{"id":15168,"date":"2011-10-31T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"back-to-karkand-dlc-pegged-for-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15168-back-to-karkand-dlc-pegged-for-december","title":{"rendered":"Back to Karkand DLC pegged for December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been having a wonderful time playing Battlefield 3 this past weekend? The servers are lagging and Battlelog and Origin are a pain in the butt? Moving swiftly along&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Are you already growing tired of the maps that shipped with the game?<\/p>\n<p>Well, EA has pegged the Back to Karkand DLC for launch sometime in December. No firm date, but that&rsquo;s the closest yet we&rsquo;ve had to commitment since the DLC was first announced.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Karkand will be the first wave in <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/15158-has-aggressive-DLC-plan-for-Battlefield.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"EA&rsquo;s aggressive Battlefield 3 DLC assault\">EA&rsquo;s aggressive Battlefield 3 DLC assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have purchased the Limited Edition of Battlefield 3 get free access to Back To Karkand when it launches. You may recall that PS3 gamers will be getting the map pack one week earlier thanks to a corporate bloodletting ritual between Sony and EA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/battlefield_3_strike_at_karkand_5_457668735.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Back to Karkand DLC features four classic Battlefield maps revamped using Battlefield 3&rsquo;s Frostbite 2 engine: Strike at Karkand, Wake Island, Gulf of Oman and Sharqi Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The DLC also includes:<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Five new dog tags.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Five new achievements\/trophies.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Three new vehicles (DPV, BTR-90, F-35B STOVL jet fighter).<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10 iconic Battlefield weapons<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A new persistence system where players complete assignments to earn their rewards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/images\/15166-Battlefield-Back-Karkand-screenshots.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand screenshots\">Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19688-Battlefield-3-Back-to-Karkand-DLC-pegged-for-December?\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Back to Karkand DLC pegged for December\"><strong>Back to Karkand DLC pegged for December<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield 3&#039;s first DLC and map expansion is arriving just in time for you to blow your Christmas bonus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}