Massive Battlefield 3 update on Xbox 360 goes live today, includes the possibility to rent your own server!

04.03.12  | 797 comments

The Battlefield 3 update for Xbox 360 goes live today and includes plenty of fixes, balancing tweaks, and the possibility to rent your own server! Read on for the full details.

As you are reading this, the Battlefield 3 game update for Xbox 360 should be rolling out. This update is identical to the PlayStation 3 update that went live the other week. That means you get a lot of fixes, balancing tweaks, and some new functionality – including the addition of horns in all jeeps! You can find the change list in this previous blog post.

Below are some of the highlights in this massive game update. If you have studied the update on PS3 or PC previously, a lot of this information will be familiar to you.

Your server, your rules!
Like the PlayStation 3 update, this also marks the start of the Rent a Server functionality on Xbox 360. This means you can rent your own server and create your personal gaming experience. Check out the trailer below for an idea of the possibilities of this program. To ensure a robust experience, we are launching this feature at a limited capacity and ramping up in the coming days. If you are unable to rent a server, try again at a later date.

Beep beep! We have horns!
Yes! We have added horns to all jeeps in the game! Nothing says “Get in and man the machine gun so we can take back the airfield!” like three short beeps of the horn. Just press [LB] to make your presence known to friendly forces. Warning: Beeping also heard by opposition. Suggest limiting beeping when in enemy territory to keep vehicle in working order. This feature is also present in the PC and PlayStation 3 updates that are live.

Giving all players IR flares
To balance the battlefield and give budding pilots a fighting chance from day 1, we are now giving IR flares to all players. These will be automatically available to you in all air vehicles in the game. So if you’ve had a hard time staying up in the air previously, it should be easier to dodge incoming threats from now on. We hope this small but significant change will mean more players take to the skies and mix up their play style. This feature is also present in the PC and PlayStation 3 updates that are live.

More awards for skillful heli flying
One of the balancing items we have done in this game update is to better reward skillful heli pilots. To do this, we have increased the pilot’s score for transporting passengers who make kills from the heli. The assist score for heli pilots is now 50 points/kill. In a fully loaded transport, four passengers who make 1 kill each will give the pilot a sum total of 200 points. This balancing change is also present in the PC and PlayStation 3 updates that are live.

Making the SOFLAM a passive income gadget
The Recon gadget SOFLAM (laser target painter) has been given a new feature. Now, when a Recon player places it and then leaves it, it will continue to paint targets entering its area of control, continuously giving the Recon player a passive points income. This means a Recon player can place a SOFLAM in a strategic position, then leave it to find a good sniping spot. Combined with fixing a few scoring error in the SOFLAM, it should now be a much more viable source of experience points for Recons. This balancing change is also present in the PC and PlayStation 3 update that are live.

Suppressing is team play, too!
Another balancing change that reflects how we want every player to be able to contribute to the overall effort is the lowered threshold for achieving the Suppression Ribbon. From a previous requirement of 7, players now only need to perform 3 suppressions in a game to be rewarded the Suppression Ribbon. This means the Support Kit player can rack up scores by skillful use of his LMG. We’ve always know suppression helps  – now we are more generously rewarding those team players who help disorient the enemy so we can move in for the kill. This balancing change is also present in the PC and PlayStation 3 update that are live.

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  • drumscarinbr 04.10.12 at 21:30

    DICE, FIX THE SERVERS!

    This is a major issue in the game. At launch, we were able to play all maps while staying in conquest, rush, etc. You never did include the Karkand maps in the hardcore rotation however.

    Look at this thread, there are many players that are pissed off about this. It is also a very shady business practice to do away with this initially offered feature right around the time you offered server rentals, as to increase revenue by making players pay to play something the way that you gave it to us in the first place!

    http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/…

    The total number of official DICE HARDCORE servers should be comprised of the following:

    10% – includes all vanilla maps that stay in your selected game mode

    15% – includes all maps (including B2K) that stay in your selected game mode

    20% – includes all maps (including B2K 5-flag versions) that stay in your selected game mode

    10% – includes all vanilla maps that stay in your selected game mode – WITH NO MINI-MAP

    15% – includes all maps (including B2K) that stay in your selected game mode – WITH NO MINI-MAP

    25% – includes all maps (including B2K 5-flag versions) that stay in your selected game mode – WITH NO MINI-MAP

    5% – made up of the currently implemented themed playlists (epic battles, urban warfare, soldier skirmishes, etc.)

    PS: I’ll be posting this as much as possible until ‘we’ get an official response that’s helpful, as this is total Bullsh*t!!!!!

