Digital Arts has mentioned it’s planning a significant testing programme for the brand new Battlefield sport in early 2025.
Having revealed the first particulars on its subsequent Battlefield sport earlier this week, the corporate offered one other replace on the challenge throughout its annual investor day on Tuesday.
“We’re constructing a linked universe set within the modern-day, for gamers full of Battlefield experiences, all of them constructed with our distinctive DNA,” mentioned Byron Beede, group normal supervisor for Battlefield.
The primary piece of idea artwork for the sport, which was launched on Monday and is viewable beneath, factors to the inclusion of land, sea and air fight.
“I additionally need to share with you that internally, we’ve been enjoying the sport almost each day for properly over a yr,” mentioned Beede, who additionally served as normal supervisor of Activision‘s Name of Obligation franchise previous to becoming a member of EA in 2021.
“Along with inside testing cycles, we’re already testing with gamers, and we plan to introduce a brand new large-scale, community-driven testing programme early subsequent yr,” he added.
EA introduced in April that Useless Area remake and Star Wars: Squadrons studio Motive had joined its wider Battlefield growth staff. Motive is working alongside fellow inside studios DICE, Criterion and Ripple Impact on the brand new Battlefield.
Beede mentioned DICE is “main the cost on multiplayer”, whereas Criterion is “driving content material and experiences throughout single participant and multiplayer”.
“Motive brings their wealthy historical past in single participant storytelling and motion to the Battlefield combine”, and Ripple Impact is “working a brand new Battlefield expertise fuelled by our distinctive Battlefield DNA that’s been testing rather well with gamers”.
Beede claimed that Battlefield gamers have invested over 250 million hours within the sequence over the past 12 months.
Throughout its investor day, EA additionally confirmed that Respawn is growing “the ultimate chapter” of its Star Wars Jedi story.
