What Battlefield Players ACTUALLY Want From The Next Game.. 

I want to feel like Im at war. The atmosphere of combat. Dirty gritty and violent. Nothing lighthearted. Screaming panicking soldiers and destruction. If I see quirky operators with a lighthearted tone I will actually lose my shit completely

Take Battlefield 3+4. Remove the garbage specialist system. Slap modern graphics onto that. And there you have it. A successful Battlefield game.... It really isn't that complicated.

What I want is actually military skins and more world factions on this game

Wow totally unexpected results here, battlefield fans want a battlefield game instead of a half baked hero shooter I do be surprised

bf3/4 setting with bf1 levels of scale and immersion and dice is back

No specialists!

I wish the jets would feel amazing again like they did in Battlefield 3.

A battlefield in the cold war era would be nice

The most important thing is next Battlefield should be a team-based, squad shooter where flanking and holding angles is more profitable than adhd run'n'gun movement as in cod. You try to copy cod again, you fail. It's that simple.

just give me bf4 (2)

As a console player no cross play unless we get native mouse and keyboard support.

Wheres my BF5 building feature bro? It was one of the things I actually liked about it

Still think Cold War would be the best setting The amount of tech that US and RU developed in that era, but thankfully didn’t use on each other was wild

If EA want to make faster pace "hero shooter" or battle royale game that can compete with CoD or other competetive games, they should revive Medal of Honor series, and leave alone Battlefield with fundamental mechanics that worked for years

Im not playing another BF that doesn’t have a server browser, end of story

I'm actually so disappointed that people said four instead Of 6 people for squad size. We all know who didn't play Battlefield 2

In a perfect world, my perfect recipe for a great battlefield game would be. Battlefield 1’s dark and gritty tone. Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 map designs Battlefield V gunplay BEFORE DICE decided to change the TTK and the movement because Battlefield V movement mechanics were next level. All wrapped up in a modern setting.

We want Commanders, more vehicles/aircraft, everything should be driveable, even the aircraft carriers, night maps/modes, and if you're not gonna do modern then do vietnam. And get rid of the VRAM

I recently got into hell let loose, which has big maps, slow paced and most weapons from close range one shot players When i opened battlefield v, it was so fast paced i thought i was going to have a aneurysm

In a short comment: I would like Battlefield to actually feature genuine weaponry that Military actually uses. - Be Modern and utilizes actual weapons and real life availability to Soldiers. - Have capabilities of Physics that border-line real life. (Including vests and tactical advantages.) - Complex customization. It's nice to actually feel part or create yourself into the game rather have pre-designed individuals. (Cosmetics could improve that longevity for live service.) - Physics that actually take Skill for flying, But enough to add-Skill it makes the experienced pilots have better utilization and its that chosen role. - Vehicles that actually impact or situations that can turn the tide of battle by strategy and communication. Like Most Modern FPS games, They take away from some of the realism and make it "Super soldier like." and that's very unappealing as nobody in the world is able to pick up specialty weapons and turn the tide of battle. Super soldiers don't exist. "Sorry Captain America, You're not going to be in the next video game." :/ Squad & War Thunder should be taken as an inspiration of what they could do, Without actually taking too much from the similarity... More Modern.

$10 for a premium DLC what are people smoking? Id love Premium back and ill pay at least $20 for 4 maps, 4 weapon and a vehicle. But i know premium will never come.back

We just want bf4 part2

EA have no idea what they want from the new Battlefield game.They want it to be like Call of duty for mass , but they dont want to ignore a lot of fans of the older battlefield games

For music, i dont think the new battlefield game should have a BF4 esk sountrack. It sounds scratchy and non-sensical. Orchestral music from BF5 and BF1's end of round properly incapsulated the futility of war. It conveyed an existential fear, or otherwise a bitter-sweet push for victory. It was a fitting sound for the end of times, because for many people fighting in war, that's exactly what it is. There's nothing really moving or contextually appropriate for BF4/3/2042's scratchy "shorting out soundboard" type of music when it comes to battlefield. It only ushers in the end of the round, but fails to make sense and put into perspective the end of a climactic battle. I can't even remember the ost for BF4/3/2042, because they all sound the same at the end, and the only one that even comes to mind accurately is Bf4's end theme, which as previously stated, isnt very moving. TLDR; Bf4 music is for robots. Orchestral bf1/5 music is much for human.

