There’s not a lot to say about these screens, other than that we can’t verify them or account for how they were obtained. We suspect that the original poster might have broken their NDA with EA/Dice but we’re not part of the trial and as such, we’re not party to any contracts.
These screens are currently up on GAF with the disclaimer that they’re taken from the alpha trial and the game is running on its lowest settings. There are still some pretty effects in action but the game does look remarkably less impressive than demonstrations we’ve seen elsewhere.
Source: GAF
DuffyBox
510 FPS? Holy shit, what are they playing it on?! And if I’m honest, I’m underwhelmed. Of course, no proper opinions can yet be formed since it’s only alpha but IMHO it’s not as incredible as everyone’s been saying.
Also, I tried that URL you can see in the third screenshot, got redirected to here: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/gate/
Interesting stuff! :)
DuffyBox
Ah wait, lowest settings. I take it all back, that is pretty good for the lowest settings.
fattyuk
Oooohhhh it’s like reading that file that says top secret on.
colmshan1990
Haha.
‘Lowest settings.’
My laptop can barely handle the original Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider Anniversary and Hitman 3… :(
The Lone Steven
It looks good, it shows a lot of promise. How many frames per second!? That is impossible. They are made and the game would be unplayable as it would be too quick for us to play. That water looks like the real thing. I suspect only an Alienware or an equilavant will be capable of running it at the highest settings. I wonder if the console versions will look extremely good?
teflon
Lol, the way the frame rate works is that it’s either locked to a frame rate per second, or left to run as high as it can. In both cases 1 second happens as 1 second, as it’s just the graphics engine, not the “simulation” engine, which handles physics, gameplay, AI etc. etc.
So 510 FpS just means that the settings are low and aren’t taxing his GPU in the slightest.
As for the console versions, I think they were shown on US TV recently? The graphics looked good, but a noticeable drop from the PC version shown previously.
rht992
i’d still be very happy if my pc could get a game to look as good as that
GTRsannin
I think that looks good even in it’s alpha stage
tonyyeb
Looks ok I suppose, but it is just over 3 months to release, so with further testing, submission and manufacturing, how much more actual development time is there? I hope it isn’t as buggy as BF2 was on the PC on first release. It took DICE/EA a looooonnnngggg time to finally get it working to most people’s satisfaction.
Smallville2106
Doesn’t look too bad. So looking forward to this.
david
How come this article was taken down and then put back up again?