With Battlefield 2042’s Battlefield Portal featuring maps, vehicles and weapons from past Battlefield games such as Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 3, and Bad Company 2, some gamers might be wondering how the old weapons would stand a chance against the newer rifles and armaments of Battlefield 2042. As it turns out there are two settings in place for this.
Speaking in a video interview with YouTuber JackFrags, Ripple Effect Studios Creative Director Thomas Anderson confirmed that there will be two weapon settings in Battlefield Portal — one for “official,” and another one for “historical.”
Thomas Anderson: We have two different tweaks for the weapons. We have that’s the “official” setting that is balanced against the 2042 weapons. Whether it’s a Thompson gun or whatever ttype thing is, right? These can stand against the offering that we have in 2042. And thern we have, we call this “Historical” tweaks. Let’s just say that it wasn’t easier to be an infantry in those days versus what it is today. Our historical tweaks are trying to recapture the feeling of that era. So if you want to create a very symmetrical game mode, you can have the historical tweaks of (BF) 1942 aside the modern tweaks of 2042. But it’s up to you if you want to set the official thing, or if you want the historical setting.
That makes e a ton of sense given a player using a BF1942 rifle would get destroyed by someone using anything from BF2042.
Battlefield 2042 is set to shoot out this October 22 on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
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