EA very excited, big trailer, new idea unlocked: Alpha Testing. Introducing Project - bla bla, or whatever

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#1  Edited By uninspiredcup
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Testing a game, with a pretentious name with gun to the head feigned enthusiasm to make it sound like they are testing out a secret new weapon or some shit, working on launch.

Wow! These guys are next level.

Are you excited Battlefield fans? Are your endorphines shooting up into your brain giving you little tingles?

Need for Speed and Burnout developer Criterion is now entirely focused on developing EA's next Battlefield game, the publisher has told Eurogamer - but there are still plans for the studio to return to its racing roots at some point in the future.

Back in September 2023, EA announced that the "majority" of Criterion would move over to support development on the next Battlefield game, while a smaller "core group" within the British studio continued on with Need for Speed.

At the time, Battlefield boss Vince Zampella said Criterion's Need for Speed team would continue work to "shape what's next for the franchise"

"Surprise! We're still here," developer Criterion Games wrote in a blog post in February 2024, when it celebrated Need for Speed's 30th anniversary with the announcement that Unbound would be supported until the end of the year.

Today, it sounds like what's next for Need for Speed is still some way off - even if there's a commitment to the series long-term.

"The Need for Speed team at Criterion are joining their colleagues working on Battlefield," Zampella said in a statement to Eurogamer today. "As a company, it was important to us to take the last year to listen to our Need for Speed community and use their feedback to create content for Unbound.

"With an increased understanding of what our players want in a Need for Speed experience, we plan to bring the franchise back in new and interesting ways."

Once an annual stalwart of EA's release schedule, the Need for Speed series now looks set for an extended break, with no new game seemingly in active development.

With no new title waiting in the wings for 2025, Need for Speed will be paused for the longest time between releases since the series first began, all the way back in 1994.

Criterion is currently one of four EA developers working under the umbrella of Battlefield Studios to reignite the publisher's first-person shooter franchise. As of today, fans can sign up to a large-scale test of the next Battlefield game.

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#2 uninspiredcup
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Footage, looks like another BF game. And stuff.

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#3 R4gn4r0k
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Of course I'm excited, I have been playing Battlefield since the Wake Island demo for 1942 and have made some life long friends along the way.

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Looks like a mix between BF3 & BF4 so that's DAM GOOD!!!!!! Battlefield is back baby!!!!!!

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#5  Edited By DaVillain  Moderator
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90% of Battlefield games look mind-blowing with their montages, but completely fall flat at launch. I hope Battlefield: Bad Company makes a comeback if that's what EA is going for with the level of destruction environments.

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#6  Edited By WitIsWisdom
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That short 14 seconds looms WAY better than anything in the past 3 games they've released in the BF franchise. Hopefully we can get BF4, Hardline, BF3, or BFBC type gameplay and leave the overly shaky camera cinematic bs long in the past.

On another note, why do all game devs say "expurience"? Just saying..

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#7  Edited By judaspete
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I can't say Im excited, but I am glad Criterion gets to do more than just churn out Need for Speeds. Feel bad for most studios stuck on one franchise.

Need for Speed taking a break is also good in my book. I like a lot of those games, but you could tell the annual and even biannual releases constantly took a toll on the whatever team kept getting stuck with the thing.

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#8 R4gn4r0k
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@davillain said:

90% of Battlefield games look mind-blowing with their montages, but completely fall flat at launch. I hope Battlefield: Bad Company makes a comeback if that's what EA is going for with the level of destruction environments.

Main thing that bugs me is that this actually has a military theme: you can see M4 carbines, M3 abrams, soldiers that wear appropriate attire.

But I just know the game upon launch will have a store and look like this:

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I’ve tried to get into the Battlefield games several times and they just never hook me like the Call of Duty games do.

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#10 AcidTango
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I hope they go back to their roots. Also I want to see a lot of destruction just like how Bad Company 2 did. And for god sake give us plenty of vehicles to use. I hate that in recent BF games where it takes forever to grab a tank while the much older ones had plenty of them for people to use.

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#12 Last_Lap
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Cups thread titles are getting too predictable as I knew it was from him before I clicked on it. Maybe try inspired hey cup to put us off the trail 🤣🤣🤣

As for Battlefield, just not my thing.