New Battlefield game already in development with modern/near future setting
EA and DICE are already at work on the next Battlefield game, with the unpopular specialist system expected to get a major rethink.
Battlefield 2042 has been a complete disaster, from both a critical and commercial perspective, but rather than let the franchise breath for a while it’s reported that developer DICE has already started work on the next game.
It’s not clear when the new game will be released but leaker Tom Henderson, who proved to be the most reliable source for Battlefield 2042 before release, suggests that trying to hit a 2023 release date – when no new Call Of Duty is scheduled – wouldn’t leave enough time to put out a quality product.
That wouldn’t necessary stop EA under normal circumstances, but it’s claimed that the publisher has learnt ‘valuable lessons’ from the fan response to the game, and in particular their dislike of the specialist characters.
The new game is supposedly in pre-production, with a ‘large portion’ of DICE’s staff now working on it. Writing on website Xfire, Henderson quotes one of his sources as saying, ‘I think we’ll be reverting a lot of the changes we made in Battlefield 2042’.
There’s no clarification of what this means but the most unpopular elements of Battlefield 2042 are the 128-player battles and the specialists.
However, a separate source suggests that the original plan for the follow-up to Battlefield 2042 was that it would expand the specialist idea further to make it similar to an Overwatch style ‘hero shooter’.
This no longer seems to be the case though, with Battlefield 2042 itself already trying to tie specialists more closely to traditional class types, according to fans that have attended recent feedback sessions at DICE.
Although other details remain vague, Henderson
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