[2019] Battlefield V 2019 Roadmap

Up Tractors to the left.

Edit: What are we calling the Down Tractors? Model F's?

This is the start of the conversation.

We'll be talking to you more about the stuff we're showing here as we get closer to it.

Squad Conquest? It's gone for now, but not forgotten.

We know how loved it is.

First time I saw it, I wondered if we were about to announce that the V in Battlefield V stood for Vex.

Had me worried.

We have to put money in a Jar whenever we say that word. We don't like that word anymore. It's expensive.

We hear you. There was similar feedback shared by Gamechangers when they were in Stockholm last week and we're not blind to the conversation. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it.

There's new maps coming for the new mode in Chapter 4 too. That'll be clearer when you see the web article that goes live shortly.

We've got more to show you on those later today. Sit tight :)

Article is live on the Battlefield Website now - images are being loaded in as I type this

https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-5/news/battlefield-5-updates-roadmap-march-2019

(Note: We also have a short Dev Talk video going live this evening)

More insight on Chapter 3 (where the images are) is also now live here - https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-5/about/tides-of-war/chapter-3-trial-by-fire

We care about both and both are done by different "types" of developers. A gamemode designer or scripter can't make maps. An environment artist can't make gamemodes. We are having a pool of very talented people and we try to use all of their strengths.

I personally believe there is value in how you play as well in where you play and so far the community has reacted more than positive about Rush, Squad Conquest and the new Operation (which is technically just a gamemode). So why stop here? :)

Thread updated with this months Dev Talks (also available on Twitter)

There is. We will follow up on this.

Edit: Just discovered that the user flow for the iPhone Official Reddit app has Add Comment on an inbox message which doesn’t actually reply to the thread. I’ve lost the original reply in the comments here but this was in response too ‘Will Rush Come back’?

I personally expect so, though the team have only just retired it this week from its present rotation and I doubt they have had the chance yet to do a proper sit down and decide what’s next for rush. We always said that if the Mode was popular then we’d always be open to bringing it back and building on it.

Forgive me! Was typing on my iPhone and finding that the user flow is a bit funky compared to Relay Pro on Android (usual app of choice! Thanks for saying so!)

I’d need to check in with the team on this next week, but before I do help me understand your overall concern. Is it that you want the option to only play the mode solo and are worried that you will have to squad up to play it?

Let me get back to you next week on that then. Understand the interest now, thanks for responding.

It would actually be an even stronger argument to not split the player base with more modes, if it would melt (I assume you mean by that that it is shrinking). Rest assured nothing is melting. :)

Having that said, we see value and actual gain in time limited additions. The whole idea behind this (besides not splitting the player base too much) is to add variety every other week and really to see what relates well with the community. In the previous Battlefields we added additional gamemodes with each new set of maps, but most of those modes basically found no player base after a few weeks or even days. This way we can guarantee that players from all across the world have valid shot on playing the content that is offered and the engagement so far is extremely high through Tides of War. Some of our modes partially got played more than Conquest during certain days. That hasn't been the case ever before.

We constantly monitoring gamemode popularity and if you, the players like something like we saw with SCQ, we are willing to bring it back or even consider making it a permanent addition.

Unless the text in the Tides or War assignment specifically mentions a mode, you don't have to play the mode that is "promoted" during the active Tides of War. Meaning you can finish most of the assignments in any gamemode. Obviously, if you have to blow up an objective, that's only possible in modes that have such functionality. There is no objective to blow up in Conquest ... yet (jk).

^this pretty much.
The button below is just a convenient way of directly matchmaking into the content that is on show this week.

Thanks for letting me know - its a new reddit/old reddit thing.

Works for folks on new reddit and on mobile app, but clearly not elsewhere.

It's a link to Dev Talks, which you can otherwise watch on Twitter

https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/1109160315302957057