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Exclusive: Vince Zampella Confirms Next Battlefield Will Use Modern Setting, First Concept Art Revealed - IGN

In an exclusive interview with IGN, Head of Respawn & Group GM for EA Studios Organization Vince Zampella sat down to talk about Battlefield's return to a modern setting while revealing its first concept art.

www.ign.com

-Back to basics
-64 player maps
-4 studios working on it
-Specialists are out
-"We have to have the core. The core Battlefield players know what they want"
-Entered full production earlier this year

 

[HRK69]

- premium skins
- battle pass
- seasons
- pronouns
- rubber banding

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[rodrigolfp]

-64 player maps

What? On PC???

 

[Killer8]

modern setting​

 

[notseqi]

- premium skins
- battle pass
- seasons
- pronouns
- rubber banding

-not restoring BF3 & BF4 (both with all DLCs and battle passes and whatnot) when they feel like switching their store front

Thanks for letting me keep Plants vs Zombies in my account you absolute shitehawks. Piss on my face when you get around to it.

 

[Bernoulli]

- premium skins
- battle pass
- seasons
- pronouns
- rubber banding

Like Call of duty and every other game so?

 

[salva]

Good luck, you burnt all your fans (incl me) with battlefield v and 2042. No one wants this.
You'll somehow fuck this up.

 

[TintoConCasera]

-4 studios working on it

I don't know if this is good or bad. Managing this project must be hell.

 

[TonberrysKnife]

Exclusive: Vince Zampella Confirms Next Battlefield Will Use Modern Setting, First Concept Art Revealed - IGN

In an exclusive interview with IGN, Head of Respawn & Group GM for EA Studios Organization Vince Zampella sat down to talk about Battlefield's return to a modern setting while revealing its first concept art.

www.ign.com

-Back to basics
-64 player maps
-4 studios working on it
-Specialists are out
-"We have to have the core. The core Battlefield players know what they want"
-Entered full production earlier this year

PLEASE DON'T FUCK THIS UP. PLEASE!!!

 

[DonF]

I trust Vince. I need the Bad Company 2, bf 3 vibes. Gimme a good battlefield! We need it!

 

[Parazels]

Does it have a single player mode at all?
Or it's secret information?

 

[notseqi]

I don't know if this is good or bad. Managing this project must be hell.

Bad.
Next question.

 

[Fake]

Again with this modern setting? lmao.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Will be interesting to see if they really learned from the past two or three entries or if we'll still see black lesbian trannies in the trailer with rainbow camouflage and all.

 

[35cent]

Just give me a single player like Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and I'll be happy enough.

 

[R6Rider]

Again with this modern setting? lmao.

They haven't done a modern setting since BF Hardline.

 

[Fake]

They haven't done a modern setting since BF Hardline.

2042 is not modern setting?

 

[R6Rider]

2042 is not modern setting?

No it's considered near future. There's tech, storyline, etc. that portrays that as well.

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

128-player mode was a good idea but had poor execution. They're making a mistake by abandoning this.

 

[Ceadeus]

- premium skins
- battle pass
- seasons
- pronouns
- rubber banding

The list from hell

 

[cormack12]

Honestly I think the downfall of this series is trying to do 'the next big thing'. Go back to BF4 mechanics, some better and meaningful levelution. Vehicles just needed a bit of fine tuning

 

[Fake]

No it's considered near future. There's tech, storyline, etc. that portrays that as well.

Never played, so I can't say if even had a storyline.

And there is some mix of modern setting and futuristic setting there. The game lacks identity.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

The good thing If the game blows(will most likely happen) you can hop back into Delta Force.

 

[Pelao]

Back to basics

At this point, this is pretty much a red flag.

 

[HRK69]

Like Call of duty and every other game so?

I think it sucks, so?

 

[R6Rider]

128-player mode was a good idea but had poor execution. They're making a mistake by abandoning this.

I agree. Although if 64 players means they can have more advanced destruction, then I'd take that.

Still too early on basically all the details to give too much thought into it yet.

 

[Kurotri]

-Entered full production earlier this year

Uh huh. Yikes. 2028 release at the earliest then?

 

[R6Rider]

"Among other things, it appears to suggest that ship-to-ship and helicopter combat will be part of the new game, and that it will feature natural disasters like wildfires. Its greyish color scheme is evocative of Battlefield 4, which remains one of the most popular games in the series despite being released a decade ago."

More info from the link.

