If you’re going to die (repeatedly) someplace, it might as nicely be scenic, and I’m glad to explain Battlefield V‘s new map – Mercury – as a treat for the eyes. Released today in a free update, it’s impressed by Operation Mercury in 1941, a German assault on the island of Crete. What this implies is a big map that equally fits infantry, plane and armour. DICE reckon that followers of Guadalcanal from Battlefield 1942 may really feel a pang of nostalgia enjoying this one. Below, an replace trailer the place they do this intelligent Battlefield factor the place the weapons are percussion.
You can see the total, official breakdown for this new map here. There’s a number of verticality, onerous stone partitions and buildings to assist maintain infantry out of the line-of-sight of prowling automobiles. Despite this, there’s nonetheless loads of room for tanks to roam and for planes to swoop across the periphery of the battlefield. If you’re enjoying in Conquest mode, the 5 seize factors run the gamut, together with a cliff-ringed cove, a scenic home overlooking all the map and a dense (if destructible) village. The subsequent map will even give attention to Greece, and might be named Marita.
EA have thus far performed a very good job sprucing up Battlefield V after launch. Last month, they rolled out a significant replace (full update notes here) which made an infinite variety of small tweaks to the game, plus just a few main ones. Probably the largest change is to falling. When touchdown from a soar or vault, you may crouch to roll and scale back fall injury by 40hp. If you’d somewhat take the injury and begin capturing instantly, you may stand upright and solely have your purpose shaken for a second.
EA additionally boosted the XP payout of the Firestorm battle royale mode, elevated the well being of downed gamers, and elevated the utmost armour plates to 5 (from three), which ought to maintain groups alive longer. Dead squad mates in automobiles can now be revived, too. The most up-to-date main replace (notes here) made much more infantry quality-of-life enhancements. You can now bind a button (both maintain or toggle) to lean round cowl manually, the place beforehand automated.
The replace needs to be dwell now. Battlefield V is available on Origin for £55/€60/$60, which appears particularly steep for the UK. It’s additionally out there as a part of the Origin Premier subscription.
