Battlefield is EA's long-running first-person shooter franchise that's seen tremendous success over the last 16 years. It's been primarily developed by Swedish company EA DICE, with some spinoffs created by the likes of Visceral Games. Though it is often seen as a direct competitor to Call of Duty due to its release window and gameplay genre, mainline Battlefield titles release every 3-4 years as opposed to Call of Duty's annualized releases. Many people love the series for its destructible environments and larger scope when it comes to mapping scale. The fights tend to present themselves in a lot more grandiose of a fashion. When it comes to a cadence in terms of release it's really hard to pin down a pattern for mainline titles in the series. Because they release so sporadically from one another Battlefield mainline titles are often supplemented by a heavy dose of post-release content. This has recently come in the form of a season pass in which players can purchase all the downloadable content upfront at a reduced price. A new entry in the series is right around the corner and set to release in 2018 according to a new press release from EA. This seems to have been in the cards seeing as the internet has been abuzz with rumors for the next title in the series. Like many other games, it's hard to sift through all of the rumors and apparent leaks about Battlefield 5. Let's now take a look at 25 current Battlefield 5 r🔜umors EA and DICE don't want fans to know about.

25 Back To The Future 🔜 🐼

We've seen in recent years that the first-person shooter audience has grown tired of future warfare in the Call of Duty series. Both Call of Duty and Battlefield have seen recent entries go back to both WWI and WWII respectively. Rumors suggest that Battlefield 5 may be heading to the future. Some fans believe this is a terrible move and could see Battlefield 5 get trounced by Call of Duty in the Fall of 2018 worse than it usually does.

Others believe that DICE can make future warfare refreshing and feel like something we haven't played before.

These rumors also could be based on older information about the game in its early stages. EA a🍒nd DICE could 🦂have shifted directions once they saw the market shift in interest towards future based shooters. Only time with tell I guess.

24 🔥 No Campaign, Big Problem

Over recent years there has been a growing belief that due to the success of Destiny, Rainbow 6 Siege, PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds, and the like that substantial single player campaigns may be on the way out. A rumor suggests that the Battlefield series may ditch the single-player campaign entirely in favor of working on a new and exciting multiplayer mode. The last Battlefield titlജes featured a 4-5 hour ♑campaign sliced up into vignettes that tell individual stories that connect to the overarching narrative.

It would be quite surprising if DICE decided to ditch it completely, but we could see it get reduced even further.

Th🌠ough we may see the reduction of single💟 player games during this time it doesn't mean they'll disappear completely, or not return stronger than ever once this industry fad cools off.

23 𒉰 I Got Frostbite 💦

Is this the year that EA allows their studios to finally move away from Frostbite? In reality, this means that EA would have allowed DICE and other studios to move forward years ago. The Frostbite engine has been a huge area of concern for both fans and developers. EA has seemingly forced all of their devs to create unique and engaging experiences in an engine primarily developed for first-person shooters. Fans have argued that t🃏his limits what the sports titles, and to some extent Viscꩲeral's Star Wars game, and made development harder, more stressful, and ultimately not an effective trade-off in the long run. It's understandable why EA would want everyone using the same engine, but it seems that it would be in their best interest to not go forward with this type of forced commitment.

22 Alternate History🤡 WW3

One of the coolest settings in video games is when a developer takes the known events of the past and tweaks them in new and exciting ways. Alternate history is fascinating when the storytellers play with the ideas of science fiction and seeing how things would have turned out if the balance of power and/or technology was shifted. This is what makes the Wolfenstein series that features Germany advancing in technology super quickly and rising to immense power so interesting. It'd be hard to see the Battlefield series go all in on alternat♋e history, but it could make their campaign and multiplayer modes that much more interesting. Also, alternate history could be done in very subtle and realistic ways as to not turn it into a complete piece of science fiction.

