Electronic Arts heeft een grote patch uitgebracht voor Battlefield 3. Dit elfde deel alweer uit de Battlefield-serie kan worden gespeeld op een Windows Vista- of 7-pc, PlayStation 3 en Xbox 360. Een versie voor iOS is op dit moment in ontwikkeling. De patch is niet los te downloaden maar wordt gedistribueerd via het Origin-netwerk. De belangrijkste verbeteringen die met deze patch worden doorgevoerd kunnen hieronder worden gevonden:
Selected improvements in the client-side updateSelected improvements in the PC server-side update
- General performance and loading time improvements
- "Black Screen" fix for an issue occurring on some PC configurations
- Stereo and rendering support for Nvidia and AMD graphics cards
- Fixed several crashes that occurred when joining multiplayer and co-op sessions
- Fixed a problem with high speed mouse movement (aka "negative mouse acceleration")
- You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position
- Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it (dangerous in Hardcore mode!)
- You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM, SQDM, or Conquest
- A large number of damage and range tweaks on a number of weapons to fine-tune overall balance in the game
- Added round duration and ticket summary at End of Round screen
- Fixed a problem regarding key bindings while playing
- Significant changes to the Join Squad interface, detailed at the bottom of this post
- A full list of changes is available on the Battlelog
Newly added Battlelog functionality – Share your stats
- EOD Bot exploit fix
- Several crash fixes
- Anti-stat padding measures taken, disallowing ranked servers to run obscure settings
- Improved team kill kick configuration
- Support for unranked servers. Unranked servers do not report players' scores to Battlelog, but server administrators can freely control all settings
- A full list of changes is available on the Battlelog
Quick notes on Squad changes in the Nov 22 update
- Ability to share your Profile and Stats pages to Facebook, Google+, and Twitter
- User Profile and Stats pages on Battlelog can now be accessed without being signed in to Battlelog if you know a user's URL
- Single sign on from Battlelog to Origin. If you're not logged in to Origin and join a game server, Battlelog will automatically sign you in to Origin in the background and join the game server
- Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option
- Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 squad members
- Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM
- Disable Privacy flag when 1 man squad
- Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when squad drops to 1 player
- All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad Selection screen
- Players who choose not to join squads will also show up as Blue in the "Not in a Squad” line
- Squads that are currently empty will display as white -- if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text