{"id":13622,"date":"2011-08-24T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-team-deathmatch-capped-at-24-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13622-battlefield-3-team-deathmatch-capped-at-24-players","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 Team Deathmatch capped at 24 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s in the title already, but in case you&rsquo;d like to see that again, DICE has confirmed that Battlefield 3&rsquo;s Team Deathmatch mode supports a maximum of 24 players on all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Including PC, yes.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bf3blog.com\/2011\/08\/bf3-team-deathmatch-only-supports-24-players-on-all-platforms\/\" target=\"_blank\">BFBlog<\/a>, the mode won&rsquo;t feature any vehicles either, and &ldquo;will be focused entirely on tight infantry portions of regular maps&rdquo; instead.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While 24 players doesn&rsquo;t sound like much compared to 64 players in conquest mode, remember that the map is tighter, the gameplay is more focused and intense,&rdquo; writes DICE&rsquo;s Toshiro Tanaka.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Bad Company 2&prime;s squad deathmatch was limited to 16 players and never managed to feel inadequate. Which leads us to squad deathmatch in Battlefield 3: it hasn&rsquo;t been confirmed, but it&rsquo;s easy to imagine 12 player teams be split up into 3 squads in Team Deathmatch.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, who plays Team Deathmatch, anyway? Battlefield is all about Rush.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16872-Battlefield-3-player-count-limited-to-24-in-team-deathmatch?p=504346#post504346\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Battlefield 3&#8217;s player limit<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inb4 nerdrage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}