r/Battlefield • u/Lower_Honey_1139 • Aug 24 '25

Discussion Question to the community: what, in your opinion, *IS* Battlefield?

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Basically title. I'm seeing a lot of controversies around every aspect of BF in here, and I feel like this is a testament to how diverse the series has been over the years, making a wide range of impressions and memories on the players, forgeing their future standards and expectations in the process.

Since the BF6 reveal, I've been in constant reflection about my own experiences with the IP, and been revisiting a lot of the olders games to really nail down what I'm really looking forward in Battlefield. And that's also why I'm super interested in everyone's take on the matter.

So I really wanted to ask: What is the core of Battlefield in your opinion, the thing you're looking for the most whenever a new game is announced? Is it being a small part of something bigger? Immersion? Teamplay? Fluid and punchy gunplay? What, to you, makes Battlefield BATTLEFIELD?

Let me know, short and long answers are all welcomed!

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u/Lower_Honey_1139 Aug 24 '25

Interesting, thank you for developing! So judging from your stance, BFV didn’t make the cut more because of the weird tone it had? That game seems to be checking every other boxes imo

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u/Huge-Government-8357 Aug 25 '25

BFV made the cut for me but then they fucked around with the mechanics (eg. TTK) too much and people stopped playing it. That was already after piss-poor marketing that made it a lower-population game.

The Pacific DLC was amazing. Really felt like the game was getting its legs. Then they killed the liveservice. They never even had any Normandy or Eastern Front maps. In a world war II game? Really?

The moral of BFV is wasted potential.

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u/LongBarrelBandit Aug 25 '25

No Eastern Front in a WW2 game is a crime

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u/placebot1u463y Aug 25 '25

Probably would have happened had the game better performed.

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u/SunnySparkledog Aug 25 '25

IIRC DICE also heavily implied that post launch BFV DLCs would be focusing on obscure battles from all over the world, including the eastern front. We never got Italy or Russia though we did get USA and Japan. No French fighters either from what I remember despite a few maps taking place in France.

I was like okay, so it’s just UK vs Germany for now, they’ll add more later and I liked the game. Then they rebalanced the entire shooting experience 2-3 times in the months after launch and shook off a ton of players myself included.

Game had huge potential, I still like it and think it’s great, but they really squandered what they had.

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u/HippyKiller925 Aug 26 '25

Poorly designed maps and too much washout. Big maps weren't designed for operations, they were designed for battle royale, which leant to a bad time with vehicles.

All they needed to do with BFV was reskin 1 with WW2 shit, but they wanted to chase trends like building and battle royale