DICE also acknowledged that gunfire spread is less accurate than intended, and that it has made “a series of adjustments” to tighten the spread.Īs far as the servers, DICE said Battlefield 2042’s online services are largely performing “at our intended target levels. “We’re on it, and will keep you updated,” DICE said. “We’re aware of the issues that you’ve helped to raise on this front, and wanted to volunteer that it’s not consistently behaving in line with our designs.” But no fix window is offered yet. “On console, we’ve been performing similar investigations around the consistency of Aim Assist,” DICE wrote. DICE has discovered that “some settings are not properly applying” with regard to mouse aiming, and a fix is ready, but it’ll take a couple of weeks.
Still another performance issue agitating players, this one involving aiming, won’t be fixed until the third update in December. Review: Battlefield 2042 can’t quite reach the franchise’s high points “We’re actively working hard to identify what could be causing this issue, and to develop fixes,” DICE said. Regarding hit detection, DICE said on Tuesday that “in very rare instances we’re seeing that our servers aren’t correctly registering hitmarkers.” But the studio has no answers yet. Players and critics both have reported core gameplay shortcomings, like lag and hit registration, and the lack of a basic feature like voice chat hasn’t helped, especially for a game that touts 64-player teams fighting it out. A title update just before launch did little to address the issues shown during early access and reviews. “We have confirmed at least two major game updates in the coming weeks, and we’ll be here communicating consistently about the changes we are making, as well as new content coming to Battlefield 2042.”īattlefield 2042, a multiplayer-only game for the first time in franchise history, was released Nov. “The teams across the globe are working 24/7 to evolve and deliver improvements to the game,” EA DICE wrote on Tuesday.
Voodoo Extreme carries the full list of changes, which is substantial and most welcome.Battlefield 2042’s makers, facing an array of performance issues, absent features, and abysmal user review scores on Steam, issued a damage control memo promising a title update on Thanksgiving Day, followed by another in early December.
Of chief concern are campaign diplomacy, naval invasions and sieges - both how the AI approaches them and the way the engine handles them (bugs and pathfinding issues should now be redundant).Ĭreative Assembly is adding a couple of extra battles in the shape of Battle of Rossbach and Battle of Fontenoy, and missile cavalry can now fire and reload on the move. The Empire: Total War patch, available in late September, focuses on teaching the AI a thing or two. The Battlefield 2 website can tell you more, as can our original BF2 review. Plus, BF2 now works with Windows Vista, supports widescreen and can use more than 2GB of RAM.īattlefield 2 may be over four years old, but with age comes fewer bugs, as well as system requirements less demanding on today's PCs.
The Battlefield 2 patch makes expansions Armored Fury and Euro Forces free for all, on top of adding Highway Tampa and Blue Pearl maps. And, what ho, Creative Assembly has dated and detailed a much-needed update for Empire: Total War as well. EA has released an enormous 2GB patch for ageing online shooter Battlefield 2.