DICE working on multiple Battlefield 3 fixes

By Tom Phillips Published 13 February, 2012

Will tweak balance, gameplay, stability, features.

Battlefield 3 developer DICE has told fans it is working on a number of fixes for the game.

The upcoming tweaks will address issues relating to "balance and gameplay, performance, stability and the overall feature set".

More details will apparently be announced "in the coming weeks," according to DICE's Battlefield community man Daniel Matros, writing on the official Battlefield blog.

A number of PC bugfixes will also hit this week. These include:

  • Support for Intel's new Ivy Bridge product line (as yet unreleased)
  • Fixes for two reproducible client crashes:
  • Oilfields- Conquest Large - Fixed a client crash when users spawn in certain vehicles.
  • Canals - Rush - Fixed a client crash at the 2nd set of mcoms if the player drives a vehicle into the vicinity of the exploding rocket battery.
  • AMD Radeon 7xxx series performance improvements

Those changes go live via Origin at 8am on Valentine's Day.

Publisher EA was last month forced to bolster its security after law-abiding Battlefield 3 players were falsely banned by hackers exposing flaws in the PunkBuster anti-cheat software.

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Comments (47) Latest comment 3 months ago

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  • Darksouls13 #1 3 months ago

    Hmm...

  • ROCK-NYC #2 3 months ago

    Post deleted at 02:25:49 14-02-2012

  • stonecrowe #3 3 months ago

    Unless they seriously nerf the explosive shotgun rounds, im not even going to consider playing this game again.

  • kinky_mong #4 3 months ago

    I've got another couple of fixes for you Dice:

    Disable the ability for Recons to stand on top of the MAV and fly themselves up to normally unreachable parts of the map.
    Nerf the goddamn FAMAS!

  • AcidSnake #5 3 months ago

    Oilfields? Does the PC have some exclusive maps?

    Anyway, about time...
    Please fix MAV hopping, squad management, netcode, reduce points for unlocks and increase general destructibility...

    And maybe a pet peeve of mine, make me able to jump through the windows on the grey building, 2nd set of Damavand...Right now I look like a bunny hopping, wall-groping lunatic instead of a well armed soldier sneaking in through the window...

    Also, how about some BC2 maps thrown in?

  • hideous1978 #6 3 months ago

    Shotguns and those fucking ridiculous miracle lights and red dot lasers on guns need sorted. so sick of not being able to kill someone just because they are shining a light at me.

  • revan8 #7 3 months ago

    Great game. Not played for few months as it is an unbalanced mess. Bc2 was a better all round online game.

  • rudedudejude #8 3 months ago

    Oil-what?

  • Lolatron #9 3 months ago

    Noticeable lack of the fix that removes Battlelog and adds an in-game server browser ¬_¬

  • PcPlasticfuzz #10 3 months ago

    After playing countless hours of BC2 on both PS3 and Xbox I've already traded BF3. Just not up to scratch in my view.

  • psychokitten #11 3 months ago

    Oilfields = Operation Firestorm

  • Ace-Reject #12 3 months ago

    Has anyone noticed some of the support machine guns M240B mainly are really under powered and seem to miss a lot at close range ?

  • SuperBas #13 3 months ago

    Did they make the game suck less? I was done playing in 3 weeks.

  • macmurphy #14 3 months ago

    An ability to host private games like on BFBC2.

    And yeah, all the BFBC2 maps please. But Valdez to start.

    Agree with a lot of people, feels like a step back from BC2 in a lot of ways. Essentially a map with 32 players on PC becomes an empty wasteland with 16 on XBox when everyone is in a vehicle. Maps need to be designed with a player count in mind.

    And Also if I am playing with friends I want it easy to get on their team and stay on it. That can't be rocket science, BC2 was all over it.

  • Stevonymo #15 3 months ago

    Make the Goddam jeep worth getting into! The machine gun fires too slowly and my farts do more damage!!!

  • Iakona #16 3 months ago

    @kinky_mong

    The FAMAS itself doesn't need nerfed.. Yes it's good at close range due to its RPM and yes it has very little recoil... but the horizontal bullet spread makes it pretty crap at long range. It also has an extremely long reload time for a rifle. It's not this mega perfect gun that people seem to think it is.. The M16A3 is a better all rounder!

