BATTLEFIELD 2042 RELEASE DATE AND ABOUT THE GAME

After months of speculation, it's all become clear ultimately - we finally have a release date for Battlefield 2042: 22 October 2021, which is really some weeks prior to what we were hoping, which is usually welcome news.

We've known for ages that the sport was heading toward a vacation 2021 release date, due to repeated confirmations from EA, but this can be now concrete, so you've only got a touch while to attend before you'll drop into the most important Battlefield game yet.

That's all because of the total reveal trailer, which you'll see above, and which took the wraps off the sport for the primary time, bringing to an end the absolutely huge amount of speculation that had preceded it. Without going overboard, it's an unbelievably impressive first showing and makes the subsequent game seem like it can be an absolutely stellar entry within the franchise, especially paired with the gameplay trailer that you just can find below.

EA has also recently announced that it will be sharing more on Battlefield at EA Play continue to exist on 22 July, where we must always determine lots more about the various game modes that the title will offer.

Battlefield Portal mode

Unveiled at EA Play board July 2021, the secretive third game mode that's coming as a part of Battlefield 2042 was revealed to be the Battlefield Portal. this is often an amazing-sounding new thanks to enjoying customized experiences on old and new Battlefield maps employing a range of weaponry and vehicles from the series' history.

Letting players build their own custom game modes using complex scripting if desired, the system will open up a large range of playgrounds to players who want to play in crazy new ways far away from the competitive main modes.

This could see modes that force everyone to use certain whacky weapons or more complex scenarios like one that may give one squad huge powers and pit them against 100 opponents. the simplest modes are highlighted by DICE developers to let people access them more easily, alongside some creations of the developers' own, so there'll be constant rosters of the latest maps and games to do out.

At launch there'll be six maps from older Battlefield games to figure with, including:

Battlefield 1942's Battle of the Bulge and El Alamein

Battlefield Bad Company 2's Valparaiso and Arica Harbor

Battlefield 3's Caspian Border and Noshahr Canals

All of those can play host to game modes like Rush, which are not any longer a part of the official main offering but could find a lifetime of their own on the Portal. We also know that new content will come to Portal over time, separate from most game's content drops, meaning that we'll hopefully see even more famous maps make their thanks to the mode (Wake Island, anyone?).

Plus, DICE has detailed how balancing will work a bit - in the end, weaponry from 1942 wouldn't compete in point of fact with futuristic arms. Hence there are two options to choose from - a "historical" setting that may make modern weapons more powerful, as truly, or a "balanced" setting that may put everyone on an excellent footing, to form sure you'll be able to have competitive fights.

Battlefield 2042 single-player campaign

Something we are able to also clear up, and another big question when it involves any Battlefield game, surround the game's campaign - namely, whether it'll have one the least bit. Older Battlefield titles were pure multiplayer affairs, but within the era of its rivalry with Call of Duty flowering, campaigns became a typical part of the package. In recent games, DICE stepped off from full-length campaigns in favour of a series of shorter vignettes, which worked really impressively and told interesting stories. Now, though, the single-player side of things has been cut altogether, so there won't be anything other than multiplayer to penetrate.

Battlefield 2042 battle royale?

Battlefield V's battle royale mode, Firestorm, was beset by both delays and therefore the burden of not being liberated to pay, and while it had been a very fun option, it's almost completely dead now, with few players and long matchmaking times.

However, the genre is simply as popular as ever, and also the huge success of Call of Duty: Warzone has likely given Dice and EA a template to follow - a free-to-play battle royale attached to a premium multiplayer offering.

However, there's nothing coming near that front for a minimum of ages - there'll be no battle royale mode when the new game launches. There are rumors of a longer-term plan for Battlefield 2042, with a replacement mode coming sometime in 2022, but no proof of that heretofore.

Battlefield 2042 platforms and crossplay

Interestingly, at a time like this with the subsequent generation of consoles finally, on the market, the question of which platforms something like Battlefield 2042 will support doesn't such a lot concerning the new consoles, but the older ones.

Now, very unsurprisingly, EA has confirmed that the sport are going to be coming to the PS4 and Xbox One similarly, ensuring that the ample players who haven't got onto the next-gen bandwagon (or haven't managed to) aren't left behind.

However, there'll be significant differences between the versions of the sport across generations, with older generation consoles limited to 64 players on their servers, specifically. The maps also will be correspondingly smaller, to create sure you do not have acres of space to run near to find a fight.

We know that we'll see Battlefield 2042 on PS5 and Xbox Series X, and it's visiting take full advantage of the new graphical capabilities of these consoles. DICE has long been a specialist in eking out spectacular graphical fidelity from consoles, so Battlefield 2042 is looking like an envelope-pusher on the graphics side of things, and indeed within the realm of sound design too.

Reassuringly, we now know that there'll be full cross-progression support and crossplay. this implies that any cosmetics or items you purchase on one platform will carry over to the others, which we love.

On the crossplay side, DICE says it's planning to let console players and PC players play on identical servers, although console gamers on the older generation of devices are limited to every others' games thanks to mapping sizes. However, importantly, console players are able to opt-out of crossplay with PC gamers, letting them avoid any risk of cheaters or opponents with graphical or performance advantages.