{"id":13968,"date":"2011-09-12T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-s-hit-detection-massively-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13968-battlefield-3-s-hit-detection-massively-improved","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3\u2019s hit detection \u201cmassively improved\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was by most accounts a fantastic game, there have been questions raised regarding the engine&rsquo;s hit detection, with players complaining about the game not accurately registering shots fired. Of course this is a complex debate, and others will argue that the hit detection is in fact realistic.<\/p>\n<p>The problems with hit detection have often been bundled alongside the laggy netcode, which is often blamed for what is known as &ldquo;death lag&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>DICE&rsquo;s Alan Kertz has told <a href=\"http:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/battlefield-3-features-better-hit-detection-destruction-qualities-detailed\" target=\"_blank\">Gamingbolt<\/a> that two key features which have been massively improved are the game&rsquo;s hit detection and netcode.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This means that we can hope for a less laggy experience, and less complaints about players not getting kills that they should be getting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke a little about the game&rsquo;s destructible environments, explaining that players will be able to shoot through certain objects, but not others. &ldquo;Thin metal, wood, glass can be shot through, brick concrete and thicker metal cannot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kertz also mentions that Battlefield 3&rsquo;s progression system will be extremely long, with each kit taking around 100 hours to fully upgrade. This is great news for those who are in for the long haul.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This video illustrates the infamous &#8220;death lag&#8221; quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IsHYPzYiRGA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IsHYPzYiRGA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17548-Battlefield-3&rsquo;s-hit-detection-has-been-&ldquo;massively-improved&rdquo;\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Battlefield 3&rsquo;s hit detection &ldquo;massively improved&rdquo;\"><strong>Battlefield 3&rsquo;s hit detection &ldquo;massively improved&rdquo;<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more &quot;death lag&quot; in Battlefield 3<\/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-13968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13968","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=13968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}