Battlefield 3 Back To Karkand will feature 4 maps, 3 vehicles, and 10 new weapons, but there are some other new features that aren’t part of EA’s regular pitch: improved destruction and Conquest Assault. Back To Karkand maps such as Strike At Karkand will feature improved destruction where buildings can be destroyed to a point where only the skeleton remains, according to new info. We’ve previously seen before and after pics of Karkand’s destruction, where the destruction looked a lot more extensive than what we’re used to in Battlefield 3.
In addition to improved destruction, Battlefield 3 ships with a new game mode called Conquest Assault, which hails back from Battlefield 2, but back then it was called just “Conquest”. In the Conquest Assault mode, one team starts with all of the flags and the other team has to attack and advance throughout the map — if you’ve played Strike At Karkand in Battlefield 2, you’ll know exactly what it is (and the tense fighting that happens at the first flag).
Back To Karkand will be released in December, most likely around Christmas time. PlayStation 3 owners will get it one week earlier, though