Battlefield Royale? DICE Rumored To Be Testing New Mode
This is just a rumor for now, but you can't say it's too farfetched considering the current climate.
Call of Duty has entered the rumor mill with reports that Black Ops 4 may release without a single-player campaign so its only right that the other big shooter, Battlefield, gets a turn at inciting a little bit of chaos. The same person who alleges that Battlefield V takes the franchise back to WW2 now says that the devs at DIVE are testing out a battle royale prototype.
Jeff Grubb of VentureBeat suggests, via anonymous sources, that mode with similar elements to PUBG and Fortnite is in the works. Thus, imagine an FPS conflict with 100 players dropped onto a map and you'd be in the ballpark. Grubb also adds that "EA could cancel the prototype, it could hold it off for the launch of the next Battlefield or a Star Wars: Battlefront sequel, or it could spin it out into its own game."
If it does perform well in the in-house tests, I could imagine it'll be a part of DICE's typically robust expansion roadmap for the Battlefield games. A full-blown and polished battle royale would be a nice adrenaline shot to the fanbase months beyond launch, but consider it just a rumor for now. Stay tuned to Shacknews for more updates.
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replyCharles Singletary posted a new article, Battlefield Royale? DICE Rumored To Be Testing New Mode
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Fad? What fad. There's no fad here. The experts have all assured us.
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"Fad" implies some transience and a sense that the hype is baseless. Battle royale is a real substantive game mode that I don't think is going anywhere. The gold rush will end soon enough, but I think this will continue to be a popular mode in online shooters moving forward, at least the ones that are designed for Battlefield-style open world combat.
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Yeah, I mean, at one point "use hundreds of response to capture a point and hold it", the core of countless multi-player modes over the last decades, was just another new thing.
BR feels like it could easily become a staple MP mode to me.-
As a mode it takes a lot more to develop. You have to seed an entire map with balanced pickups or have a drop method for them. You have to balance those weapons differently than other modes because otherwise some scoped weapons will compeletely dominate. It requires a pretty unique map as well.
Certainly you can do it, but like horde modes, a quality execution will take a lot of effort. It will probably pay off for those who do it, but it won't ever be like deathmatch or domination type modes. Those are incredibly easy to foist on maps by comparison.
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I liked it in Titanfall myself.
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It is completely unnecessary, but if I were gonna play another BR mode, I'd rather it be within a framework that has some decent shooting mechanics like the recent Battlefield games.
However, Battlefield proper doesn't need more game modes, it needs less. And maps designed specifically for those modes again instead of trying to accommodate 3+ game types and layouts on the same locations and excelling at none of them.-
Sooo much this.
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I would say Battlefield going forward should be Operations and Conquest. Merge Frontlines and Rush into Operations (just means defensive arty). Maybe throw in team death match whereever on the maps it makes sense. Who cares.
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Operations and Conquest are a fad.
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True. But, it's their fad and when only the niche remains they will come back for those modes.
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The maps are so much the game! Battle Company was designed for Rush and CQ was secondary -- the maps absolutely demonstrate this. Battlefield's Rush maps were generally not as good (few exceptions).
Stock gameplay should have maps that only fit one mode. Get DLC released that are all themed around another.-
This is the beauty of my solution. Design all the maps for operations, but make the last 2 stages of operations be tug of war like in Frontlines with emergency artillery.
This counter balance of the last stages will make those ends fitting for conquest compared to the converted Rush maps where you have the problem of them all being essentially slanted against one side.
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They are doing a competitive mode for BF1 as well. I don't get it. The game is not suited to it at all and trying to bend it into that shape is not going to go well. I don't have anything against them doing that kind of game, they just need to actually do it.
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Yeah they seem to have most of the mechanics already in place. I said before it would be an awesome way to start a game of Conquest to have everyone jumping out of planes, which is already in the game!!
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So if the consoles run BF1 at a 30hz tickrate in a 64-person match, they could probably do battle royale 100p at 20hz maybe? I know PUBG is like 10hz when all 100 people are playing
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What does anything you just said mean? Honest question, as I have no idea what a "tick rate" is.
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The rate at which the server updates the client. The lower the tick rate the more chances of desynch issues or instances of "i came around a corner and saw no one but died anyway."
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afaik it's basically the rate at which the server updates and frequency it communicates with the clients. Higher is better and more responsive, lower can feel laggy and inaccurate.
And generally as player counts increase, tick rates decrease to balance the server load and bandwidth. But with Battlefield DICE has managed to do 60hz updates with 64 players on PC (although I believe that's just for everything within an imaginary bubble / radius around the player?), so he's wondering if it will feel better than something like PUBG on console which apparently has a very low tick rate?-
Interesting. I thought Fortnite felt weird on XBO X compared to PC. Maybe that's why.
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Every Dev has to throw their hat into the ring.
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maybe if it was a dedicated BR game, but it isnt.
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I really hope this initiative remains a prototype for now. I'd like to see what DICE could do with a BR game using BF as a foundation, but as a stand-alone game. I absolutely do not want them shoehorning BR into Battlefield proper. Especially not if this upcoming title really is my long-awaited BF1944.
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As long as it's a Bad Company have game this could really work. Hot Drops as a BC3 mode.
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I wouldn't mind a WWII scenario with a really large map, player cour, and a battle royale ideas like having teams randomly airdropped with certain objectives. Maps could be Normandy, Crete, and Market Garden.
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