Do you find the content in Battlefield 2042 a bit lacking? Given the amount of maps and weapons available at launch, chances are, that’s a resounding yes. While DICE has yet to announce anything officially about Battlefield 2042 new content coming out soon, the studio is aware that players are asking for it.
Over on the EA Answers forum, Battlefield Community Manager Straatford87 acknowledged that players are “eager for more content” and that the dev team is still working hard for Season 1’s release in the summer.
With that said, we know you and other players are eager for more content. Just want to confirm that our teams are still hard at work prepping for Season 1 release this Summer (yes, I can’t wait for summer but also because of weather reasons). We’ve got further updates in between, with the next update scheduled for April. Apart from bug fixes, it will include VoIP, End of Round Scoreboard, vehicle balance changes and updates to weapon attachment functionality. We’ll also have some further information to share this week on updates we’re making to maps, and their gameplay.
In another forum post, Straatford87 explained why DICE has been silent in terms of communicating what bugs are being squashed, and what changes are being made.
Can clarify. From “our” end in this case means communication from myself and the other Community Managers.
It also means that development plans sometimes change. For example, I could share right now that change X is in the next update. But then later we end up moving change X to another update, or maybe we’re not doing X at all, and now we are doing Y.
I personally don’t think it’s helpful for you if we share something on a specific change before we can confirm that yes, change X will be in the next update and here is exactly how it will work. The end result of that is that sometimes we have to be “quiet” longer than we would like. Again, sorry for that.
What’s also been called out in this thread is that we should share more on our thought process for future changes as well, instead of just locked changes. When we do that however we’d also like to make sure that we don’t share an important detail in a forum post which can easily get lost and might not reach many players. So instead right now that’s something we’re aiming to do via the Core Feedback posts. The follow-up for Maps is presently scheduled to go live before end of week.
While it’s never good when a dev team goes dark, Straatford87 does have a point. The Community Managers announcing a certain thing will probably get fixed/tweaked and it’s not part of the latest patch will cause more harm than good. Of course, being silent isn’t good, either, and I’m sure there’s a middle ground between the two, which DICE just needs to find.
In other Battlefield news, don’t forget that the next patch is due this April, and will have a “few hundreds of changes” according to DICE. We’ll be getting a core feedback post from the studio regarding Specialists this week, too, and once that’s out, we’ll be sure to let our readers know about it.