Battlefield V will include Airborne, a new multiplayer mode in which players will parachute out of planes and work as squads to destroy enemy targets. EA announced Airborne in a tweet Thursday along with a piece of concept art that features dozens of canopies opening in the sky behind combat aircraft.
It’s a simple and familiar idea at this point: You and your squad will jump out of a perfectly good airplane and float down to the battlefield below. On the ground, you’ll be tasked with taking out enemy artillery positions or defending them against attackers. It sounds as though defenders may also have anti-aircraft guns to crew, as EA says they’ll have to “make sure the threat from above is dealt with.”
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That’s the extent of the official information EA’s provided about the mode. And sure, jumping out of planes in squads sounds a little old hat after the past year of battle royales, but with Battlefield V’s World War II setting, having airborne operations represented in the game could hardly be more thematically appropriate.
Market Garden is probably the best-known large-scale airborne operation of the war. But Market Garden’s objective was to secure bridges on the Rhine River, as any good Close Combat player knows. The context for Battlefield V’s airborne mode may be Operation Varsity, in which elements of the U.S.
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