Battlefield 3 Karkand maps revealed

By Steve Watts, Feb 25, 2011 7:30am PST

Battlefield 3 will be bringing back select maps from Battlefield 2, and now we know which ones. Word came from DICE community manager Daniel Matros on the EA forums (via NeoSeeker) that Wake Island, Strike at Karkand, Gulf of Oman, and Sharqi Peninsula will all be bundled in the "Back to Karkand" expansion.

The pack remakes the old maps with the spiffy new Frostbite 2 engine, and will be included as a one time use code with the Limited Edition. Matros says that the altogether, players have logged over 25,000 years in these four maps.

PC fans were disappointed recently by the cancelation of Bad Company 2's Onslaught Mode DLC on PC, and the Battlefield 1943 port. Those teams were funneled into the Battlefield 3 push, which is leading on PC.

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- Can hardly wait! : re-verse
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  Gulf of Oman! So many hours spent there =) : leadgold
  - Yes I love me some Oman : Begawkiness
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  how are we going to be able to pick a GOTY with this, rage, ES5, and diablo 3? WHAT A CONUNDRUM!!!!!! : eeeealmo
  - i seriously doubt D3 will be in contention this year. : radio_babylon
- Summary: You know those Karkand maps included in the Limited Edition? Now we know what they are! Wake Isl... : SporkyReeve
- I love the new video player. So much better than the old one. : razlebol
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  anyone else very pissed that they fully embrace the DLC system and are trying to squeeze the customers li... : Vogerl
  - whatever helps them develop the games i like, i support. : eeeealmo
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    BF2 was no better with the booster pack : HisKillSkill
    - It was probably worse since it enabled some OP unlocks, like the G36e. : JarEme
  - Welcome to gaming. : saunders45
  - They have been doing this since the beginning of the BF franchise, but they were called expansion packs b... : maulla
  - no but they've also been pushing DLC since before the series was on the "eivil console" so i don't really... : dantastic
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    we will miss you : watcherxp
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      no we won't : deject
      
      oh, yeah.. we won't : watcherxp
  - not really. More content, easier to get to said content, cheaper than expansion pack prices. HOW DARE THE... : Fyunch Click
  - nope : Hemtroll
  - What would be the choice of scripts to permanently hide all front page poster's comments? Friend or Foe? ... : dedgecko
  - how is this a DLC, if you pre order the game you get it. Its a pre order bonus. DLC's are the future, I d... : Sgtfraser
  - All it takes is DLC to have your world come crashing down? Also, DLC turns games into console-ports with ... : TrptJim
  - Evil consoley DLC-packed pile of boring military shooter with no real innovation! You really don't kno... : MercFox1
  - if anything it combats used sales pretty effectively. thats what release day dlc is all about, you buy t... : grendel
  - Mate, you're stuck in the past. I love these games and embrace the offer of more content. Plus, DLC IS FU... : niceguynick
- Man I am excited. : zohar79
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  Old video, don't get excited : watcherxp
  - The video is from an old post, yes: http://www.shacknews.com/article/67604/battlefield-3-gets-first-gamep... : XAVdeMATOS
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  It's become a lot more apparent that EA/Dice is shooting to re-take the FPS crown from Call of Duty, but ... : SkipperMcG
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    Really? care to elaborate how this is "more apparent"? : watcherxp
    - The look of the game particularly. The footage that can be seen in the trailer really shows a more cinema... : SkipperMcG
    - 4 classes, no commander, elaborate singleplayer focus. Probably will have offhand knife again and other C... : gyokuro
  - Bad Company 2 style gameplay in a BF2 setting on large maps with 64 players sounds fucking dandy to me. : Mr. Goodwrench
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  They should funnel some people into fixing BC2. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=+site:forum.ea... : Mystery0000
  - they probably are and it's likely related to Win 7 SP1 which just released publicly. : dedgecko
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  what's the likelihood this will be on steam and use steamworks? : eeeealmo
  - what's the likelihood that hell will freeze over? i'm sorry, can you re-state the question? : 00-bracken
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    Steamworks: very low Steam: 50/50, probably not at release but a few months later : deject
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      BC2 was released on Steam on release day, why would BF3 be any different? : ArcKnight
      
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      Logic has no place here. : Duffman8369
      
      Oh. Well then let me be the first to say RABBLE RABBLE : ArcKnight
      
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      why is everyone yelling at me today for not making assumptions about steam releases. im just asking for ... : eeeealmo
      
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      What developer has stopped releasing on Steam after starting? : ArcKnight
      
