Battlefield 3: suppressing fire feature? This is incredible.

In my opinion, Battlefield 3 has moved from being an arcade shooter, to being a simulation of war.

This feature: suppressing fire, is something small, but is HUGE in my opinion.

“When you lay down fire in close vicinity to an enemy, the incoming barrage will show up as a graphical blur effect on his screen to stress him and let him know it’s not safe to pop out from behind cover,” Said Alan Kertz (senior designer) from EA digital illusions.

So, say you have a light machine gun,  you see a guy in the distance, and you start laying into him. Like all 200 bullets not letting go of the trigger.

Well, the guy being fired at will have an insanely awesome effect happen to him. Is what will happen is that where the bullets wiz by him, it will be distorted, much like in real life. His accuracy will also be reduced, so he cant just pop up and kill you.

This... is incredible. It almost implicates a kind of "fear" in your player. It is also true in the fact that suppressing fire is supposed to create panic.

Think about it, you are in cover, you hear a light machine gun firing away, you look up, and see the bullets wizzing by. Now thats incredible.

I mean we all are guilty in call of duty when we hear a guy running through his ammo just popping up and killing him. But in real life nobody is going to pop up when they hear an M60 chugging away.

BF3 is going to be a simulator. BF3 is going to be incredible.

All I do is keep saying to myself "can October 25 come any sooner?"

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Battlefield-3-Suppressive-Fire-Bipods-Rewards-Poor-Accuracy-Explained-33347.html