We highlighted this past weekend that Battlefield 2042 had got off to a pretty rocky start with players, particularly over on Steam where it still holds a 'Mostly Negative' rating, and the team at DICE has responded to that feedback.
In a lengthy post over on the official Battlefield website, it's explained that DICE "will be supporting and evolving [the game] for years to come", with two major updates on the way in the coming weeks, including one of them this Thursday.
In addition, it's acknowledged that fans are keen to see more legacy features return:
"The teams across the globe are working 24/7 to evolve and deliver improvements to the game. Since launch we’ve made a number of service updates that have improved server performance as well as the vaulting and restoration of content not performing in line with our designs.
We also want to give you the assurance that we’re carefully evaluating your desire to see legacy features return. End-of-match Scoreboard, Server Browser, and features like Voice Chat are big topics for us to cover all at once, and we have plenty we want to say around them. We’ll come back to you when we have things that we can show to you, including details about our long-term vision for certain features and functions."
There's a lot of detail in the post, so we definitely recommend checking it out for yourself, with the team going in-depth on improvement plans for performance and server stability, gunplay and balance, progression and more. In addition, it's mentioned that Xbox Series X players should no longer be suffering crashing issues.
As for this week, Thursday's patch will include a few changes, with a much bigger patch set to arrive in early December with more fixes, changes, and quality of life enhancements. For now though, here's what you can expect on Thursday:
- Improved Soldier Revives, addressing ‘unable to revive when a Soldier dies close to an object, or wall’.
- A respawn protection system that will help to prevent any extraneous issues that can leave a player in a downed state for too long, and force a manual respawn when required.
- Re-enabling our UAV-1 Interaction in Battlefield Portal, available on our Battlefield Bad Company 2 maps. It was overpowered, and we’ve made adjustments to account for that.
- Vehicle Balancing for the LCAA Hovercraft and MD540 Nightbird mentioned above.
- Dispersion has been reduced for all weapons except Shotguns, which results in more consistent bullet spread during gameplay.
How are you finding Battlefield 2042 so far? Let us know down in the comments section below.
[source ea.com]
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Sorry we released the game at FULL price in a sh*t state but we still want you to play it for years 🤣
The industry is a joke.
Well at least we have Halo Infinite to fall back on this year.
So not addressing the core issues at all. Glad I got my money back. Maybe I will reconsider in a few years.
I'd rather publishers released a full polished game than be drip fed updates for years
@Would_you_kindly It's all because of the stockholders. They don't realize on much time is needed to make a game nowadays and want the product out by a certain date. Devs are forced to release half finished games especially with stockholders we can fix it later attittude.
@Tasuki that & they want you to spend money on the micro transactions
You have to laugh.
£70 for the next gen version (digitally without EA Play discount).
No campaign.
Game still releases in a terrible state.
Think I'll be waiting 3-6 months and pick it up discounted...
Some aspects of the game are really fun especially with friends. Some aspects aren't fun like being a certain level to unlock equipment to take down vehicles. Then their are the aspects that make no sense like not being able to choose your loadout in the menu. Also flying vehicles killing you instantly while zooming and jerking around. When I'm in a gunner role in a helicopter I can hardly aim straight and the jostling is too much.
How to enjoy Battlefield 2042:
1. Install.
2. Ignore Battlefield 2042 component.
3. Open Battlefield Portal.
4. Play Battlefield 3, 1942, and Bad Company 2 instead.
@Halucigens man I can't even fly in the choppers/jets. I used to be able to in bf1 but since bfv I just cannot steer the plane to where I want it to. And I too cannot hit a thing inside the chopper. Sways way too much.
I preordered this and refunded it when I saw how disappointing it was. See ya when it hits game pass.
I genuinely don’t want updates for years. New games come out all the time - I want a game that works and that is fun day one. It’s a rarity these days.
“Buy our game now at full price and the game might be considered good in an unspecified amount of years worth of updates that we may or may not actually follow through with” is what I’m hearing. I’ve never been a battlefield fan, I just think this is funny.
I tried the beta...that was enough.
Bad Company 2 forever!! 😂
Seriously though, it's a shame what's happened to this series, and just the industry in general like people have already said. Broken games man, urgh.
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