With the unveiling of the new season, a new gameplay trailer for the first season of Battlefield 2042, was released last night. The trailer revealed new helicopters along with Exposure, A new map located in a mountainous area. There’s also Evelina Liss, the new character who can use a rocket launcher to drop vehicles. For those who remember, the season was supposed to come out as early as March, but due to the amount of problems and bugs, the developers chose to postpone the launch of the season until they could fix most of the problems.
The result was that Battlefield fans of all kinds, had to wait 8 months since the launch of the game to get this update and content. Now, the content is available for free to all players as part of Battlefield’s new Battle Pass. Additional cosmetic items, including legendary skins, can be earned through a premium version of the Battle Pass.
EA reported that players are about to discover that the animations and character movements are much smoother overall, thanks to For “improvements in the soldiers’ gameplayIn addition, there have also been improvements in weapons and certain changes in balance that include increased projectile speed for dedicated sniper rifles and light machine guns, and better accuracy for shotguns.
The fix also adds some new ways to earn XP in games, according to DICE. You will now receive XP bonuses for killing an enemy that wounded or recently killed a member of your squad, or when a team member hits a vehicle you have already hit and kills his team. In game mode ConquestYou will now find more vehicles to use on the map, and adjustments to the Sundance figure’s parachute suits should make it easier to navigate with them.
All is well and good, and the improvements are indeed welcome. Will these changes be able to evoke anything in the game ?, really impossible to know. The prevailing assumption is not. Other than fixes there is not too much adding interesting content. And it’s important to remember that the next game in the Battlefield series is apparently also in development and is likely to be released in 2024.
Despite this, apparently, according to messages from EA, the company will continue to support Battlefield 2042, but again, assuming there is something more to support. The amount of players has dropped drastically, and worst of all, Battlefield is no longer included in the same list with games such as, Voice of Duty, Apax, or Fortnight. On top of all that, EA should see Activision release the day after, the first trailer for the next Voice of Duty game in the series, Modern Warfare 2.