Experience the game after a year of evolution, improvements, and three seasons worth of content”
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Battlefield 2042 is currently free to play on PC and Xbox.
The “cross-platform, limited-time free access period” enables latecomers to “experience the game after a year of evolution, improvements, and three seasons worth of content” and includes access to 15+ maps, 100+ weapons and gadgets, 40+ vehicles, 13 specialists, and six game modes.
Players will also get the Battlefield 2042(opens in new tab) Welcome Pack and access to the premium battle pass, too, if you’re prepared to cough up for it. All progression will be retained should you decide to purchase it afterward but you will need to be an Xbox Gold Live subscriber.
“I think they just strayed a little too far from what Battlefield is,” Zampella said at the time. “They tried to do a couple of things that were maybe ambitious: grow the player count etc. I don’t think they spent enough time iterating on what makes that fun.
“It’s not inherently a bad idea,” he added. “The way they were set up and the way they executed just didn’t allow them to find the best thing possible.”
Back in February, EA acknowledged Battlefield 2042’s lackluster launch(opens in new tab) and partially blamed the shooter’s poor performance on Halo Infinite, which arrived just a few days prior on November 15, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
There’s been plenty of talk from consumers and developers alike on Battlefield 2042 since its launch. A refund petition gained over 100,000 signatures(opens in new tab) earlier this year, and a former Battlefield 3 lead revealed he was “astonished(opens in new tab)” by the “missteps” of the new game.
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Nonetheless, EA has confirmed that it is “fully committed(opens in new tab)” to improving Battlefield 2042 with new updates over the coming months, and DICE is seemingly attempting to rescue the troubled title by introducing some sweeping changes, most notably the return of classes.
And just a couple of weeks back, DICE launched Season 3, Escalation(opens in new tab), which ushered in a healthy dollop of new content, including new weapons, a new map, and even new specialist, Rasheed Zain.
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