DICE itself pitched the return to the Pacific theater as a return to the franchise's roots-even today, a new trailer released for the addition of Battlefield's classic Wake Island map (coming December 12) pushes the nostalgia angle once again. It's been an abrupt shift in tone: when the War in the Pacific season started, the response from the Battlefield 5 community was largely positive. "We sat here, told you the meta would become zerging, that it wouldn't work, and we were right." Other posts currently sitting high on the Battlefield 5 subreddit include memes comparing the FG-42 rifle to toy guns and, with over three thousand upvotes, an edited version of the War in the Pacific trailer mocking various 5.2 changes and bugs. "We told you weeks ago this was a bad idea," reads one widely upvoted post.
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In the patch notes for the 5.2 update, DICE broadly describes the balance changes made to Battlefield 5's arsenal as "focused on addressing the damage values of weapons over range." The update tweaks most weapon classes save for bolt action carbines, sniper rifles, and anti-materiel rifles.
Now, with yesterday's release of the 5.2 update-a continuation of the War in the Pacific seasonal rollout-scores of Battlefield 5 devotees are airing their frustration on social media over significant changes to the game's balance. Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 both focused on modern day military combat.Is there something you think we should be reporting on? Email last year, DICE made a balance change to Battlefield 5's time to kill (TTK) that was widely met with scorn from the community. Apart from this, the new Battlefield 5 update 1.19 also includes tweaks for weapons, vehicles, and soldier behavior and more. Furthermore, the developer has also addressed the current. EA Games has thrown quite a lot of work into this update, which can be confirmed judging by the long list of patch notes. Being the final update, it estimates to bring two new maps, new gadgets, vehicles, and nine new weapons. Released in November 2018, Battlefield V was the second consecutive series entry to focus on the World Wars of the early 20th century. According to the official Battlefield 5 version 1.19 patch notes, the new update adds content for Tides of War and the Armory, as well as several quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. Battlefield 5, as announced before, is coming very soon. EA said in October 2019 that the Battlefield 6 release date will fall between April 2021 and March 2022. The studio will then likely reallocate resources to the game’s sequel. which monitor analytics to identify cheating, enhanced investigation processes to stamp out cheaters, updates to strengthen account security, and more. Writing in a recent blog post, DICE Senior Producer Ryan MacArthur explains that As we look to the future, we will release one more standalone update this summer that brings with it some new content, weapons, and game tweaks. “Libya is our internal codename for a map that features in this summer’s update,” DICE added. Battlefield 5 New Content Updates Are Coming to an End. Providing some further details on Twitter, DICE said Battlefield V Chapter 6: Into the Jungle, which launched in February and concludes on April 29, will be the last Chapter released for the game.įollowing this summer’s update, Battlefield V will receive no new maps, weapons or factions, it confirmed.
Original story continues: “We’re still tackling the challenges from working from home and will let you know how things progress for us over the next month,” McArthur wrote on publisher EA’s website. According to the developer, it will release one last content pack for the game which is slated for June.The studio states it will include new content, weapons, and game tweaks.
DICE has announced it will cease updating Battlefield 5 with new content past summer. Update, June 3: DICE has announced that Battlefield V’s final major content update will launch on June 4. One last content update will arrive in June for Battlefield 5. DICE is targeting a June release for the update, although it could arrive later than hoped.