In case you weren’t already conscious, Battlefield 2042 is a sport that was launched in the course of a pandemic with out wherever close to sufficient design work or testing being finished for such a flagship launch. Our newest reminder of this comes within the type of an replace which is able to kinda undo one in every of its main promoting factors at launch.

2042 made an enormous deal pre-release about its new “Specialists”, hero-type characters with versatile loadouts who would change the sequence tried-and-tested “Class” system (multiplayer FPS archetypes like ‘Recon’ and ‘Assault’). Those Specialists had been wildly unpopular with long-time followers, each for his or her gameplay implications in addition to their design, and whereas the latter is already being addressed it appears like builders DICE have been satisfied to additionally rework the previous.

In an enormous replace posted by the event staff, it’s revealed that they’ve “started work on a massive overhaul on the way that you’ll play with Specialists”, which basically goes to separate the distinction between the standard system and 2042’s use of Specialists. The hero characters are going to stay, however they’ll be assigned into class tiers (see above), with some gadget use restricted between lessons to “ensure that Class Identity is more pronounced”. So solely recon gamers will be capable of use a SOFLAM, for instance, whereas medical crates will solely be accessible to help gamers. As somebody who mains Mackay (within the ‘Assault’ class) however makes use of the SOFLAM so much that sucks, however I suppose we’ll see the way it all shakes out as soon as the modifications go reside (which gained’t be for some time, since DICE say it gained’t be till Season 3).

Other modifications coming in and round Season 2 shall be three new weapons (two mains and a sidearm), in addition to refreshes to 2 of the sport’s launch maps, Renewal and Orbital, that are coming alongside one other model new map. DICE may even begin including some “vault” weapons to the primary sport, that are weapons from the time-travelling Portal sport mode, in addition to persevering with the visible refresh of all of the Specialists, particularly ‘Voices, Body Posture, and Facial Expression modifications”.

You can take a look at the total record of modifications and additions coming earlier than and as a part of future updates right here, or within the video beneath.