You can customize your appearance in Battlefield 3

Battlefield Blog: "Today we got a screenshot from the IGN sneak preview of the new Battlefield 3 Multiplayer maps they released on the final game. When they were changing their load out it shows us something that we haven't seen before. In the bottom right there is a 4th option and it says "Appearance". "

[Hufandpuf]

Awesome, I wonder what we get to change. Any guess?

[Laxman216]

Hopefully not too much that all the characters start running around looking nothing like actual soldiers, but it would be nice to be able to change just some basic things, enough to make our soldiers our own. I like the level of customisation in Reach, that kind of thing would be good in Battlefield I reckon.

[DaCajun]

It's probably those skins(specact kit)that some places are including for pre-ordering like at Best Buy. I'm pretty sure greedy a$$ EA will put them out later as DLC for a price for the ones who didn't get it with a pre-order.

[NuclearDuke]

Bad Company 3: Call of Duty

N1 DICE!

[iPad]

"Bad Company 3"

..... ..... .... /facepalm

[SLEDGE]

Cause you can change your skin its a cod clone?
When could you do that in cod?
Besides from "Choose sniper, get sniper skin", etc

[Getowned]

I don't even know where you made that connection .

[Liquid_Ocelot]

"Bad Company 3" ?
Man, wtf -_-

[Xalaris]

COD = weapon sensitive appearance customization
BC (WTF?) = two skins available for each class

I love this place. So much sense.
I think you should try playing Socom, Halo or Rainbow Six, you then wouldn't be making such retarded comments.

[Ares90]

and what's even scarier, you got 4 agrees.

[ddurand1]

nuclears comment went over every single one of your heads.

[Kleptic]

yeah at most it might be camo options...as well as the area where you can customize your dog tags as you unlock them, and steal them from others...

visible character customization can be tough to sync properly, especially in a shooter that already has a huge level of weapon and load out customization...not to mention destruction...So whatever it is, i hope their servers are up for it...as the beta was a complete mess with latency, and it had zero 'appearance' options...

[Highlife]

Playing dress up in this game doesn't intrest me. Just like face paint in black opps.

[caperjim]

I miss the days of Rainbow six character customization. It was almost limitless, especially clothing color. You even could scan your face and put it on your character. Also how fast you moved depended on how much gear you wore. It added a bit of realism.

No big shooters of today come close to that level of customizing. Maybe Battlefield 3 still has some surprises up its sleeve.

[Hufandpuf]

I don't think color options would be good, but face scanning sound awesome. I remember they had face scanning on ps2 games.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

You just made me sad. The customization they had was definitely cool. I've been waiting for ubi to get off their ass and make a new Rainbow already.

[tails13]

@Hufandpuf

Colour options were good, you could change them to suit which map you were playing.

[Spitfire_Riggz]

Didnt socom 3 or one of those add weight to gear?

[TheIneffableBob]

Hats

[detroitmademe]

Beinge able to customize ur appearance would b sweet,i just wish there was a 3rd person option,that would make it even more epic

[Laxman216]

Third person in Battlefield? Are you kidding?

[A-Glorious-Dawn]

You know, a third person game on the scale of BF with the same graphics would actually be epic...

[A-Glorious-Dawn]

@disagrees What? really? you don't think it would be cool if done well?

Do you people have any imagination what so ever?

[Trunkz]

@A-Glorious-Dawn

I remember trying to play in 3rd person view in BF1942 Desert Combat mod, it was never a pretty sight but Battlefield Vehicles it's always worked well tho some prefer camera locks on servers so everyone has to play the same for balance.

If they added 3rd person INF in Battlefield it would completely change the formula and just lose the whole battlefield feel to begin with.

[Cenobia]

@A-Glorious-Dawn

Warhawk is basically what you are looking for. The regular person combat just needs some work, which I'm hoping Starhawk will fix.

It is a bad idea to make 3rd person an _option_. In 3rd person view people can see around corners and move more strategically, which is an unfair advantage. I guess Rainbow Six did it, but it changes the gameplay completely.

[NCAzrael]

@A-Glorious-Dawn

Meh, 3rd person shooters just don't appeal to me that much. 3rd person action games like GTA are great, but games that focus on just shooting in 3rd person I find to be rather dull. I guess that's why I'm not a Gears of War fan.

