The premiere of Battlefield 4 China Rising is now upon us, releasing for a two-week time-exclusive period for Premium Battlefield 4 members! All-new maps and gadgets, plus a new game mode and a very special vehicle await fans in this thrilling expansion.

Battlefield 4 China Rising sees you fighting on the Chinese mainland on four new maps. In Silk Road, you will find yourself at a military outpost surrounded by desert, battling both among man-made structures and on the sand dunes. The lush Guilin Peaks focuses on infantry-based combat; so the heaviest vehicles here are transport helicopters. Dragon Pass is a more vehicle-based map where rivers iconically steep mountains make for a spectacular view, and finally we have the sniper-friendly Altai Range with its vast, open spaces and snowy mountain peaks.

Air Superiority and the New Bombers
China Rising is also adding a new game mode to Battlefield 4 called Air Superiority. Here, you fight for control points on the map, using air units only. This mode is ideal for players who really love and want to focus on their dog fights, without the need to worry about units on the ground.

Altai Range is based on the beautiful mountain range Altai Mountains, located in East-Central Asia.

New Toys and a Fan-Favorite Vehicle
There are two new gadgets in China Rising, the SUAV and UCAV. The SUAV (Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is a Recon exclusive and is basically a remote-controlled plane that you can pilot around the map, in order to spot enemies and laser-designate enemy vehicles. It can also be used to kill enemies. The UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) is a new toy for the Support class and can be described as a pocket TOW missile. After deployment, this can be guided like a missile and is very effective against vehicles.

The dirt bike is back! Make sure to try out this speedy fan-favorite to move swiftly between control points (or just to do crazy stunts).

And of course, there is the triumphant return of the dirt bike. Fans loved this speedy vehicle in the Battlefield 3 expansion End Game, so that’s why we chose to bring it back for China Rising.

Starting today, China Rising will be available for Battlefield 4 Premium members for a two-week time-exclusive period. Make sure to get Premium to get a head start for all Battlefield 4 expansions, 12 Battlepacks, exclusive new content on a weekly basis, and much more.

Get Battlefield 4 Premium now to play China Rising immediately

Just a quick note that the next PC game update will arrive Dec 3. Among other things, it removes the EMP blur effect we’ve seen your feedback on, as well as the “one-shot kill bug” and the audio issue prevalent on Golmud Railway and Lancang Dam.

As usual, you can always find out the latest on upcoming and released game updates and server updates in the Battlefield 4 Control Room.

PS4 will also get a game update on Dec 3, detailed in the Control Room in this post. We are also finalizing the next game updates for X360, PS3, and Xbox One, but we don’t have set dates for those just yet. It is looking likely that some of those will be ready at the end of this week at the earliest. We will have more details on the dates and contents of these soon.

The weekend was packed to the gills with Battlefield excitement as DreamHack Winter 2013 let some of the best BF4 players in the world battle it out in the prestigious Dreamhack AMD Sapphire Battlefield 4 Championship.

EU team Fnatic and Team aAa from France made it to the final, and after four Domination 5-on-5 matches on two maps, Fnatic finally emerged victorious. Congrats and a big HOOAH! to Fnatic, who walked out of the DreamArena Extreme with 50,000 SEK and eternal glory.

Learn more about Battlefield 4 as a competitive gaming title

Join in on the full week of Double XP that just started in Battlefield 4! Starting Nov 28 and running up until Dec 5, you will get Double XP for all matches played on Ranked and Official servers. Join us on the Battlefield now to rank up faster.

This is part of the wider Battlefield 4 Player Appreciation that you can read about in this blog post.

For the latest information on how we are updating the game, visit the Battlefield 4 Control Room.

We’ve now launched Battlefield 4 on five platforms (with Europe getting the game this weekend on PS4.) Like always, we are committed to support the game for a long time, and we have already made a number of updates to the servers and the game. For example, we recently rolled out a new game update to PS4 players.

For all the latest information on how we are supporting the game, please head to the Battlefield 4 Control Room here on Battlelog.