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The final expansion for EA and DICE’s once-disastrous-but-now-mostly-working Battlefield 4 is appropriately titled Final Stand, and it will be bringing with it quite a few things to the table. This includes brand new maps, which are going to be largely Siberian themed; new military gear, which includes the Rorsch MK-1 and the flying XD-1 Accipiter, and gadgets such as the DS-3 DECOY emits false blips on the enemies mini-maps.

In addition, you can also play the expansion a little ahead of release in a community test environment, which will give you a good taste of what to expect from the final, released product, and will let DICE, in turn, hopefully work out the kinks before they release their product this time. It will be starting on Wednesday, October 15 at 3pm PDT, so if you’re interested, jump on in.

Battlefield 4: Last Stand will be succeeded by Battlefield: Hardline, which launches early next year.

Battlefield 4 has now got its very own rail gun. It’s called the Rorsch X1, and it is absolutely batshit insane. And I mean INSANE. You see… it deals out 150% damage.

You can check it out in action for yourself in the video above. And… now you probably want to use this gun, right? And where, when, and how can I get it, I am sure you are asking yourself right now, right? Well, worry not! You see, this game will be featured as part of Battlefield 4: Last Stand, which is an oddly apt name for what we know will be the last DLC pack released for the game, before DICE and EA move on to supporting next year’s Battlefield: Hardline.

The DLC itself is currently in alpha testing (which is why and how we got this footage to begin with), which is really something I wish DICE had thought to do for the actual game itself.

Okay, I’ll stop now. I swear. I think.

Final Stand, the final ‘expansion pack’ slated for Battlefield 4, will be coming to the PC version of the game shortly in a few weeks, but DICE have been nice enough to go ahead and make arguably the most alluring part of that package available to players beforehand, as the new maps that will be made available with that DLC are now already available to PC players.

In a manner of speaking- you will need a Battlefield Premium account to actually get access to these maps beforehand, and only one per day will be released, each as a Community Test Environment.

“The amount of feedback we’ve been getting via the CTE has been incredible, and is a tremendous asset to the team here at DICE LA,” the developer stated in its most recent blog post. “That’s why we have decided to bring the community into the process even earlier as we reach the finish line of Final Stand.”

Battlefield 4 launched last year in what might be the most disastrous product launch in history. A lot of time and effort was spent damage controlling and fixing the product post facto, but the damage may already have been done. Regardless, a brand new Battlefield game, Battlefield Hardline, is due out in early 2015.