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EA prepares community tests for new Battlefield game as it follows Skate's lead

February 3, 2025, 08:30 PST The community testing initiative Battlefield Labs has now been confirmed and a short gameplay montage of the new Battlefield game has been revealed.


We've been waiting eagerly for news on the next Battlefield game for quite some time now, but that's just changed. Back in September, EA's Vince Zampella, who took charge of the series following his work with Respawn Entertainment on Titanfall and Apex Legends, revealed some initial details. Along with the confirmation that the currently untitled new Battlefield game will return to a modern setting after the yo-yo back and forth between Battlefield 1 and V's World War I setting and the near future of Battlefield 2042, he also mentioned plans for a community testing program. Now, the publisher has revealed a short snippet of early gameplay and fully unveiled Battlefield Labs, its huge pre-launch playtesting initiative.


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This is Battlefield Labs

Welcome to Battlefield Labs.

We'd like to invite you to join us for our most ambitious community development collaboration ever. This is an opportunity to provide feedback, validate the future of Battlefield, and have a direct and lasting impact on the next generation of Battlefield games.

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Our collective Battlefield Studios teams have been hard at work and are now entering a critical phase of our development cycle, where your feedback is crucial in helping us know what to prioritize, improve, and refine before release.

[h2]What Is Battlefield Labs?[/h2]
Battlefield Labs is a place for us to test concepts and experiences we’re excited about with you, our players. We want our community to play a key role in the future of Battlefield and this is an opportunity for many of you to do just that.

We will test (almost) everything but not everything you see will be complete. To ensure that your feedback has impact, players will experience, under NDA, different pieces of an unfinished puzzle so we have time to incorporate your feedback into the final product.

Even in pre-alpha, we are proud of where the game is at. We tirelessly playtest, but your feedback will supercharge our development as we strive to hit that perfect note between form, function, and feel.

This is an unprecedented moment for Battlefield. We will start by testing the pillars of play, like core combat and destruction. Then transition to balance and feedback for our weapons, vehicles and gadgets, ultimately leading to where all these pieces come together in our maps, modes, and squad play.

And yes, we will be testing Conquest and Breakthrough, the heart and soul of our all-out warfare experience, but BF Labs will also be a place to explore new ideas and fine-tune and improve Battlefield pillars like our class system (Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon) to create deeper more strategic play.



[h2]How do I get involved?[/h2]
Sign up now. To form an accurate snapshot of our community we need a variety of players - veterans and new recruits - ready to play and feedback on our vision for the future of Battlefield. Initial invites will be limited to a few thousand participants with servers located in Europe and North America. Over time we’ll invite tens of thousands more with support for further territories.

Regardless of your level of participation, we want all Battlefield fans to be a part of the process. We’ll be posting work-in-progress public updates from our community team where you will hear directly from developers at Battlefield Studios.

Visit battlefield.com/labs for more information on how you can sign-up.

There will be ample opportunity to play and converse around the next Battlefield ahead of its launch. This is just the beginning.

Until then, join us on the official Battlefield Discord as it’s our prime way to stay up to date on all things Battlefield!

Let’s build Battlefield together.
//The Battlefield Team

This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue developing and evolving our Live Service & Content. We will always strive to keep our community as informed as possible.

BATTLEFIELD 2042 UPDATE #8.4.1

Today we have a small Quality of Life Update taking place with Update #8.4.1, this is a fast following update centered around resolving some of your feedback since Update 8.4 and the introduction of two IFV’s to All-Out Warfare with the M3A3 Bradley and BMP-2.

//The Battlefield Team

Community Calendar
Discover a wide variety of Community Events, Featured Experiences and Double XP moments taking place on Battlefield 2042 via our frequently updated Community Calendar!

Stay Informed
Follow us on Reddit and @Battlefield to stay informed on the latest news, and on @BattlefieldComm for the rollout of updates and other live service changes. Join the official Battlefield Discord server over at discord.gg/Battlefield!

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
  • Fixed a few different situations where aiming down sights would not properly zoom in your view to the correct magnification. This could for example happen when you ADS quickly after a reload or while jumping between seats in vehicles.
  • Switching between the first and second stance of the driver seat with the IFV now has a brief cooldown time before the weapon is ready to fire.
  • Guided missiles on the IFVs will now interact with the flares like the rest of the missiles.
  • Improved Warhead ability now correctly applies the increased damage on the BMP.
  • Slight adjustment to the damage relation between the vehicle and other assets.
  • Reduced AP rounds damage relation vs medium armored vehicles.
  • Draugr now has hints for its free-look input.
  • SD. KFZ 251 vehicle now correctly tracks wheel damage when disabled.
  • Fixed an issue where under certain scenarios, the player could bypass the grapple hook cooldown.
  • Fixed an issue where The Swift Harvest Skin obscures the 1.25 Iron Sight of the Target 8T Sight on the DM7.
  • Fixed an issue where Paik's "Gwisin" headgear flickers when used with "Quantum Shift" body.
  • The Scatter Grenade now tracks properly in the statistics tab.




This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue developing and evolving our Live Service & Content. We will always strive to keep our community as informed as possible.

This week in #BF2042 👇

🔸 Conquest Unlocked
🔹 2042 All-Out Superiority
🔸 Team Gun Master 2042
🔹 #FNB - BF3 vs BC2



🔗 go.ea.com/BF-calendar





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