Battlefield 3: Aftermath Release Date Announced

EA has announced release dates for Battlefield 3’s Aftermath downloadable content. Battlefield 3 Premium members on PlayStation 3 can get Aftermath on November 27th, while Premium Xbox 360 and PC players can get it on December 4th. Non-premium players on PlayStation 3 can get Aftermath on December 11th, and non-Premium Xbox 360 and PC players will round out the schedule on December 18th.

As with all Battlefield 3 content, Aftermath will cost $14.99 (1200 Microsoft Points) and will be free to Battlefield Premium members. Aftermath is the fourth of five packs for Battlefield 3, coming ahead of End Game, which will be released in March 2013.

Separately, EA announced today that in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Battlefield and the milestone of Premium passing 2 million members, it will offer Battlefield 1942 as a free download. Players can get 1942 on Origin’s official site, which notes that it will require an Origin account and will expire on March 1, 2013.

EA also revealed some interesting stats for Battlefield 3, noting that since its launch in 2011, players have passed 95 billion total heals and four billion total revives, destroyed three billion vehicles and fired two trillion bullets. "[Premium] has been an ambitious way to give our fans fresh, high-quality content at a great value," said DICE vice president and general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson. " This achievement is helping us define the new standard by which all other shooters deliver content and exclusive bonuses to their player communities."

For more on Aftermath, check out the details DICE revealed in July. For any other Battlefield 3 needs, look no further than our Battlefield 3 wiki guide.

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Battlefield 3: Aftermath Details Revealed

DICE has revealed new details about Battlefield 3’s Aftermath downloadable content. According to the game’s official site, Aftermath is set in Tehran, Iran in the aftermath of an earthquake and depicts “a continuing struggle for supremacy and survival amongst the devastation.” The content will include vertical and horizontal urban combat, as players seek cover in the cracks and fissures caused by the quake. “Heavily modified” troop transports and civilian vehicles “specially adapted to deliver deadly force to the enemy” will also be included.

Aftermath will add four new maps and a new game mode, as well as new assignments, achievements and dog tags. While no official release date is listed, EA said the content would arrive in December when Aftermath was announced during E3. As with all Battlefield 3 downloadable content, it will arrive one week early on PlayStation 3.

This concept art is all we've seen of Aftermath so far.

Aftermath will be the fourth of five Battlefield 3 add-ons, following the release of Back to Karkand in December 2011, Close Quarters last month and September’s upcoming Armored Kill. Battlefield 3’s downloadable content will conclude in March 2013 with the release of the fifth pack, End Game.

While each pack is available separately, access to all five packs is available for a one-time $49.99 purchase through Battlefield Premium. Premium offers members early access to downloadable content at no additional cost as well as access to unique in-game weapons, priority servers, double XP weekends and new dog tags.

EA announced last month that Battlefield 3 Premium brought in more than 800,000 members in its first two weeks of availability.

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