Battlefield Hub could be the solution to reuse previous games’ maps.
Electronic Arts and DICE have already confirmed this year’s Battlefield to be Battlefield 2042 (and we discussed it when it was announced), which will compete against Activision Blizzard’s next Call of Duty (which is yet to be announced…). The game will be cross-gen, but there are still black holes we have yet to discover about it. „Created as a love letter to our core fans, a new way to play Battlefield is coming. Discover unexpected battles and enter the wide universe of Battlefield with this experience,” the game’s webpage says about a [REDACTED] game mode.
Tom Henderson, who has been on point with this game previously, said the following in a video, naming the mode Battlefield Hub or BattleHub: „[Battlefield Hub] is going to contain remasters of maps from old Battlefield titles. It’s going to be [maps] on the Battlefield 2042 engine. The movement and stuff like that are going to be the same, but you’re essentially playing on a remastered map with different weapons and vehicles from past Battlefield titles.
Specialists will be moving over to the Battlefield Hub and there will be no traditional class system [like] we’ve seen in those past Battlefield titles. The majority of the maps will be 64-players only, but the Battlefield Hub will support up to 128 players on current-gen consoles and PC. It will just depend on the map. 64-players only on last-generation consoles, which confirms to me as well that this Battlefield Hub will be coming on both past and current-gen consoles,” Henderson said.
He added that it’s not meant to be a competitive mode: „The Battlefield Hub is going to be the ultimate sandbox experience and is going to be the “fun” game mode. The reason [my source] has described it as a fun game mode is because they say that this isn’t necessarily going to be a competitive experience or a balanced experience. Instead, this is going to be the ultimate sandbox experience when players are just going to be able to have fun — a Battlefield 1 tank vs. a Battlefield 3 tank.” He also mentioned that the Hazard Zone mode could be the game’s free-to-play component.
Nothing is official yet. EA Play Live on July 22 will reveal more details about Battlefield 2042, which will launch on October 22 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC (Steam, Origin), PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Source: WCCFTech
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