Following up on their core feedback discussion held earlier this month, DICE has came out with a list of Battlefield 2042 upcoming map changes, in the hopes of pulling back players amidst the many issues the game is still currently experiencing. According to the studio, they have taken “the necessary time to read through, listen, and identify” the common top points of feedback, and as a result we now have a better understanding of what’s coming to Battlefield 2042 maps in the coming patches.

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Below is a rundown of the most important points for these upcoming map changes in Battlefield 2042:

Traversal

For Traversal we outlined that travel time on foot between Base Spawn and Flags was too long. Our proposed solution is to reduce overall travel time between these areas by moving them closer together.

We shared that the first map in need of changes is Kaleidoscope, which through your feedback you’ve confirmed to us is the right call. However, you’ve also shared with us that Renewal is another map that really needs to see changes made to it. We hear you on that, and we’re looking to deliver a refreshed version of Renewal alongside Kaleidoscope as part of Season 1 this summer.

Another feedback point was that you’d like us to shift focus away from traversal by foot by ensuring that there are more transport vehicles active on the map. Increasing the number of active vehicles on the map isn’t something we can do as a short term solution as this has the potential to impact our separate work on improving game performance, but we do hear you on this and want to do what we can to approach the problem from different angles.

One of the ways in which we think we can limit the amount of time spent on foot is to change the distribution of vehicles across our selection pools. We are currently exploring how gameplay changes when the two seater M5C Bolte features as part of the Armored Vehicle pool, and MAV instead shows up in the Transport Vehicles category, as well as shifting the MD540 Nightbird out into the Attack Helicopter pool, ensuring that Air Transport is more readily available in the round.

Cover and Line of Sight

In our first post, we detailed that there wasn’t enough Cover available across maps to ensure safety when traveling between Flags. Additionally, we highlighted that there aren’t enough Line of Sight blockers, introducing an unintended increase on the number of long range engagements.

You’ve asked us to ensure that when we are moving around both Flags and Objectives to new areas, that we’re also working to ensure that sufficient Cover is available in their new locations. We hear you on that, and work is already underway that helps to ensure this standard is upheld. We believe that this should also resolve Line of Sight issues that have been highlighted by you.

Immersion is another point you’ve asked for us to look at, often through discussion of how the maps feel too clean, and pristine. You’ve expressed to us that you want it to feel like each Flag and Objective needs to have more strategic value, and something that you feel is worth fighting for.

As an example taken from the improvements we’re bringing to Kaleidoscope, we’re updating the gazebo on B1 into a military installment. We’ll replace grass with mud, and cover the area in barbed wire to better immerse it into our world, and to bring improvements to the narrative of our battles. We want you to feel the objectives are ready for battle whilst you are fighting over them.

Intensity

For Intensity we outlined that especially in 128* player modes, combat can become too chaotic around our Objectives, making it hard to determine what’s going on around you, and where you should be keeping your attention.

You’ve told us that in your experience, the primary cause for this problem is vehicle dominance.

Based on that feedback there are several changes we’ll make to reduce overall vehicle availability and uptime:

• We’re reducing the number of attack vehicles and helicopters that can be active at any time in 128 player modes per category from 3, to 2. This means you’ll only be able to encounter 2 tanks, and 2 attack helicopters available at any time, instead of 3 each.
• We’re increasing the cooldown for attack vehicles and helicopters from 60, to 120 seconds.
• As discussed earlier, the MD540 Nightbird will be moved from transport into the attack helicopter category, and the MC5 Bolte will also be moved from transport into the attack vehicle category.

In summary, this means current dominant vehicles will see a reduction in active time, and you’ll encounter less of them on the Battlefield.

Paths

We outlined that there were too few clear Paths between Flags, making it unclear where enemy fire could come from, or how to best travel between Flags.

You’ve told us that you’d like to see this improved by lining up Cover in such a way that it follows a clear path between Objectives. This is something we’re looking to update once we’ve finished moving Base Spawn and different Flag locations closer together.

That’s only the tip of the iceberg for most of these upcoming map changes for Battlefield 2042, with DICE promising to push a new topic for Core Feedback next week. With all of that said, what’s the timeline of these maps changes coming to Battlefield 2042? DICE outright avoided saying anything concrete as the studio did not want to overpromise, but it did give a window for players to see some of these changes in action:

We’ve discussed several changes today that we’ll not only make to maps, but also to gameplay such as how often or how many vehicles you’ll see on the Battlefield.

The first changes we’ll make are to vehicle play and availability, and those will be ready in the next Update. Following that you’ll start to see the first updates to Flag, Base Spawn locations, and Cover and Line of Sight on Kaleidoscope and Renewal. These changes will arrive during Season 1, and as we get closer to deploying those updates we’ll be able to share all of the specifics.

We’re now getting started on bringing these same standards of updates to our other launch maps alongside needed visual changes to make all maps feel ready for battle. There’s a lot of work involved in doing that, so you can expect us to start discussing more about those updates during Season 1, and for the changes themselves during Season 2.

If you yourself have something you want to bring up in terms of Core Feedback for whatever topic DICE comes up next, you can reach out to the game’s various socials to do so:

• Official Forums
• Discord
• Twitter
• Reddit

In case you missed it, check out how to finish the weekly challenge number 15 for Battlefield 2042 here, alongside its reward and tips on how to easily breeze through this new weekly task!

Source: EA

Morning Battlefield 2042 players, it’s that time of week again! Yup, there’s a new set of challenges and weekly rewards now live in Battlefield 2042. Here’s all the requirements to unlock the Battlefield 2042 Weekly Reset Challenge #15 (Mar 31 – Apr 7) rewards.

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Battlefield 2042 Weekly Reset Challenge #15 (Mar 31 – Apr 7):

How to Complete and Earn Battlefield 2042 Weekly Reset Challenge #15 (Mar 31 – Apr 7) Reward:

• 1000 Damage Inflicted with Vehicles
• 50 Teammates Revived and Enemies Killed
• 50 Enemies Disrupted with EMP

50 revives and enemy kills should be easy enough as it’s only required to do one or the other and focusing on kills is quicker than reviving teammates. I recommend pairing this up with the thousand damage done with vehicle mission as you’re most likely rack up plenty of kills as you try to do damage to enemies. Obviously select the vehicle you feel most comfortable with but if you are much of a vehicle kind of player than I recommend using a tank as they are easy to control and have a good amount of range. For the Emp you can use Emp grenades and spam them in hot zones such as capture points on conquest or breakthrough.

Every week on Thursday at 4:00am PT/6:00am CT/7:00am ET the Battlefield 2042 weekly challenges refresh, revealing a new weekly reward. If you are interested in staying up-to-date on when these rewards and weekly challenges drop, be sure to follow MP1st on Twitter, or keep a watchful eye on our guide page for Battlefield 2042.

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.

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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.