Dust Bowl

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Dust Bowl
Platform
Game	Battlefield Hardline
Setting
Teams	Law Enforcement vs. Criminals
Location	Joad, Cormack County, California
Terrain	Desert

"The small desert town of Joad is off the beaten path and well-known for meth trafficking problems. The cops have had enough and are on the scene to shut it all down."

— Official Website Description

Dust Bowl is a map featured in Battlefield Hardline. It takes place in a small desert town named Joad in Cormack County, California, where Law Enforcement is cracking down on a Criminal meth trafficking ring in the area.

Conquest

Law Enforcement
Light vehicle(s)	Squad Car Police Interceptor Police Motorcycle
Armored personnel carrier(s)	Mobile Command Post
Helicopters(s)	Transport Helicopter

Criminals
Light vehicle(s)	Sports Sedan Muscle Car Street Bike
Armored personnel carrier(s)	Syndicate Crew Cab
Helicopters(s)	Executive Helicopter

Neutral

Bases

Radio Antennae

Battle Pickup: There is a Zipline gun in the little hut just a little north west of the tower itself.

The flag is located on some rocks just north of the actually tower itself. Just a little south of the road that cuts through the flag, there is a hut that can act as cover. The flag capture area encompasses this.

Motel

This flag is located out in the parking lot. However, the whole radius encompasses most of the motel buildings. There are several doors all around the motel buildings that can be opened or closed

Meth Complex

The flag is located out in front of the garage. There is a stairway up to the roofs of the buildings in the northern most building. Under those stairs are more stairs down to the basement. In the southern most building, there are stairs down to the basement. The flag can be contested from the courtyard just east of the house. There are covers on all of the windows in the house, but they can be destroyed by shooting them or beating them with a melee weapon.

Levolution

At a random point later in the match, a dust storm will come in to engulf the map in dust. Therefore, the range at which the player can see is reduced and most sounds will be harder to hear. After a few minutes, the dust storm will stop and the conditions go back to normal.

In the basement of the house (where the Meth Complex flag is), there is a large amount of explosive barrels right by the south part of the house. Shooting these will blow open a hole down into the basement and into the northern part of the house. A pile of dirt near the explosive barrels has some canisters that can be shot at, causing a secondary cave in within a small shack.

Gallery

Videos

Battlefield Hardline Gameplay - Conquest on Dustbowl

Short gameplay trailer showing Conquest gameplay on Dust Bowl.

Battlefield Hardline Gameplay - Conquest on Dustbowl-0

Another gameplay trailer of Dust Bowl Conquest.

Trivia

• The Dust Bowl was a period of severe drought in the midwest United States during the 1930s that was accompanied by several severe dust storms during the decade.
• "Joad", the name of the fictional town the map is set in, is a reference to John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, which follows the Joad family as they travel to California during the Dust Bowl.
• Dust Bowl was one of three maps featured in Hardline's open Beta, the others being Downtown and Bank Job.
• Dust Bowl is the only map that features The American Dream drivable couch, spawning in three random locations throughout the map.