Battlefield 5’s fortifications and towing are its gameplay-changing features

Battlefield 5 has two new major features, DICE today confirmed: fortifications and towing.

Fortification

Each of the game’s four classes will come with a building tool, allowing for fortifications to be constructed, DICE has confirmed.

“You can now counter destructive powers and rebuild to open up new strategies,” Senior Producer Andreas Morell said.

Support characters will be the most proficient with building fortifications, though any class can take part. Players can use the fortification system to build resupply stations will be at every flag, allowing for ammo, gadgetry and health replenishment.

Fortifications provide “your ability to reshape the battlefield; to bring back cover,” DICE’s Ryan McArthur added, confirming that destroyed buildings can, at least partially, be reconstructed.

“Players can build machine guns, sandbags, buildings that have been destroyed,” he said. “This will really change how Battlefield 5 plays.”

Towing

Towing will let players tow stationary weapons around the battlefield.

“You can do drive-by shootings with an anti-aircraft gun hooked up to a vehicle,” McArthur said.

“At the beginning of every Conquest map, stationary weapons will be loaded at your HQ. You can bring a vehicle back and tow it now,” Design Director, Daniel Verlin, added.

Tanks can tow an AA gun as an example, “building a sort of micro-train,” Verlin confirmed.
Sounds fun.

Battlefield 5 heads to Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4 no later than 19 October.

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