BF2S Forums That Battlefield 3 Game Cover

The designer on his twitter stated

"Yeah theres fire in the soldiers chest, yeah it's similar to BC2, but it shifts units". Or something like that. Haven't got the link for it. It's in that twitter post that the guy did, a few days back. He explained it as it will sell more than the plain old Battlefield 2 one would.

Either way, no ziplines / no grapple hooks / no commander = fail for BATTLEFIELD. They really need to seperate the 2 (BC and vanilla).

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watch holder. this holds watches.

blown = mind. Literally.

Well for choppers I'd expect Blackhawks and Apaches.

I wish the 3 was in color like BF2.

Pretty much what I said above, but I can't find the post. It was on one of the designers twitter account.

The 3 needs to be in a different spot.

Looks infantry-centric. I'm not surprised.

It's my interpretation of the design. The central figure is highly detailed, standing out in (literally) sharp contrast to the blurred vehicles that are just a part of the background.

Compare to:



Vehicles figure heavily into most of these images. Admittedly, the cover for BF2 kind of breaks up the tradition by fading them out in the background, but it was still a PC game and the spiritual successor to the previous Battlefield titles. At that point, if you didn't already know there would be vehicles all over the place, then there was nothing they could do for you as a PC gamer.

The Bad Company series hopped in, took the Battlefield name and ripped out a great deal of what the series had built up. So at this point, I'm willing to go off of my experience with BC and BC2 when I say that BF3 will most likely focus on empowering infantry and nerfing vehicles as much as possible...despite the fact that the cover still has vehicles, however blurred...and in spite of whatever the developers might have to say about it.

inb4 uzique calls it subtly evocative

Seen the server list lately? BF2 is still pretty active. (e: including I/O servers)

Makes little practical difference to me if I have a choice between thirty populated 64-player servers or three-hundred. Plenty of people on them who gave up on BC2, also.

In BF2 all it takes is one decent M95 sniper to neutralize helicopters. That or a crafty tank. Tons of other ways to do it also. If the vehicles don't float your boat, there's always infantry only. I'd prefer BC2 for that if I was at least given the range of motion granted to me by CoD (prone). Feels completely unnatural not being able to drop down behind cover if I get ambushed.

e: Also, BF1942's still relatively active, which says a lot for the appeal of vehicles.

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I know it didn't, but it was a good update. If you prefer the infantry aspect of the games, that's fair enough. I'd say the only aircraft that's still ridiculous in BF2 would be the Hind and its silly gunner primary. Honestly, if they nerfed the Blackhawk, that thing should have also been taken off.