Community:DeadzoneZackZak/Battlefield

Battlefield was popular FPS game made by DeadzoneZackZak, who also created the popular zombie survival game Deadzone. It is based on the first person shooter series of the same name, with a wide open environment and a large array of weapons and its attachments, though it is particularly modelled after the third installment in the series. The difference from the actual game is that there are currently no vehicles that can be driven in the map, only one weapon can be carried at a time and no weapons can be actually picked up and used from fallen enemies/allies, and there is currently no actual levelling system that is implemented other than tracking total kills, deaths, and amount of experience points, though there is a levelling system that increases a level by 1 by a factor of 10,000 cumulative experience points. This of course would cause many in the Roblox community to compare it to the Call of Duty series, especially with its own set of perks, large weapon customizations, and emphasis on running and gunning over strategization, coupled with its rather small maps in comparison to that of the Battlefield series, which are very wide-open.

The game is quite popular prior to and after its inactivity at the first week of July; over 2,000 players had played the game at the same time in the peak of its fame and has quickly attained over 1 million plays since its initial release on April 27, 2013, in a matter of about 3 weeks and has struck the 1.5 million visits milestone on May 24, 2013, alongside reaching 2 million visits on June 7, 2013 and has accumulated 2.5 million visits at June 20, 2013. However, when the place was made inactive, it had nearly 2.8 million place visits. The place then reached over 3 million visits on July 30, 2013. In addition to over 3 million visits, Battlefield currently has over 72,000 favorites.

DeadzoneZackZak lost his Builder's Club membership sometime in middle May 2013, and since he is only allowed to open one game, he chose to open Battlefield instead of Deadzone. On May 31, 2013, Battlefield was closed and Deadzone was re-opened, because of the complaints of DeadzoneZackZak's fans and his editing problems with Battlefield. The future of Battlefield is currently unknown, though Battlefield was re-opened again and Deadzone was shut down on June 1, 2013. However, the opposite occurred starting sometime in the first week of July, with the Deadzone place being active. When DeadzoneZackZak gained back membership on July 12, 2013, he was able to put Battlefield up to the public. Later on, in August, one month after getting membership back, he had finally lost the membership, yet his Battlefield place is still active, albeit without the game passes available for the game. Since then, around 200 players have played it at the same time in its peak time.

Weapons & Attachments
See a list of weapons and attachments.

Development
Battlefield is currently not yet finished, starting off in the "Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre Alpha" stage of development according to the title, though it is currently the "Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre Beta" stage. The game is being constructed and edited by the same players that contributed to developing Deadzone, including Daxter33, who is famous for his Paintball! game. The description of the game credits the people named Greg Stevens (who is DeadzoneZackZak himself) for creating the weapons found in the game alongside scripts used in it, Philip Harvey (DeadzoneZackZak's friend) for camouflage design for weapons, and Justin Legoman for the thumbnail picture of the game.

Updates for the game are usually added constantly in a short amount of time. Typical updates in the game includes the addition of new weapons in specified categories, such as a nail gun for the special section of weapons and a G36 assault rifle for the assault section, along with bug fixes and adjustments added to the game.

On May 15, 2013, as a result of reaching the 1 million visits milestone, an additional double XP and a new diamond camo for all weapons are added to the game for all players for free for 24 hours.

Starting on May 23, 2013, the game had moved out of the development stages before the Alpha stage, starting off with adding a UAV and Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, planes that are obtained from getting a certain amount of kills in one life and used to detect enemies in the radar, though the Blackbird is more effective at detecting enemies than the UAV, along with the Ghost perk to counter the UAV killstreak and a new camouflage that is available as a game pass for one day. A later update added some more killstreaks, adding in the Counter-UAV, which disables the enemy team's radar for about 30 seconds, the Ammo box, which drops a box of ammunition that allows the player to resupply his/her ammunition supply of their weapon, and the Tactical Nuke, which allows the player to end the game quickly. The addition of killstreaks causes the game to further stray from the idea of being based on Battlefield, but instead leaning closer towards the Call of Duty series, as it has a plenty of killstreaks that can be used.

The game finally moves on to the "Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre Beta" level of development, adding a notification of incoming killstreaks and extra outfit for characters whenever a certain perk is being used, such as additional body armor for players using the Juggernaut perk, which doubles the amount of health, and some ammunition straps for those with the Bandolier perk, which expands the ammunition reserves for the player's weapon. Also, weapon damages are slightly increased and accuracy with firing from the hip and aiming down the sights is further emphasized, with hipfire gaining more recoil and aiming losing more recoil, and a level system has been implemented to track levelling up per 10,000 cumulative experience points (XP).

The most recent version prior to and after being shut down, 0.458, rebalances all the weapons in the game. weakening weapons that are complained by players as being too powerful and strengthening underpowered weapons.

VIP
A VIP item in the form of a game pass was available for the game called "Pre-Order", which used to cost for 100 Robux or 1,000 Tickets to purchase prior to being disabled. It was available starting at July 30 and ending at August 12 for a slightly reduced 90 Robux and 900 Tickets. The pass is updated over time as updates for the game are applied, with more benefits for VIP game pass owners added to the item, although there is currently no additions to the VIP besides the M1 Garand sniper rifle.

Currently, the benefits for VIP owners includes double XP earned from kills alongside additional kills made from consecutive kills made in one life, headshot kills, and long-distance kills, an exclusive chrome plating camouflage for all owned weapons and any weapons that are unlocked afterwards, and a special M1 Garand sniper rifle that is available to use for free.

The next VIP pass is the "skater" camouflage for all weapons, which was on sale for one day and used to cost 42 Robux or 420 Tickets. When it was re-released in July 30, its price was increased to 50 Robux and 500 Tickets.

DEATH

As of 2015, Battlefield was shut down when DeadzonezackZak left Roblox for good. After multiple issues with the game, he shut it down and has since left Roblox forever.