14 DAY TRIAL // Battlefield 4 developer DICE has talked a bit more about the new first-person shooter and emphasized that the game's online mode would have new features, designed to promote teamwork and fighting alongside a squad.
Battlefield 3 delivered a great online experience and millions of fans are still enjoying the online mode of the first-person shooter.
For Battlefield 4, developer DICE wants to drastically improve on the different mechanics of the game, as well as to introduce new features or slightly tweaked older ones.
One of these new mechanics are the Field Upgrades, which make a comeback from Battlefield 2142, although they've received a few new aspects.
"In short, Field Upgrades are chained boosts that can affect a number of gameplay mechanics for your player. Similar to the specializations in Battlefield 3, these can for example provide you with faster sprint speed, stronger personal armor, or expanded ammo capacity," DICE's Lead Multiplayer Designer, Thomas Andersson, said on the BF blog.
Field Upgrades will be awarded to players only if they engage in teamwork and fight alongside their squad during battle, instead of charging off as a lone wolf, according to Andersson.
"The idea behind Field Upgrades is to give individual rewards for squad based team play performance. You earn them through squad scoring such as squad healing, completing objectives with your squad members, squad resupplies, squad repairs, and other squad actions," he added.
"Instead of one single specialization like in Battlefield 3, you can now pick from different upgrades paths, each containing four specializations. Keep the squad alive, and you will move through the accumulative upgrade path. But watch out! If your entire squad is eliminated, you will lose some of your progress."
Battlefield 4 is set to incorporate a wide array of new mechanics besides Field Upgrades, like Levolution, which allows players to drastically alter the design of a level by blowing up buildings and more.
The game is out for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One later this year.