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EA Unveils Battlefield 4 at GDC 2013

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The Battlefield franchise rolls on with number four.

Last night in San Francisco, the press and game industry professionals got to view the “Fishing in Baku” 17- minute gameplay demo on the big screen at the 2013 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. The theater was packed- the only reason it wasn’t standing room only is they carefully counted how many people got in. The gameplay demo can be seen in its entirety below.

Besides being smooth and slick (and taking a few seconds to adjust to on a 28-foot movie screen) EA stresses the more interactive nature of the game. While the game is still ‘directed’, as they put it, it is designed to be less ‘on rails’ and to allow the player to choose their own route. They promise destructible environments, specifically in ways that make you able to change the route to the destination by, for instance, blowing out a wall.

While the footage we’ve been show does look good indeed, no information about the specifications for the system used to create the demo were given.

EA says Battlefield 4 will ship during EA’s fiscal year 2014, which means any time up until March 2013.

Battlefield 4: Official 17 Minutes "Fishing in Baku" Gameplay Reveal

 

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    sacre , March 27, 2013 6:54 PM
    All I want is the classic You vs 32 bots... I get tired of playing online sometimes, having to fight for aircraft, ground vehicles, etc. So playing by myself with 32 bots is fun as hell, you get to use what you want, enjoy the scenery, etc, etc.

    Sadly, they rid of that feature in BF3 and now it seems it'll never come back.

    BF Series should have always kept that feature, because once you finish the campaign, you've got nothing else but MP. No real replayability.
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    dalethepcman , March 27, 2013 6:46 PM
    What they aren't telling you is that in the newest battlefield game, bullets cost $0.01 each. EA promises that this isn't a pay to win game though, as you can stab people with your knife for free and if purchased through Origin, it comes with 5,000 bullets.
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    samuelspark , March 27, 2013 6:30 PM
    The problem with this is that EA unveils BF4. Not some decent company with some moral sense.
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    zinabas , March 27, 2013 5:33 PM
    another instant memorable EA classic... and it'll have so many bugs it won't work right for 3 months after its released on the console and never on the PC. That's EA's new business model, old game engine, new graphics, half ass coding, and premature release dates.
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    meowmix44 , March 27, 2013 5:41 PM
    Dude it looks just like BF3.... Why is this being unveiled so early, there is so much things that have to be done:( 
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    CarolKarine , March 27, 2013 5:47 PM
    meowmix44Dude it looks just like BF3.... Why is this being unveiled so early, there is so much things that have to be done


    look up the law of diminishing returns. at a certain point, the human eye can't tell the difference between a 100000 poly model and a 1000000 poly model. the difference, if you look, is in the particle effects, the lighting, the cloth simulation, and the animation. the textures are at least twice, if not quadruple the old resolution, and I think the entire ground is tesselated. it's a step up. it's not cryengine 3, but it's a step up.
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    bak0n , March 27, 2013 5:59 PM
    Until they bring LAN play back like battlefield 2 and clean it up so I can play with my nieces,nephews and children, I'll continue to stay with BF2.
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    bustapr , March 27, 2013 6:22 PM
    zinabasanother instant memorable EA classic... and it'll have so many bugs it won't work right for 3 months after its released on the console and never on the PC. That's EA's new business model, old game engine, new graphics, half ass coding, and premature release dates.

    dont forget EAs new love for microtransactions. I likely wont be geting this game until its on sale for like $10(I bought BF3 during the BF anniversary sale for $10 on origin). Aside from the prettier graphics I dont have enough interest in it as to pay full price for it. BF3s battlelog pissed me off one too many times already.
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    samuelspark , March 27, 2013 6:30 PM
    The problem with this is that EA unveils BF4. Not some decent company with some moral sense.
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    dalethepcman , March 27, 2013 6:46 PM
    What they aren't telling you is that in the newest battlefield game, bullets cost $0.01 each. EA promises that this isn't a pay to win game though, as you can stab people with your knife for free and if purchased through Origin, it comes with 5,000 bullets.
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    sacre , March 27, 2013 6:54 PM
    All I want is the classic You vs 32 bots... I get tired of playing online sometimes, having to fight for aircraft, ground vehicles, etc. So playing by myself with 32 bots is fun as hell, you get to use what you want, enjoy the scenery, etc, etc.