[Anti-Fanboyer]

Well third person view in the beta did kinda look cool. :3

http://img708.imageshack.us...

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[Liquid_Ocelot]

:) spectator? ;)

[TheIneffableBob]

Go play Battlefield Heroes.

[xYLeinen]

I'm guessing this is the option to select skins for your character. Such as skins you get when pre-ordering from selected retailers.

[Shackdaddy836]

I think that's what they did in BC2. It would be pretty cool to unlock skins regularly though...

[xYLeinen]

It would be cool to unlock skins but I doubt it. Wouldn't make much sense for the skin pre-order incentive tbh.

Remember you also got skins as DLC in BC2. Think it was the specact DLC or so. I'm guessing they will do something similar with BF3.

[EazyC]

I'll be disappointed if this is the case! It would be such a cool feature to add in (full customization)

[ECM0NEY]

It would be nice but I think its kind of pointless in a FPS. Nobody is really looking at what we look like when we are shooting them and your squad mates probably wont either.

[TheIneffableBob]

Team Fortress 2

[Dart89]

Awesome.

[Ezio2048]

i shall become Chuck Norris.
Anyone??

[Laxman216]

Nah.

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

nope.

[TheIneffableBob]

Chuck Testa

[Liquid_Ocelot]

Chuck Norris is a bitch if you ask me :S

[Xalaris]

lol @ disagrees.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sighs at the sight of his name.

[Liquid_Ocelot]

Thank God I'm not the only one -_-

[Wizziokid]

always a nice addition IMO, more FPS titles should add this, I love Halo's customization, still have yet to see a PFS on console compete with that for multiplexer appearances

[Kleptic]

yeah a lot of first person shooters skip these options...Warhawk had CRAZY amounts of custom armor and gear you could load on a character...but it was third person...but all those unlockables were aesthetic only...they had no effect on anything gameplay wise...which made them kind of pointless after you messed around with them a few minutes...

[leogets]

probably skin tone,colour,stye of hats ect. like mag has. nothing to outragious so u can look like tina turner

[Kleptic]

ha tina turner? Random...

[Ninjamonkey82]

Sweet, Im guessing it wont be two heavy it will be down to your camos and that but will be entirely team based and with in the military faction you are part off. Add to that new Sun glasses skin colour etc.

[Jovahkiin]

This is the spec-act skins for pre-ordering without a doubt.

[Trunkz]

Yup, I'm sure you can unlock some stuff, but the really cool stuff will probably be a $5 purchase for a pack of skins, etc like the SPECKIT in BC2.

[Jovahkiin]

If there was character customisation like rainbow six or something they would have advertised it months ago :)

[SuperbVillain]

If the appearance customization is anywhere near what Rainbow 6 vegas was...then this just might be the greatest multiplayer FPS EVARRRRR

[Hazmat13]

gas mask for my soldier of war!

[narutogameking]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!

[Kahvipannu]

I'm guessing it's pretty much choosing from few different skins for each class differently, BC2 had new skins too, via purchase only tought.

This would be cool feature, but pretty pointless since you can't see your character, besides maybe in theatre mode.

[thedarkvault]

My guess is it is for the spec-act kits. BC2 had this and BF3 has this as a pre-order bonus at gamestop in the US.

[Suicide_King]

Oh no....I hope to god they do NOT add ghillie suits. As if camping bush wookies wasn't bad enough.

[PickAShoe]

I want to be a Nyan Cat and shoot everyone :D

[tenacious_b]

Screw customization... just fix the damn graphics please >.<

[EazyC]

Read up on the texture pack.

[Organization XII]

Can I has a gigantic midget with 4 legs and one eye?

[jriquelme_paraguay]

I want to use my fifa game face on my soldier

[0neShot]

yeah, i've already seen one in the beta, that crawling slug soldier is a must!

[xPrOzAK--]

OMG AMAZING IF I CAN CUSTOMIZE MY ENTIRE CHARACTER.

[Ethereal]

I like....

[littlemac]

Pretty pimp :D

[littlemac]

I can't wait for BF3!!!

[littlemac]

Awesome

[Jovahkiin]

They announced that there is 16 different uniform camos.