{"id":11101,"date":"2011-04-05T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-play4free-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11101-battlefield-play4free-now-live","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield: Play4Free now live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield: Play4Free is now live, available to PC gamers. With roots in the acclaimed Battlefield franchise of competitive online FPS, Play4Free should have the right genes to deliver a compelling gaming experience.<\/p>\n<p>Battlefield: Play4Free combines the most popular maps from Battlefield 2 with the popular classes &#8211; Engineer, Medic, Assault and Recon &#8211; and powerful weapons of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. There are 16 different vehicles including the Mil Mi-28 attack helicopter, its nemesis the F35 VTOL jet fighter, the massive Russian T-90 main battle tank, and the hard to catch LSV light strike vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The game supports up to 32 players per match and will use the progression system and weapon and equipment unlocks familiar to Battlefield veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The game can be obtained from the Battlefield: <a href=\"http:\/\/battlefield.play4free.com.\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Play4Free website\">Play4Free website<\/a>. Unfotunately there will <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/8403-reveals-Battlefield-Play4Free.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"no dedicated servers for the SA region\">no dedicated servers for the SA region<\/a>, but with a bit of luck and some tight net-code, the game may be playable on international servers.<\/p>\n<p>What is unique about Battlefield: Play4Free is that it has been  touted as looking like a AAA game, with senior producer James Salt  telling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2010-11-05-on-the-battlefield-hands-on\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eurogamer\">Eurogamer<\/a> that &#8220;We think people will be quite surprised at the quality,  actually.&#8221; He went on to say, &#8220;colour grading, film grain, and depth of  field effects: we&#8217;ve got all that stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like Battlefield: Heroes, Play4Free will make money from  micro-transactions, although Salt is well aware that the majority of  gamers &#8220;won&#8217;t want to spend a cent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with Battlefield Heroes, the stuff we&#8217;re selling are weapons and  clothing customisation items for the most part,&#8221; said Salt. &#8220;With  clothes, it&#8217;s only if you want to look really, really badass. With  weapons, it&#8217;s much more about balancing: this gun is really fast, but  it&#8217;s got no grip; this one just looks really cool. It&#8217;s always a  personal choice and it&#8217;s never going to unbalance the match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Players can also rock out on the battlefield to the latest song &rsquo;Age of Rage&rsquo; from Swedish heavy rockers CORRODED. The single is featured in the game and the launch trailer. &lsquo;Age of Rage&rsquo; will be included in the band&rsquo;s upcoming second album, &lsquo;Exit to Transfer.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CgU39ftkuE0?version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CgU39ftkuE0?version=3\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free version of Battlefield has gone live across the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}