If you’ve been playing Battlefield 4 since release and are getting a bit tired of the standard maps, then rejoice! New maps are coming today via the China Rising DLC. If you subscribe to Battlefield 4 Premium, that is.
Yes, if you’re ne of the many who’re paying two thirds of the price of Battlefield 4’s base game for the privilege of extra maps, you get the China Rising DLC today. The rest will have to wait two weeks to get their sino-destructive fixes.
China Rising brings four new maps — Silk Road, Altai Range, Guilin Peaks and Dragon Pass — and five new guns to the battlefield. It also ushers in two new vehicles, more gadgetry, an Air Superiority game mode, and ten new assignments
Gamespot went live with their preview of China Rising before embargo. their videos were summarily removed, but not before being saved to the internet for posterity. check em out, here, courtesy of S3NSAGaming
Last Updated: December 3, 2013
Vampyric Squirrel of the Sith
December 3, 2013 at 10:36
I still want this game… have I waited long enough for the bugs to be fixed yet?
Kensei Seraph
December 3, 2013 at 10:42
How long has it been out for?
Skyblue
December 3, 2013 at 10:50
Picked it up this past weekend on the Origin sale. 33% off wasn’t a bad deal but now for all the DLC… sigh
Matthew Holliday
December 3, 2013 at 10:58
dont bother, the dlc servers for bf3 were all empty after a week, im planning on keeping it Vanilla, aside from china rising which i got from preorder.
Scruff304
December 3, 2013 at 11:50
Did you pick up the digital deluxe pack?
Matthew Holliday
December 3, 2013 at 14:36
regular preorder
Scruff304
December 3, 2013 at 14:45
And is China Rising open for you to play now? Or are you having to wait for the 2 weeks?
Matthew Holliday
December 3, 2013 at 14:53
Not sure, havent checked.
im assuming I will have to wait the two weeks, but will post if otherwise.
Matthew Holliday
December 3, 2013 at 10:59
havent had a crash in multiplayer in 2 weeks.
singleplayer still crashes for me though.
Stigmata101
December 3, 2013 at 12:56
No, the stupid F’ing game is still broken and the Asshole at Dice are not fixing it.
Vampyric Squirrel of the Sith
December 3, 2013 at 10:41
LOL @ the Silk Road map… bad site to reference… anywhere?
Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim
December 3, 2013 at 10:48
the term “Silk Road” predates that site. “The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time.[“
John's (JJ's) finest excuse
December 3, 2013 at 10:55
Boom!
Vampyric Squirrel of the Sith
December 3, 2013 at 11:18
I just got Googled or Wikipedia’d… how sad… nice information tho @OddSockZA:disqus
thanks
HvR
December 3, 2013 at 11:45
YOU GOT SERVED!!!
Vampyric Squirrel of the Sith
December 3, 2013 at 11:49
HAHAHAHAHA!
Matthew Holliday
December 3, 2013 at 11:14
this DLC actually looks pretty interesting
massive improvement over bf3 maps
Lourens Jordaan
December 3, 2013 at 11:16
Are you sure it’s for premium members only? I thought it will be available to pre-orders as well, or is that what the additional two weeks are for?
Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim
December 3, 2013 at 11:20
Additional two weeks. 🙂
Sageville
December 3, 2013 at 22:45
I have premium on PS3 and it wont let me play the new DLC, I can see the maps in the map filter but it only allows me to “Buy DLC” which takes me to the “Get Premium” store page which I can get for free and install that…. rinse and repeat….
Anyone else got the same issue? Google says I’m not alone
PhantomNL
December 6, 2013 at 14:57
You should update your PS3 system, after doing that you will be able to buy the CR DLC in the Playstation Store wich is still pretty hard to find though. You might say I’m telling some nonsense here, but hey, I am the one playing CR maps here, and had the same problem.
B4d R0b0t
December 3, 2013 at 11:44
If you purchased the digital deluxe set, you would have got China Rising.
Soap
December 3, 2013 at 11:27
call of duty is better
Vampyric Squirrel of the Sith
December 3, 2013 at 11:34
Stabbing yourself in the face is better than COD… so Battlefield 4 must be terrible…
Stigmata101
December 3, 2013 at 13:05
Activision CEO publicly stated that COD players are not TRUE gamers and that they have not done anything different with COD in years.
Been the True Gamer that i am i will stick to BF any day. At least if i shoot a RPG at a person hiding behind stuff, they DIE.
eggham
December 3, 2013 at 13:25
Call of duty is the better game at least it works. BF4 is a broken game that crashes all the time
Stigmata101
December 3, 2013 at 15:39
Fair, but that does not make COD a better game. The original Nokia Phones never crashed, that does not make them better than a S4.
PhantomNL
December 6, 2013 at 14:58
Keep telling yourself that, at least you can’t get inside walls in Battlefield 4.
Dularr
December 4, 2013 at 05:58
What they were saying was that many, many COD players only play COD. Many are not hardcore gamers that play alot of different titles. Still, it was a fairly stupid statement to make.
Jack
December 3, 2013 at 11:30
Off topic
do you want to know why it costs a arm and a leg to buy a new gpu?
229$(gtx 660) * 6 = R1374
today its ofc = R2290 -_-
so you can thank the cancer government for killing us !
FoxOneZA
December 3, 2013 at 12:25
You’ll get better value for money with an R9 270X (Powercolor)
Stigmata101
December 3, 2013 at 13:02
Dude, the EX-rate is R10.37. So that would be R2375 and you would have to bring it into SA, so you need to add Shipping and Import Duties.
In essence i agree with you though, case they Tax the clap into it for imports and they cock everything up which results in the EX-rate looking the way it does.
Matthew Holliday
December 3, 2013 at 14:40
ends up clocking in at R2900
http://www.takealot.com/computers/computer-components/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-gddr5-pci-e-3-0-graphics-ca-etc,27188593
but he makes a good point, if the rand was still at R7 to the dollar, that price would drop to like R2300, which would be awesome
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
December 3, 2013 at 15:01
Battlefield 4 is such a mixed bag. For once I enjoyed the singleplayer, and when it’s not crashing or freezing my PS3, the multiplayer’s actually a lot of fun. But DiCEA definitely released a broken game. I suppose it’s comforting that none of the platforms are free from the glitches, freezes, bugs and crashes, but it has cooled me towards the devs. At this stage, I’m not even sure I want to play it any longer. The grand plan was to get it for PS4 but I don’t think I want to any more. I might actually get Ghost just to see what the fuss is all about. I hear you’re stopping South Americans from invading the US? Hahahah really? HAHAHAHAHA!
And if there’s a pet hate, and something that quickly gets my blood boiling and the boycott banner flying it’s games released in a broken and unfinished state (hello Skyrimjob)
PhantomNL
December 6, 2013 at 15:00
Believe me, buying Ghosts is like throwing your money in a pile of fire.