A good day for Battlefield!
By Jayross 9 Comments
Remember. remember, the 5th of November... but instead of gunpowder, it's flamethrowers.
A new free-to-play Battlefield games with 32 player servers and BF2 maps?
An awesome trailer for BFBC2: Vietnam, featuring a new map and a flamethrower?
Bad Company 1 maps on the horizon for BC2? DICE teases us a bit...
New Battlefield game announced: Battlefield Play4Free
The people who made Battlefield: Heroes announced their next game, Battlefield Play4Free. This game will be a free-to-play first-person Battlefield game with support for 32 players. It is coming out for PC later in 2011.
It has maps from Battlefield 2 combined with the class set-up from Bad Company 2.
This should appeal to a different group of people, not the hardcore Battlefield fans, but rather the more casual folks who might not have a super powerful computer, or who just don't want to spend $60 on a game.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam gets a sweet new trailer.
The trailer released on Friday shows a new map, called Hill 137, as well as a flamethrower. The flamethrower can be carried by hand, or can be used as an alternate weapon on a tank.
The flamethrower can light soliders on fire, which will force them to use a med-kit, jump into some water, or suffer the consequences.
Bad Company 1 maps on the horizon?
That title sounds familiar... oh right, I used it four months ago.
Anyways, PlanetBattlefield posted a screen grab of some DICE play-test servers. One server was running a map called "bc1_harvest_day".
Additionally, there were references to seven Vietnam maps, including Squad Deathmatch and the larger game modes.
And... some confirmation!
Well, maybe not "confirmation" exactly, since DICE like to tease.
A post on the official Battlefield simply called "BFBC2 Playtest @ DICE" caused the Battlefield UK forums to erupt in cries of ecstasy.
A lone image accompanied the post.
Update, November 7th: More information about BC1 maps will be released tomorrow. They have been confirmed to be part of the VIP program. Harvest Day has been confirmed, as well.
Whoo!
To think a few days ago I was disappointed in the Battlefield franchise... all it took was some trailers and rumors to bring me back up :)
What do you guys think? Which announcements/rumors are you most excited by?