Some of our console players have lately experienced difficulties joining rented servers located in the US East Coast region. This issue has now been resolved.

To thank you for your patience, we have added 14 days to the lease period for all affected server renters in that region. This applies if you had a rented console server in the region, somewhere between January 28th and up until today.

We’re happy to present the first official screenshot from the upcoming expansion pack Battlefield 3: End Game. This all-new agile dirt bike is the perfect fit for End Game’s many jumps and the mobile Capture the Flag game mode.

For an in-depth behind the scenes look at everything you can do with the dirt bike, head to the Battlefield Blog.

Since launching Battlefield 3: Premium in June, we have reached more than two million members. To celebrate, we are now introducing a new discount ladder program – making it easier for all Battlefield 3 PC players to upgrade to Battlefield 3: Premium. The more expansion packs you already own, the higher the discount!

Our Premium members enjoy early access to all expansion packs, unique in-game items, exclusive videos, strategy guides from Prima, and more.

Now, you’ll get a great deal on Battlefield 3: Premium no matter how many expansion packs you own. And remember, if you purchase Premium you’ll get two weeks’ early access to our fifth expansion pack End Game in March 2013.

Get Battlefield 3: Premium at these great prices
This offer is available in the Battlelog Store for PC only
Battlefield 3: Premium normally priced at $49.99
[NEW] Own zero expansion packs: 10% discount
[NEW] Own one expansion pack: 20% discount
Own two expansion packs: 30% discount
Own three expansion packs: 60% discount
Own four expansion packs: 70% discount

How to purchase Battlefield 3: Premium at a discount
You can take advantage of the  Battlefield 3: Premium discount offer for PC right from the convenience of the Battlelog Store.

Terms & Conditions.

Own more with Battlefield 3: Premium
Premium members get five uniquely themed expansion packs, exclusive content, unique in-game items, exclusive videos, strategy guides from Prima, and more. The expansion packs include 20 maps, 20 new weapons, 10+ new vehicles, 4+ new game modes, 30+ Assignments, and 20+ dog tags.

Last month, we asked you to be great team players in our Premium exclusive competition. We are proud to present some of the most team oriented players in our community — the top 5 players per format from January’s Premium competition.

We will reach out to our winners via email with a winner’s code that you can redeem at the DICE Store. Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to everyone who participated!

January Premium competition winners:

PC
1: Crazychickenkill
2: IGodlikel
3: pavkut
4: PunXt3rrOr
5: -BH-Crawlerz246

Xbox 360
1: o0 Derpy
2: LRF Gio
3: GrizzlyGlenstah
4: MoRtArXmAgGoT
5: Snakex00

PlayStation 3
1: hollywood_29
2: mapuo999
3: camtheman88
4: Deadeyedan25
5: K1NGxxDAV1S

Today’s Battlelog update sees two updates we wanted to tell you about. One is the new and improved search functionality in the Battlelog forums.

Improved forum search
Now, you can filter by title, time frame, game, and language. You can also select to sort your results by either date or relevancy. Our search engine will also suggest similar words when you search for something, for example if you misspelled a word. We hope that this improved search functionality will make it easier for you to find the right threads to discuss the game.

Forum pagination
Introducing forum thread pagination. Each thread in the forum will have its own pagination, so you quickly can go to the first or last page or somewhere in between.

Battlelog issues fixed in this update:
Drop Zone bug
Fixed an issue where you couldn’t drag and drop a friend in the Drop Zone.

Chat input lost
Fixed an issue where your chat input would get lost if you were typing a message while your friend joined a server.

Messages from “offline” players
Fixed a bug where you could send a message to a player and your status would incorrectly be shown as “offline” even though you were not.

Unable to enter friends profile pages through Com Center
Fixed an issue where you couldn’t press your friend’s name in the Com Center to be taken to that person’s profile page.

Unable to edit soldier image
Fixed an issue where players with a large number of soldiers couldn’t edit their soldier image.

Quick Match information getting stuck
Fixed an issue where sometimes the Quick Match information or other tooltips would get stuck on screen under certain conditions.

Scoped crossbow loadout
Fixed an issue where sometimes the Engineer and Recon scoped crossbow loadout wasn’t saving properly into the game. Also fixed an issue where the crossbow would show up in the wrong placement under Loadout.

Battle Report comment count
Fixed an issue where the Battle Report comment counter incorrectly stopped at 10.

Scrollbar appearing when hovering Group Chat options
Fixed an issue when hovering over the options button for Group Chat where a scroll bar incorrectly would appear.

Game activity feed
Fixed an issue where the Game Activity Feed wouldn’t show images in the feed if you left the homepage open and your friends were completing games.

Co-Op browser navigation
Fixed an issue where you couldn’t use the browser’s “back” functionality from the Battlelog Co-Op page.

Disappearing Game Manager
Fixed an issue where the Game Manager would incorrectly close down if you had closed it previously, then rejoined a server.