DICE isn’t just introducing a new Specialist, map and new weapons in Battlefield 2042’s Season 3 “Escalation,” but even 3D spotting is making a return as well! Yep, you read that right! Battlefield 2042 3D spotting will be a thing very soon.
This was confirmed by DICE during an invite-only press event this month where Season 3 was discussed. In an online Q&A conducted on Discord, Lead Game Designer Florian Le Bihan confirmed that 3D spotting isn’t just exclusive to a Specialist’s perk/ability, and he even goes to share that the game’s ping system is also getting a “significant rework.”
Q: Is 3D spotting back in the game? Or is it just the new character’s perk?
Florian Le Bihan: It is yes, Ping system is getting an update that removes location ping and makes all pings contextual only + adds spotting. This should give some responsiveness to the system and make information shared always relevant/less out of date.
We are planning a significant rework of the Ping System, these changes are aimed at reducing the complexity of the existing ping system that we have in the game today. Which should hopefully allow for improvements to the pacing and accuracy of communication between your teammates.
When you factor in the major change coming to Specialists to make them fall more in line with traditional classes, then BF2042 should feel more like a traditional Battlefield game. Mind, I know it’s long overdue, but at least it’s on the way.
For those not familiar with 3D spotting in Battlefield games, this marks an enemy with a red triangle that can be seen by allies and on the mini-map. We’re curious whether DICE will bring it back exactly the same or make tweaks to it. Either way, it’s still an improvement compared to what we have now in BF2042.
Unfortunately, we weren’t able to see 3D spotting in action during the capture event we attended. Given that the Specialist rework is due in “early 2023,” then there’s a big possibility that this spotting feature will be part of that significant update as well.
Battlefield 2042 Season 3 launches on November 22, and you can check out the complete breakdown of the new content and changes incoming with that right here.
Why bring this back? This is a mistake a really bad one. This is one of the problems of this game everything marks you. Specialists, scopes, grenades, drones, firing your weapons marks you on the minimap too. BF5 did it right cause they remove all of this. The only way to mark people was the the flare gun that only the sniper could use and it was easily counter by shooting at the flares.
Bad example. BFV was a disaster and you cant see the enemy if he is right next to you. I dont think they will bring back BF4 ping system but will try to reinvent it.
Maybe you’re getting blind cause i can see them real fine. BF5 wasn’t a disaster it had some issues at first but they where quickly sorted out. BFV has the best gameplay of all the Battlefields. They really nailed movement and gunplay. Plus not being able to mark enemies was a great decision.
😀 Okay. Now go watch Jack Frags video where he stays the whole round in the enemy base and they stay right next to him wondering who caps their flag xD No. BFV doesnt have visibility problem….. DICE didnt spent the rest of the time fixing it…
As i said the game has no visibility issues you just want wallhacks in every game. You’re part of this generation of gamers that if they don’t have a minimap and uav you can’t play a game.
Oh u already know me 🤣 I play this franchise since it came out. My Comp had 256mb RAM. Wasnt even DDR memory. So no, Im not part of “that” generation. BF doesnt have UAV and I hate wallhack features.i want spotting because I know it it wont be like in BF4 but DICE will try to balance it.
Also I hate sniper campers in the bush. U know, the ones u cant see unless u r aiming at them 5m away… Now go play Tarkov or something.