Battlefield 2042 is still struggling. The predecessors of the shooter at times clearly outperformed its player numbers, such as Battlefield 1 recently. But DICE apparently wants to continue to provide updates, improvements and new content, such as a new developer video together blog entry indicates. We’ll summarize what’s in there for you. You can go directly to the individual topics here:
Update from November 11, 4:00 p.m.: There Dataminer Temporary hat Notes on the new map found.
Game Pass, Klassen, Map Reworks
If you want to watch the video for yourself first, you can find it right here. Below we break down the most important information.
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Battlefield 2042 shows more classes and map reworks, announces release in Gamepass
Game Pass Release
Unexpectedly, it was announced that Battlefield 2042 will be available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play subscribers at the start of Season 3, which is expected to be in late November 2022. Here the hope is probably in the foreground to be able to recruit new people interested in the shooter. They’re just going back, just about 4,000 players are currently online at the same time every day
More information about classes
Because of the division into classes, some specialist skills will be revised or exchanged.
The division of Specialists into classes, as you see them above, was already known. However, as has now been newly announced, the developers have decided, after extensive testing, to introduce another element: weapon skills. While the introduction of classes is not intended to limit access to weapon classes, it does provide certain weapons with a perk for that class:
- Assault: Assault Rifles prime faster after sprinting.
- Pioneer: Universal weapons have improved loading behavior
- Support Soldiers: Light machine guns have extra magazines and are more efficient when paired with bipods.
- Spotter: Can hold their breath longer with sniper rifles while aiming better.
The introduction of the classes is planned for the 3.2 update during Season 3. This should appear in early 2023. You can read more about the planned changes here:
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Classes in Battlefield 2042: This is how they should work
New map reworks
In Season 3, more maps are to be revised. It starts with update 3.1, the one improved version of Manifest should contain. Team headquarters will be moved closer to the rest of the battlefield and redundant areas of the map will be removed. The paths between the flags have been revised and new cover options have been added.
There is now significantly more cover for infantry, and the lighting conditions have been changed.
Update 3.2 should then be available in early 2023 also makeover a major overhaul
The oil rig can now be reached much faster.
More plans for Season 3
Season 3 will only be revealed with all the details later, but there is already initial information about what to expect:
- New Vault Weapons: At the beginning of Season 3, the weapon selection will be expanded to include a light machine gun and an assault rifle from Battlefield Portal. More Vault weapons will appear throughout the season.
This light machine gun is familiar to series veterans from Bad Company 2.
- New card: It’s no secret that Season 3 will release a new map. But the developers indicate in the video that this time it should go to Sweden. As the well-known dataminer Temporyal claims to have found out, the card is supposed to
spearhead
should be called and let us fight for a weapons factory in Lapland:
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- Improved event: After the Liquidators event was started in Season 2, Season 3 should also bring a new event. With this you should then be able to unlock more cosmetic objects for free than with the liquidators.
What’s next?
While the plans for a third and fourth season have been known for some time, it has not yet been clear what will happen next for Battlefield 2042. Now the developers are announcing that they will also release the shooter want to continue supporting with new content:
We are also pleased to announce that pre-production of new content that will be released next year after Season 4 has begun. We’re far from done with Battlefield 2042.
Exactly what content is planned is not yet explained in more detail here. Since pre-production has already begun, it seems that the updates will be more complex. We may get at least another multi-season year.
What do you think of the latest announcements? Do you think Battlefield will improve significantly, or have you already given up hope? Write your opinion in the comments!
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