Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand assignments explained

As DICE begins winding up to launch Battlefield 3's 'Back to Karkand' downloadable content in December, it's detailed the new 'Assignments' persistent progression track also coming in the downloadable expansion. Plus, new gameplay trailer!

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Battlefield 3's "Back to Karkand" expansion pack features its own Assignments. As DICE begins winding up to launch the DLC, it has detailed the new persistent progression tracks and their rewards.

For those afraid of words, though, it's also showing off a slice of gameplay from the new "Strike at Karkand," one of four classic Battlefield series map remakes in the pack.

The Assignments are a set of ten challenges which unlock new Back to Karkand weapons and dog tags. DICE gives the example of "Let It Rain," which tasks players with racking up 20 light machine gun kills and two with mortars, and offers the QBB-95 rifle as reward. Then you get a new assignment to complete.

Assignment progress is tracked across both the base game and Back to Karkand maps, and unlocked Karkand weapons can be used in both too.

Back to Karkand is slated to launch in December, and it will hit PlayStation 3 a week earlier than other platforms. It's free if you pre-ordered Battlefield 3, but otherwise you'll have to cough up $15 (1,200 Microsoft Points).

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    November 18, 2011 10:15 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand assignments explained.

    As DICE begins winding up to launch Battlefield 3's 'Back to Karkand' downloadable content in December, it's detailed the new 'Assignments' persistent progression track also coming in the downloadable expansion. Plus, new gameplay trailer!

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      November 18, 2011 10:43 AM

      KNICE DICE !!!

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      November 18, 2011 10:43 AM

      "it will hit PlayStation 3 a week earlier than other platforms"

      Still not enough to make me play an FPS on a flaky console controller

      Karkand was my favorite map in BF2 and probably in several years/games so Ill be getting this for sure

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      November 18, 2011 10:54 AM

      I like the concept. Sounds fun.

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      November 18, 2011 11:10 AM

      Too bad the bridges probably aren't destructible, you know one of the main parts of karkand.

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        November 18, 2011 11:14 AM

        What makes you say that? There is a lot more destruction in BF3 then BF2.

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          November 18, 2011 11:48 AM

          They are probably indestructible because there is no way to repair them. In BF2 you could just drop a supply crate and the bridge would mend itself over time. You wouldn't be able to do that in BF3 and you basically just force all the vehicles through a single chokepoint instead of two.

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            November 18, 2011 12:43 PM

            You mean, like it is in real life combat....

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            November 18, 2011 1:04 PM

            They should have had one of the new vehicles be the bridge building tank.

            Heck, have one of the objectives for rush mode to be build the bridge.

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              November 20, 2011 7:47 AM

              That latter idea would be wonderful. We've been planting and defusing MCOM stations forever. Give us some ET style objectives.

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                November 20, 2011 9:36 AM

                Enemy Territory style objectives would kick ass in a Battlefield game. Even if they incorporated them in a hybridized way it would still be fun. Kind of like titan mode how that is a conquest/rush hybrid.

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                  November 20, 2011 1:07 PM

                  They are also slightly more believable than the current system. You have to explode/defend a tiny little box before you can push forwards.

                  Having objectives tied to destroying bridges/buildings and other strategic things like AA defences is a little more varied than magical boxes.

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      November 18, 2011 12:50 PM

      Paid multiplayer map packs are dumb as usual. Is it safe to assume that players who don't own this will be kicked from the server when the map comes up?

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        November 18, 2011 12:51 PM

        probably wont be able to connect to that server as the versions of the game will be different

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          November 18, 2011 1:05 PM

          no DICE already said servers will be able to run regular maps & the karkand pack maps on the same server.

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            November 18, 2011 3:12 PM

            which i'm super happy for. When vietnam for bc2 came out, is when i pretty much stopped playing, i thought that expansion was pretty terrible

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      November 18, 2011 3:05 PM

      For those of you not fond of the BF3 flashlights, I just published an ode to them as a farewell before the nerf update. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_fDsWkaUg8

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      November 18, 2011 4:21 PM

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        November 20, 2011 1:22 AM

        Shut up, I like unlocking the holo sight 23 times.

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