Battlefield 2042 Shutdown Game Mode Details for Leviathan Rising Event

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DICE has launched the latest Inside Battlefield podcast (#8), and with today’s episode, the studio gave an audio overview of the Battlefield 2042 “Shutdown” game mode that’s incoming with the Leviathan Rising event this week.

Inside Battlefield Podcast #8 (Spotify, Google, Apple)

Battlefield 2042 Shutdown Game Mode Details and Overview:

Thanks to community member 02Alien, you can read on for the mode details if you’d rather do that than listen to it.

  1. The team switch is mid round
  2. Newer, smaller map layouts. “Chaotic”
  3. No vehicles
  4. No flag spawning, HQ spawning is enabled
  5. New cover and objects placed around the maps
  6. Four maps – Flashpoint, Manifest (hill top), Exposure (damavond peak reference is apparently on the map for this mode) and Stranded
  7. They said they’re trying to lean into the competitive aspect
  8. You win by doing best as an attacker (?)
  9. 90 points max possible, if you are attacker first and score say 45, your goal as defender is to stop the other team from scoring 45 or more on their turn attacking
  10. 420🔥 seconds for each round
  11. Squadplay is important, mode is setup for playing with friends and coordinating with your squad (squad reinforcements when DICE🥲)
  12. They expect specialists like Dozer to be popular
  13. Specialists are not locked (can have multiple of the same specialist/class)
  14. 30 seconds between rounds
  15. Score by picking up lance in your base, planting somewhere on the objective, and then defend it
  16. Lance stays planted for 70 seconds and you score for as long as it’s planted (scores every 3.5 seconds)
  17. Two lances for the attacking team at a time
  18. Can plant it anywhere within an objective area
  19. Spawn beacons are important
  20. There’s space in the maps/locations to flank, can approach objectives in multiple ways and make your own entrance (on maps that have destruction)
  21. There is overtime – when the time runs out, as long as the lance is still active, it’ll go overtime until the lance timer runs out
  22. Advice from the devs: “play the objective”
  23. Defenders should know the approach paths and create traps
  24. Winning tactic – smoke everything, everywhere, all the time.
  25. Cookie rating: 4/5 smoke grenades
  26. Cannot use explosives to take out lance

As for the official event details, here’s what EA shared about it so far:

Defend, Locate & Disable – Locate and eliminate Lance Carriers, prevent their dropped Lances from being picked up, and defuse any that do get planted, with prejudice.

Master these objectives, and you’ll be unstoppable. Class-play is imperative in this 8v8 small-scale infantry focused experience. No one gets left behind. Make every move count. Your squad depends on it.

Shutdown features new mechanics allowing you new ways to experience Battlefield:

  • Play the Objective – The Lance: The ESA-500 Lance is a portable microwave device that fries data drives in a limited radius. Attackers can plant it where they choose inside predefined objective areas populated with crates full of said data drives, scoring points as long as the Lance stays alive, and culminating in a shutdown. Defenders on the other hand, can disable it with a short timed interaction. Playing it smart, and outwitting your enemy is key to Shutdown. Plant the Lance in the open and bait your enemy, hide it in a corner, protect it with your gadgets and throwables, or find an approach of your own, the choice is yours.
  • Shut it down: When a planted Lance scores enough points in an objective, it results in a shutdown of the objective and fully removes it from the map. Expect pure chaos as you start clearing more objectives and are forced closer and closer together with the enemy team.
  • Secure Victory: You’ll play a round as both Attacker, and Defender. When the first round ends, you will switch sides and redeploy. You’ll secure victory by scoring the most points as the Attacking side while you battle it out within these fast-paced matches.

You can read up on the Leviathan Rising rewards, schedule and more right here. Alongside the new event, DICE has confirmed that all chat functionality will be incoming this week as well.

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