It’s an odd piece of DLC for the Battlefield games; one that rips out everything that sets Battlefield apart from other first-person shooters - the huge maps, the vehicles, the vast draw distances, and instead concentrates on mid-to-short range combat, using the full gamut of Battlefield’s armory.
It is, essentially, a riff on Call of Duty. Except, ya know. Better.
The Battlefield 3 blog's getting all gabby about the systems powering thee next expansion pack, Close Quarters. As the name so sleekly suggests, the expansion pares down the big fights into smaller, personal battles. Article submitted by: Tristan
Nadab Göksu, senior VFX Artist at DICE describes the process of adapting the visual effects of Battlefield to best accommodate the chaos of close quarters combat.
Article submitted by: Nick Wilson
A HD video displaying the technology behind the destructible environment in the up coming DLC "Close Quarters".
My first reaction to the term "HD Destruction" scared a child on the bus. He was trying to smile at me and just as I was about to smile back I read the term on my phone. I scowled, he looked scared, and I felt bad. But it's grown on me now, partly because it seems like a cheeky twist of marketing speak, and partly because the explosions in the new Battlefield 3 expansion Close Quarters are incredible. Although if you'd called them "fantasti-splosions", that kid wouldn't have been quite so scared.
