Since launching the Battlefield 4 beta just over a week ago, DICE have given gamers an opportunity to play the games Shanghai map in the Conquest and Domination game types. Obliteration is a new game type which has been added to the beta today. It is in fact one of two new modes being added to the final game. The following is DICE’s explanation of the game mode:

“In Obliteration, a bomb spawns at a random location on the map. Both teams must fight to pick up the bomb, drop it off at one of their opponent’s three objectives, arm it, and destroy the objective. Once a bomb has detonated, the next one randomly spawns in a new location and the chaos starts all over.”

“The game lasts until one team has detonated the other team’s three objectives. Obliteration can be devastatingly quick or a harrowing tug of war depending on how good your team is at staying together and delivering the bomb. Like most other game modes, there is usually also a time limit in place to make sure the match does not go on for too long.”

The final game will ship with seven game modes over ten maps when it is released on October 29th in the US and November 1st in the UK on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 followed by their next-generation versions when their respective console is released in November.

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