Battlefield 5 may take place in World War I
Can we expect to experience a battle between the Allied Forces and the Central Powers if Battlefield 5 releases in October?
EA confirmed a new Battlefield game would be coming this year, which as you’d expect is currently in development, but it has yet to officially discuss details surrounding the next game in its iconic first-person shooter series. Today, Swiss retailer World of Games may have leaked some of the first information regarding Battlefield 5.
According to World of Games’ listing, Battlefield 5 is being described as a “multiplayer tactical shooter in World War I” with an expected release date of October 26, 2016. There may be some truth to its possible release date considering Battlefield 4 released on October 29, 2013 as it tends to avoid directly competing with the Call of Duty series, which tends to release in mid November.
Having World War I be the setting for Battlefield 5 would certainly be interesting, considering the majority of AAA shooters often don’t go anywhere prior to World War II. We’d certainly be interested to see what kind of experiences DICE has planned for the game, that is, if World of Games’ listing is to be believed, especially considering the retailer updated the listing to remove any mention of World War I in its description.
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replyDaniel Perez posted a new article, Battlefield 5 may take place in World War I
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Yeah for real!
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Each round will be 45 minutes broken down like this:
6 minutes of walking to the front lines
37 minutes of waiting in a trench
2 minutes of dying to an artillery barrage-
So...Red Orchestra?
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Sounds retarded.
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It'd be a hard sell for a franchise that's going for mass adoption. Bolt action rifles exclusively, all machine guns would be mounted, and lots of artillery which has never been that fun to use in a battlefield game.
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Commander has launched: Mustard gas
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That would be really cool DLC, but not a whole game.
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Reposting from the other thread:
I hope battlefield five spans all modern wars. The central theme can be that soldiers are always the same and the only difference is the weapons used to fight the war. It will be a platform where the wars are released all under the BF5 name.
Initial release: WW1
Expansion: WW2
Expansion: Vietnam
Expansion: Gulf War/Iraq/Afgan
Expansion: WW3
Final Expansion: Future War (2142)
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That was the only Battlefront game made by Dice.
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Dude BF4 is a great game, it had issues at launch but they continued to make it better for more than 2 years after launch so I dunno what you are on about.
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Every game has issues but it's pretty fuckin solid now.
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Uhhh, the new Battlefront plays drastically different than any Battlefield game that they're hardly comparable.
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I want to play this while listening to the HH Blueprint for Armageddon series.
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Calling it right now, time travel will be involved.
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Really hope this is not true, ww1 is not as appealing as ww2.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNbTC5EPv8
Made by the Refraction games, who later merged with DICE and made Battlefield 1942.
Battlefield started as a WW1 game.
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Pros:
1. Back to BF1942 days of air combat: slow/low flying planes where momentum matters. I like it, >BF2 jets are too fast to strafe infantry well and I miss clipping guys running on the ground with my wings for a kill.
2. Short range, high arcing tank rounds make distance tank combat a very variable thing. I love it!
Cons:
1. No helicopters, as one of the few people who fly them well and constantly have a gunner on teamspeak in front, we own the skies on helo-only maps.
2. Terrible anti-tank capabilities for infantry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_warfare#First_World_War . So if the game is true to history, if you get a tank, you win basically.
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