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Battlefield 2042: the 1st season is postponed to summer 2022, the disaster continues

Battlefield 2042’s descent into hell never ends. While EA plans to make certain game modes of the latest FPS from DICE free, the Swedish developers have just announced some very bad news. Indeed, the arrival of the 1st season, heralding new content, has just been postponed to summer 2022…

battlefield 2042 season report
Credits: DICE

The sinking of Battlefield 2042 looms, news after news. It must be said that the latest news regarding DICE’s latest FPS is not good. To avoid a complete disaster and to inflate the attendance of the title, in total free fall since its last weeks, EA would consider making certain game modes like Portal or Hazard Zone free.

It must be said that with a little more than 4000 active players on Steam (according to Steam Charts), the game is at its worst. The American publisher must react, otherwise BF 2042 will turn into a new Anthemone of the last big commercial flops from EA and Bioware.

While fixing bugs and balancing weapons and vehicles remains the community’s (and developers’) priority, adding new content wouldn’t hurt. Unfortunately, it’s not ready to happen. Indeed, DICE has just confirmed on Twitter the postponement of the first season of Battlefield 2042 to summer 2022…

Also read: Battlefield 2042 is so bad that even cheats are jumping ship

battlefield 2042 season report
Credits: DICE

No new season on Battlefield 2042 before summer 2022

We had to make some big decisions for our next round of updates to introduce such improvements, the biggest one being moving the release date of our first season to early summer. This gives us time to focus on improving the Battlefield 2042 experience while finalizing our seasonal content development to meet all quality standards.” announces the Swedish studio in an official press release.

According to the developers, highly anticipated features from the community will arrive soon (without further details). This will be in particular the case of the overhaul of the scoreboardclaimed by many players. voice communication (VOIP) should also land on the title in the coming weeks, just like a brand new player profile. The latter will make it possible to obtain “a better overview of your career on the battlefield and what you have to do to unlock a new element”.

When Season 1 arrives in early summer, it will kick off a year of four seasons, featuring four new Specialists, new locations and new content.” DICE promises. Furthermore, the studio intends to offer an exclusive pack containing weapon skinsspecialists and vehicles to owners of the Gold and Ultimate versions of the game. Not sure that’s enough to keep them on the title. Or to bring them back (not to mention the others).

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