Battlefield 1943 dday Pc#

On the game's official forums, DICE says it's hurrying to get up more servers to minimize connectivity disruptions, as many players find themselves unable to join games and with other load-related teething troubles.

Battlefield 1943 dday Pc#

Response to the game, which will also launch on PC this September, has apparently exceeded the developer's expectations from its Xbox Live Arcade launch yesterday. Which is kind of sad, because I always liked trying to kill people with my defibrillators.Within a day of its launch, Electronic Arts' DICE-developed Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network team-based shooter Battlefield 1943 needs to make more server space, stat. There's also no medic, because of the regenerative health system. Engineering and anti-tank abilities have been shifted over to the rifleman and soldier classes, while the scout now has demolitions duties to perform. For example, there are now only three character classes -rifleman, soldier and scout. It's just all been streamlined to make it less complicated. Won't feature in the final version of the game either.Įverything else you'd expect from a Battlefield game is present and correct -cars, planes, boats, explosions and so on. What you might be concerned about is the lack of any single-player element The tutorial level will, currently, teach you the game in the absence of any other players or bots. Judging from the game we saw running, which was still pre-alpha code, it would be fair to say that the game will run comfortably on mid-spec PCs, so anyone out there who is concerned about ridiculous system requirements doesn't need to be unduly concerned about this. We don't want to lose players because they can't play the game.' 'We're aiming for the high-end PC market, though I hope we're not pushingįor, you know, the spectrum of where Crysis went, because that was a bit too high. Liu says the game, despite being 'competitively priced', won't be skimping on the graphical detail. This is possible by using the Frostbite engine, developed for Bad Company on consoles. Graphically, the game looks very colourful and vivid, which will mark a significant change in the art direction from BF1942 (and the other games, to lesser degrees). 'Battlefield is a bit more accessi ble now, a more streamlined experience and a more focused game, so I think if you're new to Battlefield, it should still be fairly easy to get into it.' I wouldn't call it a remake of 1942, but it's strongly inspired by it If you played Wake Island before, you'll recognise it in 1943. I 'We're going to support 24 players, there are going to be three maps, one of them being Wake Island. Some won't see this as a problem, but there are potential issues (unmovable snipers, impregnable defences) that might arise from these implementations. However, it'll also feature what some could describe as console concessions, like Unlimited' ammunition and Call of Duty-style regenerating health. To be honest I think using those terms is a really bad way of defining what a game is.'Īs Liu says, the game has been streamlined and tweaked to be less Intimidating to new players. It's the whole of the game that makes it hardcore or casual. You know we have only three maps, only three classes, regenerative health and all that We have seen some complaints about these, but my response is that those systems don't make a game hardcore or casual. I think that once you actually try it you'll really like it With that said we have slimmed things down.

They assume that if it's a cheap small game that it's going to be casual. Mostly the people that don't like it, or rather the people who think they don't like it, aren't that well informed on what kind of game it is. Patrick Liu, lead producer on Battlefield 1943: Pacific, spoke to us about how the community has reacted: I've been watching the forums since the announcement, and I think they're split. Fortunately, we just happened to have a representative from DICE right next to us when we had a go on the game. But will it live up to the expectations of the people who even now are plugging away on the original game? A difficult question, answerable only by DICE themselves. So the news of Battlefields return to Wake Island and other familiar locales is welcome.

I've never got on with mechs and futuristic settings for pseudo-realistic shooters - there's just something more satisfying about rending a Nazi's flesh from his bones than taking down a robot. Despite my much-publicised exasperation with the continued overuse of this scenario, it's welcome in this case. This is the new Battlefield game and it's migrated back from a world of big stompy mech things to the more familiar environs of World War II.