Summary
Team members behind theBattlefieldfranchise are now utilizing the Battlefield Labs community development collaboration to enhance the destructible environments in the next game in the series, and it’s helping them to make a lot of upcoming improvements. The developers want destruction in the nextBattlefieldgame to feel more balanced than in the past, and having actual players navigate their testing areas seems to be providing good results.
WhileBattlefield Labs' first playtestin early March was centered around gunplay, movement, and the performance and stability of its servers, the development team has moved on to destructible environments and how players will be able to use their world-reshaping capabilities to find new paths and surprise enemies. In a new, official community update onSteam, the developers state that they want this latest round of testing to provide them with a better understanding of how destructible environments can truly enhance the gameplay experience. This includes an understanding of which environments should have the capability of being destroyed, how destruction can fit into players' tactical strategies, how to balance the next game’s ecosystem, and how collateral damage caused by destroyed buildings and objects should affect players.
Battlefield Labs in Shifting its Focus to Destruction
Along with its written announcement, the development team has shared a short snippet that showcases the improvements made toBattlefield’s destructive environmentsso far. After an explosive is fired at the side of a building, the exterior wall crumbles, exposing several rooms that can be accessed. Beyond that more basic movement feature, the short video touches on a few other points that the team has highlighted in its latest set of community notes. These include the “apple core” method of destruction, which breaks away specific parts of a building as damage accrues, as well as showcasing how collateral damage from debris may play a factor, as a large chunk of wall crashes and embeds itself in the ground mere feet to the right of where the player who fired the projectile had been standing.
Battlefield 2042reviewsfrom fans and professional critics alike found a lot of problems with the game, and the stale-feeling nature of its destruction was a frequently brought-up topic. Moving forward, the developers have announced their ongoing tests through Battlefield Labs will give heavy scrutiny to destruction, and they will continue to take in and process player feedback to provide a more fulfilling experience.
