After reading BF3Blog’s post about Battlefield 3 hacking escalating to such a level lately that it is totally ruining the game for everyone, I must agree.

Players actually busted a DICE/EA Battlelog moderator called “MrPopper777″ who got caught USING cheats himself!  It’s ridiculous.

Reportedly, DICE/EA didn’t do SQUAT. No apologies about it either. They were just trying to quiet it down as if nothing ever happened. For the sake of business, that may make sense, however it was all too obvious and a wrong move on their part, in a PR light.

PunkBuster is NOT the solution
PunkBuster is half-assed and clearly doesn’t do shit against the constantly updated and constantly improved hacks that the programmers are selling to the lame-ass, no-skill cheaters through subscription payments of $14,95 a month. (Discounts may apply if you pay for 3 or more in advance!)

Aww… Poor thing! Why don’t you just try again?
DICE/EA are merely wiping the STATS, not banning the ACCOUNTS of these hackers like they should be. Force them to BUY the whole game over and over if they insist on cheating!

With the way DICE/EA are treating the hacking issues today, the hackers can just go on to create a new character and keep doing it. It’s not good enough! Besides, DICE/EA are spending a damn long time investigating the reports of cheaters manually going through reports. Numerous cheating players at the top of the rankings have been there for months now.

I think they should take their players, their actual paying customers, more seriously.

 
I will write no more posts about Battlefield 3 on this blog until DICE/EA take care of the hackers, and I won’t play the game any more, won’t buy any more DLCs for the game, and I urge everyone to do the same if you’re bothered too.

/End Rant

Commogain?! (Fan made Commo Rose Concept)

The next Battlefield 3 patch, sheduled for a “sometime in February” release, will be “HUGE” according to DICE.

While few details have yet to be released, we know that along with the new Commo Rose 2.0 they’ve recorded “a ton” of new voiceovers and new soldier commands. We’re also promised a lot of other changes, probably a lot of bug fixes with some further weapons balancing.

Personally, I would like to see better maps, like the ones in Battlefield Vietnam or BF2 even. More details to be posted as soon as we get them!
 

To remove the HUD in Battlefield 3, use the new console command “UI.Drawenable 0“.

I can see how this can be useful for making nice community videos and such, especially when DICE release the Battlerecorder for Battlefield 3 – yes, due to popular demand, DICE are said to actually be working on it, however no official information has been given yet about when it will be made available.

Also, check out this Battlefield 3 Wake Island easter egg by Battlefield-3.cz:

Is DICE just messing with us, or is this player screenshot from Back to Karkand a hint of what’s to come?

Is DICE working on another futuristic Battlefield game?

I certainly hope so. Battlefield 2142 was one of my favorite FPS games. It had its flaws of course; for instance the walkers could have been much better if they didn’t trip and fall over and jerk around so much. Titan Mode was very popular, however, and it was a nice change of environment.

It’s worth noting that DICE did put similar clues about Battlefield 2142 in the expansion packs for Battlefield 2; Euro Forces and Armored Fury …

Now check out this TV commercial, made in just 10 days. Meant to promote the “Only in Battlefield 3″ competition by EA and DICE, I personally think it’s pretty impressive what these guys have managed to cook together in such a short time frame. Here’s what they have to say about it:

EA asked us to create a TV commercial for Battlefield 3 so we teamed up with Sam and Niko from http://youtube.com/corridordigital and made a commercial in 10 days! We finally got to do practical explosions and even got a real tank!

For the concept, we took the skid-steer loader from the Back to Karkand expansion pack and made it deadly, utilizing online battle tactics that many of you should know and love.

As Back to Karkand is being released today, the servers will be patched.

Downtime is estimated at one hour.

The PC release for Back to Karkand is 09:00 CET, 10:00 EET, 08:00 GMT (UK), 12 AM PST (US).

The Xbox 360 release for Back to Karkand is 10:00 CET, 11:00 EET, 09:00 GMT (UK), 1 AM PST (US).

These are the now confirmed weapons that will make an appearance in Back to Karkand as unlockable items by completing assignments:

HK53
L85A2
MK3A1 (Jackhammer)
L96
FAMAS
MG36
QBU-88 (Type 88)
QBZ-95B
QBB-95
PP-19

BioWare and EA have announced Command & Conquer Generals 2 during the Spike Video Game Awards 2011.

Generals 2 is being developed on DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine, which means that we can expect to see a lot of awesome destruction and battles.

Development studio Victory Games is still the team responsible for developing the franchise. EA has simply made the studio another part of BioWare, renaming them “BioWare Victory”, hence the BioWare logo at the beginning of the trailer.

Command & Conquer Generals 2 will be a PC exclusive title, slated for release in 2013.

Check out the teaser trailer for Generals 2 below, courtesy of GameTrailers:

After the recent patch, the antenna on Caspian Border will now fall and kill anyone “riding” it or standing underneath it when the losing team reaches only a few tickets left (approximately 15 tickets or so).

If we could only shoot it down ourselves…

Oh well, maybe next patch?

Another Battlefield 3 Mythbusters video is out. I enjoyed it, and hope you will too.

“Battlefield 3 Myths Tested in This Episode:

Myth 1: You Can Shoot the Gunner out of a HMMV
Myth 2: Rockets are Able to Bounce Off Trees
Myth 3: C4 Can be Attached to the UAV & EOD Bot
Myth 4: Air Vehicles Can be Destroyed with Mortar Rounds
Myth 5: It’s Possible to Destroy an RPG with Bullets
Myth 6: It’s Possible to Destroy the Radio Tower on Caspian Border
Myth 7: You can Kill Someone with the Defibrillator
Myth 8: How Many People Can You Shoot Through with an M98B”

Click Continue reading “Battlefield 3: More Mythbusters” for previous episodes.