{"id":9217,"date":"2011-01-04T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-to-get-special-effort-for-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/9217-battlefield-3-to-get-special-effort-for-pc","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 to get \u201cspecial effort\u201d for PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield 3&rsquo;s lead designer, David Goldfarb, has announced over <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/locust9\/status\/21656370541494272\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> that despite a multi-platform release, the PC version of the game is getting some &ldquo;special effort&rdquo; &#8211; even something &ldquo;extraordinary&rdquo; &#8211; from the devs.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably that includes hit registration that actually works properly.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows the rather more unhappy announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2011\/01\/03\/battlefield-3-to-drop-support-for-windows-xp\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Windows XP support for Battlefield 3 is being dropped\">Windows XP support for the game is being dropped<\/a> altogether, with prospective PC gamers having to move onto Vista or Windows 7 instead.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hwsurvey\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Steam Hardware &amp; Software survey\">Steam survey<\/a> shows that a not-inconsiderable 24.64% of users are still using XP, so the decision is likely to be a somewhat controversial one.<\/p>\n<p>Although Battlefield 3 has yet to be formally revealed, EA CEO John Riccitielo has previously <a href=\" http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2011\/01\/02\/riccitiello-battlefield-3-out-in-second-half-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"VG247\">confirmed<\/a> that the game will ship &ldquo;in the second half of the year&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Battlefield 3 is also set for a panel talk at the annual Game Developers Conference in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Tokens for the online multiplayer beta were included with all PC, Xbox, and PS3 copies of Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/9769-Battlefield-3-technical-details-teased\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Battlefield 3\">Battlefield 3<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DICE hearts PC gamers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}