Battlefield 4- Field Upgrade rewards system detailed

Battlefield 4 will encourage teamwork gameplay to a whole new level by introducing a new feature called Field upgrades. These are basically ‘chained boosts’ that are rewarded to players for completing a team-based action.

According to the lead multiplayer designer, Thomas Andersson -”if you’re a long term fan that played Battlefield 2142, you will already have an idea what these are, but we have tweaked them for Battlefield 4. 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.”

“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. 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.”

EA has confirmed Battlefield 4 will be released on 29th October in the US and 01st November in the UK on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 .

Source: Battlefield Official Blog