21 🥂 Ba☂ttlefield Two

Naming conventions are not exactly a perfect science and companies far too often decide to get cute, rather than make any tangible sense. For a majority of the series, Battlefield had a solid naming convention. The mainline series was numbered from 1 to 4, up until 2016's Battlefield One. This took the industry by surprise and made it confusing as to whether this was a soft reboot, a mainline game, or a spinoff. The "One" in Battlefield One obviously refers to the war in which the game takes place, but why did they do this? Spelling it out makes it confusing, but that doesn't mean we won't see this continue. Rumors are speculating the next title will take place during WW2 and be called Battlefield Two and not Battlefield 5. As if it couldn't get any more confusing.

20 Battlefield Zombies 🍎

Though neither company will ever say they're directly competing with one another, it's obvious to see that Battlefield and Call of Duty look at each other in terms of inspiring innovation and creativity. Players have long yearned for DICE's take on Call of Duty's ultra-popular zombie game mode. It's a play on the classic horde mode that tends to feature whacky characters and some pretty astounding easter eggs along the way. Considering the tone Battlefield takes with their games it would be odd for them to include zombies in a ma🌃inline title. Then again this mode could be a piece of downloadable content and thus would separate it🍷self pretty easily from the main theme and tone of the game.

19 ꦡ ও By Land Or By Sea

Naval battles are something the Battlefield audience has wanted for ages. It makes sense considering Battlefield has an emphasis on vehicles and large-scale combat, those being the things that truly set it apart from Call of Duty and the like. People have wished for years that one of the entries is more coast or oceaꦡn-based and gives players the ability to engage in full on naval combat.

This would be an interesting addition to the series but doesn't seem that far off in terms of it actually happening.

In 2016 Battlefield One gave players the ability to control a zeppelin as a team. They could introduce the same mechanic but with a naval combat ship attacking a base on the beach that serves as the map. Though the current consoles are mighty powerful it's hard to see a game where two giant ships could engage in combat with the number of players Battlefield has in a given match.

18 Battlefieꩲld 1985 (Cold War) ꦚ

When a franchise has been running as long as Battlefield has it tries to find new and interesting places it could take the series. If the next Battlefield were to take place during the Cold War and possibly be called Battlefield 1985 or Battlefield: Cold War it could do just that. Focusing on the last 6 years of the Cold War could add a beautiful crescendo to the game's campaign. Given our current political climate and the United States weird relationship with Russia as of late, it could be a nice look in🌠to historical events involving the Soviet Union and the United States. The Cold War is an area that has previously been explored in video games but nowhere near to the extent of each World War. It would be a nice variation if DICE decides to keep the series in the past via historical events.

17 ꦇ Battle Royale Mode

Yes, you knew this was going to be on the list. Fortnite and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds are selling at an alarming rate and the zeitgeist seems to be never-ending. It's blasphemous to think large publishers aren't brainstorming ways to make a battle royale mode of their own and place it in current projects. People assume this very mode will be making its way to Call of Duty, but Battlefield honestly makes way more sense in terms of what they already developed. DICE is familiar with creating large maps and tend to have slower gameplay. Even though a decent amount of the community is turned off by the thought of a battle royale mode in a Battlefield game it's hard to deny how perfect a match it is. How likely do you think it is that Battlefield 2018 will have a battle royale mode at launch?

16 🀅 Time For Some New Blood

We all assume that whenever a new Battlefield game is released that it will more than likely have DICE's name attached to it. They're as synonymous with one another as any company and game IP can be. As of late, there was a sizeable Battlefield experienc🌺e developed and released by a non-DICE stuꦦdio.

This game was, in fact, Battlefield: Hardline and was developed by Visceral Games, a studio EA recently closed down unceremoniously.

Could we be looking at EA adopting the Call of Duty model slightly and develo♋ping a cadence of releases between DICE and other developers? That may not necessarily be the case, but it isn't crazy to believe that EA wants to cওash in even more on one of their longest running and most consistently selling franchises in their entire catalog.