Three other maps are offered in Aftermath, including Epicenter and Markaz Market. Other additions include:
- Three new vehicles modified to showcase ingenuity and firepower
- New assignments, achievements and dog tags
- New Scavenger game mode, an objective based Conquest mode where lost soldiers armed only with a pistol must search the environment to find more powerful weapons and increasing their chance for survival
- New weapon -- the crossbow -- made from salvaged parts of other weapons, but looks like it works as well as any weapon off the assembly line. A true representation of the adage, "silent but deadly" the crossbow will let you take down enemies from across the map with no one being the wiser. Players have the option of loading it with up to four different kinds of crossbow bolts: standard barbed, high explosive, scan bolt, and for those long shots, the aerodynamic balanced bolt.
As DICE describes it, Aftermath takes place in an earthquake ravaged Tehran, Iran, "with operational capacity severely compromised the opposing forces must adapt and engage in vertical and horizontal urban combat amongst the dust and rubble with cracks and fissures in the terrain providing unexpected cover and paths to objectives. Additional support comes in the form of heavily modified troop transports and civilian vehicles specially adapted to deliver deadly force to the enemy."
One more DLC for Battlefield 3, End Game, is on the way.
PS3 gamers with a Battlefield 3 Premium membership get their Aftermath access today, Nov. 27. Xbox 360 and PC Premium members will receive it on Dec. 4. The PS3 non-Premium launch will occur on Dec. 11th, followed by the Xbox 360/PC non-Premium launch on the 18th, later that month.
