Battlefield 6 Producer Admits 2042 Was 'Missing' The 'Excellence' Of Predecessor Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Battlefield 6 shaper Jeremy Chubb says fan-favorite Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was a "huge inspiration" for processing the shooter's upcoming instalment.

In an interrogation with PC Gamer, Chubb identified Bad Company 2 arsenic "excellence successful [Battlefield's] legacy," and admitted anterior instalment, Battlefield 2042, "was benignant of missing" immoderate of the destructive elements that the bid is celebrated for.

"When you look for excellence successful our legacy, [Bad Company 2] is wherever you find it," Chubb said. "That crippled peculiarly delivered connected a level of fidelity and a benignant of intimate destructive experience. Blasting retired a azygous wall, bringing down a partial building, oregon full buildings. It was comprehensive, and it felt similar the individuality of that crippled much than thing else.

"We cognize that was benignant of missing from our past game, and we truly wanted to spell backmost to that."

If you're anxious to find retired if he's right, the bully quality is that you don't person to hold long. An unfastened beta goes unrecorded connected August 7, and volition tally for 48 hours. Further 48-hour tests volition besides motorboat connected August 9 and August 14.

"Battlefield 6 casts its eyes backmost to the series' champion years, mixing what we loved from the likes of Battlefield 3, and Battlefield 4, but is this resurrection of past glories really exciting?" we asked successful IGN's Battlefield 6 preview. "From resurrecting its halfway people operation of Assault, Support, Engineer, and Recon, to whether oregon not Battlefield's staple crippled modes similar 64-player Conquest are inactive conscionable arsenic amusive arsenic before." Read connected for much connected wherefore we deliberation BF6 feels similar a "safe, yet explosive instrumentality to the shooter's past."

First announced mode backmost successful 2021, Battlefield 6 is retired connected October 10 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S (although EA presently has nary plans to bring Battlefield 6 to Nintendo Switch 2, unfortunately). Unlike Battlefield 2042's lukewarm reception, fans look beauteous pleased with what they've seen truthful far, and for rather immoderate time, EA wasn't adjacent trying to instrumentality leaked assets down.

We precocious got a look astatine the shooter's upcoming conflict royale mode which, according to erstwhile leaks, is acceptable successful California, with insertion via CH-47 Chinook. The destructive ringing is seemingly made retired of a compound called "NXC.” Despite the rumors, however, Battlefield 6 won't beryllium $80, but it whitethorn see skill-based matchmaking.

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