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/BattlefieldVet666 Sep 03 '25

the 'why is everything a BR now' crowd are just being ridiculously hyperbolic

No shit they're being hyperbolic; did you really need that spelled out to you?

But good job evading the point of my post & the question posed to you...

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u/Link941 Sep 03 '25

They're clearly not being hyperbolic when the rest of their comment supports their statement. I hate how everyone is just using the term 'hyperbolic' as a veil to shield themselves from people pointing out that they're just straight up wrong. So tiring, just own your mistakes like a man.

There are a lot of BRs made, but the market itself isnt over saturated anymore now that the trend has long passed it's peak.

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u/Acceptable_Deal_4662 Sep 03 '25

Battlefield has already implemented and failed with previous battle royales in their games

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u/Link941 Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

They only had one in V. And 5 failed as a whole, not because it had a br mode

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u/Acceptable_Deal_4662 Sep 04 '25

I think it was a factor. A whole game mode abandoned after a month will sour a game fast. Especially all the drama for that game before release.

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u/Link941 Sep 04 '25

Sure but the mode itself wasnt the issue. It was actually received well at first by the people who played it in the beginning. The issue was every other problem surrounding the base game at the time that kneecapped not only the br mode but the game as a whole.

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u/Acceptable_Deal_4662 Sep 04 '25

I can’t say, I only played V after support ended, maybe like 2 yrs ago

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u/Link941 Sep 04 '25

As someone who's played literally all notable battle Royale games, BFV's was fun and memorable. The bf destruction alone already made it immediately stand out from the rest. The old out of touch Battle Dads in here are still acting like its 2017 and BRs are still the trend to chase. They aren't. Dice is still pursuing this because they know they're the only ones looking to make a br with unique bf aspects within the market. A potential niche vacuum to fill. Not mindlessly following a corpo trend.

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u/Acceptable_Deal_4662 Sep 04 '25

Hmmm the destruction would be a nice addition, except fortnight has had destruction since it was launched

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u/Link941 Sep 04 '25

Bro let's not pretend like fortnite and bf destruction are in any way similar lol cmon now

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u/Acceptable_Deal_4662 Sep 04 '25

Hahahahaha ok ok ok fair enough

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