 

[notseqi]

Honestly I think the downfall of this series is trying to do 'the next big thing'. Go back to BF4 mechanics, some better and meaningful levelution. Vehicles just needed a bit of fine tuning

Caspian Border, Siege of Shanghai, Paracel Storm, Floodzone... set pieces but gesu cristo, good stuff.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Cautiously optimistic. Even though I swore that they couldn't get BF2042 into a good way, they did eventually and I actually got a good amount of time in it, although I only paid £15 for it.

 

[R6Rider]

"Yeah, the 128 player, did it make it more fun? Like...doing the number for the sake of the number doesn't make any sense. We're testing everything around what's the most fun. So like you said, the maps, once they get to a certain scale, become different. It's a different play space, and I think you have to design around that. So we are designing something that is more akin to previous Battlefields," Zampella says. "I'd rather have nice, dense, really nice, well-designed play spaces. Some of them are really good. I can't wait for you to see some of them.

Specialists are also out this time around. "So I wasn't there for 2042. I don't know what the rationale was, but for me, it's like the team tried something new. You have to applaud that effort. Not everybody liked it, but you got to try things. It didn't work. It didn't fit. Specialist will not be coming back. So classes are kind of at the core of Battlefield, and we're going back to that," Zampella says.

He's careful to stress that Battlefield 2042 wasn't a "failure of a game" despite not doing as well as hoped. He notes that the development team "really spent a lot of time learning how to adapt it and getting things back." Still, he says, EA doesn't want a repeat of the experience it had with 2042. "We want it to be good out of the gate."

More.

Also, lmao at the last bit. Yeah, no shit maybe games should be good when released.

 

[Warspite]

They are going to have a modern setting with whats going on in the world today without using Specialists to skirt around the political issues? (America Vs Russia for example) I don't believe it, we will get specialists with a new coat of paint as they will try not to piss anyone off.

 

[clarky]

They are going to have a modern setting with whats going on in the world today without using Specialists to skirt around the political issues? (America Vs Russia for example) I don't believe it, we will get specialists with a new coat of paint as they will try not to piss anyone off.

Cool so totally disregard what the director says in the interview?

"Specialists are also out this time around. "So I wasn't there for 2042. I don't know what the rationale was, but for me, it's like the team tried something new. You have to applaud that effort. Not everybody liked it, but you got to try things. It didn't work. It didn't fit. Specialist will not be coming back. So classes are kind of at the core of Battlefield, and we're going back to that," Zampella says.

 

[KaiserBecks]

I'll believe it when I see it. Zampella being on it is a good thing though, imo. He called Dice out two years ago for being too far away from the franchise's core with BF2042.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Fucking sick of all the talking, show me some shit first then talk.

 

[Complistic]

I honestly don't think I care anymore, but in the unlikely event it's an absolute banger, I'll be back.

 

[winjer]

 

[RagnarokIV]

No stupid fucken "heroes", no marvel quips, no pronouns or woke/inclusive soldiers, no fortnite esque skins with stupid colors.

 

[Hari Seldon]

Being that I completely skipped the last two battlefields I'm kind of in the mood to play one if they don't fuck it up.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

128p was a mistake, old-DICE even did internal testing about that and found that 128p never really worked.

Wish this wasn't modern day though, something new like alt-history Cold War Gone Hot in the 60s or something would've been cool

 

[R6Rider]

I don't know why they have to hold onto 64 player specifically. They could bump it up to something like 80.

 

[Bitstream]

Entered production this year?? When are they releasing this thing, 2028?!

 

[Tarnpanzer]

Just mix Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2 and call it a day.

Easy money.

 

[R6Rider]

Just mix Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2 and call it a day.

Easy money.

Maybe that's what they'll do.

Slim chance, but still a chance.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Zampella hasn't let me down yet!

Which means he'll probably let me down here because sooner or later everything turns to shit.

 

[WaterOnix]

I'll believe it when I see it. Zampella being on it is a good thing though, imo. He called Dice out two years ago for being too far away from the franchise's core with BF2042.

Exactly my thought on it, although that's interesting if Zampella really said that. Maybe they'll actually finish this one before releasing it, but that's probably wishful thinking

 

[Sybrix]

I read ‘wildfires’ in that interview…..

Did they not learn from 2042, stop with the gimmick shit.

 

[MethodRed]

Remake B3 no new experiments

 

[R6Rider]

I read ‘wildfires’ in that interview…..

Did they not learn from 2042, stop with the gimmick shit.

What? Games in the past had levolution or environmental elements.

Both features I liked along with many other players.