Hello, that is Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett, one of many 17 individuals on the planet usually 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 could be the time to attempt to persuade you by providing Battlefield 2042 at no cost (through the first few days of December, throughout all platforms), or not less than as a part of the subscription charge you’re already paying for Sport Go.
They’re doing this for 2 causes, in fact. The primary one is that nowhere close to sufficient individuals purchased this sport within the first place, so the playerbase has been at instances tragically low. Right 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 taking part in the sport, the extra they’re hoping to make off weapon, car and participant skins.
I’m now going to inform you that you simply don’t want to purchase these skins, those you unlock are advantageous, and I’m additionally going to inform you that it is best to play this sport! Battlefield 2042 launched with loads of issues and loads of modifications, each of which upset many long-time gamers, however like I stated on the time, there was nonetheless good (or not less than potential) in what it was attempting 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 sport was developed proper via a pandemic, it’s going to free (or mainly free on Sport Go), and clearing low bars is precisely what these sort of providers 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 loads of the stuff older followers have been lacking at launch—from scoreboards to the category system—have both been reintroduced or are about to be.
In asserting the free/Sport Go 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 ominous climate, so given the sport is about 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 way in which climate shapes and impacts the maps.
Battlefield 2042 shall be hitting Sport Go 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.
