You'll have access to four of Battlefield 2042's operators: Boris, Casper, Falck, and Mackay. The beta will include the Conquest game mode on the Orbital map with 128 players for those of us on PC. 2042 is the first Battlefield game to launch without a singleplayer campaign since Bad Company.īattlefield 2042's open beta runs in Octoberīattlefield 2042 will have an open beta weekend near the beginning of October. None of the game's three launch modes are battle royale, but considering this represents the future of live-service battlefield, one may be introduced later. Specialist gadgets we've seen: a grappling hook, a health/revive gun (think Doc in Rainbow Six Siege), an auto-turret (think Team Fortress 2), a movement sensor (to catch people sneaking up on you while you're sniping), a wingsuit.(Specialists themselves belong to Battlefield classes such as engineer, assault, and support, but you won't play as a generic 'support' soldier.) Classes have been replaced by specialists, characters who have unique gadgets and traits but can carry any weapon and equipment loadout.128-player maps are divided into sectors containing control points you have to capture all the control points in a sector to control it.
The max player count has been doubled to 128 (two teams of 64) on PC and current-gen consoles.The big changes: 128 players, specialists, no singleplayer Watch the Battlefield 2042 gameplay trailer The original release date was October 22, but in September, EA announced that it was being delayed one month, citing the dev team's inability to return to in-person office work due to Covid-19 as the main cause.īattlefield 2042 will also release on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and PC/console crossplay support is in the works, as well as cross-progression.Ī version of Battlefield 2042 is coming to the older PS4 and Xbox One consoles, too, but those versions won't support 128-player matches or crossplay with the PC or new consoles. On PC, it's releasing on Origin, Steam, and the Epic Games Store. The Battlefield 2042 release date is November 19, 2021. What is the Battlefield 2042 release date? There's a third mode, called Hazard Zone, which aims for more "high stakes, squad-based gameplay." We'd wager it's going more Escape From Tarkov-ey. The previous Battlefield games have all tweaked the basic Battlefield format, but this feels like the most significant change to the series since it started in 2002, almost 20 years ago.Īlso exciting: A new mode called Battlefield Portal that will let players design their own game types and mix-and-match weapons and vehicles from Battlefield 1942, Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, and Battlefield 2042. The big news is that Battlefield 2042 doubles the player count to 128 and redefines the class system to feature "specialists" with unique gadgets.
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