UPDATED: New BF3 “Close Quarters” Trailer Blows Things Up Inside the House

By Brian P Rubin | 13 March 2012 | 15 Comments

For some reason, the bit in this new trailer for BF3‘s “Close Quarters” DLC, where you’re sneaking around couches and stuff, it reminded me of Batman: Arkham City. Is that weird? That’s probably weird.

The new DLC pack for EA’s shooter comes out this June for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, the last of which will offer access to the content a week before the others. As the trailer tells you, it’ll have four new maps, all of which emphasize, well, “Close Quarters” combat, meaning that things will be tight, messy, and kind of insane. Should be interesting.

Your thoughts? Anyone still playing BF3 out there?

UPDATE

Oh, hey! How about some screenshots, too? Yeah. Here you go, hosers:

15 Comments

Posted by Grim Joker on 13 March 12 at 10:27am

Eh, Battlefield 3 is a lot of fun, but I really don’t play it enough to justify buying more DLC for it.
Posted by bonecollectorjs on 13 March 12 at 1:06pm

Trash this DLC, WE WANT TO KILL DINOSAURS!
Posted by L.R. (aka ScreamoLuvr) on 13 March 12 at 1:07pm

It feels wierd that they are marketing it this early though…
Posted by RiseOfEchelon on 13 March 12 at 1:15pm

…cqc in bf3 will just be a shotgun-fest
- Posted by Aaron on 13 March 12 at 3:35pm
  
  Yeep, with fag rounds. No skill required.
  
  and yes, you saw what I did there
Posted by Hoolio G on 13 March 12 at 1:28pm

Personally, CQC in BF3 is such a fustercluck; think how Conquest on Operation Metro feels. These CQC maps’ popularity is mainly due to the fact that you can grind for unlocks.

With all that said, the maps will have lowered player counts(so no 64 player mayhem PC users), 10 new weapons with 10 new assignments (similar to B2K), and 4 new maps in total. I’ll estimate right now that it’ll probably cost $15 (1200msp for you X360er’s).
Posted by Andrew on 13 March 12 at 3:33pm

I think its gonna be alright, i just hope that the shotguns dont ruin it. hope the assignments dont encourage players to play with them.
Posted by Bull3t. on 13 March 12 at 3:42pm

Too bad we have to pay for all these DLC’s .. i already bought the solid copy of the game + the B2K DLC .. It’s very cool, but idk if it was worth 15$ ..
Posted by MedicOnDuty on 13 March 12 at 4:14pm

It’ll be fun for around five minutes and then everyone will camp with frag round shotguns. If anyone has played Operation Métro on Conquest with a full 64 player server, imagine what a clusterfuck this will be.

But the trailer did look nice.
Posted by NovaBlast on 13 March 12 at 7:50pm

The USAS will be abused… Frag rounds need a serious nerf or become unavailable on cqc maps like metro. Here’s to hoping DICE doesn’t start catering to the no-skill-high-reward modern warfare playstyle
- Posted by Grim Joker on 13 March 12 at 11:11pm
  
  Hey, in Modern Warfare, shotguns aren’t the be-all end-all of CQC. As much as I admire the balancing in Battlefield, at least it’s usually a pretty fair contest no matter what you’re using (short of a sniper rifle) in Call of Duty. With Battlefield it feels like if you have an assault rifle, or even a carbine, in CQC and you go against a shotgun user, you’re going to drop dead before you even know what hit you.
Posted by Silentwaldo on 14 March 12 at 11:31am

I would rather go out by a pew pew gun than a retarded boom boom shotgun. Can we haz nerf?
Posted by Guy Le Man on 16 March 12 at 7:09pm

Really? There SHOULD be no contest between a shotgun and an AR at 5 meters or maybe even 7.
Posted by jarrett on 17 March 12 at 8:46am

how much?
Posted by Kelly on 15 May 12 at 7:49pm

“tight, messy and kinda insane” made me spit my drink

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