We’ve been waiting eagerly for news on the next Battlefield game for quite some time now, but that’s all about to change. Back in September, EA’s Vince Zampella, who took charge of the series following his work with Respawn Entertainment on Titanfall and Apex Legends, revealed some initial details. Along with the confirmation that the currently untitled new Battlefield game will return to a modern setting after the yo-yo back and forth between Battlefield 1 and V’s World War I setting and the near future of Battlefield 2042, he also mentioned plans for a community testing program. Now, the publisher is ready to tell us more.
While we don’t yet know what the follow-up to Battlefield 2042 will be called, Zampella also noted that the controversial Specialist system “will not be coming back” and that the focus is on more concentrated 64-player maps after the negative response to the overwhelming scale of 2042’s 128-player battles. He also teased that the intent was to follow in the footsteps of fellow upcoming PC game Skate with a community testing program.
If you’re wondering what that will entail, you don’t have long to wait. In a new message shared via social media, the FPS game’s official account announces, “Tune in tomorrow at 5pm CET / 8am PT for more on the upcoming Battlefield community testing program.” To save you the conversion, that equates to Monday February 3 at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET.
The next game in the Skate series announced its community testing program back in June 2022, and it’s still ongoing. It’s likely the new Battlefield won’t be quite as long in the public testing phase, but if EA is revealing details on its upcoming playtests now then hopefully that means we’ll be able to get hands-on in some form relatively soon.
Back in April 2024, Battlefield general manager Byron Beede confirmed that Motive, the EA studio behind the Dead Space remake, had joined with DICE, Criterion, and Ripple Effect “in building a Battlefield universe across connected multiplayer experiences and single-player.” Perhaps tomorrow we’ll find out what at least part of that looks like.
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