Beginning in the pre-alpha stage , Battlefield Labs will be used to test nearly anything the dev team at EA wishes to incorporate into the game, which is rumored to be released in October

EA's "most ambitious community testing programme in franchise history" spans four studios and thousands of fans.

EA is ready to take the wraps off the next Battlefield early. The publisher shared a brief glimpse of footage from an alpha version of the game as part of an announcement video for Battlefield Labs, a new early access program that will give fans a taste of in-development Battlefield before it launches.