Aside from maps, weapons, and cosmetics, a couple of new unreleased Battlefield 2042 melee weapons have been unearthed as well, which suggest that these items could be hitting as part of Season 1, or maybe as new weekly challenges.

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Dug up by reliable Battlefield dataminer temporyal, three 3D models of unreleased weapons have been spotted in the game’s files, though there are no individual kill animations available yet.

3D models of three unreleased Melee Weapons in #Battlefield2042:

🗡️ Khanjar Knife
🇯🇵 Wakizashi
💀 Santa Muerte Cane Sword

Preview videos of the individual kill animations aren't available yet. We'll see if one of these weapons makes its way into the game… pic.twitter.com/HmRcqP9PQb

— temporyal (@temporyal) May 2, 2022

Another thing unearthed in the game’s files is a new air vehicle called the KA-99 Hanniabl, which is another attack chopper.

Unreleased #Battlefield2042 Air Vehicle:

🚁 KA-99 Hannibal

The Russian KA-99 Hannibal is described as "the most advanced attack helicopter in the world" and draws its inspiration from the KA-58 Black Ghost (which is even mentioned in the files).

Full ingame description: pic.twitter.com/Ym6egLmXol

— temporyal (@temporyal) May 1, 2022

For those keeping score, the BF2042 unreleased melee weapons join new cosmetics and a new weather effect for an existing map, in-game store images, and unannounced weekly missions as some of the stuff unearthed in patch 4.0! Will wee see the same amount of data mined in the next patch due this month? One can hope, as this gives us a glimpse of what’s coming down the line. That said, same as with every datamined info, none of these have been confirmed by EA or DICE, so don’t blame the devs (or us) if we don’t see these come to light.

In other news regarding BF2042, it looks like the game might be hitting Xbox Game Pass and EA Play’s vault soon per store listings.