Battlefield 5 has been delayed

Battlefield V has been delayed by a month. A tweet from Battlefield’s official Twitter account posted earlier this afternoon confirms that the game will now launch on November 20, a bit of over a month after the initially deliberate launch date of October 19.

In an replace linked inside that tweet, Oskar Gabrielson, basic supervisor at developer DICE, confirmed that “Battlefield V will have a new launch date,” and provides a number of the reasoning behind the corporate’s resolution. Gabrielson says that over the summer time at exhibits like E3 and Gamescom, in addition to within the game’s closed alphas, “we’ve had tens of thousands of players get their hands on the game.” While a number of the suggestions from these gamers has already made its means into the game, there’s apparently nonetheless work to do.

All these gamers have “spurred us to make some meaningful improvements to the core gameplay experience, including adjusting the gameplay tempo, improving soldier visibility and reducing player friction.” These modifications will make their means, not directly, into the open beta that begins subsequent week, on September 6.

Gabrielson says that the crew is getting ready for extra suggestions from that beta, and are transferring the launch date “to take the time to continue to make some final adjustments to core gameplay, and to ensure we really deliver on Tides of War.”

It’s additionally value stating that, in addition to permitting for extra time to develop, transferring the Battlefield V launch date again places the game into a really completely different launch window. Now, it’s closest main opponents might be Hitman 2 and Fallout 76, two very completely different games interesting to largely completely different audiences. In October, nonetheless, Battlefield V – which has already been connected to rumours of poor gross sales – would have needed to compete with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, in addition to the discharge of Red Dead Redemption 2.

You can take a look at Gabrielson’s full statement here. This clearly implies that the Battlefield V launch date has modified, so that you’ll now have to attend three extra months to get your palms on it. To maintain you occupied till then, take a look at our gameplay footage of the game’s Rotterdam map within the video above.