I left Battlefield years ago, and not because I didn’t like it, I played a lot, only at some point it had become too slow, too heavy, too Battlefield, too “simulative”. Call of Duty, with all its defects and derives it from a cartoon skin (fortnite style, I don’t mind, I always use female skin always use, because I am feminist, and because it is better to seem a good woman to play cod that a poor male), cross-over with terminator, gundam and streamer with the neon filter, is at least immediate, quick and dirty.
In short, EA revealed Battlefield 6 on July 24 with a cinematographic trailer showing a destroyed New York (Brooklyn Bridge included), war on land, sea and air, helicopters that explode everywhere and a US president who exclaims “It’s over” aimed at a fictitious military mega company, Pax Armata. All very spectacular, but no gameplay, the multiplayer will be shown on July 31st. Some leaks suggest a release on October 10, 2025.
In the trailer they appear scenes designed to amaze: demolition of buildings, helicopters that collide with each other, tanks that break through walls, sandstorms, and promise “Blow Through Walls and Bring Down Buildings for Tactical Advantage” (breaks through the walls and demolished buildings to obtain tactical advantages). I took a tour to see what they say on Reddit, and many say: “Call me a Cynic, but the bets at the same all of Those Destruction Spectacles are canned or scripted campaign scenes … I’m love to be coming Wrong” (call me cynical, but I bet all those spectacular scenes of destruction are scripted in the campaign … I would like to be a denial). And again: “Cinematic Trailers do Nothing for Me Anymore” (the cinematographic trailers now tell me nothing anymore) … “they’re Trying to get more eyeballs Next Week with a ‘mp’ trailer tease” (they are just looking for more views by promising a multiplayer trailer next week).
EA has invested over 400 million dollars, involving four studies (says, Criterion, Motive, Ripple Effect), the goal is to reach 100 million players (when the maximum record of the series was about 30 million with Battlefield 1). General skepticism, type: “EA, you’re not going to hit 100 million players” (EA, you will never reach 100 million players). And from inside he says trapela: “That’s Not Going to Happen, and Everyone Knows It” (it won’t happen, and everyone knows).
The free-to-play Royale Battle, developed by Ripple Effect, will come months after the launch and will be separated from the main game. It provides teams of 4, mode only/duo/trio, loot system with armor and area that narrows, plus the mechanics “oversight system”: even if you die, you can remain annoying with drones and turrets. Reddit says: “Even when you die, you can iron be yearying. It’s the ghost of 2042 speaking” (even as a dead you can continue to break. It is the ghost of 2042 that speaks). The main map seems set in Turkmenistan, a Firestorm rework, with dynamic destructibility and environmental variables such as blackout, storms and electronic jamming.
Technically they use FROSTBITE 4 Updated, with Ray Tracing, Advanced Destroyability, Cross-Gen Support, and an alternative mode called Gauntlet Round competitive style to The Finals. All interesting, for heaven’s sake, only that the gameplay I fear will remain Battlefield thread: more methodical, heavier, centered on team play and the vehicles, not frenetic as COD (otherwise one would play at COD). Reddit summarizes as follows: “Battlefield is trying to be Warzone without being Cod. Good luck with that” (Battlefield tries to be a warzone without being cod. Good luck).
There is also the nostalgia factor: “I Always Crack in Smile When I Hear The Battlefield Theme. Something about it Just Hits Nostalgia Perfectly” (I always smile when I hear the theme of Battlefield. It has a perfect nostalgic power). And a glimmer of hope: “If that Destruction Carries over to Mp Gameplay I AM All In” (if that destruction is also seen in multiplayer, I am there). There are also those who are vaccinated: “Yeah, You Almedy Foled Me Before with the Fantastic Battlefield 2042 trailers. I’m not foul for that shit again” (yes, you have already cheated me with the fantastic trailers of 2042. No helmet again).
What can I say? You can also put half a billion, you can redo the maps, you can copy Warzone to detail, but the gameplay will remain that of Battlefield: it will never be frenetic, neurotic, toxic as a call of duty, it will be increasingly rigid, slower, more cumbersome and perhaps it is right to preserve identity. However, if you think you can conquer the same audience, you are wrong from generation. It is true that Warzone is in tiredness and the community has full of Bundle, Skin Pop, confusing seasons and above all of the bugs and cheats (despite Recochet, the Activision Antichetion, which has never worked, indeed the cheats have multiplied).
Call of Duty has held up over time, it has become a style, an always the same brand difficult brand, despite the defects. Battlefield is looking for to remove players from Warzone, but Battlefield remains. And this time it cannot afford another 2042: either it is the right time, or it really finished.