Conquest mode is still a crazy free-for-all in Battlefield 1 multiplayer

When I first heard that Battlefield 1 was going to be set in World War I, I shook my head. I thought that the multiplayer combat would be very slow paced. The weapons would be very unsatisfying and mostly ineffective. And the sessions would involve a lot of walking and running to get to the action.

Thankfully, I was wrong. The 64-player Conquest Mode in multiplayer is a crazy battle, where 32 players fight 32 from the other side. Everywhere you go, even in a big map, you run into combatants. I played a series of sessions after Battlefield 1 debuted Friday on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC. And I’m quite satisfied that this is still a real Battlefield game. Fans are going to be OK with it, if they liked all of the past Battlefield games. In just about every match I’ve played so far, I’ve had some kind of Battlefield “moment,” where something nutty happens.