New Battlefield Game Has BF Portal Devs Working on “New Experience;” Large Scale Community Testing Program Launching Early 2025

Following yesterday’s new Battlefield game concept art reveal, EA seems to be ramping up on the game’s hype a bit, as new details about the in-development title has surfaced during today’s EA Investor Day presentation.

Group GM of the Battlefield franchise Byron Beede went on stage to address the four studios working on the game. In case you didn’t know, we reported back in May that there are four first-party EA studios working on the upcoming Battlefield game. This time around, Beede confirmed each studio’s involvement:

• DICE – Multiplayer
• Criterion Games – Single-Player & Multiplayer
• Motive – Single-Player
• Ripple Effect – Working on a “new experience.”

Based on past games in the franchise, DICE Sweden is once again heading the multiplayer part of the game with Criterion helping out (especially with vehicle gameplay). Motive, which developed the excellent Dead Space remake, is heading the single-player campaign, while Ripple Effect Studios which worked on Battlefield 2042’s Battlefield Portal mode is working on something new. Could this be a new iteration of BF Portal in the new Battlefield game? Perhaps another stab at battle royale? We can’t say for sure for now.

In the same presentation, Beede also showed off two new screens for the new Battlefield game as well. While they’re obstructed a bit with text, you can still see a good part of it.

Beede mentioned that they’ve been playtesting the new Battlefield game almost daily for “well over a year” and how this time around, they are focusing on their “keep green” initiative, which means they are targeting software stability, so the game is always playable for playtesting. Furthermore, Beede confirmed they are already testing with players, and what’s more, they are planning to introduce a “large scale community-driven testing program” early next year! Beede says this should give EA more feedback on gameplay, performance, and fun factor,  and should help in what the studio chief calls “finding the fun” like never before.

Finally, Beede concludes by saying everyone at EA are “all in” on Battlefield, and how the franchise and the players deserve their best.

More Battlefield Reading:

• Vince Zampella: Battlefield “Absolutely Can” Outsell Call of Duty; BF2042 Was Not a “Failure” But They Don’t Want to Repeat Same Experience
• New Battlefield Will See the Return of Classes and No Specialists, Don’t Expect 128-Player Matches Back
• New Battlefield Concept Art Officially Revealed, Return to Modern Setting Confirmed as BF3 & BF4 Mentioned as “Peak of Battlefield-ness”

[Thanks, DANNYonPC!]

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