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Caspian Border first made it's appearance in mid August and information is still coming out about this Battlefield 3 map. The tower seen in the trailer is destructible and we have another piece of information about the map today. It's a rather large map, 1.4km is it's width. For reference, the Operation Metro map from the alpha trial was ~800m at it's widest point. There's plenty of space for jets to fly in this Battlefield 3 map!

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There's plenty of news floating around about Battlefield 3's dedication to addictive online play, some of which includes kit completion. Demize99 (Alan Kertz - Senior Gameplay Designer) let us know that there will be a total of 50 authentic Marine ranks in Battlefield 3. There have been no details into how the point system works to obtain these ranks or how many points it takes to gain ranks. Bad Company 2 also had fifty gameplay ranks, many people achieved these ranks quickly. DICE's dedication to "years of unlocks" may hint that it may take many dedicated hours/days/months to obtain the higher ranks in Battlefield 3.

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Health regeneration was announced a few months ago for Battlefield 3. For veterans of the series, this came as an unwelcomed surprise, zh1nt0 (Daniel Matros - DICE Community Manager) came with a little bit of happy news for the community today. Health regeneration is a server side option, meaning that a server admin can disable or enable the regeneration feature. We assume that the option also includes vehicle's health regeneration. When the option is turned on, soldiers and vehicles slowly regenerate health over a period of time. Those that were concerned about this Battlefield 3 feature can now relax.

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In other good news, we bring some information on the platoon system in Battlefield 3. By the looks of it, there will be some form of clan ranking system via Battlelog. Here is a screenshot showing the Platoon creation screen. You can clearly see that there is a option to create emblem and tag. Perhaps this means that you will be able to see some sort of clan emblem in game. Needless to say, it’s great to see Battlefield getting some clan support. It seems like making a clan/platoon is really encouraged.

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The non-linear story follows U.S. Marines Staff Sgt. Henry "Black" Blackburn who is being interrogated about recent world events. The recollections will put the player in each memory from New York, Paris, Tehran, and beyond. Events will be viewed from multiple angles when playing as different characters throughout the singleplayer missions. Battlefield 3's characters have the "human" aspect to them which will show players how a different character may react to a situation. Goldfarb stresses that the campaign will be unlike any other shooter and that Battlefield 3 is bigger, contains more drama, tougher, and more raw.

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>>>> Chris <<<<