14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer DICE has announced that it is working on a new patch for Battlefield 3, the first-person shooter that it has published together with Electronic Arts, saying that more details will be offered in the coming weeks.
On the official Battlefield Blog, DICE states that it is working on such issues as “balance and gameplay, performance, stability and the overall feature set.”
The fan base for the first-person shooter would probably want to know more, but it is unlikely that DICE will offer a clear list of changes before the actual launch date for the patch.
Battlefield 3 is also getting a series of bug fixes for the PC version of the game via the Origin digital distribution service.
The changes include:
- Support for the new Ivy Bridge product line from Intel, which has not yet been launched;
- Fixes for two crashes of the game client that the development team has been able to reproduce, one linked to spawning in certain vehicles in the large version of Oilfields in Conquest and another linked to an exploding rocket battery and vehicles on Canals in Rush;
- Improvements to the performance offered by the AMD Radeon 7xxx series of graphics cards.
The development team at DICE is also looking into a number of other problems that players have brought up and will offer more fixes via Origin when it manages to create them.
Battlefield 3 has not managed to sell better than the rival Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard, but the first-person shooter has been a success in its own right and has managed to get a dedicated multiplayer oriented fan base.
DICE needs to make sure that it fixes all bugs that they report as quickly as possible in order to keep them from migrating while also delivering new content, from maps and game modes to more tweaks to the progression system, in order to keep the same players interested in the long term.