There was a youtuber who visited EA San Francisco for Battlefield 1. According to him, the open beta starts on June 12 and people who were in that press gets early access to it.
Probably a closed beta of course. Not uncommon at all and since this seems to be about the time or shortly after E3, it may be true since I had read people will be able to play BF1 in person at E3.
It seems that it won’t be beta anyone here could have access to. It will most likely be internal testing.
I expect real beta to hit us like 2 weeks before launch of the game, some time in October.
June 12th is the start of the EA Play event which takes the place of E3 (same weekend IIRC). Not a chance they’d launch an open beta before assumed gameplay reveal. Perhaps he meant first time gameplay will be circulated?
This video has Korean subtitle and watch for this line on 4:01~4:05, “6월 12일 오픈베타에 제일 처음 해볼 수 있는 권한도 주어졌거든요”, which translates to “I got an early access for the open beta on June 12”.
he’s then definitely talking about the EA event because he is sorely mistaken if he thinks EA will launch the beta during E3 when they’re supposed to be marketing exclusivity.