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    Battlefield 3

    Game » consists of 15 releases. Released Oct 25, 2011

    Battlefield 3 is DICE's third numerical installment in the Battlefield franchise. It features a single player and co-operative campaign, as well as an extensive multiplayer component.

    Crossbows coming to Battlefield 3 Aftermath DLC

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    #1  Edited By FrankCanada97

    Year of the Bow continues! DICE released a teaser image of the upcoming Aftermath DLC showing new player models and jury-rigged crossbows.

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    Guess those rumours of no new weapons have been quashed now. Any thoughts on how bows will affect gameplay? I'm assuming that because they're silent, they'll probably hide you on the minimap.

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    #2  Edited By SSully

    Year of the bow continues? Indeed it does! I completely missed that part of your original post!

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    #3  Edited By mosdl

    Bo Bo Bo.

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    #4  Edited By awesomeusername

    I haven't touched BF3 in forever. It's just boring running around forever (because I play on PS3) with little action. Plus, I don't like any of the guns. It sucks because I really enjoyed playing it when it came out. Now I don't even glance at it. Maybe if I had a super PC....

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    #5  Edited By david3cm

    I recently picked up the super edition of BF3 on PC and am confused. Does anyone play this game anymore? I try looking for servers and the max players per server I find are about 8 guys playing on a 1000 ticket death match game on metro. Is my ping just terrible or have I missed the time of BF3? I would be excited for the new DLC if I thought I would be able to hop in a full 64 player server and experience Battlefield the way it should be.

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    #6  Edited By big_jon

    Fucking lame.

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    #7  Edited By MariachiMacabre

    That's so dumb it's awesome. Will not revive my interest in Modern Military FPS games (*wet fart noises*) but crossbows inherently make things cooler.

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    #8  Edited By solidwolf52

    #yearofthebow

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    #9  Edited By ajamafalous
    @david3cm said:

    I recently picked up the super edition of BF3 on PC and am confused. Does anyone play this game anymore? I try looking for servers and the max players per server I find are about 8 guys playing on a 1000 ticket death match game on metro. Is my ping just terrible or have I missed the time of BF3? I would be excited for the new DLC if I thought I would be able to hop in a full 64 player server and experience Battlefield the way it should be.

    Yeah, must be something up on your end. I can find countless full 64 player servers.
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    #10  Edited By Seppli

    Here's the trailer. DICE's 'Year of the Bow' tribute - and I'm sure it's going to be the best bow in the 'Year of the Bow'. It's the GOTY-Bow so to speak. None of that Assassin's Creed III auto-targeting bullcrap.
     
      

     Looks like a mostly Infantry based affair, which BF3 does damn well - outside of my personal dislikes like suppression and flashlights and such. Looking forward to it. Just need to beat XCOM on Ironman Classic, so I can finally get started for real on Armored Kill - I want to be on my A-game again.
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    I guess that Call of Duty Black Ops was too cool to leave out of Battlefield 3.

    Somebody had to say it.

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    #12  Edited By FrankCanada97

    Here is a newly released gameplay video showing all the different bolt types. It appears that all four are available for all classes using the firemode button. It should also give an idea of the map sizes. I read somewhere that they are around the size of Back to Karkand.

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    #13  Edited By Solh0und

    I feel like the Crossbow is going to be a big problem for those that like to use the Little Bird.

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    #14  Edited By ripelivejam

    don't cross BO

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    #15  Edited By buft

    @david3cm said:

    I recently picked up the super edition of BF3 on PC and am confused. Does anyone play this game anymore? I try looking for servers and the max players per server I find are about 8 guys playing on a 1000 ticket death match game on metro. Is my ping just terrible or have I missed the time of BF3? I would be excited for the new DLC if I thought I would be able to hop in a full 64 player server and experience Battlefield the way it should be.

    I jumped into it again recently and found loads of full servers

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    #16  Edited By colourful_hippie

    Those Bo's could be bigger.

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    #17  Edited By AlexanderSheen

    @FrankCanada97 said:

    Here is a newly released gameplay video showing all the different bolt types. It appears that all four are available for all classes using the firemode button. It should also give an idea of the map sizes. I read somewhere that they are around the size of Back to Karkand.

    Alright, the explosive bolt is actually kind of cool. You can recreate that Rambo 2 scene with it, which is pretty rad.

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    #18  Edited By FrankCanada97

    @Solh0und said:

    I feel like the Crossbow is going to be a big problem for those that like to use the Little Bird.

    I can't imagine it being any different from them dealing with AT rockets. Although, they would now have to perceive everyone as a possible threat instead of just engineers.

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    #19  Edited By intro

    Looks pretty sweet, hopefully they get their next update out soon so I can actually play it.

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