Fans are offering valuable feedback to the DICE team

Jun 12, 2013 16:09 GMT  ·  By

Aleksander Grondal, a producer working on Battlefield 4, says that the DICE team has increased the number of players in a squad to five in order to give gamers more options when it comes to tactics and to respawning.

He tells Joystiq that fans have been the ones asking the development team to make the squads bigger.

He adds, “We believe five is a good figure. It allows for more team-based gameplay, basically. You have more options and you can spawn in more places.”

Grondal says that he actually does not remember why four players became the squad default for the Battlefield series.

The multiplayer modes for the fourth core game in the shooter series were revealed at E3 2013, including the new commander mode.

Battlefield 4 will be launched on October 29 in North America and November 1 in Europe.