'Be a class above,' goes the tagline of Battlefield 2042's new season. Just a month ago, that sentiment would have been salt in the wound. Our latest State of the Game is a look at the beleaguered Battlefield 2042. Can it be saved?
Their dismay wasn't rooted in mindless nostalgia for the days of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Team Fortress - when the babies of PC gamers were assigned the role of medic, engineer, tank or sniper at birth. Rather, it came from an understanding that Battlefield's very integrity had been compromised.
At first, it seemed naive to imagine that a game so fundamentally misconceived could be saved. Five months after launch, DICE was pointing to superficial additions like scoreboards as proof of its mission to improve Battlefield 2042 based on player feedback. It felt as if the developer was rearranging the deck chairs on a totalled Super Hind.
In practice, these tweaks have utterly changed the way Battlefield 2042 is played. Previously, you were very likely to stick to the sole Specialist you'd invested most of your time in, having min-maxed their gear over dozens of levels of unlocks. Now, by contrast, you're incentivised to react to changing events on the ground. Compound torn apart by tanks? Respawn as an Engineer and undermine the enemy convoy with rockets or mines.
Today, it seems as if DICE's urge to mimic Call of Duty is being funnelled in more sensible directions. The newly released Season 4 map, Flashpoint, features an indoor, deathmatch-inspired control point you could easily transpose into Modern Warfare II. And a new single-player team within DICE is backing up Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, who has set up a studio in Seattle to work on solo campaigns for Battlefield.
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