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  • Odetzz 04.10.12 at 21:27

    HELP ME! EVERY GAME WHERE Im GOING, I CAN PLAY LIKE 5 MIN IN THAT MATCH THEN APPEARS ”lost connection to the session” SOMEBODY HELP ME OR EA HELP

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  • SeveredJynxx 04.10.12 at 21:09

    Hello, this is the first time I have placed a post on something like this, firstly I play a lot of BF3 its the only game worth playing out there at the moment, my main weapon of choice is the battle tank, this is where my complaint comes…before the patch the game was pretty much well balanced in regards to vehicles with exceptions of the attack helicopter which was always a thorn in my side but i could live with it.
    Now the attack helicopters are virtually untouchable, the stinger and SA-18 are completley useless as they do not lock on unless the helicopter is right on top of you.
    Also when driving a tank you get some little nutters who run up and place C4 on your tank lol, which while annoying is quite skillful to get that close to one, but the C4 in my opinion is way over powered I could understand if it were to disable the tank but blow it up with a little bit of C4??
    While driving the tank if someone places C4 on it it tells you to press X to pick it up so you press X again and again, nothing happens then your tank blows up from this one piece of C4 :/
    maybe someone else can tell me if i’m doing something wrong and if this actually works to pick up the C4 but i can’t get it to work.
    The patch also removes the skill in driving a tank as when you come up against another tank the main gun has been increased in power or something, so now it’s near 3 shots death dependant on where you hit the tank, where before it was around 4.
    So thanks for the patch but you really could have done a lot more with it other than making helicopters untouchable in the skys and tanks now virtually useless against things like helicopters and C4.
    I just hope these things can be changed for the better when the next patch is released.
    Many thanks.

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  • RAMKROM40 04.10.12 at 21:08

    Battlefield 3 server update coming next week, will fix AA missiles
    http://bf3blog.com/2012/04/battlefield-3-server-update-coming-next-week-will-fix-aa-missiles/
    but… what about supression, official servers, god-skill-level-enemy, etc…?

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  • carpenoctis 04.10.12 at 20:46

    This patch release wasn’t well thought out IMO. for one, DICE servers should be separated from the Rent-A-Server’s. Nothing is more annoying than scrolling through a bunch of rent-a-servers and seeing names like “AFRICAN AMERICANS NOT ALLOWED IN THIS SERVER,” or coming across a server that looks decent until you read the rules – “KINFE ONLY OR YOU WILL BE BANNED.” (then you find out the admin is using guns to rack up insane kill amounts but if you shoot him you are banned.

    Separate DICE servers or at least allow us to filter them.

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  • XxMOExFUGGAxX 04.10.12 at 15:42

    Game is wonderful. To Hell with all of these haters below this comment. However, the server list is irritating as all get out. I want DICE servers seperated from the Rent-A-Server. And Supression may be just a bit tad over-the-top. Ease it back down a bit will you? That is all.

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    • RAMKROM40 04.10.12 at 20:16

      and what about igla and stingers threshold? and those butter-made tanks? and those graphic bugs? and those ‘one shot to die’? and those ‘a 3/4 clip to kill someone’?… respectfully, you must play a bit more. the game, after the update, is worse and now dissappoints every bf3 gamer.

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      • REAPERSDlSClPLE 04.10.12 at 20:48

        not sure whats wrong with igla and stingers, tanks are fine with more realism, havent had a graphic bug yet?, always had a one shot die I assume from sniper rifle, and for 3/4 clip, try shooting burst like and not hold the finger down. Its a realism patched, I found 1 thing wrong in the patch so far, stealth unlock isnt working. Other than that its a well balanced game now

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        • RAMKROM40 04.10.12 at 23:44

          the aa guns doesn’t work (in fact, ea/dice will fix it next week).
          graphic bugs: if you look to some soldiers, they have certain guns with their clips in the air. and what to say about if you run, your soldier will stop if he reach a little stone in the way?
          i’ve been playing bf3 since the launch (nov, 2011). i have about 300 hours of game. when i say that someone shots you 1 time (and when i said 1 time i mean 1 bullet or maybe 2) and kills you, believe that i know that the game experience has changed. at the same time, you need to empty a entire clip to kill someone… if you’re lucky to shot them in their head.
          some escenaries (it happens to me at ‘teheran highway’ and ‘caspian frontier’) dissappears for a second, and then returns… very amazing! it’s true that this happens only 1 or 2 times per round.
          the supression is too high.
          the ground vehicles… the tanks… are like butter-made. there is no reason to keep them now.
          some fixes in the guns are unreasonable. balanced game?… i don’t think so…
          and what to say about the servers and the god-mode of some gamers?
          sincerely, ea/dice must take side with this. they must bring back the official servers, at least as an option. the rented servers sucks.
          basically, this are the reasons why this awesome game has turned too disappointer.
          king cheers ;)

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          • RAMKROM40 04.10.12 at 23:55

            (sorry with my poor english… i’m spanish :) )

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      • LordRockinghamm 04.11.12 at 05:37

        Agreed.

