With the Battlefield 2042 beta now officially over, some might have felt that the spawns weren’t really exactly great given you oftentimes spawned right in middle of firefights and so on. It seems, the Battlefield 2042 spawns issue we experienced in the beta was due to a bug!
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This was confirmed by DICE Level Design Director Peter Vesti Frendrup over on Twitter:
I have been looking at some spawn data from #BattlefieldOpenBeta and a lot of the bad flag spawns were definitely caused by a bug where contested spawns only kicked in when attackers had majority of players on a flag. It has been fixed already.
— Peter Vesti Frendrup (@petervesti) October 10, 2021
Frendrup also confirmed that players won’t spawn in swimming in a particular section of the Orbital map!
You won't spawn in swimming state anymore. Spawns have been fixed there – it wasn't intentional that you'd spawn in a swimming state on that spawn 🙂
— Peter Vesti Frendrup (@petervesti) October 10, 2021
More on the beta, DICE has also updated the EA Answers page to include “visual artifacting” as one of the top issues! This was confirmed by DICE Lead Community Manager Adam Freeman.
Visual Artifacting which has the potential to trigger those with Photosensitivity Conditions
We’re aware of rare instances of a visual issue which can cause effects in the game to display as full screen flashes of white light. This is unintended and is being investigated by our teams as a matter of priority to uncover its root cause. We are not anticipating that fixes can be developed and released prior to the end of our Open Beta. Warnings relating to those with Photosensitive conditions are not present in our Open Beta, and we encourage those managing photosensitive conditions exercise caution when playing, and to
I’ve experienced this visual artifacting multiple times, and I have to admit, it is one of the worst visual bugs I’ve seen, as it can literally make you dizzy.
Outside of the spawns, DICE has also confirmed that the UI, and even rate of XP has been changed for the better in the final version of the game. Make sure to read our article on what we liked about the beta, and what we thought needed changing right here.