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DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson has moved to assure Battlefield 3 beta participants that the final version of the game will feature a host of improvements, shaped in part by fan feedback.

Perhaps in response to a degree of disappointment expressed by some fansover the quality of the ongoing beta, he explained that the Battlefield 3 public taster is built on "quite early code".

"The Battlefield 3 Open Beta is based on software that is more than one month old," he wrote on the Battlefield blog.

"Just like normal procedure when releasing a game, the Open Beta has had long lead times due to testing, certification, and setting up. This means that the code you are now playing is actually quite early and not representative of the final game.

"We had to do this in order to have as many people testing as possible, in order to ensure a top quality experience when the game is released."

Troedsson said DICE is already seeing six times the amount of simultaneous players in the Battlefield 3 beta compared to the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 one, making it "doubly important to test everything" thoroughly.

"We appreciate your time and your feedback. The data and feedback from the Open Beta will not only directly affect the final game of Battlefield 3, but its future development and support.

"The final game will look, play and sound better than the Open Beta. You have helped making sure of that," he concluded.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/321177/battlefield-3-will-look-play-and-sound-better-than-the-beta/

A beta that has code only a month old doesn't make me feel any better. "Old" code should be like 4-5+ months ago. 1-2 month old code means they are only doing minor polishes to it, not fixing the crazy amount of bugs and graphical/audio glitches I saw (360 version, PC version seemed fine).

hahahha yeah right they're just trying to cover their asses cause the beta is shit. I'm glad I didn't already have this game pre-ordered because it saves me a trip to Gamestop to cancel my pre-order.

They have like 1 month since the beta came out to make the game good, and part of that 1 month will include packaging and shipping out the discs, so in reality they have like a couple weeks to turn it from shit to gold....not gonna happen. Best anyone can hope for is a day-1 patch to fix the servers and glitches, but the camping and slow play is there to stay.

I say they should have never have released the beta then they would have avoided the negative feedback.

I would agree.

At the same time though, they've pumped and hyped their game to be such a Call of Duty killer that I don't really feel too sorry for them (probably more EA's doing than DICE). Not only that, while I can forgive certain things because this is an old build for the beta, I still can't give them a free pass for saying "it's just a beta" when they kind of market it like a demo. 

"Try Battlefield 3 before everybody else!"

that's a lot of things they want to improve... >_>

WhaT a lazy fat ass bitch

After the beta, everyone put fucking corks in their ears and closed the curtains in front of their eyes to any info concerning BF3 whatsoever.

"Retail will be much better" says Dice
"Not sure if trolling." says consumer.

It seriously isn't even worth the time and effort to even make a thread about BF3 on this site. I appreciate your effort Nsanity, but people aren't going to care.

If you can seriously find something game breaking in this video (ps3 conquest footage on operation firestorm) then you're just lying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKMz0umGYJ8

I think it would be more convincing if dice said its nothing like the beta rather than just 'better than'.