Hello, that is Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett, one of many 17 individuals on the planet repeatedly having fun with the sport, reporting stay from Battlefield 2042.
In the event you haven’t performed the sport throughout its first 12 months—and actually, it has had issues, who can blame you!—EA has determined that now’s the time to attempt to persuade you by providing Battlefield 2042 without spending a dime (through the first few days of December, throughout all platforms), or at the least as a part of the subscription charge you’re already paying for Recreation Cross.
They’re doing this for 2 causes, after all. The primary one is that nowhere close to sufficient individuals purchased this recreation within the first place, so the playerbase has been at instances tragically low. Here in Australia, for instance, solely a single multiplayer mode is ever populated sufficient to get common video games. The second, and that is associated, is that Battlefield 2042 has beauty microtransactions, so the extra individuals EA can get enjoying the sport, the extra they’re hoping to make off weapon, automobile and participant skins.
I’m now going to let you know that you simply don’t want to purchase these skins, those you unlock are superb, and I’m additionally going to let you know that it is best to play this recreation! Battlefield 2042 launched with numerous issues and numerous modifications, each of which upset many long-time gamers, however like I stated on the time, there was nonetheless good (or at the least potential) in what it was making an attempt to do.
Now, 12 months later, after a ton of labor and (remaining) fan suggestions, builders DICE have the sport…on the level it ought to have been at launch. Which is a low bar to clear, I do know, however this recreation was developed proper by way of a pandemic, it’s going to free (or principally free on Recreation Cross), and clearing low bars is strictly what these type of companies and weekends are for.
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It’s additionally gotten fairly good! The unique maps are being reworked, the brand new maps are nice, and numerous the stuff older followers had been lacking at launch—from scoreboards to the category system—have both been reintroduced or are about to be.
In asserting the free/Recreation Cross availability, DICE additionally dropped a video and weblog at the moment, outlining new weapons, map modifications and specialist tweaks coming as a part of Season 3. There was additionally a really transient trace at one thing else coming past that, which they’re pitching as one thing extra substantial. That one thing else is mentioned over a cinematic of troopers taking a look at ominous climate, so given the sport is ready in a near-future local weather apocalypse (and already options in-game storms that may wreck your shit), it’ll be attention-grabbing to see if this one thing else makes dramatic modifications to the best way climate shapes and impacts the maps.
Battlefield 2042 might be hitting Recreation Cross when Season 3 launches quickly, whereas the free weekend/week will run from December 1-4 on Xbox, Dec 1-5 on Steam, and Dec 16-23 on PlayStation.