Dead Space’s surprisingly extensive history with Battlefield explained

Battlefield 2042 Players experience the horrors of Empty room for a limited time starting July 9th with Update 7.4.0. This last major update for 2042In Season 7: Turning Point, players can experience various Empty room-Themed cosmetics, including an Engineer Suit-inspired legendary Casper skin called “Marked Man.”

In addition to Empty room Cosmetics, 2042 Troops can survive waves of zombie-like Augmented Targets in the new 4-player Squad PvE game mode called Outbreak. At first glance, this crossover seemed to come out of the blue for most Empty room or Battlefield fans, but the two EA titles have a surprising 12-year history together.

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Battlefields Dead Space Easter Eggs

At the end of 2012, just two years after the release of Dead Space 2 and one year after Battlefield 3Lifespan, Battlefield 3 received its fourth expansion in the form of Battlefield 3: Aftermath. Here the relationship between Battlefield And Empty room would begin. In the upper right corner of the Epicenter map, players will find a bare concrete wall beneath a sign that reads TRAVEL AGENT. If players were to blow up this wall and look inside, they would find the helmet of Isaac Clarke’s Advanced Suit from Dead Space 2 sitting on a frame.

Three years later, in 2015, Empty roomThe parent developer Visceral Games released the crime and police focused Battlefield Hardline. The developers have taken care to include numerous Easter eggs and references to Empty room In Hard line for eagle-eyed fans. These include a statue of the infamous Necromorph-generating Marker on the Hollywood Heights multiplayer map, a Japanese restaurant on the Downtown map called Ishimura, named after the Planet Cracker-class ship of the same name that served as the setting for Dead Space 1and several unlockable patches with Empty room Characters and entities such as EarthGov and Peng that can be equipped in multiplayer mode.

Dead Space references in Hardline’s campaign

While some Empty room References can be found in Hard lineMost of them can be found in the multiplayer mode of. In the fourth episode, Peng can be seen on a woman’s sunglasses in a mall advertisement. In the fifth episode, Isaac Clarke is listed as a real estate agent on a for sale sign. In the sixth episode, a statue of the children’s food mascot Lightspeed Boy can be found, which first appeared in Dead Space 2. Episode 7 contains the most references to Empty room in all Hard lineCampaign level. Here you can see a guard who Dead Space 1 at the Flight Deck Tram Station on Ishimura. Players can also find cases of Dead Space 1, 2And 3 scattered around Neil Roark’s house.

The potential of Battlefield in the Dead Space universe

While most of these Easter Eggs are obviously not canonical for either Battlefield‘s and Empty roomhave led some fans to believe that the two EA games are set in the same timeline – namely the appearance of a marker statue, Lightspeed Boy and Peng. While Hard line set in Florida in 2012, these performances could be seen as the beginning of later companies and organizations that would emerge hundreds of years later in the Empty room Games. Lightspeed Bars have no current date of origin, but according to an article description, Peng is said to come from a company that is over 200 years old Dead Space 3Your representation in Hard line could be the origins of these possibly 500-year-old companies.

Likewise, the appearance of the marker in Hard line could be seen as the beginning of humanity’s interest in the Markers. The Markers and their subsequent religion, Unitology, were not officially recognized until 200 years after Hard lineas seen in the book Dead Space: Martyr. However, the Black Marker, the first marker discovered by mankind, is located in the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico. It is believed that the fall of the Black Marker to Earth caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Although the Black Marker was not officially discovered until the 23rd century, some wealthy individuals may have seen it or been influenced to place the statue in Hard lineConnection of the Battlefield And Empty room together.

Dead Space (2023)

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Approved

27 January 2023

Publisher)

Electronic Arts

Genre(s)

Survival Horror

ESRB

Rated “M” for adults due to blood, brutality, strong language and intense violence.

How long does it take to hit?

12 hours

X|S Improved

Yes

File size Xbox Series

31GB (November 2023)

Metascore

89

PS Plus availability

N/A

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