Battlefield 4's single-player campaign takes place in 2020, six years after
its predecessor. The player controls Sgt. Daniel Recker, a member of a US special operations squad callsigned "Tombstone".
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His teammates include squad leader SSgt. Dunn, second-in-command SSgt.
Kimble "Irish" Graves, and Marine Combat Lifesaver Clayton "Pac"
Pakowski.
[9][24] Later in the Campaign, a
CIA field operative named Laszlo W. Kovic joins Tombstone.
[24] The player will also meet Huang "Hanna" Shuyi, a female American soldier of Chinese descent.
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The
Battlefield 4 gameplay reveal trailer features footage
from the prologue mission "Fishing in Baku", where Tombstone Squad,
carrying intelligence from a defecting Russian general, escapes from
Baku,
Azerbaijan with Russian special forces in hot pursuit.
[9][10] Afterwards, Tombstone squad is sent on a covert mission to Shanghai, to rescue a group of VIP´s, Kovic among them.
[10] Another revealed mission, "Angry Sea", shows Recker, Irish, Pac, and Kovic trying to escape from a sinking
aircraft carrier en route to Singapore with more intel, while fighting off Chinese forces.
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The campaign's main plot involves American implication in the
assassination of China's future leader and "voice of peace", Jin Jié,
and the threat of
a third world war between the United States, China, and Russia.
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Battlefield's multiplayer has been confirmed to contain 3 playable factions;
U.S.,
China and
Russia and up to 64 players on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Also confirmed is the return of the "Commander Mode" last seen in
Battlefield 2, which gives select players an
RTS-like
view of the entire map and the ability to give orders to teammates.
Also, the Commander can observe the battle through the eyes of the
players on the battlefield, deploying vehicle and weapon drops to "keep
the war machinery going", and ordering in missile strikes and such on
hostile targets (as long as at least one friendly player can see the
target).
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A spectator mode has also been confirmed. Enabling players to spectate
each other in first or third person. As well as the use of a free camera
to pan around the map from any angle.
The skyscraper in "Siege of Shanghai" as it collapses. These Levolution
events alter the map in many ways, depending on "how [the players]
affect the world, and the world affects [them] back."
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On June 10, 2013, at E3, DICE featured the map "Siege of Shanghai", pitting the
People's Liberation Army against the
U.S. Marine Corps.
The gameplay showcased Commander Mode; new weapons and vehicles; and
the "Levolution" gameplay mechanic. The video displays the last of these
at various points, including: a player destroying a support pillar to
trap an enemy tank above it; and a large skyscraper (with an in-game
objective on the top floor) collapsing in the center of the map, kicking
up a massive dust cloud throughout the map and bringing the objective
closer to ground level.
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Levolution also includes effects such as shooting a fire extinguisher
to fill the room with obscuring clouds, car alarms going off when
stepped on, metal detectors going off once passed through, or cutting
the power in a room to reduce others' visibility.
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i got this off of wiki
