Battlefield 1 road map: hardcore servers, Suez map tweaks, new custom game and major update coming soon

Battlefield 1 players have a lot to look forward to in November.

Battlefield 1 developer DICE has outlined its immediate roadmap. Here are the main points:

Hardcore servers are coming to Battlefield 1 “soon”, according to a post on the Battlefield Blog, with more news to come “in the near future”.

The Suez map will be tweaked for Battlefield 1's Conquest mode, with five rather than three flags. The capture zone around the flags currently labelled A and C will be reduced in size. One armoured vehicle will be added to each team's base.

Battlefield 1's first Battlefest event kicks off November 16. Planned activities include log-in rewards, a livestream, a unique Battlepack revision, community missions “and much more”, with more information promised soon.

A new custom game called Fog of War will debut during Battlefest. It's a Team Deathmatch mode with no mini-map or soldier name tags, and limited visibility due to fog. It's the first official custom game but presumably not the last.

Finally, a major Battlefield 1 update will roll out sometime in November. As well as as-yet-undetailed “tweaks and improvements”, it will roll out the Rent-a-Server Program and make changes to matchmaking and server balancing.

Although the road map is unfortunately light on concrete dates, it closes with a mention of Giant's Shadow, a new Battlefield 1 map dropping as a free update in December – so I don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume we'll get the rest of this stuff in November.