BF3 Armored Kill fears over cut console content

Product-Reviews writes: It’s no secret that the PC version of the game is the best version to own, simply because it contains full versions of the maps, while console players have to make do with a condensed version. This results in fewer flags on conquest maps and also unfortunately, the omission of certain vehicles as well on console, which would normally be included in the same map on PC.

[tr00p3r]

Would be nice if they increased the player count on console, just for Armored Kill.. but don't see it happening unfortunately.

[T900]

Well its great of them that the game is even on console. Sure its more of a Bad Company game than a Battle Field game. Anyone serious about the game should have gotten the PC version to begin with.

[Statix]

You act like we've never seen 64-player games on console. Hell, we've even had 256-player games.

Of course there are technical constraints, and even more graphical optimizations and shortcuts would need to be made to increase the player count. This is no surprise; we all recognize this fact.

I'm not asking for full 64-player support. I think a slight increase to 32-players would be absolutely perfect, and is perfectly within the realm of possibility.

[gcolley]

whatever, i'm still having a blast along with millions of others. i dont see the point in buying a pc for one game.

[DeadIIIRed]

Yes, we should feel sooooooo honored to even receive any version of Battlefield 3. Seriously though, wanting them to improve the player count is a very reasonable demand

[StoneyYoshi]

the only reason the flag points are less on console is for the idea of only have 24 ppl on one map. you would be looking for enemys more that capturing points.

[Huarle]

I can already see the scenario on consoles with the shown map:
2 guys camp the AC 130, 2 guys the jets (do the maps have 2 jets on consoles? sry, I'm on PC so no idea) and one guy the mobile artillery (they haven't shown yet). So almost half of the team isn't going for objectives which makes engagements rather small.

[Kinger8938]

Yea this^ making it feel even more empty on foot :S

[krazykombatant]

thats pretty much how it is on the big maps on the x360. Caspian and OP firestorm are horrible on foot. Not on rush, but on cq its awful....

[Kinger8938]

I played on my mates xbox several times and i always feel, on the bigger maps atleast, than you can go for ages without seeing any infantry action on foot. So you could have bigger maps making this worse, or a higher player count but as said above i dont see that happening. I own it on pc and usually filtrr servers for 32 player as 64 can be too much but some times its just right! If they could make it 32 that would be great

[Soldierone]

Ugh a huge map with our small amount of players.....I hate it as is, so I do hope we at least get more players. I mean come on at LEAST 32 would be nice....

They do that and I'll gladly jump back on.

[tr00p3r]

Yeah..32 players need to happen on console. How hard can it be to cut out some trees or something? :-D

[Hufandpuf]

Not only trees would have to go, the draw distance would be severely cut and the textures would be really flat.

[SJPFTW]

yah good luck with that PS3 has only 256 ram

[WagFanger]

This is why I mainly play Rush - the action is much more concentrated. Making HUGE maps for low player count on consoles is just silly.

And people spouting off about how console players should have got it on PC - just keep quiet. People have their reasons for wanting it on specific platforms, whether it be people they know have it on that platform, controller / keyboard preference, or hate of Origin, to name a few.

[OneAboveAll]

You know what I find hilarious? Is that players wanted more players in Bad Company 1. Yet the developers said it couldn't be done due to technical limitations.

So now look at BF3. It's graphically superior than BC1, it has larger maps and more detail in the environments not to mention destruction.

So if there were technical limitations during BC1 how the fuck did they manage what they did with BF3!?

So dumb...