The Battlefield 3 beta is said to arrive "sometime between now and the end of September," according to DICE's Patrick Bach in a VG247 interview.
Bach commented on how much the game's recent alpha test affected its current state, mentioning things such as weapon-balancing and objective placement being altered based on community feedback--even revealing the first Rush base was rather hard to take.
"And that's why we're doing [testing]," Bach explained. "It's not to market the game, it's actually to test it in a proper way. There are hundreds of things we've changed since the alpha."
"Again, to the beta question, we are releasing the beta before the game and we are actually changing stuff based on that before we ship the game, even though you could argue that that's very late close to the ship of the game, we will still have time to do, for instance, day one patches and changes to the Battlelog that will actually be game-changing," Bach ended.