    The problem is the Foregrip.. It reduces the recoil on every gun by the same amount, regardless of the guns base recoil. Since the FAMAS has very little recoil to begin with, adding a foregrip pretty much eliminates recoil completely, which is imbalanced.

    Solution is simply altering how the foregrip calculates the reduction. If the gun has very little recoil then the foregrip should have no effect!
    Edited by Iakona at 13/02/12 @ 14:18

  • Stevonymo #17 3 months ago

    @Ace-Reject ...Yes thank you! Someone else that noticed I have a great big machine gun and I would stand more chance eating some beans and pointing my butt at them!

  • tachometer #18 3 months ago

    This game was really fun for the first month then people started unlocking all the 'upgrades'. They should have a barebones mode with just the guns and kit you get at the beginning

  • arcam #19 3 months ago

    From reading all the comments on BF3 stories, I can't help thinking they should have kept the Bad Company series on consoles, and the Battlefield series on PC. Everyone would have been a lot happier it seems.

  • king26 #20 3 months ago

    Nerf the FAMAS, it's the best rifle by far, I've tried every other but they don't come close. Also tye USAS and it's explosive rounds. Otherwise it's the best online shooter I've played.
    Just want a WWII expansion similar to BFBC2 Vietnam and it'll be perfect for me.

  • TheEarlOfZinger #21 3 months ago

    In a one on one, the famas will kick your arse every time.

    Shame because I only play support. So I'm fucked basically.

  • Po1ymorph #22 3 months ago

    Battlefiled 1943 worked a treat on Xbox with just 24 player's. But with Battlefield 3 it just doesn't. Perhaps it's becurse maps were designed for 32-64 players then scaled down or there are just too many vehicles. I cannot put my finger on it, but there are real balance issues on console.

  • You_shlaaaag #23 3 months ago

    2143 pretty, please?! As soon as Titan mode makes a return all will be good in the world.

  • SwashbucklingStuff #24 3 months ago

    @Ace-Reject Yes! I've recently unlocked it but using the 3.4x scope I could kill no-one. After taking it off and using the gun with no optics at all it seemed to be much better. Was infuriating me yday.

  • arcam #25 3 months ago

    Support guys main role is to suppress the enemy with heavy fire while assault guys finish them off. That's not to say support won't get any kills, but that's not their main job.

  • MancunianPsycho #26 3 months ago

    I would like it if I could quit a game inbetween games.

    It's such a ridiculously stupid thing not to allow, that I'm almost sure I've missed something extremely simple.

  • Syrette #27 3 months ago

    Increase the max player limit to make the likes of Operation FIrestorm and Kharg Island fun even if you're not in a vehicle.

  • frugtkompot #28 3 months ago

    Nerf the FAMAS! Make another gun the best gun, then nerf that and buff what you nerfed the last time!

    ... Or maybe work on some of the critical issues that has been there since release. This is more important than constantly tweaking the balance - which is all things considered actually not bad.

  • Colin8703 #29 3 months ago

    I haven't played it for a couple of weeks but the game kept going to a black screen and I had to go back to the dashboard of my 360 when selecting quickmatch which I believe is to do with the Back to Karkand maps (correct me if I'm wrong)

    I've gone back to BFBC2 in the meantime.

    Everytime I think about playing it I'm put off at the moment by the black screen but reading what the rest of you have to say, it's part of a long list.

    Fingers crossed they'll address alot of this as I really am getting tired of games that require a large investment of time being pushed out by publishers with annoying niggles.

    I'm sure some of us have plenty of other games we could be playing in the meantime and publishers need to be made aware of that as if they continue to push games out to fit release schedules, they're doing more damage in the long run. The developers reputation is also damaged and I for one, won't be buying the next Battlefield game day one.

  • iammillsey #30 3 months ago

    All those suggestions are fine but also sort the lobby. Give us a chance to quit or view assignments or change weapons or player camp or...I could go on.

  • Drygore #31 3 months ago

    @PcPlasticfuzz
    The PC version is, trust me. 64 player large conquest is amazing. With 64 players the few balance issues aren't as noticable either.

