Whereas EA has been testing out the following Battlefield sport by way of its sequence of Battlefield Labs playtests, the corporate has been comparatively quiet with regards to revealing too many particulars concerning the title. In response to a current report, content material creator Doom49 has seemingly revealed that the sport shall be named Battlefield 6. The report comes courtesy of a Reddit person who was capable of screenshot Doom49’s image of an enormous field with the Battlefield 6 brand on it earlier than the content material creator deleted the put up.
Of their put up, Doom49 revealed that they had been despatched the care bundle as a part of a sponsorship take care of EA, more likely to do with the upcoming multiplayer shooter’s impending announcement and launch. Assuming this isn’t simply an elaborate hoax, Doom49 additionally doubtless deleted their put up after being contacted by EA itself.
All issues thought of, nevertheless, the corporate is anticipating to launch Battlefield 6 a while later this yr. Maintaining this in thoughts, EA doubtless has plans to formally unveil the sport quickly. Nonetheless, the corporate is but to launch any touch upon the leaked title of its upcoming Battlefield 6.
World senior director of built-in communications for Battlefield, Andy McNamara, had confirmed by way of a social media put up that the interior schedule nonetheless has the official unveiling of Battlefield 6 to occur earlier than the tip of the summer time. Since summer time technically ends on September 23, we’d find yourself seeing the sport get its first trailer throughout Gamescom’s Opening Evening Stay occasion.
The truth that Battlefield 6 is slated for launch appears even likelier due to EA CEO Andrew Wilson expressing optimism concerning the sport’s launch since Grand Theft Auto 6 bought delayed to subsequent yr. When requested concerning the state of the business and the corporate’s plans for Battlefield, Wilson referred to the launch window as being “clearer than it was earlier than”.
“Relative to Battlefield, what we’ve got stated all alongside is we’ve been constructing in the direction of a window that we thought made probably the most sense for Battlefield, however we wouldn’t launch right into a window that we thought truncated the worth that we’ve invested into the franchise, or the worth that we predict our gamers will derive from it as soon as they leap in and begin taking part in,” he stated. “I feel now, with out going too far, we consider that window is clearer than it was earlier than and we really feel excellent about launching Battlefield in [financial year] 2026.”
Within the meantime, EA, together with the assorted builders engaged on the following Battlefield sport, have been holding playtests for the upcoming title. Simply final month, a report had come up concerning the playtest model of Battlefield getting an enormous 13 GB replace and bringing with it help for options like Nvidia’s DLSS. The replace, gamers famous, had additionally modified the Pre-Alpha in-game watermark to only being Alpha, which might point out that improvement on the title has been progressing at a good tempo.
Nonetheless, there have additionally been reviews of a number of elements of the event of Battlefield 6 dealing with fairly a little bit of bother, together with its single-player marketing campaign, in addition to the general title’s lack of ability to hit inside milestones.