Battlefield 3's "Back to Karkand" expansion included remakes of four of the most popular maps from Battlefield 2. One map that wasn't included was Dragon Valley. In a new interview with EA's gaming show PWNED, lead designer Niklas Fegraeus explained why they decided not to use it.
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Absolutely insane. Man I'm hope they land on their feet EA needs to get the shit together badly....
This is why this industry has slow releases and none compelling games.
Why would anyone willingly work in the VG industry or specifically for one of these globocorp organizations that put you in constant fear of losing your livelihood based on terrible choices made by idiotic management, not the people with talent making the actual games?
... so the B2K mappack was free. They're pretty much the best maps in the game.
If I would have been stuck with just the 9 maps that come with BF3, I probably wouldn't be playing the game anymore, cause too many of those levels kinda lack that Battlefield freedom we know and love.
Maps like Metro, Crossing the Seine, Tehran Highway and Damavand Peak are just too small and straighforward for my liking. It seems like they were put in mostly to win over the CoD crowd, sadly.
I wouldn't mind a map pack with new asian inspired settings. Maybe just like out in the streets or w/e. Make it completely new instead of porting over old maps (while still including Dragon Valley in that map pack).
I think all of the maps in the game are more or less amazing. The ones I like the least are probably Metro and Tehran Highway, but they are still great compared to maps in other FPS games. BF3 set a new standard in map design imo. Firestorm is just mindblowing.
It's all goooooooood
I didn't like Dragon Valley that much anyway. Now what they should have remade was Great Wall, now that has an Asian setting and a castle to siege.