Take it from this avid gamer, the Back to Karkand expansion pack for BF3 is truly amazing. For those of us that harken back to the day of Battlefield 2, four of our favorite BF2 maps return truly remade for the BF3 gaming environment. Returning are Karkand, Gulf of Oman, Sharqi Peninsula and my favorite of all time Wake Island. The maps are a work of art and playing on them brought me back to the old days playing BF2 and yet with all the new advancements made in Battlefield 3. You can fly the old Hover Jets in Wake Island, unlock old favorite BF3 weapons by completing achievements and more. We are running the Karkand Expansion pack on our West Coast Party Pirates NFO Seattle 48 slot server. Stop in and join us for a game!

Mates, huge news today — much of Karkand and other changes coming in large client and server side 12/6 patch!  The big news —

1. Servers — even ranked can lower the player start again down to 1  —
2. Pre round play with no scoring is coming back soon …so we can move around and do something rather than planted in the ground while waiting for others to join …AMEN!
3. Karkand release date must be soon if this is coming down now to us
4. finally they are tweaking down the tactical light and changes to INRV — and even more important

Min player requirements: it will once again be possible to reduce the number of players required to start a round to 1 both in ranked and unranked mode. They have made this change after getting a lot of negative feedback from both individuals and the RSP companies. — they listened!

They also note that their plan is to introduce a warm-up mode, where players can move about and play the game, but with scoring disabled; then, when the number of players goes above the threshold — unclear if this warm up mode is in this patch but sounds like they are on it and know it’s needed.

Here’s their release info:

We will release an update to the PC version of BF3 on Dec 6th — that is, Tuesday morning around 8AM GMT next week. This coincides with an upgrade of many of our central systems which will be down for some hours starting around that time.

It will be both a client update — approximately 4GB in size — and a server update.

The client/server combination will be incompatible with older clients/servers. All players will be prompted to download the update once it has been released. All RSP companies will begin upgrading their servers at the same time.

The client update is large because it contains most of the content for Back to Karkand. This is not ideal, so we aim to make potential DLC content in the future as optional downloads.

For more info on this patch visit our Battlefield board in the |wcpp| forums

Well mates, our clan is having a blast playing BF3 and our group is ready and waiting for the PC Expansion Pack release for Karkand due out in just a few weeks. The pack comes with 4 well known and loved maps from the BF2 series, new weapons and new vehicles too.  Looks like PS3 will get it before PC users due, in fact they get it a week earlier. Not happy about that as we feel PC users were the original gamers that made BF popular and now we are the ones made to wait. Could also be they need a week to work out kinks for the PC version.  Regardless, the game is very well done and amazing to play. More info on the Karkand release and some links to videos can be found in our fourms!  Check it out when you have a chance. See you on the Battlefield mates.

Aye Mateys!
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