BF3 Shifts 8 Mill Copies & New Patch INCLUDES.

DICE has announced that a Battlefield 3 patch is set to hit PS3 today. Adressessing a whole load of bugs, glitches and balancing issues, it’s the same patch that has been available for PC players of the game since last week. I’ve popped the full patch notes below (cheers Joystiq).

Elsewhere in Battlefield 3 land, EA’s chief financial officer Eric Brown has announced that the military shooter has sold an impressive 8 million units. Speaking at the Baird Technology Conference (via GameInformer), Brown also revealed the publisher has shipped 12 million copies of the game.

Apparently, 10 million units were shipped to retailers during the game’s first week on sale. During that period, 5 million copies were sold. That’s EA’s largest launch ever. Ever ever. Looks like all the smack talk payed off then.

General fixes

Significant improvements to the Squad Join interface, full details in this earlier blog post
Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option
Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 Squad members
Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM
Disable Privacy flag when 1 man Squad
Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when Squad drops to 1 player
All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad selection screen
Players who choose not to join Squads will also show up as Blue in the “Not in a Squad” line
Squads that are currently empty will display as white — if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text
Added round duration and ticket summary at end of round screen
Fixed sound for when climbing ladders
Fixed and issue with some weapons’ sounds in first person view
Fixed a swim sound loop error
You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position
Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it
Spawn protection now should work in Conquest so you no longer should spawn too close to enemies
You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM
Fix for missing input restriction during intro movie, causing players to potentially fall and die while watching movie if moving controller (or having a controller with a bad stick zone)
Combat areas on Kharg Island in Rush mode tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after first base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun
Fixed a problem with revived players not being able to get suppressed
Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in co-op
Spotting VO now plays when spotting from MAV/EOD bot
Fixed several issues regarding the kill card, including showing wrong weapons used for the kill
Fixed that sometimes you would be stuck on a black screen when kicked from server
Fixed so when a team captures two flags at the same time, the UI does not show wrong owner of the flag
Fixed a problem where the capture progress bar was shown as friendly when the enemy was capturing
Fixed a problem with the bipod deploy sound
Fixed a problem that you could be spawned in with no weapons after being killed while using the EOD bot
Fixed problems with health bars not displaying health properly when using EOD bots
Fixed a problem with flickering name tags
Fixed a problem where you could damage friendly helicopters
Fixed a problem where you could get stuck in the co-op menu when attempting to join the session twice
You should now be able to spot explosives
You should no longer spawn in home base if your selected spawn point is disabled while waiting to spawn (e.g. if your teammate dies right before you are about to spawn)
Damage from bullets will now continue to cause damage even after the firing user is dead
Fixed several client crashes
Fixed a problem where players could get stuck in the join queue
Fixed the repair icon on the minimap
Fixed a problem with changing camera on certain vehicles
Fixed a problem with the grenade indicator when in guided missile mode
Fixed a problem where the machine could hard lock when joining a public coop game
Fixed a problem where the headset attached icon would not show up in the UI
Fixed a problem with the falling antenna on Caspian Border. It should now more instantly kill anyone in its falling path
Fixed a problem where tank turrets would turn too slow
Fixed a bug on co-op mission “Exfiltration” where you could end up outside the vehicle and not being able to enter it again, thus blocking the mission
Fixed a problem where a user can become invulnerable after being resurrected
Fixed a problem with the M60 reload sound
Fixed a hang in terrain streaming, causing the user to get stuck on black screen under special circumstances in single player
Fixed a problem where the enemy would not be able to get a road kill on a user that was using the SOFLAM
Fixed soldiers disappearing in the mortar kill cam
Fix for Type88 and MG36 zoom in animation offset when in supported shooting mode (using bipods)

Balance changes

Increased the damage of helicopter miniguns, AA guns, and jet cannons against infantry
Increased the damage of helicopter miniguns against jeeps
Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and jet cannons so players under attack from these weapons no longer should lose control
Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly
Increased the range and minimum damage of the .357 Round from the MP412 Rex
Increased the range of all .45cal and 9mm weapons
Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW-R
Slightly increased the range of the 5.56mm PDW-R and decreased the minimum damage at long range
Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62mm rifles
Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR-H 7.62mm weapons
Reduced the damage from FIM-92 and SA-18 IGLA missiles against aircraft
Increased the damage and range of the 40mm BUCK rounds
Reduced the damage .50cal weapons do against helicopters
Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells

SourCe

I dunno why the hell they are fucking up the PS3 version of multi-platform games still. You would think at this point the developers would have figured out how to code properly for the PS3... lazy bastards.

41OMaXiMuS wrote:I dunno why the hell they are fucking up the PS3 version of multi-platform games still. You would think at this point the developers would have figured out how to code properly for the PS3... lazy bastards.

lolz.

STRANGEgenius wrote:

41OMaXiMuS wrote:I dunno why the hell they are fucking up the PS3 version of multi-platform games still. You would think at this point the developers would have figured out how to code properly for the PS3... lazy bastards.

lolz.

It's just stupid to me. The PS3 exclusive games look and run smooth, and then a multi-platform game that uses less power runs like shit on the PS3. The 3rd party developers just refuse to take their time and learn how to code properly with the PS3 technology.

Has anyone fucking played MW3 on the PS3 yet? Holy shit it's bad, at least the 360 version runs more smoother, but damn.. I just wan't expecting it to be like that on the PS3.

Mr. Knocks wrote:Has anyone fucking played MW3 on the PS3 yet? Holy shit it's bad, at least the 360 version runs more smoother, but damn.. I just wan't expecting it to be like that on the PS3.

No but even though it runs smooth on 360 I still don't play it lol. The singleplayer was sweet, but I can't force myself to play the multiplayer anymore, it's the same fucking COD I've been playing for years and I am bored of it now.

41OMaXiMuS wrote:

STRANGEgenius wrote:

41OMaXiMuS wrote:I dunno why the hell they are fucking up the PS3 version of multi-platform games still. You would think at this point the developers would have figured out how to code properly for the PS3... lazy bastards.

lolz.

It's just stupid to me. The PS3 exclusive games look and run smooth, and then a multi-platform game that uses less power runs like shit on the PS3. The 3rd party developers just refuse to take their time and learn how to code properly with the PS3 technology.

lol lazy fucks.

PS3 gets the new maps + weapons a week early tho.

PS3 gets the DLC next tuesday (12/6/2011)

41OMaXiMuS wrote:PS3 gets the new maps + weapons a week early tho.

PS3 gets the DLC next tuesday (12/6/2011)

for once not xbox?