Battlefield 3: Armored Kill DLC To Boast the Biggest Map in BF History

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Richard Walker

If anything's going to help persuade us to part with 4000 Microsoft Points for a Battlefield 3 Premium subscription, the forthcoming Battlefield 3: Armored Kill DLC could well be it. Promising to "up the ante for vehicular mayhem", the pack will boast a new Tank Superiority mode, which we're assuming means massive tank battles. Oh yes.

As well as offering new vehicles - including new tanks, ATVs and mobile artillery - Armored Kill will also include the largest ever map in Battlefield history, which means large-scale warfare will be getting even larger. Armored Kill will add four new maps in total, designed for "all-out vehicle warfare" and all six game modes will be supported across all maps.

Here's the lowdown from the official Battlefield 3 site:

  • All-out vehicle warfare on four new maps
  • Includes the biggest map in Battlefield history
  • New vehicles, including tanks, ATVs, and mobile artillery
  • Bring back five new vehicle unlocks to the base game
  • Earn 20+ unlocks for the new vechicles in Armored Kill
  • New Tank Superiority game mode
  • All maps playable with all six game modes

Battlefield 3: Armored Kill will be coming in September, as the third of five expansions in the pipeline for DICE's FPS. Back to Karkand and Close Quarters are available now, and Aftermath and Endgame will be out in December 2012 and March 2013 respectively. You can grab all of the DLC with a Battlefield 3 Premium membership for 4000 MSP

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  • wow... This looks awesome >_>
  • Definitely sounds more enjoyable than Close Quarters. Anyway, I don't think this DLC will add new guns, it's all about vehicles obviously. But there are more than enough guns for now.
  • Biggest map for the biggest game that failed last year.
  • I can't wait for the biggest map ever so I can wander around for even longer than I do on Caspian Border without seeing any other players because the console versions have a lower player limit.
  • Bigger doesnt mean better when you only have 24 players max in a game
  • @3 wait.... this isnt a mw3 article On topic more battlefield is always good !
  • Biggest map for 24 players on console.. it will be like finding Waldo.
  • @7 Not if people actually use the vehicles instead of playing Rambo.
  • I'm not worried about the map size for 24 players. With enough vehicles there will be no problems getting to objectives and finding some action. If you want action on the big maps you have to PTFO, which is the point of the game.
  • BORING
  • @9 what does PTFO mean?
  • @11 Play The Fucking Objective
  • @7 Probably not, there will still be certain areas of the map with the most action and a lot of parts of the map will rarely be packed, unfortunately. But, the bigger, the better, in my eyes.
  • im sure, no matter how large it is, they will find and kill me. but September? probably late september too.
  • @12 that is a stupid acronym
  • fuck we need bad company 3 for console already.
  • It best be 3 times bigger than Khrag Island :D
  • Can't wait for this expansion, but there isn't really any new news here. I guess everyone just needed to post the most recent blog post on it :p
  • what you all forget is that the pc servers will probably get space for twice the amount of players because the maps are so big. on console with already only 12? if you donĀ“t have a vehicle you can suicide or run for an hour.
  • 12 on each side of course.
  • Its even better in the PC version.
  • Want. Want this with 64 player matches. But still want.
  • Battlefield history??? how much history does it really have? Come on now. 4000 MSP NO F*CKING WAY. Overpriced shit just like Activision and COD.
  • @23 4000 for 5 expansion packs + lots of other extras..... yeah.... just as bad.... totally not worth it #troll
  • @23 21 games incl expansions at my count, spanning 10 years. Nobody is charging 4000 points for this map pack. They are charging 1200. And if you've played any of the Battlefield games (which you have not, at least on the Xbox 360), 15 bucks for four maps, new guns, new vehicles and in a few cases, almost an entirely new game, is pretty good. Its 4000 points if you want all 5 expansions for the game paid for up front, instead of 6000 points paying for them individually. And its not like they threw them at everyone at launch, when playing them, its pretty easy to see the amount of work that they put into every map. Even maps that are overhauls of previous Battlfield games werent just pushed in, they were actually built again from the ground up just using the ancestor map as a blueprint. But of course, you weren't looking for logic here. Sorry.
  • shit game
  • Bigger than BF2? I don't think so.
  • It may have the biggest maps, but that will be incredibly boring seeing as consoles is still at 12 v 12 for the regular shipped maps, 8 v 8 for the CQ DLC and probably 12 v 12 again for this DLC. Endless running if you don't get a vehicle.
  • HOOOOOOOOOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK! Tanks! Tanks and more tanks! This will be epic. Engineers will have a field day...
  • Battlefield history = since BC2 probably, knowing DICE. No way will we see a map even close as big as El Alamein from 1942.
  • @30 Bad Company is not even classified as Battlefield in my book.
  • Wow, I dont even know where to begin. There are so many ignorant, uneducated, or straight up trollish comments to respond to. Haha, I just don't know how anybody who knows anything about videogames could not respect this game.
  • @29 @32 I hate douchebags like you who mess up the comments system. Don't bother posting.
  • How about an IP ban for 29.
  • #33 is gey
  • 36 is a COD FanBoy
  • Lol, STONE DEVIL, you never cease to amaze me with how fucking stupid you are. Go and play in traffic and do everyone a favour.
  • @25: no new weapons, only vehicles
  • Can you buy the dlc separate from the premium.
  • @ Yeah but it will end up costing 20% more than premium. $60 instead of 50, or whatever your currency is.
  • @40
  • @3 How did it fail? I find it fun... you must be a COD fanboy... get some taste.
  • @33 let me tell you why I don't respect this game, I sold it over two monts ago so i don't how bad it is now, but to start things off I'd be lucky if i went a day without BF3 freezing on me, another thing would be the map design is awful compared to BC2 considering most of them are just rush maps converted to conquest, so one team has a massive advantge over the other (I.E. op metro). Also, the maps are so huge for the amount of players that it's like trying ti find a needle in a haystack most of the time, and for a game who bragged about realism, a scope that reflects a sun that isn't there is pretty ridiculous, or tanks that slide down even the slightest slopes, or jets that get hit by a tank and still be able to fly.
  • @39 This one only has new vehicles. But I was talking in a general sense. You're getting something new other than just maps with each Battlefield DLC.
  • @45: Yes, and it's been confirmed that the last two, Aftermath and Endgame will have both new vehicles and new weapons.
  • @44 I love battlefield, and I am not going to name all the reasons and annoy you with them, BUT I can say there are a lot of things I hate about it, and I can tell you with certainty that this game is compeletely far off from being realistic. They say they try for the realistic approach, but there are so many things I can name that are unrealistc. The first one the comes off the top of my head is how you can revive a teammate after he has been shot, even if he has been shot in the head.
  • battlefield is good I just hate the gb's worth of updates
  • i still don't know if i want to buy the premium, i like the DLC for the achievements and don't know if the last 2 dlcs will have them.
  • Bad company is by far the superior online console version of battlefield. BF3 is fucked beyond belief
  • #47 and #44 no matter how much realism they boast people like you guys need to take it with a grain of salt, it is a video game, no matter what, it will never be "realistic" because you do things like respawn, fight over some FLAGS for no reason whatsoever, I enjoy battlefield as one of my favorite online games but people who don't wanna play it because it's not realistic is just ruining it for themselves because you aren't gonna find a game that's realistic. Deal with it...
  • I really need to get the premium pass.
  • Can't wait for this. A whole DLC dedicated (mostly) to the only thing I own at in this game=tanks!
  • @51 Arma, and americas army :)
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