All I want to say guys, if you don't get all you want in the next Battlefield Don't be sad this is how it works out sometimes

It's not about WILL they, but a matter of them HAVING to deliver, last chance now. So here's hoping.

The last time I remember feeling proud of a studio was battlefield 4s redemption redevelopment. I really felt like my voice mattered in the CTE and as a result the game is now cemented as my favorite first person shooter of all time. IMO BF2042 was the nail in the coffin for many players including myself and will not be ordering the next battlefield unless the reviews are good. If it’s an abysmal launch like most people are expecting and used to it’s over for the battlefield series.

Why does the lobby count double why not do 40vs40 just a thought

I don't want another battlefield game. I have BF4

a server browser and rotating maps. no more trash disbanding lobbies.

I am 37, and it's scary that 25-34 is a bigger chunk of player base, and considering how these younger generations love this Warzone type of game, no wonder BF2042 almost went for it. I rather have those 65 year olds create input on what is good, than some 25 year old that never even touched Battlefield 3 dictate the path of the franchise.

This survey was more if the players want another BF3/4 than anything else.

Dice and EA are all new people that just sucked battlefield into the trend setting scene, I have my doubts that this game will even be what we want anymore.

- Good things from bf3 & bf4 - normal size characters & sights😂 - 72 players - 120 fov - Good anti cheat - Cross play settings (disable/enable (console only) or fully enable (console & pc) - Higher tick rate servers - Some of the BFV movements (no slide or peak spam) - Daily, weekly & community challenges - WW3 type gun & character customization - Bring back a bc2, bf3 & bf4 map every now & then

I really miss battlelog. The ability to compare how well you are playing all the way down to what city you lived in was so cool.

These are the things I want from the next BF game: -Modern setting (as in BF3/BF4) -Singleplayer campaign with missions based on real modern conflicts (doesn't have to be controversial, just believable) -Chaotic, war-like atmosphere with impressive sound design (as in BF1) -Expansive yet realistic soldier and weapon customization (as in BF4) Basically, if they could remake BF4 with some of the grittier aspects of BF1 mixed in, I would be happy. Wouldn't count on EA/DICE making that a reality, though...

I think an issue with these surveys, is what the premise of the question is. Like, if you ask someone "would you want an incredible battle royale/extraction style hyperrealistic yet approachable mode in the next Battlefield game?" -I recon many would say yes, that sounds sick if its done well. However, if you ask someone "do you think we at Dice can confidently deliver that experience without fumbling?" then the overwhelming answer would be HELL NO. And that's the problem, it's not so much whether or not people always want or dont want things, it's also just as much about whether players have confidence in the developers actually pulling it off in a good way, rather than fumble and turn the game into a joke as a result. That's often why people tend to lean more towards conservative visions for games, because conservative ideas lean on what they know works, what they believe can be pulled off again -just a bit better. It's a safer bet -especially when the game studio has proven that they are incapable of doing something unorthodox for the franchise in a successful manner. The only thing I'd actively say no to in a survey like this, would be a question of "do you want us to pursue what is trendy in the fps gaming scene" vs "do you want us to pursue what we believe genuinely would be appreciated by our core playerbase". This is the only question I would want to answer with confidence.

My expectations for "next-gen battlefield" were just insane player counts, they've banjaxed that and the community sentiment around it with god awful map design and balance decisions that I just don't think I'm ever going to want to bother with another title. I don't really care about graphics, so if the bar is just "Very pretty Battlefield that plays, at best, almost as good as BF4" then I'll just keep playing 1 and 4

Biggest things that I want to see are the removal of squad revives(only medics should be able to revive) and a return to a slower less mobile movement system like bf3/4, I feel like the ability to climb high walls breaks maps design and slide spam breaks immersion.