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    • RAMKROM40 04.10.12 at 20:53

      http://bf3blog.com/2012/04/battlefield-3-server-update-coming-next-week-will-fix-aa-missiles/

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  • xxCarbon14xx 04.10.12 at 15:13

    WTF happened to BF3? I bought a great game that was “updated” to a pile of garbage. Servers are broken, gameplay is broken, this is NOT the game I purchased. I want my $60 back. Dice and EA should reverse the update or at the very least make it an optional update so that the people that are already paid up can have their game back. I am boycotting EA and their products indefinitely, and will encourage others to do so as well. Fix it or at least admit that you screwed up. This is my feedback. A little acknowledgement either way would be nice.

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  • TheBattler 04.10.12 at 15:12

    And I still cant knife a enemy with a morter, Why? Is there some kind of magic knife shield around you when using a clumsy spawnraping weapon?
    And I still miss the opportunity to set my controller as I wish, the R3 button prone is about the most annoying thing ever (I for one allmost pushes it when shooting, maybe Im handicapped, but I have heard this to be a problem amongst many, and when you do, you stop shooting, your soldier jjust lies down nice and slow, while being slaughtered by the bewildered enemy). Actually I cannot for the life of me understand that the company who made the best games ever the last ten years, of which I have played all until my eyes started bleeding and my PC melted, has made this incredibly irritating game with clumsy soldiers, bad controller setup options (yes I switched to PS3 untill there is money enough for a Alienware) and very mysterious different reactions to bullits. I do appreciate (like so few) that there IS a difference in weapons, and sometimes a HK5 will be the better weapon against a G3, in urban warfare you need the fastfirring, easy reloading, quick aiming little sucker…but on a open dessert I will f….ng NOT tolerate to be killed with a pp19 from a 100 yards when I have put three aimed bursts of my 7.62 mm rifle into the enemy. When all is balanced out, then why should there beany motivation to get the next weapon.

    Lets stop focusing on making all weapons equal, and work on the gameplay, servers and the fact that its a bit unrealistic that a soldier would stop running and just hop on site when a little rock is on the ground.

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  • RVE PRODIGY 04.10.12 at 12:41

    I am a Uk player with BT infinity(fast isp). I installed patch on release day, had minor connection issues where I am kicked off live within 2 mins of starting a BF3 round.
    This Easter Monday I have had horrendous connection problems, I am losing connection to the session EVERY couple of minutes and the servers are LAGGYYYYY.
    Weirdly I tried out some Australian servers rather than my normal UK ones and could stay connected and had little if any lag??
    Overall I am content with the patch, BUT please can you host your own official servers again !?
    A filter in the browser for results of ONLY official servers would be nice.
    There is a lot of admin abuse going on.

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  • drumscarinbr 04.10.12 at 11:01

    DICE, FIX THE SERVERS!

    This is a major issue in the game. At launch, we were able to play all maps while staying in conquest, rush, etc. You never did include the Karkand maps in the hardcore rotation however.

    Look at this thread, there are many players that are pissed off about this. It is also a very shady business practice to do away with this initially offered feature right around the time you offered server rentals, as to increase revenue by making players pay to play something the way you gave it to us in the first place!

    http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/…

    The total number of official DICE HARDCORE servers should be comprised of the following:

    10% – includes all vanilla maps that stay in your selected game mode

    15% – includes all maps (including B2K) that stay in your selected game mode

    20% – includes all maps (including B2K 5-flag versions) that stay in your selected game mode

    10% – includes all vanilla maps that stay in your selected game mode – WITH NO MINI-MAP

    15% – includes all maps (including B2K) that stay in your selected game mode – WITH NO MINI-MAP

    25% – includes all maps (including B2K 5-flag versions) that stay in your selected game mode – WITH NO MINI-MAP

    5% – made up of the currently implemented themed playlists (epic battles, urban warfare, soldier skirmishes, etc.)

    PS: I’ll be posting this as much as possible until ‘we’ get an official response that’s helpful, as this is total Bullsh*t!!!!!

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