GameSpot played Gold Rush on one map during EA's GDC event in seven versus seven matches (all on Xbox 360s -- the final game will support 24 players for both the 360 and PS3). The map -- called Ascension -- was set in a high mountain village with plenty of different levels connected by steep paths, and at 1km by 1km wide, is one of the smaller maps in the game.
In most other multiplayer shooters, defending a checkpoint usually involves finding some good cover in which to pummel any approaching attackers from, as the onus is on the attacking team to continue moving. However, being able to blow apart any cover (and any player hiding behind it) changes the strategy of defending, as GameSpot saw first-hand during their multiplayer games. Gold crates were usually hidden inside buildings and other structures, but it was folly to stay behind cover in one spot as all that was required was one well-placed rifle grenade shot to blow a camping defender to smithereens. Thus, both defenders and attackers are forced to continually keep moving in Bad Company.
With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.
Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.
When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:
“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.
Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."
(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)
EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."
This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.
On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.
Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game
With this multiplayer experiment going every way but right, it's time for Battlefield to return to what made it so great - a fun single player mode coupled with classic multiplayer.
BF is dead especially after this abysmal release.. what have EA done to this beloved franchise.. it’s really upsetting they are so far disconnected from what the actual fans want from this series.. such a same
If they would of made BC3 and stuck to the same formula as BC2 but gave it the next gen treatment it would of been a massive hit
Thing is i dont think they're capable of capturing what made those fun/different anymore.
EA knows players want BC3 the same way Activision knows players want MW2 back. They will not make it because the goal is to make games built around MTX and Battle Royale.
24 players? im disappointed by that, i was hoping for 32 minimum. Hopefully the maps wont be to large then, or its gonna be more hide and seek than warfar.
So I guess they were impressed. 24 players is not that bad. I have been following this game for a while now. I just hope they will just announce a release date already.
yeah 24 players online is good. the only thing i didn't liked in cod4 was that supported few players online. my fault maybe, i used to play Battlefield 2 with 32 or 64 players online.
EA, making a game worth taking notice of on the PS3? I'm still skeptical, I will need to see footage of the PS3 version thought my strong dislike for EA will probably force me to go no farther than a rental.
Game sounds solid overall.
I wonder if you can plant a whole bunch of C4 onto a house sneakily then blow it up will the whole house come tumbling down?What would it look like for the people inside(maybe a minigame kinda thing where they have to escape the house before its blown down, or try ur best to run out)?