Friday, March 2nd 2018

Battlefield V Takes Players Back to World War II

If there's something that Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: WWII have taught us, it's that nostalgia sells - and it sells a lot. The numbers don't lie. Battlefield 1 not only sold faster than Battlefield 4, but it also broke the 25 million players barrier not so long ago. Call of Duty: WWII didn't do too shabby either becoming the best-selling Call of Duty installment since Black Ops II. The ultimate goal for EA now is to keep the traction going and that's where Battlefield V comes in. Battlefield V, originally known internally as Battlefield 2, is the direct sequel to Battlefield 1, and as thus, the game's setting and story will take place in World War II. Hardcore Battlefield fans might recall that EA previously visited the World War II era in Battlefield 1942. However, the publisher has promised that Battlefield V won't a mere remaster but a completely new game from the ground up.

For better or worse, EA and loot boxes always seem to find themselves together in the same sentence. Anonymous sources have confirmed that Battlefield V will have loot boxes However, the loot boxes are limited to cosmetic items to customize your soldier just like in Battlefield 1 - so no worries there. EA has promised a playable "next Battlefield experience" this year at the E3 event in June. Battlefield V is expected to launch later this year.
Source: VentureBeat
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31 Comments on Battlefield V Takes Players Back to World War II

#26
FreedomEclipse
~Technological Technocrat~
Therion_IAre you kidding? The length of the conflict has nothing to do with how much content you could create. If you really wanted you could create an alternate timeline wherein the Falklands escalated into WW3, the cold war become hot :)
Then go play call of duty. They Activision likes to fantasize about the USA being invaded/taken over/controlled by Russia.


With the odd exception (being BF2142) Battlefield has always been about actual wars. A lot of shit happened in WW1, A lot of shit happened in WW2, A lot of shit happened in Vietnam, A lotta shit happened in IraQ

Not a lot of shit happened in the falklands apart from the British army opening a can of whoop ass on salty Argentines. The British Army went out there to defend the people who voted to stay a British Colony.

We sent loads of people across there to fight. Some hardware on a boat malfunctioned or didn't work as it should have resulting in the loss of a Navy ship or two or damage to others. Possibly some chemical weapons used by both sides. Argentines claimed they used tear gas to clear barracks, British Army claimed they used something far stronger and lethal but those claims have never been proven.

War is hell but compared to all the other wars. Its a walk in a park. It lacks that excitement and dramatic affect that knowing what a shithole soldiers are fighting in and all the atrocities and war crimes one side or the other might have committed or in the act of committing.

It was a boring war.
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#27
gmn17
I want to see a PS5 release for this BF:V game
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#28
FreedomEclipse
~Technological Technocrat~
gmn 17I want to see a PS5 release for this BF:V game
you better write an angry letter to Sony then and tell them to get a move on. They need to make good with their time as they are compressing two years (PS5 is rumored to be a 2020 release) into 8-10months.

Better get your cheque book out to pay for that premium R&D time and all the staff Sony need to hire to make sure you get your PS5 released the same time as BF:V
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#29
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
Sniper Elite is not as big a brand as Battlefield, but it has a unique opportunity to explore wars other than the usual WW/Vietnam/WoT crap, because it doesn't have a greedy publisher breathing down its neck. I'm guessing Sniper Elite 5 could be based on the Korean War (something very rarely depicted in FPS/TPS), and something game publishers probably avoid so as not to upset China.
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#30
FreedomEclipse
~Technological Technocrat~
btarunrSniper Elite is not as big a brand as Battlefield, but it has a unique opportunity to explore wars other than the usual WW/Vietnam/WoT crap, because it doesn't have a greedy publisher breathing down its neck. I'm guessing Sniper Elite 5 could be based on the Korean War (something very rarely depicted in FPS/TPS), and something game publishers probably avoid so as not to upset China.
For some reason reading your post reminded me of VIETNAM by a publisher that was called 'Gathering Of Developers'.

That game was pretty hardcore back in the day.

Unfortunately they got bought out by another company who then got bought out by another company and this company doesn't really do much with the fps genre apart from make GTA games
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#31
TheinsanegamerN
Meh, boring. It will just be battlefield 1, which was 4, which was 3, just with a different skin and maps. And you will need to pay $120 for all the content, and it will be chock full of microtransactions, and the single player will be boring, and the multiplayer will be fast paced CoD style action, just like the last 3 or 4 battlefields.

There are some really great shooters out now, like verdun and red orchestra 2. These mass market AAA games will be ruined by microtransactions, not worth taking any interest in IMO.

If they finally made BFBC3, I'd be interested, but modern EA and dice could never make a proper Bad Company game today.
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