Battlefield 2042 gamers have had quite a lot of gripes with the army FPS because it launched, and developer DICE has responded with stability tweaks, bug fixes, and the promise that it is listening. This is the half the place all that listening turns into pay attentiondoing: Battlefield 2042’s first season has been pushed again from spring to early summer season whereas the studio incorporates participant suggestions on the UI, squad dynamics, specialists, and the stuff coming within the upcoming season itself.
In a blog post today, BF2042 senior producer Ryan McArthur mentioned that DICE will use the additional few months to make “in depth fixes” and add new options. Three of these options, that are coming “as quickly as attainable,” are voice chat, participant profiles, and a redesigned scoreboard.
The brand new scoreboard will not look precisely like the prototype we have been proven just lately, which some gamers criticized for not totally emulating the basic type. DICE plans to separate the groups into their very own columns for the model releasing within the subsequent replace, and a later model will embrace loss of life counts and an end-of-round report. It is going again to the way it was in earlier Battlefields, in different phrases.
That is been the final request from most Battlefield 2042 critics: Make it extra like Battlefield 5. I personally like Battlefield 2042’s large 128-player maps, sparse as they are often, however they have been accused of being too large, and the addition of specialist characters has been maligned as properly. DICE says that each grievance is being checked out.
The studio’s plan is to sort out matters one after the other, explaining what it is considering of fixing and why, observing the participant response, after which presenting a revised plan (the scoreboard was maybe a take a look at run of that course of). A workforce is at the moment “analyzing specialists” for attainable modifications, however the subsequent large subject will likely be DICE’s plans to deal with suggestions on “openness and lack of canopy” in upcoming maps.
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It feels important that modifications to specialists basically are being thought-about, though the top end result may simply be tweaks to particular person traits and devices. Specialists actually aren’t going away. Every of Battlefield 2042’s 4 deliberate seasons will introduce a brand new specialist, and that is nonetheless taking place—Yr 1 is simply beginning later than anticipated. Those that personal the Yr 1 Go will get some exclusive cosmetic items within the subsequent replace to apologize for the delay.
DICE says it’s going to even be engaged on gun balancing and creating a “refined ping system” and “an improved reward loop for once you and your squad play the target.” Battlefield Portal, the make-your-own-mode software, will proceed to get updates from Ripple Impact Studios, too.
We anticipate to listen to extra about Battlefield 2042 and the season one delay throughout EA’s earnings name later right now. It is fairly routine information—Battlefield 5’s first large content material replace was additionally delayed—so I do not anticipate any spit takes from funding bankers.
I additionally do not anticipate any type of free-to-play announcement, which was the topic of some speculative stories just lately. EA CEO Andrew Wilson did say just a few months in the past {that a} Battlefield “free-to-play part” is smart sooner or later, however by all appearances EA is shifting ahead with the unique Battlefield 2042 plan.
EA is ramping up production of Battlefield stuff below the watch of Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella, who is aware of a little bit one thing about free-to-play video games, so it is actually nonetheless attainable that Battlefield may pull a Warzone and launch a stand-alone free-to-play spin-off sooner or later. Perhaps that is what Ripple Impact is engaged on, but when it occurs in any respect, I would not anticipate it quickly.
As for Battlefield 2042, you possibly can learn DICE’s plans for the primary half of 2022 within the season one delay announcement.
