EA has announced new dlc packs to be released for Battlefield 3 throughout this year.  Each pack will come with it's own theme for the maps:

• Close Quarters
• Armored Kill
• End Game

Looking at the names, you can probably guess what most of them stand for... 

The close quarters pack will have maps that won't include any vehicles, and well be... well close quarters.  They're aiming to make it so that you feel the world around you is crashing down, making it so that anything from furniture to walls are destructible.   The closeness of the battlefields will make it more "competitive," at least, so they claim.  I'm hoping they'll be working on decent spawn points for these maps; I don't really look forward to spawning right next to an enemy and dying.   The maps will be much smaller than standard maps, and will be for 2 - 16 players.  We'll also see some new weapons, assignments, and dog tags with this dlc pack!  This should be released in June.  Here is a small preview (that may have been recorded at the gdc):


Armored kill focuses on bigger maps, and will include the biggest map ever in battlefield history.  Hopefully it won't be overly big, and you'll actually be able to get in a vehicle! This pack will also include new tanks, ATVs, and other vehicles.  They're trying to make it so these maps will have more vehicle "mayhem"/frays.  Armored kill is set to be released sometime this fall.

As for End Game, one can only guess! (as they haven't released much information as of yet)  This one will be released in the winter...  and title to me sounds like it'll be the last of the dlc packs to be released.



Now, as for the paid subscription, nothing has been said precisely about it other than:


And John Riccitiello also noted that ea has been working on something similar to this, called Ultimate Team, for FIFA

This was said about a month ago, and they didn't mention anything about it during the GDC, so we may not see this in Battlefield 3, at least not for a while.  However, I wouldn't be too surprised to see something like this in their next battlefield game.  I'd rather not see this come into play for battlefield 3, unless all the kinks are worked out and they fix other issues that are currently in the game.


You can read more about it all here and here for dlc, and here for the paid sub.

well i like the ideas for the dlc, to spread out a bit sounds quite nice to me

hopefully paid sub wont be used in bf3, that would be completely fucked

The DLC sounds nice. I just hope that it won't be something that will cost too much money.
I'm wondering why they are not doing the same as they did with BC2? Where they release these new maps for free, and update the maps for other gamemodes. It was something I thought was pretty awesome.

As for the paid subscription thing, that sounds like a bad idea. I don't want to pay every month or so for a game like BF3. Or any other BF game for that matter.

Yeah I'm hoping it will cost only about 15 usd or so.. But they haven't said anything about the number of maps, nor the pricing yet...  I think 15 is a good guess considering B2K is that price..

As for the paid sub, I think it would be more similar to  COD, where it is ~50/60 for a "year" and you get the dlc as well.  But I'm not really sure.  I don't feel like the can smoothly implement it at this point, it seems more like a thing that should have been planned out a while before, and at this point wouldn't be worth implementing...