New Battlefield Will See the Return of Classes and No Specialists, Don’t Expect 128-Player Matches Back

Following the reveal of the new Battlefield game’s concept art, Vince Zampella, who now heads everything Battlefield at EA, has confirmed that Specialists won’t be returning, as the game will see a return to a more traditional class-based system!

This was confirmed by Zampella who said, “So I wasn’t there for 2042. I don’t know what the rationale was, but for me, it’s like the team tried something new. You have to applaud that effort. Not everybody liked it, but you got to try things. It didn’t work. It didn’t fit. Specialist will not be coming back. So classes are kind of at the core of Battlefield, and we’re going back to that.”

When it comes to player counts, it seems 128-player matches won’t be returning as well with Zampella stating, “Yeah, the 128 player, did it make it more fun? Like…doing the number for the sake of the number doesn’t make any sense. We’re testing everything around what’s the most fun. So like you said, the maps, once they get to a certain scale, become different. It’s a different play space, and I think you have to design around that. So we are designing something that is more akin to previous Battlefields…I’d rather have nice, dense, really nice, well-designed play spaces. Some of them are really good. I can’t wait for you to see some of them.”

Both of the confirmations are good ones in my opinion. While DICE did manage to turn things around for Battlefield 2042 eventually, it did take a long time and in the process of doing so, a lot of players moved on already. Thankfully, this time around, we won’t have that problem. Will we see DICE feature more than four classes this time around outside of the medic, assault, recon and support? We’ll know for sure once more details about the new Battlefield game are revealed.

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[Source: IGN]

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