Battlefield 2042 Gets Update 1.65 for Version 8.4.1, Adds Quality-of-Life Items
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DICE has released a surprise patch for Battlefield 2042 on all platforms that aims to bring some quality-of-life features. Tagged as version 8.4.1, console players will see this as Battlefield 2042 update 1.65 on last-gen (PS4, XB1) and download version 1.000.068 on current-gen (PS5, XSX), with the patch notes applying to all versions of the game.
Don’t expect any new content in this, though some much-appreciated items are slotted in.
Battlefield 2042 Gets a Surprise Quality-of-Life Patch This Feb. 3
Check out what’s new per DICE:
- Fixed a few different situations where aiming down sights would not properly zoom in your view to the correct magnification. This could for example happen when you ADS quickly after a reload or while jumping between seats in vehicles.
- Switching between the first and second stance of the driver seat with the IFV now has a brief cooldown time before the weapon is ready to fire.
- Guided missiles on the IFVs will now interact with the flares like the rest of the missiles.
- Improved Warhead ability now correctly applies the increased damage on the BMP.
- Slight adjustment to the damage relation between the vehicle and other assets.
- Reduced AP rounds damage relation vs medium armored vehicles.
- Draugr now has hints for its free-look input.
- SD. KFZ 251 vehicle now correctly tracks wheel damage when disabled.
- Fixed an issue where under certain scenarios, the player could bypass the grapple hook cooldown.
- Fixed an issue where The Swift Harvest Skin obscures the 1.25 Iron Sight of the Target 8T Sight on the DM7.
- Fixed an issue where Paik’s “Gwisin” headgear flickers when used with “Quantum Shift” body.
- The Scatter Grenade now tracks properly in the statistics tab.
Of course, the big news for Battlefield today is how EA will talk about the community testing plans for the new Battlefield game. Tune in later today at MP1st to know more about that.
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