Planet Battlefield writes: "Earlier today, Easy Studios General Manager Ben Cousins spoke at DreamHack and gave a presentation on Battlefield Play4Free. He revealed some new things about the game such as tech trees and also some unedited gameplay footage. Screenshots of his slides can be found below.
If you are interested in watching a video of the presentation you can find that here. Gameplay footage starts at about 38:50
* 5 second respawn time
* Possibility of LAN support if enough people want it.
* Dedicated servers through providers like Battlefield Heroes..."
"EA's free-to-play titles are shutting down in 90 days."
I always meant to check out Battlefield Heroes, but I always ended up turning back to Team Fortress 2. I guess I'm not the only one.
Such a good feeling to know a game I'm still playing 3 and a half years later is still making enough money to keep going for many years yet :)
Easy Studios - the other guys that make Battlefield games - have introduced the classic Battlefield game mode Rush in Battlefield Play4Free. The game mode is live as of this morning, ready to play right now.
Rush Mode, if you're not familiar with it, is an objective-based game mode in which players take turns defending and attacking points on the map. The defending team begins with 2 M-COM stations that need to be defended, while the attacking team is bent on destroying them. Attackers can either successfully plant charges on the M-COM stations or inflict enough heavy damage to put them out of commision.
First-Person and Third-Person Shooters quickly became one of the most appreciated subgenres in the free to play segment, offering the great quality usually seen in some triple-A titles. Better still, some of those triple-A games are gradually becoming free, such as Team Fortress 2 or APB: Reloaded.
Here is a great Top 10 of Free to Play Shooters for 2012.