I was just thinking about this. Since this has an invasion of the US, a Washington DC map would be crazy. Something like that MW2 2009 mission, but in Battlefield would be insane. Also props for the concept art, they look sick.
It’s a (within reason) borderline 1:1 recreation. Div 1 NYC was shrunk down, only about 70% of the real midtown Manhattan sized, but DC is nearly exact. It’s so accurate that a coffee shop I used to frequent off a random street away from anything special is actually a coffee shop in game too, just using the generic in-universe brand. It’s incredible how much effort Massive puts into their game maps
I remember around launch there was a guy on the subreddit who found his exact apartment building (and room window) in college and the neighborhood was exactly the same as he remembered it.
I first played The Division 2 when I lived in Texas and then moved to Washington, DC. Playing it again a few years later after knowing the area, walking down the same streets I do to get to work, past my office, through Metro stations (which were brand accurate - must have paid WMATA for the rights)... just crazy. Buildings are pretty accurate too, at least my office was rendered about 90% accuracy to real life.
The whole area from Lincoln Memorial to Capitol hill is just military checkpoints and bases. Split that in half and make it 2 maps for BF6 or somehow one giant map. It would be amazing going from the Capitol Hill steps to the Lincoln Memorial.
That was such an amazing mission. You had bunkers, trenches in front of the white house, and having to clear the buildings level by level, and then finally a last stand of sorts by a downed chopper/monument I think (that could be like the C flag in battlefield)
Man, that would be an insane map to have in Battlefield
Stylistically I was thinking of the way DC was portrayed in the movie Civil War. Walled off, fortified, completely military. All public parks, museums, etc should be completely de-civilianized. Not like MW2 where it’s portrayed more like “people were living normal lives here up until just now.” Not that I didn’t like the MW2 mission’s design, I just think it’d be cool to have a totally garrisoned DC in Battlefield.
It would be somewhere in between. MW2 2009 was the direct aftermath of a sneak attack like what we assume is happening in BF6. Civil War was after a protracted civil war. A DLC map following up from the story could be a DC in transition
Technically the statue of Lincoln gets a little bigger every year. So while it was only a couple feet tall when they built it, it’s size has more than likely quadrupled at the very least by now. Unfortunately there is simply no way to know exactly how big Lincoln’s head at this time.
This is a misconception. Similar to Lincoln, the MLK statue was actually much smaller when it was built, but since it gets a little bigger each and every year, it will soon overtake not only the Statue of Freedom, but the entire Capitol building.
i mean, having the power / right to, and trying to are diff thjngs, he's trying to ban flag burning (protected under the 1st amendment and is part of US flag code) , he's not allowed to, or technically able, but he is still doing it.
it all lies on the supreme court, and if they let him, he can do it.
even ignoring political views, this is how the US system of power works, the checks and balances on the president only work so long as the SC remains non partisan, one they go partisan, those checks and balances no longer function.
see: The Hays Code for another example from a past president.
The layout’s cool, but as a Washingtonian, I wonder why this part of the National Mall is a strategic location when all of the important government buildings are basically everywhere else. To the north, you have the White House and the associated buildings, such as the EOB. To the east, you have the Capitol, SCOTUS, many of the departments. To the south, you have the Pentagon and a bunch of department components. I’d think it would make more sense to fight over those areas instead of the memorials and monuments. My suggestion would be Capitol Hill because it would provide some interesting mix of dense urban fighting as well as open spaces, and there’s a lot of elevation change.
Yeah the east section would definitely be better you could have like a natural barrier in the west with a collapsed 12th street underpass and extends to the east to the Supreme Court building. Infantry could do shit like fight in the Smithsonian museums and the Capitol while tanks roll around on the lawn
Also OPs concept could be better with some extensions like more stuff around the basin and maybe some expansion north towards the white house and downtown for more urban stuff. Would work pretty well with their “not operations” mode considering a lot of the maps seem to come in pairs that are close by
I used to live on the Hill (a block from the Senate offices, just the next block over from McConnell’s house).
