New Battlefield Leak Reveals (Extremely Brief) Look at the Start of a Battle Royale Match, as EA Issues Takedowns

Despite the non-disclosure agreements, Battlefield leaks are inactive coming accelerated and freely via its closed playtest. The astir caller leak has revealed a peek astatine the upcoming shooter's free-to-play conflict royale mode.

Battlefield dataminer Temporyal (via Insider Gaming), took to societal media to stock much unannounced details, including grounds that the representation is acceptable successful California, insertion is via a CH-47 Chinook, and the "destructive ringing [is] made of a compound called NXC." We're not yet wide connected the lore down wherefore it's determination yet, though.

The info comes attached to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it seven-second introductory cutscene that seems to amusement a squadron of helicopters heading towards a conflict portion successful a mode that'll look acquainted to anyone who's spent clip with Call of Duty conflict royale Warzone.

The Battlefield playtest has proven to beryllium leaky indeed, and developer DICE has "loads of feedback from the precise progressive testers selected." Unlike Battlefield 2042's lukewarm reception, fans look beauteous pleased with what they've seen truthful far, and for immoderate clip EA wasn't adjacent trying to instrumentality them down. That's changed somewhat since, however, though there's inactive plentifulness of accusation astir if you're speedy capable to drawback it earlier the takedown notices spell out.

So far, we've seen grounds of a caller resistance mechanic and the quality to cling connected to vehicles, arsenic good arsenic improved in-game movement, 3D maps, and improved destruction.

EA has been playing its cards beauteous adjacent to its thorax astir the caller Battlefield, and we inactive don't cognize when, exactly, it volition launch. But EA's past fiscal study suggested it'll travel retired by the extremity of March 2026.

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