BF3 Leaked Alpha MP Screens/Info

[Garrett2112]

These seem pretty legit - especially with the "Frostbite Client" across the top of one of the screens. The original forum link below is not working - but just click on the thumbnails below to see full screen OR right click on original article and choose "view full size".
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Battlefield 3 - Leaked 'Alpha Trial' multiplayer screenshots and graphics info - from Multi.SystemLink.me Article (http://multi.systemlink.me/2011/07/battlefield-3-leaked-alpha-trial.html)

Over on the tek-9.org forums, a user by the name of 'GOLD.i3DGwendoline' is now your best friend. They've leaked some Battlefield 3 screenshots from an 'Alpha Trial' of Battlefield 3, as well as some brand new information regarding graphics and gameplay. It's all below.

EDIT: Leaked pictures pulled...

As well as those early-build multiplayer screenshots, which we're very keen to point out won't be representative of the final game (don't get your panties in a twist), the user left some insightful new details:
At first, The game says I need nvidia driver 275.35, while the last one is 275.33.
So maybe there will be more graphic options when it is enabled...

The only options I could change where resolution, which I took 1680x1024.
Graphic Detail: High

- Maps looks good.
- Graphic settings is bugged, probably since the recommended driver version is not yet released.
- Very low recoil, tough there is bulletspread.
- Bullets bounce off metal.
- Surround sound is REALLY good, the sound of the rockets that flew by my head made me smile, explosions are really nice, a good deep drum.
- You can see your own legs when you look down, tough your weapon will stick thru your own leg...
- You do not walk fully silent when crouching.
- Infinite sprint.
- Tank can swim and jump (funny bug rofl)The original post can be found here (http://www.tek-9.org/forum/call_of_duty_series-46/call_of_duty_4-13/exclusive_preview_battlefield_3-80275.html). Stay tuned to our Twitter (http://twitter.com/#%21/systemlinkblog) and we'll try our hardest to find you more in-game screenshots.

[Garrett2112]

Please feel free to nuke this post/thread guys if you'd rather not have it here. Was thinking later (after posting it) that since it was leaked info - you folks may not want it on here & I can certainly understand that (and my apologies if so)...:salute:

[zeroy]

Please feel free to nuke this post/thread guys if you'd rather not have it here. Was thinking later (after posting it) that since it was leaked info - you folks may not want it on here & I can certainly understand that (and my apologies if so)...:salute:

You arent hosting the pics so i would thinks its ok, by now everyone has seen them anyhow....not the best shots ever btw.

[MaydaX]

I think it may beneficial. Lot of people see nothing but the high res shots and may assume that's what BF3 will look like for everyone no matter what hardware they have. I'm sure most everyone on this forum knows that's not the case but there are a lot of casual gamers out there :)

On the other hand one SS shows 510fps and his system is

AMD PhenomII 965 @ 4.5Gghz
4x2048MB DDR3-2133Mhz
2x 80GB Intel X-25 SSD on an Areca RAID controller.
1x GTX460, little bit clocked

How that will pan out on a full server is another story but it does give a bit of an idea what to expect.

[Pendragon]

Not great looking, has the feel of BC2 to me... I mean if you didn't tell me it was BF3 I would have thought it was BC:2 or MoH the only outstanding thing you can see is quite how crappy it looks.

I spend a lot of lime on the BIS forum helping people with the game and getting the best out of peoples hardware. In resent months I have gained a critical eye for graphics in games. Those trees are horrid! there you go I have said it but damn! them are some horrendous trees! (on a side note no one does good rocks, in part because in most cases they shouldn't be there and are only used to give solid cover. When was the last time you saw a Rock outcrop in a park? or just generally in the landscape?)

Back to the trees, looks like very low LOD, not just the trees look at the distant buildings. Everything more than 30m from the view point is very very low detail. Again this is not uncommon in most fast paced fps games. They often cover it by blinding us with smoke, dust and wind blown snow, BC2 anyone??? Remember the trees in BC2 when you parachute in, you can clearly see that they are 2D cardboard cut out trees that only look good from ground level and from a distance, looked crap from above.

[Neil]

Comparing it to the clips we have seen of MP and those SS with an FPS of 510 it looks like he has turned things off and/or have settings low.

[zeroy]

Not great looking, has the feel of BC2 to me... I mean if you didn't tell me it was BF3 I would have thought it was BC:2 or MoH the only outstanding thing you can see is quite how crappy it looks.

I spend a lot of lime on the BIS forum helping people with the game and getting the best out of peoples hardware. In resent months I have gained a critical eye for graphics in games. Those trees are horrid! there you go I have said it but damn! them are some horrendous trees! (on a side note no one does good rocks, in part because in most cases they shouldn't be there and are only used to give solid cover. When was the last time you saw a Rock outcrop in a park? or just generally in the landscape?)

Back to the trees, looks like very low LOD, not just the trees look at the distant buildings. Everything more than 30m from the view point is very very low detail. Again this is not uncommon in most fast paced fps games. They often cover it by blinding us with smoke, dust and wind blown snow, BC2 anyone??? Remember the trees in BC2 when you parachute in, you can clearly see that they are 2D cardboard cut out trees that only look good from ground level and from a distance, looked crap from above.

^^ This is exactly why DICE/EA want to remove those shots :p

The dude is an alpha tester, clearly runs Windowed mode at something ridiculous like 800x600 on those shots. This low quality can be achieved with any recent game :)

Dont mind those screenshots at all. I do agree with the BC2 feel to BF3 however.