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Re: BF 1943

Alreech wrote:

but a small and quick project to get new players and test the Frostbite Engine on PC.

So, its really a beta thats open to the paying public.

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Re: BF 1943

Gwynzer wrote:

So, its really a beta thats open to the paying public.

To be honest:
In this time all games get their first really beta-test at the paying customer.

It's an illusion to think you can make a Beta with 1000 or even 10 000 people testing a month and no new problem will be deteced if 100 000 copys are sold and the game is played for years.
The most important Question is how DICE will handel such problems.

A big open Beta like in 2142 or BF Heroes is one thing was has been done by DICE.
Build in features for Bugreporting and a auto downloader for hotfixes and patches (maybe on filesharing basis like bittorrent) are some things BF2 and BF 2142 are missing and should part of the next Battlefield Part.

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on thing: wishfull thinking. but we can dream cant we

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Re: BF 1943

Alreech wrote:

To be honest:
In this time all games get their first really beta-test at the paying customer.

It's an illusion to think you can make a Beta with 1000 or even 10 000 people testing a month and no new problem will be deteced if 100 000 copys are sold and the game is played for years.
The most important Question is how DICE will handel such problems.

A big open Beta like in 2142 or BF Heroes is one thing was has been done by DICE.
Build in features for Bugreporting and a auto downloader for hotfixes and patches (maybe on filesharing basis like bittorrent) are some things BF2 and BF 2142 are missing and should part of the next Battlefield Part.

I hope people remember this next time they complain about a bug in FS!

auto downloader.........I've seen this in something for 2142 recently..can't think where though

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Re: BF 1943

Yeah, the launcher ist great, when it works proberly wink

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Re: BF 1943

Alreech wrote:

Yeah, the launcher ist great, when it works proberly wink

Remove launcher and insert:

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Re: BF 1943

Alright I'm going to say it:

I enjoyed Battlefield: Bad Company. I mean, sure, it wasn't up to par with the original 1942 just like BF2 wasn't, but it was a nice change. Look at it this way, they could've just released another slight modification on their BF2 engine, called it Battlefield 2242, and had nanosuits and space combat in it.

The only problem I see, is that the Frostbite Engine doesn't seem like a very 'Multiplayer' tuned engine. From what I've seen so far from 1943 and BC, the player limit is hit at 24. If they could increase this to 64+, then I could easily see it becoming a great PC game.

To be honest I could see the Frostbite engine being used for a more 'Singleplayer' type experience, though. It's already been mentioned into infinity, I think, that Black 2 could really benefit from the engine (ignoring for a second that the original Black was mediocre at best).

However, if I have to see Wake Island one more hamsters damned time...

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