I literally said it wasn't a clone. The comment I replied to said they had nothing in common, which is totally wrong.

Anyway, the phrase "[thing]-clone" has a long history in gaming where it doesn't literally mean a clone. What we know as the FPS genre was originally called "Doom clones" where Wikipedia literally redirects "Doom clone" to "first person shooters". It's the same for the [thing]-likes", like souls-likes. Most of them share little with souls games, but that's still the term we use. I, and most gamers probably, would read "Battlefield clone" to mean a game that takes many components of Battlefield to make a new game, which this does. It's not an exact copy, but it's working with a lot of the same recipe.