What we want at launch: DESTRUCTION, LEVOLUTION, NEW NOT OLD MAPS, WEAPONS WITH CUSTOMIZATION, VEHICLES, NEW NOT OLD GAME MODES, LIVE SERVICE THAT UNDERSTANDS $15 BUCKS FOR A BATTLEPASS IS PLENTY OF 💰 EVERY 3 MONTHS aka NEW SEASON. Never before seen destruction.. The best map designs ever and keep getting better in time… Weapons with attachments that make a difference.. from ammo to the muzzle to the sight and stock and so on… Vehicles that are balanced so that they take a while to get but once they are on the field FEEL AMAZING like a 2 seater jet so my co pilot can flare or shoot from the back or drop bombs.. so on A few one-three life game modes like BR or search and destroy and other game modes.. not JUST conquest or rush.. tf 😡 *SlapsHandToFace* Here we go again… no one knows what they want so they say ”BF3 remastered.. so on till we get another portal 2042 scenario or nuke town copy and paste island 1million” Here is the problem broken down: Imagine never getting BF4 or BF1 because all we got was BF3 over and over AKA: Copy and Paste……. CoD went down that rabbit hole and people got sick of it… we don’t want another remade map for at least 15 years… All we get is Conquest & Rush on maps that aren’t made for those game modes… then you can’t do anything with those maps to make new game modes for them… We want UPGRADED BC2 & BF3 & BF4 & BFH & BF1 & BFV but NEW & BALANCED & FUN with NEW MAPS, Weapons, Vehicles & DESTRUCTION all combined into one new game. Also get rid of the “Apex Legends Pathfinder Grapple Hook from 2042” and replace it with an actually Grapple Hook Gun from BATTLEFIELD HARDLINE… sheeeeesh Edit: ALSO it better have BFVs soldier movement but UPGRADED with water like Warzone 2s Al Maz map had and the swimming to go with aka WATER FIGHTS/ naval! 3 New Maps, 3 New Guns, 3 New Game Modes, 3 New Vehicles every 3 Months.

BF3 maps, BF4 weapons and gameplay, BF1 graphics and environment

Helicopters that actually crash if the rotor hits a building or tree. They are potent enough don't let them bounce off sides of buildings like in BF4.

A long term problem not mentioned is wasted time between matches. I hate how long it takes for a match to end and new match to start.

Note about the additional vehicles being made available after capturing specific flags... BF3/4 had it on Caspian Border I believe... But it worked well in BF1 in my opinion, because Behemoths would arrive to help the losing team push back. I think BF1 was one of the most balanced Battlefield entries next to BF3 and BF:BC2. Also BFV had squad call ins that would help significantly when used to either flank, clear out a building or area, or push back when you're getting overwhelmed by the other team. Sadly not enough people would use it.

All I want is the gameplay of battlefield 4 with the atmosphere of battlefield 1..

The post-launch argument is simple: Live-service is the best option. It doesn't split the community and everyone can be excited for what's to come. People are so hung up on shitting on the live-service execution of BF5 and BF2042 that it makes them hate live service in general. If a live-service season had as much content as a BF3 DLC, then why the hell would you want to have to pay for the new content? The absolute best model for post-launch support is having 3-4 maps per season, 1 new vehicles at least(with a variant for each faction), 4-5 new weapons and the occasional gadgets sprinkled in. Everything would be obtainable for free and would also be obtainable after the season's end. There would be a battlepass for $10-15 bucks that would focus mostly on cosmetics and an item shop for people to buy whatever other new cosmetic they want. Playerbase stays united, people that want to spend more money on cosmetics get to do so and everyone wins. In the end, if a game is good enough and it has a good amount of content with each update, players are more willing to spend on cosmetics. Fortnite has proven this so many times and it's probably the most succesful live-service game out there. On a last note, having to pay $10-15 on a DLC for content you might not necessarily enjoy fully, is not the best way to go(plus again it's splitting the playerbase). Like, imagine going to a restaurant and ordering a dish but you hate all the side stuff that comes with it. You wanna have that burger but the sweet potatoes and salad that come on the side, you don't really want but have to pay for anyway.