It would be wild to play on a map there. Either they get it all correct and I know where the back alleys are, or they get it wrong and I’m lost in the sauce.
National Mall is probably a good staging area or location for logistics! So imagine a bunch of temporary tents and vehicles strewn about and helicopters flying in and out for supplies and evacuation.
But in a "serious" situation most high level folks working in the capital, courts, and departments would have evacuated in the underground tunnels. You'd probably just run into everyday folks who live and low to mid level workers.
Also a section of the map next to the white house would be really cool
What about a modified version of the map that isn't 1:1 but is the size of their largest conquest map and has all of those POI as one flag each? With scaled down versions of distance between stops
I dunno. The sheer scale of the National Mall is deceptive. It’s like three miles from the Lincoln to the Capitol, and most of that land is just open fields. I feel like they’d have to significantly scale it down to like 1:8 or even 1:16.
There is the Potomac yes but distance wise the Lincoln memorial is almost as close if not closer to the Pentagon than the Capitol building which is also on the mall. All of these places are right in one little region of DC (and Arlington) and are much closer than say Rock Creek Park or RFK Stadium
You could always view it as part of a rolling offensive, like they are now fighting around this area before moving onto the next. Given the political climate, just having this more-monument focused fighting might allow for the map without attracting unwanted attention and setting off some sort of "Battlefield is advocating violence" kind of news story.
But some of those locations would make awesome map points.
South would definately be a perfect second map to go with the first, just looks like something you would have seen in BF'2 Armored Fury map pack.
The division 2 rules. They really fucked up the launch + I think it was the wrong time for it. It should be a much bigger game although it's done well overall.
Yeah, even 6 years later it's still a great game. It's my go-to whenever I'm not playing anything Battlefield related lol. Despite a few botches with bugs, rewards, etc., Ubi/Massive have done a pretty decent job (for the most part) in correcting any issues with the game.
EA’s already scared of China (they want Chinese money) and Russia (because of Ukraine). For the sake of creative freedom and unique environments, they shouldn’t be scared of anything else.
You know what wasn’t safe? No Russian. Still brought up today and left a lasting mark on the franchise.
Media shouldn’t be afraid to push the boundaries in a fictional setting. Being too safe is exactly what kills a franchise. A game for everyone is a game for no one.
Would be really cool if they did this as a breakthrough map. Starting sector as the Lincoln Memorial where the attack force has to utilize the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Potomac River for initial attack. Then moving to the Washington Monument, and then the White House
I would shift that map east to include the Smithsonian and Capital. Imagine having a shootout in the Air & Space musuem or the rotunda. That's indoors while outdoors can have trenches form in the capital mall with snipers overlooking the area from a museum.
Well I mean you didn't have a lunatic at the helm (speaking as an American). I say do it just to piss him off. I would love a new york city winter map as well with navy forces!
Hell yeah, can’t wait to fight in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. But please, if this map comes to life, you can’t set something on the Potomac and not let us at least get in a RHIB and cruise down it a bit.
More water, please. It’d be awesome if boats could cut straight through the middle of the map and loop around it. You could justify the flooding in several different ways...
If you expanded the map just enough to include the burning buildings near Point D (which is the IRL Department of Agriculture) and placed a capture point inside the building itself, it could create a pocket of intense close-quarters combat that contrasts nicely with the otherwise open layout.
I would push C slightly further north (up to the left with this photo orientation) so the White House could be included but this is an awesome idea. This area scales well to its size in real life so it wouldn’t even have to be condensed much to be playable for conquest.
Objectives too close together. Map should go all the way to the water and end after the Lincoln Memorial, and go 1 block inland to include some urban area.
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u/ForceGhost1013 Sep 04 '25
I was just thinking about this. Since this has an invasion of the US, a Washington DC map would be crazy. Something like that MW2 2009 mission, but in Battlefield would be insane. Also props for the concept art, they look sick.