Oh god, Operation Metro is again. Battlefield V‘s newest map, Operation Underground hits the WW2 shooter today, bringing back Battlefield 3’s most notorious below-ground massacre. Grim-faced veterans will shudder at reminiscences of Paris stalemates. A Sisyphean loss of life march for on the offence, a point-and-click machine gun journey for defenders. Fortunately, Dice have invested in public infrastructure this time round, and promise a extra seamless journey in your commute to carnage.
Operation Underground ditches the Parisien Metro look of its predecessor, choosing a extra German affair down within the U-Bahn. But whereas the flavour of trains and tiles have a extra Berlinesque sheen this time round, Underground continues to be the tightly-packed slaughter tube it was eight years in the past. Mostly.
Bringing the unique Metro designer on board, Dice have realized a couple of issues since Battlefield 3’s murder-tunnel. The builders promise extra flanking routes to maintain subway stalemates at bay. The trailer sneaks a peek at a few of these, together with a submerged service tunnel for amphibious assaults. Should you break by way of the ticket limitations on the different aspect, thoughts, there’s nonetheless a complete bloody Nazi palace to storm. War, because it occurs, is difficult. Who knew?
It appears to be like like most of Underground’s subway automobiles are additionally utterly destructible, providing candy explosive vengeance to anybody who’s ever been sardine-packed on the central line on the top of a summer season heatwave. Oh, London. I’m in you so hardly ever, but you all the time know simply the correct technique to destroy my day.
Operation Underground launches at the moment, kicking off a month of Battlefest 2019 festivities. Top up your journey card, as a result of there’s a particular Underground problem requiring common subway rides for brand new weapons and cosmetics.
The subsequent three weeks will get you charging into Rush mode and getting your boots muddy in infantry-focused trials, culminating in an enormous end-of-month grand problem. Dice are tempting the group with a private, moveable anti-aircraft rocket launcher if they’ll rack up a mixed 100,000,000 kills or assists.
There’s even a nifty wee badge up for grabs for anybody who logs in over the following month. War, huh, what’s it good for? Pretty little medals, I suppose.
