I just recieved my copy of Games for Windows, and in this months article, they covered a lot of ground on Battlefield Heroes. Here are some of the highlights: \

- First off, the game is free. There will be some items for sale, but are little things called "convienence items", such as the ability to level up slightly faster than normal.

- The game will have three classes: Soldier, which is a good frontline fighter, with decent health and decent damage. Commando, which will have things like sniping, will be stealthy, will have a slight cloak-style system, fastest in the game, will have less health and ammo, but still good weapons. And finally, Gunner, with access to things like rocket launcher, machineguns, and flamethrowers, with increased health, but slower.

- Players will have abilities, such as Xray Vision (see enemy outlines behind things for 10 seconds followed by 30 second recharge) and incendiary rounds, but lots of abilities will also work as counters to other abilities, such as the ability to put the flames out that spawned from incendiary rounds.

- The game will run on computers as low as the following: 1GHz CPU, 512RAM, a 64MB Video Card, and 500MB HDD space.

- To combat dolphin diving, PRONE HAS BEEN REMOVED.

- You cannot change kits while in a match; you customize your kit ahead of time, and then focus on kicking butt while in game.

- The main combat mode will be a mix of TDM and classic capture-points of the Battlefield games of old. Every player will have a set number of lives, but if a team takes control points, they increased the number of lives each death takes from the enemy.

- The game will have 5 second respawns, and is set in THIRD PERSON. However, the article said EA is being EXTREMELY flexible with this, and if after gameplay footage and demos are released, the community still wants First Person, they WILL change to first person

- Vehicles will automatically spawn when you get near a spawnpoint, leaving behind the days of old were you waited as long as 30 seconds or more for a ride.

And an AWESOME new idea for clans:

- Players will be able to join up into different "sides", and all the points they make that week will be added to the "sides" total. This will influence how well your side does in the "war" that week. The winning side will see ALL of its players given free cash in the game to spend on upgrades. This could lead to interesting events were whole clans and communities bargain with eachother and swap sides to create "super groups" that influence potentially millions of players.