How to play Incursions

The new exiting competitive game mode Incursions is finally out on all platforms as a “FIRST LOOK” preview. It’s intense 5v5 war in three different game modes. BCL will soon start League on Incursions too, but while waiting you should familiarise yourself to the details of this new kind of war.

Get the game

First step to get into the game, you would need to download the game. It’s not part of the Battlefield 1 and it’s not available on store by default, you would need to activate Incursions in the game menu to get the DL.

1. Start up your Battlefield 1 base game
2. Go to the “More” tab on the main menu Select “Battlefield 1 Incursions” Follow the on-screen instructions
3. “Battlefield 1 Incursions” will become available in your games collection Download and install the separate game client for “Battlefield 1 Incursions” via the PlayStation Store/Xbox Marketplace
4. Launch “Battlefield 1 Incursions” from your console’s home screen

It’s not plug’n’play

If you are a lone wolf playing the game is quite easy, just pick your game mode and start to rock and roll. But we here in BCL are used to play competitive, with our team – that’s when it gets tricky.

In incursions there is this idea that PSN party joins the game in it’s entirety, but for some unknown reason Dice allows only party of 3 to apply for a game. If you have more than 3 in party you cant join any of the public games.

Public games

If you want to join a public game (ranked or casual) just make sure there aren’t more than 3 in your party, when you are trying to join. All members of your party must be in the Incursions game and when the leader of the party selects the match making you will all join the same game.

I don’t know what Dice was thinking when they made this limitation of max. 3 in a party. It must be some kind of random protection to avoid competition teams totally own random teams. I can only hope this is different when the final game releases.

Private Matches

This is what we want. In Incursions anyone can set up a private game. You need 10 players to kick off a private game. One of the players is the game organiser (GO). This is how it’s done

1. GO selects the private match option in the main menu
2. You can select some parameters here – like server continent and game mode.
3. Make sure all participants are out of any party on the console (joining seems to fail more often if any of the players are in a party)
4. GO needs to have all players (own and enemy) in he’s friend list to be able to invite all players to the game
5. When players accept the invite they became visible in the game. It’s GO’s responsibility to put players in corresponding teams
6. When all 10 players are set to teams GO must select start game
7. If everything went well, all the players joins the game and you start picking up your kits. At this point you can use either the games own VOIP or join a party for better quality communication channel.

If any of the players fails to join the private match on phase 5. the server will disconnect and you would need to start all over.

Stranger Kits

The kits one can use in any of the Incursions game modes are quite limited. They are often mixtures of the main game classes and you can select only from a few choices. Most of the kits have some variation in the load out, but just some. Usually it’s two weapons to choose from.

In a match of incursions there can be only one Squad leader, one vehicle operator and one of the each available kit. Here is the outline of available kits

Squad Leader

Vehicle Operator

Soldier