ATTACK BOATS! and Joystick support.

The great Battlefield games focused on what made Battlefield different from the others, having vehicles and big maps with good balance. BF2 overall scale, with BF1 setting and BF5 mechanics. Bring back commanders and a great squad system.

Good video. Hope DICE sees this list and the video too.

Great video Ghost and you nailed it right on the head at the end of the video, they have the data in writing, so they definitely know what we want. There are no excuses. As much as I love Battlefield and have always bought the games at release, I'm waiting this time. As hard as that will be, I don't want to be disappointed again.

i would really like a test drive function, because getting in a heli for the first time and not knowing how the thing works and dying is just not fun

The game that everybody wants it's basically battlefield. 4, if you would just take battlefield 4 and copy and paste everything that game is with newer graphics 60 Hz, custom servers and a 120 fps, you would have a perfect game. Battlefield is not supposed to be an arcade. Easy shooter, it's a competitive squad based game. With a heavy emphasis on teamwork, if you're a medic you revive people and throughout health, if your support, you throw down ammo if you're an engineer, you heal tanks and vehicles and blow up tanks and other vehicles, if you're a sniper, you're all recon that is what battlefield is and that's what this game needs to be, or this franchise is over. It needs to be a medium movement speed. No slide hopping, no slide canceling, just bare bones. Movement with the heavy infancy on teamwork and gunplay suppression needs to be a part of this game that was a staple of battlefield. It adds a level to gunfights, making you choose how to engage and when to engage and who to engage first, it adds more immersion. No hero shooter c***, no RKD type gameplay. You shouldn't be able to pick up the controller. Your first game ever playing it and drop 50 kills. It takes time and effort to learn the maps. Learn your role. Learn the guns you like to use and become effective with them. That is battlefield

What players think they want and what the franchise needs are very different things - especially when you consider the history of the Battlefield franchise where it went from an IP that was very different from CoD, to a game series that intentionally removed a lot of what made it special in order to cater to the Call of Duty fan base. In many ways Battlefield 3 was the beginning of the end as with this game EA ordered DICE to "take down Call od Duty" - for which you have to become Call of Duty in many ways. As EA and DICE continue to aim for the big payday, they will not design the next game to have a rewarding and addictive gameplay loop (like they used to prior to Battlefield 3) they will continue to appeal to the Call of Duty fanbase and provide the same blant, repetitive experience. For more on this search for "Best Battlefield To Date Shows How Much DICE Has Changed" from Battle(non)sense.

Bad Company 2 was the best Battlefield ever made. They way the maps were made for Rush game mode, the buildings around the m-comms fall to the ground one by one, advancing through the battlefield after destroying the stations. Conquest never really suited Battlefield, its a rather whimsical and weird game-mode, where as Rush keeps the intensity up throughout the game and invites players to work together instead of running around from flag to flag. Thats my opinion. I think its sad that Rush gamemode was left in the dirt...

We want BF4 again. That's it. Gunplay, movement, game modes, maps, mechanics, hitreg (I know), time setting... and on and on and on. We're still grinding BF4 after all those years. I'm so tired trying all those new titles in search for something that will replace BF4 and here I am again playing rush on Zavod.

Why am I not surprised that none of the survey questions mentioned hacking and anti-cheat measures?

Expectations are so low now in modern gaming I would be happy if it just launched in a reasonable state irrespective of what setting it’s based on!

Dice? dice is long gone. Just like old blizzard is gone.

