New Elite Content Drops for Modern Warfare 3 Today

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Lee Bradley

The latest DLC pack for Modern Warfare 3 hits today, bringing a new Spec Ops mission and three new Face-Off maps.

Available to subscribers of the Call of Duty: Elite service, the content was confirmed by MW3’s executive producer Mark Rubin. The Spec Ops mission is called Arctic Recon, while the new Face-Off maps are Vortex, U-Turn and Intersection. According to Rubin, these may also be the last new Face-Off maps for the game.

The official description for each of these maps can be found below. 

  • ELITE DROP 13: ARCTIC RECON

Requiring surgical precision by air, land, and sea, this new Special Ops mission tasks you with destroying a Russian battleship by planting beacons for an air strike. Take control of a recon helicopter to reveal the beacon locations before fighting off forces on the ground to ensure the ship never leaves port.

  • ELITE DROP 14: VORTEX

No storm shelter can keep you safe in “Vortex,” the all-new "Face Off" map that places you just outside the danger zone of a devastating tornado.

  • ELITE DROP 14: U-TURN

A bombed-out, gridlocked highway provides a perfect backdrop for combatants on this all-new "Face Off" map, where oil fields burn black high above six-lanes' worth of abandoned cars, buses and paths for attack.

  • ELITE DROP 15: INTERSECTION

A New York bridge overpass provides the backdrop for this all-new "Face Off" map in which an ultra-condensed 2-block battle zone allows players to fight on the first and second floors of surrounding apartments and bombed-out bodegas.

[With special thanks to Daniel Graham]

