Digital Arts has revealed new particulars on the following Battlefield sport, confirming a modern-day setting and revealing the sport will ditch options from Battlefield 2042 that divided followers.
Whereas current Battlefield video games occurred in World Struggle I, World Struggle II, and the longer term, the brand new Battlefield sport takes place in trendy instances, EA revealed in an IGN report. The primary piece of idea artwork (see beneath) depicts what seems to be a European metropolis, spanning each land and sea, with a fireplace ripping by a close-by forest. The scene appears to be like very chaotic within the conventional Battlefield sense.
Moreover, the brand new Battlefield sport will say goodbye to options from Battlefield 2042 that followers shortly and loudly mentioned they didn’t like. Battlefield 2042 launched with maps that supported as much as 128 gamers, and this was a brand new degree of scale the Battlefield sequence had by no means seen. However followers did not prefer it, as matches might really feel empty, and the builders ultimately reverted again to 64-player matches. The subsequent Battlefield will choose a quantity that’s “extra akin” to what previous Battlefield video games supplied.
“Yeah, the 128-player, did it make it extra enjoyable? Like…doing the quantity for the sake of the quantity would not make any sense,” Battlefield boss Vince Zampella mentioned. “We’re testing every part round what’s essentially the most enjoyable. We’re designing one thing that’s extra akin to earlier Battlefields. I might moderately have good, dense, very nice, well-designed play areas. A few of them are actually good. I am unable to wait so that you can see a few of them.”
Battlefield followers additionally voiced their displeasure with Battlefield 2042’s “Specialist” characters, which changed the normal Class system. Zampella, who did not come to EA till this choice was already made, applauded DICE for attempting one thing new. However he harassed that Specialists–which had been later dumped from Battlefield 2042 in a post-release update–won’t come again.
“I wasn’t there for 2042. I do not know what the rationale was, however for me, it is just like the group tried one thing new,” he mentioned. “You need to applaud that effort. Not all people appreciated it, however you bought to strive issues. It did not work. It did not match. Specialist is not going to be coming again. So courses are form of on the core of Battlefield, and we’re going again to that.”
Additionally within the interview, Zampella harassed that whereas Name of Responsibility is a competitor to Battlefield, he sees each franchises as providing one thing distinct to their fanbases.
“We’re not trying to take down Name of Responsibility. We’re making one thing that is totally different and we’re making one thing that is us,” he mentioned, acknowledging that this new Battlefield sport “has the chance” to outsell Name of Responsibility.
It is nonetheless comparatively early days, and there’s no phrase but on when the brand new Battlefield sport might be launched, although a report mentioned it could be right here as quickly as October 2025. Intriguingly, Zampella mentioned EA goes to announce a testing program for the following Battlefield sport in 2025 to ask extra followers to strive the sport earlier than launch.
“That is form of the core of what we’ve to do–get the group again on our aspect, get that belief again,” he mentioned. Whether or not or not that is some form of open or closed beta, or a unique sort of check, stays to be seen.
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