Reddit Developer AMA Reveals More Information About Battlefield V
In order to answer fans’ most “burning” questions about Battlefield V, DICE held an AMA on Reddit with Ryan McArthur, Producer for Engagement & Core Gameplay for the project. The AMA was revealing, to say the least, with information about the Company, cosmetics and more.
During the AMA, fans managed to gather insight on many different aspects of Battlefield V ranging from its live service to its customization system. We gathered all the information provided by McArthur into a big collective list. Here’s everything we know:
- The company is your personal collection of soldiers, vehicles and weapons
- you will have 2 factions, Axis and Allied
- You can have multiple planes and tanks and duplicates of each. These can be specialized in different ways
- You can have multiple weapons for each soldier including duplicates, each of these specialized based on the choices you make
- Each soldier and be customized visually, in face, helmet, face paint, jacket and pants
- Weapons have 5-7 part slots to add your choice of visual customization
- Vehicle (planes and tanks) also have multiple visual customization slots
- BFV will have multiple ways earn and collect items, both gameplay based and cosmetic. Certain events during the tides of war will be exclusive for some period of time, some gameplay and cosmetic
- DICE intends to support the tides of war for as long as players are engaged and enjoying the game, there’s no cap date
- There will be monetization in the game, but this is limited to cosmetics
As one can tell, DICE is changing their franchise in a meaningful way with Battlefield V this year. This pretty much sums up everything we wanted to know about the title before we get our hands on it.
Battlefield V will get its open Beta in early September, and that’s when we’ll get an in depth look of a few things discussed over on the AMA. For more Battlefield V news, make sure to stay in touch with VGR.com.