First screen of Battlefield: Bad Company

BlimBlim
Monday, August 21, 2006 | 3:44 PM
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Electronic Arts announced today the development of a new episode of the famous Battlefield series, called Battlefield: Bad Company. As always developed by DiCE using an in-house engine, this Battlefield should be much more story driven, with much more emphasis on the characters. First screen inside!

First screen

peoples

Commented on 2006-08-21 18:46:00

The game will be buggy as hell, and fps will be around 10-15. "Battlefield 2", 2142 uses same (buggy) engine. Nice to bring patches that bring up more bugs ;)

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munkieNS

Commented on 2006-08-21 18:49:50 In reply to peoples

Posted by peoples

The game will be buggy as hell, and fps will be around 10-15. "Battlefield 2", 2142 uses same (buggy) engine. Nice to bring patches that bring up more bugs ;)

I think this one is using Unreal Engine 3.0, as EA recently licensed it and are probably going to use it in a shooter, as that's really all that's been shown off with UE3 as of yet anyway.

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Freniger

Commented on 2006-08-21 18:56:43

Why is this being posted on an Xbox site? Last time I checked this was only announced for the PC, was is it not?

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Claze

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:05:03

It's for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and PSP.

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BooMMooB

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:05:16

no, bad company has been announced for both ps3 and the xbox360 today. It's all over the internet.

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Immortal_Daemon

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:16:55 In reply to munkieNS

Posted by munkieNS

I think this one is using Unreal Engine 3.0, as EA recently licensed it and are probably going to use it in a shooter, as that's really all that's been shown off with UE3 as of yet anyway.

As always developed by DiCE using an in-house engine,

Says that right in the text on the top of the page.

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RC_Master

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:22:38

Very believable still shots.

However, the animation needs to be top notch to maintain the belief of the illusion. So often i've seen great looking character models fall to peices believability-wise when they start to move because of poor animaion.

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MakyoDetector

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:24:12

Blur & jaggies, looks like BF! I have a love-hate relationship with the current game already, what with its nonexistent support, crappy servers and physics and voice glitches. On the other hand the gameplay is really addictive. Damn you DICE, damn you to hell... oh I forgot, they're already in Sweden ;)

(just kidding, I'm Finnish)

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scazza

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:25:09

Why can't they just make everyone happy and bring PC battlefield 2142 to the X360. It can easily do it... why "force" players to buy both games... oh wait.. its EA... makes sense now.

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Kethmach

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:26:55

They're renders- not CG, not "in game". Sorry- please don't confuse the issue, I'm not a flamer of anything- but these are renders. Period.

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Tronzilla

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:26:59

The game uses Frostbite engine.

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acm2000

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:34:41

these are not in-game or cg, they are simply a preset scene in the game engine, then rendered at a high res, as with most screenies untill the games get near to release.

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blijack

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:40:27

I can guarantee this is running off of a devkit

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most_hated

Commented on 2006-08-21 19:41:23 In reply to Winter_wolf

Posted by Winter_wolf

After playing FNR3, i believe EA could pull this kind of amazing graphics easily, anybody remember before when alot of EA bashers used to be calling FNR3 graphics CG ^_~
That's, untill it came out for real =D

Please stop comparing a game with 2 characters in a small square ring with games that are in large arenas with physics, destructible enviroments, multiple characters on screen, etc. Theres a reason why DOA was the best looking Xbox game.

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007ybse04

Commented on 2006-08-21 20:08:59

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Unreal Engine 3 rulez !!

GrimThorne

Commented on 2006-08-21 20:25:38 In reply to cchance

Posted by cchance

ya dx10 allows for some unbelievable effects but with the ps3 not being dx10 compatabile i don't think they are gonna use it :(... 360 has mostly dx10 support (missing some small stuff but then again it has some stuff beyond dx10 like the unified shaders and the daughter die)

It's very possibly ingame but no way to tell for sure. Just remember, it's amazing what good shaders can do :)

It's very possible, no.........more than possible that what you are looking at is just good ole Shader Model 2.0 cruising on DX9. High Def just brings out all of the graphics details.

