Battlefield 4 Second Assault DLC to have four fan-favorite BF3 maps
DICE has revealed that four fan-favorite maps from Battlefield 3 will be remade with the Frostbite 3 engine for Battlefield 4. These maps will be part of the Second Assault DLC, which will be coming first to Xbox One sometime after the new console launches.
DICE has revealed that four fan-favorite maps from Battlefield 3 will be remade with the Frostbite 3 engine for Battlefield 4. These maps will be part of the Second Assault DLC, which will be coming first to Xbox One as a timed exclusive sometime after the new console launches.
So far, Caspian Border and Operation Metro are "runaway favorites" for the pack, gameplay designer Alan Kertz said in a Reddit thread (via GameSpot). No hint was offered at what the leading candidates were for the final two maps. DICE did the same for Battlefield 3 when it recreated four popular BF2 maps in Frostbite 2.0 as the Back to Karkand DLC.
Of course, if this poll (via MP1st) is any indication, Grand Bazaar and Strike at Karkand have an edge for the final two slots, with the latter already having been part of the Karkand DLC. Seine Crossing would be the alternate for Karkand if DICE wants to stick purely with BF3 maps. Whatever maps get the treatment, expect them to be a lot more destructible in a big way.
Battlefield 4 is scheduled to launch on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 29. It will come to Xbox One and PS4 later. China Rising DLC is available to those that pre-order the game.
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DICE has revealed that four fan-favorite maps from Battlefield 3 will be remade with the Frostbite 3 engine for Battlefield 4. These maps will be part of the Second Assault DLC, which will be coming first to Xbox One sometime after the new console launches.-
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That is just because it was the fastest points maker, apart from 64 player TDM.
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Only because it funneled people at each other making it easy to rank up on. That map is one of the worst of BF3 for conquest AND rush.
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Agreed...sniper fest and great way to level up on mines & C4...
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You are wrong.
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Don't listen to them, you're are absolutely right
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They mostly suck or mediocre at best, same thing for metro but it can be nice for a quickie
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6 months before release, and they're already talking about all the extras you will have to pay for. I know this is the new norm, but goddammit I miss the days when you could buy a game and enjoy it for years. Now it's all about hyping you up for all the DLC that you have to buy every month. I bought and loved every single Battlefield game from 1942 up through Bad Company 2. Now I see BF3 cranked out DLC after DLC, and went as far to create a "premium" subscription. Is it really worth it? If you paid over $120 over the life of the game, do you really feel like you got your money's worth?
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Honestly though, the dollars/time argument always seems off to me. How do you decide what the baseline is? I put something like 250 hours into Skyrim and that game cost $60. I also paid $60 for Bioshock Infinite, beat it in 10 hours, and will probably never touch it again. Which is "the norm" ?
I don't like the DLC model, but if you look at it from the dollars per hours played aspect, $120 doesn't seem that bad for the amount of time I personally would put into the multiplayer.
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I think what irritates me is that there is no standard yet. Every year, the price to actively participate in AAA multiplayer games keeps going up and up. It's unchecked escalation.
First, it was "buy a new iteration of the same old game for $60 every year."
Then it was, "buy the new iteration for $60 + at least 3 DLC packs."
Now it's, "buy the new game for $60 + Sign Up for Premium Service + Buy Microtransaction DLC"
Sure, publishing is a business. These guys want to rake in as much revenue as possible for as little development cost as possible. But at what point will the madness stop? As long as enough customers keep throwing their cash into pre-ordering DLC for games that have barely been announced, then I suspect the escalation will continue :(
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BF3 came out 2 years ago. And BF2 had full price expansion packs as well, only they were worse because they split the community. I bought premium for $35 the week it came out from GMG and only preordered BF3 Limited Edition for $42 from Amazon. Worth every penny. Microtransactions are only for weapons unlocks which you can get just by playing.
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Suggestion: Don't buy it.
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If they keep talking about upcoming DLC map packs so many months before release and only ship the game with 9 or less locations like BF3, then forget about value and hype and if it's worth it or not, that's just shitty all around. Definitely not going to support that and buy BF4 @ $60
It's also kind of frustrating how they focus so much effort and resources on a worthless SP campaign that'll be one and done or never touched at all by fans of Battlefield, which is fans of the multiplayer who support these games the most and actually pay for the DLC.
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So far, Caspian Border and Operation Metro are "runaway favorites" for the pack, gameplay designer Alan Kertz said in a Reddit thread
Metro. lol what a joke. Worst map in the game and they'll willingly port it to the new one because idiots like to meatgrind ranks and unlocks so they consider it a favorite.
At least it'll be easier to not buy that pack. I don't really see the point of wasting a DLC by bringing any BF3 maps over, it's not the leap or gap in time BF3 was to BF2 where you'd have some nostalgia. I'd rather have new maps rather played out ones, played out ones I can still play in a game that basically looks and plays the same.
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It's not playable at all with 64 people, it's not even playable with 32 people. It's the biggest joke of a conquest map there is. They'd have to rework so much of it wouldn't be the same map if they're actually going to be supporting 64 players by default in BF4 on all platforms.
If they radically changed all of the old maps and made them new again that could be something, but honestly, I still don't see a point in bringing BF3 maps over at all. I don't care about any of them enough to want have to play them again in a slightly newer engine. Even if they gave them out for free it would only lead to me jumping servers every time one of them comes up in BF4. I wish DICE wouldn't have done this, not just announcing it so far in advance of the launch, but also pushing it so early in their DLC support cycle. Do it as a bonus expansion a year later or something. Shit. Hard enough to get me to pay for four new maps at 15 dollars, really have no desire to rebuy recent maps. The crazy fans will eat it up regardless :/ -
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I can't stand Metro either for anything other than rush. It is a utter mess on 64 player conquest. If I had to guess the maps in the pack I would probably say Caspian Border, Firestorm, Kharg, and Metro. The reason being that most popular maps right now on BF3 happen to be the ones that have the most close quarters cheese or Jet spam.
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Exactly, it was fun in rush when the attacking team made it past the first point.
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yah for Rush it's ok... granted with more than 32 players it just becomes a spam fest no matter what.
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I have been attempting to look into this but have not found an answer, had 64 players been confirmed for xbox1 and ps4 or is that just a pc thing again?
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yes next gen will have 64 player.
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There will be more than one. Patrick Bach has already stated in an E3 interview that they have a "similar" DLC roadmap as BF3. Hopefully less fragmented in play styles.
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Two packs announced so far. China Rising and Second Assault. They'll be released in that order.
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Hold on. Wake Island has been in every BF game (on PC) since Vietnam (except 2142). You cannot break tradition now.
Also, if they do Karkand again, they need to remake the BF2 original, NOT the BF3 re-envisioning. BF3's was great until you crossed the bridge, then it loses everything that made the first version great.-
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Wake Island was only good in 1942. It's sucked in every BF game thereafter
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I enjoy playing metro sometimes. I like big more Battlefield maps too but variety is nice. Some times I just wanna stand on that staircase blasting anyone who peaks around that corner.
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