Battlefield 1: Multiplayer Will Have Maps And Modes That Will ‘Fit’ The World War I Era

“We’re crafting some modes that look at the era, and we make the mode fit that era,” he said.

With Battlefield 1, DICE are finally returning to their strengths, crafting a historically authentic sandbox multiplayer shooter experience that emphasizes dynamic and emergent gameplay over linear narrative based campaigns.

This is good to know- on the whole, modern Battlefield games simply wouldn’t fit with the kind of game that would be necessary to make the World War 1 setting work believably- and it’s good to see that DICE is also cognizant of that fact.