EA’s upcoming Battlefield game may have a free-to-play battle royale mode, just like Call of Duty. Sources reported this to trusted insider Tom Henderson. The studio is said to be aiming for an October 2025 release.

The next game should return to the roots of the Battlefield series, Insider Gaming’s Henderson reports. The game should feature multiplayer matches with up to 64 players, return to a four-class system, and the destruction systems will also be overhauled. The game will be set in the modern era, sometime between 2025 and 2030, according to Henderson’s sources, and Battlefield will also have a “strong story focus” on modern technology used in warfare.

The battle royale mode is being developed by Ripple Effect, the former DICE LA company. According to Henderson, EA wants to make this mode free-to-play and thus follow a similar strategy to Activision with Call of Duty: Warzone. The game currently has two battle royale modes, including the classic battle royale mode and a mode called Gauntlet. Teams of players compete against each other Goals Existing goals. The team with the lowest score is eliminated from the game round at the end of each “task”.

EA previously confirmed that the next Battlefield game will not be released before 2025. There are several studios currently working on Battlefield “experiments.” For example, new studio Ridgeline Games is working on single-player campaigns for the series. The most recent game in the series, Battlefield 2042, was released in 2022 to mainly negative reception.