Battlefield 1943 won’t be hitting the PC this year. Speaking to G4TV, DICE front man Gordon Van Dyke revealed that the studio doesn’t have a foundation for Frostbite -- the engine for the game -- on the PC. They also plan to ship the game with a bunch of PC-centric goodies such as joystick and Direct X support. These things take time to do, thus the delayed.
“We haven’t released a Frostbite-built game on PC,” Van Dyke said, “so going into this project we lacked a starting found we had on console. There are also many different and unique-only challenges to the PC that has led to us pushing the release even further to Q1 CY 2010.”
“This was a hard pill to swallow, but it was absolutely needed to ensure the features and funcationality that PC players have come to expect from Battlefield PC are not missing. Things like support for DirectX 9 and 10, higher player count (up to 32-player matches), wide peripheral support i.e., joysticks for flying, VoIP, and ranked server provider hosting,” Van Dyke said.
He added that this is the “right decision” in terms of quality, which is a statement we can get behind. Releasing a broken game is always a bad thing. Even if it’s a broken version of one of the coolest downloadable games we’ve played all year.
[via Kotaku]
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1:40 PM on 08.21.2009
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Lol....
I appreciate the addition of added features but 32 players in a typical Battlefield match is considered a skeleton crew, you got push for the 50s and 60s but I understand that 1943 is most likely not balanced that way so I guess there's that to consider.
Guess it's back to waiting for Battlefield 3.
@Magesx
Ironic then how the PC Battlefield games have had a tradition of being rushed and buggy right out of the gates.
After playing 1943 I decided to give Bad Company another go. For about $5 more you can get a much bigger, more polished game used. Except that it's in modern times, of course, but it plays exactly the same. And compare $20 for a game that has 8 HUGE maps, more vehicles, a full single player campaign and 2 multiplayer game modes, or a $15 game with 3 smaller maps and one multiplayer game mode.