Battlefield 3 - Teaser Trailer

Here’s a comprehensive roundup of all the Battlefield 3 news that has been flooding into the web over the past week, starting with what we know BF3 will support:

• 64 player support on PCs
• 24 player support on Xbox 360/PS3
• Prone is back
• Jets are back
• No commander
• 4 classes
• Single player campaign + co-op
• It will have more unlocks than Bad Company 2
• No mod tools
• Release date is set for Fall 2011
• First screenshots released in GameInformer

New York, Paris, Tehran war theaters

It’s been confirmed that Battlefield 3 will take place in New York, Paris, and Tehran, although we expect several more locations and variations in each theater.

Frostbite 2.0

Frostbite 2.0 is the new engine that will power Battlefield 3, and it looks like a big improvement over Frostbite 1.5, which powered Bad Company 2. These are the first details on Frostbite 2.0:

• Frostbite 2 will only support DirectX 10 and 11, as we reported.
• Frostbite 2.0 is recommended to run on 64-bit CPUs and versions of Windows
• The engine will have a new set of compilers and pipelines, which will improve its diversity and open the possibility to mod tools.
• Tile-based deferred shading via DirectCompute, which will improve performance.
• Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA), implemented with DirectCompute, which provides better bandwidth conservation (exclusive DirectX 11 feature).
• Realtime radiosity (a dynamic light source with HDR), powered by the Enlighten middleware engine, previously used in God of War 3 for the PS3
• Improved environment destruction.

Read more about Frostbite 2.0 in our article and break down.

Limited Edition

The Limited Edition will include a DLC titled “Back to Karkand”, which will include 4 maps remade from BF2, including the iconic Strike at Karkand. The “Back to Karkand” DLC will be released as a downloadable add-on a month after the release of BF3. More info here.

Trailer breakdown + vehicles

The trailer showed a few hints of what to expect, and it showed the first vehicles as well, which we can confirm are:

• M1 Abrams tank
• LAV 25 APC
• Apache helicopter
• Blackhawk helicopter
• Kamov KA-60 Kasatka (Russian helicopter)
• Mig 29 Fulcrum jet
• F18 jet

Box art

Here’s the official box art for Battlefield 3:

Wallpapers

Finally, we’ve got over half a dozen wallpapers in high-res quality. More info and download here.