DICE: Battlefield 3 Beta "Mission Accomplished"

DICE: Battlefield 3 Beta "Mission Accomplished"
[Oct 17, 2011, 09:52 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

IGN quotes DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson on the topic of the Battlefield 3 open beta test. As far as putting the military shooter sequel through its paces, he's making a note here, "huge success":

"Looking at the open beta, for us at DICE it's truly been a huge success," said Gustavsson. "We could have been better in how we messaged this to the community, what we were doing and why it's not as polished as a final demo but there is a reason we called it a beta and not a demo."

"This test was done so we would get as many eyes as possible on the game code to ensure a good release, and that means hammering the back end, seeing that the servers hold up, making sure we get all the telemetry we need, that all the hooks are working and also getting a good first take on the balancing of the game. What is the score progression? How are people doing?

"But of course also Origin and Battlelog, all of these things that we need to get ready for the final ship. So for us it's been really useful and I would really say mission accomplished. Once again, yes, there is a vocal community out there but I wouldn't like to have it any other way. It's dedication and passion when people speak up and there's nothing wrong with passion."

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Re: DICE: Battlefield 3 Beta
Oct 17, 2011, 14:54

MajorD

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Re: DICE: Battlefield 3 Beta Oct 17, 2011, 14:54

Oct 17, 2011, 14:54

MajorD

Verno wrote on Oct 17, 2011, 14:39:
MajorD wrote on Oct 17, 2011, 14:12:
MOST? I'd be curious to find out how many people 'actually' don't give a #$?@ about the SP game, as for myself, I look forward to both.

As it relates to BF3, I remember reading somewhere, some time ago, that DICE was putting more focus on a better SP experience this time around. Time will tell......

The Battlefield series isn't known for its wonderful singleplayer campaigns, the people who are paying $60 for a cinematic FPS experience will likely buy a Call of Duty game. Hell even the Call of Duty games get their mileage out of the MP.

Well, I guess you and I aren't "on" the same thing, as the issues with RAGE on the PC are well beyond just driver problems, whether it be AMD/ATI or Nvidia. It's quite an embarrasment for id Software really, or sure in the heck should be.....

Agreed with this though, people make really dumb generalizations about AMD and Nvidia. I own an Nvidia card and had problems with Rage until I had newer drivers and Bethesda patched it. Yes AMD isn't known for their wonderful OpenGL drivers but some Nvidia owners had problems too. People see typically more issues with AMD cards because developers don't test against them as often, there are a multitude of reasons why that happens but that's for a different thread.

This was a mis-post: Well, I guess you and I aren't "on" the same thing, as the issues with RAGE on the PC are well beyond just driver problems, whether it be AMD/ATI or Nvidia. It's quite an embarrasment for id Software really, or sure in the heck should be..... and don't know how that happened really.....there must be a glitch in the Matrix. Wink

Anyways, I agree with you that DICE isn't known for their SP campaigns, but I hope this will be better than BC2. I am looking forward to both SP & MP, but mostly MP of course.....

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