MapEditor

In an attempt to keep the multiplayer gaming experience fair and balanced, developers are often faced with the challenge of adding limits and constraints to the levels that may reduce the immersion for some players. Luckily, thanks to dedicated members of the modding community, anyone can remove the invisible boundaries to augment the play area through a tool known as MapEditor.

With Battlefield 3 and the Venice Unleashed launcher installed, users can either rent a server or create a local one for testing purposes before adding the Mod Manager command line utility to their workflow in order to automatically download and insert the latest versions of the mod at hand.

Once a map is loaded, one can preview the artificially implemented map edges and scale them back or delete them altogether in order to potentially gain strategically vital spawn points or advantageous sniping spots. Alternatively, large-scale maps originally designed for Conquest game modes can have a smaller accessible area for team deathmatch rounds.

When combining the editor at hand with a dedicated mod called NoHavok, objects that would normally be static on the map are converted into items compatible with the Frostbite engine, thus letting users move elements such as outposts to more mission-critical areas that can help you turn the tides of battle in a pinch.

Finally, buildings and platforms may also be resized to reach higher vantage points when devising new combat plans meant to keep the gameplay loop fresh in a game no longer receiving support from the original developers.

If team deathmatch game modes happen to be your favorite ones, and you wish to experiment with them on levels that would otherwise be unable to host them properly, MapEditor should suit you well. The program’s ability to relocate fortified structures can also come in handy whenever you feel certain control points are too exposed to vehicles that would otherwise dominate the infantry.