Battlefield

After a months-long delay, DICE and EA are finally ready to premiere the first season of Battlefield 2042. The two have announced that Season 1: Zero Hour premieres on June 9th with a large batch of fresh content. There's a new map set in the Canadian Rockies (Exposure) for the All-Out Warfare and Portal modes. A new character, Ewalina Lis, is well-suited to anti-vehicle combat. You'll need her, too, as there are new stealth helicopters (the Huron and Hannibal) that could provide an unwelcome surprise. The new season…

Battlefield 2042’s launch didn’t go quite as planned for EA. While it was poised to be the publisher’s next live service hit, it floundered at launch due to an overwhelming number of bugs, a controversial ability-driven specialist system, maps that felt way too big, and more. While Digital Trends’ reviewer loved the base game, many players didn’t, so EA spent months fixing it. As a result, Season 1: Zero Hour was pushed back all the way to June 9, over six months after the game’s launch. Ahead of its release, I got…

EA Dice has confirmed that Battlefield 2042 developers will stop working on Hazard Zone. A new mode for the series, Hazard Zone saw players team up in groups of four to “locate and retrieve critical data drives scattered throughout the battlefield, while fighting opposing squads with the same objective”. However just six months after launch, EA Dice has confirmed that it is “winding down future development on Hazard Zone.” “Hazard Zone will stay as part of the experience, we’re not switching it off, but beyond addressing…

EA announced that development is winding down on one of the new modes introduced in Battlefield 2042. Hazard Zone is getting taken off of life support, with future development being brought to an end as active player numbers wind down. The end of development for Hazard Zone doesn’t mean that the game mode will meet its end. EA confirms that the playlist will remain active within 2042 and will even have possible future critical errors addressed. However, things like future maps, content, and experiences won’t have…

No more updates for the Zone As DICE keeps ramping up to the launch of Season 1, another Battlefield 2042 mode is taking a backseat. The studio confirms today that it’s shutting down future development on Battlefield 2042‘s Hazard Zone mode. The new mode, an Escape From Tarkov-like experience in the Battlefield setting, was one of Battlefield 2042‘s major pillars going into launch. Today though, EA and DICE are saying that future development will cease on the mode. “All of us on the team had great ambition and high hopes…

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Battlefield 2042 is a first-person shooter that doesn't have a campaign mode. Battlefield, developed by Electronic Arts and DICE, has long been known for its single-player campaigns as well as its 64-player lobbies. The latest iteration of the popular first person shooter franchise ditches these two factors that made it popular, entirely. Battlefield 2042, as the name suggests, is set 100 years in the future from the original game — Battlefield 1942 — that made the franchise a blockbuster. Has Battlefield found a new…