EA’s first Battlefield Labs take a look at session has led to an abundance of leaked gameplay movies, displaying off the massive map dimension and a brand new revive mechanic.
After Battlefield 5 and Battlefield 2042 did not please the fanbase, EA is taking additional measures to make sure Battlefield 6 places the would-be Call Of Duty rival again on the right track.
As introduced final month, a giant a part of it is a main enhance in participant assessments by means of the revamped group testing program, Battlefield Labs. This is the place registered gamers can check out new weapons and devices on a separate server, and play a really early model of the sport.
The first of those Battlefield Labs testing classes passed off final weekend, and whereas these invited usually are not purported to put up footage on-line, inevitably many did anyway.
In the leaked gameplay videos on Reddit, the map from the primary gameplay trailer is revealed to be referred to as Abbasid, though it’s nonetheless unclear the place precisely it’s set (the title Abbasid comes from an eighth century caliphate initially primarily based in what’s now Iraq however which later relocated to Cairo).
As you’d anticipate from Battlefield, there’s loads of destruction and spectacular physics, together with some worryingly immersive screeching sound effects from surrounding explosions.
One video exhibits off the collection’ staple vehicular fight, as a tank trundles by means of the city streets and shoots down buildings. There’s additionally a brand new help mechanic the place you may drag fallen allies throughout the ground to security earlier than reviving them.
Many of those gameplay movies are nonetheless on-line a number of days later, so EA is clearly not too perturbed by the leaks, which may be as a result of the overall sentiment seems to be largely optimistic from these inside diehard Battlefield circles – and EA will surely welcome the positivity for the franchise.
‘I couldn’t resist and watched the leaked Battlefield 6 gameplay,’ one X user wrote. ‘Glad I did. This brings again hope. It seemed like an precise battlefield recreation.’
‘The audio is loopy good,’ one consumer wrote. ‘It appears like explosions are reverberating off the buildings.’
Battlefield 6 is being developed underneath a brand new ‘Battlefield Studios’ umbrella consisting of 4 studios. DICE, the primary developer of earlier Battlefield video games, is engaged on multiplayer; Criterion is growing the single-player marketing campaign; whereas Motive is creating multiplayer maps and ‘single-player mission content material’.
The final studio, Ripple Effect, is ‘engaged on an expertise that’s actually going to open Battlefield as much as an entire group of recent gamers’ – which tracks with rumours of a battle royale spin-off to rival Call Of Duty: Warzone.
While it’s unclear when the subsequent Battlefield Labs take a look at session is, you may nonetheless join to participate on the official website, so there’ll probably be a lot extra leaks earlier than launch. Battlefield 6 nonetheless doesn’t have a launch date, but it surely’s anticipated to reach later this yr.
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