The second chapter in the ongoing Battlefield V "Tides of War" evolving journey is finally here. Earlier today, DICE and EA rolled out the changelog for Chapter 2: Lightning Strikes and with it comes a few new pieces of content, some gameplay adjustments, and more.

Please note that this update will not be out until January 15 at 4AM (ET) for PC, 5AM for PlayStation 4, and 6AM for the Xbox One.

We're looking at three new weapons, two new tanks, the addition of Squad Conquest, and some changes for the pesky little thing called "death" in the...

The release for Battlefield 5 is here!... Again!... For the fourth time!

It's November 20th which means it's time for Battlefield 5 Standard Edition to be released. This comes after the Deluxe Edition was released on November 15, which came after the Origin Access Premier release on November 9th, which came on the same day as the Origin Access and EA Access early release that allowed you to play for 10 hours.

Needlessly staggered release schedule aside, Battlefield 5 is now out for everyone to pick up and play provided you play on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, or PC via Origin.
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With today's update to the game, Battlefield V is now the first game out there to support DirectX's real-time ray tracing (DXR). If you own an Nvidia 20xx card, you may want to check it out for yourself. Or maybe don't, because the performance hit is, to put it mildly, massive.
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A trailer showing off the maps launching with Battlefield V was released today courtesy of DICE and EA.

Battlefield V is still slated to be released on November 20, November 15 for the Deluxe Edition or November 9 for Access subscribers.

You can get more details about each map by clicking any of the map names below.

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According to the just released Battlefield V roadmap, the battle royale mode for the game won't be released until at least March 2019. Talk about just handing the "W" to Treyarch and Activision with their Blackout mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. By the time March rolls around, Blackout will have had a solid five months to be refined and handle customer feedback.
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EA and DICE just released the official single player trailer for Battlefield V. This new trailer gives us a tiny glimpse of the campaign that players will get to experience for themselves come November 20.

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We already know that Battlefield V will not have any Premium Pass to bump up the cost of the game. All future content for the game, save for probably cosmetics, will be free so long as you at least own the base game. That's pretty neat.

However, a game that still does have a Premium Pass is Battlefield 1. If you own the game, then you may want to stay tuned for next week when DICE and EA will make the Battlefield 1 Premium Pass available for free to everyone for a limited time. It works like this: After the open beta for Battlefield V ends on September 11, DICE and EA will make the Premium Pass for Battlefield 1 free to everyone for one full we...

EA and DICE just announced that they have pushed back the release date for Battlefield V until November 20, 2018. This places the release at a period that's about one month after its originally planned October 19 release date.

General manager of DICE Oskar Gabrielson, made the announcement today with a lengthy explanation as to the reason why.
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According to the multiplayer portion of the Battlefield V website, the co-op focused "Combined Arms" mode for the game will be released after the game's launch.

This mode joins the battle royale mode as being yet another piece of content that won't be ready for Battlefield V's launch on October 19. Hell, for a long time there, it was also rumored that the much discussed Grand Operations mode would also miss the October launch as well, but DICE was quick to squash that piece of misinformation.

You know, and maybe this is just crazy talk here, it is okay to delay the release of Battlefield V. Maybe give it some more...

Just a week ago, a number of news stories popped up about weak pre-order sales figures for Battlefield V. We were also among the many outlets that put up at least one story about this. Many of us even went so far as to say that EA's decision to sandwich Battlefield V's release between the year's two most anticipated titles were not doing the game any favors. And while it's still probably true that the earlier lack of marketing and the release date aren't really doing Battlefield 5 any favors, it also might not be selling as badly as we thought. On August 14, an analyst at Cowen said that "pre-order sales of Battlefield V have been weak." What we didn't know at the time, is th...

The open beta for Battlefield V begins on September 4 for those that pre-order the game and on September 6 for everyone else. This open beta will be available to everyone on the PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

This beta will include the Rotterdam map on Conquest mode and the Arctic Fjord map on Conquest and Grand Operations. DICE and EA showed off some Rotterdam gameplay a few days ago. This is the same footage that they're showing off this week at Gamescom 2018.

In addition to this beta news, it was revealed today that Battlefield V will make use of Nvidia's RTX tech for real-time ray tracing.
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The latest Battlefield V trailer features footage of intense fighting on the Western Front of WWII, while a cover of House of the Rising Sun plays. That is certainly an interesting choice for a song. I'll give them that at least.

Hey, whatever. It's a new trailer for Battlefield V and it's precisely the sort of thing that was needed.

This trailer is for Gamescom 2018, which is being held next week. The footage below includes a look at look at some previously unannounced maps, such as the "streets of Rotterdam" and the "burning sands of North Africa."

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Less than a day after EA executive Patrick Soderlund announced his departure from the company, comes word that pre-order sales for Battlefield V are not doing all that well.

Analysts at Cowen say that "pre-order sales of Battlefield V have been weak." These thoughts from Cowen come courtesy of Sarah Needleman, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

Cowen feels as though the release date and a lack of marketing are really hurting Battlefield V. They say that "Battlefield could suffer the same fate as EA's 'Titanfall 2'."

As it stands, Battlefield V's release week is pinned smack dab between Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of...

Yet another big Battlefield 1 mystery has been solved, this time leading players to unlocking the unique Peacekeeper revolver weapon. In order to even have a chance of unlocking this weapon, you had to have completed one of the previous Easter eggs hidden in the game that awarded you a dog tag. In addition, you also had to complete a different secret that gave you a special weapon skin for the Support class. So you do that, then you do some stuff in the River Somme map that involves Morse code and the series of numbers 0627. Then you need to find a switch hidden in a building, then some more number stuff in a console. This reveals a dog tag that leads ...

We have some new gameplay footage for Battlefield V today courtesy of YouTubers Westie and jackfrags.

Westie's footage focuses on fortifications and destruction in Battlefield V. On the other hand, jackfrags shows off some Grand Operations gameplay....