  • Davemanz #32 3 months ago

    @Drygore Agreed 100%. it's really too bad the experience is so different between consoles and PC. It's amazing fun on PC, largely because of the player count. It's a shame it's apparently so much more difficult and expensive to get games of the same scale running on XBLA/PSN, because at least on the PC the game is the best online shooter since TF2 and probably surpasses it if the maps keep coming.

  • DAN.E.B #33 3 months ago

    If me and a friend join a game together it would be great if we were on the same fuckin team!!!

  • itsfuzzy #34 3 months ago

    I just cant get into BF3, i put it down and ive no desire to play it again. Ive tried and tried, like a lot of people it just feels like a step in the wrong direction and a step down from BC2, hard to put my finger on it

  • Bullet_Tunnel #35 3 months ago

    stop the choppers being invincible when i shoot stingers at them, and being made of tinfoil when i fly them-(regardless of upgrades). also, i realised you can bump choppers out of the sky with the mav, i wondered why sometimes i would just flip upsidedown for no reason..(im a decent pilot, i do fuck up now and again, but pitching into the ground sideways from a straigh hover is unusual)

  • cheeky_BILLY #36 3 months ago

    If DICE had spent less time with pointless COOP missions and even less time on SP then BF3 would be a game to be proud of.

    The BF series has been amazing on the whole but BF3 MP has so many niggles and things that don't feel right about it, that I lose the will to play it.especially annoying is powerful flashlights which blind me even in bright sunshine and shotguns which can pick me off from miles away.

    I'll forgot it all though, if you put Harvest Day and a snow map in BF3, DICE.

  • Uncompetative #37 3 months ago

    Lasers and Flashlights need to be off by default. Screen tearing needs to be eliminated.
    Edited by Uncompetative at 14/02/12 @ 09:49

  • ross.adams #38 3 months ago

    Remove the MAV road killing please?
    Sick of campers exploiting this.

  • FireMonkey #39 3 months ago

    @cheeky_BILLY - Thing is all BF games have been a bit crappy to start with. It's only after numerous patch, tweaks and re-balances that they get it right.

    TBH a game that is this big and have so many different play styles is going to have issues.

  • MancunianPsycho #40 3 months ago

    They should also make it so that you can't spawn in vehicles.

    I know this may have been a feature in previous games, but I find it extremely frustrating that in a game in which the aim is to collect points by capturing flags, people wait in the lobby for a vehicle to become available.

    It completely defeats the object of the game, and it would make it much less rewarding for players if they had to wait 'out in the open' for the vehicle and could be killed in the meantime.

    This is an 'irk' from someone who's only experience of Battlefield is BF3.

    It also means that it is more difficult for the same player to get in the Viper/Little Bird/Mayhem and destroy everyone for the whole duration of a game.
    Edited by MancunianPsycho at 14/02/12 @ 12:37

  • Doomspoon #41 3 months ago

    I definitely think something should be done about the MAV abuse. It's getting really stupid. I'd like them to empower Stingers again too. I'm sick of having at least a couple of us shooting at the same helicopter and it surviving despite hits registering. Scout helicopters in particular.

    I've really been enjoying BF3 over previous versions but the last month has got bad. It's hard to find a game where people aren't abusing the MAV or there's infinite helicopter spawn death.

    I suppose it was good while it lasted.

  • Matfink #42 3 months ago

    @MancunianPsycho Quit in-between games? Alt+F4 is your friend :)

  • Matfink #43 3 months ago

    Hmm support for an unreleased chipset - how nice.
    How about making the spawn map clickable on PC FFS! You know... user interface 101.

  • MancunianPsycho #44 3 months ago

    @Matfink Xbox. :(

  • cyber_nicco #45 3 months ago

    @iammillsey Plus One Million!

  • Totza #46 3 months ago

    @revan8 nope, BC2 was a shit BF game in every sense, shouldn't even share the BF name in the title.

  • Dj_ade_76 #47 3 months ago

    Fix ps3 control lag PLEASE! I don't really have many issues with anything else. This is destroying my enjoyment, and adding frustration.