Battlefield V

Battlefield V is a team-based multiplayer game on DICE's Frostbite engine: up to 64 players, destructible environments, infantry, tanks and aircraft on World War II maps. The key is for Steam, but the game launches through the EA App (formerly Origin, shut down on April 17, 2025) and requires an EA account. Localization: Russian interface and subtitles are available. One important note: Steam marks the game as "Russian Full Audio", but in practice the Russian voice covers only team callouts in multiplayer. In the story-driven War Stories, the characters speak French and German, which is a design choice, not an omission.

Multiplayer modes: Conquest, capturing and holding points on large maps; Breakthrough, attacking fortifications sector by sector (the most popular mode among the active community); Grand Operations, multi-round scenarios based on real WW2 operations; Domination, Team Deathmatch and Combined Arms (co-op against bots). Maps: Normandy, Rotterdam, North Africa, snowy Norway, Pacific islands (Iwo Jima, Wake), Stalingrad. Vehicles include Tigers, Shermans, Spitfires and boats. Four classes: Assault, Medic, Support and Recon.

The single-player mode is the War Stories anthology: short chapters about little-known episodes of the war. Nordlys is about the Norwegian resistance; Tirailleur follows French colonial riflemen in Provence; Under No Flag follows a British saboteur in North Africa; The Last Tiger follows a German tank commander who has lost faith in the regime. It is atmospheric but compact: expect a few hours in total.

About support: the Tides of War program officially ended on April 30, 2020, and the last update was released on June 4, 2020. The Firestorm battle royale mode did not receive long-term support and has effectively faded out. When you buy the key, you get the Definitive Edition: the base game plus all first-year and second-year content in one purchase with no extra costs. There will be no new maps, weapons or modes. This is a finished product, not a service.

Audience and online: the game is niche but active. On ordinary days 2,500-4,000 people play at the same time on Steam, with daily peaks around 6,000; the all-time peak is about 114,000 in November 2023. During deep sales (90-95% discounts) the player population grows sharply, with spikes of up to about 16,900 recorded. Matchmaking in Conquest and Breakthrough works during European prime time; niche modes take longer to fill. Metacritic PC: 81; all-time Steam rating: Mostly Positive 71% (266,000+ reviews).

Series context: in October 2025 Battlefield 6 was released, the largest launch in the series' history (7 million copies in three days), and it is now actively supported. BF V and BF6 are about different things: BF6 is modern war, BF V is World War II. If you want a WW2 setting with tank duels and infantry of that era, BF V remains the most affordable DICE option.

Battlefield V is a multiplayer World War II shooter from DICE: up to 64 players per map, Conquest and Breakthrough modes, tanks in Normandy, assaults on fortifications and the destructible Frostbite environment. It also includes the single-player anthology War Stories. Content support ended in 2020, so this is a finished game, not a service with updates. The online population is modest but active, especially during sales. Activation is through an EA account.