14 DAY TRIAL // Battlefield 3 developer DICE has just decided to talk about the upcoming first person shooter, and revealed that the PC version of the game won't be just a port of the versions made for the consoles, and have special features.
DICE has just finished working on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 this spring, and also helped on the recent Medal of Honor reboot, working on the multiplayer mode and using its own Frostbite engine.
Now, Battlefield 3 is the most important project going on at the Scandinavian developer, and even though work has barely begun, DICE has already begun calming down PC gamers by saying that their version won't be dumbed down by the console editions, which will arrive on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The developer answered a question on the dedicated Battlefield forum at EA, and revealed that while it is still early in development, the PC version will receive special attention.
"It's too early to talk BF3 specifics. But it's never too early for me to acknowledge that PC players have a fear that BF3 will be 'consolized.'
"PC gaming is alive and well, BFBC2 has proven that and no one at DICE or EA can argue with the numbers. Battlefield 3 needs an extra bit of special attention on the PC. I intend to give it that attention, tradition and our community demand it."
Developers that change up the gameplay between console and PC versions of a game are wrong, according to the studio.
"Fundamentally I think it is an error to have different core gameplay on console vs PCs," DICE continued. "PC gives a player more input control and if a gun feels good on PC it feels good on console. I won't 'dumb it down' by lowering the recoil or changing the damage model or other such silliness."
Not a lot is known about Battlefield 3, only that a beta key for a future multiplayer beta was packed in with copies of Medal of Honor.