{"id":14602,"date":"2011-10-10T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-on-xbox-includes-high-res-texture-pack-on-second-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14602-battlefield-3-on-xbox-includes-high-res-texture-pack-on-second-disc","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 on Xbox includes high-res texture pack on second disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read MyGaming every day like you should, you&rsquo;ll already know that the<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/14026-confirms-two-discs-for-Xbox-version-Battlefield.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Battlefield 3 shipping on 2 discs\"> Xbox version of Battlefield 3 will be shipping out on two discs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s mostly because it doubles the fun, but also because &ndash; it turns out &ndash; the second disc will include an optional high resolution texture pack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a voluntary install on the 360,&#8221; game producer, Patrick Liu, tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerzines.com\/xbox-360\/news\/battlefield-3-360-texture-disc.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gamerzines article\">GamerZines<\/a>. &#8220;I think Rage did it as well, where you can install content to stream higher res textures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re pushing that technology to the limit, and compared to our competitors, I would argue that we&#8217;re the best looking game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Battlefield_3_screenshots_1_268097987.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"331\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Magic 8 Ball says &ldquo;UNLIKELY&rdquo;, but I guess we&rsquo;ll find out when the game launches later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Liu doesn&rsquo;t say whether or not the PS3 version will get something similar, but considering the enormous storage capacity of the console&rsquo;s Blu-ray format, it may be that the game features high resolution textures by default.<\/p>\n<p>Battlefield 3 will be blasting it&#8217;s way to you on 28 October 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18734-Second-disc-of-Battlefield-3-on-Xbox-contains-high-res-textures\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Second disc of Battlefield 3 on Xbox contains high-res textures\"><strong>Second disc of Battlefield 3 on Xbox contains high-res textures<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-res textures for everybody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"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-14602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}