Comments
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  • I'm still confused on how Elite works. If I buy elite now, can I download all of the elite drops from the past, or only the ones that came out after my subscription?
  • They just want to spew out as much DLC as they can cause they know they get all the M0niE$ don't they? Pathetic. MW3 is a decent game, to be honest, but Infinity Ward/Treyarch need to step it up in quality, not quantity.
  • #1 Yes you can. I had elite since Day 1 yet didn't get any of the content until this month (didn't really go online much after December). It'll all be waiting for you to download similar to Gears 3's season pass.
  • More pointless content...
  • Should have added zombies.
  • @4 In a way, I agree. Not everyone enjoys Face off (in fact it's where the worst of the worst seems to congregate, modders, boosters, I will even go as far as to say "campers"), so they should've minimized work on that; or at least given the maps to everyone for free. And of course, Spec Ops missions practically have no replay value whatsoever. None. You do it once, maybe twice for the special cheevo... and never touch it again. :/ At least with BlOps II you'll know you'll be getting a Zombie map every now and then...
  • @2 well treyarch gave every dlc content a zombie map so thats really good Quality
  • Sounds good, I wish they would actually show up when I try to download them though. My multiplayer menu says "NEW" next to the store, and the new stuff is listed in the DLC Depot but when I go to download all that shows up are the previous 6 content drops. Oh, nvm, there they are. I had to download all the other previous drops (2 lots total, and they were instant because I have them already) and THEN the marketplace screen with the new stuff popped up. I'll leave this in case anyone else is having the same issue. I'd rather have face-off maps than normal maps tbh. I don't like gamemodes with lots of players, it's why I previously stuck to Team Tac. Face off has given this game a new lease of life for me. And spec-ops is always fun.
  • I don't mind MP maps, but would rather have more spec ops missions, but what I can't stand is all these Face Off maps, give us more spec op missions any day.
  • can't load new spec ops maps/mission god I hate this game!
  • Thanks for the mention
  • tried to enter the new maps in a private match, get a memory error from the game. tried to play the new spec ops mission, my level in spec ops is back to 1, 3 quarters of the shipped missions have gone back to being classified even though it still says i have 48 achievement stars. cant play any dlc missions. both the title for getting the stars and beating all survival maps with 15 plus rounds are gone
  • @8 Glad you mentioned that. I see it's trying to download the first collection again and I'm sitting here thinking "Why can't I just pick what I need!?"
  • @12 That sucks...
  • Same here, stupid game wants me to re-download everything again, I only want the new spec ops map! Face off can suck my balls!
  • They can keep their FaceOff maps. I couldn't care less about them and they are a complete waste of space on my Hard Drive. I was happy to see the tweet about a possible release of "Terminal" tho. https://twitter.com/IWMarkRubin/status/214760666567938048
  • I like the new Rip Off maps
  • It seems to recognise if you choose to download everything available that you have half the content and they download instantly(either that or my download speed is insane today.
  • Enough of the Face-Off maps. Stop ripping us of with crap we'll never use, give us maps for TDM.
  • Does anyone even remember the days when you could go to a store and buy a game and not have to worry about spending a crap load more to get the full experience. I loved it when the game I bought was full and complete. Memories! (sigh)
  • @20 i got hardened i got np with this at all, but yea i remember the day i went and picked up BF3 and paid the £10 for it and mw3 currently its only my fellow swedes shafting me:/
  • @6 you must be talking from a solo point of view. i have a lot of friends who play this and seeing them going one wave higher than me on a spec op makes me want to go and beat it, so yeah there is replay value, not to mention the cheevos. theres no difference to zombies, same shit different round it gets a bit harder!!
  • sorry for double post im blurring game modes.....seeing friends get a better score on spec ops makes you want to beat theirs, tho i agree that it may not make everyone want to replay
  • In case the spec ops won't load then go to your storage and delete the game incase you have it installed (so that's the 7,9Gb) if you delete that one it will alow you to play the Elite spec op missions again!
  • More cheap content... :/ As others have said, work on making the things worthwhile, not just saying: 'maps! have them! -throws maps at- now gimme your moneyz!' The zombie maps from treyarch are worth the buy because you do replay and enjoy them, unlike the spec ops maps, which are one play, then never touch again. I enjoyed them in MW2, but, I never touched them after finishing, because there was no reason to.
  • OH WOW ANOTHER RIP OFF CALL OF DUTY DLC..WHO CARES!?!?! Why not get battlefield premium so you get a total of 25 maps, new weapons, new vehicles, exclusive events and more. COD Elite gives you like 2 crap maps on an outdated game. no guns or other incentives. what a massive turd of a game.
  • Personally I don't like the face off game mode, so these new maps are pretty pointless for me. I will probably play them once or twice just to see the maps but that will be it. So the only useful content of this is the spec op mission. Pretty disappointed really.
  • @UrbanMedium i totally agree with you this drop was pretty disapointing we want new maps beside the Face Off Mode cuz 2 vs 2 got fastly boring and isnt so much anonym cuz you always think ok i play vs two enemys one of them is totally badass and pro like and the other one is just a noob so i will going to hunt him. Thats not the point for me to play multiplayer it isnt balanced enough.
  • Hey if they're gonna disappoint with the dlc why not be consistent with it right? It's nonsense you make people pay 50 bucks after promising a bunch of stuff. Clans in which u cant really challenge others and have a record, dlc with none worth downloading. To be honest they could've packaged all the maps for mw and mw2 and people (in my opinion) would pay 50 for just that. We didnt need the spec ops things and REALLY DIDNT NEED face off in the first place. I'm losing respect for COD as a whole
  • should be great :)
  • i really like vortex, u-turn is one of the laziest map designs i've ever seen, and intersection is alright, it's like if downturn, skidrow from mw2, and day one from gears 2 had a baby and named it intersection, and the spec ops mission is alright i guess
  • Just fucking add combat training and get it over with... ignore the people that want zombies, that mode is fucking retarded. Just add combat training... and two-plus-player survival, whenever you're ready.
  • Sheesh people calm down. So not everyone likes Face-off, we get it. Guess what? Some people do like it. There have been plenty of normal maps released and I'm sure there will be a few more still to come. I happen to like Face-off but even if I didn't I'd be pretty pissed off if ALL the content drops were just normal MP maps. THAT'S boring.
  • @33 If they did what you call "normal/boring" maps, I get a choice of game modes to play them on, either TDM, Kill Confirmed, Headquarters, etc. If I like them or not, at least they are available to play in whatever game mode I like to make them more enjoyable. They have released these 3 maps as face off maps only, so if I don't like face off game mode then I can't play the maps as they aren't available in any other mode. That was my point and anyone who calmly expresses their opinion doesn't need to "calm down". I wonder what small percentage of people would actually be "pretty pissed" to just get multiplayer maps? I personally think if people had the option, multiplayer maps only would go down rather well.
  • Anyone know when arctic recon spec op gonna be out cause I saw where vertigo is coming soon.
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