Question from HWA: A recent review article in Computer Gaming World shed a single ray of light onto the new Battlefield Commander functionality. As I understand it players will be tracked globally and the highest 'ranked' player present in a server will have the option to take control of that side. As the CO of a clan, and the server admin of several BF and BF:V servers my concern is this: Will I have a way to limit this functionality to ONLY my clan members? As we see it, we pay for the servers so we should have the final say in who gets to play in that commander position.

Sean Decker: Actually, any player can 'apply' to be commander at the beginning of a round. After a short period of time the highest ranking player who applied on each side becomes the Commander for that side. Server admins can, of course, limit who can access their servers. So if you only let 2 clans into a game and each knows who they want to be Commander, then that person becomes commander (based on they are the only ones that 'applied' for it).

The highest ranked player system works well for public games, as it is desirable to have someone who is experienced be the Commander.