling case for me to buy the console version. Otherwise, PC.

yeah, October 25 is a North American release date only.

In other news, I finally read up on what the Karkand DLC really was. Afaik, it's different enough from the main game that it's not unjust to have it as paid DLC, unlike MW2/BO's $15 map packs that are just new level geometry. Glad I preordered as I'd love to see some BF2 remakes on this engine!

[Amit]

Or buy a pre owned Xbox for $80 plug in 4 game pads and just play instead of having to mess about with buying expensive hardware.

You can still play 4 player splitscreen on a HD 5870, but you'd probably need to turn down some settings or use the yitch3 configuration. In any case, that is the only way to get true online multiplayer splitscreen with unique ID's. A lot of people have, at the very least, one more monitor that they can use to get two player splitscreen on the same computer with reasonable performance on a mainstream GPU. My desktop ran two instances of COD 4 highest settings (AA turned off) on two separate screens with about 35 FPS avg for each instance. That's pretty good. All we need now is game devs to support it properly and optimize it so that it runs better than so that we don't need more expensive hardware.

[Phopojijo]

Also make it an easy setting in the interface itself.

[Amit]

HOLY FUCK IS ALL I HAVE TO YELL (1080p):

[seanthelawn]

It's... it's beautiful...

[cheezdue]

I'm in love.

[TeeKup]

The scene of everyone moving out at the beginning was just so amazing. I'm getting a Heavy Metal + Harvest Day feel from it. That is a very good thing. Pretty sure I felt something run down my pants.


E: LMAO at that little drone.

[hobojoe]

Pretty sure I felt something run down my pants.

You to?

[Warsaw]

Awaitin' ma box.

Also, if we pre-ordered at Gamestop before they announced all the other packages besides Back to Karkand, do we still get the other package? Nothing against Origin, I just want my physical copy.