Battlefield 2042 Season 1: Zero Hour will finally begin this week with one new map, one new Specialist, and a Battle Pass.
Announced in the 2-minute trailer of the game YouTube channelEA Dice has revealed that Season 1 will be available on June 9th and the preparatory update will arrive today on June 7th.
Like most Battle Passes, the Battlefield includes a free premium tier of about $ 10, which users with a First Year Season Pass will have automatic access to.
Although EA was vague in detail. The new specialist Ewelina Lis and Map Exposure will be available to all players for free, regardless of season or Battle Pass ownership.
Lis is an anti-vehicle specialist equipped with a special remote controlled rocket launcher. Due to her other passive abilities, you can see the damaged vehicle highlighted in red. This means players can instantly detect which tanks and helicopters are ready to be unloaded.
The exposure is within the Canadian Rockies, and the various ridges, platforms, and bases in the mountains allow multiple entrances to the battlefield as players slide between them.
Finally, the Battle Pass arriving in Season 1 comes with 100 tiers, and the premium version only offers aesthetic unlocking. The regular free Battle Pass comes with new vehicles, weapons and, of course, a new specialist squirrel.
The update, released today in anticipation of Season 1, includes hundreds of more fixes to Battlefield 2042. In particular, this includes soldier animation and movement improvements for smoother gameplay, updated hitboxes, new ways to earn XP, and increased vehicle numbers. In conquest mode.
The change log contains literally hundreds of other minor fixes and gameplay changes. These are all Battlefield 2042 website.. For more information on Season 1, check out IGN’s first impressions of new maps, specialists, and Battle Pass.
Season 1: Zero Hour arrives on June 9th!
Unleash the unexpected and experience new map exposures, new specialists, high-tech stealth helicopters and more!
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The long-awaited update arrives seven months after the game is released, and after it seems like an infinite number of issues for the game.
Season 1 was postponed from February as developer DICE chose to focus on more pressing issues, such as adding a scoreboard to online matches, but this update was also postponed a few days later and finally. Was released in March.
Publisher EA acknowledged that Battlefield 2042 didn’t live up to expectations almost at the same time, and more than 230,000 players signed it shortly after the petition for a refund was launched online.
At the beginning of March, DICE announced that it was aware of some issues in the map design and understood why players called the game a “walking simulator”. Maps are modified one by one from the kaleidoscope, but not until summer at the earliest.
The number of Battlefield 2042 declined in the meantime as there were fewer Steam players than Battlefield 1, 4, and 5 in early March. Voice chat was added a month later, but only for teams and parties.
The latest major update (released May 19th) includes several other changes, including the removal of breakthrough mode for 128 players, and DICE will end support for Battlefield 2042’s Hazard Zone a few days later. did.
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