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      EA didn't release NFS Hot Pursuit on steam until a month after it launched on PC. : LoioshDwaggie
      
      EA is kinda starting to hate on Steam because they didn't come up with it and it makes EA look dumb. : deject
      
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      It was? I could have sworn it wasn't right away. I am wrong a lot though, so it wouldn't surprise me. : deject
      
      I preordered Bad Company 2 on Steam about a month before launch or something. It was on Steam's catalog w... : MercFox1
      
      preordered on steam, came out same day. not sure if it preloaded but few games do : retarded talking dinosaur
  - no way it uses steamworks, but I'm sure it will be sold on steam : maulla
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  Steve, it's 25,000 years, not hours ;p : ChromeBallz
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    Thanks a lot for the catch. Fixed. : XAVdeMATOS
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      Mr Watts isn't really, is he? : Durajim
      
      :| Really real. REAL. : Durajim
- Sharqi Peninsula! w00t! My second favorite map in BF2. : deject
- HOT! : tangles
- Okay fine, I'll upgrade my PC for this. : BouillonCubes
- hey steve watts, get the scoop on the commander function plz : Downforce
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  Are snipers gonna snipe from rooftops covered by claymore mines at the ladder? : Marrbe
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    Yea there needs to be some way to counteract this. : Medster
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      blow the fucking building up : sreyes22
      
      This will be my solution to everything : Begawkiness
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      it's called throwing a grenade up onto the roof : riptyde
      
      This was near impossible for some areas in BF2. The grenades were hard to precisely aim, and some buildi... : Medster
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      1) countersnipe 2)commander artillery 3) if there's a killcam ur fucked : Downforce
      
      #2 is key. Call out the sniper to your commander, have him bring down the pain. : riptyde
      
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      commander doesn't exist in BF3 --- but recon will likely be able to call in mortar strikes or something s... : dedgecko
      
      oh I'm sure it will exist at some point. it has to. this is full scale battlefield again. : Downforce
      
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      The most retarded aspect of BC2 was giving the counter for snipers to snipers. Sweet jesus. They already ... : Beady
      
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      A new Challenger Approaches!!
      
      CAAARLL
      
      Goooose--TAAAAAAAAAV
      
      Feb 25, 2011 12:39pm PST
      
      A new Challenger Approaches!! CAAARLL Goooose--TAAAAAAAAAV : dedgecko
      
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      Yea it should have been given to the assault class imo. Pick grenades or mortar not both. : ant_hillbilly
      
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      Its not just that though. They also get the ability to see people trying to sneak up on them. I guess ... : Beady
      
      and? there's also the auto spotting scope. people don't use Q at all, so when I get pissed off, I get to ... : Downforce
      
      I always rolled with the G3 in my recon class. An assault rifle and the motion mines makes one hell of a... : deject
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      It would be awesome if I could toss c4 onto the ceiling and take out what they are laying on. : ant_hillbilly
      
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      That seems like a very plausible solution in BC3. It also sounds fucking awesome! : Navy Spitfire
      
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      This was probably the biggest disappointment with the destruction 2.0 stuff in BC2 --- exterior walls cou... : dedgecko
      
      Not to mention every single building had the same interior layout. Lazy : ant_hillbilly
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      Jump from rooftop to rooftop like Morpheus! : Vorlonesque
      
      well in all seriousness, if a sniper gets way up high from bailing out of a friendly chopper, the enemy w... : Downforce
    - Call a mortar strike on the building. : Rauol Duke
  - probably, but that's every modern FPS : riptyde
  - blow up the damn building. : MercFox1
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  WHERE THE FUCK IS MY STEAM PRE-ORDER!!! I AM READY TO PART WITH MY MONEY EA!!! : RyDogg1
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    DukeNukemForever.exe first please : watcherxp
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      DukeFo~1.exe or Duke4e.exe? : CrustaR
      
      Duke4Evr.bat : watcherxp
      
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      dnf.rb : MercFox1
      
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      pamcum69.jpg.bat : sanchez
      
      DukeFo~1.exe for the nostalgia thx. : morsxcessum
      
      DukeFo~1.bas : DrWaffles
  - http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=25359336#itemanchor_25359336 : LoioshDwaggie
- everyone says "dont do prone other wise the snipers will be too powerful" but actually when you are getti... : gyokuro
- Been waiting for this game for nearly 6 years. DICE has always produced an excellent game, but it is exc... : Frraksurred
- So this is what sacrificed my onslaught mode? I hope they include one with this and I'll forget all about... : X-Nice

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