Tanks will cause swaths of destruction in Battlefield V.
Tanks will cause swaths of destruction in Battlefield V.
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Battlefield V gets building with fortifications, but this isn’t Fortnite

Battlefield V will feature more destructible buildings and environments than ever before thanks to the latest refinements to DICE’s Frostbite game engine, according to the game’s developers.

Electronic Arts announced details today for Battlefield V, which will return in October to the setting of the Second World War. And the new features for destruction and fortifications should change the way you play this first-person shooter.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.