I think it's going to be a very long time before we see a REAL DX10 game built from it's very foundation utilizing Direct 3D 10 elements. I mean despite all of the excitement about Crysis, it's still basically DX9 making use of miminal DX10 elements.

Developers are SUPER SLOW when it comes to adapting new development tools. It might surprise you to know that there are only about 10 games that have ever been developed using Shader Model 3.0. I have no idea when developers would start using Shader Model 4.0 which is arriving with Direct 3D 10 by way of Vista/DX10.

I wouldn't hold my breath to see too many DX10 based titles anytime soon. It could take more than year before developers get around to it. I don't want to say that developers are lazy, but they usually don't start rushing in to use something they haven't aquired a certain level of comfort with.

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[quote=cchance]ya dx10 allows for some unbelievable effects but with the ps3 not being dx10 compatabile i don't think they are gonna use it :(... 360 has mostly dx10 support (missing some small stuff but then again it has some stuff beyond dx10 like the unified shaders and the daughter die)

It's very possibly ingame but no way to tell for sure. Just remember, it's amazing what good shaders can do :)[/quote]

It's very possible, no.........more than possible that what you are looking at is just good ole Shader Model 2.0 cruising on DX9.  High Def just brings out all of the graphics details.

I think it's going to be a very long time before we see a REAL DX10 game built from it's very foundation utilizing Direct 3D 10 elements. I mean despite all of the excitement about Crysis, it's still basically DX9 making use of miminal DX10 elements.

Developers are SUPER SLOW when it comes to adapting new development tools. It might surprise you to know that there are only about 10 games that have ever been developed using Shader Model 3.0.  I have no idea when developers would start using Shader Model 4.0 which is arriving with Direct 3D 10 by way of Vista/DX10.

I wouldn't hold my breath to see too many DX10 based titles anytime soon. It could take more than year before developers get around to it.  I don't want to say that developers are lazy, but they usually don't start rushing in to use something they haven't aquired a certain level of comfort with.

Rob91883

Commented on 2006-08-21 20:30:50

Wow the engine looks great! It looks better than UE3, but maybe because its a close-up.

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Inflatable

Commented on 2006-08-21 21:00:32

I thought this wanna gonna be some sort of BF1942 consoleversion.. Obviously I was wrong.. Still looks like BF2 (in terms of setting)..

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Winter_wolf

Commented on 2006-08-21 21:02:12

==
Please stop comparing a game with 2 characters in a small square ring with games that are in large arenas with physics, destructible enviroments, multiple characters on screen, etc. Theres a reason why DOA was the best looking Xbox game.
==
And stop comparing a game released shortly after 360 was launched with a game going to be released a year or two after, cookie, see GOW, Mass Effect and Unreal tournament 2007 for more information.
It appears you have a very low faith in what Next-Generation means.

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They're renders- not CG, not "in game". Sorry- please don't confuse the issue, I'm not a flamer of anything- but these are renders. Period.
==
Why ofcourse they are, FNR3, GOW and Mass Effect are all built on a pre-rendered engine too lol (=

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BlimBlim

Commented on 2006-08-21 21:23:54 In reply to acm2000

Posted by acm2000

these are not in-game or cg, they are simply a preset scene in the game engine, then rendered at a high res, as with most screenies untill the games get near to release.

These are not high res renders, notice the jaggies.

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XSAVAGE

Commented on 2006-08-21 21:33:01

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CGI , EA are a bunch of lazy bastards that reuse code in each of their games , if you already bought Battlefield 2 Modern Combat then youre buying the same damn thing all over again.

El_Cadz

Commented on 2006-08-21 21:34:27

"Much more story driven, with much more emphasis on the characters."

I hope it's true!

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j0k3r

Commented on 2006-08-21 21:43:00

Whats with the EA bashing?
DiCE are the ones making the game! EA just publish the game!

All the BF2 games have been good and by looking at some of the jaggies id saying this are ingame models

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Winter_wolf

Commented on 2006-08-21 22:51:18

Proof that this's in-game, jaggies :
http://img8.picsplace.to/img8/20/44444444444-47a.J...

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Freniger

Commented on 2006-08-21 23:59:21

Well, it looks spectacular, but as with most games nowadays, it will probably lose a lot of quality by release.

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