A YouTuber named AlmightyDaq is attracting attention with a new video called
Battlefield 2018 Leaked
Insider information. According to this, the next installment in the military
shooter series will be
Battlefield: Bad Company 3. Believing this seems like a
stretch at first, since this is only the third video posted to
that channel
in over a year. But this carries some extra credibility since one of the
previous videos there is called
Battlefield 2016 Leaked Insider information, which turned out to be a
detailed and
accurate prediction of DICE's plans for
Battlefield 1.
VG247 offers this summary of details from the video:
Now, he claims
he has insider information about DICE’s next Battlefield, which he’s confident
is going to be Battlefield: Bad Company 3. According to his source, the game is
going to take place in the mid and post-Vietnam War era, up to the Cold War.
There’s going to be a campaign, with missions taking place throughout these
conflicts, though he adds it’s not going to be historically accurate. The choice
of era could mean that the lovable squad from the first two games may not
return, though he didn’t have anything to say about them.
Multiplayer will bring back the focus on tighter maps, compared to Battlefield 1
and 4’s all-out war themes with larger maps. Conquest, Rush, Operations, and
even smaller modes like TDM ,and Domination are all returning.
The choice of the era will naturally affect the weapon roster, which, according
to his source, will also feature Battlefield 4 levels of customisation. Vehicles
include tanks, LAVs, helicopters.
There’s going to be at least one new mode, which he says is similar to Squad
Obliteration from Battlefield 4, supporting ten players in 5v5. Maps will be
comparable in size to Bad Company 2 maps like Harvest Day, Oasis, and Grand
Bazaar from Battlefield 3. In short, small-to-medium maps offering condensed
action.
The four main classes in Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon are all
returning. AlmightyDaq does say that Bad Company 2 may bring back the Battlepack
system, but there’s no plan to add microtransactions, though he says the
backlash Star Wars: Battlefront 2 received factored into this.