Good news! I’m so glad that they’re supporting this title with more maps instead of letting it slowly wither like BC2.
RPS didn’t mention the armor expansion will have new tanks and even some mobile artillery. Sounds interesting.
I prefer tank vs. infantry combat rather than tank vs. tank, but I’ll still check it out. Maybe when they’re all released.
Where are you getting that info?
Sorry forgot to mention that. Blues copied and pasted the press release.
Hereis the page for the close quarters expansion. I haven’t seen any details on the armor xpac yet.
This fall will also bring the expansion pack Battlefield 3: Armored Kill. Featuring all-out vehicle warfare with new tanks, ATV’s, and mobile artillery, it also includes the biggest map in Battlefield history. Come winter, it is time for the fourth expansion pack Battlefield 3: End Game.
My speculation: End Game is actually a nuclear-winter setting (snow again!) just after WW3. Come winter. Get it?
I have to admit that I miss the winter maps from BC2, so I’d love to see some of that. The close quarters page says 2 - 16 players, so kind of limited but how many people can you really jam into an office building setting and not have it feel like a deadlocked Operation Metro.
The close quarter maps will be a something like CoD matches, I can imagine.
They mention “verticality” in regards to the CQ maps, which I know is a big CoD buzzword. I even remember it back in the Doom WAD days. I’m not sure I care about it. I’m happy to flank on one plane.
Big vehicle maps - oh yeah!
Leaked video of the first DLC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfHjdjQiPko
Heh, the level is 4 rooms together. Super small.
They seem to be for SQDM, time to use those PDWs!
wumpus
1973
Wow that looks fucking awful, actually.
flyinj
1974
Why would they have ever thought this would be a good idea?
It boggles the mind. I like BF3 because it’s not COD. And BF3 can’t do COD. Not even close.
wumpus
1975
Welllllllllll, actually… Metro is super-popular in the wild. Like… disturbingly so. There is definite demand for this extreme infantry stuff, and I’d argue the engine does it well.
But that map in the one video looks extremely claustrophobic even by Metro standards.
That map looked claustrophobic even by CoD standards! The average CoD map have more than 3 small rooms and 1 medium sized atrium.
Any new weapons with these packs? I need things to unlock again
Hunty
1979
I know a guy who’s like Colonel 33 with hundreds of hours playtime. He basically plays 1000 ticket Metro and nothing else. I don’t know how he does it without going mad.
That new map looks dire. But I doubt it’ll get much play on the sort of servers I like.
I have to say, I played for the first time in a few weeks the other day and the balance tweaks from the patch seem very, very small. I will say that pistols seem noticeably quicker to draw and more lethal, though. My G18-S is even more of a terror. How that thing escaped the nerf bat is beyond me. It’s like a headshot laser.
The G18-S and AS Val are so fun because it’s like one magazine per kill. They only have about 20 rounds, so you can zip around the map, unload the entire thing into the body, and he’s dead by the time the game reloads automatically for you.
I’m sure I could kill them with less, but it’s easier to just hold the button down and have it reload right away.
