The Battlefield website was updated with a short blog detailing the immediate future of Battlefield 5. The blog focused on a single summer update coming after the May update. And that summer update is set for June. And that date is going to include some new content, some new weapons and some games weeks alongside that, there will be weekly rewards of battlefield currency and company coin to unlock some items that you might have missed through the battlefield. Five types of war. There will be some events and activities as well. But beyond the end of chapter six, there will be no Chapter 7 that that’s the end of it. Chapter six is the end of the life support for Battlefield 5.
Apart from this June update, there will also be continued work on the A.G. with the DICE team working to try and rid the game of bad actors. And there will be future settings turned on for the community games feature as well. So players will be able to make their own matches and there will be more options coming in the future. But there’s no date set for that update beyond all of that. But although five is done, the official battlefield Twitter account tweeted this following a clarification of their article. There will be no new chapter, but there will be a standalone update this summer with new content, weapons and game tweaks. That’s it. The life service with Battlefield 5, based on the information that we have here, it will be finished as of June 2020.
The only real information that we have about this June update and what we can expect is this image right here. It’s the map in Africa, somewheres in a desert. At least it sort of looks like the leaked map called Al Marje encampment, which was a 5v5 map for the ironically cancelled 5v5 modes. That’s basically all we’ve got. Balfour lives done. I am a bit shocked, to be honest. I thought Dice might continue their support for this game into the summer of 2020 and then maybe cover the rest of the year as well. Perhaps that support might not have been a strong towards the end of the year as it was with the Pacific late last year.
Obviously that was a massive expansion, but the more time went on I thought that maybe 2020 would just kind of fade out for Battlefield 5. Some updates to keep things running. Maybe a new map or two weapons spaced out to fill the time, but that’s just not going to be the case. It is disappointing. It’s extremely disappointing. The game support is being completely ended, but the longer you think about it, the more you realize that this has probably been on the cards for quite some time. Battlefield 5 has been dogged from the very start with controversy and negativity, and rarely at any point during its life cycle has there been a time that I can say that the game was performing as we expected and it was keeping us entertained.
There is only one time where I can say that was true. And that’s the release of the Pacific. There was a five or six week window where Dice did deliver a solid experience and expansion, introduced a true World War 2 battle set up to new factions, a whole new host of weaponry and vehicles, and an atmosphere that actually matched the conflict that was being depicted. It’s also worth remembering, though, that the game was severely rushed out. The game appeared to be developed in a much shorter time frame than previous sightings, and that showed in the quality of the product when it launched and the continued issues that just kept cropping up time after time during the live service and the support.
Perhaps the signs were there with Chapter 6 launching with just one map and a few new weapons. Almost no plan to add any more content to the game. During the chapter was that the sign that Dice was already working towards the end of the road for Battlefield 5? Maybe we’ll probably never know for sure. I’m pretty confident no one’s ever gonna tell us that. But what we can say is that there were at least plans to keep working beyond the end of chapter six up until recently to go into Chapter 7, maybe even beyond all of the data mined information that’s been covered by temple yowl that has been suggesting that there might have been something more coming after Chapter 6, maybe a new theater of war.
There was talk about another Pacific map, potentially some more weapons, and some of that content may still arrive in the June update. We have to remember there is one more update coming, but right now we dont really know because Tice hasn’t been specific as to what any of that content actually is. The blog itself, it doesn’t speak to anything beyond the June update. It doesn’t make any commitments about anything beyond June. And that likely tells me that Dyce is not currently in the position to tell us anything about what is coming next for the franchise.
We are a long way from. Speculated launch day of the next battlefield game, Battlefield 6, Battlefield 20, 21, whatever you want to call it. The speculation is that it will launch around October 2021 and usually announcements or teasers of the next game. They come in the early months of the year that the game is due to launch in so March, April, May time. So realistically, if you’re a battlefield fan or a follower of the franchise.
It Battlefield 5 was a perfect example of what a battlefield game shouldn’t be, where the core values of the franchise. Two decades of games built on those core franchise pillars, they were largely missed in Battlefield 5. I’m hoping that a decision of this magnitude to cancel support for this game that’s been taken. Firstly, because Dice felt that the time was better spent working on the next battlefield game where they thought they could do a better job.
And secondly, because they realized that Battlefield 5 simply wasn’t the game that they wanted it to be. The narrowing and almost complete removal of the classic battlefield sandbox, the Rock-Paper-Scissors game play the complete connection between air, land and sea. Battlefield 5 only possesses that in very small quantities and they only show up very infrequently. Balfour Favors is such a departure from what Battlefield is supposed to be that perhaps there’s something in the decision to simply stop working on it and move on.