One of the main complaints from the Battlefield 3 beta is that DICE chose to use a level that didn’t showcase vehicular combat. The Operation Metro map is designed as a linear progression through the city, too narrow and small in scale for the use of vehicles.
Patrick Liu, a Producer at DICE, recently spoke on the topic. When asked about the lack of vehicles, Liu responded, “I think there's been a misunderstanding of the term 'beta test'!” Liu went on to explain the logic behind the decision. “We ran the alpha tests with a rush map and we wanted to have some sort of reference so we could compare results – so we needed to have more-or-less the same map.”
“We do understand the concerns that we didn't show a conquest map, but we have demoed Caspian Border, and we did run a conquest map as a limited PC-only test,” Liu states. “The Paris map – it doesn't have any vehicles, it's much more linear; I think we'll see a lot more emergent gameplay with the big, open conquest maps.”
The Battlefield 3 beta is still open to all on the Xbox Live Marketplace until October 10th. Battlefield 3 will be available when it releases on October 25th, 2011 for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
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