Back To Karkand - Coming With More Destruction!
2011-11-03 04:20:00« Back
Back to Karkand, the upcoming Battlefield 3 expansion pack is set for release this December. What we know of this expansion pack is that it will ship with four maps, three new vehicles, and weapons from BF2. The nostalgic factor should be pretty high, but what about BF3's additions? According to executive producer Patrick Bach, DICE doesn't want to just reignite the flame of those maps, but to bring a new twist. This is evident in the most recent media that we've seen of Back to Karkand. If you played the original BF2 maps, you'd remember Karkand as the fun, yet foggy map. In BF3 the dust storm/evening has passed. (Check out our comparison screenies.)
Destruction is big for us Battlefield 3 players and Patrick Suderland of DICE knows it. The expansion pack will have more than vanilla (original) BF3.
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XG247 (Sam Clay): Let's talk about the map "Wake Island", personally one of my favourites. Have you made it look a lot better, or added additional areas to the map?
Patrick Bach: What we're doing with all the maps is, we're taking them from where they were in time and taking them into the future so there's been changes in the environments based on the modern setting. "Wake Island" has had quite a lot of changes to its environment since the days of 1942.
XG247 (Sam Clay): What's happened there?
Patrick Bach: It doesn't look exactly the same as it did back then, it's actually quite interesting to see the changes that it's been going through - we didn't want to just make a copy of the map, it's the same with "Strike at Karkand", we didn't want to copy, we wanted to add something new to it. It's not the same foggy environment, it's like a clear sky and it's more detailed in general and that's the same as all maps.
Patrick Bach: What we're doing with all the maps is, we're taking them from where they were in time and taking them into the future so there's been changes in the environments based on the modern setting. "Wake Island" has had quite a lot of changes to its environment since the days of 1942.
XG247 (Sam Clay): What's happened there?
Patrick Bach: It doesn't look exactly the same as it did back then, it's actually quite interesting to see the changes that it's been going through - we didn't want to just make a copy of the map, it's the same with "Strike at Karkand", we didn't want to copy, we wanted to add something new to it. It's not the same foggy environment, it's like a clear sky and it's more detailed in general and that's the same as all maps.
Destruction is big for us Battlefield 3 players and Patrick Suderland of DICE knows it. The expansion pack will have more than vanilla (original) BF3.
IGN said:
"There's a lot of destruction in BF3, but the Karkand map pack, when you play it, it's a different level, even more so than in BF3, of destruction in there," he told us. "So I think people are really going to like that, and see it as something fresh. When you play Karkand, it's just crazy the amount of destruction that goes on in there. And that's a deliberate decision by the small team who made the pack, to really dial that up and make it even more prominent than it is in the Battlefield 3 'vanilla' experience."
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