Battlefield: Play4Free

EA's announced a realistic first-person free-to-play PC Battlefield game set in the modern theatre of war and designed to appear to hardcore shooter fans.

 

It's called Battlefield: Play4Free, and looks like a cross between Battlefield 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – indeed it employs the fourth generation of the PC engine that was used to create BF2, Battlefield 2142 and Battlefield Heroes.

 

Unlike the cartooney Battlefield Heroes, released last year, Play4Free is a gritty military FPS. It's created by the team behind Heroes at EA's free-to-play division at DICE, Easy Studios.

 

There's vehicular warfare, sandbox gameplay and 32-player battles. It combines popular maps from Battlefield 2 with familiar classes and weapons from Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It's got 16 vehicles, including the F-35 jet fighter and the Russian T-90 tank.

 

It also simulates the career progression of a professional soldier. Players can learn skills, buy new equipment and weapons to craft a unique soldier.

 

Visually, weapon models from Bad Company 2 are used. Post-processing effects like film grain, colour grading and depth of field are also included.

 

With Play4Free, Easy's aimed to create a fast-paced modern shooter for fans of the likes of Bad Company 2, Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.

 

"We're filling those other moments in the day," Easy boss Ben Cousins told Eurogamer.

 

"Maybe you want to play a single-player game on console. Maybe it's you and four buddies playing in a squad on console. This is more about you jumping in with 32 players, maybe playing against strangers, a bit more of an RPG experience, more of an MMO way of approaching things.

 

"On the surface, it looks like, why would I ever play a console title again? But there are differences and different moments there, I think."

 

Like Heroes, however, Play4Free will employ a micro-transaction-based business model.

 

"Five per cent of the audience buy stuff. 95 per cent of people never spend any money at all," Cousins explained.

 

"Five per cent want to customise their character, they want to look cool, they want a slightly cooler weapon, they feel they can get advantage over other players by buying stuff. Those guys fund the experience for everyone else. It's a classic free-to-play business model, which we're really comfortable with and we've got really good at now."

 

There will be links between Heroes, Play4Free and Battlefield 3 in the future, "to reward you for keeping in the ecosystem and jumping from game to game."

 

If you hit level 15 in Heroes, for example, you could unlock an exclusive item in Play4Free. If you hit a certain level in Play4Free, you could get access to special content in BF3.

 

Closed beta sign-ups start today, with the closed beta opening on 30th November. The game goes live into open beta early next year.

Trumpai: EA anonsavo naująjį Battlefield serijos žaidimą - Play4Free. Taip, jis bus nemokamas, tačiau išleistas tik PC platformai. Žaidimo žemėlapiai bus iš BF2, o visi ginklai, klasės ir kt. - iš BC2. Žaidimą numatoma išleisti kitų metų pavasarį.

Šaltinis: Eurogamer.net

Below is a a summary of everything we know currently about Battlefield Play4Free compiled from twitter, the press release, and interviews / previews.

• Goes live in Spring 2011. Beta launches November 30
• 32 players
• 16 vehicles including Mil Mi-28 helicopter, F35 VTOL jet, Russian T-90 tank, LSV light strike vehicle
• Engine is 4th generation PC engine 1. BF2 2. BF2142 3. BFH 4. BFP4F. Can get super high framerates at hi resolutions
• Weapons, classes, armies of Bad Company 2 (Assault, Engineer, Medic and Recon). RPG system of Battlefield Heroes. Maps, vehicles of Battlefield 2. New sounds, animations, characters.
• No relation between Battlefield Online. Bfplay4free is a unique game built by the BF Heroes team.
• PC only, but will run on your PC, even if it isn't a dedicated gaming rig.
• Battlefunds wallet is shared between BF Heroes and BF Play4Free
• Fully customizable avatars
• "Many of the maps also come from Bad Company 2..." -Gamespot
• Character costumes, boots etc purchasable, but nothing to give an advantage like BF Heroes
• Karkand is a launch day map. Smaller and different layout
• New unnamed gamemode - "Play4Free will ship with a new mode that revolves around capturing a series of flags and then holding them long enough to start earning points. The more flags you have, the quicker you earn, and the first team to reach the target level wins." -Eurogamer
• Size will be around 500 MB

Negalvokit, kad taip lygiai su visais žaisit nemokamai, garantuotai kūrėjai jau yra sugalvoje, kažkokį planą, kad pasidaryt pinigų, nieko neperkantiems abonentams išnaudot ginklus galės minimaliai, nes sugalvos apribojimą, kad jei nori ko nors pasiekt ar būt šustresnis tai pirk kažką. Tas pats buvo su nfs:world, dabar sako išvis nemokama padare, bet vistiek yra toks dalykas "boost" už kuriuos tu moki tikrus pinigus ir per žaidima gali iškart nusipirkt vos ne geriausias mašinas.

kiek as supratau is video , tai buvo minima kad kostiumai ir visa kitka bus paimta is BF heroes ,o grafika ir Klases bus is BF:BC2 paimta

kiek as supratau is video , tai buvo minima kad kostiumai ir visa kitka bus paimta is BF heroes ,o grafika ir Klases bus is BF:BC2 paimta

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Listen up soldiers, it is absolutely imperative that you read this!

 

You may remember the last time we asked you guys to test our servers. Well, things didn't turn out quite as well as they could have, so it's time to try and hit that big 10k once again.

 

You ARE soldiers after all, the best of the best, and we know you can dig in and get the job done.

 

As soldiers you are expected to be able to fight it out regardless of weather conditions or location, and oh boy do we have a location for you. You will be heading to an area of the middle east... but maybe you know it better as the "Oman".

 

 

That's not all though, with new territory and the need to alter tactics comes a whole new set of toys for you to use the wreak havoc on your enemies.

 

JETS!

Rule the skies and show ground vehicles and infantry alike what a metal, weapon toting bird in the sky can do. Become an aerial ace once again and put these high speed precision monsters to some good use.

 

BOATS!

Take to the water and hit the beaches hard, your enemies will never see it coming.

 

HELICOPTERS!

Grab the vantage point by dropping our team mates of before the enemy has time to position themselves or set the battlefield ablaze with these whirling tools of disaster. Support your ground troops and make those enemy tanks wish they had never left their base.

 

Yes folks, not only you'll be able to have fun shooting each other, but you'll do be able to do it in boats, jets and Helicopters all in the comfort of the sunny "Oman!"

 

So, if you want to help us stress our servers to the limit by playing on an epic new map, make sure to join us on:

 

Saturday the 29th January, between:

18:00 and 21:00 (CET)*

At ease Soldiers,

 

It’s time for another update from BFP4F HQ. Today I will talk a little bit about the new map release. As you might have read already, the new map Oman will be released on Saturday the 29th of January. On Oman, the US forces arrive by carrier and launch an all out assault on the Russian controlled airfield. On Oman you will be able to take control over attack jets, attack helicopters, transports helicopters, boats, basically the whole shebang that modern war hardware has to offer. It’s quite a lot of new stuff really, and we are extremely excited about showing you this. As always, we look forward to reading what you have to say about it, so please keep that constructive feedback coming.

 

For this release we want you guys to be able to test out the vehicle systems properly, so all vehicle training will be unlocked for the time being. Once the Tier 2 Training release hits Soon™ restrictions will be added and you have to train to use the various systems. If you are a real aircraft nut, there is of course support for joysticks! (see pic from my desktop where I am configuring it on the updated controls screen)

 

Adding so much new stuff as we do these days, there will bugs. If you do encounter any of these nasty creatures, please report them on the forum. Once reported we will get to them as soon as possible.

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