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Slimebeast on 31 July 2010
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KylieDog said:
Slimebeast said:

Great news!

I'm happy it's so close to release that they're talking beta already. Plus it's great it's coming to consoles.

No matter what the haters said about dumbing down and console adaptation I think Bad Company 2 was awesome on PC.

The main thing BC2 lacked was big maps and jets. But thats perfectly doable on consoles too.

 

 

I wouldn't be so sure about on consoles.  The thing that is limiting map size is to do with vehicles mainly, Sony and MS emplace bandwidth limits that games are not allowed to exceed in order to run, apparently vehicles use a lot of bandwidth, the problem with large maps is you need more vehicles in order to keep things going smoothly (no one wants to run for 60 seconds on foot to get to nearest base), but then the vehicle problem hits.

 

Anyway, I'm not forking out on MoH for this, as much a BF fan that I am.  Pre-orders of BF3 will probably include beta access too.

Now you make me depressed.

Hopefully though they'll allow the PC version to have more players and in that way still allow the maps to remain big. Like Enemy Territory: Quake Wars has quite large maps, but the PC version supports 32 players while console versions are restricted to 16. So there's methods to decrease bandwith pressure.

And didn't older Battlefields have different map sizes dependent on the number of players? Like a 16 player Coral Sea is smaller than the 64 player version? Or am I making things up again?