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A brand new leak from the continuing Battlefield Labs playtest has revealed that the touchdown roll first launched in Battlefield 5 will most certainly be returning for the following recreation. As of now, nonetheless, the animation getting used for the playtest appears to be like rougher and clunkier than BF5’s roll, and gamers have been fast to criticize it.
A video displaying the touchdown roll from the Battlefield Labs playtest was posted to the BattlehubYT X account, through Insider Gaming, and whereas that model of the video was taken down by a copyright declare, the video has since been re-uploaded by different accounts.
The video exhibits a roll just like Battlefield 5’s touchdown roll, which could possibly be used to scale back fall harm when dropping from a height–however the playtest model is slower, clunkier, and general extra disorienting. With the first-person perspective proven within the video, the present animation feels more likely to trigger movement illness in gamers if used too typically.
It’s unlikely that that is the completed type of this characteristic, after all, because the model of the sport presently being examined in Battlefield Labs continues to be an early alpha–with the sport nonetheless not totally revealed and even formally titled. Regardless of requiring NDAs to be part of the restricted playtest, numerous leaks have nonetheless come out of this system, and DICE workers have requested followers to contemplate that the sport continues to be in a really early state in contrast to what’s often revealed publicly.
EA plans to totally reveal Battlefield 6 this summer time, and the sport is deliberate to launch by March 2026. EA CEO Andrew Wilson has stated that the sport’s deliberate launch window will not battle with GTA 6, even after the latter was moved to an early 2026 launch.