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!
 

Michael Bay is a happy boy, thanks to toys

Michael Bay, when asked about the possibility of directing the two upcoming Transformers movies:

“I am currently not talking to Paramount on T4 and T5 despite reports. I’m looking at a lot of possibilities coming my way right now weighing options. Most likely going to be doing the low budget Pain and Gain, a true story crime thriller. It’s a very quick shoot and quite funny. Also just finishing the 3 disc set of the Transformer trilogy.”

Originally, Bay was going to call it quits after completing the trilogy with Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Except, it grossed about a billion dollars at the box office last summer.

It’s now pretty much safe to say that Michael Bay will be directing Transformers 4, as long as he gets to finish his little Pain and Gain movie first. Paramount would be wise to let him do that. It remains to be seen whether he will also be directing part 5 back-to-back, but it’s very likely as it would be very cost-effective.

Optimus and Statham sharing cigs in the near future?

Jason Statham is rumored to be in line to replace LaBeouf as the lead in the fouth and fifth installments in the Transformers series. Well, this is what the actionman had to say about that:

“You know, I don’t know how those things start. You read them. Someone told me about it. [But] the internet is a dangerous place. [laughs] There’s a lot of stuff out there… I’ve got a lot of stuff in front of me, but Michael Bay is a talented man. This last [Transformers movie] just made a billion dollars around the world, so people like his films. He’s a talented man.”

With all the characters that were killed off in the third movie as the story wrapped up, there’s a lot of speculation about the plot for the next two Transformers movies. It’s likely that the plot will bring in lots and lots of new characters, maybe even some from the other animated TV series. That being said, according to an inside source, fans will be heard:

“Regular people might not care about bringing out a character like Sentinel Prime. But believe me, fans of the series cared.”

Transformers 4 will likely not start filming until 2013, with a release in the summer of 2014.
 

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 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 …

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.