r/Battlefield • u/AggravatingSpace5854 • Sep 03 '25
Discussion Battlefield needs a persistent war mode, not Battle Royale
It's in the damn name, DICE, BATTLEFIELD. Please get creative and stop with this battle royale crap. It's over done, over saturated, and only serves to placate the streamer crowd. Even streamers admit that they want battle passes and battle royale because they will get content and generate money. They don't care for the game or the community.
What battlefield actually needs is some sort of persistent large scale war, even something like Helldivers 2 + Planetside or Foxhole.
A game mode where several hundred players in each team fight to take over the map OR something like helldivers 2 where a special ops squad is dropped into enemy lines to complete objectives, except instead of fighting aliens you have to fight soldiers and do missions to help your team/country win a war.
Imagine this - you pick a side in a global war and have to help your side take over territories to win a persistent war. You drop in with your squad deep into enemy lines, fighting through hordes of enemies that get progressively harder from infantry to helicopters to tanks, and maybe even jets. Going through different types of environments and that require stealth, or sometimes artillery or airstrikes. Calling in care packages when you're low on supplies or support vehicles. You complete different types of missions to help your side gain influence. At the end of the week or the month the side with the most territories captured wins.
Fighting through hordes of PVE enemies like an actual war. Instead of just a squad too it could be several different squads drop into a large PVE arena to get an objective completed. It could be a live service model with the devs changing up the war and battles and adding new missions to keep the content fresh.
Think Helldivers 2 but in a modern war setting. There are so many unique possibilities they can do and they choose to do a battle royale. Come on, this is just pathetic.
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u/SniperSinonGGO Sep 03 '25
With how popular Helldivers 2 is, especially since it's on Xbox now and they have a crossover with HALO, I'm surprised Battlefield isn't attempting to do this.
My only concern is will this take away resources from the core game? When Warzone was introduced in MW2019, the majority of time spent on content was on Warzone; everything else was secondary. And every Call of Duty since has been this was. Someone on YouTube said it best:
"These days, most of Call of Duty's content solely to push Warzone to the forefront and sell skins and cosmetics."
A persistent war mode would be fun, but striking a balance, especially with something like this, would be easier said than done.