EA’s gambit to have a Battlefield 2042 free weekend as Fashionable Warfare 3 obtained its multiplayer beta appears to have paid off. First famous by PCGamesN, the multiplayer FPS, which was lambasted by followers when it launched in 2021, almost matched its all-time peak participant depend on Steam—102,009 in keeping with SteamDB, simply shy of that 2021 excessive of 105,397.
It is a formidable displaying from a shooter many had all however written off, however there’s loads to advocate 2042 at this late date except for it having been briefly free. Again in March, PCG’s resident FPS aficionado, Morgan Park, discovered 2042 to be a redeemed shooter. The reintroduction of the Battlefield sequence’ courses, new maps, and contemporary Specialist roles all contributed to a vastly improved recreation.
It additionally does not harm that Battlefield and BattleBit Remastered’s fashion of excessive participant depend, much less rabidly aggressive shooter is fairly singular in immediately’s sea of comp queue esports and battle royales. Battlefield and BattleBit are, god forbid, multiplayer shooters you’ll be able to load up on the weekend with a number of associates and simply have enjoyable with.
And, lest we neglect, it wasn’t even all doom and gloom again at 2042’s rocky launch. PC Gamer government editor Tyler Wilde awarded it an 80% in our evaluation, declaring that “This can be a bolder Battlefield than we have had in a very long time, and I am having much more enjoyable working by way of what’s good and dangerous about its intensive modifications than I ever did arguing about what Battlefield 5’s common time-to-kill needs to be.”
So, regardless that the free weekend is coming to a detailed, it does not appear to be a half-bad time to leap again into Battlefield 2042. Steam participant counts aren’t the be-all and end-all, however this weekend’s little triumph appears like a notable milestone on this shooter’s redemption arc.