The following Battlefield guarantees a return to the Name of Obligation competitor’s “core” after 2021’s futuristic sequel drove many longtime followers away. The person in cost, longtime Respawn head Vince Zampella, cites Battlefield 3 and 4 as the height of the collection that the at the moment untitled Battlefield 6 will likely be chasing.
“I imply, when you look again to the height or the top of Battlefield, it’s that Battlefield 3…Battlefield 4 period the place every part was trendy,” he mentioned in a new interview with IGN. “And I feel we now have to get again to the core of what Battlefield is and try this amazingly nicely, after which we’ll see the place it goes from there.”
Zampella, who was the top of Infinity Ward again when Name of Obligation: Fashionable Struggle 1 and a couple of exploded, listed a couple of options gamers can anticipate from the following recreation, and most of them sound like reactions to what folks didn’t like about Battlefield 2042. Along with being set within the present day, the following Battlefield will ditch 128-player maps for 64 participant ones, and transfer again to straightforward class loadouts moderately than customized specialists which have extra of a hero shooter really feel about them with their distinctive perks.
“So I wasn’t there for 2042,” he instructed IGN. “I don’t know what the rationale was, however for me, it’s just like the group tried one thing new. It’s a must to applaud that effort. Not everyone favored it, however you bought to strive issues. It didn’t work. It didn’t match. Specialist won’t be coming again. So courses are type of on the core of Battlefield, and we’re going again to that.”
There’s nonetheless no set launch date for the following Battlefield, which I’m going to maintain calling Battlefield 6 till EA declares in any other case. Zampella hinted at a neighborhood testing program coming in 2025 for the sport, but it surely’s nonetheless not clear precisely what is going to return the collection to the juggernaut it as soon as was. Earlier this yr, EA introduced a Battlefield universe that sounded so much just like the sequel-spanning microtransaction machine that’s Name of Obligation: Warzone.
Battlefields used to come back out roughly each two years. No Battlefield in 2025 would put the following recreation on the collection’ longest growth timeline in over a decade. “The core Battlefield gamers know what they need,” Zampella mentioned. “They’ve been with us ceaselessly, they’ve been superb supporters. We have to earn their belief again and get them again on our facet. After which it’s increasing out and getting extra gamers into the universe and seeing what we are able to do, so while you desire a totally different expertise, you don’t have to go away Battlefield.”
