Natty - where are you getting the info that BF1943 will be updated after its release? Please link me to a DICE employee stating this explicitly, for I have only been able to find people saying the opposite, that it is to be a complete, polished product to hold people over til BFBC2.
Oh, and this, for those who remember:
'Why the Kar98k for the Japanese? Will it be changed?
No. This was made for budget reasons and stays in (we already had it). Battlefield 1943 is an affordable download game and to keep the price down we sometimes have to do things like this. I really, really wanted the Arisaka but alas. The ways of the world.
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I'm at a loss for words.