

Now, if I’m being honest - and I am - my initial reaction to the trailer was basically: Huh, this looks like Battlefield 4, but with a new coat of paint, a few new toys, and a nice next-gen console finish. troops in Afghanistan at the time of Battlefield 4’s launch, even though the program ultimately had its funding cut due to real-life issues. That’s standard fare for the series, which featured the XM25, a grenade launcher that had seen limited use by U.S. I, for one, am holding out hope that Battlefield 2042 will include some new small arms that are currently in development or being tested, like Sig Sauer’s Next Generation Squad Weapon prototypes.

The third feature is and is simply billed as a “love letter to our fans, coming to Battlefield 2042.” Updates on that are expected to arrive on July 22.Īnd then there’s the host of new weapons which are simply too numerous to identify and name here, though we’re certain to get a better look at what’s in store as the game comes closer to launch. However, EA has said that they have no plans to include that game mode, so that kind of puts the kibosh on that. The game’s site hints at some additional features beyond the typical Battlefield fare, one of which is called Hazard Zone, where players will drop in for “an all-new, high-stakes multiplayer experience.” Now, if you read between the lines and think about the exploding popularity of other first-person shooters like Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone, it seems plausible that it might be some kind of battle royale game mode. Depending on what objectives your team holds during a conquest match, you might want to spawn with your sniper loadout if you’re going to hide out in an elevated area and pick off attackers, or maybe you’ll want to go with an engineer class and hop into a tank as you bulldoze your way toward the enemy’s spawn to bottleneck them and give your team some breathing room to cap another point.) (This has always been one of my favorite parts of Battlefield games. Battlefield 2042 will mark a return to the “iconic all-out warfare of the franchise” reads the game’s official site, and will support as many as 128 players on a host of maps which, based on the trailer, cover a range of environments from cities to deserts and likely a mix of both on each map - with small towns and buildings and open spaces where players will be forced to change up their tactics and loadouts depending on where they are during a given portion of a game.
