EA has teased what’s coming in Season 4 of Battlefield 2042 and confirmed {that a} Season 5 can be on the best way, although the latter will not function a specialist.
Season 4 is about to launch in early 2023, in line with a brand new weblog posted on EA’s web site. The season will deliver with it a brand new recon Specialist and Battle Go, recent {hardware}, re-worked environments, and new maps, considered one of which is able to closely reference Battlefield 4.
Developer DICE has promised the Season 4 map will probably be a “smaller, shorter, and linear” close-quarters affair, which appears like a change of tempo from the sprawling environments on supply in the meanwhile.
Season 5 will supply an identical quantity of content material to earlier seasons – with the introduction of one other map, new {hardware}, and a brand new Battle Go – however no new Specialists.
Earlier video games will even be an inspiration, as Season 5 will “lean into earlier video games and the way they will present up on the earth of 2042”. The map will probably be a “forgotten battleground” from the Battlefield 4 period, albeit altered by the narrative occasions that led as much as the 2042 setting. This map will apparently be overgrown with vegetation and “encourage a mix of vehicular and infantry fight”.
DICE admitted it understood the destructive suggestions referring to the fight environments supplied at Battlefield 2042‘s launch and has been steadily bettering lots of the recreation’s early maps.
This pattern is about to proceed in Season 3: Escalation, with the transforming of the Manifest and Breakaway maps alongside the brand new Spearhead atmosphere, which is able to see gamers battle over two excessive tech weapon manufacturing amenities within the Swedish wilderness.
Manifest is about for re-release in December as a part of Replace 3.1, which is able to supply improved visibility, cowl, and sightlines over the earlier model of the map. HQ flags have additionally been shifted “nearer to the motion”.
Breakaway can be set to be reworked in a later 3.2 replace, wherein the huge oil rig construction will probably be moved nearer to the centre of the map to supply a extra “targeted play-space”. An improved model of the Discarded map in the meantime will probably be re-launched throughout Season 4, whereas the overhaul of Hourglass has but to be given a launch window.
IGN gave Battlefield 2042 a 7/10 when it launched virtually one yr in the past, wherein we celebrated the sport’s strategic Hazard Zone recreation mode and Portal choices, however lamented parts of the chaotic 128 participant matches of its all out warfare modes.
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