Battlefield 4 Release Date: PC Pre-Loads of the Game Available 24 Hours Before Launch

By Justin Sarachik, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Battlefield 4 will be available 24 hours before the actual launch through pre-loads on the PC.

"Are you going to be online or in-line on launch day? Pre-load @Battlefield 4 on Origin within 24 hours of release: http://bit.ly/1fMukZe," Tweeted @Origin Insider.

Battlefield 4 will be getting a special Black Friday discount from GameStop, a leaked advertisement revealed.

The games PS3, Xbox 360, and PC versions will get a 50 percent discount making the game $29.99 on Black Friday reports Analog Hype.

GameStop will be running a similar promotion, but for $39.99 on November 30 and December 1.

Battlefield is slated to be $59.99 upon its release.

Recently, the developers of the battlefield series, DICE, said they could be adding female video game characters to their franchise in the future.

"Yes, but we don't know when we can do that," said the game's executive producer Patrick Bach to OXM. "We have been talking about it quite a lot. We've been looking at how much it's worth, compared to how much we'd have to sacrifice."

He continued, "Because it's quite complicated, It's not just [creating] the actual character models, it's all the voice-over work. We have hundreds of thousands of lines that would need to be duplicated, because even now we're cheating quite a lot - we have random male voices, and then you have to multiply that by two. If we do it, we'll do it right, not just to tick a box or something."

Having female characters in the game would cause the developers to look at the project and ask themselves if they are there to add diversity, or just merely to fill a demographic.

"I think maybe - without trying to over-simplify it, because I do think that there are certain components of inherent sexism in terms of game protagonists these days - I think that the way it gets dealt with the best, the way that it gets dealt with the easiest, is just by honestly putting a character in the game that you feel passionate about putting in the game," said Nathan Vella of the game Below earlier this year to OXM.

Battlefield 4 launches on October 29.