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Battlefield 3 Tehran Highway, Damavand Peak screenshots

DICE posted a new entry on their Battlelog, where they revealed three new Battlefield 3 maps. We’ve known them by name — Operation Firestorm, Tehran Highway and Damavand Peak — and now we’ve got some screenshots of the maps, which you can find below. DICE also gives a brief description on each map:

Tehran Highway:
a nighttime map where players start off in the hills out side of the city and work their way in. Sounds a lot like Strike At Karkand. The map starts open, but ends “on a much more urban and tight note” with focus on infantry combat.

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Battlefield 3 Tehran Highway, is, as the name suggests, based around the Iranian capitol of Tehran, where US and Russian forces in Battlefield 3 will battle on a map in the style of Road to Jalalabad and Strike At Karkand. Players start the round in the hills above the city, and gradually work their way in. The map starts relatively open and ends in much tighter, urban space in the center of the city. Tehran Highway is the only nighttime map in Battlefield 3.


Damavand Peak:
was built around wanting to feature base jump in the game, and has the biggest height difference in Battlefield 3. Attackers in Rush start 500M above the first objective and have to jump down.

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Damavand Peak is a Battlefield 3 map based on the real world mountain of Damavad in Iran. The Battlefield 3 versions of Damavand Peak will be a barren landscape with a lot of shifts in altitude between the different objectives. The map will also feature based jumping on the Rush game mode, where attackers base jump into the first area of attack. Damavand Peak has the biggest height difference of any map in Battlefield 3, at 500 meters.



Operation Firestorm:
is one of the largest maps in Battlefield 3, and is a wide open desert map with lots of vehicles.

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Battlefield 3 Operation Firestorm map is an open map set in the desert with capture points surrounding an oil refinery. The map, in its Conquest mode, has plenty of vehicles, including Jets, Helicopters and Tanks, as well as infantry focused areas on the map. Operation Firestorm in Battlefield 3 will support all four game modes: Rush, Squad Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Conquest.

Operation Firestorm is one of the largest maps in Battlefield 3, featuring a wide open desert setting.


While the map area is large, the 5 capture points in the map are somewhat tightly placed together, meaning infantry won’t have any trouble advancing from flag to flag. The outer areas are quite open thought, with plenty of room for jets to navigate.


Nosharh Canals:
a map based around an industrial harbor, with both infantry and vehicle warfare, including boats, tanks and APCs. In the Rush mode, attackers start at an aircraft carrier and make their way inland on boats and amphibious vehicles.

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Noshahr Canals is a Battlefield 3 map based on the real world location of Noshahr in northern Iran. The map is centered around an industrial harbor, with infantry and vehicle warfare. The map also includes boats and amphibious vehicles, which the attacking forces in Rush use to attack the first objective as their starting point is an aircraft carrier.

Noshahr Canals supports all four Battlefield 3 modes: Rush, Conquest, Team Deathmatch and Squad Deathmatch.

Seine Crossing:
the map is set in Paris and is split up into two parts by the river Seine, and will include areas for both vehicle combat and denser places that’s more geared towards infantry combat.

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Battlefield 3 Seine Crossing is a map situated in France, and is the second Battlefield 3 map set in Paris, France, the first being Operation Metro. The map is split into two large parts, divided by the river Seine. The map will feature both open road areas for vehicles to easily navigate, and tighter, urban spots better suited for infantry combat.
Operation Seine in Battlefield 3 will, like all other maps, support all 4 game modes.


Kharg Island:
based on a real world island, this time, attackers assault the island via boats and amphibious vehicles, where the defending team controls all flags on the island.

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Kharg Island is a brand new Battlefield 3 map set on the real-life version of Kharg Island, situation just off the coast of Iran. The island is an important port of oil transport and oil pipelines. Kharg Island also serves as an important Naval Base for the Iranian Navy. In Battlefield 3, all capture points on Kharg Island are controlled by one side, while the other attacks the island and has to take control of an important beach head, then advance into the island.

Grand Bazaar:
set in Tehran, is a small, dense map that’s targeted towards infantry combat.

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Battlefield 3 Grand Bazaar map is set in Tehran, and is a relatively small map that’s focused heavily on infantry combat. Grand Bazaar is light on vehicles and has a dense, urban location with a lot of alleys and streets, perfect for flanking towards the objectives, whether they are capture points or M-COM stations.
Grand Bazaar features

Grand Bazaar is set in a tight, urban environment, where fast movement and good infantry skills are key. The map retains its urban and dense setting regardless of what mode is played, whether its Conquest or Rush, Team Deathmarch or Squad Deathmatch.


Caspian Border:
we already know much about this map as it was in the beta — Caspian Border offers the full Battlefield experience with tanks, jets, and helicopters.



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Caspian Border was the second Battlefield 3 multiplayer map to be revealed. It’s a large, open map centered around a border area. The Russian and US forces each start out from their main bases and advance towards the five capture points spread across the map.
Caspian Border unique features

Caspian Border is a large, open map with a lot of room for vehicle combat — and the map features both Jets, Helicopters, Tanks and APCs. The capture points are relatively close together, meaning there will be some tight and tense combat for both infantry and vehicles.

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