The next Battlefield needs to go supersize, taking a leaf out of Joint Operations Typhoon Rising & escalation from Novalogic back in 2004, huge expansive maps, 200+ multiplayer environments , 100s of vehicles from attack helicopters, fighter planes, tanks, personnel carriers, boats, hovercrafts etc, all on one map, just give us everything along with all the classes ….. how this game was never replicated for a modern audience …… Battlefield need something special, they need to provide massive servers that host 100s of players per map, make it an epic sandbox experience.

It really isn’t hard to get the best battlefield game. Take the mechanics of 4 and 3, the atmosphere of 1, and maybe the movement of 5, and there you go. DICE needs to stop trying to “innovate” and just give us what we want. We don’t want specialists, or crazy skins, or battle royales, we want battlefield.

Dice has burned this bridge too many times over promising the moon and then being completely unfinished. This is coming from a BF fan since 1942. Take BF2, 3 and 4 and make it modern shooter. But dice will try to over innovate, focus on specialist 2.0 or some other crap. My advice, dont' pre order the game at all.

2:58 Gatta disagree with main mode being conquest. I feel BF3 had the best and most iconic maps and that’s partly due to the fact they were structured around Rush. You can have a good conquest map like Operation Firestorm that was built around rush but you can’t have a rush map built around conquest.

I wonder if EA or Dice give value to these charts and figures

They must be trolling how are there more people that favour 2042 over bf1 or any other battlefield game? Have they played any other bf games or are these people from the cod community?

I am a bit concerned with the lack of people caring for Co-Op/Solo. To me, that was the saving grace of 2042, BF2 and others.

great vids

Elden Ring DLC is bigger than most games and priced at 40 bucks. And it's a major success. I feel like 4-5 maps and some guns/vics can easily be priced at 10 bucks. The video game industry keeps making things more expensive. But if the product they make is good they can price it lower, by default more people will feel inclined to buy, and they can get lots of money they way. But I feel like they know the actual quality is bad and just price things higher so they can make more money by willing fewer units

I agree with all of these except the one about conquest. After playing breakthrough for the first time on BF1, I've been saying it's the perfect mode. The concentrated battles is what makes Battlefield amazing. Conquest just spreads everyone out too much or the fighting is at one/two flags.

Realistically speaking, if they released Battlefield 4.5, they'd make hella dough

Do they send these polls out to everyone? Ive never gotten an email to fill out a poll

I just want people to start playing the older games again

Lmao EA specifically didn't want players to know these results so they'd have the freedom to ignore what we want whilst still saying "we've delivered exactly what the community wanted, love letter, blah blah". They'll probably still ignore a lot but at least now everyone who has seen the poll can call BULLSHIT

Im ready for anything... including a 2042 reskin. I mean what else would you expect from an ex COD developer

All i want is an arcade millitary accurate game with 3d spotting , no BS skins with fancy looking marvel shit , just millitary skins , lot loads of maps in real places loads of vehicles...

Battlefield v had the best movement gameplay. Gun play was good aswell everything played so smooth. Only problem was its setting in wwll. I need them to use bfv movement

i love how people want premium dlc but then dont wanna pay more than $10 for it like bruh this is why we cant have nice things.

We need game like bf1 with bf5 features

To question about should there be class specific weapons the bigger question is should there be faction-specific weapons and I’d say yes. Like in Battlefield 2 it was unique to play each faction.

If they really wanted to, all they would have to do is reskin BF1 into a modern setting, and it would already be top 5 battlefields of all time. They really just have no idea what they’re doing anymore

I find this survey relatively interesting and hope that DICE not only sees the survey but also takes it to heart. There are certain points in it that have gone wrong in Battlefield in recent years. I don't always agree with the majority, but that's ok and should concern the majority. But it's important to find a good consensus and that's where DICE failed in Bf2042 and to some extent in BfV too. Even in Bf1 there are some points that a large part of the community doesn't like. The most important thing for DICE should be: No weird experiments and they shouldn't change certain core features. I'm looking at server browser, class system etc.

