Latest Battlefield 3 Details – Jets, Weapons, Laser Painting, More

As the anticipation for DICE’s Battlefield 3 keeps growing, there’s a batch of constant details on the shooter being unveiled by the studio. The company has now treated fans with a ton of new details for the game.

Fredrik Thylander, Senior Designer of DICE, revealed some new information on Battlefield 3 via his Twitter:

• Spawn beacon gives points and there’s rocket pods for jets
• Mav is a mobile motion tracker. Points to you for anyone that dies in its radius… And bonus points for kills near objectives, more points if there’s a squad order on it and points to the leader as well
• I’ll leave the styles a secret, but as with every “all-kit” unlock, it’s through rankup
• Each weapon has its own unlock order of accessories. So that for instance bolt snipers get bipod sooner and semi get foregrip
• The radius on conquest flags is the same as the cap radius. On m-com’s it’s a tweaked version of that.
• There is bonus points for eliminating a squad, and ribbons as well
• Laser painting means no need for line of sight. The person who painted gets each point of damage as point too.
• Though a javelin cannot lock on an air target by itself, can lock on painted stuff. And soflam can paint air targets

Battlefield 3 is due for a release on October 25th.