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EXCLUSIVE – New Details on The Next Battlefield Game

It’s been a good week for Battlefield fans. To start, the head honcho of Battlefield, Vince Zampella, confirmed many details on Insider Gaming’s past reporting, including that Battlefield would return to 64-player matches, the classic four-class system, and a more “back to basics approach.” Battlefield General Manager Bryon Beede also revealed that the game will have “large-scale community-driven testing” early next year, in addition to stating that the game has had nearly daily internal testing for over a year.

Zampella also confirmed a “new experience” from Ripple Effect, which Insider Gaming has reported will be Battlefield’s take on a new free-to-play Battle Royale to tie in with the game’s premium release, akin to how Call of Duty found success with Call of Duty: Warzone.

So what’s new? Following our original report and the recent confirmation of those details, we wanted to dive into some of the nitty-gritty details that players might want to hear. To start, let’s focus on the core of the game. Insider Gaming understands that the game will take place somewhere between 2027 and 2030, with the campaign focused on a massive private military going up against NATO. The game will be set in various locations worldwide, including Gibraltar (as seen in the game’s first released concept art) and the USA, which is also believed to be the setting for the Battle Royale experience (tropical location).

But let’s cut to the chase and talk multiplayer. The aim is currently for 45 different weapons on launch, double that of what Battlefield 2042’s core multiplayer experience launched with. In addition, the goal is for around 10 multiplayer maps, putting it in line with the likes of Battlefield 1, 3, and 4.

The game will also see a significant overhaul to its destruction and while I couldn’t verify if this means the return of levolution, over half a dozen sources mentioned that the game would have caliber-based destruction, akin to Rainbow 6 Siege, with different calibers causing different amounts of destruction. It’s also understood that the game will see some changes to movement, with one example given by multiple sources the ability to pick up and move downed players. While this has almost certainly been incorporated for the Battle Royale experience, it’s been implied that this is all of the changes and is a part of the team’s “Battlefield moments” initiative to bring back the moments that made Battlefield… well… Battlefield.

I’ve also been told that the team is currently weighing up the name of the game. Over the past year or so, the team has been carrying out mass surveys (some of the biggest I’ve heard about), with participants voting on which game name they prefer: Battlefield or Battlefield 6. So, fingers crossed, we might not have to wait long until that is officially announced.

Finally, regarding “large-scale community-driven testing,” I am very much inclined to believe that this is more than just an open or closed beta but rather the return of the Battlefield CTE, which really helped the development of Battlefield 1 and 4.

Are you excited for Battlefield? Let us know in our community forums, where I’ll also be doing a AMA later this week!


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10 maps for all the development resources thrown in sounds dissapointing, was hoping more for about. But picking up downed players to revive them is something I REALLY hope happens along with the Caliber based destruction.

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10 maps for all the development resources thrown in sounds dissapointing, was hoping more for about. But picking up downed players to revive them is something I REALLY hope happens.

With the size of the maps they build, I'm not too upset about just 10. If they were COD size, sure.

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With the size of the maps they build, I'm not too upset about just 10. If they were COD size, sure.

I mean we used to have 18 maps with 1942 on launch and then BF2 having 12 maps on launch (which where pretty big at the time) and since they're having a way more stable development cycle than 2042 with the player count back to 64p... I was hopeing they could up it a bit. Also makes me nervous that we may see the big content gaps that hurt BFV & 2042.

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Some quiet hype from what Zampella has said and these other details. I'll pre-order regardless (Yep, one of them) so it would be nice if, you know, the game is good and works.

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10 maps for all the development resources thrown in sounds dissapointing, was hoping more for about. But picking up downed players to revive them is something I REALLY hope happens along with the Caliber based destruction.

10 maps at launch isn't too bad, I expect they will follow a similar pattern as BF1 and release more over time, and BF1's DLCs had some amazing maps

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This time I'll wait a few days to see player reaction.

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I'll take popcorn to watch the competition between Grand Theft Auto 6, Call of Duty Saturn and Battlefield 6🔥🔥🔥
I found out that the game is looking for a longer campaign than BFV, BF1 and so on as they're taking an approach to bring open arenas for fighting scenes and some futuristic kind of things in the next title.

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10 maps at launch isn't too bad, I expect they will follow a similar pattern as BF1 and release more over time, and BF1's DLCs had some amazing maps

To be frankly honest I didn't like a lot of the post-launch maps of BF1 (I wasn't even fan of the BF1 maps overall, the open but small design I really disliked and had some pretty awful ones like Caporetto). Honestly gameplay wise I overall didn't like BF1. Not hating on it for the sake of it.

I'll take popcorn to watch the competition between Grand Theft Auto 6, Call of Duty Saturn and Battlefield 6🔥🔥🔥
I found out that the game is looking for a longer campaign than BFV, BF1 and so on as they're taking an approach to bring open arenas for fighting scenes and some futuristic kind of things in the next title.

Interesting, because from Lanky Soldier (who knows a few people apparently) a few months ago on a podcast IIRC when Letho was let off and Ridgeline shuttered that the campaign would be barebones because of hwo rushed it is. But said the BR looks very good and the MP was so and so.

DICE & EA needs BF to launch very well but wedged between GTA VI & CoD Saturn, they better keep any crazy commercial expectations in. They overreacted with BFV doing like a million below projections and led to the mess of 2042 by canning BFV & BFront 2 way too early (still salty of no Eastern Front and proper Naval Warfare in BFV). If BF2025 does better commercially than BFV by a million or two then that should be a success.

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To be frankly honest I didn't like a lot of the post-launch maps of BF1 (I wasn't even fan of the BF1 maps overall, the open but small design I really disliked and had some pretty awful ones like Caporetto). Honestly gameplay wise I overall didn't like BF1. Not hating on it for the sake of it.

Interesting, because from Lanky Soldier (who knows a few people apparently) a few months ago on a podcast IIRC when Letho was let off and Ridgeline shuttered that the campaign would be barebones because of hwo rushed it is. But said the BR looks very good and the MP was so and so.

DICE & EA needs BF to launch very well but wedged between GTA VI & CoD Saturn, they better keep any crazy commercial expectations in. They overreacted with BFV doing like a million below projections and led to the mess of 2042 by canning BFV & BFront 2 way too early (still salty of no Eastern Front and proper Naval Warfare in BFV). If BF2025 does better commercially than BFV by a million or two then that should be a success.

I don't actually know if Ridgeline's developed story is still the case or how they're going to continue the single-player mode of the game, however it's going to be a significant improve (and longer experience) than BFV.

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DICE & EA needs BF to launch very well but wedged between GTA VI & CoD Saturn, they better keep any crazy commercial expectations in. They overreacted with BFV doing like a million below projections and led to the mess of 2042 by canning BFV & BFront 2 way too early (still salty of no Eastern Front and proper Naval Warfare in BFV). If BF2025 does better commercially than BFV by a million or two then that should be a success.

I think most companies are planning to be clear from GTA6 launch date otherwise day 1 sells will be very low for them, even if it BF or COD

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I think most companies are planning to be clear from GTA6 launch date otherwise day 1 sells will be very low for them, even if it BF or COD

You mean Ubisoft and EA are potentially going to delay their games?

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