It’s about time! Since Battlefield 3 released in October 2011 only to have one DLC pack add content – with maps fans of the series were already familiar with – fans have been clamoring for DLC or an expansion, something Battlefield 2 fans were treated to fairly regularly. The maps came with a few new weapons, vehicles and assignments through the Back to Karkand addition, something that came to players who pre-ordered Battlefield 3 - we knew about this months before the game even released.
Since then, nadda. Peter C. Ausnit, Vice President of Investor Relations for Electronic Arts, had our hopes up in early February when he told investors on a conference call that new Battlefield 3 DLC would likely be announced at a New York EA event last month, but nothing ever came of it. Now, we finally have something official to look forward to.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve mentioned on several occasions that we were attending an event in San Francisco co-hosted by Danger Close Games and DICE. Danger Close was there to unveil Medal of Honor: Warfighter and a pile of new details and we suspected DICE would be sharing news regarding Battlefield 3 DLC and updates. That’s exactly what happened and Battlefield 3 fans have three separate DLC add-ons to look forward to, starting in June.
- Battlefield 3: Close Quarters – In Battlefield 3: Close Quarters, players are dropped into a frantic, infantry-only theatre of war. Frostbite 2 high definition destruction makes the environment come alive as everything from furniture to plaster gets shot to pieces. Players will feel the intensity of the world exploding around them as rubble and broken pieces pile up on the floor, while tight level design and vertical gameplay create a highly competitive environment. Battlefield 3:Close Quarters also introduces new weapons, assignments and unique dog tags to bring back to the base game.
- Battlefield 3: Armored Kill – Following the tight infantry gameplay of Battlefield 3: Close Quarters, DICE will releaseBattlefield 3: Armored Kill that ups the ante for vehicular mayhem as only Battlefield can do. Featuring new driveable tanks, ATVs, mobile artillery and more, Battlefield 3: Armored Kill also delivers huge battlefields for an all-out vehicle assault, including the biggest map in Battlefield history.
- Battlefield 3: End Game – The fourth expansion pack will ship in the winter but details remain tightly guarded.
There was no mention of the long-rumored “All American” DLC pack adding downtown U.S. locations to the game.
DICE also had news to share regarding Battlelog features for the console versions. DICE CEO Karl-Magnus Troedsson happily revealed that PS3 and Xbox 360 BF3 players can now customize/rent their own servers so they can setup the exact types of matches they want, like PC players can. The console versions of the games still however, have small maps and limited player counts.
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TDM. lame. Much rather have conquest maps.
And 10 new weapons…. sigh, you know I would like to see the 10 new weapons, but they still haven’t fixed the problems with the other weapons, not to mention bugs and no remedy for spawn campers.
Their priorities are all f*cked up.
You know I don’t mind a game having bugs initially but, these bugs have been here since launch and no news on if they are going to get fixed or not.
I mean sound cutting out while I’m in a tank is stupid. I need the noise or I die fast, this is further frustrated by the fact that all sound is gone as if I’m playing the game on mute.
I wont be purchasing another DICE game.
I honestly don’t see where you’re reading that these are TDM only maps and 10 weapons…
Did He update this? I swear I read it under the Close Quarters heading.
@Yuuchin,
We added the official descriptions, but before all it said is that we can expect these to be popular TDM maps with close range weapons since they’re all interior and with no vehicles.
This is awesome, hopefully we get word on a patch too. I’m annoyed by the bullet/missile stopping windows, spawns, the “I’m a jump out of a helicopter only to get tk’d by the pilot” bug, and a few others I can’t think of off the top. Otherwise the game is still great and I’m loving it!
Yah, those are all supposed to be fixed, and they are finally adding horns back in the jeeps!!
But still wondering when it’s coming out…
Out of these three DLC’s I’m waiting for Armored Kill the most…
Yea that one sounds most interesting. Considering the 3rd has no details.
Another bug, I can’t play the campaign.
I’m hoping for a map like BF2′s Highway Tampa, where there were a lot of wide-open spaces and each team got like 10 tanks, lol. It was crazy fun, I loved that map.
Oh, about the campaign thing, yah, that sucks. I’ve been quite lucky and have not experienced a lot of these reported bugs yet. My friend gets the loading bug where when it switches to another map, sometimes it’ll just show a black screen with the blinking icon on the bottom right and it’ll never load… I experienced a bug with the saved games before in the campaign, but it kind of went away… Anyway, don’t worry, you’re not missing much. The campaign was OK, but honestly, not that great…
But hopefully this new patch will fix it. If not, you can always have Origin “repair” the installation, which means it’ll pretty much go through and redownload and install the game, that could fix it…
“I’m a jump out of a helicopter only to get tk’d by the pilot” bug
thats not a bug. is this in hardcore? it definitely isnt in normal mode. it was like that in hardcore bc2 and no one complained about it.i mean they probably did, but they learned not to do it when the chopper is at full speed. not every unfortunate event is a bug
It doesn’t happen ALL of the time. I think it depends on the speed and direction of the helicopter. It does happen to me sometimes, and not just the helicopter, if you jump out of the plane sometimes the plane hits you and kills you. The patch mentioned that it’ll “eject” you after the patch so you’ll be clear of the aircraft so that should not happen anymore…
wow, epic set, I love how they are releasing something for all tastes! I actually LOVE the TDM and LOVE the conquest also, and I sawp between the two accordingly. Therefore I’m just as excited for Close Quarter’s to have intense heated matches around corners and whatnot, whilst having epic looonngg adventures accross gigantic maps filled with various vehicles and artillary. This is going to be awesome. For the fourth DLC not having much detail hypes me even more, I’m thinking Tyranasaurus Warfare Pack xDDD Anyway, one thing I love about these is how their release timeframes are quite lenghy between each other so we have tons of fun between each pack. But since these are Expansion Packs..I wonder if they’ll release seperate standalone DLCs during the comnig months..also fixing the bugs and adding Battle Recording should be FIRST PRIORITY though. :S
When is DICE gonna increase player count on console to 32?
never. gosh.
If 32 players sound appealing to you, imagine 64 players…
It’s tons of fun, trust me, you’ll have to try it one day…
64 player conquest, oh rooah baby
don’t care, the karkand maps are way to big for console (especially wake island and its camping snipers), left the game ages ago due to the moronic players in the australian servers who thought every game mode was TDM and didn’t bother doing what they where supposed to (with both classes and objectives). i hate how vehicles have levels and unlocks, it makes it almost impossible to take out an aircraft with rockets due to the cheap skates being able to spam flares every 20 seconds >:(
one thing i like is how they have patched most issues with most guns, they haven’t nerfed anything which is always a plus, but one gun that should be nerfed is the famas, which can be used as a long range sniper or an smg >:(