When is the next battlefield 3 update

He started writing about video games when he was a high-school student. He's probably one of those rare Rainbow Six Siege fans that have the game installed and updated on every available platform. Read more of Mehrdad's articles. By Mehrdad Khayyat. The closest thing to new content is the first batch of post-launch skins for Specialists, vehicles, and weapons.

They come alongside the new Weekly Missions feature, which aims to incentivize players to perform specific tasks in exchange for XP. Players will be able to track their three Weekly Missions from the main menu, and completing all three will award a new cosmetic item. Leaks have already shown a Santa Claus skin for Boris, which doesn't bode well for those hoping would keep a traditional Battlefield aesthetic. The rest of the update is more or less polishing the game and squashing bugs.

The list of patch notes from EA is quite long, and all combined may significantly improve the quality of life in terms of Battlefield 's current gameplay. Bullets often don't deal damage to their targets as they should, leading to a lot of unceremonious gun fights and otherwise easily preventable deaths. Although the last patch made things better, it's still leaving players frustrated. Players have been posting videos rather frequently since the game launched to showcase the ludicrous lack of hit registration, but it seems like DICE may iron it out once and for all in the new update.

It's an incredibly long list of improvements across the board and beyond fixing bugs, it adds new quality of life improvements to the plus system, UI, maps, and more. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to include any improvements to the performance issues in Battlefield , which includes framerate drops. Another small update is coming later in December, so maybe a performance boost can be expected when that releases.

The full patch notes can be seen below. Despite the extensive issues the game has faced, Battlefield had nearly double Battlefield 5 's players when comparing both launch periods.