Executive producer Patrick Liu on behave on DICE has ensured console gamers that they aren’t getting any less of Battlefield 3 compared to their PC counterparts. He gave some interesting answers to the questions asked, catch them after the break.
He was asked about what does he think about PC gamers getting bigger maps and 64 player mulitplayer compared to console gamers who were getting smaller maps and just 24 player multiplayer, he answered “They’re definitely not getting less of a game.” Well Mr. Liu if that’s not less then we don’t know what is.
Rest of his answer:
It has the same amount of destruction and the same amount of visual fidelity. It’a also a misconception I’ve seen on the internet that the console version won’t have jets – that’s not true.
We’ve scaled the maps accordingly for console so it makes the pacing all right and the balancing is good,
If you play a big Conquest map then the map is balanced accordingly.
DICE head honcho Patrick Soderlund claimed that Battlefield 3 was capable of 256 player multiplayer like the PS3 exclusive FPS MAG. Patrick Liu had the following to say:
A lot of people ask us about 64 versus 128 or 256 players. Technically, we can go to 256, we’ve tried it, he revealed. We play tested with 128. You’ve got to make a game that’s fun to play and, arguably,
Source: CVG
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