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Obtaining XP during this period, by completing story nodes of weekly challenges, [[Battlefield V Assignments|special assignments]] or simply by playing the game, contributes to a player's Tides of War chapter ranking. Reaching ranks will unlock new customisation items as well as other rewards such as assignments, [[Melee Weapon|melee weapons]] and [[Company Coin]]. Players have until the end of the chapter to obtain the rewards, as their rank resets each chapter.
 
Obtaining XP during this period, by completing story nodes of weekly challenges, [[Battlefield V Assignments|special assignments]] or simply by playing the game, contributes to a player's Tides of War chapter ranking. Reaching ranks will unlock new customisation items as well as other rewards such as assignments, [[Melee Weapon|melee weapons]] and [[Company Coin]]. Players have until the end of the chapter to obtain the rewards, as their rank resets each chapter.
   
Each chapter has between 20 and 40 chapter ranks, with XP requirements for reaching the next rank increasing in a linear fashion. Players may pay real money to increase their chapter rank, either by using an [[XP Multiplier|XP Boost]] contained in any purchased [[Starter Pack|Premium Starter Pack]], or by directly paying to skip chapter ranks for {{Bc|150}} each.
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In general, a chapter has 40 chapter ranks, with XP requirements for reaching the next rank increasing in a linear fashion. Weekly challenge nodes and chapter special assignments will award differing amounts of XP based on their difficultly or position in the challenge tree. In most cases, chapter XP gained from score in each multiplayer round is capped at around 8,000 XP.
   
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Players may pay real money to increase their chapter rank, either by purchasing a chapter-specific [[Starter Pack (Battlefield V)|Premium Starter Pack]] which contains an [[XP Multiplier|XP Boost]], or by directly paying to skip chapter ranks for {{Bc|150}} each. XP Boosts give a 20% increase to challenge node awards as well as in-game score, with the round XP cap raised appropriately. Although players cannot make progress in chapter ranks once the chapter ends, players may increase their rank by paying for rank skips up until the next chapter begins.
Weekly challenge nodes and chapter special assignments will award differing amounts of XP based on their difficultly or position in the challenge tree. Chapter XP gain for each multiplayer round is generally capped to around 8,000 XP, plus any bonus XP resulting from XP boosts.
 
   
 
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Battlefield V Tides of War Roadmap June 2019

Tides of War is a free live service for Battlefield V to introduce new content to the game. It replaces the Premium Pass of past installments, with monetisation of new content now coming in the form of cosmetic items for The Company that are purchasable with Battlefield Currency. The system sees the release of periodic events that tell an overarching narrative of the events of World War II. This is done through the release of new maps, game modes, weapons, vehicles, Combined Arms missions, and customization items.


Overview

Each Tides of War chapter takes place between set dates, usually lasting between 2-3 months. Typically, a chapter will start with an update that implements some new features and the chapter rank rewards. Over the course of the chapter, new content is added either in the form of weekly challenge unlockables or universal additions of maps and game modes. After a Tides of War chapter ends, there may be a short break of one or two weeks before the next chapter begins.

Weekly Challenges

Tides of War chapters are split up by weeks, with a new week starting on each Thursday.

During each week, players can complete weekly challenges to obtain that week's reward as well as chapter XP. Each week is comprised of separate challenges known as "Story Nodes" which are linked together such that players must complete challenges sequentially to unlock other nodes, eventually progressing towards the final reward node. The rewards are time limited - once the chapter progresses to the new week, players cannot go back to complete previous weeks' challenges. For those that miss them, weapons and vehicles rewards usually become purchasable with Company Coin after the chapter ends, whereas cosmetic items routinely do not.

The weeks have specific titles and descriptions, and may revolve around a particular theme such as vehicle combat, reflected in the criteria for the weekly challenges which encourage players to play on a specific map or mode, or in a certain way. Challenges may also teach players about game mechanics through their descriptions, or be used to promote newly introduced features - for example, Tides of War challenges may relate to limited time game modes as long as they are available. The challenge criteria can on occasion apply to Firestorm and Combined Arms.

Chapter Rank

Obtaining XP during this period, by completing story nodes of weekly challenges, special assignments or simply by playing the game, contributes to a player's Tides of War chapter ranking. Reaching ranks will unlock new customisation items as well as other rewards such as assignments, melee weapons and Company Coin. Players have until the end of the chapter to obtain the rewards, as their rank resets each chapter.

In general, a chapter has 40 chapter ranks, with XP requirements for reaching the next rank increasing in a linear fashion. Weekly challenge nodes and chapter special assignments will award differing amounts of XP based on their difficultly or position in the challenge tree. In most cases, chapter XP gained from score in each multiplayer round is capped at around 8,000 XP.

Players may pay real money to increase their chapter rank, either by purchasing a chapter-specific Premium Starter Pack which contains an XP Boost, or by directly paying to skip chapter ranks for 150Boins each. XP Boosts give a 20% increase to challenge node awards as well as in-game score, with the round XP cap raised appropriately. Although players cannot make progress in chapter ranks once the chapter ends, players may increase their rank by paying for rank skips up until the next chapter begins.

Limited Time Gamemodes

Specific weeks may be themed around game modes that are introduced for a limited amount of time, with Rush, Grind and Outpost being examples.

Chapters

Chapter One: Overture

Main article: Battlefield V: Overture
"War is coming"

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Battlefield V Chapter 1 Overture Logo 01

Overture is the first chapter of the Tides of War service. It serves as an introduction to both the overall system and its features.[1] It ran from December 5th, 2018 to January 6th, 2019 and included:

Chapter Two: Lightning Strikes

Main article: Battlefield V: Lightning Strikes
"Fear the German war machine"

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Battlefield V Chapter 2 Lightning Strikes Logo 01

Lightning Strikes expands on multiplayer game modes available, as well as reintroducing Co-op, not seen since Battlefield 3. It was released on January 17th, 2019, ended on March 21st, 2019 and included:

Chapter Three: Trial By Fire

Main article: Battlefield V: Trial By Fire
"Face the Heat"

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Trial By Fire revolves around the introduction of the Firestorm Battle Royale gamemode, taking place on the largest map in the franchise to date, Halvøy. It took place between March 28th, 2019 and June 20th, 2019 and includes:


  • Firestorm - Battlefield's anticipated take on Battle Royale
  • Mercury - New multiplayer map set on the Greek island of Crete based on Operation Mercury.
  • Outpost - New gamemode coming in June 2019.
  • More Combined Arms mission - Two Combined Arms based on Fjell 652 and other improvements.

Chapter Four: Defying The Odds

Main article: Battlefield V: Defying The Odds
"Get up close"

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Defying The Odds expands upon the current theaters of war with additional multiplayer maps set in Greece, North Africa, Norway and France, most of which have a prominent focus on infantry combat. It was released on June 27th, 2019, is scheduled to end on September 19th 2019, and will include:

Chapter Five

Main article: Battlefield V: Chapter 5
"Awakening the Giant"

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Chapter 5 will see the introduction of the United States and Japanese factions to Battlefield V and will take place in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It will be released in Fall 2019.

Gallery

Trivia

BF5 The Fall of Europe Trailer
  • The "Fall of Europe" was originally intended to be the first chapter of Tides of War. This was changed, however, due to the game's month-long release delay which affected the post-launch content plan.[3] The cut chapter's weekly challenges and names for each week (from October 22nd to November 12th) were seen in the Tides of War Dev Talk video.
  • Overture was originally slated for release on December 4th, 2018. Due to an unforeseen bug, however, it was delayed to December 5th.[4]

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