    Sadly, they rid of that feature in BF3 and now it seems it'll never come back.

    BF Series should have always kept that feature, because once you finish the campaign, you've got nothing else but MP. No real replayability.
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    wolfkraut , March 27, 2013 7:03 PM
    "EA says Battlefield 4 will ship during EA’s fiscal year 2014, which means any time up until March 2013."

    Hmm... Talk about a low-key release!
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    armitageid , March 27, 2013 7:09 PM
    "EA says Battlefield 4 will ship during EA’s fiscal year 2014, which means any time up until March 2013."

    Ummm.....end of the video says Fall 2013...am I missing something here??
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    aoneone , March 27, 2013 7:24 PM
    What is this? First of all it He got hit 5 or 6 times and he still walks around happy go-lucky? And 2nd, you can see the enemy get hit 4 or 5 times and still not drop? I'm sorry but Battlefield 4 is looking like a glorified BF3. Seriously, where is the realism here like Arma 3?
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    Formata , March 27, 2013 7:55 PM
    First 17 minutes of gameplay... So we've now seen the first half of the campaign... based on the last one!
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    CheesyHotDogPuff , March 27, 2013 8:12 PM
    Invites cod commentators, but not bf3 commentators. I have lost all hope in ea. My one ea game a year limit just went down to 0.
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    alidan , March 27, 2013 8:17 PM
    CarolKarinelook up the law of diminishing returns. at a certain point, the human eye can't tell the difference between a 100000 poly model and a 1000000 poly model. the difference, if you look, is in the particle effects, the lighting, the cloth simulation, and the animation. the textures are at least twice, if not quadruple the old resolution, and I think the entire ground is tesselated. it's a step up. it's not cryengine 3, but it's a step up.


    ps3, resistance 1 and 2.
    2 had twice the polly count as 1
    you had to be told that to even have a chance at seeing the difference.

    this is one of the reasons why i dont want graphics to be pushed to a retarded extreme...

    they develop and design for the highest end, and let a computer scale everything back, making the game look like hell if you dont have that high end hardware.
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    Gamer_Pollution , March 27, 2013 8:19 PM
    Invites a bunch of COD commentators like Woody, Tmartn, MinnesotaBurns and Smoove, but no ACTUAL BF commentators/gamers. EA, stupider by the day.
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    Christy Germain , March 27, 2013 8:31 PM
    First ever Battlefield 4 hacks

    http://www.ilikecheats.com/?news=battlefield-4-hacks-and-cheats
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    crabdog , March 27, 2013 8:48 PM
    I'm already so bored with all these games that give you 80% cinematics and 20% actual playtime. If I want to watch a B-grade action flick I'd rather sit on the couch and watch on the big screen TV. Just give me an objective and let me figure it out - stop trying to dress it up with all the BS.
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    wikiwikiwhat , March 27, 2013 8:53 PM
    Late October release, bet on that.
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    bigdragon , March 27, 2013 9:32 PM
    Is anyone else disturbed by the strange and bizarre upside down world EA lives in? They invest ridiculous resources in the singleplayer portions of their MULTIPLAYER franchises by creating this "emotional" narrative following the actions of fictional soldiers in the Battlefield universe. This is after taking a SINGLEPLAYER focused game like Sim City and hamming it up with multiplayer-only gameplay. What gives? Battlefield is a MULTIPLAYER game. I could care less about some singleplayer campaign. This is such a stupid waste of resources.
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    ojas , March 27, 2013 9:41 PM
    BATTLESHOOTY 4: HONOUR OF DUTY 7 IS OUT IN FALL KIDS.
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