Some details from the next entry in the Battlefield series has been supposedly leaked.
According to the leak on Chiphell forums and reported on by WCCF Tech, the game will be set in China during 2020 and will run at 720p at 60FPS on next generation consoles. The details will apparently be confirmed in the next issue of Edge magazine. The game is due in November 2013.
Three factions will be featured in the game – China, the United States and the PLA – and the singleplayer campaign is expected to run in at 5-6 hours.
In the multiplayer, the next generation consoles (and PC) will get 64 players while the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will stick to the familiar 24 player setup from Battlefield 3.
Battlefield 4’s multiplayer maps are thought to include Diaoyu Island, Tianamen, Shanghai Bund, Xizhimen and Xizhimen Rush. The series Commander system is expected to make a return while the skill system has been significantly overhauled. The game will feature microtransactions though they will not affect the balance of the game.
The title’s DLC will bring four maps to the game; Dalian Power Station, Daping Oil Field, The Great Wall of China and classic series map Wake Island.
Each of the maps in the game will be subject to “various weather conditions including fog, sandstorms, rain and haze with these being completely random according to the leak.”
Battlefield 4 is being developed on Frostbite 2.5 and features Destruction 4.0 – allowing for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 style effects – tessellation and dynamic weather affects. As with Battlefield 3 the next entry in the series’ primary platform will be PC. Earlier reports had suggested DICE were aiming for 1080 P and 30 FPS on PS4 and Xbox 720. The PC version of the game will include DirectX 11 compatibility.
The game is expected to be officially revealed at GDC next week, so wait to see how much of this is confirmed then.
