The following Battlefield guarantees a return to the Name of Responsibility 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 sequence that the at the moment untitled Battlefield 6 shall be chasing.
“I imply, should you look again to the height or the top of Battlefield, it’s that Battlefield 3…Battlefield 4 period the place every thing was trendy,” he mentioned in a new interview with IGN. “And I feel we have now to get again to the core of what Battlefield is and try this amazingly properly, after which we’ll see the place it goes from there.”
Zampella, who was the pinnacle of Infinity Ward again when Name of Responsibility: Trendy Struggle 1 and a couple of exploded, listed a couple of options gamers can count on from the following recreation, and most of them sound like reactions to what individuals 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 relatively 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 advised IGN. “I don’t know what the rationale was, however for me, it’s just like the staff tried one thing new. You must applaud that effort. Not everyone preferred it, however you bought to attempt issues. It didn’t work. It didn’t match. Specialist won’t be coming again. So lessons 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 broadcasts in any other case. Zampella hinted at a neighborhood testing program coming in 2025 for the sport, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not clear precisely what is going to return the sequence to the juggernaut it as soon as was. Earlier this 12 months, EA introduced a Battlefield universe that sounded quite a bit just like the sequel-spanning microtransaction machine that’s Name of Responsibility: Warzone.
Battlefields used to come back out roughly each two years. No Battlefield in 2025 would put the following recreation on the sequence’ longest improvement timeline in over a decade. “The core Battlefield gamers know what they need,” Zampella mentioned. “They’ve been with us ceaselessly, they’ve been wonderful 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 will do, so while you need a completely different expertise, you don’t have to depart Battlefield.”
