Battlefield 3

Battlefield 4 Beta Launching Fall 2013, Not Exclusive to Medal of Honor Pre-Orders

Battlefield 3 community manager Ian Tornay has taken the time to address the impending Battlefield 4 beta, and has announced a few pretty interesting tidbits.

First off, the beta is going to be launching in the Fall of 2013. Given the fact that EA looks to be putting Battlefield and Medal of Honor on the Call of Duty development schedule, this is not surprising. What is pretty interesting, however, is that pre-ordering Medal of Honor: Warfighter is not going to be the only way to guarantee access to the beta. Eventually, there will be more ways to get into the beta. For now, however, pre-ordering Medal of Honor is your best bet for surefire access.

Tornay stressed that EA DICE is not going to be shifting focus away from supporting Battlefield 3 any time soon, and promised that the game will be supported in the same way that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been supported during Battlefield 3's time in the spotlight.

DICE is split into team, so the team working on Battlefield 4 does not take away from Battlefield 3 staff. He also noted that DICE is aware that some of the key focus points the community would like to see includes "a better VOIP solution, Battle Recorder, Spectator Mode [and] more robust eSports support."

Naturally, the community would really like to see modding support in Battlefield 4 but the chances of that happening are very slim. Tornay said he is pushing hard for that support, but if EA decided against it, we're not sure what will convince them it's a good idea for Battlefield 4.

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  • Sting1279's avatar
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    #3 Sting1279 Posted 7/22/2012 4:59:50 AM

    Same here, floppy.  No pre-order for me for any Battlefield titles after BF3.  Charging $60 for an unfinished game may be acceptable by industry standards now, but it's still not cool.  If I wait 6 months, I can pay half price for the game and give them time to sort the bugs and glitches that should have been eliminated in beta.  I put over 400 hours in BF2 and never got bored.  Can't say the same for BF3 at only 100 hours.  Apparently they think COD style gameplay is what we want.  Think again EA or you might lose the real Battlefield community.

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    #2 BilliB Posted 7/18/2012 11:53:58 PM

    I agree with Floppy. Fancy graphics and sound isn't going to buy me this time, they better do it good.

    I honestly don't see why EA thinks mod tools are so bad, except the fact that we can make our own expansion packs, but they'll never be as good as those DICE develops. Giving mod tools simply allows the game to survive, [s]after[/s] DICE stops developing further onto it.

    A great example of that is Project Reality, which still to this date, increases the sales of BF2, just so they can play PR, which is still alive after all these years.

     

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    #1 floppy420 Posted 7/18/2012 10:12:50 PM

    Remember what happened the last time DICE rushed? Whatever. It's gonna take a hard sell for me to start considering bf4

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