Frostbite 2.0 Is One Hell of an Engine

"There are a few things about the handling of Battlefield 3 that are troubling – Origin exclusivity and the Online Pass come to mind – but DICE can’t be faulted for their new engine, which looks to be as cutting edge as edges get. The Swedish developer’s general manager Karl Magnus spoke at the Eurogamer Expo this week about what Frostbite 2.0 will deliver."

[C_Menz]

Just a few more days! Can't wait for the Beta on Tuesday.

[Jdub895O]

so its coming out on tuesday for sure? I thought Moh players are getting it before others?

[NarooN]

MoH LE owners and BF3 pre-orderers get it on the 27th, which is Tuesday. Everyone else gets it Thursday.

[just_looken]

"Frostbite 2.0 Is One Hell of an Engine"

If you get rid of origin then you can say this fn dice.

[Pandamobile]

Stop bitching, Origin has nothing to do with Frostbite 2.

[kcuthbertson]

While it doesn't really have anything to do with the engine...

I am pissed about Origin...absolutely stupid..

[radphil]

It's really annoying when even though it's complete common and pure logical sense, there's still people that disagree on this site.

You could say the color red is red, and people would still press that disagree button. :p

[peowpeow]

It'd work better as a like/dislike system, since that's what people base their clicks on

[evrfighter]

EA has pretty much one chance to impress a whole lot of people with Origin.

Battlefield is pretty much the only game I'd use it for and they probably know that already.

I liked the quickness of load times and ease of use in battlelog. Let's see if I'm bombarded with startup ads that slow join times considerably. That'll be a good way to piss off the competitive crowd that just wanna get a quick game in before work or bed.

[dirthurts]

Forcing Origin down our mouths is pretty irritating.
Although I felt the same way when games started shipping with "Steam Support", but what can you do. At least I like Steam...

[CloseSecond]

I look forward to the PS3 beta to see just how much of an improvement has been made. I really, really hope they have managed to squeeze out more AA this time around.

[Agent_hitman]

Frosbite 2.0 is on the top
Cryengine 3 is on the second place
Unreal engine 3 is on the 3rd spot.

[Jasko45]

RAGE Engine > UE3

[multipayer]

Idtech 5 is probably better than Cryengine 3 aswell, wasn't it a downgrade from Cryengine 2?

Won't be long until UE4 cleans some house too, hopefully Epic's next game.

[smilydude13]

Yeah. I'm pretty sure Cry-Engine 3 is just a Cry-Engine 2 optimized for consoles.

Granted, Cry-Engine 2 while visually stunning was horribly optimized to the point where it's just now becoming playable on max settings at 60 fps and mods.

[402]

cryengine 3>>>>cryengine 2
the engine was just gimped in crysis 2 because crytek made crysis 2 first on console and ported to pc instead of vice versa. the console version of cryengine 3 is a generation behind the pc version(cryengine 3 is actually next generation console ready). read the cryengine 3 documentation you'd realize that its much more powerful than cryengine 2 it just doesn't have a technical showcase yet

cryengine 3 is actually superior to frostbite 2 we just won't see its true potential until crytek makes a game with pc as the lead platform

RAGE engine is called ID tech 5 and its not superior to the unreal engine 3 that ran Samaritan tech demo.ID tech 5 has weaknesses even john Carmack himself said it do some research would you ?

the latest build of unreal engine 3 that ran the Samaritan tech demo is more powerful than ID Tech 5 the problem is epic hasn't set out to push pc if they did unreal can deliver Samaritan tech demo graphics on high end pc hardware.

@slugboss

cryengine 3 is superior to 2 read the documentation before making comments would you ? and cryengine 3 would beat ID tech 5 into the ground in all departments except textures which is what ID tech 5 excels at the most. you obviously don't know much about game development well most gamers don't and thats a problem

[darksied]

@402
Dude, relax. These are comments, it's not a research paper. No one's going to go do research before they comment, they just say what they think or feel. You need to lighten up.

[AllroundGamer]

UE3 engine sux, they still couldn't fix the popin texture load :DD that's saying a lot about an engine...

[darksied]

I don't see that as a "fix" being needed, I see that as a workaround to get these high resolution textures loaded on a console when there's not enough ram. I think it's absolutely terrible, but it also seems like the only way on the Unreal engine to get them loaded on consoles.

[omi25p]

Cleary you havent played Gears 3 because there arent any pop in textures. Its runs amazingly smooth

[Resistance]

So it takes an extra second or 2 to load the textures. I don't care about it. You can't tell me that Batman Arkham Asylum sucks because it runs on the UE3. Also UE3 supports PhysX so yeah lol...

[Jappy-k7]

yeah great lighting, animations, sound bla bla bla...but the textures still suck

[Ocean]

I thank Blockbuster who upgraded my preorder to the LE version of MOH...cannot wait for Tuesday

[humbleopinion]

The ANT from EA Sports games is definitely one of the most impressive animation techs, and the new Impact engine demonstrated in Fifa 12 is almost next gen:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
It even tops the procedural animation systems we see in Assassins Creed and Uncharted because it has such attention to details. The only competing engine is probably Euphoria which does some neat things as well. It's good to hear they incorporated it into Battlefield 3 because most FPS tend to neglect animations a little bit (mainly because of the main character first person point of view).

[torchic]

holy crap that's the first thing that shocked me about Battlefield 3. just how amazingly fluid the animations were. i just couldn't believe it. especially when you compare it to CoD's animations. :/

[gypsygib]

What Magnus said about sound is sooooo true; it is one of the most immersive features of a game and one that is too often overlooked.

Graphics may not look like reality but games can certainly sound real.

[cedaridge]

the new need for speed game is using frostbite engine also.

[cedaridge]

can't wait for BF3 and cannot wait to see how this work for the Needd for Speed title. psn: cedaridge / xbl: cedaridge

[DwightOwen]

C'mon BF3 Beta!

[rumplstilts]

One might say it's a cold day in hell. Ba Dum tsh.

[Paballo]

Can someone please explain to me what origin is? thank you