This is something ea would look at but do the opposite of what the community wants

If DICE actually studies this survey and is competent enough to implement 70% of the survey asks , the next battlefield might be one of the best. In not, it will be a big trainwreck level fuck up.

No server browser, no glory

The next battlefield better have helicopters that handle exactly like BF4

I'm going to be honest, based on the direction the games industry is heading and where its priorities are, I think the next Battlefield will be just as bad. The industry is just too wrapped up in manipulating gamers to milk money out of them. Achieving recurring revenue is more important than making good games for 90% of the AAA game publishers.

Remake BF3, use this as a hard-reboot foundation. Integrate BC as a spin-off, explaining this IS the war against Russia. Use BF4 as a new conflict against China, while the war against Russia still spreads. The next game, the new one in that continuity, should be open-world, with several big areas (something like METRO: LAST LIGHT did), against Russia & China, with consequences to your action, depending what you do or don't do, providing different endings.

A combination of BF3/1/5 would be the perfect Battlefield imo

I liked the movement in BFV the most, battlefield 3 and 4 and also this game can have moments of stiffness and banding not allowing fluid movement. BFV was solid in a lot of ways towards the end of the games support cycle.

Honest opinion? DICE is not the DICE we all used to love. I'm afraid they've lost "their vision" for what BF was ment to be. I don't have hopes in the next BF title. If DICE will actually surprise me and get me to change my mind i'll be more than happy to, but as of now BF is officially out of my "wait list"

Live service is already a huge L but we’ll see what happens

I would’ve loved a Vietnam battlefield

Dirty, gritty, loud, serious, tarkov level of detail maps, atmosphere!! , war torn battlefields, rusty warehouses, rail yards, dark tone

If we hear the term "modern audience" or similar its DOA

Hate modern games. Unfortunately the new generations of gamers like floaty movement like Fortnite CoD apex legends and all that crap. I miss actual “boots on the ground” movements. Very realistic feel when moving around.

When it comes to releases, the first "extra" release should be within 3 monthes. After that 6 monthes (with good content). For this to work, most of these extras for the 2-3 first years should basicly allready exist when the game launches. So the content comming in the 3 year gets to cook for almost 2 years while the 4 and 5 year extras gets a longer creation time and testing. So that it acually changes the content and game up a bit after 4 years. (Maps; I would like newer version of older maps. Like Karkand but with areas and parts that you will instantly recognize but other parts rebuilt. Then of course new maps. The destruction should be around BF3 level, that is enough and some parts levelution style. What kind of maps; Infantry / Infantry + Vehicals / Vehicals + infantry. I allso think there should be DLCs with more styled maps for Air / ground combat for those who like that. Battlefield can and should be a sum of all that was. Focused on what the community wants.) As long as we get a Battlerecorder, thats the only tool I really want. I loved to make videos from that. Thoese who answers "Like in BF2042" I think they are the new players who never tried the old games.

Dude I would love for a commander role in the next game

I just want a successor to BF 3 and 4 with modern graphics and a decent engine, also would like more factions like the UK (i'm a brit) be nice to be represented, wouldn't mind special forces being included but not sure how they would do that in terms of balance so maybe skins would do.

Dice will not deliver! They will create a game for modern gaming and will fail again.

the biggest L-takes is how the Community stands about visual recoil and supression.. why people like guns that lie to someone and to get rewarded for aiming bad xD I think BF4s later fixed visual recoil where the gun was shaking but the sight was kept at screencenter was perfect. Also BF4s supression that was only visual was the perfect way to keep the system in the game after it had too much of an impact in BF3. Maybe we can argue that LMGs should have a very slight supression effect that causes a little more spread to the enemy player. But that would require a very good touch to balance it the way it doesen't get annoying. But at least to have something to give snipers a harder time to make kills especially for modes like rush etc.

i watched a video of shroud saying that the bf team asked him and a bunch of creators their suggestions/feedback for 2042. he said they listened to absolutely none of them.