Battlefield Heroes Goes Live

After a beta period that seemed about as long as the actual Great War, DICE and EA have finally made Battlefield Heroes live. It's kind of on the downlow at the moment, though, without any fanfare or press releases. Here's the official line from EA PR:

Battlefield Heroes is currently in soft launch. We'll have an official announcement soon.

I dabbled in the Battlefield Heroes beta a bit, and in addition to being pleasantly surprised by how sharp and easy-to-pick-up the action was, I think the art style and the general tone they've struck gives it a huge amount of personality. In a lot of ways, it's got a lot in common with Team Fortress 2, though with (presumably) less jars full of urine. Perhaps the most significant differentiator between the two is the fact that Battlefield Heroes is free-to-play, with EA making its money off advertising and microtransactions. My time with the live version of the game has been brief, but my snap impression is that there's a whole lot of fun to be had with this game for free. Since EA's not yet ready to start getting people pumped for Battlefield Heroes, I figured I'd lend a helping hand by reaching through your screen and punching you directly in the brain with this Saturday morning trailer. Once that gets your blood pumping, you can sign up to play Battlefield Heroes here , though keep in mind this is currently a Windows-only operation, and you'll need Internet Explorer or Firefox to get the party started.

Heroic!

i have played the beta so it dont matter to me

This is so cheesy. I love it.

Ya the game is fun for sure but with three classes it definitely gets old quickly

wow, kind of a similarity to team fortress no?

This trailer is a whole lot better than the game itself.

Battlefield Heroes, heroes!

Meh, I thought it was dull myself, I would rather be playing other paid for games online, than wasting time with this on the evidence of the beta.

Commendable none the less.

been in the beta for this for quite a while, and trust me once they add tons of content and polish shit up, this'll be a gem.

heaps of fun yessir!!!

I've been in the beta for a bit. Good to see it finally launching! Fun stuff.

I've said it before but, the game would be so much more playable with a server browser. It is way too hard to find "playable" games right now.

I played the Beta, and thought it was much better when you could choose from all the clothes for free and customise your character how you liked it. Now, it's way too much work, imo, to just get enough money to RENT a badass coat, let alone own it.

Thought it was a very poor boring game myself and I don't see the point in making a browser based game download to your client and start up there in forced fullscreen mode with no option of windowed. The whole point of a browser based free game is to play it in the browser like Quake Live.

this game is actually pretty addicting haha

Im not a fan of the "digital renting" with real money. I mean... renting ....digital goods? God awful. Battlefield Heroes? pretty fun.

For whatever reason I can't seem to get it to work.  "cannot find build" is what it says.  I guess this explains the soft launch, they new it would be hit or miss?  Anyone else have this problem that might be able to help me out?

The game was fun, but in higher levels some abilities (like grenade spam) become too powerful, and you'll find yourself randomly being killed instantly.

" Huh, Firefox thought the Add-on was 4GB for some reason. Weird. Oh well, time to check this out!... Error: Could not find build.Yay! "

I was getting the could not find build error until I actually logged in to the website before attempting to install it. I don't know if it's related or a coincidence though, I'm just saying what happened in my case.

Meh, I'll download it one day when I'm bored.

This looks cool

Love it!

where mah build?

" For whatever reason I can't seem to get it to work.  "cannot find build" is what it says.  I guess this explains the soft launch, they new it would be hit or miss?  Anyone else have this problem that might be able to help me out? "

Make sure you guys log in to your EA account before trying to install!

Yeah, if you are getting cannot find build you need to log into the site before you press play. I'm not sure why but it works, happened to me as well.

Finally - I get to try out the MMOG style take on Battlefield combat. Might just be a nice replacement for Arathi Basin and the likes. Since I no longer am under the spell of WoW, there might be a place for this in my heart.

MMOG style?

Installing it now, no idea what it actually does. :D I had install problems as well, register first to install.

MysteriousFox was free for my hero's name, fuck yeah!

FunkyStudent was not. :(

I was in the beta for a long time.. but after a while I just got frustrated with some aspects of it. It's a fun game though, and it lends for a lot of amusement. Especially if you have a friend in the game with you.

that vidoe is fucking sick

I hope this gets Steam support soon....

I hope it gets a Mac release.

God, that trailer was terrible. I'll try the game out though.

Great, now I can't even connect to the game.

i kept on getting 1002 errors when trying to play the beta....wonder if its been fixed

" @Meltbrain said:

" Huh, Firefox thought the Add-on was 4GB for some reason. Weird. Oh well, time to check this out!... Error: Could not find build.Yay! "

Try IE instead.. It seems to be having issues installing on the latest FF I got that too, I thought WTF when I saw 4 Gig "

Fun trailer, doesn't beat Miniature Replica Soldier though!

If you're getting the "cannot find build" error, try Internet Explorer. It wouldn't work for me in FF. And yeah... the 4GB addon made me go "woah."

Dude, Team Fortress 2 might as well be free. It seems like every other weekend they have a 50% off sale for it. Not only that, but they keep giving you free content (wtf?) and you don't have to deal with micro transactions or ads. Plus, if you're a real winner like me, chances are you've milked that 10 dollar purchase of TF2 totally dry.

That being said, I'm excited to try out Battlefield Heroes.

It's not 4gb for sure.  It's probably only a couple of mbs and the installation itself is maybe 1-1.5 gb.

You need to log into the server before doing the installation.

The video is damn catchy.

It is pretty cool the the game is for free. I'd like to see some console games come out for free like this.

I too lack the ability to find "build" on either FF or IE

EDIT: Ok after trying a few more times and failing I came back here to read "make sure ur logged in" and voila, it works! Thx lil'bombers

Loved that intro movie, but since I have Team Fortress 2 I really don't feel like playing this one.

Installation is less than 400MB actually. Nice little game, I like the commando class. Very nice visuals considering it's made for very, very low specs. They should add a few maps, unlock all the DLC, and put it on the Wii or something, I bet it'd sell. It looks a little like Battalion Wars 2.

It doesn't really feel like a Battlefield game to me, so far, but it's quite nice, chaotic fun.

I like the Pyro and Spy most.