Battlefield Tri-hard

[Warsaw]

I seriously doubt that's true, I have yet to see a team win without having the majority of the flags and all I've played is conquest so far. And I think I saw a loading tip or something that specifically said something along the lines of "If one team has a majority of the flags, the other team will bleed tickets."

Oh also, check who I knifed yesterday:

Sounds like it's tied to flags, but not as closely as in the past. That is to say, if you have a simply majority the enemy bleeds tickets, but the ticket bleed rate is not linked to the actual number of flags your team has. In BC2, if you held two flags and they had one, they bled two tickets at a time versus your one.

Hm. Sounds like they've spent too much time dumbing it down. They did switch over from PC-focus to console focus half-way through development.

@Nero: Then don't play on Hardcore servers.

[Nero]

@Nero: Then don't play on Hardcore servers.

Thanks for the advice big guy.

[Amit]

I'm pretty sure the ticket bleed rate is the same as BC2. I was on a server yesterday with just 5 other people and the enemy always managed to hold 2-3 more points than my team did. The bleed rate seemed to increase as they capped more points.

[Amit]

Today during our Day 1 event, Daniel “zh1nt0″ Matros volunteered his Saturday Night to come onboard our Teamspeak 3 server to give a quick Q/A about Back to Karkand and score some frags on the Battlefield. We were pretty stoked about this and some great new information came out about the Upcoming Battlefield 3 expansion pack, Back to Karkand. We had a exciting day and we want to give a huge shoutout to Crash7800, 1April, zh1nt0, Elxx, Gamm4 for their help. Here are the highlights of the discussion of what we can expect to see in Back to Karkand.

Unlocks carried over to Vanilla BF3

All the weapons that you unlock while playing Back to Karkand expansion pack will be usable when playing Battlefield 3.

Introducing Assignments

With Back to Karkand will come a new feature called “Assignments”. These will essentially be objective based tasks you can accept and will gain rewards from it.

Enhanced Destruction

The Destruction will be turned up a new level in Back to karkand.

Maps with BF2 Flag Structure

The levels in Back to Karkand will bring back the traditional Conquest Assault Gameplay. What this means is one team will start off with most of the flags, and the other team will have to capture those. This is the traditional map format we saw in Battlefield 2.

Karkand stats contribute to global stats

Everything you earn in Karkand will be contributed towards your soldier’s global score.

All game modes available

You’ll be able to play all gamemodes on back to Karkand maps. That means Rush on Wake Island, oh lala!

December 2011 Release

A specific date has yet to be released but it’s right around the corner!

Source


I'm particularly interested in the "Assignments" addition.

Also, Back To Karkand maps and core maps in the same rotation is confirmed: http://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/132513787633872897

[Warsaw]

Yes. Motherfucking yes. Thank you DICE!

And about the flags: they are fucked on Xbox. I just spent a couple hours chilling with my brother, and the flags did NOT accelerate with more flags held. Hell, the difference between balanced ownership and dominance was barely noticeable.

[Amit]

Well, this is one hell of a game breaking bug...that I'm going to exploit from now on:



And this is hilarious:



And Jesus Christ:

[Bastinka]

Anyone having issues with the Co-Op? Whenever I try to join with my friend or random matchmaking, it pairs me up and then says "You have been disconnected from the server".

Sucks.

If you still have this problem and use avast! then just disable the web shield for 10 minutes - 1 hour while you start up a party-based match. BF3 is nice, but I don't like the ridiculously bright / large lens flares.

[Ifafudafi]

And this is hilarious:

Should've had a quicktime event on opening the popcorn bag :3

[Warsaw]

Well, this is one hell of a game breaking bug...that I'm going to exploit from now on.

Why would you do that? That's equivalent to DPZ raping.

[Amit]

Why would you do that? That's equivalent to DPZ raping.

Because I can.

I've redone the BFM letters to be some high class shit: