The next Battlefield game will launch somewhere between October and December this year. While we’ve heard a ton about the game’s scale and level of destruction, a new rumour suggests that Battlefield 6 may not include a story campaign.
According to renowned Battlefield leaker, Tom Henderson, in its last earnings call EA said nothing about the game’s campaign and only spoke about the multiplayer modes and various other features of the upcoming game.
"I had to look back at the past EA earnings calls, but this is the first earnings call where EA has not mentioned a campaign coming to this year's Battlefield," he said. "Could be something... Could be nothing. As I've mentioned for the past couple of months, I'm yet to hear of a campaign. It doesn't mean there isn't one, but it's very, very unusual to not hear of one in an info dump."
There could be various reasons for the omission of the campaign, the biggest being the ongoing pandemic which has spread resources pretty thin. However, this is speculation as of now, EA has not confirmed that there will be no campaign in the upcoming game.
Despite being touted as a "truly next-gen experience" by EA CEO Andrew Wilson, the company has confirmed that Battlefield 6 will also come out on last-gen consoles along with PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
"The reference specifically from our prepared remarks is around the nature of gameplay, what we can do with fidelity of the game, what we can do with physics, artificial intelligence and the immersive nature of the game," said Wilson on the earnings call, to clarify his statement.
Despite all the rumours and speculation, we still haven’t seen an official reveal for the upcoming Battlefield game. We’ve seen leaked screenshots of an island with a few buildings and a storm brewing in the distance. They also include a number of aircrafts. This is in line with earlier reports of the multiplayer map which will change dynamically according to the weather and other stimuli.
According to the band 2WEI, which has previously worked on Battlefield 5, we were supposed to see a trailer for a game it worked on sometime last week, however, no Battlefield trailer dropped.